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This drama is really good. It had to be one of my favorite dramas. This type of drama is one of those types where the rich fall in love with the poor and they can't be allowed to be together because of their status and how mostly the rich person is the guy and he falls in love with the maid. Well, in this drama it's the girl who is the rich person and her butler. She is a spoiled, bratty, princess who likes everything to go her way. Everybody fears her because of her attitude. He is a man who likes to be busy and does a lot of things in order to survive life. He doesn't care whether she is rich or not, he treats her like everybody else. They hate each other at first but they soon come to realize that they both need each other in their lives. This drama I would say is REALLY REALLY AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! Although it was predictable but who cares? I loved every minute of it. The storyline was great. I laughed, I cried, and I enjoyed this drama. This drama is definitely a MUST SEE!!! The characters were very well played here.......I think that I might go watch this again! lol, have fun watching My Fair Lady.

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Stairway to Heaven was I think the best drama I've ever watched. There were some episodes when it made you want to skip the episode and make you feel anxious but I didn't skip any because it wouldn't make sense after. This drama made me cry nonstop, the waterworks kept coming. This drama is romantic, sad, and at some points happy. The characters were very well played. I love Kim Tae Hee but in this drama, she played it so well that it made me want to kill her and she did a good job of it. From the very first episode it made me want to watch even more because when they end it, they end at a very good part. When I want to stop watching the drama, I never could because it kept getting better and better. I even wonder at night before I go to sleep about what would happen next in the drama. She did so many stupid things and it made me mad but still it's a sad story. In the end, she still dies even though they sacrificed everything for her to stay alive. This drama kinda reminds me of Cinderella but even more cruel. This is really good and if anyone is looking for a good and romantic drama, I would recommend Stairway to Heaven!!!!! I LOVE THIS DRAMA >.Leer más

This drama was really really really awesome! I loved the storyline, the characters, the music, everything!! It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me hella mad. The characters were amazingly played well. I just have so many things to say about this drama and I can go on forever if I wanted to. The storyline is none like any other. I anticipated a new episode every week. I hated waiting so much though.......Shin Min Ah plays her character very well. You will totally love her in this drama. She is really really really cute. Lee Seung Ki is very handsome when he smiles.........No Min Woo is very hot here, hotter than Lee Seung Ki xp....The actors were very good and they had very good chemistry with one another (the 3 main characters). This drama gets you very happy and makes you laugh a lot. It is so cute and I can never stop saying that. It keeps its charm, cuteness, and humor throughout the drama and never bores you at all. You can never stop watching once you get into it. You will also cry so much near the ending! I really recommend this drama to everybody. It is very cute and funny that you will love it from the very start!



★★★★★ "neomu neomu neomu chowah!!!"

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This drama promises the viewers something and gives them something else.



It promises to be a fantasy drama and it ends up being a sort of religious/philosophical brick-à-brack. Fantasy requires a dream-like atmosphere - which is lacking here - and is built upon moments of true respite, be it a healthy laugh or a funny, surreal, fast paced adventure.

This show has nothing of the sort to offer.



It promises to give us a reason as to why these 49 days were given to that particular character and it ends up solving a corporate conspiracy.

It promises romance and it gives us friendship - which would be just fine, if only one wouldn't expect something different.



It goes as far as to close up with a supposed lesson, which I personally find pretentious. Because, unless you are 14 and have never read or heard of "letting go of the deaths and live your life to the fullest", there is nothing new to be learnt here.

I would have gladly accepted this as the main theme of the drama if they had chosen to narrate it in a symbolic way, or a unique direction. When content is trite, style has to take over, or the impression is we are taught a very obvious lesson. And while direction and photography were both good, they chose the path of realism, in direct contrast with the plot.



I was disappointed with the acting too. With the notable exception of Scheduler - and even he lost his spark in the last episodes - all the others felt contrived and apathetic. Mostly the main female lead, whose broody expression and slow pace became an exaggerated repetition already on episode 5. Mind you, I'm not criticizing the actress: for all I know, this could be - and probably was - a direction choice.



The music was good, I thought it soundtracked each episode with due discretion, never overpowering the scene.



Re-watch value: 1. Because once you are deprived of the thrill to know what's going to happen to these characters, the charm of it evaporates like puddles on a hot day.

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Following my policy of not writing a review unless I had watched the drama to the end, I now share with you my two cents worth on this drama. Overall, it is a good drama but I did not lose too much sleep over it. In fact, there were parts and episodes that I skipped because they were part of the dallying tactics the director used to prolong the drama to the said 20 episodes. I will explain by using the "Story, Acting, Music, Rewatch Value, Overall" items used in My Drama List to rate this drama.



