Xerophytes

what is more odd is that the brother was a teacher, it was creepy. that's my gripe with this show. I wish they have been more bold and focus on the other love triangle (Jun Hee - Yoon Jae - Si Won)

The last few episodes were heavy, but I find it more interesting. It was a good watch.

I appreciate nice and good looking bodies, especially for those actors who actually worked hard for it and want you to see their fruit of their labor. They might be meaningless in a sense that it only tries to hook audience to watch, but at the same time, it could also mean something from the writers to let you know how he is characterized physically in the show. To be honest, I find korean dramas to be the least sexualized or should I say more conservative (Or maybe I was not watching the right shows to see enough this kind of nature lol)

Watching this show is like watching japanese porn. Blurred here. Blurred there. Blurred everywhereeeeee.

Still need to finish this. I'm glad Nonkul's next projects are more action and dramatic.

One gripe or disappointment I have with this series is the past was almost used as a backdrop and focused a lot on the 2017 timeline.

It bothers me that Seong Shik did not gave Gwang Ho a crash course on the future, especially important as a detective - like DNA technology, phone technology, etc.

I was trying to figure out what's the meaning of the title, now I totally get it LOL.

Now I understand why this show rated so high. I did enjoy watching it, it was a breeze. The storytelling and direction of the show was well done and well written. I was initially put off with olden day time, but I'm glad there was none of those overly acted, it was well reasonably, well-understood and appreciated and relatable even in modern times. I'm probably one of the minorities but I'm so glad the focus was the characters in the modern times and they used the 1930s as a backdrop. At first I thought it will be mostly murder mystery or trying to figure out the past. or it will be a cliche fighting against an evil protagonist, but I was wrong - it was about friendship and romance. Kudos.

Yea, I will eventually watch One Spring Night.

I recently watched DP and that is great, I love Jung Hae In there.

I always hate shows with 'olden days/period', but surprisingly, I am enjoying this series. I'm 7 episodes in. It was a good watch, each episode surprisingly goes very fast by.

One reason why I refrained from watching One Spring Night. I enjoyed Jung Hae-In. But I just can't see him re-enacting the same character in a different show.

Exactly what I was thinking.

I feel like that's how mostly the movie or TV industry work. You have a big group of script writers who are unrecognized, who does most of the work and hand this in to a head scriptwriter (who has an established name). In fact, if you watch series very carefully, there are slight shift in characters and narration all throughout the series because there are a lot of people working on a script, sometimes I do even think they are broken to different groups for story arcs. So I think the credit should be more than just the headwriter, and more importantly, not her or his own style - but it's a group work.

Also - scripts tend to be formulaic, and usually coming from the 'orders from above' (TV/movie execs). Once a writer (or even a director) established a storytelling that's a hit, they just reuse the same trope and formula for success. Just look at Park Ji Eun's My Love from the Star and Legend of the Blue Sea - they are pretty much the same script.

Im watching Chicago Typewriter now lol. I was also wondering how many of these writers are genuinely writing their own script, and not have like a team of ghostwriters who write for him/her and he/she just revise them.

In some aspect, directors have a much more power or leverage in the final output of the show, because ultimately, what we see on screen is actually what the director envisioned not the writers.

I love Takashi Miike.

But please tell me that this will be a horror project. I want Jung Hae In to be in a lot more different genre.

This is just my opinion. A product like movie or a series cannot really broken down into a specific department, it's a group work/dynamic and many times, a draft written by writers don't really exactly come into fruition as imagined.

Dialogues can change - with some actors doing adlibs.
Direction of the show can change - because of directors.
Writer's vision of a scene can change because of constraints in budget, CGI, wardrobes, locations, etc.

I agree though that there could be some formula behind the show, but I also think that is also influence by outside factors like head honcho of film or TV.

It was not a bad series. The characters are not overtly annoying like other shows I watched. It was actually a pleasant series to watch. Some of the character decision and actions are questionable but ultimately, they were redeemed. It was nothing extraordinary. The guy who played Chan Young is handsome, so an eye candy in the show helps lol.

And he is also the most handsome... lol

It can revolve around another new victim - remember there are other people in that chatroom and there are videos out there. Mew and Fai could potentially try to get those people.

I feel like this series can potentially have a season 2