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Kinda overrated
To be honest this show isn't that bad- in fact I had fun watching this, but I expected something more. The idea of this series is really good, but there was something wrong with the execution. When I started watching I thought that it's going to be mostly focused on main character, Jiyong, but after few episodes I saw him much less often. Also I felt that he forgot after a while what he was doing and why. In the beginning he was punishing people who didn't get proper punishment, but after a while he looked like he forgot about it.I really liked the moment when the second guy tried to help Jiyong as a fellow vigilante. It showed that he really cared for him and tried to help him risking being hurt or killed. It was one of the few moments where I could actually feel an actual connection between characters rather than fighting all the time.
Probably the worst character was Choi Miryeo. For most of the time it felt like her entire personality was focused on how "cool" she is, which made her character feel empty. I guess it's a hard job to make a confident and independent woman being enjoyable to watch. Also the fact that she thought only about herself and was unsympathetic about death of her friend made me hate her character. Instead of making her a strong character, they made her without any depth.
The storyline had a lot potential, but I think most of the time it was predictable, so it wasn't surprising to watch. I think the characters should be more developed, so the viewer could attach to them. I also didn't like the ending when the reporter told that friend of Jiyong was vigilante and that most of them didn't get any penalty. I think it's irrational that Jiyong wasn't punished for being a killer. Despite his good intentions he should go to jail after that and not be protected by everyone, because he "protected the world".
After all, I had fun watching it and would reccommend it to people who like series with a predictable plot. The story had potential, and even though it lost sometimes its way, I don't think it was a big problem.
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Lost potential
A movie without any depth. While watching new movie, you expect to see something "different", something that you don't see in every single show- here you can't find this. Every aspect of this is predictable; before you even start, you already know the whole story and what would happen next, so it's boring.Story about teacher fighting against kids who don't face consequences for their actions? Yeah, we have all seen this before. Of course, you can make something enjoyable from this, but I think the director didn't know how.
I really like the idea of a teacher fighting against bad actions, but in this movie I couldn't understand it. If you want to help kids, you should do it by reporting it to the police or by finding the evidence, not by beating people. The biggest absurd here was that the teacher fought against Sugang in front of the whole school. Seriously? How is it even possible that the person who should educate had a battle in front of everyone? Teachers should represent responsibility and teach good behavior, rather than promoting violence as a solution.
When it comes to Sugang, I want to say that Lee Junyoung is a really good actor. I think he played his role very well, but at the same time, he didn't quite fit for this role. Like why a person from high school looked like a grown man? Rather than looking like a student, he looked more like a boss from a gang, who control kids. It didn't make any sense.
The movie tried to show a story about justice, but it didn't work out. It's illogical why only one person got the penalty, even though he wasn't the only person who bullied other people. Also, why didn't the teacher face any consequences? She was beating students, and despite her "good" intentions, she did bad things for which she should go to jail.
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Study group or Korean version of fight club?
It's such unrealistic show. Kids from high school suddenly wants to start study group and they're all the time involved in every kinds of battles. While watching this series you can feel like watching fighting kids with older people and winning, because of kid from 10th class with supernatural power. Moreover after taking the blows they didn't even looked injured and they still fought like nothing happend while most of people in real life would be seriously injured. I know that this series wasn't supposed to be realistic, but why doesn't it has tag fantasy for people who don't enjoy this type of series?I think the director should develop a little bit more the characters rather than giving this much scenes of fighting. It would be more interesting to know better about the characters than watching all the time how they were beating or getting mad. However the big plus was the teacher. She was very gentle for the students and also she has very good motive to join this school, so this made viewers thinking how her story would end. Also I think Pi Han Ui should have more screen time to get to know better him.
I think the last episode was irrational and the ending was too much predictable, so I don't feel any satisfaction after ending this.
Honestly I don't think that show was bad, of course it has a lot of disadvantages, but I still had fun watching this despite embarassing scenes. The big plus was the music and cast.
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