Accident Squad Episode 12

Wait for Explanation

Ok. A lot of work was done in this episode.We finally get an explanation as to why the female lead, Zhuang Lan, is so quick to categorize cases as murders rather than accidents. Without revealing to much, her sister was in a car accident and there were suspicious indicators of her death prior to her actually dying.Some other shots reveal that the intro to this drama is not so random. It seems to depict key items in these cases. I appreciate this a little bit as I've recently complained that I was slightly upset by Taiwanese and Chinese drama intros because they often spoiled the plot by putting footage of the drama in the intros. Of these two worlds, I'd rather have innocuous clips from random places that seem strangely placed than clips of intense moment from the drama that reveal major upcoming plot points. So for my review for episode 1 I rescind some of my sarcasm. While the episode itself is fairly good, I do not think it was a good choice to wait until more than halfway to the drama to give us a fully fleshed out account of the main character's motivation. Not sure if this was the director or the producer's choice but I feel like it did a disservice to the drama. They implied this motivation in the first episode but it really wasn't enough for the audience to grab onto. Artistically, I think it is interesting to not drop the weight of the characters motivation on the audience right at the beginning. However, the execution makes me a little bit upset for the creators. They took a long time establishing why the audience should care.8/10 - the episode was good. But for the overall drama, some of this information should have been clearly front loaded.

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