As much as i love Vincenzo, this article reads like it's written by a teenager.
It's a specific very modern style...think Buzzfeed not Wallstreet Journal. It was appropriately executed for the style in terms of formatting and concept. That said, IDK what age has to do with it. Some teenagers are exceptional writers just as some adults (probably the majority) are terrible at it. Flinging ageist insults isn't really productive, however, and seems like something a teenager would do XD
Your article style was fun and modern with all the pictures and memes. I think the reason you're attracting so many haters here is some of the terminology you chose to use which sounds like a call to arms to anyone who has a different list of top Kdramas in their head, and Kdrama fans in general.
The title, calling Vincenzo a game changer and talking about a success formula, doesn't really get supported in your article body very well, leaving you open to criticism. The article should have focused more on what makes Vincenzo stand out above the crowd (like your CGI list item) and less on commonalities with other Kdramas (like the 3 bullet points on fashion, or "shocking twists and turns" which is pretty much every Kdrama ever).
The whole first half of the article seems completely unrelated to the title, and your word choice was a little off...calling international fans different from Kdrama fans is a weird comparison. The charts comparing Kdramas to Anime to American movie, and really all the Kdrama fans memes, really belong in another article and don't add anything to your article subject...they also seem to be contentious (based on the comments) which puts everything that comes after them (the meat of your article) in a more combative slant than I think you probably intended.
In the end, you're left with an article that doesn't haven enough appeal to Vincenzo fans to be satisfying but also has more than enough fuel for haters to feel offended. But don't be discouraged! The article is a great start in a fun style, you just need to narrow down your scope a little and focus on making each point distinctive and relevant to your subject.
I agree with everything you said...the worst part of all that for me is that they kept couching the females being desperate as "growth". Like before they all had backbones and walked away but now they have grown and are an appropriate level of clingy simpering pushover for their men.
There's a whole discipline that studies fictional characters through theories. My MA thesis was a psychodynamic…
Except that’s not what you’ve done here. You've examined him as a person in our world, not his own, which makes it very much not an assessment on Sigma as a fictional character. You’ve examined his behaviors and reactions completely out of the context of the world he lived in.
Dude went through a time travel machine that does who even knows what to a person's brain, so his disorder could well be physiological. Not to mention, he’s also gathered extreme amounts of wealth and power yet you mention not a single study on the way that level of ultimate power and wealth have been shown to affect a person's empathy and behaviors while still not being classified as ASPD.
And let's not forget the countless time loop iterations he went through to get to that point, and how those informed iterations might have impacted his obsession quite a lot to amplify his perception of his nemesis beyond just a childhood insult. It is implied he remembers and/or records prior iterations to adapt his responses, who can even say what that would do to an initially minor obsession in even the most mentally sound person. Not to mention, with having been through so many iterations would a normal person even be capable of seeing value in human life any longer, having definitive knowledge that time is a loop and a dude dead in this timeline will easily be alive in the next loop.
You cannot viably psychoanalyze anyone, fictional or otherwise, with only a cherry-picked version of their environmental impetus. You've basically just called him a sociopath, which is realistically what we decide 99% of drama bad guys are. Something like Narcissistic Personality Disorder would fit him just as well. Shoot…he even fits well into the psychopathy spectrum. IDK why Avoidant Personality Disorder would even be considered, his overt social behavior and extreme narcissism as shown in the future timeline completely disproves that diagnosis.
In the end…he’s got whatever he needs to have to advance the plot in the direction the writers needed it to go. If not him, someone else would have filled that role because the reality of the entire drama is that the hero created a world tailor made to be abused. BUT...for the record...my money is on NPD with psychotic tendencies. I mean...dude is basically Thanos.
You waited it out for the pavement smash lololol. I waited it out less patiently and skipped forward through most of the content. The pavement smash was not very gratifying though, like how stupid was it that they both hit their heads and laid there in these weird pools of blood. The truck def did not hit their heads...I guess they fell perfectly backward to hit their heads together. Surprisingly, their bodies that took enough impact to crack the windshield were fine though. Worst pavement smash ever imo.
