“Oh, the adoption arc. Do we really need it??”

One thing I appreciated of Creating Destiny is that the main couple gets together pretty early and through actual dating they fall in love. No over-the-top comedy scenes, no big weepy bits. They’re so normal and their chemistry is warm and comforting. In other words, we’ve up to this point kinda enjoyed Eun Sung as living a normal, happy life kinda like our own. And then this happens pretty late in the show.

The adoption stuff actually has been done pretty well. After all, Eun Sung has a happy, very loving family, her late mom is close to her heart, and she had a great future. Until last week, it never crossed her mind, and though she did miss her adopted mom, she was secure about her memory. It’s a unique twist — the presence of the birth mother threatens to damage her happy, well-meaning life. She may lose her fiancee, and she will continue to be looked down in Korean society. She may start questioning her own nurtured personality. And so on.

It can create a compelling dilemma — that your normal, happy life is suddenly taken away from you. Because we didn’t see this coming either, we feel her pain and her anxiety as part of our own shock over the plot twist.

Thanks for the info on Kim Jung Nam. She has a sad face that draws me in, especially now knowing her sad affair with SIG. Dramas do reflect real life and isn’t her/SIG’s fate known to us as a drama cliche?

I too love that glass reflection shot in Creating Destiny. Their pairing has a couple compatibility rarely found in other noona loves. Together with the little girl Jin Joo – a lovely nucleus family in the making! Wonder what will eventually unfold for them although I don’t really hate the real father. Oh, the adoption arc. Do we really need it??