'When the Weather is Fine' Finale leaves Eun-seop and Hae-won's future uncertain but don't expect a season 2
How much can one winter change your life? It is just one season and a relationship that has merely lasted one winter long cannot stay imprinted in your heart too long. At least, that is what Hae-won (Park Min-young) believes in 'When the Weather is Fine' episode 16 and she is proven wrong. She left to Seoul believing that time will numb the pain of her breakup with Eun-seop (Seo Kang-joon). That with time, she would be able to forget Eun-seop, but the longer she waits, the more she misses him.
It is the same for Eun-seop as well. He repeats that he is doing well, and he hopes that Hae-won is living well too but the only person he is fooling here is himself. He keeps expecting to see Hae-won in his bookstore, and the two of them portray what it means to be forced to part. Not because they don't love each other, but because the situation calls for it. While the pain of breaking up because love has just disappeared will leave you grieving for a failed relationship; one that never had time to mature haunts you every day.
Yet, both Eun-seop and Hae-won continue to live their respective lives. Eun-seop continues to sell his books, he had even published a book titled 'Goodnight Irene'. He has also changed after the winter, and while he was hesitant about expressing his love for his adopted parents, especially his mother, he has reconsidered how he expresses love after Hae-won. He continues to worry about his sister Hwi, especially when she confesses that she has now fallen for a boy in her class with whom she shares her name with.
Hae-won, on the other hand, has begun to give auditions at different academies to teach and play cello. A lot has changed over the winter for Hae-won as well. Now she realizes that the only reason she believed that she shouldn't play the cello or teach kids was because of the burden of loneliness that she had felt previously in Seoul. This burden had pervaded all parts of her life and as a result, Hae-won couldn't do anything but run away from all of it.
While she might have spent a really cold winter in Hyecheon with Eun-seop, his warmth helped her free herself of the loneliness and depression that she had felt all this while. So she was able to find her passion for playing the cello again. She also got a chance to visit Hyecheon when she received a heartfelt letter from her mother Myeong-ju about her aunt Myeong-yu leaving the town to go somewhere far away. As she travels to her town in the beautiful season of Spring, the show's literal title 'I'll go to you when the weather is fine' makes poetic sense.
Hae-won ended up going to Eun-seop when the weather turned beautiful and somehow, the two find happiness in that moment. There is no promise of the future, or a guarantee that Hae-won would even stay more than a week in Hyecheon and yet; the two of them find love, peace and happiness with each other for as long as possible.
Yes, it is an uncertain ending, but that is what makes this show emotionally gratifying to watch. After all, we do not have guarantees in real life. Do we?
Also, this is the end of the show as the cast and crew have bid it goodbye. While many may be frustrated with the ending that neither spells a happy ending or a heartbreaking separation; this is it for Hae-won and Eun-seop's story for now.