It might be an unpopular opinion but...IDK how you attribute a specific mental illness to a K-drama villain. They are almost all written to be over the top serial murderers who manipulate and cause harm. It's a trope, not a representation of a mental illness. Dude is just living his villain life to the best of his bad-guy ability. Maybe it doesn't fit into your ideal of societal norms, but it's also high fantasy. In this fantasy K-drama trope world he's a super normal bad guy with a super standard back story behaving in 100% rational K-villain ways. In RL he probably would have been dead at 23 from a meth overdose.
Why he behaved in such an extreme way is 100% that there wouldn't be a plot if he didn't. Psychoanalysis is best done on actual people who actually exist. Characters in stories are plot devices to deliver whatever philosophical/societal message you're trying to convey. Dude is not a mentally ill victim, he's a plot device to show us all the importance of being kind to our fellow humans, which is the exact societal narrative in 99% of K-dramas.
I could never have bet that the screenwriter could capture the audience's attention so strongly with this drama.…
I wonder if the tabooness of the romance portion was part of what enticed people. I'm always always super shocked by how high the ratings on Goblin got and continue to be. It just wasn't epic. I wish those high ratings went to something a lot more epic and a lot less like the plot of a bad porn mixed with an entirely different drama's plot about dead people. Like...dude...the lead actor in Goblin....he's sort of weird looking too. He LEGIT looks like a dad and she LEGIT looks like a child.
But at the same time, I look at reviews for truly epic masterful dramas and I often see these weird low ratings (like W gets) with reviews that make it SUUUUPER clear the person 100% did not understand what was going on. Which is what made me think your humor review here was spot-on, Goblin is literal trash written to appeal to the low-brained masses. Someone should do a psych thesis on how TF this show got such wide approval ratings.
I 100% agree with this very funny review....except...I thought the Grim Reaper was pretty cool and well played. I don't get WHY he was part of the show...but still, he was hot and funny and I liked him. If they make a show with just the Grim Reaper and take out everything else that was Goblin, I'd probably really like that show XD
Also...I think you should have thrown in a few lines about the terribad non-sensical ending. Like dude basically waited for his reborn chick to grow up from level "baby" into "probably still illegal but at least looks enough like a woman to bang".
Hi, I come to inform you of an important point:The script of the drama is not inspired by a manhwa (or webtoon).The…
Dang it....and I thought for once I got a fringe sub-culture reference right! Here you are outing me as being 100% webtoon illiterate. I 100% only even know what a webtoon is from watching this drama. XD XD XD
It's probably too cringe for me to go back and edit it out now, right :-p
Agree with your review and I admire the fact you watched it all-lol. I dropped it, very boring and terrible FL.
I really REALLY didn't want to finish it either....but there aren't a super ton of opportunities to watch Ji Chang Wook wander around on screen with his super hot half smile and perfect teeth. So I just gritted my teeth, got super high, and gave into my inner fangirl. XD
I 100% agree with the queerbaiting comment, but it's Korea and the majority of Kdramas that have any aspect of gay plotlines make the topic into a joke like... "omg I thought you were gay but thank the freaking lord I was mistaken lol".
Some of your other points I disagree with. I think that it would have been really unfair of fate to the woman's actual spirit if she didn't get to live her life. I get that she axed herself and basically gave up that right, but she truly was in love with the king dude from the start and just didn't know how to get from point A to point B.
The overall point though is that they are the same person. The dude from present day is the same soul as the woman from back in the Joseon era. They aren't really different people, they're the same person reincarnated. As the story progressed, their souls sort of started to fuse with past and present and they really became one. Which is why after he goes back to present day, she still retains a lot of his personality traits, because they were never actually different people. He wasn't there to live her life, he was there because fate gave him a chance to fix his own life by helping his past self fix hers.
I think the entire show did a great job, for the most part, dealing with gender issues that two straight people would have living in each others bodies for awhile. In the end, the message for me was that his/her SOUL was gender neutral.
You should have watched it to the end where she dies and then he waits for her to be reborn to spark back up romance while she's on a school trip to their favorite park. I had almost forgiven the whole pedo thing to a degree but then I got to the end and it was like...dude is seriously waiting for his bride to incubate from an infant to be old enough to nail her, no thank you.
THIS = hate
Where is the constructive criticism or feedback in any of your toxic personal attack comments?
