InspectorMegre

wow you must be a hwood or cdrama lover ?

And, I want a better music in this drama. The music is lame and often does not fit. It is not possible that this is such a cheap production that they cannot even fix the music... ?!
I am watching Shopaholic Luis 2015 drama and am having FUN with the music there. MY BEST DECISION EVER is to watch older kdramas they are so fun!!!! Normal looking fit people, no skeletons, and really really fun creative plots, with actors who are dynamic and MOVE around and ACT. I am having a BLAST.
This new gen of actors are so slow, too skinny, tired, lifeless, and just BORING.

Also, curently airing Our Happy Days also has fun music. For example, playing waltz when he catches her in falling, the classic kdrama trope but with the new music. Really fun.

I noticed he only wears that but seems like he is advertising for someone :) or maybe they wanted him different than the ML, who is really good looking in those spic and span business suit outfits.
BUT THEIR HAIR!!!! esp HalfBrother, that hairstyle is ... out of style :) and for ML ... the hair is poking him right into his eyeballs, it must be painful.

So out with the hair and forward with the EYES! Both those actors can and do act with their eyes so it is a terribly bad decision to hide their eyes and do lots of side shots. Real bad filming

Wow their kids are so dumb, how come the parents never taught them what to do in emergency... ??? and the middle son is just a spoiled idiot, also parents' fault. The smallest kid is even worse than an idiot. Climbing into a truck.... ??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Cabbage family is IDIOTIC. The kids must be punished and the parents have to TOTALLY change. in real life, the kids would be long gone with some kindappers. It is totally idiotic that parents dont teach their kids these days.
And all those adults, did not call the police... ??? !!!! what a lazy dumb way to create plot...

I like the plot of the middle kid screaming bs. He admitted he is not smart - AH SO TRUE!!!! and he is such a spoiled idiot, he doesnt feel sorry that he jeopardizes lives of him and the little one. THE PARENTS FAILED to help this kid see what the truth is. He is so spoiled and so DUMB, I like kids and I am usually on their side, but this middle one is so selfish and immature and requires some huge lessons asap or else he will become some kind of gangster.

And these parents require huge lessons asap, they are not even capable of talking with their kid!!! the kid manipulates them!!! he got the conversation on another topic and the parents do not even know what to say!!!!

AND THE PARENTS DO NOT KNOW HOW TO TALK WITH EACH OTHER!!! wife did the same thing as the middle kid - changed the subject to another topic and manimpulated, avoicing to take any responsiblity.
So the dynamic of this family is a pushover father who does nothing with the kids, he is just some dude who pays money for food for the family, and allknowing allmighy mom who manipulates her way bc she "knows the best" but is really a totally incompetent moron and IS UNWILLING TO BE RESPONSIBLE.
So that's why the kids are so messed up. they are exact copies of their parents. The whole family is a deluly bunch of total clutz morons totally out of touch with reality and each other

THE PARENTS ARE TOTAL CLUELESS MORONS!!!

The village is their grounding and their common sense and the hard work.
the Seoul/Torono family are total aliens, so out of touch witih EVERYTHING

I think it is great that the drama is bringing out the total cluelessness of the "LOST IN SPACE" (like out of touch with the reality and the Now, floating in a delulu mindspace) urbanites and a more sense in quieter village life and NATURE.

honestly, the current writer is not bad, for most part. Only the first few episoides were total cringe. Now the plot gets interesting often. The twists in plot that that ghost writer uses, I am ok with :)
I would keep the current writer as my ghost writer :) and then do some minor edits.

I would eliminate all the soapy scenes, like crying and sobbing for 10 mins scenes..
I would cut the bangs on Min Ju and HalfBrother... It is sooo distracting and irritating to see only one eye... and keep filming them from the side only... Yikes yuck.
I would use better music for key bomb scenes, like HalfBrother learning about the death of Chloe, and then Chloe meeting him.
The camera could improve. I liked how Chloe walked to Half Brother at the end. But many other scenes are soooo packed dramatic but the camera didnt emphasize it. Like... filming Min Ju and HalfBrother only from the side with the good eye... those actors CAN act by now, so cut that damn hair / push it out of their eyes, and film them full face..
and make it interesting! go with different angles etc
I would think of a way that Aunt and Chloe learn on the same track and join forces, and Min Ju helps, and gets Chloe as a gfriend
I would think of a way to make it clear that Lapdog is HalfBrother's dad :)

Tue ep wasted so much time on soap, imo.
Wed ep is packed :) Why is Chloe proposing to marry HalfBrother?

Min Ju and Half Brother need to get that hair out of their eyes!!! this is not a modeling runway but ACTING and the face has to be fully visible. Their hairdos work against them here. Just a slight adjustment is needed.

