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FL disguises herself as an eunuch. Only males are allowed to be eunuchs. Women would get executed. This was mentioned multiple times throughout the drama.

ML knows that his 'favourite' eunuch is actually a woman and even supports her. As an unwed crown prince, he's actually not allowed to be around women. And since FL is thought to have killed her parents, ML basically commits treason by hiding FL.

In the last few episodes, FL's true identity comes to light.

There wasn't much to the story but I enjoyed the acting.

If we are in a live and die situation, we just randomly kill without any hesitation? Maybe you do but most people don't unless they are radicalised, which is not the case in this drama. At least, they wouldn't kill without any hesitaten or remorse after one or two days. If they did, starving people in Africa would simply kill everybody around them until they get the food source, and there would not be any starving people anymore within a couple of days. And no overpopulation anymore, by the way. This is not MY morals but the morals of the majority of people on this planet. People usually don't kill other people, even in extreme situations. Or do you also deny that people are starving in Africa, for example, Malawi? If you prefer Asia, just take a look at Yemen. There are plenty of examples.

I'll rewatch the relevant episode next year to see if she (whoever that might be) tried to kill FL after Jun-hee got voted out. If you are right, that's good for you. :)

I think both actors are handsome, and I wouldn't mind if FL dropped ML for the 2nd ML. However, what makes you think that FL and 2nd ML would be a better couple in this drama? There hasn't been much interaction between them. Storywise, it is pretty clear that FL and ML are happy together. They worked on their relationship.

From what I read, you claimed that it would make sense that all mafia members are totally fine with killing because "reasons". The example with Africa was the proof that your correction made no sense in this respect. If you wanted to argue that this was a drama, and things happened in dramas, I could correct you by arguing that there was no sparkling vampire to save everybody.

A good drama follows its own inner logic (and does not break its own logic) and it also does not contradict certain aspects of real life without providing a plausible explanation. That's what multiple people here in the comment section criticised, not just me.

WHY did Somi try to kill FL? And when? If you read again what I wrote in my initial comment, you'll notice that I mentioned the reason why FL should have been killed first. It made little sense to kill somebody else first, especially since the doctor and the police had not been known at that point.

According to the game logic, nobody of the mafia tried to kill FL until the last episodes, by which I mean the killing at night, not the voting. Otherwise, the last episode would not have made any sense. Thinking about killing somebody is not the same as trying to kill somebody.

What made you feel the acting was shitty? To me, it was average. Neither particularily good, nor bad. Maybe Kim Woo-seok's acting was a bit below the average compared to the other actors in this drama but I wouldn't call his acting shitty either.

What exactly are you correcting? Do you really believe that all people become killers after one day without any hesitation just because they have to survive? If so, why isn't the world a better place with fewer people? Why do wars last so long? Why do people in overpopulated African countries still starve?

Also, "the mafia" didn't try to kill FL multiple times. According to the game logic, the mafia (= all members of the mafia) had to meet and decide unanimously. This was mentioned multiple times in the drama. There was no attempt to kill her until the last episodes. The mafia simply let her investigate.

If you want to correct something, please be more specific, so people are able to understand what you mean.

What exactly are you trying to express? I'm not quite sure if you agree with me, disagree or just wanted to share your general opinion with me.

Yes, exactly. And in that context, the parents mentioned that Se-eun somehow had become that girl who was supposed to always win. Or maybe I am remembering that part wrong.

Yeah, that's what is bothering me most. The whole premise makes no sense because the children obviously have no chance, and the parents don't seem to have any goal. The goal cannot be to run that expensive hardware forever.

Yeah, the story was fairly confusing in this respect. The writer should have spent more time on Se-eun's ghost story. We don't even know if the ghost was there because the parents inserted it, or if the dead Sa-eun somehow managed to get into the game, or if it was just a glitch/bug/whatever. Too many open questions. :/

From what I understood, each time the game gets restarted, the students's memories gets erased or locked or whatever. Since the parents mentioned that FL had managed to unlock her memories, the memories obviously do not get removed completely. The game restarts with the same students.

"This time" seems to have been different compared to the previous rounds. Nobody knows exactly why that happened.

We don't know how fast the game time elapses compared to the "real world" time. Since the students still look normal (nice clothes, nice hair, well fed), they cannot have been in that room for longer than a couple of hours.

Are you sure about the "it happened a hundred times"? Unless I inadvertendly skipped the part, the parents said that there had been like 12 rounds with the same class. What we saw in the game was fiction.

I didn't mean to say that you should not criticise the writer but I'm usually against telling people to stop what they are doping, especially if I don't pay for the production. I paid for the result (by watching it on Viki), so I criticise the result only.

Obviously, people thought this drama was worth their money, so they gave people money to make this drama as it is. Somebody thought that the writer was good for this job. The script wasn't a surprise attack on the production team. There were people who read it and gave their ok. We don't know who those people were, and how much they edited the script themselves.

