I appreciate that it's different/unexpected for Pil Joo and Mo Hyun to not necessarily be together at the end.…
Pil Joo: how does he feel now? "You did well, Pil Joo" was nice, but we get nothing for his future or his post revenge dreams. He interviews for the CEO position, but even that is unclear whether he really wanted it or not. It also contrasts strangely with his having moved out to that remote house from his childhood. So does he want isolation? Or involvement? Peace? Or work? Audience left in the dark.
Mo Hyun: is she happy? She's successful, but will she be able to trust anyone? How is her family? We just know she works for Cheong A. No idea of anything beyond that. Audience left in the dark.
Boo Cheon: he's a dad, so where's his son? Is he part of his son's life at all? Does he get a job with Cheong A or no? Is he back with Seo Won, and if so, how could she ever have taken him back? If not, what *is* he doing? Audience left in the dark.
Mal Ran: The "bad guy goes crazy after getting caught" trope. Horrible, lazy writing for the second most important character. She literally doesn't get a resolution at all.
Old Chairman Jang: Is he dead yet??? :P
That's all the major characters, and none of them get wrapped up. A true "open ending" is still an ending. What we got was... a termination. There's only so much you can leave up to the audience to fill in and still claim artistic license.
I appreciate that it's different/unexpected for Pil Joo and Mo Hyun to not necessarily be together at the end.…
Sure, but the problem is that it was neither happy *nor* good.
I liked that he accomplished his main goals: revenge and corporate reform. But that's it. 24 episodes and tons of great characters and it ends with "Welp.... I did it, I guess..."
So much wasted time in the last episode, too. So many cop out endings and dangling character threads. When literally theonly good thing I can say about an ending is "At least it wasn't cliché", you know something went terribly wrong.
My stomach was constantly in knots watching this drama, but I had so much fun with it. The acting is great, the…
I appreciate that it's different/unexpected for Pil Joo and Mo Hyun to not necessarily be together at the end. However, that's not automatically a good thing. There needs to be SOME resolution for the ending to be satisfying. And there wasn't. There was no resolution at all. A really lazy, cop-out ending. If PJxMH were happy together, at least, that would be something, even if it was cliché. I'll take a cliché any day over the nothing that we got instead.
Excellent drama with top performances from Jang Hyuk Park Se-Young, and Jang Seung-Jo. At first i thought she…
Lee Hang Na's character was supposed to be "comic relief". Maybe older Koreans would have found her funny?
Also, you're right: Pil Joo's treatment of Seo Won (Boo Cheon's babymama) is entirely for her benefit, even the threats and choking scene. He desperately wants her to get away from the family because he knows something horrible could happen to her. And it almost does, but fortunately he was there to prevent it with his martial arts superpowers. Pil Joo has what I would describe as "a ruthless heart of gold".
Believe the hype about Jang Hyuk, the cinematography, the twists, and the music. But anyone who tries to tell you that "this has a satisfying ending" is a filthy liar. 24 whole episodes, each of them OVER the 60-minute mark, and the last episode is STILL a lazily written, inexcusable mess full of pointless filler.
7.5/10, a makjang that wastes your time a little bit less than other makjang.
This seems... interesting. When Seo In Guk played two different characters in one drama, even for just a few episodes, he talked about how tough it was. If PHJ can *believably* play four different dudes, I'll be properly impressed.
FINISHED! 8.5/10. If 20CBG was a theme park ride, it would be the Lazy River: peaceful, serene, refreshing, still lots of fun. A great show about decent people being decent to each other, and yet still fun and even compelling at times.
There are those dramas when you just feel that the people who made them, they just "get it". This is one of those…
Anytime anything gets a 9.0 average here, MDL trolls come out of the woodwork to "fix" that. Look at Healer. Was above 9 for a long time, and suddenly all these low scores started popping up regularly until it hit 8.9, then the negative scores magically stopped.
I usually avoid anything that has Jang Na Ra as a cast... anyone willing to change that opinion of mine?
She's my favorite actress and #2 on my Crush Hierarchy™, so I doubt I can give you an objective reason to like her.
But there is a scene in this where she reveals something to the main guy, via writing. And he looks up from the paper and sees her staring at him, and the look on her face is the most hilarious thing. Maybe that will win you over?
LOVE every minute of this drama. But still don't get how did they suddenly figure out how to travel to d future?
Spoiler tags! :)
Also, they just figured out why they traveled in the first place, which led to their going back to the present. The weird "supernatural" twist at the end was pretty dumb, I have to say, and I could have done without it. But that's a minor nitpick.
Mo Hyun: is she happy? She's successful, but will she be able to trust anyone? How is her family? We just know she works for Cheong A. No idea of anything beyond that. Audience left in the dark.
Boo Cheon: he's a dad, so where's his son? Is he part of his son's life at all? Does he get a job with Cheong A or no? Is he back with Seo Won, and if so, how could she ever have taken him back? If not, what *is* he doing? Audience left in the dark.
Mal Ran: The "bad guy goes crazy after getting caught" trope. Horrible, lazy writing for the second most important character. She literally doesn't get a resolution at all.
Old Chairman Jang: Is he dead yet??? :P
That's all the major characters, and none of them get wrapped up. A true "open ending" is still an ending. What we got was... a termination. There's only so much you can leave up to the audience to fill in and still claim artistic license.
I liked that he accomplished his main goals: revenge and corporate reform. But that's it. 24 episodes and tons of great characters and it ends with "Welp.... I did it, I guess..."
So much wasted time in the last episode, too. So many cop out endings and dangling character threads. When literally theonly good thing I can say about an ending is "At least it wasn't cliché", you know something went terribly wrong.
Also, you're right: Pil Joo's treatment of Seo Won (Boo Cheon's babymama) is entirely for her benefit, even the threats and choking scene. He desperately wants her to get away from the family because he knows something horrible could happen to her. And it almost does, but fortunately he was there to prevent it with his martial arts superpowers. Pil Joo has what I would describe as "a ruthless heart of gold".
7.5/10, a makjang that wastes your time a little bit less than other makjang.
(And yeah, totally agree with you on the car accident :P )
But there is a scene in this where she reveals something to the main guy, via writing. And he looks up from the paper and sees her staring at him, and the look on her face is the most hilarious thing. Maybe that will win you over?
Also, they just figured out why they traveled in the first place, which led to their going back to the present. The weird "supernatural" twist at the end was pretty dumb, I have to say, and I could have done without it. But that's a minor nitpick.