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What?

At first it was about Sungha being a shaman, then it was never sorted out. Then it was about Sungha, her FRIEND and her first love, dealing with shamanism as children. THEN IT WAS NOT. Then it was never again. It was suddenly alright at the end. No resolution. That was the crucial part of the story. Some characters should’ve died. Others should’ve been punished. The writing did not allow any villains, However, they did allow wicked characters. Truly wicked characters. These characters were instead tolerated embraced and befriended. Violent Bullies, yeomhwa and H who tormented the main male character and wished for him to die were embraced and forgiven whilst the good characters died in anguish. The shaman part became confusing and consumed the story but did not develop Sung ha’s misery and dispair as a shaman. All very confusing. I kept tumbling. My heels were over my head and then back again, I was still very perplexed. No exploration of suicide and phycological abuse. There was a time skip?! I skipped much of the drama. If a character was a terrible person, you would look at them from a different angle and they would be a good person. It Felt as if our perception was all a misunderstanding And we were simply Doing something wrong.

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I cannot with this drama! I cannot!

Writing, TOP! Acting, TOP! Everything, TOP! TOP! The role reversals too, Normality. Didn't have to make it a statement by giving someone the caring role, the stupid role, the "manly" role, or leading, in a relationship. Changed up the 'typicals' like it's a usual thing, WOW! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Mmmmmm…

The manwha was much better. Less is more. Firstly, they changed Jiwon’s Height weight and beauty. This Jiwon is too Beautiful upfront. Jiwon Was meant to be tall, stronger than Sumin and with subtle beauty that took time to notice. Sumin was meant to be cheap, Plastic like a toy, and childish in comparison. She Could not have been able to afford all those Elegant and classy clothing. She was meant to look childish in comparison to Jiwon if Jiwon was to put effort in her appearance. Minwha was never mean to be funny. Wang Jurang was never meant to be weak and pathetic. Mr Lee was not meant to be that powerful or arrogant. It is not sexy. What a waste. Jihyuk was meant commit suicide , Emphasising his love for Jiwon and the detrimental effect of her death, on everybody.
The theme was meant to be, “ It was so easy ,why didn’t I do that before?” Jiwon should’ve noticed that minwha was horrible and had the will to leave her. She was so desperate for love, so she ignored all the warnings. When she found that the love she received was wrong, she was meant to turn and reject everything. Sumin was never strong enough to attack Jiwon directly, That was why she used manipulation lies and indirect attack. This Sumin is too strong and short tempered. The other Sumin Knew how to handle her emotions and scheme well. That was why she was able to ruin Jiwon’s life. She was not the sort to do at this Sumin does. To Physically attacked Jiwon directly. It was meant to be easy to break out of sumin’s manipulation, But harder to end The relationship with minwha. That was why jihyuk was there, For her to lean when she falls. To offer help when she needs it, Because he loved her. I would not have minded If the drama changed his behaviour when he returned, Or made him apologise. That would have been a reasonable change. Yura was taken from Sumin in the manwha. Where is Sumin’s calculating murder of the mother-in-law? Sumin takes any opportunity that she sees. She was never the sort to directly plot and murder somebody. She Was never sought to attack somebody directly. That was why she used the car that was left open, and the needle. Minhwa’s death should’ve been by his own hands. Sumin in the manwha would’ve never dared to attack Jiwon directly. She knew the limits of her power, therefore , used rumours and manipulation, taking advantage of her childish beauty, to manipulate others. She was starving herself, therefore was weaker and smaller and did not have the strength to attack Jiwon. Or anybody. She was never the sort. She used words. That was her biggest weapon. She was not an intelligent person, She was not meant to be making grand schemes. She was not meant to be difficult to defeat. This drama exaggerated her for drama. It ruined the flow of the story. Jiwon was never meant to reveal her plans, or her discovery of Sumin’s true nature. Jiwon was the true schemer. She was meant to exercise her schemes and sit back and let everybody else work it out. She was never meant to tell anybody of her schemes or past or confront them. The constant confrontations ruined the story. It’s ruined the subtlety of Jiwon schemes. They ruined Mrs Yu, TERRIBLY! They ruined the beauty and unity of the Yu family It’s possible, TERRIBLY! They turned a beautiful Manwha into a common story. You jihyuk was meant to be helping Jiwon Blindly, Without knowing her schemes or that she returned. It was meant to emphasise his love and redness to offer himself to her. The strength of his love. This love feels weaker. Jihyuk in the manwha did not even question what she needed, he simply offered it his help. He didn’t even know if it was for Jiwon’s own good. If Jiwon asked, he would do, like a puppy. Jiwon was never meant I have short hair. She was meant to use and do something with the hair that she had. Long hair was not meant to represent weakness. Minhwan was also mean to be the only person plotting to kill somebody, that which they gave to Yura. Mr Kim was simply meant to be a discarded sleeze. A bad person that continues to be worse. I don’t like that they redeemed him. There are many people like him in workplaces. They added too many workplace villains. Removing him was meant to symbolise the rise to power of the weak in work places. The main couple were meant to leave their current workplace and pursue other interest to show their collective ambition. Sumin was never meant to gain stocks. She pursued the downfall of Jiwon want too aggressively for someone without any standing to do so. What annoyed me most about this is that Jiwon was written to cower and accept everything that she did, on her second life! She didn’t slap her face once, because she was not bigger or stronger as she should’ve been. Her only power was meant to be manipulation. The drama exaggerated her scheming. It was confusing and off-putting. She was meant to be stupid, but seemed intelligent and stupid at the same time, too often. Minwha was meant to die by his own hands, along with his mother, on the same day, because of Sumin. The bad characters were never meant to be tricky To defeat. That was the point. Why did the characters stayed in these situations for too long, when it was so easy to leave. Jurang, Jiwon, Huiyeon, even Jiyhuk did nothing. It was a second chance, for them, to make the decision that was always there to make. EVERYTHING WAS WRONG, and the manwha was soo good!! Sumin trusted her manipulation of Jiwon Too much to not assume that she was breaking free simply because of a few changes at the beginning. It is not as if she Returned to the past, And was therefore anxious that Jiwon won’t Continued down the same path.

