![]() She even becomes rightfully frustrated at how often her character has to placate her love interest, Baek Kyung (Lee Jae-Wook) an abusive and entitled popular boy, who is steadily angry about being on the receiving end of her character’s love, when all the while, she has no interest in him. When she is on stage and her character is being agreeably even to her own detriment, in an aside she thinks about how ridiculous the situation is. Eun Dah Oh is the voice of everybody who watches sappy romance shows with vapid and ill-developed female characters by people with an absurd imagine of women and girls. “Extraordinary You” is quite hilarious in the beginning and refreshing in its almost accidental feminist premise. They incite a beginning together she gives him the name Haru and he gives her hope. With that motivation, she discovers a nameless extra (Kim Seok-woo) who happens to be able to change her fate. For Eun Dah Oh, this news is both positive and troubling because despite hating how docile and impressionable her on-stage role is, her true self is spunky and strong so, she endeavours to change her fate so that she can live both in the “shadow” and “on-stage”. He explains that they are in the world of a comic called Secret starring Yeo Joo-Da and Oh Nam Joo and along with other characters in “Extraordinary You,” she exists to help in uniting the two.ĭuring certain moments when they have to be in role, they are “on-stage”, but during their down periods, when the comic pages hasn’t been turned, they get to enjoy their freedom in the “shadow.” But there’s one caveat, her character is destined to die after completing her job of helping the love story along. At first, she’s confused, as to why she changes from being assertive to forcibly saying and doing things that she would never dream of doing, but the school cook Jinmichae (Lee Tae-ri) notices the change almost immediately and fills her in. Yet, despite the supporting role of her character by an omniscient writer who already decided their fate, Eun Dah Oh becomes self-aware and along with this change, her personality shifts. The 2019 show is centered on Eun Dah Oh (Kim Hye Yoon) an 18-year-old high school girl with a heart condition, who’s setup to be an instigator in the romance between the true primary characters in her comic world, Oh Nam Joo (Kim Young Dae) and Yeo Joo-Da (Lee Na-eun). ![]() This absurdity and stain in our culture is ironically made a central point of criticism in ‘Extraordinary You’, a satirical show based on a fictional universe where comic-book characters are actually made aware of their circumstance. A few seem to be able to imagine a proper characterization of a heroin but many can’t or fail to try. It’s sprinkled even in intimate scenes in many romance narratives as if it were sugar or a seasoning. It limits creatives when developing female characters with agency and autonomy in TV. ![]() The disdain for women and their power runs so firmly that it seeps into every area of our modern lives. ![]() Our obsession with classifying women as weak, passive, and infantile is odd. ![]()
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