A satisfying end to a completely satisfying drama. The thing I loved about this show was that It gave me exactly what I wanted, while I admit this show played by the rules, it still managed to keep it fresh. Dream High is the prefect example of how wonderful a drama can turn out to be if you stick to the classic drama formula but still inject bits of heart and whit into the mix.The plot itself wasn’t unpredictable but it did keep me on the edge of my seat. Not just waiting till the revelation of ‘K’ but also because from the beginning of the drama we were rooted with each character as they traveled on the roads to success.
The acting: I know this drama was receiving a lot of criticism because of its acting. However I loved how it took one of the worst actress (Suzy) and turned it into a way for not only her as and actress but for her character to grow as well. By the end of the last episode not only had I fallen in love with ‘Go Hye Mi’ but I was also able to see Suzy grow as an actress. My hat goes off to Eunjung who played Yoon Baek Hee, or villain of the drama. I use the word villain cautiously. Because while many viewed her as the ‘villain’ of the drama, her character who probably one of the most enjoyable ones to watch. Her character learned, succeeded, failed, got back up, and in the end was able to find happiness and learned to be content with herself. Taecyeon, I thought was very suited for his role. Although I was a little iffy about his acting earlier on, as the drama progressed I was able to see the charm in not only him as an actor, but his character Jin Guk as well. IU and Wooyoung were also very suited for their roles. For me personally, they acted as a separate side story. Their character’s development was not as complex as the others and while IU’s character underwent physical change her character’s personality didn’t differ much. However I did thoroughly enjoy their love story. Kim Soo Hyun was the only non-idol actor in this drama and wow did he impress. Sam Dong was my favorite character in this story. Many times during Kim Soo Hyun’s parts I would forget I was just watching a show and loose myself in his acting.
The plot: Being a high school student myself I usually enjoy stories in a high school setting. In this drama especially I felt as though I could relate to many of the problems that the character’s faced. Underneath all the dance battles and sing offs Dream High was basically about discovering your dream and working passionately to achieve that dream. And while obstacles will arise ‘all we need to do is cross it, then those obstacles will become a bridge.’
All in all I am a huge fan of this drama and it’s ending. It gave us satisfying resolutions to the immediate questions; Sam Dong is ‘K’ and he finally got Hye Mi’s heart and an epic bus chase that he oh so deserved- but still left us with and open ending. I also loved how the final episode was as much about Hye Mi as it was about Sam Dong. Her love and her willingness to put his dreams before her anything else is what makes him ‘K’. In turn ‘K’ was not only Sam Dong but both of them, she was the music and he was the dream.
I love how everyone succeeded in their own way. And that not all of them had to be pop stars and that their futures are still left to be written. It’s neat, but not sealed: it speaks to fulfilling their dreams, but leaves the road ahead of them, and not behind.
So let’s all Dream High! Now and in the future ^_^
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This is from Kim Soo Hyun posted @ KeyEast website March 01, 2011.
송삼동, 김수현 입니다.
어떤 말로 시작을 해야 할까 한참 고민하다가 떠오른 말이 송삼동, 이네요.
끝이라는 게 실감이 나지 않아서일까요..
김수현이라는 이름보다 송삼동이라는 이름이 아직은 더 익숙한 것 같아요. ^^
그 동안 많은 관심과 사랑 보내주셨던 <드림하이>가 오늘 스페셜 콘서트를 마지막으로 끝이 났습니다.
더운 여름에 촬영 준비를 시작했는데 어느새 두 계절이 지나버렸어요.
악보를 익히고 안무 연습을 하는 동안 잘 해낼 수 있을까 걱정도 하고,
촬영장에서 밤을 새면서 삼동이의 꿈을 어떻게 봐주실까 기대도 하면서 보냈던 것 같아요.
<드림하이>는 저에게 삼동이라는 또 하나의 이름뿐만 아니라,
배우로서 어떻게 살아야 할지 고민할 수 있는 시간을 만들어 준 작품이에요.
드라마 속 K에 만족하지 않고,
배우로서도 최고의 모습 보여드릴 수 있는 김수현이 될 수 있도록 노력하겠습니다.
앞으로도 계속 지켜봐 주세요.
그리고..
마지막 방송을 함께 보기 위해 시간 내주신 팬 여러분들, 감사합니다.
그 동안 큰 사랑 보내주신 분들이랑 마지막을 함께할 수 있어서 더 좋았던 것 같아요.
