YazQuan

Hope you don't mind if I disagree with you (some people on here are weird about that) on Sisyphus. First off, I'll admit I'm a fan of dystopian fiction - or as I often think of it, our inevitable future. I thought the movie overall was mildly entertaining, but Park Shin Hye was the only reason I stuck with it. That performance convinced me she has the gravity to carry complex plots. JFH proves my theory.

Heirs was the first thing I saw her in and it made an instant fan out of me. Actually, it was a twofer, because it's the first time I saw Kim Ji Won also.

It felt so overdone and heavy handed I had to start fast forwarding through the Church Lady moments. I get why they want to contrast with Hell, but I don't get why it gets way too much air time.

Watch Sisyphus if you haven't already. Her butt-kicking boots get a good workout in that movie also. The movie is meh, but Park Shin Hye is great in it

Agree. I'm glad to see Park Shin Hye getting roles outside of typical romance genre. I really enjoyed her in Sisyphus, too. She makes bad-ass bad-ass.

MDL has its limitations, so I use it along with a to-do style checklist to keep up with what I have watched / want to watch. I use "My Watchlist" as a master list and I'm starting MDL custom lists so I can sub group my watch titles the way I want. It's tedious compared to my to-do list where I can separate mainstream and GL/WLW and subgroup each by country of origin or sub genre. MDL also doesn't exclude articles (a, an, the) when alphabetizing by title, so it makes it harder for me to find titles I've listed. Still, I haven't found anything better.

I'll keep trying to figure it out though so I don't have to maintain redundant lists.

The vintage look suits reminded me of QoT. Designer clothes are getting a showcase in k-drama. That worked out really well for Kim Ji Won, getting some major sponsorships from it. Maybe other actresses will benefit, as well.

Disney nabbed it because they're bulking up their Korean/Asian offerings.

Episodes 4-8, I hit fast forward through scenes with ML and church Lady and didn't miss anything of significance. It was either that or throw a shoe at the set every time ML appeared. Episodes 9 and 10 are watchable, though.

I see your point about Han Da On's limitations and his personal empathy for victims families. I also acknowledge the script for the early episodes tells me the comeuppances Kang Bitna delivers don't allow closure for the victims' families. On the other hand, I agree with Kang Bitna when she responds to a family member's plea that her father's killer 'gets what he deserves', with "I've always made my judgments that way."

I won't examine what it says of me that I find Bitna's brand of justice more viscerally satisfying than the legal system version, but I strongly suspect that if I had been the mother/grandmother of the murdered family in E5 and the brutal killer of my loved ones had suffered physical quid pro quo - methodically beaten to a bloody pulp, then ritually stabbed 21 times, before having his head branded with a ticket to Hell - I would be more satisfied with that than a couple of years in a psych ward - or even a quick, relatively painless death penalty by the state; and, when a killer again strikes close to home with Han Da On, he makes the same judgment.

I was 8 1/2 episodes in and yet to see development in Han Da On's character. He was a always willing to break laws he didn't like, ex: playing the recording in court after being reminded THE LAW said it wasn't admissable. His walk on the dark side is just an amped up display of the same self centric moral certainty.

Probably a good idea to look up both the definitions of character arc vs story arc and of fact vs opinion before popping off like this lol.

Probably also check up on the definition of "ignore."

Opinion, as in you get to believe a single dimension - rigid moral certitude from start to finish, with nary a hint of self awareness - is an arc if you want to, but that doesn't change the definition of the word.

Don't take this so personally. You're acting like I kicked your metaphorical puppy. You still get to crush on Kim Jae Young, no matter my opinion, and I still get to have my opinion, regardless of your crush

The press conference with the slut shaming questions.

...speaking of priggish, self appointed arbiters.

I hope Kim Jae Young's paycheck for this role is generous enough to make up for him having to play this cringe character. Kim's Han Da On is the series' self appointed sole arbiter of ethics and morality - a one man Greek chorus. Han is a man to whom nabbing serial or mass killers of the innocent takes a back seat to exposing the Demon judge who sends those murderers to their grisly and ultimate doom. Han Da On is a self righteous detective whose own family was murdered by a serial killer, so now he's Hell bent, pun intended, on protecting the rights of ... serial killers.

I'm no scriptwriter, but surely there is one talented enough to make Han's rigid adherence to the laws that matter to him (because other laws conveniently don't and he belligerently breaks them) less priggish. Perhaps one that could make it credible that Park Shin Hye's deliciously demonic Justitia / Kang Bit Na would fall for the one dimensional Han and thus risk eternal damnation. Sadly, that scriptwriter does not work for this series.

What was up with Pleng's bizarrely cruel sexual teasing of Wan in E5?

If you think that was misogynistic, wait until you get to episode 8 where Eak's obsessive, violent stalker, near homicidal, failed suicidal behavior is explained away as the slutty women drove him to it. Poor heroic man.

Let's hope twink doctor has a thing for the obsessive stalker type who doesn't mind whipping out a gun if things don't go his way.

The first meeting and one night stand between Wan and Neung was after Neung's broken engagement to Chet. So, at their second, platonic, mischief-making meeting if Neung was wearing someone else's ring it would have to be Aneung's.

After joining this site for a while I'm convinced there are people whose only purpose here is to downplay the value of women characters and the talents of women acting.

Well, yeah, a man being faithful for 600 years deserves a happy ending.