I read the original webtoon including Money Game and Pie Game and they deviated so far from the ending. I skimmed through the drama to see if they stuck with the source material for the most part, but I think they made a critical mistake and not developing the floor 1 character.
So to start off the drama adaptation is mostly aligns with Pie Game. The drama veers off from the source material around the second half of episode 5 and that is where most of the more critical reviews say that is where the drama falls off considerably.
I think if the drama would of stuck with floor 1 becoming the main antagonist and set that up more then this drama would've been much more interesting especially towards the end. In the Pie Game webtoon, floor 1 is a total mastermind and a person devoid of human empathy and controls people's actions down to the very end. He doesn't show his true self until about a little over halfway through Pie Game. It was so interesting in the webtoon to realize how he manipulated the other contestants from the very beginning and the ways he kept the game going was so cruel and innovative and made for him, in my opinion, to be one of the most interesting antagonist characters that I've seen depicted in a while.
I get why they tried to go for the girl who had originally had the top room to be the antagonist, probably because the actors real life popularity and everybody likes a bad ass woman, but I think that incredibly hurt this drama in the end. I also get the constraints of a drama and everything can't be covered when adapting from a webtoon to live-action drama, but I felt like they tarnished the most interesting part of the source material.
I do think the drama did some good things regarding the adaptation including the great cast, the change of the common space to a more colorful and filled space, and the depictions of some of the more memorable events that occurred. Lastly I know I didn't watch the drama entirely through and just skimmed, but that's just my opinion when comparing the original and the adaptation.
So to start off the drama adaptation is mostly aligns with Pie Game. The drama veers off from the source material around the second half of episode 5 and that is where most of the more critical reviews say that is where the drama falls off considerably.
I think if the drama would of stuck with floor 1 becoming the main antagonist and set that up more then this drama would've been much more interesting especially towards the end. In the Pie Game webtoon, floor 1 is a total mastermind and a person devoid of human empathy and controls people's actions down to the very end. He doesn't show his true self until about a little over halfway through Pie Game. It was so interesting in the webtoon to realize how he manipulated the other contestants from the very beginning and the ways he kept the game going was so cruel and innovative and made for him, in my opinion, to be one of the most interesting antagonist characters that I've seen depicted in a while.
I get why they tried to go for the girl who had originally had the top room to be the antagonist, probably because the actors real life popularity and everybody likes a bad ass woman, but I think that incredibly hurt this drama in the end. I also get the constraints of a drama and everything can't be covered when adapting from a webtoon to live-action drama, but I felt like they tarnished the most interesting part of the source material.
I do think the drama did some good things regarding the adaptation including the great cast, the change of the common space to a more colorful and filled space, and the depictions of some of the more memorable events that occurred. Lastly I know I didn't watch the drama entirely through and just skimmed, but that's just my opinion when comparing the original and the adaptation.