This show should have been cut to a movie...if the synopsis and trailer was accurate...i wouldn't have bother watching this. Why would i purposely want to hurt myself?
I will never forget these characters, no matter how poorly the execution was, this whole cast is a family to me, they all have a special place to my heart.
I love Soo ho so much, what a beautiful soul who's life was cut short. He was powerless against the regime, yet still sacrificed what he believed in, what he wanted the most.
Soo Ho and Young Ro, if it only could have been... i will never forget you guys <3
I understand that from the political circumstance and extremely dark topics the writer had to tackle, this drama had to end tragically. Tbh, i expected it. I expected something bittersweet.
But why...why would the writer deceive us with such a false sypnosis. What a ruthless marketing strategy! This is not a "romance" fiction. This is NOT a drama, melodrama, or romance! Those are all SUBPLOTS.
This show is a political thriller-action series with dark comedy. It dives into how love can be the biggest weapon against yourself to the point it can drive you insane, in a time when the most important duty was to serve loyalty to your country. Its about sacrifice, selflessness, corruption, betrayal, etc.
You have been warned! The topic of this drama is incredibly sensitive and fragile. ALL of the characters are vulnerable and go through some type of trauma that is very, very sad.
A tragic, raw, vulnerable story about normal people like us who are head-locked to political corruption. I'm gonna need a few days to get over this show. I love the cast, its still hard to believe what happened.
tbh i agreed with everything u said, except the world building. i think this drama did an interesting job trying…
that makes sense! I seem to enjoy it. i have seen shows with draggy plots but a draggy plot is never the trigger for me, if the "draginess" can be done right, i would still want to see more. I think thats whats snowdrop for me. I am justifying this for myself because i can now understand the draginess. u replied after i watched another 2 episodes (I'm binge watching) and now i can understand why u are saying its draggy. All the characters are losing their sanity and are still stuck in a stupid dorm and theirs something crazy happening each second. I still enjoy it and want to see more. I think it also has to do with who watches it as it airs and who binge watches it. This drama would have fine the trailer/synopsis sticked true to the trailer. The writer made it seem to look like a fantasy-tragedy historical fiction. But its more like a thriller-action-crime? Then our expectations would have aligned better with the drama.
So i don't think it would have been bad writing if the director made it sound like an action-thriller series. But he didn't do that, he decieved us all, and thats why its bad writing for the genre he was trying to accomplish (Romance and historical fiction)
LMAO idk why but i found it so hilarious whenever the spies would put someone in "time out" against the window because they were "uncooperative" or just "annoying." Like what are they? 5 years old??? LOL!
I understand why people don't like young ro in this series. She's weak and cry in every single episode. People…
right! if we were in her shoes, half of us would have had lifetime trauma and passed out due to the amount of stress we would have to endure in that environment. people always expect a character to be this strong brilliant badass, or they expect them to grow into this mature intelligent human. yes of course its nice to see something different in fiction, characters being something reality cant portray. but sometimes- i like to see a character being closer to reality. seeing how trauma can mentally and physically eat one alive to the point they cant cope with the pain. not because it makes me happy-but because i can understand. i can relate to them more, understand their pain more, feel more emotionally connected.
i don't see Youngro as weak, i think a lot of things she did was badass and extremely strong, she's just very emotional and its hard for her to cope-which is understandable and very sad. our generation cannot understand because most of us have not gone through what those poor souls have gone through during that time.
tbh i agreed with everything u said, except the world building. i think this drama did an interesting job trying…
I didn't find it as filler scenes, i feel like this drama is so much more than romance, even if it dictated as just romance. I think the setting taking place in a womens dorm is fantastic for a movie-but can also work well with a show. That is if you can execute it well. Kdramas are basically long movies to me, each just being 16 episodes.
