I completely agree. This show just skims over and skips a bunch of key moments.
it makes me want to watch the anime again fr i remember when i was in high-school i watched the anime for the first time and i loved kazehaya so much but i'm not feeling it here as much :d
i've only watched the anime so i was excited to see it getting a live action drama, but i must say that i do prefer the anime over the drama since the anime gives you more details and depth to the characters // it was okay for a binge watch tho!
some of my complaints: sawako here looks too pretty and not scary/awkward at all so it doesn't make sense for everyone to be scared of her lol in the original anime/manga she was kinda creepy and VERY awkward . i also didn't feel very interested in kazehaya and sawako's relationship, where as in the anime i really adored them! the best thing in this drama for me was definitely chizu and ryu! (i loved them in the anime too!)
overall the drama was pretty enjoyable, but what didn't make sense to me was Sua's character and her behavior towards the end. How did she go from being obssessed and wanting to kill Hae-e to suddenly becoming besties in uni after the timeskip lmao??? if i remember correctly they didn't show us any scenes with her seeking professional help for her hallucinations or obsession? (i think only her mother calling a doctor?)
when you see the title ''summer strike'' and see countryside in the tags you would think that this drama would be mostly wholesome and healing, but it had so many tragedies and darkness like ?? i wasn't expecting it. it felt so random at times. isn't this drama supposed to be the FL's healing time-escaping from her sad life lol? idk the plot is just all over the place for me i did enjoy a few scenes and the last ep was pretty good tho
Jiyoung is really unlikeable i'm always skipping scenes with her fr (i feel like i've seen other dramas with this actress and i've disliked her character again lol...)
so here's my thoughts from someone that has seen the series and read the book too (this could count as a comparison i guess?) Taggging this as a spoiler for both series and book spoilers. feel free to read ahead if you're curious/interested in spoilers ; first of all, i feel like in the series, they focused too much on solomon and in the young generation where as in the book solomon barely had like 50 pages about him compared to other characters like?? i dont mind solomon he isnt a bad character but i feel like they dragged it too much with him and hana and it was quite boring. especially hana which is VERY unlikeable. and like...solomon wasnt even interested in her. in the book he had brought a girl from america lmao... second, i feel like they tried to make hansu likeable in the series by giving him a sad tragic story, while in the books they barely mention anything about his past (only the yakuza thing). i really despise book! hansu. he was a 37 year old lusting over a 16 year old (sunja). and he only kept stalking her throughout the years because of Noa. if Noa was a girl he wouldn't give a damn about them you know it's true. ALSO, what really grossed me out was when hansu and sunja met again when they were rly old and there was a mention of hansu jerking off to his moments with sunja in the past ugh! i hate him fr! third; i really liked isak as a character such a shame he was gone too soon TT i also enjoyed mozasu and noa in the books so i hope we will see more of them in season 2!
i enjoyed the first 5 episodes, but now that i'm on ep 6 it's starting to get too dramatic/ridiculous. not to mention that the overly dramatic music that keeps playing at random times gets on my nerves lmao. wondering whether i should keep watching or not??
to those that have seen this;; does this drama include too many action/fight scenes? for example i watched empress ki which had 50+ eps but skipped the action/war scenes cus i found them boring! so now im wondering whether i will watch this or not..
i wanted to give this a chance because i like female centric dramas/movies but all characters are boring as hell tbh maybe eun jung is the only one who's not as boring ;; so yeah i dropped it lol
the queen dowager's death was so satisfying! i wanted her dead since episode 1! though in my opinion she deserved to suffer for everything she did! killing herself was too easy
i figured to watch this out of curiosity to see why it has so many negative reviews and ratings and i get it now lmao....the storyline and plot is so messy and ALL the characters are so unlikeable maybe...Hye Yeong is the only one i can stand...
i binge watched this in one day and i really enjoyed it i dont understand the low rating here ;;; i do think that the attempt of romance between Dongsoo and Irang was kinda odd lol i hope there will be another season tho!
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some of my complaints: sawako here looks too pretty and not scary/awkward at all so it doesn't make sense for everyone to be scared of her lol in the original anime/manga she was kinda creepy and VERY awkward . i also didn't feel very interested in kazehaya and sawako's relationship, where as in the anime i really adored them! the best thing in this drama for me was definitely chizu and ryu! (i loved them in the anime too!)
i did enjoy a few scenes and the last ep was pretty good tho
Taggging this as a spoiler for both series and book spoilers. feel free to read ahead if you're curious/interested in spoilers ;
first of all, i feel like in the series, they focused too much on solomon and in the young generation where as in the book solomon barely had like 50 pages about him compared to other characters like?? i dont mind solomon he isnt a bad character but i feel like they dragged it too much with him and hana and it was quite boring. especially hana which is VERY unlikeable. and like...solomon wasnt even interested in her. in the book he had brought a girl from america lmao...
second, i feel like they tried to make hansu likeable in the series by giving him a sad tragic story, while in the books they barely mention anything about his past (only the yakuza thing). i really despise book! hansu. he was a 37 year old lusting over a 16 year old (sunja). and he only kept stalking her throughout the years because of Noa. if Noa was a girl he wouldn't give a damn about them you know it's true. ALSO, what really grossed me out was when hansu and sunja met again when they were rly old and there was a mention of hansu jerking off to his moments with sunja in the past ugh! i hate him fr!
third; i really liked isak as a character such a shame he was gone too soon TT i also enjoyed mozasu and noa in the books so i hope we will see more of them in season 2!
i hope there will be another season tho!