K-Drama 
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Fuck AI, Poorly Written Story, Fire Chemistry.
Not gonna get into much detail. This reviews title actually sums up everything I think about this series.
I've always been against using generative AI in media. And this show proves how AI can destroy your enjoyment from a piece of media. The music is in this show completely composed with AI. I literally wanted to cut off my ears whenever I heard those cringe ass English vocals with human imitated voices. Thank god they didn't persist using those pieces on the last 1/3rd of the show. Using budget shortages as an excuse to use generative AI is simply not acceptible in my book. It's horrible and it is harmful to people's works, us humans and generally all humanity. (Using AI in a story that advices their audiences to live on even when you encounter difficulties in life is ironic right ?) Other than music it was obvious that they used AI altered videos in wide shots too. Which looks horrible and immediately distracts you from what you were watching.
Story-wise, there is not much to tell. They apparently gathered a bunch of zombie-apocalyptic stories together and stole some ideas and applied some cliches here and there and voila! this script came forth. (I especially got very shocked when I saw they applied some themes from RE9 this quickly into this series lmao). However, no matter how bad the story sounds, I can't deny that it wasn't fun to watch. It was just a brain-dead story with much cliches but weirdly with a captivating allure. Some ideas looked promising, especially on the first half of the show, but then it fell short very quickly. It could not keep up with itself and instead relied on cliche themes. And along the way, there were too many nonrealistic things were happening while the story continued. Like how some places like airports or even cities has electricity or how our Lead Boy Lin Zai never runs out of arrows or how they keep finding a bunch of medicine every time they need it or how the evil doctor He Yao kept talking in medical lingo but ended up just needing more blood as a result or how his short-wave radio could transmit over a hundred kilometers distance. I could go on an on but I think you'll get what kinda things im talking about. Maybe they explained some of them in the beginning of every episode with those newspaper looking pages but idk they were all in Chinese and I was too lazy to open up and translate. If y'all want a show where you can turn off your brain and just enjoy a love story in an apocalypse, you will enjoy this show, like me (damn I am ashamed to saying this but im sorry I enjoyed it too).
The actors were everything. From our leads to guest actor grandma's, they were all great. The relationship between our leads was very captivating. They literally carried the whole show. literally. If it wasn't for their chemistry, maybe I wouldn't be able to enjoy this series at all. One weird thing is that instead of attuning the colouring of some scenes, they decided to paint the leads face with white paint which looked a bit off and lifeless. It was a very easy fix but im surprised they wanted to do it this way.
The sets were also great too when they did not use AI. the house in the beginning, some parts of the cities that we could see, the airport, the amazing theater scene, some parts and houses of the camp etc. were appropriately decorated. Of course, it looks bullshit when in the beginning they explain the apocalypse started 22 days ago but nature almost completely took over everything. but other than that, the sets looked great and appropriate.
That's all I'm gonna say I guess. Fuck AI,Fuck Generative AI, always raise your voice whenever they try to normalize the use of Generative AI and oppose it.
I've always been against using generative AI in media. And this show proves how AI can destroy your enjoyment from a piece of media. The music is in this show completely composed with AI. I literally wanted to cut off my ears whenever I heard those cringe ass English vocals with human imitated voices. Thank god they didn't persist using those pieces on the last 1/3rd of the show. Using budget shortages as an excuse to use generative AI is simply not acceptible in my book. It's horrible and it is harmful to people's works, us humans and generally all humanity. (Using AI in a story that advices their audiences to live on even when you encounter difficulties in life is ironic right ?) Other than music it was obvious that they used AI altered videos in wide shots too. Which looks horrible and immediately distracts you from what you were watching.
Story-wise, there is not much to tell. They apparently gathered a bunch of zombie-apocalyptic stories together and stole some ideas and applied some cliches here and there and voila! this script came forth. (I especially got very shocked when I saw they applied some themes from RE9 this quickly into this series lmao). However, no matter how bad the story sounds, I can't deny that it wasn't fun to watch. It was just a brain-dead story with much cliches but weirdly with a captivating allure. Some ideas looked promising, especially on the first half of the show, but then it fell short very quickly. It could not keep up with itself and instead relied on cliche themes. And along the way, there were too many nonrealistic things were happening while the story continued. Like how some places like airports or even cities has electricity or how our Lead Boy Lin Zai never runs out of arrows or how they keep finding a bunch of medicine every time they need it or how the evil doctor He Yao kept talking in medical lingo but ended up just needing more blood as a result or how his short-wave radio could transmit over a hundred kilometers distance. I could go on an on but I think you'll get what kinda things im talking about. Maybe they explained some of them in the beginning of every episode with those newspaper looking pages but idk they were all in Chinese and I was too lazy to open up and translate. If y'all want a show where you can turn off your brain and just enjoy a love story in an apocalypse, you will enjoy this show, like me (damn I am ashamed to saying this but im sorry I enjoyed it too).
The actors were everything. From our leads to guest actor grandma's, they were all great. The relationship between our leads was very captivating. They literally carried the whole show. literally. If it wasn't for their chemistry, maybe I wouldn't be able to enjoy this series at all. One weird thing is that instead of attuning the colouring of some scenes, they decided to paint the leads face with white paint which looked a bit off and lifeless. It was a very easy fix but im surprised they wanted to do it this way.
The sets were also great too when they did not use AI. the house in the beginning, some parts of the cities that we could see, the airport, the amazing theater scene, some parts and houses of the camp etc. were appropriately decorated. Of course, it looks bullshit when in the beginning they explain the apocalypse started 22 days ago but nature almost completely took over everything. but other than that, the sets looked great and appropriate.
That's all I'm gonna say I guess. Fuck AI,Fuck Generative AI, always raise your voice whenever they try to normalize the use of Generative AI and oppose it.
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