I can tell my opinions are going to be of the unpopular one, but that has never stopped me when commenting on MDL.
I just finished watching EP. 3 in 480p. My eyes can no longer recognize video that isn't on 1080p LOL! So it was brutal to go through. Hopefully Disney+ starts streaming in NA soon.
Overall, I felt that Episode 3 was not a very strong episode. There was just too much unnecessary scenes and had too many scenes that were dragged longer than it had to be, and annoying plot devices that I felt were a one time annoyance in Ep. 2, turns out to be intentional by the writer, as they were repeatedly used in Episode 3. As if we needed to be reminded how cartoonish evil the villains are, they gave us a scene of almost 10 full seconds of two full grown old men grasping each others color. That was the comedic highlight of the episode.
My mind is having a hard time processing what story or genre this drama is trying to be. What I had thought was initially going to be an exciting cat and mouse game between Gang Moo and Sun Ho, turns out rather to be an underwhelming thriller, where the suspense comes from ocular supernatural events, dead pan stares, and blind as a bat Boon Ok.
The scenes in Episode 3 start good enough, but right before we are to reach it's suspenseful climax, it is cut off at the feet, and bereft of any aid by unnecessary comedic scenes and music that have little to do with he gravity of the situation it started with. trying to create
I have to laugh at loud every time the scene degrades into an episode of Friends, where Joey is trying to distract Ross by making noises. It's a distracting recurring motif that really cheapens the scene it belongs to and adds nothing to the scene but I guess Comedy?
Just like Young Ro and Sun Ho was aimlessly moving from one room to another, Ep 3 felt like it was meandering without any clear focus of what it wanted to do. Aside from Gang Moo and Mrs. PI, Boon Ok has fast become one of my more favorite characters because her character and story arc has more complexity than almost all the other cast members not named Young Ro and Sun Ho. That is why it feels bad that they are basically destroying her character, because somehow the writers could not allow an all woman's college to have solidarity, they needed a female villain.
I know it's the 1980's but Lee Gwang Tae's intense expression and the way he was sexually harassing Seoul Hui made my skin crawl, I can't believe she was actually feeling it.
In terms of acting, I think Jisoo's acting is getting better as each episodes pass by. I still believe her acting feels very one-tone, but as far as rookie debut, I think she is doing a good job. I have never watched any of Jung Hae In's work, so I have to say I am a little bit disappointed, I feel his acting is weak and ineffectual. I feel he is just literally going through the motions.
The chemistry of the lead is inconsistent, as has been said by other posters. You see, I understand Sun Ho, he is trying to escape, he has a lot of things in his mind, including the health of his squad, so maybe his mind is distracted. But Young Ro, who is shown to be completely smitten since day one, has a waxing and waning response to Sun Ho, that doesn't make sense considering the picture the writing would have us believe. Add to the fact, that having a sister that is Young Ro's age, probably makes Sun ho look at Young ro as more like a little sister, and there are certain scenes in Ep, 3, where it feels more like sibling love than romantic love.
A couple of inconsistencies that irked me in Ep. 3
1. In Episode 2, we saw Young Ro's brother, it was hard for him to get out of the army without pulling some strings. And yet, not only is he completely absent from Ep. 3, but the military man in Hye Roung is dating seems to come and go as he please. Is he the son of the president?
2. Does Nike make heels now? why are they holding a Nike Box, but during the flashback to Boon OK, she is wearing heels?
3. The headmistress is smart enough to figure out Boon Ok is stealing, and see through her lies, but not smart enough to figure out Sun ho, and just accepted Young Ro's lies?
4. A few minutes earlier, they discussed Sun ho's best chance is to leave via the open house. He brings up vocally that if men can come in, so can the ANSP, they can enter the dorm as well. But guess what, none of the ANSP enters.
5. The ANSP has almost every exit and entrance covered, including the not often used exit earlier in the episode. But they leave the front entrance to the college open? Plot hole much?
i assume that all people in the dormitory didn't know what kind of family youngro has, from my understanding they…
Why would it matter? I am quite confident the head mistress knows. The brother seems to be staying at the home of the stepmom and the dad, and only young ro is staying with the grandmother.
You have to be pretty naive if you think they put a drama on disney that romanticizes slaughter of innocent people.…
I don't know how much control Disney has over this particular production. They are just starting their foray into Asian content so it's all pretty new for Disney.
Miss Minchin a.k.a Pi Seunghee is so far still my fave character. I hope she doesn't die. 😭😭
Her acting is really great, I enjoy her character as well. I think she will survive, but I think Jeong Min will die.
I also quite enjoy boon ok as well, I know she's being lumped in with Gwang Tae as a traitor, but I feel Boon Ok is a much more sympathetic character. Gwang Tae is straight up a sexual predator. His scenes with Seoul Hui made my skin crawl.
