"When the Weather is Fine" has many elements that I really enjoy: a rural setting, a slow pace, nice music, interesting scenery and attractive actors (Park Min Young and Seo Kang Joon are particularly noteworthy). That it was apparently filmed in the fall/winter is very impressive (most series would have tried to "winterize" a more temperate season). But (heavy sigh) I just can't recommend it. Nobody in this series acts or talks like a regular human being. All movies and series take some license with actual human behavior in the interest of plot and character. But it's all in the proportion. In other similar series, it's an absolute requirement to have "eccentric characters." But in this one, they're not eccentric...they're weird (and not in an interesting surreal way).
For example, an important conversation takes place between two characters sitting in the back of a moving bus, several seats apart, both parties looking forward. Who would ever talk this way? Eun Sop is shown throughout the series to be totally in love with Hae Won (even mildly obsessed). But when Hae Won finally confesses her love to him, he rejects her because he's afraid of being happy?! (Come on, guy, it's Park Min Young we're talking about here!) Hae Won eventually leaves Eun Sop because....it's spring? She's mad at her aunt? Even if we suppose that the issues with her aunt cause her to leave (and by the way THAT conflict doesn't make any sense either) and she doesn't want to move in with Eun Sop (who, after getting over his initial reserve, is one heck of a good boyfriend), how about Skype, Facetime, email, phone, mail? Why break off the relationship? The main reason I kept watching was to see what convoluted plot point would pop up next, what would the next vague "say it but don't say it" conversation be about, and would that aunt ever take off her sunglasses? (I was actually surprised that one of the secondary romances resolved in a traditional way...I kept waiting for some weird divergence).
I don't know...maybe something got lost in translation.
For example, an important conversation takes place between two characters sitting in the back of a moving bus, several seats apart, both parties looking forward. Who would ever talk this way? Eun Sop is shown throughout the series to be totally in love with Hae Won (even mildly obsessed). But when Hae Won finally confesses her love to him, he rejects her because he's afraid of being happy?! (Come on, guy, it's Park Min Young we're talking about here!) Hae Won eventually leaves Eun Sop because....it's spring? She's mad at her aunt? Even if we suppose that the issues with her aunt cause her to leave (and by the way THAT conflict doesn't make any sense either) and she doesn't want to move in with Eun Sop (who, after getting over his initial reserve, is one heck of a good boyfriend), how about Skype, Facetime, email, phone, mail? Why break off the relationship? The main reason I kept watching was to see what convoluted plot point would pop up next, what would the next vague "say it but don't say it" conversation be about, and would that aunt ever take off her sunglasses? (I was actually surprised that one of the secondary romances resolved in a traditional way...I kept waiting for some weird divergence).
I don't know...maybe something got lost in translation.