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Choong Shik became a cook in his family business. He sent mandoo regularly to Ma Ri. And this time, when he was about to send mandoo to Ma Ri just like usual, Ma Ri suddenly appeared in front of him.

Ma Ri was studying photography. Choong Shik took their picure together with his mobile. Then she rode a bus. It was raining and Then there were two green umbrellas on the bus floor, Da Ran smiled.

Then someone called her name. A tall big man in checkered shirt came running joined her under the umbrella. The scene was back to moment when Gyeong Joon told her that moment under the umbrella before he left. Da Ran remembered what Gyeong Joon told her that day: to catch him and no matter Gyeong Joon might indifferently shrugged her away she had to run after him. And she did it. But a mysterious one. We never see the face of that broad shoulder. The writers leave it for us, the viewers, to make our own version of the ending.

So they make the ending this way. Happy ending…but complicated. Worst drama ever. Why theres secondary cast so useless. And The poster of it doesnt really suits story line. Miracle -book skeptical one. What drama is it jus a scrolling and scribblingss. Terible terible. Where the heck is Shin woo—an outcast of the show. My eyes its hurting and my time I have wasted for nth and my sleep I disapproved…My loss :-X.

And, I also think the Hong Sisters painted themselves into a corner and without the possibility of an extension because of the Olympics had to wrap up the loose ends. I can only hope that he does another kdrama soon or movie. Thank you for the quick summary.. Oh man, i had the ending plotted in my head already. Win win situation much? After he gets his surgery he then switches body with Yoon Jae. Now that KKJ and Yoon jae are in their own bodies they have their life. After he gets his surgery he switches body with Yoon Jae.

Another reason is, if u still state that they are twin, yes of course maybe kyung joon is a version young of yoon jae, but how 21st kyung joon can be look exactly with an yoon jae. What happen to Dr. Yoon Jae? Is he in Germany?

How should the audience feel? Happy or what? Most Korean dramas are always like that giving dissatisfaction in the end. I was thinking of buying its DVD but now no need to buy.

This is a happy ending folks.. KKJ has grown up to become Yoon Jae.. He has probably continued his doctor life but maybe fell in love with his ex-wife again…. I really felt good after reading your post..

I feel like I had started a drama which was funny, intriguing, nice plot and turned slowly in something boring, not clear, not well-structured. The ending leave the viewer with a hunger, a wild appetite. Disappointing me and all of my friends who always waiting for good and plausible ending.. But it was a disappointed ending.

Im so disappointed they uses a good catch of artist,, I hope they would make good stories with a very good ending. This is a lie!!! Well i think now i get the ending.. I would say it is KKJ at the end, they intentionally show us the watch.

As we know he has never left Da Ran, and he seems to know what was happening between Da Ran and KKJ as he has the fast heart beat when Da Ran appeared in front of the families to admit that she love KKJ, also the big question of what he was going to tell Da Ran before the accident is unsolved,.

Also, the big question was what was YJ supposed to say before they had a accident. Thank you! Well the story is great and cute but it was so wrong ms.

Gil what he felt… But we never know YJ might have had a change of heart thats why the miracle had to happen so that Ms. Very disappointed with the ending. Seo loved Ms. KKJ and Dr. Seo are twins so there is a possibility that they would look the same 3. It almost feels like this was an experimental gig on their part and we've been a labrat for 16 episodes. It's not bad of an ending, it's just lacking and I can only sigh. Can't wait for the Arang and the Magistrate to wash down some of the 'Big' aftertaste.

Thank God for the recaps I would have wasted my time watching this drama! Props to Gong Yoo though. If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't have spent my wasted time on this WTFery. Actually thought the 1st couple of eps were mediocre before it got decent the 1st few eps after the body switch. KKJ in his actual body wasn't of much interest and that was when Da-ran was at her most annoying even tho the Hong sisters managed to keep that up for pretty much the entire run.

I felt just the same, even few episodes back. Like the screenwriters are reading viewers comments and adjusting the plot to please just about everyone or avoid getting someone angry and disgusted But the result is pretty much the opposite - noone liked the ending I think they didn't let Shin play his part in the end because of the numerous comments 'I can't imagine DR with KJ in his own boy's body, sooo gross!

