damn book ok's eyes scare me a lot. hyeyoon is such a good acter seriously
I think Hye Yoon's acting is standing out. Boon Ok, Ms. Pi, and Jang Hanna are my favorite Female characters in Snowdrop so far. At the bottom of my list, are all the wives, and most of the inhabitants of Hosu Dorm.
Like i like the drama. But the whole politics part of it is pretty hard for me to guage . Like can someone please…
The political writing of the drama is really poorly written. Too complicated, and not necessary at all. The only reason I can think of for it's purpose is that the drama is 16 90 minute episodes, and they needed content to stretch the drama to that length. Keep in mind I have rarely seen a Kdrama with that LONG of a run time have clean writing, so expect the political aspect to be dragged out of oblivion to help hit the run time quota.
Eun Chang is the Director of the ANSP, while Nam Tae il is like the Chief of Staff. In terms of ranking, I believe Eun Chang is suppose to be higher, but Nam Tae il has the favor of the current president. Nam Tae il is also the previous director of the ANSP, making him Eun Chang's predecessor.
Currently, the regime of the current president is coming to an end, and in South Korea's history, based on the 1980's constitution, each president is allowed one 7 year term. So the government has to have a free election. Eun Chang and Nam Tae il are in the same party, but only one of them can become president, and so they are fighting for favor from the president so they can be next successor. This of course ignores that it is a free election, and the people of South Korea most likely don't want a crony of the current president to be the new president, but in Real history, the crony of Chun do Hwan actually does win.
The wives part is just that makjang, kimchi slapping element of Snowdrop that was added because who doesn't like seeing middle age women throw shade at each other through less than witty riparte?
she is 20 year old college student, cut her some slack.
It's a plot device, one i've seen used several times in other dramas.
Most likely we will see her starting to have a more active role in protesting. The drama is not done in showing the corruption of the current government. Something that would be difficult if she was still a student of the dorm.
And it allows her opportunity to meet Soo Ho outside the dorm. He can't sneak inside the dorm every time for their romantic scenes.
Don't get me wrong, I am not advocating this particular characterization, or plot, since it reeks of just lazy lazy writing. But I can understand the purpose of it.
Now if she gets reinstated to the college in a matter of a few episodes... then yeah, it becomes a pointless plot device.
He picked up the paper plane cause he recognized it resembles the paper plane which he taught how to make to Youngro.…
Actually, Jisoo already knew this design, as she made it in Ep. 1. And she threw this out the window in Ep. 1 if memory serves me right, and Soo Ho picked it up then.
Which is why Ep. 3 of her pretending to let Soo Ho teach her the design made me confused.
Aight probably this is capitalist propaganda considering the writer and channel. but I don’t get the intention…
The political aspect of the show is really poorly written, in fact, written so poorly, I don't understand why JTBC wanted to fight tooth and nail to show it.
Hopefully there will be some semblance of clarity in the succeeding episodes.
If you are a critical watcher of Kdrama like myself, there are a lot of things to nitpick, and inconsistencies abound.
If you are just a casual watcher and want to watch for gorgeous visuals, and amazing production values, and big name cast, then Snowdrop checks all the marks.
i like today's episode.. the last part was tense and i realize after watching teaser and trailer i didnt expect…
ratings are not great, but it is Christmas after all. I don't think Snowdrop is on people's minds in Korea at the moment.
Depends on what you consider as distorting history. If you consider the romanticization of ANSP as distorting, then that is still very much there. If it's to disprove that Soo Ho is a NK spy, they didn't accomplish that, he is still very much a NK spy, he hasn't been proven to be a defector. So it really depends on your definition of distorting history as I said.
At the moment, the plot is so incredibly ludicrous that I don't even know what is real and historical, and what is fake. Drama would have saved them a lot of headache, if they just change the names of the organizations to a different one.
My advice, is just to ignore all the controversy, reddit, twitter conspiracies and just enjoy the drama as it is, a slow burning spy thriller.
Eun Chang is the Director of the ANSP, while Nam Tae il is like the Chief of Staff. In terms of ranking, I believe Eun Chang is suppose to be higher, but Nam Tae il has the favor of the current president. Nam Tae il is also the previous director of the ANSP, making him Eun Chang's predecessor.
Currently, the regime of the current president is coming to an end, and in South Korea's history, based on the 1980's constitution, each president is allowed one 7 year term. So the government has to have a free election. Eun Chang and Nam Tae il are in the same party, but only one of them can become president, and so they are fighting for favor from the president so they can be next successor. This of course ignores that it is a free election, and the people of South Korea most likely don't want a crony of the current president to be the new president, but in Real history, the crony of Chun do Hwan actually does win.
The wives part is just that makjang, kimchi slapping element of Snowdrop that was added because who doesn't like seeing middle age women throw shade at each other through less than witty riparte?
Most likely we will see her starting to have a more active role in protesting. The drama is not done in showing the corruption of the current government. Something that would be difficult if she was still a student of the dorm.
And it allows her opportunity to meet Soo Ho outside the dorm. He can't sneak inside the dorm every time for their romantic scenes.
Don't get me wrong, I am not advocating this particular characterization, or plot, since it reeks of just lazy lazy writing. But I can understand the purpose of it.
Now if she gets reinstated to the college in a matter of a few episodes... then yeah, it becomes a pointless plot device.
Whether mission is successful or not remains to be seen. I don't know how to read Korean, so I cannot comment on it.
Which is why Ep. 3 of her pretending to let Soo Ho teach her the design made me confused.
It appears that JTBC is feeling the social pressure.
Hopefully there will be some semblance of clarity in the succeeding episodes.
If you are just a casual watcher and want to watch for gorgeous visuals, and amazing production values, and big name cast, then Snowdrop checks all the marks.
Depends on what you consider as distorting history. If you consider the romanticization of ANSP as distorting, then that is still very much there. If it's to disprove that Soo Ho is a NK spy, they didn't accomplish that, he is still very much a NK spy, he hasn't been proven to be a defector. So it really depends on your definition of distorting history as I said.
At the moment, the plot is so incredibly ludicrous that I don't even know what is real and historical, and what is fake. Drama would have saved them a lot of headache, if they just change the names of the organizations to a different one.
My advice, is just to ignore all the controversy, reddit, twitter conspiracies and just enjoy the drama as it is, a slow burning spy thriller.