It is hard to review what is perhaps the most successful Korean Drama ever.
This is a grand romance comedy drama action all rolled into one series. It became a phenomenon in Korea and across Asia and the "Kdrama" world. In the process reviving the "Hallyu" Korean wave and generating a massive wave of tourism to Korea, recruits for the Korean army and even impacting vernacular speech in Korea.
So how do you review such a massive blockbusting success?
It begins with a genuinely heartstopping action sequence that will become a key element in the resolution of the drama and then switches to a typical Korean romantic comedy. Boy meets girl... girl instantly hates him... but we all know how it will end.
Our hero is a special forces soldier and our heroine is doctor. Fate sees them thrown into a war torn fictitious country (actually locations were in Greece in some rather stunning locales).
There is, as is usual a buddy to our hero who has relationship with the general's daughter and father does not approve. You know the sort of thing.
Descendants of the Sun is not that original in its plotting but it has heart on a giant scale and a cast the is exemplary.
And fate threw in a bonus that no-one could foresee. The genuinely beautiful Song Hye Kyo and her co-star the handsome Song Joong Ki fell in love ultimately marrying in 2017.
Despite the sometimes trite story line and the unlikely elements in the plotting at its core it is a love story. And this is what becomes more and more genuine as the series progresses.
It is the key romantic scenes between the two leads (and also those of the second couple of Goo Jin and Kim Ji-won) that set the screen alight.
The scriptwriters have created dialogue that rings true and the actors bring it to life brilliantly. At times funny at times deeply romantic it is this that lifts Descendants of the Sun way above the ordinary and certainly above much that Hollywood has produced recently.
So sit back and let the story flow and just enjoy the romance, the comedy (which is at times really funny and I don't find Korean humour usually that funny) and the action which is pretty intense at times.
Descendants of the Sun is a great ride.
And the ending? Well let's just say Vancouver and volcanos take some beating!
This is a grand romance comedy drama action all rolled into one series. It became a phenomenon in Korea and across Asia and the "Kdrama" world. In the process reviving the "Hallyu" Korean wave and generating a massive wave of tourism to Korea, recruits for the Korean army and even impacting vernacular speech in Korea.
So how do you review such a massive blockbusting success?
It begins with a genuinely heartstopping action sequence that will become a key element in the resolution of the drama and then switches to a typical Korean romantic comedy. Boy meets girl... girl instantly hates him... but we all know how it will end.
Our hero is a special forces soldier and our heroine is doctor. Fate sees them thrown into a war torn fictitious country (actually locations were in Greece in some rather stunning locales).
There is, as is usual a buddy to our hero who has relationship with the general's daughter and father does not approve. You know the sort of thing.
Descendants of the Sun is not that original in its plotting but it has heart on a giant scale and a cast the is exemplary.
And fate threw in a bonus that no-one could foresee. The genuinely beautiful Song Hye Kyo and her co-star the handsome Song Joong Ki fell in love ultimately marrying in 2017.
Despite the sometimes trite story line and the unlikely elements in the plotting at its core it is a love story. And this is what becomes more and more genuine as the series progresses.
It is the key romantic scenes between the two leads (and also those of the second couple of Goo Jin and Kim Ji-won) that set the screen alight.
The scriptwriters have created dialogue that rings true and the actors bring it to life brilliantly. At times funny at times deeply romantic it is this that lifts Descendants of the Sun way above the ordinary and certainly above much that Hollywood has produced recently.
So sit back and let the story flow and just enjoy the romance, the comedy (which is at times really funny and I don't find Korean humour usually that funny) and the action which is pretty intense at times.
Descendants of the Sun is a great ride.
And the ending? Well let's just say Vancouver and volcanos take some beating!