What can I say about Episode 38 of KBS drama “My Golden Life”? I don’ t know how the audience rating would turn out to be, but I am sure it would still be high due to the rub-off from the previous episode and the super sales pitch of the preview of Episode 38 which saw Choi Dokyung at his lowest point.
But for me personally, it was a disappointment. Sitting through the hour long episode when whatever I wanted to see was in the 40 seconds preview already, nothing much beyond that. And I don’t believe I am the only one with the same feeling.
More than half of the episode was focused on Father Seo and his terminal illness everyone thought he had and it turned out all imaginary. He just had an overactive imagination! Imaginary cancer! I am sure there must be real cases like this in real life and I sympathise. The best these people should do is go for a medical check up rather than become quark doctors and self diagnose, then they don’t have to worry themselves and their families sick.
For me, in a drama with certain expectations, especially when the preview of the episode sold something else, I felt short-changed by all the time that had been dedicated to this sub-plot! Disappointment was what I felt!
The highlight of the preview had the audience expecting a continued high on the Choi Dokyung and Seo Jian relationship, how they both cope with their break-up and what Choi Dokyung would do going forward. In all, it barely got 5 – 10 mins of airtime! What happened? Did someone forget that this is what keeps the drama going and why the audience keeps coming back for more? Don’t they read and value audience reviews? At the rate this goes, the audience will lose patience and just move on. There are choices out there and audiences can be fickle! I hope Writer So and the production team take note.
A disappointment it was for me, a strong supporter and avid follower.
Am I looking forward to the next episode? At this moment, sleep is a lot more appealing! I have no expectation for Episode 39, least I will end up in disappointment again!
“我黄金光辉的人生”第38集:失望
KBS电视剧“我黄金光辉的人生”第38集,因该怎么总结呢?不知道这集的收视率会怎么样,相信还是会因为之前的高潮,和第38集预告的大卖点,崔道京所受的挫折和折磨,有不错的收视率。
但对我个人而言,这集令我失望。那40秒的预告已经把坐着观看一个小时有趣的情节都播出了。相信我并非是唯一拥有同感的观众。
这一集多半的时间是关于徐父亲和所有人都认为他患上的绝症,一直都显得非常严重,惹人注目。结果都是幻想,他的想象力过于活跃!是想象癌症!相信现实生活中一定有这样的真实案例,我很同情。 这些人最好的处理方法就是早点去检验,查个究竟,而不是自当医生,自我诊断,让自己有压力,也令家人担忧。
看剧的观众是有期待的,特别是预告所显示的卖点。当剧情和预告不一致时,观众会感到失望。昨晚就是这样,那小故事简直不值花那么多时间去炒作!真的感到失望!
预告的亮点给观众期待崔道京和徐智安的关系持续高涨,他们如何应付分手,以及离家出走,挫折重重的崔道京会如何前进。 昨晚,这主题只有5 – 10分钟的播出时间! 究竟为什么呢? 有人忘了电视剧继续吸引观众的就是这对情侣的发展吗?编剧和制作组没有读和注重观众的评论和回馈吗? 这样忽略了重点,观众很快的会失去耐心和兴趣,不再积极跟剧了,他们有的就是选的!希望苏作家和制作组注意一下。
对我这位热心,一直追随这剧的观众,昨晚的确的失望。
我期待观看下一集吗?现在睡眠对我来说还要有趣!我完全不敢对39集有任何的期待,因为害怕更失望!
Youtube videos – Recaps of “My Golden Life” Episode 38 on 14 January 2018. These will only play on KBS Youtube. Please click on the photos to get linked
Recap 1: Let’s stop 14 January 2018
Recap 2: I might not last long 14 January 2018
Recap 3: I will learn to hate you 14 January 2018
Recap 4: Making him jealous 14 January 2018
Recap 5: I care 14 January 2018
Recap 6: Misunderstanding 14 January 2018
Recap 7: I am going away 14 January 2018
Recap 8: Collapse 14 January 2018
Recap 9: I will die alone 14 January 2018
Recap 10: My girlfriend 14 January 2018
Recap 11: Call to Cinderella 14 January 2018
Recap 12: Nursing you all night long 14 January 2018
Recap 13: Left home secretly 14 January 2018
Recap 14: Imaginary cancer 14 January 2018
Credits – Many thanks! KBS Drama
14 Comments
You expressed my disappointment to the T. I’m also equally surprised that the rating was above 40%. I’m also of the same view that Jian’s father was given too much airtime, so much so that I’m left to wonder if this drama is about him as main story or CDK-Jian’s story. If you recall, they began highlighting his “illness” even before the Christmas / New Year episodes. It’s definitely overdone!
I totally agree. I was hooked to this drama and watched 36 episodes in one week. The father was given too much airtime probably because he was a great actor. Never see a drama where the two leads are given less air time. Poor the leads. Hopefully the writer does not rush their story and disappoint fans.
