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| Arrival! Byeoreseo On Jeudae (You Who Came From The Stars) |
Just finished watching the first episode of “You Who Came From the Stars”, that new K-drama being touted as the next big thing- so much that I felt I just HAD to check it out! Now, I haven’t watched all that many Korean Dramas, counting from “My Girlfriend is a Gumiho” through to “The Prime Minister and I”, there have only been about five or six shows I checked out (and all with only varying degrees of completion), but I have say that judging from the first episode alone, this may be one of the BEST ones ever!
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| Do Min Joon (Kim Soohyun) |
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| meeting the 16th Century Cheon Song-Yi (Kim HyunSoo) |
I’m not even kidding, EVERY aspect of this show rocked- this story of a man who beamed down to earth 400 years ago and has been biding his time, settling into the Human way of living until the comet comes around again that will take him back to his homeworld is as exciting as ANY sci-fi drama of its kind! I’ve long been a fan of time-travelling movies, and though not technically a time-travelling story, the way the drama jumps back and forth from his life in 1602 and the present 2013 is exactly the same in feel!
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| 20th Century Do Min Joon |
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| And Stylish Actress Cheon Song-Yi (Jun JiHyun) |
Of course, the show wouldn’t work without some great actors to back it up, and we’ve got a perfect cast here- with Kim SooHyun as the time-travelling “Man From the Stars” (under guise of a regular school teacher named Do Min Joon), he’s cast in a perfectly cold, stoic role, and MY GOSH, Jun Jihyun is simply STUNNING as the lusciously SASSY hot young actress Cheong Song-Yi! As the story begins, fate has somehow placed the two together as neighbors in a High-rise apartment complex, and whenever they cross paths, Song-Yi’s abrasive and larger than life personality against Min Joon’s stern and introverted outlook creates some very dynamic conversations!!!
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| Fateful Meeting in the High Rise Elevator |
And then there’s the overshadowing backstory of the young princess he met when he first beamed down- something has happened to her (so far hasn’t been revealed yet) and he’s been chagrined over his loss so much that when he gets a flash that a young girl that looks just like her in 2001 is going to be killed, he speeds to the site and saves her.
Little does he know that this young girl he saved is in fact the obnoxious actress living next door to him! Adding further to the fact that she’s just returned to School and has found out HE’s her new teacher, ya just KNOW that things are GONNA GET INTERESTING!
With a lead man as cold and soft-spoken as Min Joon, you really need a energetic and LOUD counterpart, and BOY does Song-Yi deliver! This is a girl that does and says what EVER is on her mind! And yet, while on one hand being loud, bossy and arrogant, beneath the surface is this really likeable girl who just wants to be loved by people and is genuinely hurt when her so–called fans attack her online and call her airheaded. I liked her from the very beginning!
In fact, every person on this show is so enthusiastically played that they are a joy to watch in any scene ,and even the roles of Song-Yi’s put-upon assistants are hilarious- they know that their charge can be thick headed and must use the utmost diplomacy handling her!
And I really like the side-story of Min Joon’s only Earth friend- a lawyer he worked with in what appears to be the mid 1950’s. Now very old, he still meets up with Min Joon to talk, and is quite saddened to her that his friend will soon be making the trip back.
Aw, there's just too much good stuff going on in this show that I can't even cover them all, and besides, it's time to get back to watching the next episode! O Yeah, I’m TOTALLY in this one for the LONG HAUL!!!!
