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Spoilers ahead. If you haven't watched the ending, turn back now.
The writer thought that a 10/10 drama with such a plot doesn't exist. So they aimed for a good show instead of a perfect one.And while it pisses me off—I can't help but understand their approach. Since a perfect ending would have been a lie. A perfect ending would have betrayed the deeply rotten world that the drama spent 12 episodes trying to expose.
For me, Honour can be reduced to one scene.
That final moment where HTJ said "We are one step away from a whole new world. Why must humans ruin everything... because they can't bear to shed the last drop of blood?"
HTJ could have broken the cartel. Maybe even built that "whole new world" where the wealthy and powerful have to re-evaluate their actions. A world where justice can finally reach the untouchable.
A perfect world that is too perfect to be real.
The show quotes itself, and in that moment, it's not just HTJ speaking—it's the writer, looking at the audience, at every viewer begging for catharsis, and saying: You know this isn't how it ends. Not really. Not here. Not in this world.
The tragedy is that the "devil" was more real than the law. He saw the rot, mirrored it, almost beat it—but almost doesn't change a thing. The powerful learnt nothing except how close they came to falling. While HTJ was just the weaker evil in this cartel who bore the weight.
We ended with the law being still played like chess among people in power. They all got away with a slap on the wrist. The world forgot & the cycle is repeated, worse than before. And maybe that's the point. The writer didn't aim lower. They aimed truer.
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a show that i really loved but one that still disappointed me
Ever since this show was announced I was one of the happiest about it and one of those who looked forward to it the most since it is written by Once Again writer, one of my all times favorite weekend dramas.Then as expected, this show started amazingly.
Everything about it was beautiful until the rom&com were suddenly reduced for the murder plot to gain the biggest attention from the writer.
The show felt ruint and its beauty was lost in a meaningless sub-plot that served for nothing. I thought the writer had great reasons for the mystery / murder plot but it was nothing but a story that took place and ended uselessly.
The final then brought back the beauty of this show that was lost for weeks and made me smile.
This was the show I liked so much, this was the story that I really wanted to watch.
How great would it have been if crash course in romance was a 12 episode drama without the murder sub-plot? I don't think i'll ever stop thinking about the answer to this question.
It was a nice show regardless.
(Still I am bothered by Jaewook and young joo dating and getting married and I do not see this relationship fitting nor appropriate since she was like a family member for him for a long time besides them suddenly sharing something romantic felt so forced and unnecessary but I won't comment on that further.)
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