HCCCWeek Day 7 - Favourite Twist of Tropes
Hometown Cha Cha Cha like any other Kdrama has lot of tropes - the fake boyfriend, love triangle, female lead slips and falls in male lead’s arms , sparring enemies to lovers , friends to lovers, drunken piggyback , drunken kiss etc.
I think HomCha did a great job in subverting a lot of tropes and giving them unexpected or fair resolution. But my favourite one was how the childhood connection played out subtly.
When they first showed in episode 2 that the main leads had met in childhood - I almost cringed and said here we go again, what is a Kdrama without a childhood connection! But I loved how their meetings during childhood and teenage years were simply coincidences. Their conversation over the phone realising they had met not once, but twice was wonderfully done. Without much fanfare , treating it as sheer coincidence rather than fate/destiny or some deeper connection, with DuSik saying it was wonderful that they found each other again was the most light touch childhood connection I have seen in KDramas till date!
Of course Kim Seon Ho saying ‘Ani’ in that deep baritone voice of his broke the internet that Saturday and I have also lost count of how often I have watched that clip!
But in the end it was also revealed that HyeJin was always going to find DuSik and was indeed his destiny, Gamri’s text stopped DuSik from ending his life, but HyeJin calling the emergency services and waiting till DuSik was collected and safe reflected that these two were meant to be.
Sure you might call it cliched, but they way it played out and how she stood by him through his trauma and helped him heal, you realised she was present right at the start when he started to take the steps to heal himself.
Just like DuSik was always there to help HyeJin when she first moved to his town. HyeJin always had DuSik’s back!
