The hardest part of the watch was NOT seeing it as a biopic. I mean, I know it's based on a book that tells some of the cases of one of the original SK profilers, but it's still a work of fiction, and I had a bit of a struggle separating the fiction from what was reality, As in, I would keep wondering if this was how it went down, if this was the thought process, etc. But in the end, it's fiction and eventually it clicked.
The worst part of this was the eternal LOUDNESS and RAGE that most of the cops show throughout the story. It's in other dramas too, even in timelines set closer to us (this covers about 1997-2007, so some outdated practices were to be expected). I wanted to go there and... just have a talk with some of those cops.
The BEST part about this was the pace. It's so realistic it overcame all shortcomings for me. I mean, we've all watched those police procedurals in Western TV, where they realise they have a serial killer on their hands and solve it in one episode's time (days or weeks at most in showland). That's totally unrealistic, but we suspend disbelief because dragging it for too long would be boring. But I guess real police work, in serial crimes' cases, where the killer is smart enough to change things up, or clean up the scene, or just change the area so that stations don't put two and two together... well, those are BOUND to take time. And this drama does take its time for all of those reasons. I liked that very much.
Also, it sure doesn't hurt that KNG is so damn fine, LOL, I'll be honest. Though I had a bit of a disappointment when SHY ditched the tshirts for the costumes. For some reason, he was pretty hot in tshirts, more than in his MiB outfits, LOL. I guess that's it, I might as well try out Fiery Priest after all.
PS And after all... the very best killers (yeah, I'm aware how it sounds, but the actors need to be recognised for their talent to impersonate them): Go Geon Han as KangMoo (the killer who sets SHY on the tail of Red Cap) - wow! He was the smartest, lightning-quick wise ass ever. If that man was a cop, he'd have solved each murder as it happened LOL. Great job from the actor! And Kim Jong Hee as Nam KiTae - also wow! Though his sheer joy when describing murdering people really did a number on me, as it did on SHY. He (the actor) went all in, and it was perfect! Kudos to them!
Do i have to watch all the previous season to watch this, cast and vfx etc everything looks freaking insane
Yes, as it sets up the world, the clans, the original conflict and love interests, and the origin of the Neanthals - the OTHER, mostly-human, tribe they're trying to genocide. The previous season is only 18 eps and pretty cool, though, and you get to watch it KNOWING there's going to be a sequel (original watchers were left hanging, and NF really dropped the ball on this one).
But it's still pretty good, story-wise and FX-wise, the music is great, and the original cast (with SJK as ML) is good, too. You have time to see it til September :D
A... sword in a stone? Like, really? I seriously, deeply, hope they won't go there.
Since this isn't NF, maaaaybe it means 12 eps are a complete season, and not put out into small pieces until nobody cares any more what happened before.
I have to say, I am not happy with this being LJG's 2023 drama, as he only does one per year usually and he can do much better than a sequel where the ML was changed (to him). But here's hoping.
And let's bring back the Neanthals, COME ON ALREADY!! They're the coolest thing about AC in the end. Oh, and the magic thieving horse, can we please, pretty please? That horse got the most unfullfilling non-finished story in the first (three) part, LOL.
That would be really interesting. Have no idea about Fictionjunction but I love gothic, orchestral music. I think…
Akatsuki no Kuruma is the bomb! And some of the sequences they used it for are heartbreaking. GS (and GS:D) had the best soundtracks. (And they made me discover TMRevolution, and his voice is the best, too!)
Can't wait for the next MGS (they're making a movie, Freedom, in 2024, and some info says it's going to be about Kira and Lacus, but I seriously doubt they'd leave out Athrun. Still, if they do, I'll probably throw a tantrum and still watch it, LOL, I NEED more Gundam!!)
... I have to admit I only remember (WELL) "Ship of Fools" from TC, because Kajiura Yuki is just amazing!
I'm missing Tantai Jin the hostage prince so much. Come on, Tencent, give us 2ha already, I need another LYX character to get addicted to! (Though I have to admit, I'm already addicted to CWN.)
After ep 1... I don't know how I feel about it yet. The Chinese/returning SK demons were scary, but the original Counter team got too funny-ha-ha for my taste. Oh well. I hope they don't continue on being spoofs. Onward to the second ep.
Edit: after ep 2, the demons are cool, the original Counters are pretty... not cool. It feels like there's no flow of plot yet, though the fights are definitely pretty good. If big-daddy demon gets to be the master villain, I won't complain, LOL, at least he has that spark of malice like the original villain in the first season did (and he's kind of sleek, like the original Death in Supernatural, same ossature type, too).
So far, so meh, kind of. I hope it picks up in the next eps, given the previews. And I really really hope there won't be too many cow dung jokes.
PS "Close your eyes" is still one of the best OST songs in kdrama. I don't have a great impression so far of the OST for this season. Too bad.
I thought finally Hae Sang isn't alone anymore in seeing ghosts. Sanyoung can accompany him and they share the…
If they exist, they're already around you even when you can see - but not see THEM. So there wouldn't be much of a problem. Particularly as many of them don't even interact with the (drama)world.
