Just finished watching the show. I'm actually happy for the couples who made it, although Hanyoung still gives me iffy vibes with his indecisive attitude. I get where Seryeong is coming from, but I wish she was more honest with her feelings and sternly rejected Hyeongbeom. Although I like Elaine sm, I think Dowook made the right decision. Outside of this show I don't see them leading a healthy relationship. Jeongeon and Heekyung were the cutest couple and I hope they're doing well.
I'm seeing a lot of comments calling the ending the worst. Idk if the disappointment is coming from the fact that it didn't follow the book ending. I didn't even know this was based on a book, so I'm just gonna comment on the drama as an independent entity, not as something I looked at in comparison to an existing novel.
I get that the audience has grown attached to JDJ as the hero who will take over Soonyang throughout the last 15 eps. But to me JDJ was always YHW who had come to take his revenge. But after the death of his mother he was losing focus on his goal of taking down Soonyang and became a true chaebol with his desires to make Soonyang his. Even if we say he was going against the inheritance of management rights, JDJ getting the management rights doesn't really disperse it off of the family tree. Also with SMY saying "you'll get worse as you'd wanna keep the power" we can actually see that JDJ will soon go down because he's getting greedier. The grandfather he initially looked down on as selfish and power hungry grew into a role model over the years. It only feels right that YHW finally returned to his life to realise what is important to him (not buying Soonyang, but taking the owners down). He finally gets a chance to look back on how wrong he has lived life. And through JDJ he finally has an opportunity to repent.
This is not the best drama I've watched. It wasn't since the beginning (I'm someone who used to wonder why's the ratings so high when it hit double digits in a few eps). But it surely is nowhere near the worst. The ending made sense to me. Surely there are plot holes, but if you're watching a drama as dramatic as this one you should know that there'd be some questionable factors you'd have to overlook. overall a fun watch. I'd never call it a waste of time.
HW was reborn as DJ who had already died in 2002. The show made it clear multiple times that all events will happen…
if he had asked her out in the end that would've been very weird. firstly, there's nothing romantic going on between YHW and SMY. secondly, although he has repented it doesn't change the fact that he's an accomplice to the murder of the love of her life. this way the ending is more open, audience who still wish them together can come to the conclusion that somewhere in the future they did end up together. I'm of the opposing view, and I'd rather like them to live out their lives in their separate ways. Because this allows us to create our own conclusions, I am happy with the way it ended.
i watch a drama i feel happy and satisfied, then i come on this website and see a bunch of people talk shit about it. i think this is the kinda drama you drop if you feel like it's not a drama for you. stop sticking till the end with dramas you can't stomach only to criticize it. i personally loved it. i loved it the moment i started watching and have never missed an ep as it aired. i'm guessing people who don't like it are too young, that they haven't reached the crossroads in life where yeoreum was at when everything start to seem pointless. and it's anguk and it's people that added meaning to her life. this drama is simple, but warm. i might've started this drama because of siwan, but i completed it because of seolhyun. right from the first ep she had me crying. yeoreum was representative of you, me and everyone in society who has been conditioned by society to wordlessly endure everything the universe throws at us. there isn't really an epiphanic moment where she goes all ballistic (like what most people would've loved to seen.) but i believe that's what makes this drama special. it shows how people don't change in an instant (something dramas and movies make look so easy), bom's dad being the greatest example. yeoreum is still her timid self, but she now has more people around her who give her courage to voice her opinions and will even fight for her (bom.) this is a beautiful drama, and I'm actually grateful that they didn't ruin the tone of the drama with an unfitting kiss.
I think the boardlerland was a limbo between life and death or the purgatory in which the charactors had to prove…
I read that in the manga, the one who ultimately controls the games is the joker. in that case it makes sense that they're put through something cruel and unfair. because there is someone in control, who's enjoying this whole process. if it was something just a limbo between life and death that they reached naturally I'd have hated it because just shows that the ultimate power (god) is unfair.
That the US and their ally - Japan - refuse them to land in their territories. They make it into an "us vs them"…
exactly what i was thinking. as someone who belongs to neither of the 3 countries i had not even thought negatively of the 2 countries, rather the mind of all these people who are against landing, including the citizens and govt officials of s.korea. if one sees this as a political statement, then it's just their thoughts reflecting into it. bc in every country there will be people who are for and against a situation like this. japan and usa refusing to let them land will never be as severe as korea forcing their own people into suicide...
