A Good Day to Be a Canine: Episode 14 (Remaining)
by Unit
It’s a very good day to finish our doggy story! After bursting out of the gate with the lovable and quirky, A Good Day to Be a Canine limps to its finish with extra filler than cute moments, and extra repetitive scenes than new data. However hey, we get a fortunately ever after, and perhaps that’s all that issues for a finale.
EPISODE 14
I ought to have recognized this episode was going to be a waste of time when it opened with a one-year time skip. I can simply think about a dialog within the writers’ room that went like: our story has already come to an finish, however we nonetheless have one episode to go. How will we fill the one hour run time? Then somebody goes, “By peppering the episode with flashbacks and filler, after all,” and that’s precisely what they did!
After wrapping up with the Bo-gyeom drama and canine curse, Search engine optimization-won and Hae-na have been indulging within the secret relationship trope at college. The vice principal and Bo-gyeom have stop, and the college is getting ready for a competition. Search engine optimization-won’s birthday is on the identical day because the competition, and Hae-na is obsessive about arising with a particular and significant current.
Search engine optimization-won — who has gotten over his canine phobia — mentions that having somebody to speak to about his phobia is a much bigger current than overcoming the concern, and he thanks her for coming into his life as a gift. And this evokes Hae-na to jot down a play primarily based on their love story for the college competition.
Out of the blue, a relationship present PD reaches out to solid Search engine optimization-won on her present, however he turns her down. She involves the college to see him in individual, however does extra flirting than cajoling. The opposite academics encourage Search engine optimization-won to go on the present, inflicting Hae-na to sulk and excuse herself. Search engine optimization-won goes after her and we get a slo-mo wrist seize. He’s upset that she didn’t communicate up in entrance of the others. “‘This man is mine. I can’t let him take part within the present.’ Why can’t you say that?” Search engine optimization-won fumes, and Hae-na wonders if he’s taking pictures a drama. Lol.
It’s this drama’s self consciousness for me. As a result of, actually, what are we even doing right here? Search engine optimization-won drags Hae-na again to the workers room for the large “we’re relationship” announcement, and the opposite academics are deadpan. They’ve recognized about it for some time. *Pretends to be shocked* The PD sashays out like she was by no means there, and the present goes on. Ha! We actually received a complete relationship present arc for the large relationship reveal — which fell flat for me, anyway.
Shifting on, it’s lastly the day of the competition, and the theme is horror. Zombies, undeads, and ghosts parade the grounds, and the vice principal comes round disguised as a virgin ghost. Ji-ah really lured him to the competition by itemizing his favourite board recreation on a second hand web site, and when he arrives, she asks him about Bo-gyeom. The vice principal claims to not know the mountain spirit’s whereabouts, however he tells Ji-ah to not search for Bo-gyeom as a result of he has utterly forgotten concerning the secular world. Ha!
Hae-na’s uncle additionally involves the competition to get his thoughts off a breakup. I do not know how they met, however Uncle was relationship Hae-na’s former “rival,” and fellow instructor, Chae-ah. It’s dangerous sufficient that she was solely relationship him for his cash (apparently, the worth of some shares Uncle purchased 18 years in the past skyrocketed), nevertheless it’s worse that she didn’t even hear him communicate for your complete one week (!) length of their relationship. They finally broke up when she heard him bark — as a result of he nonetheless can’t communicate.
Hae-na leaves Uncle in Search engine optimization-won’s care to go put together for the play, and she or he tells him to return watch the play when it begins. However when Uncle sees the vice principal who stole his voice, Uncle runs after him and Search engine optimization-won follows after them in a ridiculous sluggish movement chase. Sadly, the vice principal isn’t capable of reverse the spell on Uncle, and Search engine optimization-won has to go drop off a upset Uncle again at residence.
Hae-na’s play is titled: A Man and a Lady Who Grew to become a Reward for Every Different, and Yul is the lead actor. It’s a cute shadow play, however since Search engine optimization-won isn’t within the viewers, Hae-na has the play recorded, and she or he sends it to him for a non-public viewing. Then we sit with Search engine optimization-won in his automobile, get extra flashback scenes that present us the Seohae love story over again and re-watch the shadow play we noticed simply minutes in the past!
Man, this drama has essentially the most inventive methods to verify we don’t neglect Hae-na and Search engine optimization-won’s love story, in addition to all of the tribulations they confronted. The play finally ends up being the most effective birthday current Search engine optimization-won has ever acquired, and the couple share a kiss underneath the flickering streetlights.
And simply because we will’t finish the drama with out seeing Bo-gyeom, Ji-ah visits him at a beachfront home the place he’s leisurely sipping espresso like he didn’t simply spend lots of of years harassing an harmless household. Is that this alleged to be the non-secular life that Bo-gyeom resides? Anyway, Ji-ah tells him that she’s shifting previous the entire previous life drama, and that he ought to do the identical. Bo-gyeom and Ji-ah ship off paper lanterns in lieu of the kites Bo-gyeom and Cho-young have been alleged to fly in Joseon, and that is the place their story concludes.
Hae-na’s household adopts a canine, and Search engine optimization-won names him Duk-gu — which was the identify of Cho-young’s canine. Woo-taek and Yoo-ra get engaged and plan their marriage ceremony. I’m undecided how, however uncle will get his voice again. He correctly breaks up with Chae-ah… after which they get again collectively. As for our OTP, their relationship is stronger than ever, and everyone mainly simply lives fortunately ever after. The tip.
*Inhale, exhale* We survived, guys! A Good Day to Be a Canine had the potential to be a greater present than what we received, particularly because it was tailored from cute and light-weight supply materials. Making the drama about eight to 10 episodes might need made for a tighter story with little to no avenues for missteps. Sadly, the drama was stretched out too skinny, and the early preemptions and single episode per week scheduling didn’t do it any favors. In the long run, I’ve no attachment or lingering emotions in the direction of the present. I’m simply glad the drama is over and we will all transfer on.
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