Ok I have been visiting this comments section for quite some time now but i opened this account just now because…
So because I don't give it a 10/10 I should stop watching the Drama? FYI, I finished TKEM and gave it a 3.5/10 stars. I finished Startup and gave it a 6.5/10 star. Just because I don't love a show, doesn't mean I will drop it. I don't feel it is fair to the hard work of the staff/actors for me to rate on MDL a low rating without first finishing the entire drama. I've already stated as of Ep. 2 I think Snowdrop deserves an 8.2/10. But I'm guessing for you, it's WAY too low, you want a 10/10, I am sorry, Snowdrop at the moment is not getting that from me.
I disliked both shows, yet I finished it and I was active in the comment section of those shows since day 1. I wrote long essay like reviews and comments because that is what brings me joy in MDL. I like to think that there are people who enjoy reading what I have to write. Now whether what I write is of the popular opinion or not is another thing. I guess for this drama, I can tell I am on the unpopular opinion. But I shall not pander and debase myself to try to "Fit In" with the cool crowd to avoid criticism and attacks from people like yourself.
I am allowed to be critical of whatever I want, be it inaccuracies, plot holes, acting, tone, direction or whatever. If you do not want to read my essays, you don't have to.
I am about to write my review of Episode 3, best to shield your eyes then.
I find it ironic that people are telling other people to not censor them from watching Snowdrop, or guilt them not to watch Snowdrop. Yet here you are doing exactly that. Hypocritical so to speak.
I don't know how to get karma points, but I must be doing something right. I suspect you must be another poster on a new accounts.
Let me tell you something Sunmi6280, I have got a long list of Anti-Kimsamsoom people on MDL, most on my block list already anyway. I don't aim to please everyone, and I'm not about to be a people pleaser now, it's just not my style.
I don't think bullet shot his shoulder, it just brushed pass.
The blood splatter on his shirt, and the position of the wounds dressing says otherwise.
Look at ep. 2 and slowdown the time frame from the 7 minute mark, you'll see where he was shot, where is the wound, and you see him holding his inner shoulder, yet no exit wound.
This leads me to believe the bullet should still be inside his body. I don't believe any of the dormmates not the oldman would be competent enough to remove the bullet. So where did it go?
Quick question, If Sun Ho was shot in the shoulder, and there is no exit wound, where is the bullet? It was never shown a bullet was pulled out, so I can only assume the bullet is still inside?
Not a doctor, but have seen enough CSI shows to know that unless the bullet goes through to the other side, you need to remove the bullet otherwise the wound gets infected. Wrapping in bandages won't cut it.
I had to pause and just have to comment on this. One of my biggest pet peeve in Kdrama is when circumstances and situations are either too convenient or just implausible. Because the drama starts taking a sort of cartoonish/fantastical quality to it, that requires giant leaps of reasoning. TKEM was another drama that was heavily guilty of this. Snowdrop isn't as bad as TKEM, but these cartoon elements are starting to pile up.
I really find it hard to believe, from the time the old man was warning them, they were able to get rid of every single evidence of Sun ho living there, climb down out the windows, and down into a very very tiny ledge (it can be seen it is literally half of Young Ro's foot), and scurry all the way to the other side window in that short amount of time. Keep in mind Sun ho is injured not only the shoulder but his leg as well...
Then the headmistress told the old man to lock the window, and yet he didn't while she was there, and she didn't bother checking the windows, but she made sure he locked the door?
These petition websites and change.org are not really meant to get any actual cancellation happen, I believe they are for the sole purpose of opening up the debate so that people can discuss it.
They are mediums for social awareness, nothing more than that.
In fact, I can't remember the last time those petitions were successful. Joseon Exorcist doesn't count because SBS is a public corporation and they are allergic to any bad press.
I'm not familiar with other idols, but didn't most of them start out as supporting cast?
I don't feel that Snowdrop will be the drama to showcase Jisoo's acting talent. Me personally, I am not feeling any real emotion from her acting yet.
And the overacting and caricaturization of the other character and their acting is not my favorite. And to be honest, even with all this, I feel the cast is way too big, that I am losing track of who is who. I also felt it ridiculous how everyone just had to related. The seamstress just had to be the wife of the ANSP chief?
And as for IU, she didn't start out good, she had to do a few starting roles, but really broke out in her Kdrama My Mister.
To expect Jisoo to be at the level of IU is a bit of stretch. I mentioned once that her mannerism reminded me of Suzy, but I wasn't meaning it as a compliment.
Just watching Jisoo on her acting alone, I feel she is trying too hard as compared to the rest of the cast, but that is expected being a rookie.
I still don't understand the Joseon Exorcist one, it didn't feel like a big thing at all. I recently watched America:…
AFAIK, South Korea has a long way to go in terms of the #metoo movement. South Korea and Japan are huge offenders when it comes to sexual discrimination.
