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Absolutely terrible, one of the worst k-dramas I've ever watched
There are plenty of reviews here about this drama that will tell you more or less the same that I'm going to write, and yet I feel the need to write my own review to get it out of my system, it's the least I deserve after enduring 16 hours of whatever this sh*t was trying to be.
You can make food mixing any ingredients you want sure, it doesn't mean it's going to taste good. Here they just started mixing anything they could think of in a bowl and still wanted people to think it tasted nice because *BABIES*.
Science fiction? More like kick the science into the sun. This is fiction only, and terrible one at that. If you actually think about watching this just forget any science you know.
It could have been interesting really, reproduction in zero gravity/space is actually an interesting topic, but this is not it at all.
I'm not going to lie they got me interested in the beginning with the nice space shots and station and a plot that had certain level of potential as a sci-fi fan. Until around episode 5 I thought it was not very good but somehow watchable and I could excuse certain things if they went in the right direction. But oh boy, they didn't.
By that point I was already very over the side characters (Santi being the most passable one) because they were so unprofessional and I was wondering what the hell were they doing in there, how are they qualified astronauts? The lottery subplot was so astronomically lame that I spent the whole time face-palming very hard. It's only there so ML can use them for his purpose. You'll see a pattern in this show, ML is the centre of the universe and everything changes or works for him no matter what.
By episode six the purpose of this drama was clear, pro-life propaganda galore.
Eve was interesting in the beginning before they decided it was only a tool to be used by ML as needed to prove the point. They changed her from professional and capable to weak and very subjugated to patriarchal ML. It's just such bad writing of a character, who changes to the opposite personality because of some guy seriously. It was such a terrible writing I feel insulted.
Once they have sex in space the plot was extremely predictable and followed the presented agenda.
I can't even start to explain how much I despise ML in this show!!!!! He's a massively egocentric piece of man-child, and his tantrums were so pathetic and such an embarrassment to see (and at points they dwell on it so much... what a drag...). How this guy qualified as a gynecologist is a mystery to me and it's not someone that I would want to have as a doctor for sure. The plot with trying to create a viable morula in space for the the rich was already a plot that I was not going to enjoy at all (and the rich suffer zero consequences in the end, I gotta laugh...), but the fact he would put himself on the line like that for a bunch of cells for a rich family he didn't technically even like had me actually disgusted. What is even the plot here? it was pathetic. Oh, some rich woman that wants to have a kid from the sperm of the dead husband like if she was that desperate to have a child she could have had one on her own or adopted but blood, right? UGH. She wanted to get away from that family but at the same time wanted to have a kid tied to that family? What?
ML getting that ballistic and risking the lives of so many already alive people for a bunch of cells when he provokes the fire (for starters) was rage inducing. And he just goes worse from there.
Anyone that tells me that I'm a "murderer" because I discarded some cells going by the laws and rules of my job and position would be dead to me, zero chances of friendship or anything else (especially when he's not frigging qualified, he spent his time mansplanning her job to her, it was absolutely DISGUSTING). As mentioned, they just changed Eve to his level so the plot could work, it was so weak and sexist.
We're never told why he's so damn obsessed with that morula anyway. I could have understood it if he was going to be paid billions or some sentimental reason that made him forced to do it but he just did it because he passionately loves cells I guess. Thing is that not even his character was consistent because he cared more about that morula that he did for the miscarried baby of Go Eun at the beginning of the show and then later he's way more composed when he asks Eve to go back to earth even though it actually means the death of his precious baby. So which one is it? And the fact that at that point they reversed personalities with Eve being the stubborn one, I can't even!!!! Terrible writing!!
I started despising every moment ML appeared on screen, so you can imagine how difficult it was to finish this thing.
He should have gone to jail, but obviously he didn't, and everything worked out fine for him in the end. I mean, considering how he treats Eve most of the time and how obsessed he's with babies I think the ending was perfect for him. He got the baby he wanted and doesn't have to compromise in any way with Eve. Please, let's not forget he shook her by the collar as well when the morula he was trying to implant was confiscated and destroyed. He showed physical violence towards her and yet they want you to try and sympathise with him? Are you serious? So he has verbally insulted her multiple times and been physically violent towards her as well and somehow he's still the hero and the centre of the story and they want us to understand his point of view. Everyone around him is wrong, he's right! Narcissist much? He doesn't even think two seconds about if what he's doing is right, he only thinks about himself. His ego is the size of a star, that for sure.