The title, calling Vincenzo a game changer and talking about a success formula, doesn't really get supported in your article body very well, leaving you open to criticism. The article should have focused more on what makes Vincenzo stand out above the crowd (like your CGI list item) and less on commonalities with other Kdramas (like the 3 bullet points on fashion, or "shocking twists and turns" which is pretty much every Kdrama ever).
The whole first half of the article seems completely unrelated to the title, and your word choice was a little off...calling international fans different from Kdrama fans is a weird comparison. The charts comparing Kdramas to Anime to American movie, and really all the Kdrama fans memes, really belong in another article and don't add anything to your article subject...they also seem to be contentious (based on the comments) which puts everything that comes after them (the meat of your article) in a more combative slant than I think you probably intended.
In the end, you're left with an article that doesn't haven enough appeal to Vincenzo fans to be satisfying but also has more than enough fuel for haters to feel offended. But don't be discouraged! The article is a great start in a fun style, you just need to narrow down your scope a little and focus on making each point distinctive and relevant to your subject.
Dude went through a time travel machine that does who even knows what to a person's brain, so his disorder could well be physiological. Not to mention, he’s also gathered extreme amounts of wealth and power yet you mention not a single study on the way that level of ultimate power and wealth have been shown to affect a person's empathy and behaviors while still not being classified as ASPD.
And let's not forget the countless time loop iterations he went through to get to that point, and how those informed iterations might have impacted his obsession quite a lot to amplify his perception of his nemesis beyond just a childhood insult. It is implied he remembers and/or records prior iterations to adapt his responses, who can even say what that would do to an initially minor obsession in even the most mentally sound person. Not to mention, with having been through so many iterations would a normal person even be capable of seeing value in human life any longer, having definitive knowledge that time is a loop and a dude dead in this timeline will easily be alive in the next loop.
You cannot viably psychoanalyze anyone, fictional or otherwise, with only a cherry-picked version of their environmental impetus. You've basically just called him a sociopath, which is realistically what we decide 99% of drama bad guys are. Something like Narcissistic Personality Disorder would fit him just as well. Shoot…he even fits well into the psychopathy spectrum. IDK why Avoidant Personality Disorder would even be considered, his overt social behavior and extreme narcissism as shown in the future timeline completely disproves that diagnosis.
In the end…he’s got whatever he needs to have to advance the plot in the direction the writers needed it to go. If not him, someone else would have filled that role because the reality of the entire drama is that the hero created a world tailor made to be abused. BUT...for the record...my money is on NPD with psychotic tendencies. I mean...dude is basically Thanos.
Why he behaved in such an extreme way is 100% that there wouldn't be a plot if he didn't. Psychoanalysis is best done on actual people who actually exist. Characters in stories are plot devices to deliver whatever philosophical/societal message you're trying to convey. Dude is not a mentally ill victim, he's a plot device to show us all the importance of being kind to our fellow humans, which is the exact societal narrative in 99% of K-dramas.
But at the same time, I look at reviews for truly epic masterful dramas and I often see these weird low ratings (like W gets) with reviews that make it SUUUUPER clear the person 100% did not understand what was going on. Which is what made me think your humor review here was spot-on, Goblin is literal trash written to appeal to the low-brained masses. Someone should do a psych thesis on how TF this show got such wide approval ratings.
Also...I think you should have thrown in a few lines about the terribad non-sensical ending. Like dude basically waited for his reborn chick to grow up from level "baby" into "probably still illegal but at least looks enough like a woman to bang".
It's probably too cringe for me to go back and edit it out now, right :-p
Some of your other points I disagree with. I think that it would have been really unfair of fate to the woman's actual spirit if she didn't get to live her life. I get that she axed herself and basically gave up that right, but she truly was in love with the king dude from the start and just didn't know how to get from point A to point B.
The overall point though is that they are the same person. The dude from present day is the same soul as the woman from back in the Joseon era. They aren't really different people, they're the same person reincarnated. As the story progressed, their souls sort of started to fuse with past and present and they really became one. Which is why after he goes back to present day, she still retains a lot of his personality traits, because they were never actually different people. He wasn't there to live her life, he was there because fate gave him a chance to fix his own life by helping his past self fix hers.
I think the entire show did a great job, for the most part, dealing with gender issues that two straight people would have living in each others bodies for awhile. In the end, the message for me was that his/her SOUL was gender neutral.