Destiny Love

The beginning got me excited – after all, what dorama starts with the leads sleeping together? Awesome, something I haven't seen before. It's got strong moments, it's got weak moments, it's got moments that made me skip ahead mercilessly. Yes, it's obvious how it's going to turn out, and yet there were maybe two moments where I was still surprised. I enjoyed the opening – I found the song pleasantly schmaltzy, a bit bouncy, so I listened to it and it left me smiling. There are moments where you have to laugh, but there are also moments where you don't know what to do with the boredom and moments you downright hate (I, for one, hate the scenes of literally yelling and hitting for no reason – like right at the beginning when her mom was hitting him for knocking her up). I think if it was cut, fluffed up, and moved around a bit, I'm sure it would have turned out as a pretty top notch dorama. At times I didn't like the camera angles – they came off as if the couple saying stuff to each other was being watched, when they weren't. Even a master editor sometimes outcuts himself. But otherwise I liked it: the ballerina, the director, the dog, the “crazy glue girl", the help center – all these characters were interesting. Somewhat of a 3 stars. Warning – one episode is an hour and a half... (2010-08-26)