집에서 혼자 방송을 봤으면 좀 섭섭했을 것 같은데,
옆에 든든한 지원군들이 함께 있어주니까 좋더라구요.
또, 함께하지는 못했지만 방송 보시면서 응원해주신 많은 분들께도 많이 많이 감사 드립니다.
내일부터는 늦잠도 자고, 그 동안 못 본 드라마들이랑 영화도 챙겨볼려구요.
100% 충전한 다음 좋은 소식으로 다시 인사 드릴게요.
언제나 여러분들 덕분에 외롭지 않고 힘이 납니다!!
========================================= This is Song Sam Dong, Kim Soo Hyun.
I thought for a long time how i should start out and the first thing that came to mind was Song Sam Dong. Maybe it's because i still can't believe it's over... I think I'm still used to the name Song Sam Dong than Kim Soo Hyun.
With lots of love and interest <Dream High> ended today with the special concert. We started filming in the hot summer and 2 seasons already passed. While i memorized the music sheet and practiced dancing, i worried whether i will be able to do well. While i filmed all night, i wondered how the viewers will think of Sam Dong's dream.
<Dream High> not only gave me the name Sam Dong, but also gave me time to think about how i should live as an actor. Not just being satisfied as K in the drama, I will try my best to show only the good sides as Kim Soo Hyun, the actor. Please continue to watch me.
Also... Thank You, to the fans who made time to watch the last episode with me. I think it was better because i was able to spend it with the fans who gave us a lot of love. I think i would have been sad if i watched it at home alone. Having strong supports with me was better. And to the people who couldn't come, thank you very very much for giving us a lot of support.
Starting Tomorrow, i will sleep in late and catch up on dramas and movies i missed. After i re-energize myself 100%, i will return with good news.
I always feel strong and not lonely because of you guys!!
Yesterday saw the end to Dream High, so Tuesday’s episode was a(n edited) broadcast of the concert, which was the drama’s way of putting a spin on the familiar special broadcast format of behind-the-scenes clips, NGs, and stories from the drama shoots.
It also gives me a chance to weigh in on the ending, since I didn’t get a chance to do that with the finale, and send off this unexpected gem of a show, which didn’t inspire too much confidence pre-premiere but somehow showed us all it had the humor, heart, and wit to become a keeper. SONG OF THE DAY “어떤이의 꿈” (Someone’s Dream), from the concert. [ Download ]
The concert also gave the stars a chance to take the stage and show their live-performance skills, which, admittedly, left a little to be desired but were no less appreciated for the effort. The special started off with “어떤이의 꿈” (Someone’s Dream), the song that started it all for Jin-gook and Baek-hee at the first showcase, which is posted above.
(I didn’t rip all the songs from the special because a number of them have studio versions. This one’s on the soundtrack, but not sung by the cast members.)
A few clips from the drama remind us of the almost-showdown between Jason and Jin-man, though the latter backed off from a dance-off out of timidity. How much do I love that the special gives us that showdown, with the bonus of seeing both Taecyeon and Wooyoung donning the hilarious red suits from the Jin-man flashback, joining Park Jin-young in a dance… to MC Hammer’s “Too Legit To Quit.” Oh man. I’m getting childhood flashbacks already, back to the days of sky-high bangs, hi-top sneakers, and parachute pants.
The concert’s talky portion segued the event into more standard special segments, in the guise of “special awards.” It’s a clever way to incorporate the usual behind-the-scenes bits into a larger theme, and Taecyeon beat out his castmates as the on-set jokester, with the penchant for busting out into cute, silly dance steps when he thought the cameras weren’t rolling. (He joked that seeing the compilation of his behind-the-scenes moments, he felt “betrayed” by the cameras, since he had thought they were off.) Wooyoung and Kim Soo-hyun had their share of goofing off, but they both ceded that the win belonged to Taec.
The second “award” was really just an excuse to segue into the NG portion, and Park Jin-young reportedly was the worst at flubbing takes (it was his acting debut — though really, he was pretty fantastic in the clips that made it to air), although he had some competition from the rest, particularly Suzy, whose fatal flaw was dissolving into laughter at inappropriate moments. JYP even earned the nickname of “Hollywood actor,” which he explained came from his many NGs, which came as a result of him not being familiar with lighting and technicalities while acting. So he’d joke when he messed up that, “This is really different from how they do things in Hollywood.”
