Today, I'm going to talk about a TV series that caught my attention thanks to a video I came across by chance a few years ago and introduced me to the South Korean drama industry. Even after so many shows I’ve watched, it's still among my favorites. W Two Worlds… I guess two people have never been this much from different worlds.
Attention! This article will be a bit more fantastic than the others because the screenwriters of the series we will discuss this time did not need a science fiction explanation in any way. Let's push a little bit and make this fantasy a reality and let's do the science fiction explanation. Are you in?
Let's give a SPOILER ALERT to those who haven't watched the series. Because it is not possible to explain without giving spoilers.
W Two Worlds Apart… It is a fantasy series from beginning to end... I don't know who thought of it, but it has a very interesting topic for me. Let's start with what this story tells.
A surgeon Oh Yeon Joo's father, Oh Seong Moo is a comic book writer. His comic book W has been very popular lately. The protagonist of the comic is Kang Chul, who lost his family as a result of a tragic event, and was convicted as if he was guilty, and after he was released, he devoted himself to finding the real criminal. After that, his life completely changed and he turned into an attractive, kind, cool, and wealthy businessman. Everything is normal so far. Until Oh Seong Moo decides to kill Kang Chul and finish the comic... That's when things start to go off the rails.
Kang Chul clings to Oh Yeon Joo as she tries to hold on to life, and control of the comic begins to slip away from the author. Yeon Joo is now a real-world character who can enter the comics by the end of the episode. She is drawn into the world of comics against her will. And this changes Kang Chul's destiny at the hands of the writer.
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Now let's list the fantasy elements here.
1) Kang Chul's ability to gain willpower and hold on to life despite the author's drawing and to attract a person from the author's world to his own.
2) A person's ability to enter and exit the comic book world
3) The comic begins to create its chapters
4) The gateway between the comic book and the real world
So, what do we need to explain all these? A wormhole and a parallel universe. Those who have read my previous articles know that I really like wormholes. ;)
You would agree that the revival of a cartoon world and the transformation of a character from a novel into a living creature in the real world is a bit of an extreme situation. As such, it seems more accurate to think that the world is beyond a sketch in order to put the work into science. The most appropriate scenario for me is the theory of parallel universes…
The characters in the real world live in Seoul as well as the characters in the comics. The Seoul of the two worlds is almost the same... Even the locations of the buildings. Only the names of some places change. Like the name of the hospital where the girl worked… This supports our theory of parallel universes. Because the theory of parallel universes talks about the independent flow of different lives and different times in the same location. Just like in our story. For this reason, let's continue our way by accepting that the two worlds are two different parallel universes formed in the same space.
So, how was this world reflected in Oh Seong Moo's pen?
At this stage, I'm going to ask you to think about movies with people who can see the future. If a character can receive information from the future but isn't happy with the news he's getting, he'll try to change something and eventually change it, right? That's how most movies work. So, what is the first seen future?
The first to be seen is the future that is shaped according to the person's current decision...
Let me try to explain this more clearly with an example. Imagine that you have three paths ahead of you. If you go from the right you will receive a large amount of money, if you go from the middle you will get a new car, if you go from the left you will come across a hospital. Your first decision is to go the way you will get money. And your future is shaped by this decision. Now you have a future in front of you, walking on the right road and getting the money and spending it. If you encounter a psychic at that moment, he will tell you that you will receive a large amount of money.
However, at the beginning of the road, a factor outside of your will, maybe a person, comes and breaks your leg. The situation is serious. You can still follow the path and reach the money, but you risk losing your leg. You may experience a physical problem that you cannot fix, no matter how much money you have. You have to make a new decision. By choosing the road on the left, you can reach the hospital in a short time and be treated. And that's when you change your mind. The psychic may not know this. Because the only thing that the psychic can see at that moment is your future, drawn by your decision. It is a complete mystery how the elements that are out of your control will affect your line. I'm talking about an endless series of possibilities. According to some, this situation also causes the formation of parallel universes. Parallel lives can be created by all the possible decisions we have made and can make…
After establishing the link between the formation of future visions and parallel universes, let’s talk about why am I telling you about such a thing. Now back to Oh Seong Mo. I would say that this character, although not mentioned in the drama, has visions about the universe in which Kang Chul lives, considers them as a kind of inspiration, and begins to draw. In this case, it creates a bridge that connects these two worlds.