The double standard on males and female there are so staggering. It's ironic don't you think how different their Kdramas are from their actual society?
I was introduced to the toxicity of Knetz with Seo Ye Ji, and it felt like a glass shattering moment. Their kdrama are so romantic and lovely, and to know that the underlying belly of South Korean society is filled with so much fakeness and toxicity, has pulled back some of my enjoyment from watching Kdrama to be honest.
To be fair, Sun ho is just using young ro, and young ro is incredibly smitten at the moment. So it's a one sided…
In Ep. 2 Sun Ho's comrade can be seen outside the dormitory, most likely to save Sun Ho the team leader.
I understand that he wouldn't want to let them know he is an actual spy, thus he is not correcting them when they assume he is a student protestor. When he said comrade, I think it just slipped.
We don't know at this point what is Sun Ho's plan, or why they are targeting professor Han and etc..
Up to this point it's all assumptions.
But one thing is clear, at this moment, he has very little feelings for Young ro, while she is clearly writing his name a thousand times in her love diary. As the episodes progress, I am sure that will change.
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I just finished watching EP. 3 in 480p. My eyes can no longer recognize video that isn't on 1080p LOL! So it was brutal to go through. Hopefully Disney+ starts streaming in NA soon.
Overall, I felt that Episode 3 was not a very strong episode. There was just too much unnecessary scenes and had too many scenes that were dragged longer than it had to be, and annoying plot devices that I felt were a one time annoyance in Ep. 2, turns out to be intentional by the writer, as they were repeatedly used in Episode 3. As if we needed to be reminded how cartoonish evil the villains are, they gave us a scene of almost 10 full seconds of two full grown old men grasping each others color. That was the comedic highlight of the episode.
My mind is having a hard time processing what story or genre this drama is trying to be. What I had thought was initially going to be an exciting cat and mouse game between Gang Moo and Sun Ho, turns out rather to be an underwhelming thriller, where the suspense comes from ocular supernatural events, dead pan stares, and blind as a bat Boon Ok.
The scenes in Episode 3 start good enough, but right before we are to reach it's suspenseful climax, it is cut off at the feet, and bereft of any aid by unnecessary comedic scenes and music that have little to do with he gravity of the situation it started with.
trying to create
I have to laugh at loud every time the scene degrades into an episode of Friends, where Joey is trying to distract Ross by making noises. It's a distracting recurring motif that really cheapens the scene it belongs to and adds nothing to the scene but I guess Comedy?
Just like Young Ro and Sun Ho was aimlessly moving from one room to another, Ep 3 felt like it was meandering without any clear focus of what it wanted to do. Aside from Gang Moo and Mrs. PI, Boon Ok has fast become one of my more favorite characters because her character and story arc has more complexity than almost all the other cast members not named Young Ro and Sun Ho. That is why it feels bad that they are basically destroying her character, because somehow the writers could not allow an all woman's college to have solidarity, they needed a female villain.
I know it's the 1980's but Lee Gwang Tae's intense expression and the way he was sexually harassing Seoul Hui made my skin crawl, I can't believe she was actually feeling it.
In terms of acting, I think Jisoo's acting is getting better as each episodes pass by. I still believe her acting feels very one-tone, but as far as rookie debut, I think she is doing a good job. I have never watched any of Jung Hae In's work, so I have to say I am a little bit disappointed, I feel his acting is weak and ineffectual. I feel he is just literally going through the motions.
The chemistry of the lead is inconsistent, as has been said by other posters. You see, I understand Sun Ho, he is trying to escape, he has a lot of things in his mind, including the health of his squad, so maybe his mind is distracted. But Young Ro, who is shown to be completely smitten since day one, has a waxing and waning response to Sun Ho, that doesn't make sense considering the picture the writing would have us believe. Add to the fact, that having a sister that is Young Ro's age, probably makes Sun ho look at Young ro as more like a little sister, and there are certain scenes in Ep, 3, where it feels more like sibling love than romantic love.
A couple of inconsistencies that irked me in Ep. 3
1. In Episode 2, we saw Young Ro's brother, it was hard for him to get out of the army without pulling some strings. And yet, not only is he completely absent from Ep. 3, but the military man in Hye Roung is dating seems to come and go as he please. Is he the son of the president?
2. Does Nike make heels now? why are they holding a Nike Box, but during the flashback to Boon OK, she is wearing heels?
3. The headmistress is smart enough to figure out Boon Ok is stealing, and see through her lies, but not smart enough to figure out Sun ho, and just accepted Young Ro's lies?
4. A few minutes earlier, they discussed Sun ho's best chance is to leave via the open house. He brings up vocally that if men can come in, so can the ANSP, they can enter the dorm as well. But guess what, none of the ANSP enters.