38集看預告就可以了,但在韓國收視率竟達43.2%
With the same feeling, not because of the pursuit of Shi Houjun! The development of the drama, to the present, has also been the main supporting role, the rhythm of the play is uneven, the main line is not clear, such a situation, it is necessary to stop in time! The interest of the audience is to be further explored with the state of the male and female protagonists. Taste and choice is critical, not to increase the ratings of progressive follow up a victory with hot pursuit! Reappear again, hanging in the half empty plot, quite let a person do not understand! To state a cliffhanger at the same time, I hope not cop-out ending! The author, may want to describe more plot, but the obvious proportion is the rhythm of unbalance! The best choice is to correct it in time! For the team, the 38 time has passed, and the time left behind is limited. Really, it needs a set goal. Many times, we often have such misunderstandings: taking a map, doing a lot of preparation, I feel it is already in the world! In fact, it is not that, the real arrival, is a step by step, impartial practice! A week of time, I hope that the team will be able to be a practitioner of wisdom and complete the task behind.
The 38 episode, disappointment is normal! Because it was half the story state! Is such a life impossible to read? Imagine a disease, and it’s very silent! Imagine the author, is it to express this meaning, through the test of life and death, the family can reconsider, reunion! I hope that this line, only in a set of stories, you can! No, really, it’s too much to deviate from the main track. Korean drama, the common phenomenon, the end, too compact! Cop-out state, presented to the public, affect the picture really sense! The first two days are still looking for the balance of the male and female protagonists, now directly, the imbalance of the main supporting role! In the plot, the struggle, the realistic, the weak, the factor, the one with, is good! Too exaggerated, overwhelming feeling! After all, the play itself is dominated by something that conveys positive energy.
Dissapointed too, for Park Si Hoo’s little and transit appearance in episode 38. And to compensate this , he has impressed me in the very touching scene, while he was running through the falling snow, revealing his frustration, his anger, his deep pain, his helplessness to persuade Jian of his love. “Why are you so hard to get?”, he shouts loudly and in despair, that can move even the most cold-hearted person. As usual his facial expressions are nothing more than convincing and touching, whose message is very credible. I’m waiting with eagerness his progress in his endeavour to start his own business, and hope that the ordeal of Seo father’s illness will end for his children, whom he has made them suffer so much, in his stubbornness to follow a recovery treatment. Which I really don’t understand..
In all the tragedy of episode 38, I found a hilarious side: the problems of the two fathers, who are at that critical age, and their “foolishness”. Dad Seo with the bizarre joy of being sick of an incurable disease and dad Choi with a melancholy state and sadness that his life makes no sense. “Bad Boys”, who have been able to disturb the lives of their families that have been already overwhelmed.
Let’s be optimistic about the relationship between CDK and SJA. And let us thank you for the time that the producers of the show offered us, because the story in its entirety is beautiful.
As usual, the minutes of Park Si Hoo and Shin Hye Sun are the most intense and memorable every time. What could the writer say more, if the two decided to break up? ^^
A thought passed through my mind: the two fathers will open up new horizons for their own lives, where I see them with their children, and CDK and SJA will meet again in the business world, perhaps in … Vietnam .
Dana, thanks for your optimism, because last nigjht after watching episode 38 , in English, I was very upset with the course of the plot and sympathizing with the two protagonists, Jian and Do Kyung. Now we have two wait another week .
When I watched the episode again, I realized that maybe we could see more frustration in dad Choi in episode 39. I would like to see him pour his heart out to CDK so that both father & son could give each other moral support! 😂
I hope Park Si Hoo-ssi has not compromised his health due to Do Kyung’s frustration and his ruthlessness to run to exhaustion through frost.
It would be good to take the drama as a whole. The episodes are very intense for Do Kyung and Jian. I am glad to have the side stories to build up the drama. I feel sorry for PSH and SHS if they have to be in the major part of every episode. They will collapse before the end of the drama. There are still 14 episodes to go and 2 hours worth of taping each week, working day and night in the bitter cold. For that I am grateful that the other stories give them a short relief. So far, their acting have been superb but must have been very stressful to produce.
El maestro nació para la actuación es grande de los grandes
Totally ageed with nance. I guessed ratings was that high due to audience’s expectations for cdk n sja relationship to move further but turned out it went back to square one. If this continues like this audience probably might lose interest in drama sub story of father seo is so boring nothing’s new n overdone I myself feel bored every time. If not for psh I might skip ep39 due to cliffhanger on ep38 will focus on father Seo in ep39. If they don t change I believe audience will frustrate n lose patience. Can ‘t blame viewers if ratings will decrease for next episode
However psh’s acting was superb in ep38
I am about to watch these 2 episodes this weekend. It seems a puzzle why father Seo such an honourable and fair and wise man would adopt extremism in his behavior of late. The only thing i can think of is his deep pain his own deep disappointment in himself to reach a state as he sees it that he is not appreciated by his family. He is unconsciously punishing himself. Similar to the days when Jian hated herself so much for the world of chaos til she committed suicide. It is this behavior in both father and daughter that i hold the view writer intends to portray both father and daughter as honourable responsible people. However their intention can backfire as instead of what they thought as self punishing and nobody’s else business yet they ring pain and sufferings to their loved ones too. The writer choosing this scene for father who supposedly a wise man as a mirror for Jian to reflect upon herself.