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A unique and creative plot but failed to progress.
This should be marked as a mystery instead of a romance series. I don't feel any romantic chemistry between the characters, for both the lead and the second couple. Our characters barely know each other, but then suddenly in the last 2 episodes they all start to fall in love. Does that make sense?
As for the mystery, it has a unique and creative plot and I think the way everything unfolded is okay, but very confusing, and it's still an unresolved issue in the end. I don't really understand the purpose of bringing it in the first place when it leads to nowhere.
Anyway, I give it 6/10 for its unique and potential plot, and for the acting from the actors. I started this series because of Jin Young in the first place and I think he did well with the role.
There are some illogical flaws in the plot. First, it's how everyone accepts the fact that our female lead Mi Jeong is a witch so easily without questioning anything. It's a fantasy thing, not something that happens so commonly in real life. Even adults believe it and try to kick a homeless orphaned teenager out of the village, just because of a ridiculous fantasy rumor spread in a high school! And a university professor just accepts it as something his student researches and analyzes data and turns it into an assignment report?
Second, after all the progress, in the end the issue is left unexplained. What is that "witch" thing? How did it start? Why did it happen? And how to resolve it? That's the biggest disappointment in the mystery plot of this series. It has potential, but in the end, no one finds any solution to it. Somehow it feels a little bit meaningless to me.
As for the romance in "The Witch", the biggest issue is that our male lead Dong Jin is a stalker. He follows and studies everything about Mi Jeong in the dark without her knowing. I think it's creepy to have a romance between a stalker and his target. I would feel so scared and disgusted to discover that someone has been stalking me for a long time, not to fall for them. Of course, in this series, Dong Jin has his reasons that he has to study carefully about Mi Jeong's "witch" curse before he can safely approach her without dying. However, the leads surely need more time to get to know each other first to have any romance. So how can they do that? Maybe the male lead can ask the male introduce himself online and they learn about each other from afar first before meeting in real life. Does that count as the male lead violating the law? No one knows because it's never thought of, when we are living in a world full of technology.
Well, at least the leads already notice each other since high school, and Mi Jeong does have some feelings for Dong Jin when he is her delivery man. They have a few conversations and she feels a bit comfortable with him. How about our second couple? Their romance feels really odd and forced to me. They meet briefly in the last few episodes, bicker a little bit and suddenly become a couple in a minute!
I think the plot of "The Witch" is too complicated for a 10-episode series. It needs more time for its mystery to be discovered and unfolded, and for its romance to grow gradually. This is a very slow-paced series, but the ending feels too rushed in my opinion.
As for the mystery, it has a unique and creative plot and I think the way everything unfolded is okay, but very confusing, and it's still an unresolved issue in the end. I don't really understand the purpose of bringing it in the first place when it leads to nowhere.
Anyway, I give it 6/10 for its unique and potential plot, and for the acting from the actors. I started this series because of Jin Young in the first place and I think he did well with the role.
There are some illogical flaws in the plot. First, it's how everyone accepts the fact that our female lead Mi Jeong is a witch so easily without questioning anything. It's a fantasy thing, not something that happens so commonly in real life. Even adults believe it and try to kick a homeless orphaned teenager out of the village, just because of a ridiculous fantasy rumor spread in a high school! And a university professor just accepts it as something his student researches and analyzes data and turns it into an assignment report?
Second, after all the progress, in the end the issue is left unexplained. What is that "witch" thing? How did it start? Why did it happen? And how to resolve it? That's the biggest disappointment in the mystery plot of this series. It has potential, but in the end, no one finds any solution to it. Somehow it feels a little bit meaningless to me.
As for the romance in "The Witch", the biggest issue is that our male lead Dong Jin is a stalker. He follows and studies everything about Mi Jeong in the dark without her knowing. I think it's creepy to have a romance between a stalker and his target. I would feel so scared and disgusted to discover that someone has been stalking me for a long time, not to fall for them. Of course, in this series, Dong Jin has his reasons that he has to study carefully about Mi Jeong's "witch" curse before he can safely approach her without dying. However, the leads surely need more time to get to know each other first to have any romance. So how can they do that? Maybe the male lead can ask the male introduce himself online and they learn about each other from afar first before meeting in real life. Does that count as the male lead violating the law? No one knows because it's never thought of, when we are living in a world full of technology.
Well, at least the leads already notice each other since high school, and Mi Jeong does have some feelings for Dong Jin when he is her delivery man. They have a few conversations and she feels a bit comfortable with him. How about our second couple? Their romance feels really odd and forced to me. They meet briefly in the last few episodes, bicker a little bit and suddenly become a couple in a minute!
I think the plot of "The Witch" is too complicated for a 10-episode series. It needs more time for its mystery to be discovered and unfolded, and for its romance to grow gradually. This is a very slow-paced series, but the ending feels too rushed in my opinion.
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