Is Park Ji Bin playing the same character in this story as he did in 'The Killer's Shopping List'. The character names are different, but that doesn't really mean anything when the show has literal spies and hitman in it. I haven't seen Shopping List, and I think he's the only actor who was in both casts.
i kind of love how the first two episodes were focused mainly on Jian's perspective, so we don't get to see Jeong Jin Man in action yet. He's just a legend among those he's saved. I love seeing Lee Dong Wook in an uncle/mentor role. I'll always be a sucker for the samurai & the orphan trope.
it depends. i was in the mood for something a bit slower and melo when I watched it. i was also into dissecting the charaters' feelings and emotions, which the actors all did a good job in conveying. So if you are up for a more melo, frustrating at times show, yes, totally worth it. But if slow & very little actual romance arent something you're vibing with I would pass. I put it in my bittersweet romance tab. It's only 11 episodes so....watch 2 episodes & see how you're vibing with the actors & writing.
Super Spoilers ahead. So they are never truly together in the show in any significate way. I think by 9 and 10 are when it's more or less understood that they would be together if they could. She can't give him a proper response to his feelings for the majority of the show. There is a mutual kiss around episode 9ish, but they end it before it can escalate into more. He doesn't want her to get into more trouble for being around him, as he knows she would end up with the blame even though he is the once actively pursuing her. It's very much star-crossed lovers/pure love themed. When he kissed her on the beach at 15, afterward they held hands in a taxi & as he walked her home, but they immediately ran into her fiancé and his mother outside her apartment complex. She is very confused by her feelings for him. And he doesn't know how to properly control his emotions as he is very much a hormonal teenager. Within the week she leaves town & isn't heard from again. We later find out that he dropped out of his school and moved in with his mother's employee's family to go to school in a different city. The fiancé and his co-worker who spoiler have a thing are a similar age difference to the FL and ML...so the parallels are paralleling. (Also at first you will hate the co-worker, and then you'll realize she's a real one and probably the best character in the show)
So FL & ML know each other for a few months like maybe April/May til June or July, August at the latest, when he is 15 and she is 25. Three years without any contact they see each other again and he falls back into old patterns with his infatuation with her. So he is now 18 and she is 28. Tops two months pass in the time they are in each other's lives again. When I say the last 5 minutes I mean the LAST 5 MINUTES he is 23 and she is 33 and he finally comes to her on more equal footing to be with her. There was zero contact in those 5 years as she would have been sued(by his mother) had she attempted to contact him.
The gaffer is a bit ham-fisted with the spotlighting in every scene. Like my guy/girly pop....you don't need the equivalent of the setting sun in every shot. The lens flares are also over done. I'm going to continue to watch, but from just simply a cinematography and light stand point it's given student film experiment. It's like how Zac Snyder has to have slow-mo every 2 to 3 minutes.
I didn't think there could be a show I hated more than playful kiss but... here we are! What is wrong with writers…
I think the first time he sees a picture of his sister is in episode 1(didnt grow up together). But yes my brain is having to do some creative mental gymnastics to get over that particular hurdle. 🤸♀️🤸♀️
The cinematography & OST is really high quality for at least the first 4eps. The acting is where it should be at for this style/genre of show. Maybe it's because it's reminding me of the shows I first watched when starting Korean dramas in the 2000s, but I have warm vibes with this show's storyline. I'm still hooked to see how they progress with the story, and what other twists & turns are coming as a lot of the mystery/secrets have been revealed by the end of ep4. New mysteries have already been introduced so Im looking forward to more reveals.
Also a lot of the "bad acting" takes/comments are so laughable....people are mostly mentioning scenes where the CHARACTER is acting, not the actor. There is a difference.
Lee Joo Won(young crown prince) looks so much like a younger version of Lee Jae Wook....if he hasnt already played the younger version of him in something he should. Joo Won's played the younger version of pretty much everyone else already.
It's left a bit open ended. Short answer, yes. Long answer.... There is a 5 year time jump in the last 5mins of the show. You see Hijiri taking a photo of a sunset in Thailand & you hear an echo of a camera shutter. Akira is behind her in a business suit taking a picture of the same sunset(throw back to episode one, but reversed). He carries the promise(legal document) that Hijiri signed, signifying that his mother has finally given her consent. They embrace...fade out.
Why do you hate Dong Koo? His story is one of the fresh ones imo. If a romcom is made just focusing solely on…
the first thing i ever saw him in was Parasite....i cant unsee that role.
the first thing i saw the 2ML(Park Ki Woong) in was a sky commercial. to this day i still call him 거북이 aka turtle. please someone look it up for a good laugh. so everytime that man walks on screen my dumbass brain goes "dont cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me...dont cha" 🐢🐢🐢
I'll put it this way....there are moments towards the end that i wish i never would have watched/known about. also the shaking of people with possible spinal injuries was too numerous for a show about emergency responders. the amount of times I was thrown out of the show because the writers had to go against every medical training/safety protocol just to have a plot point... so pretty to look at, but dear lord, zero research on the writer's part. to the point officals had to make public service announcements. 2🤦♀️
I'm with you on this. The pacing and fillers undermines the tension they're trying to build and is making me lose…
I feel like I need to make a list of the episodes and timestamp parts ppl can skip so that they dont have to go through the same issues. (my adhd wants to hyperfixate)
The first 5 minutes and the last 5 minutes are the only truly important moments in the whole of episode 13. We see someone we've been trying to see for 12episodes and then there is zero follow up. It feels like they originally wrote this to be a 12 episode drama and then they were given an extension and had to fill up that extra 4 hour space.
