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Guys. I am hesitant to exclaim too loud about this show...because it's the kind of smart drama that has more potential to hurt you, because it also has potential to be fantastic.
That said, this show sports a hero who's smart enough that when he travels forward 300 years into the future, he gets over his bewilderment and finds himself clothes to blend in. He's constantly observing and deducing what he's seeing in what's a totally alien world. Like you do.
He's the first to make me want to dabble with a time-travel story (though not much) because it's so personal a take to his character. And though his counterpart is kind of a lovable idiot, it comes across as her being a kind of unusual girl to the screen, though common enough in life: she is exaggerating for cute. She's not stupid--she's in a rush. And she's willing to yell at people who cut her off, and flip off a smirky ex-boyfriend. Really, she's fantastic.
Dramas make smart girls seem dumb all the time: having a ditzy girl seem very full and capable? As well as a crazy driver?
I also love that there have been moments of significance between the characters though there's no romantic interplay yet. The tension is there.
(Adorable? Our Hero not knowing how to do his seatbelt, she does it for him, it's awkward, he comments "I see, that's why you were mad I asked you to do it". SO CUTE.)
I'm holding my frail little heart in my hands on this one, watching slowly, because I already love the characters, respect them, and only want the best story for them.
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Date: 2012-05-13 11:14 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-05-13 11:29 pm (UTC)From:It's not a lot of zany fun, like I usually go for, but the hero is *so* interesting (not something I can say too often, actually), like, nerding out over the fact that he has this weird time-displacement happening to him, and he's logically deducing the rules, and then experimenting...
He definitely has an old-fashioned charm, but in his own time is a man of a certain steel, which comes out in defense of the modern heroine--without weakening her. An unusual combo, I think.
The story is slow so far, but I just finished episode 4, and I think that's because they're putting into place a big punch of a plotline, where you'll be really invested in seeing how it turns out. Which is AMAZING.