I think they didn't show the two brothers reunion because they couldn't make up a pretty pink coloured satisfying story for it. I think they erased their memories for the same stupid reason - lack of imagination and lack of courage to show some not-so-appropriate reactions like the older twin ALLOWING his li'l bro to have his way with the ex-wife; or asking the question 'How could you marry me while I was in a coma?!

All of the useless side characters and plotlines Like Mari, like uncle and aunty, like the 'twin' story of the brothers, like the heart rate of SJ in coma and etc. It all felt like the screenwriters dropped any ideas they had at the moment INTO the show to avoid a possible dead end. None of this ideas'd been used properly. Even the love story, the main storyline, was erased in the end.

We didn't even get to see 'the face' of the new beginning of this love story. This show needs one more episode or better - a total remake of the last two episodes.

Yeah, I'm happy that 'rabbit' is getting better, but the kid is a totally side character! With this retrospection it looked like DR is having a hallucination after going completely out of her mind. I really think they didn't have the courage to keep the natural directions of this in the beginning great storyline. Sorry for the loooong comment They should make a storyline like they have made at beginning. This is among the reason why i sometimes don't like major channel because they like to rewritten the script based on rating n response compared to cable channel that they don't have rating to been exposed so they just make based on their previous script written just look on rooftop prince that has unconsistency plot compared to queen in hyun's man that have better storyline n also big that have too much twist n bad ending compared to i love lee tae ri that more consistency n better ending I'm totally hurt right now!

They could just keep at leats ONE of the story lines. But what's left is ZERO. All what've been developed is erased I'm pretty disappointed for this 16 hours.

And next time I watch a K-drama, I'll check if it's 'Hong-sisters' to avoid it. Enough is enough. Sorry and hat-off for the fans I totally agree. The ending was a cop-out. I'd been wondering how they were going to deal with such an interesting and scary! Turns out they dealt with it by I never thought I'd say this but I'm the only one that liked the ending. Justification on page three, comment Knew everyone would hate it, but I actually like it for a variety of reasons. I think it does work Oh and I think the ending does treat the viewer as smart Yes, they do..

Semi-open endings like this means that they are treating you as smart rather than stupid. It means there is something to be gained from an open ending that usually people won't get. Super closed endings treat the viewer as more stupid than stupid because it means they don't trust the viewer to figure it all out.

Try again. I beg to disagree. One lesson I distinctly remember from that one Creative Writing class I took is that a writer should be the one to decide what she wants for her characters and deliver that to her audience as best as she could. I like open endings too.

It's true that it gives us a chance to imagine an ending the way we want to. But it doesn't mean that the writer should put a stop to the story and leave the audience to resolve the conflicts, all by themselves. It's lazy and an obvious weakness. An open ending can only be justified and is only worth it if the major conflicts have been resolved. You're the writer. You should take control of your own work if only for YOUR sanity.

I don't know how the HS can feel fulfillment writing Big knowing that they weren't able to show a satisfactory, not even necessarily happy, resolutions for their characters. All the things that were promised at the beginning of the drama for these characters in terms of character growth alone were achieved.

Episode 15 and 16 showed that, but it was through smaller events, which isn't their usual style. And I know subtle doesn't go well with most foreign audiences.

Especially on the American side who like blunt on a silver platter, faster delivered please. All character arcs safely resolved, KKJ, grew and will continue to grow and remember as Da Ran makes him remember. Did you think about the virtues, vices, and character arcs for all characters I listed? Can you do that? Since this was a character-based drama rather than an event-based drama like the previous dramas, it's all about resolving the character arcs.

I guarantee, even if it was one thing which is often done in J-dramas all characters listed grew by the end of episode BTW, Semi-open ending does work with the theme of maturity--because often maturity is a place that is mysterious--you don't know what your face or future holds and it has insecurities in it Also Semi-open was the way that the original Big movie ended, but on a sad note rather than a happier note.

Um, that's a little condescending isn't it? You didn't like the ending because it's too smart for you?!! It depends on the context as well as its execution, and in this instance, the open ending of Big seemed lackadaisical to a lot of people.

Statistically, we're bound to have lots of smart people in that group. You're welcome of course to have a different opinion, but there's no need to be condescending of other people's opinions, especially if you have no idea what the impetus behind their thoughts are, and why they liked or disliked it. Someone said that the ending made the viewer dumb read up the line And I countered and said that the ending treated the viewer as smart, which is why you are griping.

As in Open endings treat the viewer as smart and you'll hate that because it's not delivered on a silver platter i. Closed endings, and super closed endings treat the viewer as dumb and don't trust the viewer.

