I watched this thinking it would add to the main story, but the number of scenes it showed multiple times with very little or nothing added but Ba Reum smirking made me feel like I wasted 2 hours. At most MAYBE watching the first episode wasn't too bad, but the second was completely unnecessary. Especially showing the priest's death. We saw it how many times in the span of 2 hours? I think we saw every major death like twice. It was just gratuitous and unnecessary.
This is the drama I'm looking forward to most every week. It's the perfect balance of funny, serious, creepy and ridiculous. And I love Ji Ah and the secretary's relationship. They actually feel like they've known each other a long time and care about each other. They talk about work and their personal lives, their conversations don't revolve around men like a lot of 'best friend' dialogues do in k-dramas. And Beom's relationship with Ji Cheol is great too. All of the relationships in this are just so well written and I'm loving the interactions between all 4.
My issue is that they told us one thing then did another. They told LR that LY would be reincarnated, that they…
I hope I can stay as optimistic as you! If it frustrates me too much I'll drop it though. No sense in wasting hours of my life on something that I'm not enjoying lol.
My issue is that they told us one thing then did another. They told LR that LY would be reincarnated, that they…
Yeah and what's done is done so no use in arguing it anymore. Sadly, we can't change the ending now.
I've had a problem with that too, but what really bothers me is the filter that they put over the flashbacks. The flickering when there's a flashback bothers my eyes and I can't concentrate on what's happening. They also try to constantly shock the audience to the point where I've been desensitized to it, and a lot of the twists have just been silly. I did too! It sounded so interesting from the synopsis, but it ended up being a completely different story!
My issue is that they told us one thing then did another. They told LR that LY would be reincarnated, that they…
If the translation was wrong then I guess that's one less gripe I have with it, that's the translator's fault then, but I'm sticking to everything else lol. I also heard about them changing the ending last minute but even if the other ending wouldn't have been satisfying, this one wasn't either. It had so much potential in the beginning which is what made me so mad at it later on. But oh well, it's over and I appreciate the good parts and I'm still frustrated with the bad parts! I agree that they really shouldn't do a s2, there's nothing else to add to it since there was only one conflict in the beginning, and it would be a lot less fun without LR and LY's banter.
Always nice to find someone else as frustrated with Mouse as I am XD I was also hoping for another Beyond Evil just with a different mood and set up, but then it just kept getting more ridiculous! It really bothered me too that it wasn't advertised as a sci-fi when it clearly is. And yet here I am, still watching it and hoping that it'll get better. We do this to ourselves.
That's the sad part about being a drama fan. A lot of times, after the halfway point things just don't add up anymore. But it's nice to find solidarity with other people watching it when things go wrong.
-LY is supposed to be reincarnated except is brought back as himself but human. An adult. How does that make sense?…
My issue is that they told us one thing then did another. They told LR that LY would be reincarnated, that they wouldn't know when or where and despite that, he agreed to exchange his life because he wanted his brother to be able to reincarnated and not be trapped like he was. LY returns, fully grown, memories in tact, almost right away.
Then he claims he is human. It's been a few months so my memory is fuzzy but doesn't he even mention going to the dentist and/or needing glasses? So he continued telling everyone he is human. Already this is completely different from what we've been told. So I guess the god lied to LR for no reason? I guess you could make up a reason for this, like it being a reward for LY saving the world so they got him out and gave him his wish of being human? It leaves a bad taste it my mouth because of what they did to LR and I'm unhappy with it but whatever.
Then he's not human. We see him with fox attributes. Then what was the point of it all? They just told us 3 separate things in the span of like 20 minutes. If they were going to go this route then LR should have been told "hey if you die your brother will be freed." It doesn't feel like LR's death really helped in any way. LY didn't reincarnated like the god said, he wasn't human like LY himself said, nothing we were told ever came true and it was just a mess.
I think that explanation for LR's reincarnation makes as little sense as every other explanation. Sure, it's likely that they didn't bother with make up, but they could have just done a time stamp, it would have taken 2 minutes to add. And doing make up wouldn't have mattered because LY isn't human so he wouldn't have aged. I feel that the crew and especially the writer just didn't care anymore because nothing we were given makes sense.
Tl;dr my problem is that they established rules and then immediately, half a minute later, discarded them. What was the point of saying anything in the first place? There was even a scene earlier on where the old lady said she would punish LR for everything he had done after death but looks like he reincarnated fine. They just didn't care. There was no consistency.
So those are my issues. Wow I had completely forgotten how frustrated I was with this show until writing this. Silver lining though that it waited until the end to completely fall apart and turn into a mess. Mouse fell apart before it even reached the halfway point lol. It actually feels nice to go back and complain about a show that wasn't quite as terrible as what I'm watching now XD
I think the writer really wants us to focus on the first main lead only, even if he's bad. If any of the other…
I get that and I've viewed other mediums where having a villain main character has worked. You can especially see that in books, that story has been done a lot and really well in literature because the storylines of books tend to have a lot of terrible and/or morally grey main characters in certain genres.
