Sangue (2015)

Eu assisti para que você não assistisse

Está difícil de achar algum Dorama bom com temática de vampiro, sou dorameiro assíduo de temática de fantasia principalmente, e nem isso o drama conseguiu me prender. Eu já tinha deixado isto anos atrás, vi que estáva na Netflix agora e dei mais uma chance. Não dava, assistir até o final só para ter o direito de críticar.
Achei a história muito rasa, ao contrário doque as pessoas falaram, não achei inovador colocar o fator vampiro como condição médica (mesmo na época já tinham outras histórias pondo folclore com justificativas científicas), e ainda assim isso foi pouco expositivo, não víamos muitas limitações, curiosidades de ser um vampiro em cena, além do básico de super força e talvez sede de sangue (que abandonaram isso logo no começo da série).
Atuação muito ruim também, não achei um que se salvasse, o romance do casal principal surgiu do nada (pra vamos você encontrou com seu amigo de infância e automaticamente se apaixonou?), era muito sem graça, não havia cenas cativantes com eles.
O elenco de apoio/coadjuvantes, alguns foram simplesmente jogados em cenas e saiam sem justificativa nenhum, nenhum desenvolvimento, nem mesmo um fim para eles, nunca sabemos no final se os pacientes sobreviveram ou não (o que é outro problema causado pelo final super corrido).
Acho que nem preciso dizer do final sem noção nenhum. Todos reclamaram disto, você já deve ter visto outras resenhas aqui falando sobre. Aliás, não tem nem o que falar porque não faz nenhum sentido.
E bem. Longas caminhadas dentro do hospital, que parecia ser o único principal cenário que eles tinham disponível. Diálogos longos e desinteressantes, mal parecia um dorama que o tema principal era sobre vampiros. E bem, o nome, Blood, não faz jus ao Dorama, você só ver este recurso nas cirurgias ou em pancadas de cabeças, nem procure vem um típico vampiro bebendo algum sangue, você só vai achar dois vampiros médicos tendo longos diálogos chatos e quase sem consequências.

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Let's just say I was one of those people who actually wanted to root for this drama. I have never seen Ahn Jae Hyun in anything else but I liked him in the beginning. Playing a vampire does not require a huge acting range. You can act broody and intense without needing to have 10 years' worth of acting experience. The beginning too was good. Finally a take on vampirism where it is an actual medical condition instead of a myth. That was quite interesting, writer-nim. Brownie points to you for that. Ji Sang's youthful looks were because he stopped ageing at some point. And as for the villain, he wanted the whole world to benefit from a condition like vampirism instead of it being treated as some medical evil. I loved your use of rationale in certain cases. I even loved all the information on biochemistry that is relentlessly hurled at the viewer.

But seriously what happened to you after the first 5 episodes? The moment Ji Sang stopped performing surgeries all I saw was him taking leisurely strolls all around the damned hospital and meeting either the Director or Yoo Ri Ta or Min Ga Yeon or Dr Joo, talking about all kinds of useless stuff and nothing else. Hello PD-nim, instead of overloading my brain with information, just show me through actual action. Too much exposition ruins any narrative.
And the romance? Uh why did they fall in love again? I'm sorry I just don't understand. Am I supposed to swoon at them mouthing lines swearing undying love for each other with not an ounce of emotion in them? It seemed like Ri Ta kept throwing herself at Ji Sang who was not even interested. And then all of a sudden, he is interested for lord knows what reason. (Oh wait it's because of their cosmic connection..he saved her from all those bad CG, Twilight-rip-off wolves....oooooh shooo romantic!)
I did not even think their scenes cute.

And somewhere around episodes 8-9 it all went downhill. The same things kept happening on infinite loop. Let me list them -
1)Ji Sang and Director having some kind of confrontational conversation in which sometimes they attack and snarl at each other and sometimes they don't. YAWN!
2)Token romantic scenes between Yoo Ri Ta and Ji Sang which were anything but romantic (who the hell calls their girlfriend/boyfriend 'Doctor Yoo' and 'Chief'?)
3)Walking around the hospital
4)Conversation between Ji Sang and VTH-16 researcher doctor
5)Ji Sang fighting off vampires and mostly getting beaten
6)Chairman and Associate Director having boring passive-aggressive conversations
7)More walking around the hospital
8)Min Ga Yeon and Ji Sang scenes which were too few
9)Patients in ward 21A going bonkers
10)More walking

The only portions I looked forward to where the parts featuring Sister Sylvia, Hyun Woo and Min Ga Yeon and Ji Sang's interactions which were actually genuine and made me feel something for them. They did not come off as forced and contrived unlike the Yoo Ri Ta and Ji Sang scenes. Even Ji Jin Hee couldn't save this trainwreck and he tried his best to make Jae Wook memorable!

And don't even get me started on the ending. What the hell happened? It was like the writer picked out every nonsensical, irrational cliche from the dramaverse and crammed all of them into an hour's worth of time.

Dear writer-nim, do us a favour and DO NOT EVER WRITE A DRAMA AGAIN. I feel like jumping off a bridge after watching that atrocious finale. I want those 20 hours of my life back! And this is coming from a busy person who no longer has sufficient time to watch all the K dramas she wants to watch.

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