Despite what people think, this was NOT a super open ending. This was a semi-open ending. This ending resolved all character arcs, like promised, but shuffled the events to the background. I'm aware it was a response to another comment, but it still sounded condescending whether that was your intention or not.

Specifically, that because the Big ending is semi-open it supposedly asks its viewers to be 'smart', and since you were one of the ones who 'got it' you're smarter than the ones who didn't, hence the very condescending "which is probably why you are griping" line. I also still don't agree with your logic. Having an open ending does not automatically mean the viewers are being asked to use their brains. Open endings and semi-open endings can be just as lazy and be pandering to audience desires as much as closed ones, and vice versa.

There's no set formula because it depends on the situation and the execution. In this case, a lot of people are griping because Big's ending felt like an easy way out; not addressing several difficult issues the writers themselves set up, and that smacks of laziness, not to mention bad writing and a terrible structure.

You are used to Hong Sisters dramas having weak characters, fast pacing and strong and sweeping events. This drama isn't that, so in order to compensate you looked at the only thing that resembled that: Gong Yoo.

Then you started to play into the KKJ story arc in which you forgot all of the other characters and then forgot what the story really was about. And add injury to insult, you really didn't watch the original Big movie. Am I right? But story doesn't function for one character, it's a the function of several characters interacting.

No, if you back track your episodes back to episode 1, take away that expectation that it will be weak characters and sweeping events with over the top humor, you are left with a drama where it actually does work to the very end. Do you in the current time know their faults, their virtues and how they changed by the end of Episode 16? Probably not if the ending doesn't work for you. In fact, you probably missed that by the end of the first scene of episode 15 that KKJ's character arc had come to a complete circle and end.

I didn't realize it until episode The reason that is Gong Yoo has some sweeping acting. Which is the drama's greatest asset and greatest weakness. Because he played it over the top at times, you found yourself watching him, but the fact is that while he was having fun, you lost track of things like Mari's family owns an estate and a helicopter. Da Ran has been sheltered her whole life. Choon Shik maturing in the background and Mari slowly coming around--though she's more up and down.

Also, it did follow the original Big movie closely, leaving me with a stronger senstation of the ending than the original Big movie did and that's where I was suddenly thinking--hey, this works.

Unlike the majority of Hong Sister dramas they didn't spell it out for you. They went for stronger characters, slower pacing and a more even character arc. This drama lived and died by the characters rather than the sweeping events and the events that they threw at the characters.

The original Big movie by large part did that, but this drama took it to the next level. Yoon Jae, or the bigger body from the original movie became more of a symbol of what that was than the original movie. He became a symbol of te character's hopes and fears, like the original movie, but also of the viewer's hopes and fears, which is why him not showing up even to the end works out for me. It's like the Big movie All the characters fully came to a full circle. Their character arcs finished, though not in the way that the normal viewer would have expected from the Hong Sisters.

They went subtle. And I'm sure that people hated that. They wanted a silver platter-but the thing is that a silver platter wouldn't have served to make a person think back on the theme of maturity and look at the drama as a whole. You are left, like the original Big movie to script your own ending. Only you feel lighter that the original because the end was happy rather than sad. It's gutsy.

And that's another reason I like the ending. You don't expect gutsy from the Hong Sisters. This drama pulled out the feelings from the Big movie and made them stronger Also the gutsy ending I'm not quite sure I would be able to risk going against viewer expectation in order to make a statement Stop and go back to reflect on the other characters, the smaller events, the throw away lines, watch the original Big movie.

I swear the ending will work for you after that, if you are willing to stop and contemplate. Your gut reaction falls away and slowly, I think you'll find a warmth bubbling from the ending that is slow and rolling. And for the last time She's mostly, until episode 15, sheltered and untested.

She's never made a decision all her life. Get that through your skull and I swear that the ending works even better. Well, let's assume you're wrong, 'cause I never liked Hong sisters dramas I didn't even know that the shallow screenplays I've seen are thairs, before reading the comments for this show.

Looking back on the 'Hong' series I've seen - shallow, shallow, shallow, and just trying to shock you or make you cry at some point. If I knew the author's the same as in 'You're beautiful' or 'Delightful girl', I wouldn't waste my time with 'Big'. Sorry, everyone: And I don't give a F bout GY, just got to know his name these days, though I do admit that he's a good actor. And they ruined it all:. KJ's character, developed in all 16 eps, is getting deleted.

