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Serious topics +Seeking revenge turns you into the same kind of person you hate
I only watched this because I got it free & was curious because V of BTS did one of the songs on the OST. The plot/premise did not sound interesting & it turns out that I should have just passed on this as there was a whole lot not to like.
I don't know what they were thinking here, having the male lead act so woodenly then his hair cut; AHG !!! every other character changed hair style as they aged , but the male lead kept his unattractive hair style to the end !
Before I was even half way through I stopped caring because everyone was unlikeable ! The main characters ended up being disappointingly unsatisfying un hero like. As for the premise of revenge. Did they intend to show that it turns you into the exact thing that you hate & are fighting against as you waste your life pursuing it when you could move on ? A big negative that jarringly broke the flow of the story was a 4 year time skip [episode 14] . As for Romance: well ,you've got a pentangle ( 5 people) & you don't care about the outcome because they are all behaving badly. Both female leads were unlikeable. Kisses & happy (main couple) ending occurred at the very end, though by the end I wasn't invested in them. Revenge, racism, transgenderism -lots of serious stuff crammed in & it just felt like too much. There is also a good bit of product placement. Park Seo Joon played his character with a CONSTANT blank stare , perpetually petting his own head in confusion [were they implying that he was autistic or had brain trauma?]. At times you could see him channeling his real life friend Kim Taehyung (& doing it spot on) but mostly he showed a very limited variety of expressions . All 6 main characters had thier humanity just burnt away in the acid bath of obsession, hate & revenge . By the end of the drama the male lead straight up says that he literally will do ANY THING (meaning violence) he has to do to save the female lead & puts his friend at risk of prison by telling him to to whatever it takes as well. {it's like everyone is turning to the "dark side" !]
The father nemesis: Yoo Jae Myung' frozen angry face got WAY to much screen time . They presented him as sick & elderly so he should have been wheel chair bound. Female lead Kim Da Mi 's character had some disassociative social disorder. The only person she could summon empathy for was the main male lead & even then she spent a great deal of time vacantly staring up at him while bobbling her head {what was with that !?} . Kim Dong Hee,'s sweet character followed in the footsteps of his mentor & father as he became a heartless, ruthless businessman.(shame on the writers for not making his return to the family business a way to actually support his friend in the end!) Finally, Kwon Na Ra's character was lack luster. There is NO reason why she & the male lead should ever have been a couple- a fact which is brought up more than a few time in the series, Whatever it is that they have, it's not romantic. They are both so selfish that you don't fall for what's supposed to pass for love bread crumbs. The most laughable part is when
**spoiler**
at the end she meets Park Bo Gum in a last minute cameo (to soothe viewers !?) and she instantly goes: yeah, NOW I'm in love ! yup, that's how you do it, bring in someone for the failed at love female lead that is just as handsome as the male lead for her. Funny, though, Park Bo gum looks like a pretty innocent lamb being served to a wolf !
I don't know what they were thinking here, having the male lead act so woodenly then his hair cut; AHG !!! every other character changed hair style as they aged , but the male lead kept his unattractive hair style to the end !
Before I was even half way through I stopped caring because everyone was unlikeable ! The main characters ended up being disappointingly unsatisfying un hero like. As for the premise of revenge. Did they intend to show that it turns you into the exact thing that you hate & are fighting against as you waste your life pursuing it when you could move on ? A big negative that jarringly broke the flow of the story was a 4 year time skip [episode 14] . As for Romance: well ,you've got a pentangle ( 5 people) & you don't care about the outcome because they are all behaving badly. Both female leads were unlikeable. Kisses & happy (main couple) ending occurred at the very end, though by the end I wasn't invested in them. Revenge, racism, transgenderism -lots of serious stuff crammed in & it just felt like too much. There is also a good bit of product placement. Park Seo Joon played his character with a CONSTANT blank stare , perpetually petting his own head in confusion [were they implying that he was autistic or had brain trauma?]. At times you could see him channeling his real life friend Kim Taehyung (& doing it spot on) but mostly he showed a very limited variety of expressions . All 6 main characters had thier humanity just burnt away in the acid bath of obsession, hate & revenge . By the end of the drama the male lead straight up says that he literally will do ANY THING (meaning violence) he has to do to save the female lead & puts his friend at risk of prison by telling him to to whatever it takes as well. {it's like everyone is turning to the "dark side" !]
The father nemesis: Yoo Jae Myung' frozen angry face got WAY to much screen time . They presented him as sick & elderly so he should have been wheel chair bound. Female lead Kim Da Mi 's character had some disassociative social disorder. The only person she could summon empathy for was the main male lead & even then she spent a great deal of time vacantly staring up at him while bobbling her head {what was with that !?} . Kim Dong Hee,'s sweet character followed in the footsteps of his mentor & father as he became a heartless, ruthless businessman.(shame on the writers for not making his return to the family business a way to actually support his friend in the end!) Finally, Kwon Na Ra's character was lack luster. There is NO reason why she & the male lead should ever have been a couple- a fact which is brought up more than a few time in the series, Whatever it is that they have, it's not romantic. They are both so selfish that you don't fall for what's supposed to pass for love bread crumbs. The most laughable part is when
**spoiler**
at the end she meets Park Bo Gum in a last minute cameo (to soothe viewers !?) and she instantly goes: yeah, NOW I'm in love ! yup, that's how you do it, bring in someone for the failed at love female lead that is just as handsome as the male lead for her. Funny, though, Park Bo gum looks like a pretty innocent lamb being served to a wolf !
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