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The Bus Ride That Ran Out of Fuel
The drama was good, but honestly not as amazing as everyone made it out to be. I went in expecting edge-of-my-seat excitement the whole way through, without a single dull moment… but nope, that didn’t happen.
The core plot was pretty cool — a time loop, someone trying to break it, and accidentally dragging another person into the cycle. Up to that point, I thought, “Okay, this is worth it.” But later they focused way too much on the personal lives of every single passenger on that bus. We drifted so far from the main story and the suspense, and instead we were stuck watching the everyday struggles of random characters.
Around episode 4 (I think), they started showing these short backstories of some passengers. Basically, we’d find out we already knew the suspect they were watching was innocent… but the characters still had a long way to figure it out. That was kind of frustrating. I wanted to feel the suspense and doubt along with them, but the show kept explaining everything to us first. The final side story especially dragged on forever.
And don’t even get me started on the romance. It was honestly the most pointless love story. Are we supposed to believe they fell in love just because they went through life-and-death situations together? That’s so flimsy. Does that mean if it were anyone else who went through the same hardships with them, they’d fall for them too? Or were they just trauma-bonded? I couldn’t feel any chemistry between them at all. It felt like the writers forced a romance into the story just to make it more appealing.
Now about the bus driver girl’s backstory — I get that what happened to her was tragic, but why did she jump out of the bus like that? She could’ve screamed or tried to get attention. Eventually someone would’ve helped, right? Didn’t the police say the driver was supposed to report that kind of situation? So why did he let her off the bus? (He claimed it was because she tried to grab the wheel and could’ve caused an accident, but seriously, wasn’t there anyone else to hold her back? Even the FL tried once and that big guy stopped her right away so she wouldn’t distract the driver.)
The show did a good job hooking me at the start, but it just couldn’t keep up the momentum. And the soundtrack… ugh. The “thrilling” scenes didn’t feel thrilling at all because of the music, and the romantic scenes made me want to just skip ahead.
The core plot was pretty cool — a time loop, someone trying to break it, and accidentally dragging another person into the cycle. Up to that point, I thought, “Okay, this is worth it.” But later they focused way too much on the personal lives of every single passenger on that bus. We drifted so far from the main story and the suspense, and instead we were stuck watching the everyday struggles of random characters.
Around episode 4 (I think), they started showing these short backstories of some passengers. Basically, we’d find out we already knew the suspect they were watching was innocent… but the characters still had a long way to figure it out. That was kind of frustrating. I wanted to feel the suspense and doubt along with them, but the show kept explaining everything to us first. The final side story especially dragged on forever.
And don’t even get me started on the romance. It was honestly the most pointless love story. Are we supposed to believe they fell in love just because they went through life-and-death situations together? That’s so flimsy. Does that mean if it were anyone else who went through the same hardships with them, they’d fall for them too? Or were they just trauma-bonded? I couldn’t feel any chemistry between them at all. It felt like the writers forced a romance into the story just to make it more appealing.
Now about the bus driver girl’s backstory — I get that what happened to her was tragic, but why did she jump out of the bus like that? She could’ve screamed or tried to get attention. Eventually someone would’ve helped, right? Didn’t the police say the driver was supposed to report that kind of situation? So why did he let her off the bus? (He claimed it was because she tried to grab the wheel and could’ve caused an accident, but seriously, wasn’t there anyone else to hold her back? Even the FL tried once and that big guy stopped her right away so she wouldn’t distract the driver.)
The show did a good job hooking me at the start, but it just couldn’t keep up the momentum. And the soundtrack… ugh. The “thrilling” scenes didn’t feel thrilling at all because of the music, and the romantic scenes made me want to just skip ahead.
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