The problem I'm having isn't just that the other main characters have negative points or character flaws, I'm all for those. It's that I can't bring myself to care when they're on screen. Whether a character is a hero or a villain or no matter their morals, they should at least be engaging to watch, from my perspective. Generally, I don't enjoy watching stories that I'm not interested in. I feel that Ba Reum has that problem too for me, but not to as much of a degree as I'm biased towards him because I like Seunggi as an actor. When I watched Black, it was sort of the same. Most of her characters weren't engaging to watch and then the plot got more ridiculous until it accumulated into one of the worst drama endings I've ever seen. I don't really want to slog through that again. At the same time, I don't want to drop it because I hate leaving things unfinished, and I want to see Seunggi act more, be it as the killer or not. But not having any other characters who are enjoyable to watch is making it hard to get through each episode, even when the big reveal about Ba Reum hasn't happened yet. Like I said, maybe I'm too picky.
The problem I'm having right now is that if Ba Reum is the killer which all the evidence so far is hinting towards, and if we're supposed to be against him... none of the other characters are likable. Not even a little bit. I really don't like Moo Chi, Bong Yi is an annoying target who's constantly getting attacked by criminals and so far hasn't added much to the story, and I'm indifferent to the reporter. Ba Reum at least has a likable personality/fascade but if he turns out to be the antagonist then I'm left with no one to root for. Are we supposed to support Moo Chi? He's pretty incompetent and irresponsible considering his line of work and his bad decisions have made me not really care about his scenes. Yo Han was an interesting character even though we saw very little of him but he's gone. Am I just being too picky?
Exactly! I'm not fond of cringe and cheese but this drama is a good break from all the dark thrillers that are…
As much as I it love thrillers, it gets a bit exhausting having so many of them to watch. Normally there's just one a season, but finally have something to contrast them will be nice. It doesn't have to be smart, just be fun and not too stupid :')
I don't know if I'd consider those low ratings. I was expecting to see 6.5s here. I'd consider anything around 7.3-7.9 to be average, 8 is a pretty decent rating. Trying a 5 or 6 is the real challenge, and it's amazing to find one you don't drop in the first episode lol. But some of these titles look interesting nonetheless so I may check them out :)
I've had a problem with that too, but what really bothers me is the filter that they put over the flashbacks. The flickering when there's a flashback bothers my eyes and I can't concentrate on what's happening. They also try to constantly shock the audience to the point where I've been desensitized to it, and a lot of the twists have just been silly. I did too! It sounded so interesting from the synopsis, but it ended up being a completely different story!
Always nice to find someone else as frustrated with Mouse as I am XD I was also hoping for another Beyond Evil just with a different mood and set up, but then it just kept getting more ridiculous! It really bothered me too that it wasn't advertised as a sci-fi when it clearly is. And yet here I am, still watching it and hoping that it'll get better. We do this to ourselves.
That's the sad part about being a drama fan. A lot of times, after the halfway point things just don't add up anymore. But it's nice to find solidarity with other people watching it when things go wrong.
Then he claims he is human. It's been a few months so my memory is fuzzy but doesn't he even mention going to the dentist and/or needing glasses? So he continued telling everyone he is human. Already this is completely different from what we've been told. So I guess the god lied to LR for no reason? I guess you could make up a reason for this, like it being a reward for LY saving the world so they got him out and gave him his wish of being human? It leaves a bad taste it my mouth because of what they did to LR and I'm unhappy with it but whatever.
Then he's not human. We see him with fox attributes. Then what was the point of it all? They just told us 3 separate things in the span of like 20 minutes. If they were going to go this route then LR should have been told "hey if you die your brother will be freed." It doesn't feel like LR's death really helped in any way. LY didn't reincarnated like the god said, he wasn't human like LY himself said, nothing we were told ever came true and it was just a mess.
I think that explanation for LR's reincarnation makes as little sense as every other explanation. Sure, it's likely that they didn't bother with make up, but they could have just done a time stamp, it would have taken 2 minutes to add. And doing make up wouldn't have mattered because LY isn't human so he wouldn't have aged. I feel that the crew and especially the writer just didn't care anymore because nothing we were given makes sense.
Tl;dr my problem is that they established rules and then immediately, half a minute later, discarded them. What was the point of saying anything in the first place? There was even a scene earlier on where the old lady said she would punish LR for everything he had done after death but looks like he reincarnated fine. They just didn't care. There was no consistency.
So those are my issues. Wow I had completely forgotten how frustrated I was with this show until writing this. Silver lining though that it waited until the end to completely fall apart and turn into a mess. Mouse fell apart before it even reached the halfway point lol. It actually feels nice to go back and complain about a show that wasn't quite as terrible as what I'm watching now XD
The problem I'm having isn't just that the other main characters have negative points or character flaws, I'm all for those. It's that I can't bring myself to care when they're on screen. Whether a character is a hero or a villain or no matter their morals, they should at least be engaging to watch, from my perspective. Generally, I don't enjoy watching stories that I'm not interested in. I feel that Ba Reum has that problem too for me, but not to as much of a degree as I'm biased towards him because I like Seunggi as an actor. When I watched Black, it was sort of the same. Most of her characters weren't engaging to watch and then the plot got more ridiculous until it accumulated into one of the worst drama endings I've ever seen. I don't really want to slog through that again. At the same time, I don't want to drop it because I hate leaving things unfinished, and I want to see Seunggi act more, be it as the killer or not. But not having any other characters who are enjoyable to watch is making it hard to get through each episode, even when the big reveal about Ba Reum hasn't happened yet. Like I said, maybe I'm too picky.