HY got out of jail a lot more vicious, which will cost her :) bc she is now making moves - too many moves, too recklessly - so it will be easier to catch her :)

Now she has to kill the gfriend too :) and I am not sure if BH and JM have her phone... now hopefully that gfriend has a great brain as much as her legs are great! DID YOU NOTICE? have you seen such a pair of nice legs in any 16-ep drama? NO. Those dramas have all skeletons.

it is dumb to ask the golddiggers to find SR :) bc once they do, they will tell it to Chairman :)

it is mind boggling that Ssangkal AND his gfriend had no idea that they will be killed ....! what kind of thugs ARE they... ???
Also, Professor and BH should be worried ....

accusation was that she was administering sleeping pills to .... whom... we dont know yet.
We also saw that JH was helping her and announced marriage to her..

Oh JM has become much smarter! Her taunting HY at the start of ep 81 is quite street smart. I really enjoyed her exposing HY in front of JH, who is 100% blind and evil at this point, blindly supporting his mommy murderer and forcing marriage on SR who clearly cannot stand him. So JM's smart talk was wasted :) .

But JM was able to stand up to HY. Now let's see how that translates into ACTION. Something JM will *do* that will be smart too. I suspect JM has changed enough to have my respect now IF SHE STARTS TELLING THE TRUTH AND NOT HIDING ANYTHING. IF SHE TAKES ACTIVE ROLE. .

Ah as predicted, Chairman is a sleeze bag and tries to save his company regardless if there is some murderer running it LMAO Who cares for the murders, what matters is the profits!!!! Chairman's motto :)
And Sanghal - what is he thinking, that he will live???? What a dumb moron. Of course they are gonna kill him to make him shut up for sure.
As we predicted, JH is turning an evil mommy boy. SR obviously cannot stand him and he ir ordering her to marry him. NO FUN AT ALL.

SO I DISLIKE IF WE MAKE THIS INTO A COMPETITION WITH THE WRITER and just blindly smash the writer with criticism. I think the best is a win-win where we can come up with our own ideas for the script, so that the writer can get some ideas. But that really depends on how much you hate this drama...
I presonally like this drama, and so far, EVERYTHING made sense to me, this is a reasonable plot and very reasonable characters.
I do wish to see SR on the screen more and JM to grow up asap. JM is not growing up fast enough. She is still too much woman-child.

I think someone at MBC is at fault for pushing the sexism and VERY DUMB FL. Woman Who Swallowed the Sun dumbness was supposed to be a lesson!!! that MBC has not learned yet. KBS seems to be smarter, and A Graceful Liar was supposed to be a smarter woman but she was even more dumb as she was greedy, selfish and stupid, and actually a villain.

I want to see an ordinary "good" woman who is smart and capable and accomplishes her goals and airs out all her skeletons in the closet. A decent and exemplary woman.
Our Golden Days FL was supposed to be that, but the script - and the audience! - failed,

SR is kinda that, so I want to see more of SR.
JM could have been that but the script failed. ... Well ep 81 is very smart JM. I like that. If she continues AND TELLS THE INFO TO HER TEAMMATES AND TAKES MORE ACTIVE ACTIONS, I will be fine with that.

Ah that's tricky bc she is under her mom on the mission GoldDig ...

I wish to see her sooner :)

Exactly. The drama wants to make sure that the slowest viewers get it. I guess lots of older ppl must be watching this - but according to the stats, the majority of watchers are in 35-44 age group - which does NOT automatically make them smart lol

OK if that attracts you :) go ahead, indulge yourself, ... and pay for it :) Do you realize it is a trap to lure ppl into creating bad karma :) SO, FAREWELL :) Please do not write to me anymore.

OK if you think so, and I think you described it well. So let us leave it at this. WOTI is DEFINITELY not a rom-com :) and there is no dating.

Low Life shows criminals doing criminal things and winning and being "cool". How can that be "good" by any definition??? Low Life violates the principles of true storytelling and is just yet another Hwood sensationalistic crude story without any meanings, messages, or depth. you are not going to learn anything to better your own life..

and shows why true kdramas might become extinct as the global audience - with its training in watching cheap sh.t like Low Life - is so used to watching meaningless stuff that it keeps asking for it - and kdrama ppl want $$$$$ so they produce that, and kdramas go to TRASH. True kdramas might be totally extinct in a few years.