Producers never showed how fl's father got possessed & fl' mother should show emotions on how her husband facing…
FL's dad made a deal with the ghost when he found the hair accessory, because he was in process of losing his sight and she could help him keep his vision.
I wouldn't really care much about him either, if I were his ex-wife - he sacrificed his second-born (not that the child got to be actually born in the end), to get to the ghost and hang on to it.
Hi I just want to know that if wei ying actually dies and why did Jiang cheng try to kill him like I thought they…
1. He did. But then he got better.
2. He had his reasons to try it. But he has good excuse for it, too.
Watch TU, it's all worth it. Present timeline: 1-2, 33-50 (the first two are a short introduction), past timeline: 3-33 (explains why the present timeline is as it is). Give it a bit of time, it's a slow-moving masterpiece.
DoYoon's turnabout made no sense. It was cute seeing ChoWon typo-ing all her goodbye messages, but I didn't feel…
It's my opinion only, based on my tastes. I like LJH a whole lot but YoonA just... doesn't click. I find her pretty bland. I don't think if someone's an idol or a very good singer it immediately follows they can act, too (LJH is an example that it can happen, but in her case... )
Oh well, it's water under the bridge. I liked the opening of KTL, but pretty fast the slow-mo catwalk attitude started grating on my nerves. And then the inane dialogue and the non-existing plot... I get it, it's a clicheed romcom and people like it BECAUSE it's a clicheed romcom, BUT I DON'T. I am not above gushing over my faves (and LJH would deserve it) but not really when there's no acting involved, just the regular cinderella trope and all its cohort of brothers that's been done to death, resurrected and killed all over again.
It's just too boring, even for a no-stakes romcom. So definitely not for me.
But it might be just the right thing for other people, which is their right, so enjoy it to the fullest!
First ep's energy is a lot like TBoY coupled with fantasy swish-swoosh fighting from SSS. But I like it (the FX and humour are good, the OP doesn't impress but isn't awful either, not too sure about CY's styling - what, did they try to make him look his own age? LOL, and Xiao ShunYao is relegated again to a villain role. I guess he can't help being typecast now. I definitely don't like the dubbing though, they all sound pretty strange.) Not sure yet if I'll watch it as it airs or wait for it to be over. At least there's a release schedule and this is not Youku to fiddle with it every other day...
It's a long hot summer. Maybe this will the be the thing to watch then.
Something changed around ep8 for me. Maybe it was the heatwave that's sucking the joy of life out of me, maybe…
DoYoon's turnabout made no sense. It was cute seeing ChoWon typo-ing all her goodbye messages, but I didn't feel really invested in their love story. He was in the first life too, but just there, nothing more than that. So either they wanted to go the webtoon way and make him part of it, but changed their minds, or they decided from the beginning he'd be active only in the current life. Either way, there's a lot of lost potential there.
The hotel business came and went, no fireworks, not a lot of actual importance. Including the uncle's failed assassination attempt. Was that it? Meh. The dad's involvement in it, also meh.
Kang MinKi came across as a psycho in that first life, Still, he's a bit interesting as in they didn't tell what his original problem ever was and why did HE remember his past lives. Though it's probably the same as her - he cursed himself for some reason and now he has to find his inner zen and deal with it or something. Oh well.
In the end, this was a very good drama about 2/3 through it, and then flatlined (for me). STILL, it's better than KTL which I dropped due to the sheer nonsense in ep4 (I could feel paint peeling when watching that drama). I guess I'll have to rely on other stories to get me through the summer...
Something changed around ep8 for me. Maybe it was the heatwave that's sucking the joy of life out of me, maybe it's actually the drama... but I kind of checked out. So in the end, this was okay, but for me, it didn't hold up til the end. I'd be sad about it - but I've already said it, there's this heatwave practically killing me, so strong emotions are out of the question right now, LOL.
Anyway, I'm glad I watched it and SHS is the best. I'll watch her again in anything she does.
By the first three novels of MXTX do you mean the first three volumes of MDZS or did you splurge and buy all the volumes of MDZS, SVSSS and TGCF too? LOL. I got them spread throughout the year and they were pretty costly - but worth it :D (TGCF still has two volumes upcoming though :()
Now I've started on 2ha, Thousand Autumns and YuWu and hoping SevenSeas picks up some of my favourites - like You've Got Mail, Qiang Jin Jiu, Copper Coins, Rebirth of a Movie Star, and so on, and so forth LOL. It's like - SevenSeas, please take my money hahaha!
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The worst part of this was the eternal LOUDNESS and RAGE that most of the cops show throughout the story. It's in other dramas too, even in timelines set closer to us (this covers about 1997-2007, so some outdated practices were to be expected). I wanted to go there and... just have a talk with some of those cops.
