Jack & Joker: U Steal My Heart! Special Episode

No, they need to fixed this right NOW!!! Give us another Ep or season!

I was really looking forward to watching this... especially since they were getting married!!! 😍 It was to be the story to finish off a great story, though...

I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOO disappointed...

What the hell is this? Are the writers just being mean ass holes to us or what? 😠 If we are not going to get any more J&J as I keep hearing/reading 😭, then what the hell was this all about? This is not how you make a episode special or not, and have an ending like that and not letting us have more. If only I could give them a pice of my mind!

⚠🚫 Spoilers after this part... so if you haven't seen it yet, Stop reading now... you have been warned!! ⚠🚫

This was more of a messed up sequel then a special, Specials tend to be happy, fuffly and al the nice cute fun thing you want to see at the end of it all, but this one, no they just had to fuck it all up.

At first it was just Jack and Joker like you would expect it to be, but later on when it was getting to the end and even the end they just done fucked it all up..

Oh god the wedding, what should have been one of the happest days of thier lives turns out to be nothing of the sort. Jack is not in his right mind because Joker is not there. It was so messed up how he still went throu it all seeing the real Joker, but only having a made up body and picture for a head walk doiwn by a friend. It was so messed up, but sad as hell because Jack couldn't cope with the idea of Joker not being there with him, I couldn't help but cry seeing how Jack was.

Everyone at the wedding just watching it all, letting Jack kiss that made up copy of Joker and bring "him" home... I didn't see the point of all of them going along with him and letting him have the wedding. I get he wasn't in his right mind, and it's not easy to handle losing someone you love, but come on that whole wedding was just uncalled for, though making it out like Joker died was uncalled for aswell.

Making it out like Joker died, even though they never found the body in the water, up till the end and Jack seeing Joker telling him to pertty much move on, stop thinking he is still there was just to much... I cried way to much for like the last 30 mins of this...

Oh and the very last after the credots where we see Joker is really not died, but with someone who scares the crap out of him just makes it all the move fucked up for an ending!!!! 😡

I so want another season or something, so this so-called special is not the end. It's just not right... I need the happy ending with them getting married and being lovely dovely with each other!!!

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Why make a budget for this ??

A sequel we could have done without

PLOT: An old enemy, recently released from prison, tries to frame everyone on the eve of Jack and Joker's wedding.
Joker is eventually killed. Jack refuses to believe he's dead and marries a puppet dressed as the Joker.
In the end, he accepts his beloved's death and promises to move on and be happy...

### Poorly written story
### Weird acting (the actors must have struggled to commit to such a script)
### Nonsense, unnecessary sad ending.

=> Sad and awful!!
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Sequel dont on se serait bien passé

PLOT: Un vieil ennemi, sorti de prison, tente de tous les piéger à la veille du mariage de Jack and Joker.
Joker finit par être tué. Jack refuse de croire à sa mort et fait le mariage avec un pantin déguisé en Joker.
Au bout du compte, il accepte la mort de son bien-aimé et promet de continuer à vivre et d'être heureux...

### Story mal écrite ### Acting weird (les acteurs devaient avoir du mal à s'investir dans un tel script) ### non-sens, sad ending inutile.

=> Triste et nul !!

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head-scratch special

fresh off watching the special, and the only word that can encapsulate my feelings right now is WHY. because, why?! what was the point?!! i went into this completely blind, expected an action rom-com with some angst, yes, but not MCD??? well alright, i can accept that. but what bothers me is the way they went about it. if you're gonna kill of the guy whose name is in the title, atleast give it the proper treatment?? they killed him, then had jack pretend he was alive and marry a piñata version of him, and then dine with him AND THEN he comes to his senses??? and all this in like 15 minutes, mind you. i just had the worst case of whiplash throughout. i think mcd should come with sufficient depiction of grief so you can truly drive the point home, and the show waffled on this bit for sure. and that post credits scene. damn. all that whiplash, and for what?!

all in all: an excellent special if one ignores the final 20 minutes

highlights: "teerak" and the smooches every five seconds, the totally spiez style gadget reveal, and the whatever the fuck is going on between aran and tattoo. may these two never figure it out.

