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The last few episodes bring it down quite a notch
When you find out you're an absolute bitch in another reality lol
Well, until it doesn't matter anymore.
It's like this drama purposefully decided to go for the least interesting story and payoff, possibly in an effort to subvert viewer expectations. It's also why you have to be careful when trying to subvert expectations as a writer. There's a reason why we have expectations. That's because we "expect" what makes logical sense to happen, to actually happen. Subverting expectations means that something different happens from what we were expecting. It can be a good thing, when done right. It can also just suck. Which takes you out of the story.
It's basically what happened here. This drama started really exciting but fell off in the last few episodes in a mess of contrived, nonsensical writing that maybe should have gone for something a bit more straightforward. A shame because the character setups were great, initially at least.
It's rare that I like the male lead in a kdrama this much, they usually range from obnoxious to outright toxic, so I guess that's one thing this show had going for it. That man was a keeper.
So yeah, mostly just wasted potential here, although with absolutely gorgeous cinematography. Visually it looks stunning. Which makes it even more frustrating that it is, in fact, only decent because of the shit ending.
The more I watch stuff by this writer, the more I come to realize… She really cooked with The Glory, it was lightning in a bottle, and nobody can take that away from her, ever. But apart from that one show... yeah, pretty meh stuff so far
And lastly, please don't write about time travel if you have no idea about how its most fundamental rules work.
Well, until it doesn't matter anymore.
It's like this drama purposefully decided to go for the least interesting story and payoff, possibly in an effort to subvert viewer expectations. It's also why you have to be careful when trying to subvert expectations as a writer. There's a reason why we have expectations. That's because we "expect" what makes logical sense to happen, to actually happen. Subverting expectations means that something different happens from what we were expecting. It can be a good thing, when done right. It can also just suck. Which takes you out of the story.
It's basically what happened here. This drama started really exciting but fell off in the last few episodes in a mess of contrived, nonsensical writing that maybe should have gone for something a bit more straightforward. A shame because the character setups were great, initially at least.
It's rare that I like the male lead in a kdrama this much, they usually range from obnoxious to outright toxic, so I guess that's one thing this show had going for it. That man was a keeper.
So yeah, mostly just wasted potential here, although with absolutely gorgeous cinematography. Visually it looks stunning. Which makes it even more frustrating that it is, in fact, only decent because of the shit ending.
The more I watch stuff by this writer, the more I come to realize… She really cooked with The Glory, it was lightning in a bottle, and nobody can take that away from her, ever. But apart from that one show... yeah, pretty meh stuff so far
And lastly, please don't write about time travel if you have no idea about how its most fundamental rules work.
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