I feel like I need to point out that I have no problem with morally questionable characters, grey characters and even evil characters, what I don't want is having them pushed down my throat like they're actually good when it's clear they're not. Here obviously there was a political agenda at the core of the story so I guess they really needed to make people sympathise with him and convince viewers that if those are the laws and rules then they're wrong and need to be changed (I mean, I saw so many people already siding with him when Eve discarded the first morulas). But obviously without much actual explanation of the realities of space reproduction or even pregnancy in general because keeping people ignorant enough stirs the agenda in the direction you want.
Most of the side characters were pretty useless and only added padding there. Dong A cheats on Eve and it's pretty much never brought up. Gang Su had a more interesting character but ultimately not much is done with him other than having him walking from one side to another and small talking. Go Eun was interesting in the beginning only to fall into useless background character that panics when something happens. That scene when ML is supposed to put the morula in the pediatrician and when the people from the space agency appears to stop it she starts screaming and "what should we do" like her whole character and persona were thrown down the trash there.
ML's mothers don't add much to the story and what are the chances one of them would be FL's mother? Plot said so. The way she treated FL when went to visit her, so the show could teach us how bad mothers that abandon their children are. Zero nuances and a crazy level of bad taste, she's just pure evil, but also the show couldn't commit to something more with that so by the end is just forgotten, I imagine because OBVIOUSLY you're going to forgive your precious blood related biological mother.
Acting might be good? Can't really tell when the characters and plot are so bad really. None of the acting matters because good or bad acting the story is so bad they can't save it.
The ending is the cherry on top of bad, I thought it couldn't get worse but somehow they managed. They also obviously brushed off the more science-y problems of everything shown in the end because otherwise it wouldn't work. Not sure why they didn't just do it from the beginning, just go full on crazy fantasy sci-fi and call it a day. Them "trying" in the beginning is absurd considering how the story follows. I'm sure it would have also been cheaper than trying to make a more realistic environment and whatnot. They keep telling ML how he's risking his life but he of course does it anyway, and because he's the centre of the universe he doesn't die soon no, he's still lucky to be able to rise the kid and be happy he sacrificed his legs and eyes for her daughter even though it could have been prevented.
Kudos to the writer for getting paid for this level of bad writing, that's really an achievement.
The only recommendation I'll be making to people about this show is to avoid it like the plague.
You can make food mixing any ingredients you want sure, it doesn't mean it's going to taste good. Here they just started mixing anything they could think of in a bowl and still wanted people to think it tasted nice because *BABIES*.
Science fiction? More like kick the science into the sun. This is fiction only, and terrible one at that. If you actually think about watching this just forget any science you know.
It could have been interesting really, reproduction in zero gravity/space is actually an interesting topic, but this is not it at all.
I'm not going to lie they got me interested in the beginning with the nice space shots and station and a plot that had certain level of potential as a sci-fi fan. Until around episode 5 I thought it was not very good but somehow watchable and I could excuse certain things if they went in the right direction. But oh boy, they didn't.
By that point I was already very over the side characters (Santi being the most passable one) because they were so unprofessional and I was wondering what the hell were they doing in there, how are they qualified astronauts? The lottery subplot was so astronomically lame that I spent the whole time face-palming very hard. It's only there so ML can use them for his purpose. You'll see a pattern in this show, ML is the centre of the universe and everything changes or works for him no matter what.
By episode six the purpose of this drama was clear, pro-life propaganda galore.
Eve was interesting in the beginning before they decided it was only a tool to be used by ML as needed to prove the point. They changed her from professional and capable to weak and very subjugated to patriarchal ML. It's just such bad writing of a character, who changes to the opposite personality because of some guy seriously. It was such a terrible writing I feel insulted.
Once they have sex in space the plot was extremely predictable and followed the presented agenda.
I can't even start to explain how much I despise ML in this show!!!!! He's a massively egocentric piece of man-child, and his tantrums were so pathetic and such an embarrassment to see (and at points they dwell on it so much... what a drag...). How this guy qualified as a gynecologist is a mystery to me and it's not someone that I would want to have as a doctor for sure. The plot with trying to create a viable morula in space for the the rich was already a plot that I was not going to enjoy at all (and the rich suffer zero consequences in the end, I gotta laugh...), but the fact he would put himself on the line like that for a bunch of cells for a rich family he didn't technically even like had me actually disgusted. What is even the plot here? it was pathetic. Oh, some rich woman that wants to have a kid from the sperm of the dead husband like if she was that desperate to have a child she could have had one on her own or adopted but blood, right? UGH. She wanted to get away from that family but at the same time wanted to have a kid tied to that family? What?