Story: It started out with aplomb and almost immediately, I fell in love with the Scheduler's character. However, I can't say the same for the other characters. The IDEA of the story (of a woman in coma and having 49 days to gather tears whilst being "helped" along the way by a charasmatic scheduler) was great but disappointingly enough, it was not exploited to its potential. Somewhere in the middle, the drama lost its plot and that was when the dallying tactics were used. Thankfully, it picked up pace between episodes 13 and 14, went flat again until episode 17 and finished wonderfully at 20. While some may be disappointed with the ending, there are equally many who were more than satisfied with it. To me, it was a strong ending and exactly how I myself would have wrote it. It was unexpected but it delivered some form of "being at the end". Every character were given a closing chapter. Everyone was accounted for. The sereneness of the ending taught the viewers many lessons:- one of which is about reality, fate, life, death and love. In its own way, it is a happy ending for all.



Acting/Cast: Needless to say, Jung Il Woo did a brilliant job as the charasmatic Scheduler. We can all say for sure now that Lee Yo Won had the most beautifully sad face as the often depressed Song Yi Kyung. Jo Hyun Jae as Han Kang captured many hearts as he tried to make up for lost time and opportunities to express his hidden love for Ji Hyun. Nam Gyu Ri was able to express the naivety, mild characteredness and innocence of Shin Ji Hyun. All the actors and actresses did their best to portray the characters given to them. My biggest brownie points, however, went to Jung Il Woo for his protrayal of the Scheduler. It will be difficult for anyone to watch this drama without falling in love with his character.



Music: There were 3-4 music in the OSTs that were excellent and a few in there that were not exactly to my taste. I took into account the favourable opinions of others and my own "not-so-favourable" opinion before giving the music 8/10. All I can say is, it's personal taste. ;)



Rewatch value: If you are a person with lots of time on hand, you might rewatch this drama for the sake of passing time. I am a busy person and do not often rewatch dramas and taking this into account, I ranked the rewatch value at 6/10. I doubt I will ever rewatch this drama because of its length and the dallying in the middle, though I might choose certain episodes or parts that were interesting to view whenever I feel nostalgic of this drama. You can be sure that those scenes are the ones that involved the Scheduler! ;)



Overall: It is a worthy drama but unlike others who gushed on and on about how great it was and rated it at the same level as Secret Garden, I would actually rate this below Secret Garden and a few others that I felt were more worthy. The only memories of this drama I will take away were the character of the Scheduler and the poignant but wonderful ending. All in all, kudos to all the acting casts of 49 Days and all the best for the future. Fate willing, we will meet each other again...soon. :)

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This is seriously my favorite drama. No matter how many I watch, I can't think of any of them as better then Tatta Hitotsu no Koi. I absolutely love it.



The whole story is beautiful. It's innocent, refreshing, a little bit exaggerated at times, but still wonderful. There's a rather unexplainable Titanic sort of feel to the entire drama, except, it doesn't end sad (in my opinion that feel comes from the music, which is amazing, by the way. I even put it on my iPod I love it so much.)



This may be a little spoiler-ish, not a lot, but just a little (talking about the personality of one of the main characters):

To some Nao may seem like a very selfish girl, who only thinks about herself, and I can understand that, but really when you think about it and really consider her life and imagine yourself in her position, can you blame her? Can you really say she should know better? And besides, doesn't she seem to grow up at the end?

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Point is, I LOVE Tatta Hitotsu no Koi, and I highly recommended it. I've watched it too many times to count, and I plan to watch it again.

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To be completely honest, I did not like this drama at all. The whole storyline of Koizora is poor and rather confusing. It's as if the author only wanted to torture the characters, thereby, making any soft-hearted viewer want to just breakdown and cry for the characters sake.



As I watched, I became so annoyed with the story that I didn't even watch the last episode. So, maybe I shouldn't be talking, but from what I read, it doesn't really get much better in the last episode.



Unlike many people are saying, in my opinion, Koizora wasn't even really all that sad, it was just ridiculous (very similar to the second season of the anime Clannad). I didn't like it at all.



My advice to anyone who wants to watch Koizora is: if you start watching it and even begin to think that it's going to be a drama that you don't want to watch, just turn it off. 'Cause it doesn't get better.



I know a lot of people really like this drama, and I don't mean to offend you, but I really don't understand why anyone would like it. It's a poor story, and quite honestly I don't find many redeeming qualities in it.



The only even remotely good thing about Koizora is that the actors can act and the music doesn't suck. Quite obviously I don't give any "re-watch value" to this drama since I couldn't even finish it, and the story was seriously a major fail.

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