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Only watch this episode if a second season has already been confirmed

It’s a very well-made special, just like the rest of the series, but completely unnecessary since it makes the story sadder. What surprised me was that I thought it would be impossible for them to take this direction. But since they had the courage to do it, why the post-credits scene? A second season? What guarantee do we have that it will actually happen?
If they’re going to mess with the series like this, it would have been better to just leave it alone.
And at this point, that secondary couple still isn’t making any progress—it’s getting tiresome.
And seriously, what was that cardboard cutout? It completely ruined the emotional weight of the scene. During the wedding, was he actually holding onto the cutout? At this rate, next season he’ll be in a mental institution.

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Are we getting a season 2?

I thought this was okay, but I didn't love it.

I don't know if anyone else feels this way, but Jack seemed very different to me in this. He seemed weaker to me. Fighting wise in the show he was supposed to be one of the best and he was far from that in the special. Even his personality seemed off to me (and that's before the tragedy happened.

I hate than Tattoo and Aran still didn't get together. They set it up for them to get together in the show and in the special and they didn't. I get that it doesn't always happen in the series, but usually if there's a season two or special they use that and they didn't which was frustrating, especially since they kept mentioning it.

Another small thing is that Jack and Joke adopted Toiting in the end of the series and in the special episode it didn't feel that way at all.

Do I love that they killed Joke? No, I obviously wanted them to get together and be happy. That being said his death and how Jack dealt with it after was so well written. I teared up from the moment Aran was stabbed through the end of the show. The wedding scene was absolutely devastating. The acting from Yin during it all was so good.

I don't think the special episode was really needed. I did enjoy seeing most of the characters again and I did like Carbon coming back as the bad guy, but I think the story could've ended where it did.

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WTAF?!

We meet up with the team a year later and Jack and Joke decide to get married. Their lives are settled, they have good friends around them, the bad guys have been thwarted and life is far more pleasant for everyone. Or so we are led to believe when wham! Out of nowhere Carbon comes back to mess things up.

I’m not sure what the script writer was on when he came up with this concept but quite frankly he should have just slept the effects off rather than making a special episode about it.

Long and the short, Joker falls into a canal gripping tightly to Carbon who has just shot him, twice, and just days later Jack is marrying a terrible cardboard version of him as they can’t find his body even though Carbon’s was found the next day.

We never really find out why Carbon came back onto the scene or what his end game was and the whole section in the casino our band of intrepid heroes go into to investigate a bizarre invitation makes very little sense either - it just seemed like a good excuse for some gratuitous violence IMO.

After the wedding’ we watch as Jack falls apart then one day, clutching tightly to the booklet Joker gave him detailing the ‘100 ways to say sorry without being there’ he sets off to find peace. At the end of his searching for some sort of closure we find him sitting on a park swing saying his final goodbyes to Joker’s ghost. Weird plot lines aside this is a beautiful ending to a realistic take on the unfairness of life.

However…

Would I watch again? Absolutely not, I ran out of tissues after the wedding and goodbye scenes but we do need another special episode…

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Special episode more like special trauma

After completing the whole series in a day I was looking forward to watching the special episode with a smile on my face and a full heart I began watching it. My smile began to fade as the minutes passed closer to the end. The last few scenes had me screaming, crying in a chokehold. My heart genuinely clenched itself and I was so distraught, all of that to then read another review and find out I hadn’t fully completed the episode and that Joke was still alive. Whoever made this episode doesn’t deserve peace but I hope there will be a second season if not a second “special” episode.

