Okay, I just freaking can't. Somebody please spoil me.
Is it me or is this purely a Korean version of Highlander mixed with some Tale of the Nine-Tailed?! I could only watch the first five minutes and I keep getting wave after wave of generic-supernatural-(but Korean-flavoured)-story-about-immortals-that-will-make-Netflix-money. At this point, I'm a bit burned off with their Korean productions.
So, would you recommend this to someone who has watched/read way too much fantasy and is kind of fed up with immortals right now? (I mean, immortals can be cool, but not if they're, as I said, Highlanders in Korean drag.)
Is here any romance just the "normal" one not bromacne?
Yes, depending on how you want to take it. If you want them to be best bros, that's what they are. But they're in love (the characters, not the actors, I hope the difference is very clear) and passionate about it, despite the censorship. Just try to track LWJ's bouts of jealousy and WWX's cool-cat-got-into-the-cream slow smiles reserved for only LWJ. Because that's not how bros look at each other, LOL.
PS And if you want straight romance, there's that, too.
It had a great start and it was engaging (with some hiccups along the way) up to ep 6 then it just... changed.…
Retired commissioner was like, "oops. My 30 years of experience told me this is the guy but it turns out he isn't. Well then, I'll just leave this here for the prosecutor to deal with" (no remorse, no shouldering of responsibility for it.)
The prosecutor was like, "oops, we did a bad. We put it right though! There you go, you're free to leave."
The lawyer was like, "oops. I couldn't do better. Well, I tried. Little missy here in the cell doing a cameo, what's your problem? Here's my card, you're all bloodied up, I guess you killed someone - but you look innocent - I'm a third-rate lawyer who couldn't save his latest high profile client, let me do it again haha."
Family was like, "KHS, you're back, yay. We didn't mean to snub you when you were at your lowest, here's some kimchi stew, go right back to your old life."
KHS was like, "heh, guess I'm out. F*ck it, let's check if gravity still works. Yup, still does. Let's make an exit with a question of whether I'm going to experiment with gravity some more or not. Suck it, suckers!"
DJT would also have something to say - wait, he's dead. Oops.
So yeah, thinking on it some more, I'm pretty disappointed with this series, because it definitely showed it has an amazing potential. I am particularly unhappy with KHS's sea-change of a personality switch, from caring, scared, a little cowardly student, to a classic "lifer" hard-souled ex-convict. It doesn't happen like that, even if he lost all hope. But then, it's a short series, they didn't have time, etc.
PS LPT though - smoking does NOT cure asthma. Don't try this at home.
It had a great start and it was engaging (with some hiccups along the way) up to ep 6 then it just... changed. I'm not totally unhappy with the ending and I don't consider it an open ending... but it's pretty lacklustre.
Just asking is it true that incase a police / detective ( or whatever is the profession of the character played…
Therapy per se is not a banning offense (think getting some therapy after a shooting or any kind of violent incident). But someone with a serious mental health problem - like DID, in this case - would definitely jeopardize any case they're working on, since they'd have to be of sound mind to make split-second decisions and testify if they're called to.
Even IF they're highly functioning and getting continuous treatment, a good lawyer could always put their sanity in doubt, and win their case. I'm not in SK either, but I think it's an universal thing wherever there're actual police regs and procedures and the corruption levels are low.
If no one follows procedures, or they don't exist... I guess it's the wild west of policing and anything would go.
The part that does work is the bad-detective-with-conscience-pangs part. The part that definitely does NOT work…
Also, if this guy is having a split personality thing, how sound is his mind after all?! I wouldn't trust a DID/MPD cop to deal with anything.
Even IF he managed to gather evidence in a logical way, all it would take for it to be dismissed would be a good lawyer. Then again, if the series doesn't intend to follow any kind of police&legal procedure/logic, then it's all fine, I guess.
The woman Narc is there for the representation, right? 2 eps in (from 12) and she only had a judo move and three or four lines to speak. Rookie cop is also still in a coma... Meh.
I'll keep watching because LDW is entertaining, but I really did hope for more.
Obviously DJT wasn't guilty of his first offence (*eyeroll*). The prison is full of innocent people. Obviously…
At this point, I'm placing some trust that the even (and final) episode will still do it some justice. It happened in all the other weeks, why not this one too? Here's hoping.
Obviously DJT wasn't guilty of his first offence (*eyeroll*). The prison is full of innocent people.
Obviously KHS will bulk up in the week or so it takes for the trial to proceed, and then obviously he gets the gumption and experience to take down a bully who just soooo happens to come alone at their boiler-room fight. Sure. And then get tattooed (before being found guilty or not, because that's what people do.)
Obviously he (KHS) goes from completely freaking out over his innocence to completely being blase about it all, just over that one hour of testimony. I'll give it to them, she - the prosecutor - did a number on him, but personalities don't change over night FFS.
