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That was disappointing
I just finished this today and after a very short, rushed finale... I'm pretty disappointed. I loved S1, we all loved S1. S2 was kinda a mess, especially after the time skip. And now this.. A lot of people say it's at least better than S2, but it was just so unsatisfying.
In S2 they essentially eliminated most of the main crew for no reason right from the beginning. (Still mourning Ji Su's unfair/anticlimactic death after her life was saved with surgery in S1 and she inherited the sword... And never got to use it.) I can only imagine they wanted to use the popularity from S1 while essentially turning this into a totally different series and had to scramble to regain some of what they lost in this last season.
This season was just still so lacking. Part of the greatness of S1 was the unique monsters that were well thought out and obviously born from people's desires, but this season had none of that. (They even still had a couple creative monsters in S2 like the wedding dress woman, the shopping monster, and the guy covered in medical supplies at the lab.) Instead we suddenly had neohumans, which we'd seen none of previously and really didn't fit into the story. It was never explained how someone turns into a neohuman instead of a monster, or even why monsters were innately afraid of them. Just because they were 'superior'? It seemed like it came out of nowhere just so Eun Hyeok could come back looking normal.
So this season was all about working up to a big clash between monsters and humans that never really happened. Yi Su supposedly can turn people into monsters but that ability seems mostly ineffective. The only made two "real" monsters, and an army of mindless zombies. The zombies got all cut up in the battle but Hyun Su was still somehow able to rescue them afterwards, even though it seemed to totally exhaust him to turn even one person back before. And Nam Sang Won! He really put up the most pathetic fight. (Also what was he doing loitering around the lab for an entire year?) Why didn't his body's owner try to take over sooner, like when he was crippled from the car accident in S2? How did he even get back into that body after he burnt it? Why didn't he pick literally any other body there that wasn't already injured? It's like they tried for this epic final battle with huge numbers of people, but the actual battle was very lame and anticlimactic. Everything after the battle too was very rushed... And for no reason, they could've had plenty more time over this season instead of making every episode but one 40 minutes long.
Really everything was just so inferior to S1 aside from the acting. S1 had some amazing cinematography, interesting characters, good music, and was exciting for the entire season. S2 and 3 are better if you think of them as a spinoff from the original or even a fanfiction set in the same universe, but so underwhelming if you want them to continue the same story.
In S2 they essentially eliminated most of the main crew for no reason right from the beginning. (Still mourning Ji Su's unfair/anticlimactic death after her life was saved with surgery in S1 and she inherited the sword... And never got to use it.) I can only imagine they wanted to use the popularity from S1 while essentially turning this into a totally different series and had to scramble to regain some of what they lost in this last season.
This season was just still so lacking. Part of the greatness of S1 was the unique monsters that were well thought out and obviously born from people's desires, but this season had none of that. (They even still had a couple creative monsters in S2 like the wedding dress woman, the shopping monster, and the guy covered in medical supplies at the lab.) Instead we suddenly had neohumans, which we'd seen none of previously and really didn't fit into the story. It was never explained how someone turns into a neohuman instead of a monster, or even why monsters were innately afraid of them. Just because they were 'superior'? It seemed like it came out of nowhere just so Eun Hyeok could come back looking normal.
So this season was all about working up to a big clash between monsters and humans that never really happened. Yi Su supposedly can turn people into monsters but that ability seems mostly ineffective. The only made two "real" monsters, and an army of mindless zombies. The zombies got all cut up in the battle but Hyun Su was still somehow able to rescue them afterwards, even though it seemed to totally exhaust him to turn even one person back before. And Nam Sang Won! He really put up the most pathetic fight. (Also what was he doing loitering around the lab for an entire year?) Why didn't his body's owner try to take over sooner, like when he was crippled from the car accident in S2? How did he even get back into that body after he burnt it? Why didn't he pick literally any other body there that wasn't already injured? It's like they tried for this epic final battle with huge numbers of people, but the actual battle was very lame and anticlimactic. Everything after the battle too was very rushed... And for no reason, they could've had plenty more time over this season instead of making every episode but one 40 minutes long.
Really everything was just so inferior to S1 aside from the acting. S1 had some amazing cinematography, interesting characters, good music, and was exciting for the entire season. S2 and 3 are better if you think of them as a spinoff from the original or even a fanfiction set in the same universe, but so underwhelming if you want them to continue the same story.
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