ML getting that ballistic and risking the lives of so many already alive people for a bunch of cells when he provokes the fire (for starters) was rage inducing. And he just goes worse from there.
Anyone that tells me that I'm a "murderer" because I discarded some cells going by the laws and rules of my job and position would be dead to me, zero chances of friendship or anything else (especially when he's not frigging qualified, he spent his time mansplanning her job to her, it was absolutely DISGUSTING). As mentioned, they just changed Eve to his level so the plot could work, it was so weak and sexist.
We're never told why he's so damn obsessed with that morula anyway. I could have understood it if he was going to be paid billions or some sentimental reason that made him forced to do it but he just did it because he passionately loves cells I guess. Thing is that not even his character was consistent because he cared more about that morula that he did for the miscarried baby of Go Eun at the beginning of the show and then later he's way more composed when he asks Eve to go back to earth even though it actually means the death of his precious baby. So which one is it? And the fact that at that point they reversed personalities with Eve being the stubborn one, I can't even!!!! Terrible writing!!
I started despising every moment ML appeared on screen, so you can imagine how difficult it was to finish this thing.
He should have gone to jail, but obviously he didn't, and everything worked out fine for him in the end. I mean, considering how he treats Eve most of the time and how obsessed he's with babies I think the ending was perfect for him. He got the baby he wanted and doesn't have to compromise in any way with Eve. Please, let's not forget he shook her by the collar as well when the morula he was trying to implant was confiscated and destroyed. He showed physical violence towards her and yet they want you to try and sympathise with him? Are you serious? So he has verbally insulted her multiple times and been physically violent towards her as well and somehow he's still the hero and the centre of the story and they want us to understand his point of view. Everyone around him is wrong, he's right! Narcissist much? He doesn't even think two seconds about if what he's doing is right, he only thinks about himself. His ego is the size of a star, that for sure.
I feel like I need to point out that I have no problem with morally questionable characters, grey characters and even evil characters, what I don't want is having them pushed down my throat like they're actually good when it's clear they're not. Here obviously there was a political agenda at the core of the story so I guess they really needed to make people sympathise with him and convince viewers that if those are the laws and rules then they're wrong and need to be changed (I mean, I saw so many people already siding with him when Eve discarded the first morulas). But obviously without much actual explanation of the realities of space reproduction or even pregnancy in general because keeping people ignorant enough stirs the agenda in the direction you want.
Most of the side characters were pretty useless and only added padding there. Dong A cheats on Eve and it's pretty much never brought up. Gang Su had a more interesting character but ultimately not much is done with him other than having him walking from one side to another and small talking. Go Eun was interesting in the beginning only to fall into useless background character that panics when something happens. That scene when ML is supposed to put the morula in the pediatrician and when the people from the space agency appears to stop it she starts screaming and "what should we do" like her whole character and persona were thrown down the trash there.
ML's mothers don't add much to the story and what are the chances one of them would be FL's mother? Plot said so. The way she treated FL when went to visit her, so the show could teach us how bad mothers that abandon their children are. Zero nuances and a crazy level of bad taste, she's just pure evil, but also the show couldn't commit to something more with that so by the end is just forgotten, I imagine because OBVIOUSLY you're going to forgive your precious blood related biological mother.
Acting might be good? Can't really tell when the characters and plot are so bad really. None of the acting matters because good or bad acting the story is so bad they can't save it.
The ending is the cherry on top of bad, I thought it couldn't get worse but somehow they managed. They also obviously brushed off the more science-y problems of everything shown in the end because otherwise it wouldn't work. Not sure why they didn't just do it from the beginning, just go full on crazy fantasy sci-fi and call it a day. Them "trying" in the beginning is absurd considering how the story follows. I'm sure it would have also been cheaper than trying to make a more realistic environment and whatnot. They keep telling ML how he's risking his life but he of course does it anyway, and because he's the centre of the universe he doesn't die soon no, he's still lucky to be able to rise the kid and be happy he sacrificed his legs and eyes for her daughter even though it could have been prevented.
Kudos to the writer for getting paid for this level of bad writing, that's really an achievement.
The only recommendation I'll be making to people about this show is to avoid it like the plague.
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