Obviously someone with severe asthma will just soooo easily deal with smoking right out of hand.
Obviously someone who shakily stated their innocence, even if starting to wonder if the victim was still alive, will NOT grasp at straws but instead start smirking about it and implying that they might be the actual killer. That's what unsentenced people do, right?
TBH, it was kind of crazy and a little bad. But I have hopes it'll improve. Maybe it served a purpose, stringing…
So, theory no. 1, K is an alter-ego of Su Yeol, who was created because his mind can't cope with doing all the sweeping-under-the-carpet stuff for a promotion and yearns to get some actual justice done or something.
I am not really impressed with K's need to beat SY into the floor/road every time they're on screen together, I hope the alter-ego or whatever he's supposed to be can serve a larger scope and not be there literally to beat the main personality up.
TBH, it was kind of crazy and a little bad. But I have hopes it'll improve. Maybe it served a purpose, stringing the introduction out for a whole episode...
The only one I like so far is the rookie cop (N - you're telling me he's 31?! Yo, Jack Sparrow, here in SK there's that Fountain of Youth you were looking for, come and get it!!) And I hope they find a place for the woman Narcotics cop, she's there for a purpose, right?... Right?...
I understand :)Maybe after watching it you'll fall in love with the time loop trope itself ^^Thank your for the…
I didn't know there was a dorama too, for TGWLTT :D I've only seen the movie (an anime, true.) The movie rocks! (And it's a true re-live the time story, not just a feint-switch-time.)
Come to think of it, "your name." is also a time-switch story. If you haven't watch it, please do, I highly recommend it!
Okabe (and everything about the S;G story) is/are great :D
Another movie that deals with re-live (and change) time is 12 Monkeys (the one with Brad Pitt and Bruce Willis). I hear there's a series too, but I only watched the movie, it's dystopian and hopeless enough for me, LOL.
Bai Jing Ting is a cutie, I've seen him in You Are My Hero (I thank Bai Lu for starting that one, LOL), but also in bits and pieces of Irreplaceable Love. I might try his older roles, thanks for the rec!
Another one that gains greatly from its instrumental OST (random pick) is Tale of the Nine Tailed - Parting at the River of Three Crossings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCXTE3Hqcos kept me hanging on even if I was hoping for more of the drama than I got.
And no other soundtrack impressed me as much as The Untamed's OST (the songs, the character songs and the instrumental score). From the instrumentals, I am still in love with 草木 (Grass/Greenery), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXhKwA9OrJo and can't see myself falling out of love with it any time soon.
I understand :)Maybe after watching it you'll fall in love with the time loop trope itself ^^Thank your for the…
I actually quite like dramas who play with the concept of a second (or third) chance at life. And I even get really hooked on reincarnation or isekai webnovels, too (and I would just love to see some of them as dramas, but there's not much hope given the current Chinese ban on certain tropes, including these). Anime, too - thinking about Steins;Gate, for example, which is an amazing time-travel/change the past story. And hey, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time!
It's just that I haven't seen many dramas who take the trouble to have the MCs go and completely change/relive their past lives and/or make so important changes that they and everybody/everything else around them changes. Usually they either change from a certain point going forward or something major happens to them and they come back incognito and do stuff to repair things that went wrong. I did watch a few that include the change of certain elements so that the future is changed (While You Were Sleeping, for example, or even W Two Worlds, too. ) Or they somehow go back in time and minutely change some historical things or just get to be a part of history happening around them (Faith, Moon Lovers, Mr. Queen). Or they also get to communicate or travel to the past and the future, but nothing much changes but the information they bring/take with them, like in Tunnel or Signal.
The re-live the same day, again and again, trope, I've only seen in Groundhog's Day and an episode of Supernatural, LOL. So my experience with it is limited, for drama and/or movies.
So, if Bai Jing Ting is going to be a ML in such a drama, that's a double bonus LOL, because I really like him and if the story is good, that's only going to add more to the experience :)
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So, would you recommend this to someone who has watched/read way too much fantasy and is kind of fed up with immortals right now? (I mean, immortals can be cool, but not if they're, as I said, Highlanders in Korean drag.)
PS And if you want straight romance, there's that, too.
The prosecutor was like, "oops, we did a bad. We put it right though! There you go, you're free to leave."
The lawyer was like, "oops. I couldn't do better. Well, I tried. Little missy here in the cell doing a cameo, what's your problem? Here's my card, you're all bloodied up, I guess you killed someone - but you look innocent - I'm a third-rate lawyer who couldn't save his latest high profile client, let me do it again haha."
Family was like, "KHS, you're back, yay. We didn't mean to snub you when you were at your lowest, here's some kimchi stew, go right back to your old life."