True kdramas follow the principles of real storytelling: PART 1: FLAWS, PART 2: OVERCOMING BY PERSONAL EFFORTS PART 3: TRANSFORMATION AND HEALING ON PERSONAL AND COMMUNAL LEVEL. Such stories are full of messages about how to better your own life, how to BECOME the best person you can be. It is like a spiritual training manual. THAT IS THE PURPOSE OF REAL ART AND REAL STORYTELLING.
Very often such stories are hidden bc the elites kill and destroy spreaders of such self-empowerment knowledge. Aesop tales, Brother Grimm fairy tales, Rumi and Hafiz poems from Persia, etc etc etc are all hidden spiritual teachings. Any good fairy tale is :) Read Seven Arrows by Homeyostas Storm, for example :) And then there are counterfeits, like Carlos Castaneda :) Finding the true story and true art is very difficult :)
Right now, the only ppl reading this far are some censoring trolls, and a rare person who has spiritual aspirations :) Most people are in the mindless gray masses category and have quit reading this at all lmao

The lucky thing is that all people, regardless how ignorant they are, have an ingrained thirst for REAL knowledge, and so ... real storytelling couches that into fun stories, like kdramas :) so everyone can take home how much they can take from it :)

True kdramas are super creative, and have a WAY of telling the story successfully - a true kdrama is based on portraying deep complex dark concepts with compassion and lightness, on TRUE ACCEPTANCE and also of TRUE INTENT TO MOVE ON FORWARD, and all if it is shown in fun and humorous ways that are catchy and memorable, and also sweetness and warmth that is GENUINE and thus catchy and memorable

True kdramas show the path to peace, harmony and joy on Earth and show practical steps and attitudes to make it happen. That is possible only bc kdramas shy from no topics and S Koreans are known to curb their government and have made significant progress on their own.

Cdramas and Hwood hypnotize you into believing that the evil happenin is so powerful that it must stay. Hwood and cdramas avoid MANY topics - too many topics!!!!! - as if plague, and are used in societies where ppl are intentionally luled to have no interest in changing anything. The art is really like a bottle of alcohol, it just puts you to sleep....

So many westerners watch cdramas precisely bc they are so similar to Hwood :) Same oppressive lul the brain concepts :)

And now kdramas are getting infested with this attitude of - ah lets not talk about that, let's watch this flashy piece of media and turn the brain off and have fun -
and that will lead to terrible consequences. S Koreans are gonna lose their culture, and the world will be even more deeply infested with Hwood - and cdrama :) ideas

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Historical notes: Koreans overcame their own slavery (30-40% Koreans were slaves until a few hundred years ago) and also colonization of Korea (in the far past, by Chinese empires, and most recently, 50 yrs of Japanese coloniation). Somehow they still managed.

Compare that with China, which has never managed - from empire and opium epidemics chaos, straight to communism.... And compare that with the USA - come in, genocide the original inhabitants, grab all land, then build it by free labor of the slaves you kidnapped and brought in, then get into a decadent spending culture and maintain it by stealing all over the world and keeping ppl at home busy with doing shopping, recreational drugs, mass video games, hookups on swiping apps, etc..... and the recent kill of small businesses and home owners.... BY DEFAULT, China and the USA can NEVER produce anything meaningful bc there are just too many topics they cannot possibly talk about... There are very few governments that really want to teach people to live a better life, but some are a lot worse than others :)

Mad Concrete Dreams is the story of how Nacism started, or any other hideous thing done by "good people" who were given a chance to do bad and got totally obsessed with greed and kept going.

We are watching MCD concepts in real life now with WWW3 bombing in Iran, genocide in Gaza, global destruction of nature, incl, global warming and 6th extinction of species, etc.

MCD although it looks "fun" is a super deep insight into human psyche and what happens when you get tempted to abandon the universal principles of good karma (in the West and Middle East, these are couched under "moral principles").

MCD ML is a "good ordinary person" who is a good householder, a good neighbor, a good citizen in general, trying hard by honest means..... and who, given a chance, does monstruous things.

He loves his wife and daughter and is good to his friends and neighbors. So how far does this "love" and "good friend and neighbor" stretch under the right conditions... ? Where is the line between driven to succeed and being overcome by greed and selfishness?

So if you are going to compare MCD with anything, it has to be something equally deep and meaningful.

See my reply below

Disney-made drama produced in Korea titled "Low Life" is so shallow, it can never be better than this drama bc it glorifies true criminals. LOW LIFE IS JUST A FLASHY BOMBASTIC DOCUMENTARY ON STRATEGIES CRIMINALS USE TO WIN. That does not even qualify to be a drama or a movie bc there is no transformation nor deeper messages ever.

For those interested in a deeper exploration of WHAT MAKES A MEANINGFUL STORY, I put it into a spoiler below.
A quick test: if you liked Pursuit of Jade or Dynamite Kiss or Practical Guide to Love, or Low Life, then you are not interested in reading the spoiler :)