I think what the writer failed to do is 1. execute the ideas well and 2. decieve us. The ideas are fantastic, it could have been well executed into a thrilling plot. But there are so many unnecessary repetitive actions and no character developement. I feel like if i saw growth, communication, ideas of morals, better writing of characters, this could have been such a better drama overall. So i don't think the setting is what made this drama feel draggy- its more of the characters to me. A show does not have to be driven by the plot or setting, it can also be driven by just the characters- thats what i personally saw this show fail to do.
And of course, the writer deceived us. The trailer is nothing like the actual drama! I had so many more expectations but (still enjoyed it to an extent). If the writer made the trailer more accurate and told us what it ACTUALLY about, people being held hostage- i would have more correlated expectations and not expect a purpose a drama does not have.
Since we're (finally) nearing the end of the dorm arc, I'd like to get this off of my chest, this plot has dragged…
tbh i agreed with everything u said, except the world building. i think this drama did an interesting job trying to keep us engaged through one sole setting. its fun and different, but its a matter of preference, as u said.
i feel like the controversy surrounding the history could have potentially made the writer stay in the "safer" side and take a route thats more lacking of potential ideas and paths because again, this drama has historical significance and any wrong move could have made a huge outrage from the public eye.
WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL? ðŸ˜WHY WOULD THE WRITER MAKE US GO THROUGH THIS. I AM NOW HEARTLESS AND ONLY KNOW PAIN.
Soo Ho and Young Ro, if it only could have been...
i will never forget you guys <3
But why...why would the writer deceive us with such a false sypnosis. What a ruthless marketing strategy! This is not a "romance" fiction. This is NOT a drama, melodrama, or romance! Those are all SUBPLOTS.
This show is a political thriller-action series with dark comedy. It dives into how love can be the biggest weapon against yourself to the point it can drive you insane, in a time when the most important duty was to serve loyalty to your country. Its about sacrifice, selflessness, corruption, betrayal, etc.
You have been warned! The topic of this drama is incredibly sensitive and fragile. ALL of the characters are vulnerable and go through some type of trauma that is very, very sad.
A tragic, raw, vulnerable story about normal people like us who are head-locked to political corruption.
I'm gonna need a few days to get over this show. I love the cast, its still hard to believe what happened.
Thank you for everything <3
I am justifying this for myself because i can now understand the draginess. u replied after i watched another 2 episodes (I'm binge watching) and now i can understand why u are saying its draggy. All the characters are losing their sanity and are still stuck in a stupid dorm and theirs something crazy happening each second. I still enjoy it and want to see more. I think it also has to do with who watches it as it airs and who binge watches it.
This drama would have fine the trailer/synopsis sticked true to the trailer. The writer made it seem to look like a fantasy-tragedy historical fiction. But its more like a thriller-action-crime? Then our expectations would have aligned better with the drama.
So i don't think it would have been bad writing if the director made it sound like an action-thriller series. But he didn't do that, he decieved us all, and thats why its bad writing for the genre he was trying to accomplish (Romance and historical fiction)
i don't see Youngro as weak, i think a lot of things she did was badass and extremely strong, she's just very emotional and its hard for her to cope-which is understandable and very sad. our generation cannot understand because most of us have not gone through what those poor souls have gone through during that time.
I think what the writer failed to do is 1. execute the ideas well and 2. decieve us. The ideas are fantastic, it could have been well executed into a thrilling plot. But there are so many unnecessary repetitive actions and no character developement. I feel like if i saw growth, communication, ideas of morals, better writing of characters, this could have been such a better drama overall. So i don't think the setting is what made this drama feel draggy- its more of the characters to me. A show does not have to be driven by the plot or setting, it can also be driven by just the characters- thats what i personally saw this show fail to do.
And of course, the writer deceived us. The trailer is nothing like the actual drama! I had so many more expectations but (still enjoyed it to an extent). If the writer made the trailer more accurate and told us what it ACTUALLY about, people being held hostage- i would have more correlated expectations and not expect a purpose a drama does not have.
i feel like the controversy surrounding the history could have potentially made the writer stay in the "safer" side and take a route thats more lacking of potential ideas and paths because again, this drama has historical significance and any wrong move could have made a huge outrage from the public eye.