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I Will Cry, Don't Test Me

Bro, I'm done, I'm done, I'm done, like why them? Why do they have to do all this like can't we just have a normal cute special episode, these days special episodes are not special anymore, they're more like torture episodes, either super boring and unnecessary or crazy and dramatic and this one is crazy and dramatic, they didn't have to do all that, like killing Joker and then making it all sentimental and shit, then putting that hideous cardboard version of joker and marrying Joker and Jack like that shit doesn't look goofy asf and out of a mental hospital, like be so fr. And then to top it off they add this cliffhanger at the end like stop edging us and give us a second season, which btw they probably won't even do, they'll AT MOST give us another episode or some shit and call it a day, and make it as confusing as ever. Because IVE PLAYED THESE GAMES BEFORE. AND IM TIRED. I LOVE THESE 2 AND THEIR PLOT, I LOVED JACK AND JOKER BUT WHY IS THIS EPISODE SO ASSSSSSSS. It wasn't horrible, I liked the action, still waiting for the day Aran and Tattoo realize they LIKE each other and start dating!!!!! BEEN WAITING FOR THIS. And I need that peaceful happy ending for those 2, LIKE THEY CAN'T GET A BREAK! UGH! So yeah petition for season 2 because I won't rest until we get Aran and Tattoo together, and happy ending for Jack and Joker. Who's with me? Based on these reviews I think everyone. I'm done here (for now), I shall be back soon. Once season 2 or whatever is released.

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Some questionable plot points, not as good as the main story

I usually don't take special episodes as seriously as their parent series (as most of them are usually fun bonus side stories or re-imagination of the main stories) so while I have some mixed feelings about this special being a sort of continuation, it didn't have a big impact on my enjoyment of the main story (and I can just pretend the special isn't the ultimate "ending" unless they don't make a second season 😢).

𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗹𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱

POSITIVES (for me):
• With a returning cast, the 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗮𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆, tho i think the main series is still stronger in that aspect.
- I think Yin (Jack's actor) was able to show more of his acting chops here, especially in one particular scene of him crying alone (i honestly teared up a bit bc i felt bad for him, and i don't cry easily most of the time) as well as during the face-off with Carbon. War (Joke's actor) is still effective as usual, as well as most of the side characters (especially Aran, Tattoo and Hoy)
• 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 in my eyes. While im no expert in that regards, judging as an ordinary viewer i didn't have any complaints.
• 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀 (yay!). I'm a simple bl watcher, I love seeing bl couples being lovey-dovey with each other no matter how cringe or silly they may seem. I needed this sweetness amidst all the action chaos lol.
- I loved that scene with Jack and Joke in the bar, kinda parallels their first time meeting.
- I also like that Jack's family (esp his dad) seem pretty chill about their relationship and all, avoiding unnecessary "disapproving parent" trope.
- I also liked how despite the fortune-teller's not so good prediction about their wedding/relationship as well as some unfortunate events that did end up happening, their love remained strong. Might be cheesy for some, but ugh i love it when bl couples have an unwavering love like this. It's fiction after all and who doesn't like to see a "til death do us part" type of love in their romance stories?
• The 𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿. If you stopped watching the episode before the credits, then please watch it again! It gave me some relief after that scene. At least it means this isn't the real ending of it all (right? RIGHT??? Please I hope it's the director/writer's way of telling us "yes we'll make a season 2 cuz we won't let it end that way" 😭)

