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I was TRAPPED alright - spoiler heavy post series review
I usually finish what I start because some series are late bloomers, but this one never flowered. I was indeed trapped, to the point where I wanted to gnaw my arm off to escape.
The core problem was simple: they put three interesting satellites in orbit around a very dull sun. Yoo Doo was attractive beyond reason but as dull as a doorknob. Nothing about his character justified one, let alone three, hot guys chasing him. These scripts keep treating dead behind the doe eyes, pretty faces as irresistible simply because they exist. Half the time he looked like he needed a nap.
The fix for this was actually easy: give the sun some heat, and make the main lead charismatic, even if less conventionally attractive, with a huge personality that actually earns all that attention. Then bring him in with a real crisis, make each of the three pursuers part of the solution, and build tension as he spends meaningful time with all of them so the audience is genuinely torn about who he might choose. Once he chooses the best friend, let the two who were not chosen share a moment or at least consider exploring something together. Then jump three years forward and show two happy couples who have become genuinely good friends.
Instead, there was no spark at all. The main lead needed to provide the reason, and by failing to do so, the entire premise collapsed. All three pursuers (and maybe the main lead) had depth and could have thrived in a more complex story, but that opportunity never came.
And what was the title even about? I thought maybe it was a reference to everyone being trapped by their attraction to his peach (the behind being called peach as slang), but once I started watching, there was no real sexual tension anywhere except with the best friend. So what was the point of that title?
As it stands, the fruit here was rotten.
The core problem was simple: they put three interesting satellites in orbit around a very dull sun. Yoo Doo was attractive beyond reason but as dull as a doorknob. Nothing about his character justified one, let alone three, hot guys chasing him. These scripts keep treating dead behind the doe eyes, pretty faces as irresistible simply because they exist. Half the time he looked like he needed a nap.
The fix for this was actually easy: give the sun some heat, and make the main lead charismatic, even if less conventionally attractive, with a huge personality that actually earns all that attention. Then bring him in with a real crisis, make each of the three pursuers part of the solution, and build tension as he spends meaningful time with all of them so the audience is genuinely torn about who he might choose. Once he chooses the best friend, let the two who were not chosen share a moment or at least consider exploring something together. Then jump three years forward and show two happy couples who have become genuinely good friends.
Instead, there was no spark at all. The main lead needed to provide the reason, and by failing to do so, the entire premise collapsed. All three pursuers (and maybe the main lead) had depth and could have thrived in a more complex story, but that opportunity never came.
And what was the title even about? I thought maybe it was a reference to everyone being trapped by their attraction to his peach (the behind being called peach as slang), but once I started watching, there was no real sexual tension anywhere except with the best friend. So what was the point of that title?
As it stands, the fruit here was rotten.
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