BULLSHIT LA
There is absolutely no way anyone who truly read ORV gave this movie a pass. Like… were the writers even aware of what they were adapting?? Because this ain’t it. This was Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint in name only—every character, every plotline, every single thing that made the original special was thrown in a blender and set on fire.
As someone who actually lived through the web novel like it was my second life, I feel personally betrayed. Kim Dokja? Reduced to a passive NPC. Joonghyuk? Just another angsty male lead with zero nuance. Don’t even get me started on Yoo Sangah—she had more presence in ONE CHAPTER of the webtoon than she did in the entire film.
The CGI? It looked like something from a 2008 game trailer. The narration? Cringe. The direction? Confused. The plot? So butchered that even Dokja wouldn’t recognise what timeline we’re in. They skipped entire arcs, rewrote character personalities, and somehow made a story about surviving apocalypse scenarios feel… boring.
It’s almost impressive how they took one of the most compelling and meta web novels of our generation and made it completely unwatchable.
To anyone new who watched this and thought “meh, it’s mid”—PLEASE, for the love of the constellations, read the original. This movie is not even the tip of the iceberg; it’s the shattered remains of the iceberg, left in a microwave.
As someone who actually lived through the web novel like it was my second life, I feel personally betrayed. Kim Dokja? Reduced to a passive NPC. Joonghyuk? Just another angsty male lead with zero nuance. Don’t even get me started on Yoo Sangah—she had more presence in ONE CHAPTER of the webtoon than she did in the entire film.
The CGI? It looked like something from a 2008 game trailer. The narration? Cringe. The direction? Confused. The plot? So butchered that even Dokja wouldn’t recognise what timeline we’re in. They skipped entire arcs, rewrote character personalities, and somehow made a story about surviving apocalypse scenarios feel… boring.
It’s almost impressive how they took one of the most compelling and meta web novels of our generation and made it completely unwatchable.
To anyone new who watched this and thought “meh, it’s mid”—PLEASE, for the love of the constellations, read the original. This movie is not even the tip of the iceberg; it’s the shattered remains of the iceberg, left in a microwave.
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