The age gap becomes even bigger after 3 years of 'amnesia' - KJ wakes up in his years old mind. All of the side characters and storylines are just dropped. That makes me think they were put there 'just in case' to start with. The 'unknown future' seems like a symptom of a panic fear of the screenwriters. Whit this ending nothing makes sense.

Because there were planty of illogical 'open plot-doors' left with no explanation or excuse. Screenwriters just didn't do the job to put together the pieces, and these pieces don't make sense apart. The 'twin' story would work, if the body swap happened to be permanent. Switching places - why not? The 'hater-mamma' would work, if she didn't create a permanent connection between her husbant and his beloved one by givin her own child to her.

Or if monster-mom stayed a mentally ill hater till the end. Three years of waiting and love - it'd work, if both lovers had their memories kept. Questioning 'Does YJ love me? This ending was nothing like 'Let's make the audience think a little', it was more like 'Phooo, we got to the end at last, lets just sweep all the useless and inappropriate stuff we wrote and pretend it never happened'.

My feeling for this plot is 'lacking courage', rather than 'giving a riddle'. I beg to differ, the side story characters didn't get dropped, they were pushed to the background as people tracked KKJ's storyline over the rest.

You didn't prove that my statement was wrong. You said you tracked KKJ's storyline, but you didn't track the other plotlines. You forgot about them, and admitted so when you said you thought they got dropped.

But they didn't. And KKJ's story didn't get reversed at all. The last lines were that he would remember if Da Ran persisted, meaning that nothing was lost. Go over the background character's character arcs again. How did Mari grow by the end of 16? Can you track that for me, and then I'll see if it matches up. If you can do that, perhaps you will see the small bits of growth. The ending was very subtle. Can you find them in episode 16? Or did you lose it when the story made a different statement and you thought episode 15 was filler?

Which, BTW, it wasn't. Also, Da-ran really didn't change much throughout the drama; she was pretty much indecisive and clueless thru the whole thing. Her 'confession' at the end felt forced. That's where the real drama of the series should have been but the Hong sisters inexplicably decided not to go there and just regurgitated the same conflicts and moping btwn KKJ and Da-ran how many times did they an argument about how they felt about each other?

There are times when an open-ended or semi-open ended ending is appropriate and thought-provoking such as in "Joseon X-Files , but here, the Hong sisters just took the LAZY way out like they did pretty much throughout the entire series. Just awful, cliche filled writing from the Hong sisters that went nowhere and really didn't even provide much in cute scenarios or witty dialogue at least romcoms like 'My Princess' gave us plenty of that.

However, the side stories weren't useless--Hong Sisters do one thing that they will sacrifice all else to--events, characters, pacing, conflict. I noticed this particularly in My Girlfriend is a Gumiho. They will sacrifice everything to get the theme to work. This time the theme was maturity. Each character was assigned a part in maturity and they were using the characters to test questions about maturity. Since no one else seemed to get it and the fan rage died down a bit, I'll spell it out.

Maturity by character: Da Ran: Sheltered, mature, untested. Is this mature? Character arc: If put to the test and put in a difficult position, can she mature? And at what speed? I saw them try to test the character, but the character was stubborn because she couldn't get out from underneath her over protective family. Every time she was on the verge of making a decision, they swooped in. So it was a big deal when she went against their objections and left. Her character arc ended on her ability to fight for what she wants, and even taking the harder path to do so, which is why the ending didn't end with her on the bus.

The not showing the face is another maturity thing-- getting to that later. In this case, I think the inability to buy it wasn't due to the writing--I thought some of the acting decisions could have been handled better. Da Ran was a bit too deer in the headlights. If she was played as intelligent, but inexperienced more, I think people would have liked the character more.

That's an acting, not a writing decision. Mari: The Question: How one deals with loneliness, is that a sign of maturity? Mari's whole character arc hinged on her ability or inability to deal with feeling alone.

This, too, was illuminated through lines like you can go around her house in the US in 15 minutes by Helicopter. Mari doesn't give up. She says so several times. I'm his only family. But he's also really her only family too. She also learned boundaries and respect for those boundaries.