So how does Oh Seong Moo start to interfere in someone's life from this world?
Two parallel universes are like radio channels broadcasting on separate frequencies. If somehow these broadcasts are brought to the same frequency, the broadcasts may intersect. Let's say Oh Seong Moo crossed the frequencies of the two worlds many times while he was transferring the inspired story to his world with his lines. In this way, the bond he established with the characters he reflected in his life gave him the power to influence this world. It didn't affect the whole story, but only part of it. It has already caused a lot of confusion wherever it can affect. Like drawing an empty character who murders Kang Chul's family just so he could experience a tragic event, and that character would later be in trouble.
The anonymous killer should have disappeared completely if it was just a comic book. But Seong Moo, who was trying to create a new character in another world, caused the sea of energy in space-time to bend to form a new human being. Since he didn't complete the character alone, he was left aimless after his mission was over. Later, we already know the bond this anonymous murderer had with the author and how he took the author’s face. If you didn't know, now you know.
Another attempt to change the course of the world is the scene in which he tries to kill Kang Chul by interrupting the flow of the story instead of using his inspiration due to his personal problems. If you have noticed, whenever he tries to include personal reasons in the novel, the author somehow messes it up. Because he is trying to interfere with the flow of the world itself. However, it was obvious that Kang Chul had a long life to live in that world, but the author was not successful and Kang Chul mysteriously continued to live. In the scene where he has to commit suicide first, he clings at the last moment and gives up jumping into the river. In the next murder scene, he pulls his doctor (Oh Yeon Joo) to his feet.
Here we come, Oh Yeon Joo's leaps between universes. Oh Seong Moo is trying to interfere with the flow of so many universes that everything explodes somewhere. It would be inevitable for black holes and white holes to form as a result of such an effort to change the bridge between the two universes, right? In my previous articles, I explained how these holes can be used for both teleportation and time travel. Here, too, I will say that there are doors that provide the link between the two worlds. And the wormhole formed between the two holes will automatically open the way for us to pass from one world to another.
Now that we've sent Oh Yeon Joo to the comics, I come to a question that might get stuck in our minds.
Because Oh Yeon Joo is a being in harmony with the time flow of her own world. And her only connection to that world is through comics. As a matter of fact, she can stay inside for a part, otherwise, he may never come back from there, and time would flow for her as it does for others. However, as we mentioned before, the station that connects the two worlds is the comic book. So we can think of Oh Yeon Joo as some kind of alien for Kang Chul's world. Her constitution is not accustomed to that world, what should she do?
If we're going to wrap things up. The author takes visions from the second universe and creates a bond by giving life to that world in his comic. Through this bond, he tries to intervene in the universe and causes cracks in space-time. As a result of these cracks, wormholes form between the two universes. Thanks to this path, the characters have the opportunity to pass through each other's worlds. The comic gets out of the author's control and writes its own story because that world is actually real, and after the final cracks, sections of that world begin to seep into the author's world.
[W - Two Worlds (Ep 04)]
Here, Kang Chul realizes that his world is a comic book. According to our theory, at the level of awareness he reaches, he finds the void caused by the crack in spacetime. Just as time slows down inside a black hole, time slows down inside Kang Chul's world where he has captured this void. And he can pass through the wormhole born from the space-time crack and come to the parallel world where his own world is leaking.
This theory was my way of making the series easier to watch by putting it in the logic of science fiction. I don't know if it makes sense to you, but after this theory, I can say that I enjoyed the series even more. Have you had any such theories? If so, what did you fictionalize?
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