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In South Korea, Jisoo is way way more popular.

Internationally, I think jisoo had competition from Lisa, but still is more popular.

Lisa gets popularity because of her long and lean body.

Jisoo is the far better singer.

I think it's possible because the voice doesn't match the visuals.

When you see someone with her amazing visuals, you envision a more virginal and melodic quality to the voice. So to hear the lower toned nasally voice can create a disconnect.

In a way, her voice would fit a more mature role, which her character is not.

I'm not a Blink.

I believe her lower nasally tone is actually what makes her such a popular singer.

That's unforunate.

The past few actor/actress deaths have not had the reasons disclosed.

I think privacy laws in Korea must have changed recently.

The drama story and the plot is fictional, but the historical backdrop is not. If a plot has the freedom to pick and choose what is true and what is not in a historical drama to fit it's plot. It's probably not that well written in the first place to be honest.

I guess the ANSP doing all those bad things they say in the show is fictional too, oh wait that happened? How about the protesting? Oh that's true too? If I can just claim "That's fiction!" for whatever thing doesn't makes sense in the plot, then might as well say that Soo Ho is actually an alien, and Young Ro is a cyborg. Or is that too much fiction?

So each elections they will just say the opposition has NK ties? And you assume that the SK people who have been victimized by ANSP rule for 7 years, is going to elect the previous and current ANSP directors as president.

That's just extremely illogical, fiction or not.

I just want a proper explanation without so many mental gymnastics. otherwise it's a just a huge political plot hole.

My point being is the recurring theme between the elections is that the officials cannot be reelected again, thus signifying single term presidencies. This is no different than US elections. As a Democrat or Republican, you can nominate who you think should be the next president, but you can't control the elections. Unless you really want to stretch the imagination and assume that Nam Tae il plan to rig the election via ballot tampering.

If Code 2 represents the presidential nominee, why use his name in the latest episodes, when Code 1's name was never used? Isn't the whole point of using code names to keep the real names a secret?

Please timestamp where they actually use the words rigging for future elections, because this is inaccurate. If truly Nam Tae il and Eun Cho wanted to win future elections, then the democratic elections of 1987 would have been a farce. Since 1987 the elections are done in a truly democratic way, and two people with ties with North Korea from the PREVIOUS party in power will have little sway over how elections in Korea works.

Elections in Korea work similar to how US elections work in that there are electoral district. And just like the US, there will be districts that favor certain parties. And since the only people guilty of the whole SK-NK collusion would be Nam Tae il and Eun Cho, who would they even blackmail. The foul deeds of the ANSP all fall on the Aemin party, So how would they rig the next elections?

In fact it is widely speculated that the only reason Roh Young Tae won was because the opposition was in a chaotic state, and thus were not really in a position to take the elections.

Bottom line is for Nam Tae il and Eun Cho to do all this collusion for the chance that they might be elected in a FREE AND DEMOCRATIC election after five years, given their position as heads of ANSP, who actually caused the atrocities from 1980-1987 is pretty ludicrous and just horrible writing. Just because the winner is Aeimin party, doesn't mean the next election will be Aemin party still, that's not how democracy work.

The only way their schemes would make sense if they plan to kill their own candidate and thus take that place. Which is just huge mental gymnastics really.

The distortion comes when the writer insist on what you are saying. That the Code 2 as you say, has the power to ensure Nam Tae il or Eun Cho will win the next election. Or even implying that a person connected to Aemin can possibly be at the position to win the 1992 elections.

FYI, the 1992 elections was won by what is coined a "Civilian" candidate. Mr. Kim Young San. He had no ties to the Aemin party at all. They wanted to separate themselves as far as possible from previous administrations.

She is the most popular member of Blackpink, a global phenomenon as popular as BTS. She sings quite well. I can't imagine a singer like Jisoo would have an annoying voice.

I instead would point out to her tonal inconsistency. And the fact she is such a powerful singer may be to her detriment, as she may not realize which body language, facial inflections are necessary to pull off higher sounding notes in terms of shouting, crying and etc... since she has been classically trained in singing.

These are workable things though, and she may fix these issues in her next few dramas. If she decides to continue pursuing acting.

I already explained in another comment why this is not possible.

The terms of President is 7 years in SK FYI.

If what you say is even remotely the reason. It's historical distortion.

RIP

I actually expect some deaths already. But so far no one of importance has died yet.

not sure if your actual opinion, or your copying. If your just copying I won't bother responding.