LESS POSITIVE/MIXED FEELINGS (and some personal gripes):
• 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 (𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲) 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀. I mentioned in my review of the parent series that im kinda used to questionable, melodramatic or cliche plot points from my local telenovelas so those don't bother me too much. But I still couldn't help notice some of them here:
- The proxy(?) wedding. I can see how the idea of using a cardboard Joke for the wedding might look a bit silly for some, but not for me. Without giving too much details, i have seen birthday parties where a life-sized cardboard representation of a deceased loved one is displayed and interacted with as if it was them. It allows those left behind to somehow feel as if their loved one is still there. (for context, im from asia and while it's not some sort of cultural or spiritual norm/tradition, i personally seen this applied irl so it didn't seem too absurd for me).
- However, the event in the episode is a wedding and im not sure if this idea is appropriate for the mood of the occasion. Similar to some comments I've read, im wondering how the "you may kiss" part was done, like did Jack also kiss the cardboard? Or is the whole sequence just an imagination/fantasy/depiction of how it'll look if Joke is present? If i apply enough suspension of disbelief tho, it's quite a touching gesture of their undying love. But I believe not everyone shares the same amount of suspension as i do 😅
• 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻 aka the secondary(?) villain. While I hate his character since the main story, I honestly liked the actor's performance and I don't mind a one-dimensional psycho *sshole villain as long the actor did a good job playing them. However he felt a bit too over-powered and stereotypical for me. Like does that guy even have any weaknesses? Unlike the boss for example, his own greed and overconfidence led to his downfall. I would have liked if we saw a bit more of Carbon as a character, but he ded anyways so eh moving on.
- Speaking of Carbon, I kept wondering if Jack would have been able to save Joke when he and Carbon fell on the water. Unless there was strong currents, couldn't he have dived down to save Joke? How did Joke drown/disappear anyway? I don't remember it being showed in detail. Did he and Carbon struggle and he was overpowered and lost consciousness? (wc may then lead to him "drowning" but eventually being saved/washed away to dry land) Also, how did Carbon die? Compared to Joke, I don't remember him having a gunshot wound. Did he drown to his death? Was Joke somehow able to kill him while in the water? Was he eaten by piranhas lol? Or did I perhaps miss something? Hopefully we'll get some answers if a season 2 is made.
• Everyone (except Jack) seems to move on a bit too fast about Joke's "death". I think this was more of a limited runtime issue, like maybe they could have added more scenes of them mourning for him etc. especially Joke's family.

OVERALL THOUGHTS:
If you want more of Jack and Joke's moments, consider giving it a try. When it came to the acting and production, this special somehow maintains the quality (imo). However, story and plot-wise some questionable decisions were made. And be warned that the ending may not satisfy you. But stay after the credits, there's some hope for a second season (i don't mind how long it takes as long as they improve or regain the quality from the first half of the main series. If it ends up being a sh*tty second season i also won't care as long as i get to see Jack and Joke have a happily ever after 😭 kidding i do hope they give us a quality second season). I gave this an 8 with consideration to my bias towards the main story and the lead couple. Without it, probs a 7 or 7.5

Unrelated side note and personal gripe (not necessarily on this page but an overall observation on MDL): Is it just me or are some MDL reviewers such wackos? Why give low ratings for simply disliking how a story went, having bias against a show/pairing or some petty inter/in fandom fights but not putting into consideration other aspects of a show/movie such as acting, production, music etc.? Is it really okay to rate stuff this way? At least give credit where it is due.

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I was so naive... so unprepared...

I went into this having only seen the poster of them getting married, so my naive, optimistic self popped a bottle of champagne and pressed play with a smile plastered on my face... Then I uncontrolably sobbed for SIX HOURS STRAIGHT

Not a review, I can't handle that right now. Just a venting session:

WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK. WHERE IS THE REST. WHERE IS MY DIET DR MOTHER FUCKING KELP. I NEED IT. NOW.

I was NOT prepared. NOBODY prepared me. I feel slighted. I am inconsolable.

Even though I know my boy is okay, I AM NOT. That was painful. Even if I knew the drama logic of him definitely not being gone, I still felt it. I STILL FEEL IT.

Ya'll really had me thinking I was gonna get a lovery dovey wedding... YA'LL REALLY HAD ME YOU GOT ME ARE YOU HAPPY NOW????? DO YOU FEEL GOOD ABOUT YOURSELVES???? IS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED????

Don’t touch me.

Shit was good, though. Not sure how to feel anymore.

Reaching a state of emptiness as I write this.

Do not contact me.

Leave me to my sorrows.


Update:

A good night's sleep did not help as much as I would have hoped. The silly little rom-com I'm watching is not helping as much as I would have hoped. GIVE ME THE REST OF THE STORY.

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