KHS was like, "heh, guess I'm out. F*ck it, let's check if gravity still works. Yup, still does. Let's make an exit with a question of whether I'm going to experiment with gravity some more or not. Suck it, suckers!"
DJT would also have something to say - wait, he's dead. Oops.
So yeah, thinking on it some more, I'm pretty disappointed with this series, because it definitely showed it has an amazing potential. I am particularly unhappy with KHS's sea-change of a personality switch, from caring, scared, a little cowardly student, to a classic "lifer" hard-souled ex-convict. It doesn't happen like that, even if he lost all hope. But then, it's a short series, they didn't have time, etc.
PS LPT though - smoking does NOT cure asthma. Don't try this at home.
Even IF they're highly functioning and getting continuous treatment, a good lawyer could always put their sanity in doubt, and win their case. I'm not in SK either, but I think it's an universal thing wherever there're actual police regs and procedures and the corruption levels are low.
If no one follows procedures, or they don't exist... I guess it's the wild west of policing and anything would go.
Even IF he managed to gather evidence in a logical way, all it would take for it to be dismissed would be a good lawyer. Then again, if the series doesn't intend to follow any kind of police&legal procedure/logic, then it's all fine, I guess.
The woman Narc is there for the representation, right? 2 eps in (from 12) and she only had a judo move and three or four lines to speak. Rookie cop is also still in a coma... Meh.
I'll keep watching because LDW is entertaining, but I really did hope for more.
Obviously KHS will bulk up in the week or so it takes for the trial to proceed, and then obviously he gets the gumption and experience to take down a bully who just soooo happens to come alone at their boiler-room fight. Sure. And then get tattooed (before being found guilty or not, because that's what people do.)
Obviously he (KHS) goes from completely freaking out over his innocence to completely being blase about it all, just over that one hour of testimony. I'll give it to them, she - the prosecutor - did a number on him, but personalities don't change over night FFS.
Obviously someone with severe asthma will just soooo easily deal with smoking right out of hand.
Obviously someone who shakily stated their innocence, even if starting to wonder if the victim was still alive, will NOT grasp at straws but instead start smirking about it and implying that they might be the actual killer. That's what unsentenced people do, right?
I am not really impressed with K's need to beat SY into the floor/road every time they're on screen together, I hope the alter-ego or whatever he's supposed to be can serve a larger scope and not be there literally to beat the main personality up.
Let's see it after ep 2....
The only one I like so far is the rookie cop (N - you're telling me he's 31?! Yo, Jack Sparrow, here in SK there's that Fountain of Youth you were looking for, come and get it!!) And I hope they find a place for the woman Narcotics cop, she's there for a purpose, right?... Right?...
Come to think of it, "your name." is also a time-switch story. If you haven't watch it, please do, I highly recommend it!
Okabe (and everything about the S;G story) is/are great :D
Another movie that deals with re-live (and change) time is 12 Monkeys (the one with Brad Pitt and Bruce Willis). I hear there's a series too, but I only watched the movie, it's dystopian and hopeless enough for me, LOL.
Bai Jing Ting is a cutie, I've seen him in You Are My Hero (I thank Bai Lu for starting that one, LOL), but also in bits and pieces of Irreplaceable Love. I might try his older roles, thanks for the rec!
Another one that gains greatly from its instrumental OST (random pick) is Tale of the Nine Tailed - Parting at the River of Three Crossings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCXTE3Hqcos kept me hanging on even if I was hoping for more of the drama than I got.
And no other soundtrack impressed me as much as The Untamed's OST (the songs, the character songs and the instrumental score). From the instrumentals, I am still in love with 草木 (Grass/Greenery), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXhKwA9OrJo and can't see myself falling out of love with it any time soon.
It's just that I haven't seen many dramas who take the trouble to have the MCs go and completely change/relive their past lives and/or make so important changes that they and everybody/everything else around them changes. Usually they either change from a certain point going forward or something major happens to them and they come back incognito and do stuff to repair things that went wrong. I did watch a few that include the change of certain elements so that the future is changed (While You Were Sleeping, for example, or even W Two Worlds, too. ) Or they somehow go back in time and minutely change some historical things or just get to be a part of history happening around them (Faith, Moon Lovers, Mr. Queen). Or they also get to communicate or travel to the past and the future, but nothing much changes but the information they bring/take with them, like in Tunnel or Signal.
The re-live the same day, again and again, trope, I've only seen in Groundhog's Day and an episode of Supernatural, LOL. So my experience with it is limited, for drama and/or movies.
So, if Bai Jing Ting is going to be a ML in such a drama, that's a double bonus LOL, because I really like him and if the story is good, that's only going to add more to the experience :)
Gun is always impressive - he has the coltish, scared, half-trusting White get in and own the story already. And seriously, "Sean"/Off looks amazing.
I really do hope this series delivers. It seems too short already and it's only been an episode.