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Racist…

I once read Marry my husband. PHONOMENAL manwha but I read about the change that the author had to make that happened before I read it. It was considered to be the only flaw of the manwha. This change was because the author wrote the Arabic’s as violent tyrants that want tor him everything good, according to the one who read it. It was disgusting and racist. Well… this drama soaked itself in this. It even when far to write the villain as an Arabic child the in the body of a Korean boy, giving the Korean actor the role, not the Arabic actor and making him the sweet victim at the same time, win win for the Koreans but not the Arabic boy. They portrayed the Arabic boy as greedy and vile and a tyrant. They also portrayed Arabic people as such against the Korean characters which where portrayed as just so morally upright, regardless of being the devil. The same characters that are so evil, they don’t flinch when a familiar is being tortured before them. The same Korean characters that are: Satan and a true psychopath, yet they Still found a way to make the Arabic people the most unhuman people in the drama. It wasn’t even one person, they simply created a city of Arabic people and dehumanised all of them to People that are so cruel that they are no longer human. I kept noticing it throughout the entire drama. It was as if matter how wicked and cruel the Korean characters were. They wanted to make sure that the Arabic characters were much more unhuman. By this, I mean lacking so much humanity, they no longer resemble humans. Do you know the perfect characters to portray this lack of humanity? The main Korean characters, except the grandmother. Satan, ka Young, death, and the wicked boy, however, they still managed to circle it back to portraying the Arabic as especially lacking humanity. I was even impressed at how they managed that. They wanted to make it clear that no matter how wicked the devil, death, a wicked boy and a psychopath could be, the Arabic were worse/lacked humanity. They portrayed that anytime they could. What did the Arabic do to them? Not many people have even noticed it even though it is portrayed so blatantly. They constantly compare them to Ka Young, A psychopath, Showing that a psychopath had such morality humanity and kindness that even through her psychopathy she could think to make wishes for other people, and the Arabic were simply wicked, self serving and corrupt.
I simply could not indulge in this story as after every wicked deed that any Korean character did, they would stop and make sure to remind us that either wasn’t the Korean, but an Arabic or that the Arabic are significantly worse. They kept reminding us that the other gin that was held captive and abused by the Korean boy was not a victim even though he was. He was at least offered grace at the end and was rescued. Elijah’s cruelty to humans and his familiar was overlooked and made comical however they never missed an opportunity to show us how wicked the Arabic were. No particular Characters meaning that they generalised all Arabic people. There was no reasoning behind their cruelty, for Example, Being the devil, a psychopath or death, making it clear they were vile by nature, And justifying why Iblis committed mass genocide to the entire city. I said that was no one worth saving. If it had no innocence.
Also, if Iblis was universal, could speak Arabic and adapted his face and body to suit the country, why didn’t they cast an Arabic man, just once? It was as if they would have hives if they put one in the main role on Korean camera.

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