Stairways to heaven

Stairways to heaven.. the saddest koren show ever!... its even more sad den winter sonata and autum tale.. dun really remember the english title... stairways to heaven is a must watch... remember to prepare a box of tissue beside you... if not you will be drowned in tears!
The plot is the cliche of all Korean drama cliches, and this drama had a terribly sad ending.


Predictably, STH is the standard Korean drama recipe, you name it this drama got it:
evil stepmother, evil stepsister, stupid dumb father, perfect rich handsome male lead, quietly suffering female lead, love triangle, car accidents, amnesia, terminal disease, death and of course, tears, more tears, lots of tears.

The Kwon Sang Woo fever is blazing through everyone who's seen this series, and I understand why every girl is crazy about him. Who wouldn’t?! Cha Song-ju is such a prince charming, the ideal flawless lover. He is smart, strong, charming, loyal, steadfast in his love for Jung-suh, and to top it off, he is handsome, has a great body and is extremely rich and eligible! His relationship with Jung-suh is so intimate, so playful and lovable. They are truly soulmates. And how can your heart not go out to him, losing Jung-suh not once but twice, once to amnesia, and then to cancer. Their relationship is so emotionally close yet so physically far apart, just like the mobile conversations they have with each other at the police station after Song-ju's engagement to Yuri, at the cafe after Jung-suh finds out that she's got cancer, and at the hospital when Song-ju finds out Jung-suh is dying.He was totally adorable and charming.

My favourite scene has to be the one he breakdown outside the café after meeting a blind Jung-suhand gave enough tears at the right moment. I was so so so sad after watching him cry outside the cafe... i can feel my heart wreck... nose turn sour... so sad...









There are other scenes too...
1. all the times they fooled around and all their kissing scenes.
2. I wonder whether KSW got a good workout from all that running and piggybacking from this serial?
3. And did his driving improve considerably with so much driving to the beach, and driving next to buses and trains to chase Jung-suh?
4. Song-ju walking around the mall and playground with his formation of "henchmen" walking behind him
5. Song-ju losing his temper over the mobile when Jung-suh did not show up at the café
6. Song-ju and Tae-hwa cooking for Jung-suh in the house on the beach when she was blind
7. The wedding – extremely touching how Song-ju finally got his mother’s blessings
8. The OST - especially Ave Maria. Can you hear my heart beat with the drums every time Song-ju chased Jung-suh...

Some werid scenes
1. The sitting in the carriage dressed in hideous frills and gowns
2. The wedding – I think the outfits the groom and bride wore looked terrible

STH is a sappy love story through and through with no sub-plot for the other characters in the series. The writers dedicated almost all the air time to develop the love story of the characters and did not inject any effort to build the characters and profiles of the different roles they have created in the series. The roles were quite one-dimensional and unbalanced. There were perfect lovers, perfect villians, and perfect dumbos.
腐女子 @ 10:04 AM