[Discussion] One Mom and Three Dads

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 6:46 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

ooooooo i like the sound of this drama! cant wait to watch it!

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 4:39 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

saw up to ep 2., so far it's got a lot of weak comedy and the 3 male leads are as yet caricatures than developed characters. Eugene looks a bit old with her hair down the front. Overall It feels almost like a cheap sitcom rather than a full 16 part romantic comedy. I'll pass, but I'm sure a lot of ppl who like cute comedy will enjoy this show.

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 4:59 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I totally agree was the previous post.

The 2 first episodes was so-so. Normally I wait English subs, but I was so excited too see the new drama of Jae Hee (one of My Fav Actor since 3-Iron and Delightful Girl) that I saw the raw.

And it's maybe not appropriate to tell this, but Eugene is almost ugly in this drama (What the hell with this hair??? Blink

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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 11:14 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

where can i get this drama with eng subtitle? it seem not out yet Crying

luv jae hee =) Wub

Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 1:38 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:13 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Although the show is not good in terms of quality, I really enjoy it. I have such a weak spot for baby dramas... Laugh

Shin Sung Rok is most definitely the best of the 3 men thus far. Best acting, best character.

And yeah, Eugene is ugly. WTF is up with the ajumma hair and clothes... Unsure

She looks 10 years older compared to Wonderful Life!

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:00 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

It also makes me feel really, really old to see Eugene as an ajuhmma. (Kinda how like Sung Yu Ri is a "veteran actress" now. Wow, it seems like only yesterday when she played a pet rock in 1000 Years of Love!) What next? YEH plays Empress Dowager?

Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 1:46 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 8:52 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

They deleted the German Thread and put everyone's post count in it back to 0 (not just the posts that were made in the German Thread, but ALL of them).

Yeah, it's not fair. I was (and still am) very frustrated about suddenly looking like a noob when I've been around for 3 years....

(Thanks, moderators. Really.)

Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:29 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

so... was that show as terrible as it looked from the beginning ?

Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 6:26 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 6:50 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I already saw all series and I think is pretty good. it make you smile. Especially I like the performances of the actors, the baby is really lovely and the relationship between the three dads is really good. Smile

I don't know why people make so much bad remarks, is a good show with good sense of comedy, you need to see the all thing for criticize Glare

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:33 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I loved the drama. It gives you a warm feeling and outside of the comedy aspects, there are also a lot of serious topics touched... even if, given the nature of the show, they can't go to deep into things.
I loved the guys. They are so much like real brothers, when I saw them and their shenanigans, I was instantly reminded of my own batch of brothers around the same age. Smile

Also, there are a lot of details... I noticed a lot of small things, gestures, interactions, that I missed on first watching the show, now that I need to rewatch it scene by scene because I'm translatng the WITHS2 subs from English to German.

For example, there's a scene in Episode 4, where Kyeong Tae, the cop with the smelly feet, makes his complaints to the other guys sitting on the sofa. They are waiting for the baby to be born, and after certain unfortunate incidents earlier in the episode, KT has been sleeping with his shoes on every night... for ten days now. Of course, his friends complain, and KT shoves his feet into their faces to show them what happens when he doesn't wear his shoes. Everyone ducks for cover and you while everyone's moving to the next line, you can see KT having a really wicked smile plastered on his face...

Or the various reactions to Na Yeongs cooking... For example, everyone's saying she can't cook, but if you look at episode 2, when NY and Song Min celebrate their third wedding anniversary, you have KT and Soo Hyeon going over to the table with the food and sneaking off food... and neither of them looks as if the food isn't to their taste.

Also, and that's what I like most, you can see how much the three friends are thrown out of balance when SM dies. For the first two episodes, everyone does a great job in painting the friendship betzween the four guys, you can see the power structure and the dependencies within the group. Then, when SM is removed from the formula, the remaining guys are not only forced to cope with their grief and NY's situation, but also, SM's leadership and glue function is lost, leaving a gap where the "rank structure" has to be redifined.

(And if you want the huge discussions, Soompi has 197 pages so far, including episode recaps, tons of pics and other neat stuff. Smile

Of course, the show has not just great sides. As much as I love having four lead males, they're too many. Everyone of them is lovable and cutting one's air time for the sake of another would be sad... because (at least for me), I really enjoy watching them. But for a show that runs just 16 episodes, it leaves you with a "on spot watch", you don't get that much background information, even though each has an interesting background story that in itself would be worthwhile to explore in a show of their own.
Alas, things are only hinted at.
Also, the romance factor feels forced on, mostly focussing on the later episodes, when the feeling you get is that NY isn't really interested in anyone new, because she lost her husband, who she loved dearly, just a little over a year ago. But, to give credit to the writer and the characters, the love-turbulences are mostly something that the guys duke out between themselves, with "Who is the father" being a driving factor in certain character's behaviour. I like it how you can see how one of the characters confuses his love for the child with the love for the mother. Or how one of them falls really in love, but is stuck in the pit of his own ambitions.

But ultimately, the show is way too short for what it tries to do. It would've worked better if only one of the characters had done the donation, or two at best. Or at least have one of the guys do a paternity test at an earlier stage... if they are so keen on being the dad, then why didn't they do that on their own devices, no matte rwhat they promised their dead friend?
Ultimately, they would've had made a time jump a few years into the future at an earlier point, to allow the romance to work out properly. Even if I love Baby HS no 2 (cocumber-girl) to pieces.
As it is now, the ending scene is cute and funny, but it's like an afterthought because it has to be a "romance".
But overall, definitely worth watching, very enjoyable (and it is still enjoyable to watch after ten times... compared to "Who are you", which I initially loved more, but with which I had problems watching more than twice...)