so.. since sena and raik have already found back to each other, do we think there's gonna be that "the public finding out about their relationship and it being a huge hurdle" thing that sometimes comes along with these kinds of romances? i'm wondering how they'll handle it if it does happen, but i wanna believe they won't go down that route, or it will be handled aptly if it does 👀 but i think with the drama being only 12 episodes we won't have another major fallout between the leads though. the writing has been absolutely stellar so far so i'm really excited to see how the second half will turn out, besides the whodunit plot.
Yes, I understand you, I'm also totally annoyed at reading the same complaints over and over again… I'm too…
tbh i think it is that bad.. i assume you're not on sites like twitter (hopefully not lol) but i have seen people in fandoms act in ways so insane that i can't even begin explaining. and it's not even just kdrama fandoms but all kinds of different communities where the focus is on fictional media. people are like this everywhere and i feel like it's a combination of the modern state of the internet, young people growing up in this kind of environment, and actual literacy rates declining in general.. it all does contribute to a lack of critical thinking, reading comprehension, empathy etc. i think it got especially bad during and after covid, there is a lot of research on this too.
It is baffling to me that a drama can very clearly spell out a characters issues over 6 episodes - like to the…
yeah they're actually so on the nose about it here that it's insane to even misunderstand them, i could see it happening with dramas that aren't as "clear" about it but the characters here are literally having reflective monologues so.. 💀
sungkyung prettiest woman in kdramaland and that's not up for debate!! i can't wait for this, she picks good projects! 3 of her shows are some of my all time favorites and chae jong hyeop seems to fit so well with her 🥹
Notice how it's always the romance dramas that skillfully blend various genres together where someone will come…
yeah it's always those 😠his previous drama was the same even though there it was literally crucial for the FL's character development/to show the theme of the narrative and i was still in the trenches every week bc some didn't like that it was also a romance drama.. in general people need to curb their expectations based on the genres of the drama they're watching. so much criticism turns out to be redundant when you realize it's basically just that person wanting something completely different out of what they're being offered.
rewatching this is not enough i need them on my screen again omg 💔a little analysis because i miss this drama and it's just so so well written..
daon doesn't believe in god, wears the necklace of his mother solely because it's a keepsake. but maybe the only time he ever has uttered a prayer must have been the very moment kang bitna dies in the hospital in front of his own eyes. "if justice is alive, i believe the law will protect me." he says when they first meet in court. in ep. 7, when she brings him home and reminds him to not get confused, he says "no, you're good." believing in the goodness in her even after she tells him not to. throughout all his suspicions, the one thing that makes him waver again and again is her sincere belief in him, in that he did not have any part in his family's death, something he still couldn't believe himself even years after it happened. he clings to that so much even to a point of saying "but what i said then was all true" ("thank you for believing in me and telling me it wasn't my fault"), while literally trying to arrest her. the reason he fell so deeply for her is because he grew attached to her words (this emotionally starved man, lol) and became so convinced that she's of good character. that's why he goes to such great lengths to confirm his suspicions and why he's so taken aback when they're true. by that time daon already fell for her, even when he thinks he's still just a detective trying to prove if she's a killer. (of course he only ever admitted he doesn't actually want to catch her, doesn't want her to be the one who did it, while he was absolutely shitfaced drunkㅋㅋㅋ) what makes him so complex is that even then he knows he has to arrest her and does so because of much he believes in his duty to the right thing. that is, of course until the big bomb drops. conversely bitna initially takes a liking to him because he has such solid convictions that aren't easily found in other humans. this is exactly why his character's sudden collapse in ep. 8 is so shocking to her, because how could someone like him with such a steady belief in the law fall from grace so easily? when the one thing that was anchoring him to that belief is taken away. cue her first tears. she keeps seeing how broken soyeong's death left him, how severe his trauma and past is, and with the roots of her empathy already having grown throughout the drama, her own character starts "collapsing" as well, because she too fell in love with him. and all it took was him wearing his heart on his sleeve and constantly showing her how much she's moved him. her rock solid plan of going back to hell once she finds killer J starts having cracks all over it—after all he is the one who's caused daon's suffering and she can't stand his suffering anymore; nor the suffering of all these victims. just like she does when he's faced with the decision wether to kill J himself, daon tells her in ep. 13 "i trust you, so do what feels right" before she ends up making the decision to punish jung taegyu rightfully by law. a solid proof of condemnation of his crimes & a vow that the law shall not leave any victims alone. in the end, god recognizes what she's done and grants her life once more. but in a way it was daon's own belief in her that ultimately brought her (and so justice itself) back to life.
but i think with the drama being only 12 episodes we won't have another major fallout between the leads though. the writing has been absolutely stellar so far so i'm really excited to see how the second half will turn out, besides the whodunit plot.
in general people need to curb their expectations based on the genres of the drama they're watching. so much criticism turns out to be redundant when you realize it's basically just that person wanting something completely different out of what they're being offered.
daon doesn't believe in god, wears the necklace of his mother solely because it's a keepsake. but maybe the only time he ever has uttered a prayer must have been the very moment kang bitna dies in the hospital in front of his own eyes.
"if justice is alive, i believe the law will protect me." he says when they first meet in court. in ep. 7, when she brings him home and reminds him to not get confused, he says "no, you're good." believing in the goodness in her even after she tells him not to. throughout all his suspicions, the one thing that makes him waver again and again is her sincere belief in him, in that he did not have any part in his family's death, something he still couldn't believe himself even years after it happened. he clings to that so much even to a point of saying "but what i said then was all true" ("thank you for believing in me and telling me it wasn't my fault"), while literally trying to arrest her. the reason he fell so deeply for her is because he grew attached to her words (this emotionally starved man, lol) and became so convinced that she's of good character. that's why he goes to such great lengths to confirm his suspicions and why he's so taken aback when they're true. by that time daon already fell for her, even when he thinks he's still just a detective trying to prove if she's a killer. (of course he only ever admitted he doesn't actually want to catch her, doesn't want her to be the one who did it, while he was absolutely shitfaced drunkã…‹ã…‹ã…‹)
what makes him so complex is that even then he knows he has to arrest her and does so because of much he believes in his duty to the right thing. that is, of course until the big bomb drops.
conversely bitna initially takes a liking to him because he has such solid convictions that aren't easily found in other humans. this is exactly why his character's sudden collapse in ep. 8 is so shocking to her, because how could someone like him with such a steady belief in the law fall from grace so easily? when the one thing that was anchoring him to that belief is taken away. cue her first tears. she keeps seeing how broken soyeong's death left him, how severe his trauma and past is, and with the roots of her empathy already having grown throughout the drama, her own character starts "collapsing" as well, because she too fell in love with him. and all it took was him wearing his heart on his sleeve and constantly showing her how much she's moved him.
her rock solid plan of going back to hell once she finds killer J starts having cracks all over it—after all he is the one who's caused daon's suffering and she can't stand his suffering anymore; nor the suffering of all these victims. just like she does when he's faced with the decision wether to kill J himself, daon tells her in ep. 13 "i trust you, so do what feels right" before she ends up making the decision to punish jung taegyu rightfully by law. a solid proof of condemnation of his crimes & a vow that the law shall not leave any victims alone. in the end, god recognizes what she's done and grants her life once more. but in a way it was daon's own belief in her that ultimately brought her (and so justice itself) back to life.