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May. 5th, 2018 12:29 pmOK, it's time to talk about the show that ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
tenillypo and I have agreed is the trashiest thing we've yet watched together - Nine: Nine Time Travels.
Was this show good? No, probably not. Was it interesting? I mean YES. Did we laugh uproariously every time the hero's life got ever more tormented? YOU BET!
Our hero is famous news broadcaster Lee Jin-wook, currently facing the normal run of kdrama woes plus a little extra:
- his father was murdered when he was a teenager
- the murderer went on to steal his family's hospital and achieve fame and fortune by coercing his female coworkers into donating their eggs to unethical reproductive science (a plot point, for the record, that will never be mentioned after the first episode)
- the stress sent his mother catatonic for the last twenty years
- his older brother's just died in the Himalayas trying to find time travel magic to reverse all the bad things that have happened
- and also, unrelated to the murder or any subsequent events, he's dying of brain cancer
In the first episode, our hero jaunts off to the Himalayas to bang his coworker, recover his dead brother's body, and also discover the time travel magic that his brother was looking for: nine incense sticks that send you twenty years back in time, to the exact date. Each incense stick gets you half an hour of time travel shenanigans, and if you miss the date of the thing you want to change, you're out of luck.
Fortunately, the twenty-year anniversary of his father's murder is in just a couple weeks! So for the first three episodes Jin-wook kills time by taking care of such important business as:
- flailing into his childhood bedroom and getting attacked by his entire family, who mistake him for a home intruder
- prying into his older brother's love life
- interrupting his mother before she can find out that his teen self skipped out on family Christmas dinner to go on a date
Meanwhile, his doctor bff is like "buddy you have ONE TIME TRAVEL JOB! tell yourself to get early screenings for brain cancer! that's it! ONE JOB!" and Jin-wook is like "yeah yeah I'll get around to it eventually."
Meanwhile meanwhile, the romance with his coworker, Jo Yoon-hee, is proceeding approximately as well as can be expected when the entire premise of the relationship is "idk, I just thought it would be nice if we had sex before I died of brain cancer."
About three-quarters of the way through episode four, I remarked totenillypo, "Does it seem weird to you how disconnected this romance plot feels from the time travel revenge plot?"
( MID-SERIES SPOILERS ENSUE )
( FINALE SPOILERS ENSUE )
tenillypo and I have agreed is the trashiest thing we've yet watched together - Nine: Nine Time Travels.Was this show good? No, probably not. Was it interesting? I mean YES. Did we laugh uproariously every time the hero's life got ever more tormented? YOU BET!
Our hero is famous news broadcaster Lee Jin-wook, currently facing the normal run of kdrama woes plus a little extra:
- his father was murdered when he was a teenager
- the murderer went on to steal his family's hospital and achieve fame and fortune by coercing his female coworkers into donating their eggs to unethical reproductive science (a plot point, for the record, that will never be mentioned after the first episode)
- the stress sent his mother catatonic for the last twenty years
- his older brother's just died in the Himalayas trying to find time travel magic to reverse all the bad things that have happened
- and also, unrelated to the murder or any subsequent events, he's dying of brain cancer
In the first episode, our hero jaunts off to the Himalayas to bang his coworker, recover his dead brother's body, and also discover the time travel magic that his brother was looking for: nine incense sticks that send you twenty years back in time, to the exact date. Each incense stick gets you half an hour of time travel shenanigans, and if you miss the date of the thing you want to change, you're out of luck.
Fortunately, the twenty-year anniversary of his father's murder is in just a couple weeks! So for the first three episodes Jin-wook kills time by taking care of such important business as:
- flailing into his childhood bedroom and getting attacked by his entire family, who mistake him for a home intruder
- prying into his older brother's love life
- interrupting his mother before she can find out that his teen self skipped out on family Christmas dinner to go on a date
Meanwhile, his doctor bff is like "buddy you have ONE TIME TRAVEL JOB! tell yourself to get early screenings for brain cancer! that's it! ONE JOB!" and Jin-wook is like "yeah yeah I'll get around to it eventually."
Meanwhile meanwhile, the romance with his coworker, Jo Yoon-hee, is proceeding approximately as well as can be expected when the entire premise of the relationship is "idk, I just thought it would be nice if we had sex before I died of brain cancer."
About three-quarters of the way through episode four, I remarked to
tenillypo, "Does it seem weird to you how disconnected this romance plot feels from the time travel revenge plot?" ( MID-SERIES SPOILERS ENSUE )( FINALE SPOILERS ENSUE )