The BEST part about this was the pace. It's so realistic it overcame all shortcomings for me. I mean, we've all watched those police procedurals in Western TV, where they realise they have a serial killer on their hands and solve it in one episode's time (days or weeks at most in showland). That's totally unrealistic, but we suspend disbelief because dragging it for too long would be boring. But I guess real police work, in serial crimes' cases, where the killer is smart enough to change things up, or clean up the scene, or just change the area so that stations don't put two and two together... well, those are BOUND to take time. And this drama does take its time for all of those reasons. I liked that very much.
Also, it sure doesn't hurt that KNG is so damn fine, LOL, I'll be honest. Though I had a bit of a disappointment when SHY ditched the tshirts for the costumes. For some reason, he was pretty hot in tshirts, more than in his MiB outfits, LOL. I guess that's it, I might as well try out Fiery Priest after all.
PS And after all... the very best killers (yeah, I'm aware how it sounds, but the actors need to be recognised for their talent to impersonate them): Go Geon Han as KangMoo (the killer who sets SHY on the tail of Red Cap) - wow! He was the smartest, lightning-quick wise ass ever. If that man was a cop, he'd have solved each murder as it happened LOL. Great job from the actor! And Kim Jong Hee as Nam KiTae - also wow! Though his sheer joy when describing murdering people really did a number on me, as it did on SHY. He (the actor) went all in, and it was perfect! Kudos to them!
But it's still pretty good, story-wise and FX-wise, the music is great, and the original cast (with SJK as ML) is good, too. You have time to see it til September :D
Since this isn't NF, maaaaybe it means 12 eps are a complete season, and not put out into small pieces until nobody cares any more what happened before.
I have to say, I am not happy with this being LJG's 2023 drama, as he only does one per year usually and he can do much better than a sequel where the ML was changed (to him). But here's hoping.
And let's bring back the Neanthals, COME ON ALREADY!! They're the coolest thing about AC in the end. Oh, and the magic thieving horse, can we please, pretty please? That horse got the most unfullfilling non-finished story in the first (three) part, LOL.
Can't wait for the next MGS (they're making a movie, Freedom, in 2024, and some info says it's going to be about Kira and Lacus, but I seriously doubt they'd leave out Athrun. Still, if they do, I'll probably throw a tantrum and still watch it, LOL, I NEED more Gundam!!)
... I have to admit I only remember (WELL) "Ship of Fools" from TC, because Kajiura Yuki is just amazing!
Edit: after ep 2, the demons are cool, the original Counters are pretty... not cool. It feels like there's no flow of plot yet, though the fights are definitely pretty good. If big-daddy demon gets to be the master villain, I won't complain, LOL, at least he has that spark of malice like the original villain in the first season did (and he's kind of sleek, like the original Death in Supernatural, same ossature type, too).
So far, so meh, kind of. I hope it picks up in the next eps, given the previews. And I really really hope there won't be too many cow dung jokes.
PS "Close your eyes" is still one of the best OST songs in kdrama. I don't have a great impression so far of the OST for this season. Too bad.
I wouldn't really care much about him either, if I were his ex-wife - he sacrificed his second-born (not that the child got to be actually born in the end), to get to the ghost and hang on to it.
2. He had his reasons to try it. But he has good excuse for it, too.
Watch TU, it's all worth it. Present timeline: 1-2, 33-50 (the first two are a short introduction), past timeline: 3-33 (explains why the present timeline is as it is). Give it a bit of time, it's a slow-moving masterpiece.
Oh well, it's water under the bridge. I liked the opening of KTL, but pretty fast the slow-mo catwalk attitude started grating on my nerves. And then the inane dialogue and the non-existing plot... I get it, it's a clicheed romcom and people like it BECAUSE it's a clicheed romcom, BUT I DON'T. I am not above gushing over my faves (and LJH would deserve it) but not really when there's no acting involved, just the regular cinderella trope and all its cohort of brothers that's been done to death, resurrected and killed all over again.
It's just too boring, even for a no-stakes romcom. So definitely not for me.
But it might be just the right thing for other people, which is their right, so enjoy it to the fullest!
SSS=Sword Snow Stride.
It's a long hot summer. Maybe this will the be the thing to watch then.
The hotel business came and went, no fireworks, not a lot of actual importance. Including the uncle's failed assassination attempt. Was that it? Meh. The dad's involvement in it, also meh.
Kang MinKi came across as a psycho in that first life, Still, he's a bit interesting as in they didn't tell what his original problem ever was and why did HE remember his past lives. Though it's probably the same as her - he cursed himself for some reason and now he has to find his inner zen and deal with it or something. Oh well.
In the end, this was a very good drama about 2/3 through it, and then flatlined (for me). STILL, it's better than KTL which I dropped due to the sheer nonsense in ep4 (I could feel paint peeling when watching that drama). I guess I'll have to rely on other stories to get me through the summer...
Anyway, I'm glad I watched it and SHS is the best. I'll watch her again in anything she does.
Now I've started on 2ha, Thousand Autumns and YuWu and hoping SevenSeas picks up some of my favourites - like You've Got Mail, Qiang Jin Jiu, Copper Coins, Rebirth of a Movie Star, and so on, and so forth LOL. It's like - SevenSeas, please take my money hahaha!