Don't waste your time
I don't consider myself a "hater", I really like the cast generally (some really great actors in this in fact including the leads). I also don't subscribe to the complaints that were raised about the show and the cast having no chemistry or some really unpleasant things set about Gong Hyo Jin. I'm also not going to mention (beyond this) potential agendas the show might have had about pro-birth and such. I don't think it's necessary to get a view of the show tbh.
Putting all that aside.
The story is absolute trash, in my view, of course.
I feel the actors did the best they could but the story was a confused mess, with the most bonkers ending.
It played with sequences and events to create drama and then dispose of it just as quickly. One minute he's yelling at her that she's a murderer - which was a scene I thought played actually *really* well - and within the same episode they're lovey dovey. Not just once, but *twice* in two different episodes.
The crew of the space station treat it like a frat house.
One time they need to get a rescue rocket up - it'll take weeks to get one ready. Another time, same day or so it seems!
In one bit, there's no health implications for being on the space station. Later, any more than a few days will be fatal, because suddenly he hasn't had the training (which he presumably hadn't had before). Then one says to him that his condition is now fatal - so come home. Why? To die? "fatal" is a word that has quite a specific meaning. But, let's just use it to mean "rather bad".
ARGH!
The ending is just completely abstract. When compared with some other things shown in the course of the ending that are then implied to be false you're kinda left wondering - so how did this *actually* end then?
The cast did they best they could, they're top tier actors, the production had one of, if not the, biggest budget in a KDrama to date. Turns out - you need a good story to make all that worthwhile, but this wasn't even a mediocre one.
I don't know what went so wrong in a production for it to end up this way.
Just ignore it, please, save your time. I watched all 16 episodes because I wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt until the end but honestly if I could wipe it from my memory and un-watch it, I would cheerfully do-so. I have not said that about any other KDrama ever and don't do so lightly here.
I hate saying something bad about a KDrama. :(
Putting all that aside.
The story is absolute trash, in my view, of course.
I feel the actors did the best they could but the story was a confused mess, with the most bonkers ending.
It played with sequences and events to create drama and then dispose of it just as quickly. One minute he's yelling at her that she's a murderer - which was a scene I thought played actually *really* well - and within the same episode they're lovey dovey. Not just once, but *twice* in two different episodes.
The crew of the space station treat it like a frat house.
One time they need to get a rescue rocket up - it'll take weeks to get one ready. Another time, same day or so it seems!
In one bit, there's no health implications for being on the space station. Later, any more than a few days will be fatal, because suddenly he hasn't had the training (which he presumably hadn't had before). Then one says to him that his condition is now fatal - so come home. Why? To die? "fatal" is a word that has quite a specific meaning. But, let's just use it to mean "rather bad".
ARGH!
The ending is just completely abstract. When compared with some other things shown in the course of the ending that are then implied to be false you're kinda left wondering - so how did this *actually* end then?
The cast did they best they could, they're top tier actors, the production had one of, if not the, biggest budget in a KDrama to date. Turns out - you need a good story to make all that worthwhile, but this wasn't even a mediocre one.
I don't know what went so wrong in a production for it to end up this way.
Just ignore it, please, save your time. I watched all 16 episodes because I wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt until the end but honestly if I could wipe it from my memory and un-watch it, I would cheerfully do-so. I have not said that about any other KDrama ever and don't do so lightly here.
I hate saying something bad about a KDrama. :(
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