5. The ANSP has almost every exit and entrance covered, including the not often used exit earlier in the episode. But they leave the front entrance to the college open? Plot hole much?
They needed NK to be the fall guy in case they got caught. If they had rigged the elections and got caught, they would automatically lose.
I also quite enjoy boon ok as well, I know she's being lumped in with Gwang Tae as a traitor, but I feel Boon Ok is a much more sympathetic character. Gwang Tae is straight up a sexual predator. His scenes with Seoul Hui made my skin crawl.
I disliked both shows, yet I finished it and I was active in the comment section of those shows since day 1. I wrote long essay like reviews and comments because that is what brings me joy in MDL. I like to think that there are people who enjoy reading what I have to write. Now whether what I write is of the popular opinion or not is another thing. I guess for this drama, I can tell I am on the unpopular opinion. But I shall not pander and debase myself to try to "Fit In" with the cool crowd to avoid criticism and attacks from people like yourself.
I am allowed to be critical of whatever I want, be it inaccuracies, plot holes, acting, tone, direction or whatever. If you do not want to read my essays, you don't have to.
I am about to write my review of Episode 3, best to shield your eyes then.
I find it ironic that people are telling other people to not censor them from watching Snowdrop, or guilt them not to watch Snowdrop. Yet here you are doing exactly that. Hypocritical so to speak.
I don't know how to get karma points, but I must be doing something right. I suspect you must be another poster on a new accounts.
Let me tell you something Sunmi6280, I have got a long list of Anti-Kimsamsoom people on MDL, most on my block list already anyway. I don't aim to please everyone, and I'm not about to be a people pleaser now, it's just not my style.
According to this website. They melt once it enters the body so as not to leave a trace.
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/188426/ice-melting-bullet
Or most likely, just a plot hole.
Look at ep. 2 and slowdown the time frame from the 7 minute mark, you'll see where he was shot, where is the wound, and you see him holding his inner shoulder, yet no exit wound.
This leads me to believe the bullet should still be inside his body. I don't believe any of the dormmates not the oldman would be competent enough to remove the bullet. So where did it go?
Not a doctor, but have seen enough CSI shows to know that unless the bullet goes through to the other side, you need to remove the bullet otherwise the wound gets infected. Wrapping in bandages won't cut it.
I had to pause and just have to comment on this. One of my biggest pet peeve in Kdrama is when circumstances and situations are either too convenient or just implausible. Because the drama starts taking a sort of cartoonish/fantastical quality to it, that requires giant leaps of reasoning. TKEM was another drama that was heavily guilty of this. Snowdrop isn't as bad as TKEM, but these cartoon elements are starting to pile up.
I really find it hard to believe, from the time the old man was warning them, they were able to get rid of every single evidence of Sun ho living there, climb down out the windows, and down into a very very tiny ledge (it can be seen it is literally half of Young Ro's foot), and scurry all the way to the other side window in that short amount of time. Keep in mind Sun ho is injured not only the shoulder but his leg as well...
Then the headmistress told the old man to lock the window, and yet he didn't while she was there, and she didn't bother checking the windows, but she made sure he locked the door?
Inconsistent...
They are mediums for social awareness, nothing more than that.
In fact, I can't remember the last time those petitions were successful. Joseon Exorcist doesn't count because SBS is a public corporation and they are allergic to any bad press.
And the overacting and caricaturization of the other character and their acting is not my favorite. And to be honest, even with all this, I feel the cast is way too big, that I am losing track of who is who. I also felt it ridiculous how everyone just had to related. The seamstress just had to be the wife of the ANSP chief?
And as for IU, she didn't start out good, she had to do a few starting roles, but really broke out in her Kdrama My Mister.
To expect Jisoo to be at the level of IU is a bit of stretch. I mentioned once that her mannerism reminded me of Suzy, but I wasn't meaning it as a compliment.
Just watching Jisoo on her acting alone, I feel she is trying too hard as compared to the rest of the cast, but that is expected being a rookie.
The double standard on males and female there are so staggering. It's ironic don't you think how different their Kdramas are from their actual society?
I was introduced to the toxicity of Knetz with Seo Ye Ji, and it felt like a glass shattering moment. Their kdrama are so romantic and lovely, and to know that the underlying belly of South Korean society is filled with so much fakeness and toxicity, has pulled back some of my enjoyment from watching Kdrama to be honest.
I understand that he wouldn't want to let them know he is an actual spy, thus he is not correcting them when they assume he is a student protestor. When he said comrade, I think it just slipped.
We don't know at this point what is Sun Ho's plan, or why they are targeting professor Han and etc..
Up to this point it's all assumptions.
But one thing is clear, at this moment, he has very little feelings for Young ro, while she is clearly writing his name a thousand times in her love diary. As the episodes progress, I am sure that will change.