When she said "I got the signal to stop" and did The Teacher Na storyline was a different kind of maturity--the ability to let go and to ability to fight for love. This was a different kind of fight than the KKJ storyline. This was a fight of persistence and realization. The side story with the Principal, that was more for gags and laughs. Korean Humor style. Also a Hong Sisters trademark. Choon Sik's storyline should be obvious See episode 1, schoolyard scene for the large change.

Then you have KKJ If he'd gone into amnesia then he wouldn't have had the time. Granted, this could have been done earlier, but since they were experimenting with smaller events and stronger characters, and I feel the hand of the director this time who was doing slice of life before this they opted out of doing it earlier. So by the end of the first scene of 15, his plot line ended and he realized in order to get Da Ran to fight to be with him, he'd have to make it difficult and wanted to see her fight for it, which is why he gave an instruction manual at the end.

KKJ is immature, but he's pretty good at reading people Think back to his Uncle He's good at manipulating people into what he wants. So he wanted to ensure that Da ran was strong enough to fight for him, which was the banjun in 15, which made the audience feel cheated, but the smaller events made a statement.

Sweeping events really don't make maturity happen. Disasters can break people as much as bolster them. His storyline isn't a waste because Da Ran's mission per his instruction was to make him remember their love, thus all of the things he learned inside and outside of their relationship are there. As for not showing his face, I immediately got it though I knew the fan rage was going to be high. Maturity--when you were a kid and dreaming of growing up, did you ever wonder what your adult face would look like?

Did you know automatically what was on the other side? The Big movie pulled these questions at the very end, too. I remember feeling What will he look like then? Will he ever find her? The end of the Hong Sisters drama by not showing his face also pulled the same kinds of questions forward. You don't know what the other side of maturity looks like. You don't know what your face looks like--in fact it might never have a finishing point.

If you show the face, then it has a finishing point and since the center of the drama was KKJ, you need his face to be ever evolving. Thus how they sacrificed everything for the theme of the drama.

I also think the blocking on this was a directing decision too. I watch a ton of BTS Maturity is slow. It is painful. It does take experience. It does take persistence. It does take knowing yourself, taking on responsibility, being able to accept and give love. You will feel loneliness. It is different for everyone and just because you are 35, doesn't mean you are any more or less mature than an 18 year old.

Which is why the side stories were needed from a writer POV. It's not the destination, it's how you get there that matters. It's the smaller steps, not the huge sweeping events that usually make people mature.

Stories like huge sweeping events to force characters to mature, but that's not real life. A semi-open ending makes one think about the journey to get there. Maturity is the same way. That's the statements made by this drama. If anything, Hong Sisters are blunt about their theming. So next drama, I expect stronger characters, and they probably will bring back strong events, but probably not as over the top.

It's pretty obvious right from the beginning that both teacher and student are attracted to one another, although Daran doesn't acknowledge it at all and determinedly treats him kindly just like any other student and Kyung Joon tries to keep his distance and settle for staring at her from afar.

At first, in the hospital, it seems that Yoon Jae the doctor has died and his body is transferred to a hospital morgue, while the young Kyung Joon appears to be in a coma, hooked up to machines in the ICU.

However in a creepy moment "Yoon Jae" wakes up in the morgue very much alive, but it's really Kyung Joon inside his body who wakes up. The real Yoon Jae remains in a coma, trapped inside the body of that 18 year old kid. For the majority of the drama Kyung Joon has to adjust to living the life of a 30 year old doctor ; he manages to claim at work that he needs extensive time off in order to recover from his horrific accident, but the clock is ticking -- just how long can he keep up this pretense?

The truth is revealed to Daran and she has her own coping to do, grieving for her fiance in a coma in a kid's body, and with this 18 year old kid in Yoon Jae's very handsome mature body, whom she is due to marry in just a few weeks. Daran continues to wonder what exactly Yoon Jae was racing to tell her before the accident and then she finds out he was having a secret relationship the whole time with a female doctor at work, Se Young Lee Jang Hee Jin from Que Sera, Sera and The Village: Achiara's Secret.

She is numb with shock and grief and who is there to confide in but the only person who would really understand, Kyung Joon, trapped in her fiance's body! The attraction that had begun at a bus stop outside the school grounds begins to grow in earnest between two people with adult bodies and a similar sense of humor and joy in life. Lots of endearing humorous and tender scenes between them make for an interesting romantic story. However, if the men's souls are ever switched back, what will happen to all their lives?

What if Yoon Jae wakes up and tells Daran he loves her after all? What would happen to the real Kyung Joon?