I think you misunderstood. Romanticism isn't necessarily talking about romantic scenes, but the romanticizing of certain historical situations. Just like for example making the ANSP more sympathetic would be considering romanticizing.

I personally have no problems with distortion of history or what not. That is the claims of Knetz, and that is their POV. But the OP's point I believe is rather than using that historical event to showcase an edgy reimagination of the events, they instead focused on romanticizing the timeline, the people, while at the same time "Attempting" to push satire in the plot. All in all a very ambitious undertaking, that felt very disjointed to me. The writer wanted to do too many things, and ended up not focusing on one thing, so everything kind of feels half baked, and jarring.

JTBC could have avoided the controversy completely. I don't think the use of this historical plot was necessary if they just wanted to portray your standard Romeo and Juliet plot. The fact it's NK and SK is enough of a juxtaposition.

To really pull of satire properly, there are many devices both cinematography wise and writing wise that needs to be employed. Simply exaggerating is not enough to convey satire properly.

Anyway, not here to argue about controversy or not. Like I said, it doesn't bother me much, I focus more on the writing, actings, and overarching plot.

I cannot comment on her vocalization and pronunciation since I am not a native speaker. But the biggest thins I noticed are the lack of stage presence, inconsistent facial reactions, poor micro expressions, one dimensional tonal range.

And in the end, when she's in a scene I can tell she's acting. She doesn't enter the realm where I believe she is a 20 year old naive college student. I only know that due to her actions, and not her acting. Suzy is also very guilty of this. When you watch Suzy's acting, her scenes don't impart the emotions the writing is suppose to be going for.

And another thing I dislike is how this writer pretty much destroyed and simplified all other female roles in Snowdrop, for Young Ro to shine, and yet she still does not.

She doesn't own the role, she doesn't make the character her own.

I don't know Jisoo that much. But if she works hard like IU and D.O., she can possibly reach those levels eventually.

If she just tries to skate by on her visuals. Then yeah, she's just going to be another Suzy, Lee Min Ho and etc... Suzy just doesn't try anymore. The last drama I watched of her left me very disappointed with her acting.

Off topic: But Kim Hye Yoon I just discovered here, she is an amazing actress, and only 25 too. Not the best visuals, but amazing presence.

In this drama, it's clear Jisoo and Jung Hae in are the Main Main leads.

The other "Main Leads" don't have much screen time nor importance in the plot so far.

But I think Yoon In Na and Jang Seung Jo are 3rd and 4th most important. The other "Main Leads" might as well be supporting given their screen time.

3. I'm hoping for a nice plot twist somewhere. Something that isn't predictable for this plot line.

6. Honestly, I really hope the old man's son turns out to be useful for something. Some Kdramas make the mistake of making the cast WAY too big for no reason at all. Snowdrop is guilty of this. The hostage situation should have been kept much smaller. With so many hostages, it's not as exciting. I suspect Cheong Ya is a defected NK spy. I am hoping Soo Ho and Cheong Ya both decided to defect.

8. Not hurting the hostage as an order is kind of a bad reason IMO. If they decide to work together, and in the process don't hurt the hostages, it would appear to the NK higher ups the orders are being observed, which further complicates the emotions the situation is trying to create.

Whatever the direction the writing will take, I at least hope they will try to make it as believable as possible. Because as of now, I am not buying any of it. The writing is just taking us for a ride, whether we believe it or not, the writing doesn't seem to care.

Suzy now. But keep in mind I consider Suzy not a great actress, but even with all of Suzy's experience, Jisoo is not far away.

I was just thinking, instead of 70 hostages. Keeping the cast down to maybe 20 hostages would have been more interesting and thrilling in terms to tying it up with the 13 hostages dilemma. And when threats are made, seeing Soo Ho actually follow through with some of them would have been a gutsy move by the writer. And at the very least have one of the girls standing near the window get shot and injured. Just add some sort of realism to the situation.

The writer plays it overly safe, as if she doesn't trust the audience to side with the upcoming romance unless she makes sure Soo Ho does ZERO wrong things.

Instead of a situation driven story, the writer should have aimed for a character driven one instead. I thought that being the writer for Skycastle, character driven stories would be in her wheelhouse.

Also, if the writer wanted to make the show a satire, they should have made everyone satirical, not just a select few. Having a few satirical characters blended with serious roles is a weird experience. It's like seeing those poorly animated movies that blend 3D aspects with cartoony aspects. It's jarring to say the least.

It would literally be out of the blue with very little clues and build up if true. I think there is already a lot of spies in the dorm, we don't need to have more.