Extraordinary You: Writer as God and Masterlist
“The fact that this is a world of comics. Depending on what the writer intends, this romance comic can suddenly turn into a dreadful one. Even main characters can become extras in the blink of an eye.” - Lee Do Hwa
EoY or July Found By Chance, is a show where Eun Dan Oh finds out that she’s living in the world of comics, as an extra with a terminal illness. She, with the help of Haru, a nameless extra, decides to change her fate, and ultimately the story they live in, for the better.
While the show’s set-up itself is amazing, it doesn’t stop there. The comic book world extends as a metaphor for our real world. It portrays the Writer of the comic as an all-knowing all-seeing entity like God, and asks-- if our world was, as monotheistic religions believe, controlled by a God, can we really change our predestined fates?
As the story progresses, the show plays more with the concepts, asking us-- can we really win against an omniscient entity? If our actions and motivations were created by the entity, are our feelings real? Are our motivations real? Can we escape the curse of History? Can we break free from the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth? And, most importantly, is our fate important enough to risk our very existence?
While I’ve seen metas that explored the show partly, I haven’t seen a full analysis anywhere, so, despite the fact that it ended a while ago, I’ll be doing a full series on this show.
This is the Masterlist Post for all of them, which I’ll keep on updating as I write more. (you can reblog if you want to be tagged in further posts!)
Worldbuilding and Themes in EOY
Free Will and how “Trumpet Creeper” reinforces it.
Eun Dan Oh: Changing Her Fate
Haru: Love Is A Revolution
Baek Kyung: The Writer’s Stand-In
Shoes Over Flowers: The Subtext of these two
Three Romances and Three Fates
The Brilliance of the Ending and the Show’s Message
Theories Part 1- Self Awareness
Theories Part 2- Trumpet Creeper a BL?
Link to EoY Discord Server
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