Episode 13 was 5 minutes of new information and the rest was repeated info or 1 or 2 ppl learning something we've known for a few episodes now. Though the performances were well done I just think this episode of 90% filler for time. I want to time how long we are sent on side quests that have nothing to do with the main plot and see if it would have cut out 2 to 4 hours of runtime in the overall show length. Cause I've got to say, I could give zero shits about the dating woos of Chun Dong Koo. I've started to just fast forward through their scenes as it is adding nothing and I mean NOTHING to the main story. I want to be learning more about the investigation and past memories, but nope...I get to see Dong Koo be creepy whiny man baby scene after scene.
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I love seeing Lee Dong Wook in an uncle/mentor role. I'll always be a sucker for the samurai & the orphan trope.
So if you are up for a more melo, frustrating at times show, yes, totally worth it. But if slow & very little actual romance arent something you're vibing with I would pass. I put it in my bittersweet romance tab.
It's only 11 episodes so....watch 2 episodes & see how you're vibing with the actors & writing.
So they are never truly together in the show in any significate way. I think by 9 and 10 are when it's more or less understood that they would be together if they could. She can't give him a proper response to his feelings for the majority of the show. There is a mutual kiss around episode 9ish, but they end it before it can escalate into more. He doesn't want her to get into more trouble for being around him, as he knows she would end up with the blame even though he is the once actively pursuing her. It's very much star-crossed lovers/pure love themed.
When he kissed her on the beach at 15, afterward they held hands in a taxi & as he walked her home, but they immediately ran into her fiancé and his mother outside her apartment complex. She is very confused by her feelings for him. And he doesn't know how to properly control his emotions as he is very much a hormonal teenager. Within the week she leaves town & isn't heard from again. We later find out that he dropped out of his school and moved in with his mother's employee's family to go to school in a different city.
The fiancé and his co-worker who spoiler have a thing are a similar age difference to the FL and ML...so the parallels are paralleling. (Also at first you will hate the co-worker, and then you'll realize she's a real one and probably the best character in the show)
So FL & ML know each other for a few months like maybe April/May til June or July, August at the latest, when he is 15 and she is 25. Three years without any contact they see each other again and he falls back into old patterns with his infatuation with her. So he is now 18 and she is 28. Tops two months pass in the time they are in each other's lives again.
When I say the last 5 minutes I mean the LAST 5 MINUTES he is 23 and she is 33 and he finally comes to her on more equal footing to be with her. There was zero contact in those 5 years as she would have been sued(by his mother) had she attempted to contact him.
The acting is where it should be at for this style/genre of show. Maybe it's because it's reminding me of the shows I first watched when starting Korean dramas in the 2000s, but I have warm vibes with this show's storyline.
I'm still hooked to see how they progress with the story, and what other twists & turns are coming as a lot of the mystery/secrets have been revealed by the end of ep4. New mysteries have already been introduced so Im looking forward to more reveals.
Also a lot of the "bad acting" takes/comments are so laughable....people are mostly mentioning scenes where the CHARACTER is acting, not the actor. There is a difference.
Long answer....
There is a 5 year time jump in the last 5mins of the show. You see Hijiri taking a photo of a sunset in Thailand & you hear an echo of a camera shutter. Akira is behind her in a business suit taking a picture of the same sunset(throw back to episode one, but reversed). He carries the promise(legal document) that Hijiri signed, signifying that his mother has finally given her consent. They embrace...fade out.
the first thing i saw the 2ML(Park Ki Woong) in was a sky commercial. to this day i still call him 거북이 aka turtle. please someone look it up for a good laugh. so everytime that man walks on screen my dumbass brain goes "dont cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me...dont cha" 🐢🐢🐢
also the shaking of people with possible spinal injuries was too numerous for a show about emergency responders. the amount of times I was thrown out of the show because the writers had to go against every medical training/safety protocol just to have a plot point...
so pretty to look at, but dear lord, zero research on the writer's part. to the point officals had to make public service announcements. 2🤦♀️
I want to time how long we are sent on side quests that have nothing to do with the main plot and see if it would have cut out 2 to 4 hours of runtime in the overall show length. Cause I've got to say, I could give zero shits about the dating woos of Chun Dong Koo. I've started to just fast forward through their scenes as it is adding nothing and I mean NOTHING to the main story. I want to be learning more about the investigation and past memories, but nope...I get to see Dong Koo be creepy whiny man baby scene after scene.