First Impressions: 49 days

I was so desperately hoping that this drama would be good, since the end of Dream High and My Princess my dosage of Korean Rom-com had been greatly missed in the past week. Now 49 days has started replacing forensic drama Sign on SBS for Wednesdays and Thursdays.
The preface had been already released along with heaps of stills to promote this drama. Though it looked exciting, I was reserved in my expectations.

The story of the drama is this: Shin Ji-Hyun  (Nam Gyuri ) a woman who seems to have a perfect life, about to have the perfect wedding to her *perfect* fiancée suddenly is in a car crash and ends up in a coma. She is placed in limbo land between the living and the afterlife  as a ghost of sorts and where she meets the grim reaper or * scheduler* (who likes to get perms and ride motorcycles *swoon*) (Jung Il Woo). He instructs her that in order to live again she must find three people that truly love her and collect her tears in  the time limit of *spoiler not* 49 days. Sound easy, but unfortunately family members are not included.

On the other side of this equation is the woman who's body Ji-Hyun possess to find said tears, Song Yi-Kyung. This woman is alive but appears to be dead metaphorically on the inside by the way she lifelessly goes through the motions of daily life.

Then there is the not so best friend of Ji Hyun and the third point in the love triangle/ who's Hyung is Ji-Hyuns Fiancée. 

As the preface is very openly set up I don't think this drama will be one with many surprise plot twists. Rather I think its main momentum will be from the way that the characters and events are all tied together some how, the most important being Ji Hyun and Yi-kyun. Also that nothing happens without a reason. These will give rules to this fantasy drama which will work well to give it some grounding otherwise all logic goes out the window.

 My guess is the main development in this drama will be how Ji Hyun and Yi-Kyung physically and metaphorically bring each other back to life through this body possessing experience, and that Ji Hyuns perfect life will turn out to be very not perfect after all. It's just what seems obvious.

So trying to find three people who truly love you in 49 days, while in someone else's body? I don't think I could. I think we will be left on a cliff of dramatic tension wondering will she find the last person in time, but it will also lead to some hopefully funny and heartwarming instances.

My thoughts from the first two episodes is that I am already totally in to it. I love Li Yo Won from Queen Seon Duk, and already I can see she is very good at playing two characters. ( It was a lot more convincing than Hyun Bin and Ha Ji Won in Secret garden). & OMG reaper boy you can take me to heaven (or hell) any day, but can you take me for a ride on your motorcycle first?? I hope that we see a lot of him, what would be awesome is that if he was also connected to the characters more than just being the Scheduler....