I wish DB will add "where to watch"...

Reason to watch: Seo Ji-hoon. That’s all I need. But I’m happy to see the story sounds like a ton of fun! When I knew nothing about it, I thought it was going to be your typical high school love triangle with Ji-hoon as second lead. I still would have checked it out, but with less enthusiasm than I have now.

Already downloaded it, maybe will watch it a bit later today. I'm excited to see more Seo Ji-hoon around. With just 8 epi, it added more reason to watch.

Loved the first episode and our main guy(Future Shin Woo) and can't wait to see more...

Hope this doesn't go down The Best Hit route, which was mildly icky. Other than that, I'm looking forward to it.

Ooooh! This is why I love that you guys started doing these "Premiere Watch" posts because I had no clue this was even a thing.

I was staring at the girl for a while until I realized she's Yoo-ah from High School King of Savvy. Woah.

The concept of being in a love triangle with your past self is cute. I think I'll give it a try. And I'm curious to see how a romance from OCN turns out.

are we still going to get a drama ratings post for last week?

Nine mentioned. I swoon.

I liked the first epi. It was pretty decent and fast-paced. Lee Jung-shin's character didn't take a long time to figure out things and on next epi onwards he will be helping his younger self and without realizing, involve himself in unintended love triangle. LOL. I do hope he will utilize his limited time to spend time with his late mother, although their relationship can't be son-mother this time, but as teacher-parents. My heart, when his mother was the first one one he met when he went back to 2007 😥(ugh this remind me of Go Back Couple 😥).

However, it's strange how there are two different actors for both timelines, but same actress for female leads. Maybe they had low budget to cast another actress, who knows.

Acting-wise, Lee Jung-shin and Seo Ji-hoon are doing well (Seo Ji-hoon is swoony though), but I wish the female lead has more emotions on her expressions. I think I'll keep following this drama, I found first epi of this drama was better than Meloholic first epi which was kinda.. WTF 😅

So it's a love triangle, but it's not really a love triangle because you're competing with yourself? (That sounds a lot like Healer doesn't it? hahahahaha) I'M IN!

Looks like Operation Proposal kinda thingy with a dark underbelly (fate! People die!), but when the past kicked in it got pretty entertaining. So Ji-hoon looks promising and his bickering with Lee Jung-shin is already hilarious. Lee Yeol-eum is cute as always, though her character is awfully vague at this point, which is somewhat typical of dramas with similar plot line, where he pursues his love and she kinda stays "pursued" throughout. I hope its not the case with this one. Lee Jung-shin is rather green still, but to my surprise, he makes one hell of a teacher. Bossing around his friends and old classmates while knowing all their tricks and habits is just pure gold:)

Whew. I thought he'll romance her as her teacher but apparently he's just coaching his past self! Okay, it's not icky anymore. Hahaha!

I liked ep 1 a lot and can't wait to start ep 2. But once i started watching ep 2, i found it painful to finish.
The premise is quite interesting, but it's so painful seeing the older teacher thwart his younger teen self of teen love. Usurped all the romantic moments with the female lead.
And from an objective point of view, it does look so icky when he unknowingly speak wrong things (foot in mouth) and cause female lead to fall harder for him instead.
I hear him chastise his younger self under his breath, i find myself thinking his older self is equally clueless *slap forehead*

[In Defense of] Longing Heart and its sweet innocence

Until three weeks ago, “an OCN romantic comedy” was an oxymoron to me. “Stick to your guns OCN!” I thought, “give me more chilling criminal mystery drama crack, and let the professionals handle kisses and cuddles!”

I never expected “Longing Heart” to be the first drama I would enjoy in 2018.

Short, simple and earnest, it feels juvenile in the sweetest way. The plot is a straight-forward one: a 27-year-old guy (Kang Shin Woo) who could never forget his high school one-sided crush (Han Ji Soo) goes back 10 years in time and becomes a math teacher in his former high school class, determined to support his younger self in his love life. Cue to a love triangle between the younger him and the older him, as the girl crush is legitimately torn between these two guys (who are actually only one).

I love the sweet moments, when the older Shin Woo tries to be the wing-man of younger Shin Woo, much to his annoyance… only for the audience to discover that the Shin Woo from the original timeline was actually doing just fine in the wooing department.

I love also how older Shin Woo feels comfortable with his high school friends (who have become his students) who find their teacher clingy and embarrassing, for instance when he recommends his friends to pay attention to Sex Education (knowing that two of his friends would become pregnant during college and give up many of their dreams because of that).

But I mostly like the confrontation between the older and the younger Shin Woo, between experience and innocence. Older Shin Woo realizes that there are so many things he thought he knew about Ji Soo that were wrong, and so many things he didn’t know about her. Older Shin Woo is in a position many of us can only imagine: if my older, mature, experienced self was here to guide me, maybe I would have acted differently, maybe I would have picked another option, maybe I would have done better, and surely my future self would be appalled at my current behavior.

In many ways, I understand why Ji Soo would fall in love with her math teacher rather than her fellow student: of course it is the same person, but at the same time older Shin Woo has gained experience, perspective and maturity which make him a better version of himself, just like myself have thankfully improved since my high school days.

But the show offers a simple and earnest answer to this dilemma: yes we make mistakes that we wouldn’t have made in later years and may regret dearly, but if we remain true to ourselves, listen to those who know and love us, accept the mistakes of our past, then eventually, we will walk the path meant for us and find happiness.

Or so I want to believe.