(This is a format I've invented to make reviews more straight-forward if I feel like doing them, which also works better with my busy, busy schedule. So enjoy a blunter, better-polished version of one of my earliest reviews.)
Rooftop Prince instantly struck me as the perfect drama when it first aired, a concoction of themes and genres I adored with the kind of humour that made me laugh until I cried. I can't say I feel the same way now. This makes sense, since the drama was written like a sum of parts; every scene alone felt compelling, however stepping back and looking at it as a whole once it was over revealed a less glamorous picture.
Rooftop Prince never established a consistent logic to its time-travel, more concerned with frankly boring, trope-driven subplots. Also, the romance established seemed unhealthy, since the main couple couldn't sit in a room without screaming at each other and the titular Prince desperately needed to fix his misogyny and grow a new personality (plus, it's very hard to see
Park Yoo-chun as a leading man once you possess a working knowledge of his many disturbing scandals). To its credit, I will say that
Rooftop Prince was trying something very new at the time, when fantasy-romance was all the rage, however this doesn't change the fact that it's very hard to come back to with fresh eyes.
Rooftop Prince instantly struck me as the perfect drama when it first aired, a concoction of themes and genres I adored with the kind of humour that made me laugh until I cried. I can't say I feel the same way now. This makes sense, since the drama was written like a sum of parts; every scene alone felt compelling, however stepping back and looking at it as a whole once it was over revealed a less glamorous picture. Rooftop Prince never established a consistent logic to its time-travel, more concerned with frankly boring, trope-driven subplots. Also, the romance established seemed unhealthy, since the main couple couldn't sit in a room without screaming at each other and the titular Prince desperately needed to fix his misogyny and grow a new personality (plus, it's very hard to see Park Yoo-chun as a leading man once you possess a working knowledge of his many disturbing scandals). To its credit, I will say that Rooftop Prince was trying something very new at the time, when fantasy-romance was all the rage, however this doesn't change the fact that it's very hard to come back to with fresh eyes.
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