There’s one thing I still don’t understand about Dalja’s Spring. And that is the ending. Dalja and Tae Bong decide (or rather, Dalja decides) to leave whether or not they are going to get back together up to fate. So when she comes home from the US they make no effort to see each other going with the belief that if their meant to be they’ll run into each other. But their moms are best friends. Grandma and Grandpa are both shippers. Unlike most Noona romances these families are like, “YES, DANG IT. LOCK THAT SHIZ DOWN AND GIVE ME GRANDBABIES” You cannot tell me that these people did not construe some shenanigrany to get these fate addled ninnies in the same place at the same time.

And you would think the very fact that the moms became best friends while Dalja was away would be fate enough for Dalja and Tae Bong to decide to get back together.

And Dalja and her blind date going to Tae Bongs restaurant would be fate–why didnt he go out and say hi? Or go out and kiss her face? Why did she never go back to the restaurant (except when she dropped off the invitation a few weeks later)?

I get that they were “leaving it to fate” but—it kind of seemed like they didn’t care if they wound up together or not in the end. Which is a kindy of sucky realization to have spent 22 hours on.

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    And you know, now that I’ve thought on it a bit more–its kind of contradictory. Towards the beginning/middle of the drama when Dalja was in her love triangle between Tae Bong and Mr. Perfect she kept saying that love isnt about Destiny its about Choice. And she used that same reasoning to go to Mr. Perfect. And then when she realized hello LMK (wait) she uses that same reasoning to go back to Tae Bong. Part of her growth was growing from the romanticized version of love and fate and destiny that she felt before she had ever been in love to realizing that she doesn’t play a passive part in her life. She has to CHOOSE who and what she wants. And she made a big deal about choosing to be with Tae Bong even though on paper Mr. Perfect was perfect and she should have chosen him. Again, kind of a slap in the face (and lazy writing?) that the ending was “left to fate” when the first third of the drama was the power to chose.

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    Word.

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