Fans of the Milk Couple — Wooyoung and IU, aka Jason and Pil-sook — will probably thrill to hear the story of how the two actors slipped away alone for a dinner away from the rest of the cast (earning mock outrage from Taecyeon at being left behind). He’d paid for the dinner (she said things were so awkward that all they did was eat), which he said was because he was her elder, and then asked her to buy him dinner next time. So the second time, they went to a barbecue restaurant — with their respective staffs in tow — and IU said he’d eaten so much (expensive) beef that frankly she’d been a bit worried about the cost, only to discover that he’d paid that time, too.
The MCs teased that he seemed to be inventing excuses to hang out, and while personally I think the story’s a little weak to be launching any big romance theories, it’s better than nothing, eh?
A gentle question about Suzy’s difficulties while filming were a roundabout reference to the slew of criticism she received for her acting earlier in the drama’s run. The staff presented her with the third award — for being hardworking — and she laugh-cried as she tried to explain how touched she was.
Truth be told, I don’t think the criticisms were too far off-base, since acting really isDream High‘s biggest flaw, in my opinion. I came to love Hye-mi’s character — non-emotive facial expressions and all — and found her really endearing, but I can’t help but think that had Suzy and Taecyeon been better actors, Dream High would have been a better drama. I say that as an enthusiastic fan already, but one who can’t quite give it full marks because there were too many scenes where I saw what I ought to be feeling rather than felt those emotions from the acting outright.
More performing was followed by a segment where aspiring music-lovers/students were brought out as real-life versions of the Dream High counterparts, such as the girl who’d lost a great deal of weight and has begun to be taken seriously by her peers. The students were given two gifts each, both of which are pretty sweet: a musical instrument (a keyboard for one, a guitar for another), and their own versions of the drama’s K pendant to remind them to keep dreamin’ on.
As far as fandom paraphernalia goes, it doesn’t get much better than that pendant, does it? You could practically hear the envy emanating from the audience. Oh, okay, maybe from me too.
And with that, the special ended with two of its most recognizable tunes: “Dream High” and “거위의 꿈” (A Goose’s Dream), the latter of which is posted below and was kicked off by Hye-mi’s li’l sis. [ Download ]
And there you have it.
Though I’ll still say that the drama could easily turn a Season 2 into a success, as far as this season’s concerned I’m pleased with the way things wrapped, and glad that an extension wasn’t ultimately granted, if having more episodes means that the rhythm of the finale would have been tripped up. It had just the right mix of giving fans what they wanted…but not so much that it became an exercise in fanservice that provided cute and fuzzy scenes at the expense of continuity or story strength.
That’s really the thing I hate when I’m talking about the perils of fanservice, because pleasing fans, in and of itself, is hardly a bad thing. As a fan I wouldn’t have minded a few more scenes of my favorite couple(s), but not if that compromises the flow of the story. It’s when you have finale episodes that are purely about giving up that Cute that they don’t even bother attempting narrative logic that I get grumpy.
Perhaps the drama’s awesome flashes of meta awareness were enough to satisfy the fanservice quotient, and who doesn’t love a good pop-culture reference? (The “Tell Me” reference in the finale CRACKED. MY. SHIT. UP. Trust JYP to manage a promo op for the Wonder Girls while giving us a clever plot point AND a self-referential joke.)
I liked that the kiddos stuck together rather than split up their group, but that after some time had passed, they’d all moved on to their individual successes. It makes sense that at that moment in time, in 2011, their dreams were all in sync and the group was at its strongest with everyone onboard, each member a key part of the whole. But dreams are, if anything, a launching pad to further dreams, so the years naturally take them on their own paths, but thanks to the fact that they started in the same place, they’ll always have those shared moments rooting them together. Not that they couldn’t have remained friends if they hadn’t done that, but I just love the way it ended up working out. Sam-dong’s journey has taken him to the highest heights, replete with the greatest loneliness, because he’d had the greatest dreams. The drama may have finished with each person in a successful position, but it almost seems to say that success is just the (happy) byproduct of living a life in pursuit of those dreams, that lifeblood of souls. More than achievement of romantic love, or even the expression of friendship, that’s a message I can get behind.
For me, Dream High was a happy surprise, and a prime example of why expectations and reality don’t always line up. In fact, it’s usually the opposite, given how many fantastic-sounding dramas ended up flopping — or, more likely, merely boring. And I won’t argue thatDream High is some genius work of art, because sure, it had its flaws and its obvious plot twists and its (sadly) lapses in acting from the cast. But where it succeeded was in melding commerce and art, making the most of what it was and keeping the energy pumping and the jokes free-flying, while never losing sight of the emotion and warmth at the center.
