Can't stop comparing this to the first one..... This one felt like they just changed some scenarios, threw in…
I completely and totally agree with your comment. If one did not watch the prequel… This sequel might have been ok. However just like you, I did watch the prequel so this one, to me, is more like, Hmmmmmmm🤔. Not really funny.
Actually, I am rather disappointed by this sequel. The main theme of this movie, “The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure,” is obviously pirating and comedy with a slight undertone of seriousness. However for me, the comedy portion was too forced and the delivery was not really natural. They were trying so hard to be comical that they came out rather faked.
*Personally, I did not enjoy this sequel as much as I did enjoy watching the prequel, “The Pirates (2014)” with Kim Nam Gil and Son Ye Jin.
5 months later… I am finally back to continue this costume drama. And just as 5 months earlier… I still think that the emperor is a fastidious and a pompous a$$; who thinks the whole world revolves around him. Why it is so difficult for DramaLand’s writers to create a likable second male lead (Emperor’s character) like, Zhen Lan/Lang Gan from “Mirror: A Tale of Twin Cities?”
My… My… My… That female lead’s acting is rather unique, to say the least. Then, her servant in the ancient time is just as unique. 🤨🤨🤨
This is hard to believe this was written by a legit writer. I waited 7 months to start this drama; however, I think that I could have waited even longer. I pity Thomas Tong… Once again, in a subpar production.
Episode 7 starts with a confusion so monstrous that it kills the drama by itself. We see the child and think it's…
We all spent more than half of the drama, thinking the initial young boy who watched his father perishing in front of him was SaeHa… That is why his biological mother went into deep depression after her husband’s death and even worked as a blue collar worker at a manufacturing plant to make ends meet. Then out of no-where… No explanations… No clarifications… SaeHa is actually the young boy of a scientist who unfortunately died by being at the wrong place and at the wrong time; that faithful night…🤨🤦🏽♀️.
Therefore why SaeHa always got so worked up whenever the janitor’s death was mentioned in the early episodes? And why his biological mother was bedridden and comatose before his first time travel’s jump? What exactly happened to her that brought her into that comatose state?
So many questions… Starting from episode 5 and 6 and on… However, nothing got answered…
Exactly, what the F$$k was that mess about😡? It was interesting enough to keep us watching… Hoping that at some point, it will make sense. But NO… Not even Dr. Albert Einstein nor Dr. Strange could make sense of that Sci-Fi of a mess. The general acting was great and the directing was not half-bad; however, the writer or writers simply gave up (All-together) halfway through.
*That was “The Matrix Resurrections” all-over again. YES, 10 episodes are more than enough. We don’t need a second season.
I am so glad that I dropped “Bad and Crazy” for this, instead. I am always fascinated by these futuristic Sci-Fi types of genre that deal with advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes and extraterrestrial life. Episode 1, so far… Very interesting and very intriguing.
Not just overrated… Exaggeratedly overrated. Watching “Through the Darkness” before whatever the hell this is… It was a very bad idea. A very very very bad idea.
Right off the bat, I am already turned off by the unnecessary, overzealous and excessively impudent female character’s behavior… Who is supposed to be the male lead’s subordinate. I really don’t give a rata$$ about their past or current relationship… Or whether the storyline is fictional or nonfictional… These types of behaviors (Apparently, loved by DramaLand’s writers) are unprofessional and are inappropriate in any scenario.
PS: I have never been that happy to watch an alcoholic/schizophrenic “Lèche-cul” getting himself beat up by his own alter-ego…🥹😅😂🤣 I am definitely more interested in “K” than in Mr. alcoholic/schizophrenic “Lèche-cul.”
After the massive disappointment with the Kdrama version of Criminal Minds, aired in 2017; I was a bit skeptical about Through the Darkness. However, i am so glad to say… I was so very wrong. Through the Darkness is a well executed psychological crime/thriller production; well-worthy of the successfully and critically acclaimed American series, Criminal Minds.
Kim Nam Gil gave us a mind-blowing performance of a lifetime. Adapted from the autobiography of Korea's first criminal profiler, Kwon Il Yong’s field experiences… Kim Nam Gil’s genuine empathic character, Song Ha Young, certainly did him justice.