I think the boardlerland was a limbo between life and death or the purgatory in which the charactors had to prove…
that's just so sad tho, that they have to go through something this cruel to reach death or (for some fortunate ones) to come back to life. some games are just luck, others physical or psychological. there's no fair evaluation of who has willingness to live. one could be desperate to live and still lose psychologically or physically. and had arisu given into the psychiatrist plot mira devised none of them would've made it out... ik this is fiction, but ugh! this is tragic that even in death there's no peace. i feel so bad for those people who died in the games, they didn't even get an option to choose 😣ðŸ˜
Well if she holds the ice stone, nobody dares to touch her
which is why it's just a theory. surely there are ifs and buts, but with this drama we have to keep our eyes and ears open to all possibilities. let's not rule out anything as impossible. i also don't really favour the idea of a second ice stone coming to the world, but if that risk somehow leads to the possibility of a happy ending for our leads, then why not.
Well if she holds the ice stone, nobody dares to touch her
aha! i wasn't considering a second ice stone. that's an interesting theory. i don't think it's impossible. but obtaining the ice stone from jinmu surely won't be easy. let's see how it goes.
someone pls explain HOW the games happened! i realise that they all were severely hurt from the meteorite, and their hearts stopped for a minute. but HOW did all of them end up in this game in that minute? at first i thought it was just an illusion created by arisu's game addict mind with all the people he passed by as characters. but since all these people had this 1min hear stopping moment, it means all of them were present in the gaming world, it's just that none of them remembers it. so did the meteorite take them there, or was it some afterlife bullshit? like i'm clueless as to HOW it happened. also does the joker at the end mean we're getting a s3??
I think he should die... at least this way he will contribute something to the storyline...
ig your idea of a 'villain' is very different from mine. to me, someone like jinmu is a villain. someone who has clearly evil ideas. he wants to create chaos, and become powerful. he's greedy, selfish and absolutely manipulative. someone like the cp is someone struggling between evil and good. he's being pulled into the evil by jinmu, but he's struggling to not stray off. he's made some questionable choices in life, but he does regret those choices and feel responsible for the aftermath. i say the cp is thus a grey character. yul is someone who has stuck to rules his whole life, the only time he broke rules was when he realised mudeok is naksu in s1. he believes that his choice to break rules have caused all the chaos that ensued. he's thinking of making the "right" choice this time. while his "right" does not look so right for us viewers, i don't think that makes him a villain. he's just a character absolutely struggling because of his moral compass which is structured different from uk's moral compass. what he's planning to do is not an evil act for personal gain, but a "sacrifice" for the "greater good." while i do not agree with his thought process, i don't think he's done anything to make him a villain
does noone realise that apart from uk, noone would be happy to know buyeon is naksu. noone at the palace (king,…
with all that said, if they suddenly decide to make uk some moral character who goes "last time you killed me, this time i'll kill you" ... that'd just wreck me
does noone realise that apart from uk, noone would be happy to know buyeon is naksu. noone at the palace (king, queen, cp), cheonbugwan (jinmu and his ppl) and even songrim (parkjin, danggu), wants naksu to be alive. her death while sad for uk has brought peace to the nation. her coming back would only create more chaos (as illustrated by the rumours jinmu created.) even jinyowon and master lee would want her dead if the truth about her identity gets out. yul planning to kill her is the sacrifice he's willing to make for the greater good. that's where uk comes in with all that ice stone power, because unlike yul he doesn't care about stupid morals. to him his love is precious and i believe he'll do all that he can to make sure that history doesn't repeat (that he doesn't lose her.)
I get that the audience has grown attached to JDJ as the hero who will take over Soonyang throughout the last 15 eps. But to me JDJ was always YHW who had come to take his revenge. But after the death of his mother he was losing focus on his goal of taking down Soonyang and became a true chaebol with his desires to make Soonyang his. Even if we say he was going against the inheritance of management rights, JDJ getting the management rights doesn't really disperse it off of the family tree. Also with SMY saying "you'll get worse as you'd wanna keep the power" we can actually see that JDJ will soon go down because he's getting greedier. The grandfather he initially looked down on as selfish and power hungry grew into a role model over the years. It only feels right that YHW finally returned to his life to realise what is important to him (not buying Soonyang, but taking the owners down). He finally gets a chance to look back on how wrong he has lived life. And through JDJ he finally has an opportunity to repent.
This is not the best drama I've watched. It wasn't since the beginning (I'm someone who used to wonder why's the ratings so high when it hit double digits in a few eps). But it surely is nowhere near the worst. The ending made sense to me. Surely there are plot holes, but if you're watching a drama as dramatic as this one you should know that there'd be some questionable factors you'd have to overlook. overall a fun watch. I'd never call it a waste of time.