I think you overestimate a writer's power. The writer is basically a replaceable nobody. One of many. As a nobody myself, a nobody who is making a living by writing mediocre stories, I can tell you that we are very happy and lucky to get commissions that pay well. Most of the time, we cannot afford to say no because if the people who pay us find us too exhausting or feel that we go against their "great ideas", they'll simply replace us. We need a constant stream of output to remain relevant because people will quickly forget us. And once people forget us, our career usually ends because the most difficult part is to become relevant. Once you are somewhat relevant, you just have to keep working to stay relevant.

Long story short: The result does not necessarily reflect a writer's actual skills. If the writer is a nobody, it is very likely that quite a few people had a say in the product, and too many cooks often spoil the broth.

The writer seems to be so irrelevant that he wasn't even mentioned in the description here. ;)

Thank you. :)

I find most art boring, uninteresting, stupid, and so on. If everybody demanded that artists should stop producing art, there would not be any art at all.

Coincidentally, I'm working in the entertaining industry (not film industry, though), and I know looooots of writers who write like little children, who have never heard of logic, and who are generally not the brightest bulbs in the box. However, you would be surprised if you knew how many fans some of them have. And you would be even more surprised if you knew that many people are in fact looking for light entertainment. Those "bad writers" satisfy a demand.

Yes, there are better writers, better actors, and better everything. The question is: Are you able to win them over for your project? The answer is usually "no" because those "better people" are often involved in "better projects" with a significantly higher budget. The majority of dramas are rather low budget.

I think we can call this drama badly written without telling the writer to stop writing. If we don't appreciate somebody's work, we can simply ignore it because nobody forces us to watch dramas, and there are thousands of alternatives anyway.

By the way, I still think this drama is mediocre, not entirely bad. If you want to see a worse drama, try "Sponsor".

Oh, I see. I focussed too much on the video instead of Se-eun's tragedy. I almost forgot about her, which actually proves your point. Yes, you are absolutely right. The writers should have made it clearer how Se-eun suffered, so we have at least a clue why the parents felt they needed to kidnap everybody instead of the culprits only. :/

I've never seen any explicite sex scenes in K-dramas, only in K-movies. Also, it would have been inappropriate to show something more explicite because the characters (not necessarily the actors) are very likely supposed to be minors. Maybe the deepfake wasn't actual porn but just a slutty tiktok dance. In my opinion, it doesn't matter what it was exactly. Since the pupils sent the video around, it could not have been some "boring stuff" because nobody would have cared. We can safely assume that it was something with a lot of naked skin.

The "interesting" aspect in "Taxi Driver" was that the boyfriend betrayed FL's sister's confidence in one of the worst ways possible.

I agree with you, though. The ending felt rushed because the backstory wasn't written/explained well. To be honest, I don't care much about the suicide part because the explanation was sufficient for me. I know people who tried to kill themselves for the most stupid reasons, so I don't question much in this respect. I'm more interested how on earth the parents felt it was a good idea to punish everybody. Their brief explanation makes no sense to me. Since their explanation was presented as "complete", it didn't even invite us to come up with our own theories.

As a programmer myself, I can ensure you that we are not robots. Being able to grasp abstract logic and to develop an algorithm, does not mean that we are rational in every aspect of our lives. Most of us want to feel validated by our peers. Or did you mean to say that only dumb people kill themselves?

Fat and ugly people are not oppressed either if somebody tells them the truth. However, being constantly reminded of obvious and undesireable facts is still hurtful, especially for teenagers who don't agree that they are fine as long as mommy and daddy love their chubby angel.

Almost nobody would say they didn't care about deepfake porns created by other people without their permission because they knew those were fakes. You never know when those videos will pop up. If they popped up in the worst moment, who would believe you that they are fake? When will people stop wondering how you look naked whenever they see you? And who else will approach you, maybe even follow you home thinking that you were "available"?

For vulnerable teenagers, these questions can be fairly torturing. And who knows what else happened to Se-eun.

I found the suicide plausible. However, it made no sense to me that the parents also punish their daughter's best friend by using their daughter's game.

Since we don't know what happens "outside", we don't know if the kidnapping part is a plot hole. The parents must be extremely rich to be able to have and run such a superior hardware. They are certainly able to kidnap and hide a bunch of sedated teenagers. We also don't know how fast the simulation/game is. 12 iterations does not automatically mean that the teenagers have been there for several weeks.

The suicide makes sense, in my opinion. Do you really think that a girl wouldn't feel ashamed in an open-minded Western country if a (fake) porn video of her existed? Teenagers have killed themselves for less.

Regarding the ending, I completely agree with you. The parent's explanation makes no sense, especially not, since they also torture their daughter's best friend and other innocent people. And they even use their daughter's work to torture their daughter's best friend.