Great production, great directing and a well-versed cast, all around… Starting with the main leading cast to all of the supporting cast. I definitely will not mind watching a second season of Through the Darkness.
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If one did not watch the prequel… This sequel might have been ok.
However just like you, I did watch the prequel so this one, to me, is more like, Hmmmmmmm🤔.
Not really funny.
The main theme of this movie, “The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure,” is obviously pirating and comedy with a slight undertone of seriousness.
However for me, the comedy portion was too forced and the delivery was not really natural. They were trying so hard to be comical that they came out rather faked.
*Personally, I did not enjoy this sequel as much as I did enjoy watching the prequel, “The Pirates (2014)” with Kim Nam Gil and Son Ye Jin.
So many dramas have been buried 6 feet under; less than halfway through off those very first episodes.
I am finally back to continue this costume drama.
And just as 5 months earlier… I still think that the emperor is a fastidious and a pompous a$$; who thinks the whole world revolves around him.
Why it is so difficult for DramaLand’s writers to create a likable second male lead (Emperor’s character) like, Zhen Lan/Lang Gan from “Mirror: A Tale of Twin Cities?”
So many dramas have been buried 6 feet under; less than halfway through off those very first episodes.
😅😂🤣
That female lead’s acting is rather unique, to say the least.
Then, her servant in the ancient time is just as unique.
🤨🤨🤨
This is hard to believe this was written by a legit writer.
I waited 7 months to start this drama; however, I think that I could have waited even longer.
I pity Thomas Tong… Once again, in a subpar production.
That is why his biological mother went into deep depression after her husband’s death and even worked as a blue collar worker at a manufacturing plant to make ends meet.
Then out of no-where… No explanations… No clarifications… SaeHa is actually the young boy of a scientist who unfortunately died by being at the wrong place and at the wrong time; that faithful night…🤨🤦🏽♀️.
Therefore why SaeHa always got so worked up whenever the janitor’s death was mentioned in the early episodes?
And why his biological mother was bedridden and comatose before his first time travel’s jump?
What exactly happened to her that brought her into that comatose state?
So many questions… Starting from episode 5 and 6 and on…
However, nothing got answered…
From episode 6 and on… Pure confusion.
It was interesting enough to keep us watching… Hoping that at some point, it will make sense.
But NO… Not even Dr. Albert Einstein nor Dr. Strange could make sense of that Sci-Fi of a mess.
The general acting was great and the directing was not half-bad; however, the writer or writers simply gave up (All-together) halfway through.
*That was “The Matrix Resurrections” all-over again.
YES, 10 episodes are more than enough. We don’t need a second season.
I am always fascinated by these futuristic Sci-Fi types of genre that deal with advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes and extraterrestrial life.
Episode 1, so far… Very interesting and very intriguing.
Do we need to be a MDL member to do that?
Because I can not find that option on their profiles.
Exaggeratedly overrated.
Watching “Through the Darkness” before whatever the hell this is…
It was a very bad idea.
A very very very bad idea.
I really don’t give a rata$$ about their past or current relationship… Or whether the storyline is fictional or nonfictional…
These types of behaviors (Apparently, loved by DramaLand’s writers) are unprofessional and are inappropriate in any scenario.
PS: I have never been that happy to watch an alcoholic/schizophrenic “Lèche-cul” getting himself beat up by his own alter-ego…🥹😅😂🤣
I am definitely more interested in “K” than in
Mr. alcoholic/schizophrenic “Lèche-cul.”
However, i am so glad to say… I was so very wrong.
Through the Darkness is a well executed psychological crime/thriller production; well-worthy of the successfully and critically acclaimed American series, Criminal Minds.
Kim Nam Gil gave us a mind-blowing performance of a lifetime.
Adapted from the autobiography of Korea's first criminal profiler, Kwon Il Yong’s field experiences…
Kim Nam Gil’s genuine empathic character, Song Ha Young, certainly did him justice.
Great production, great directing and a well-versed cast, all around… Starting with the main leading cast to all of the supporting cast.
I definitely will not mind watching a second season of Through the Darkness.