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I had just finished watching Baker King Kim Tak Goo when I started watching this. I was very reluctant to start this because Giant and BK had similar period of time as the setting, and BK was far from my favorite drama. But Giant was just so awesome that I couldn't even think that there was another drama that was set around the same period.
Giant is one of the best korean drama ever produced.

The best thing about this drama: Ma Jun, and not even in every episodes.
I liked little Ma Jun when he tried to save his grandmother and asked her to forgive his mother in return.
I liked little Ma Jun that was proudly running away from home after he found out that he wasn't his father's son.
I liked little Ma Jun that was cowardly taking step by step to the back as he watching little Yu Kyung got abused by her father.
And the only time when I liked the adult Ma Jun was when he said; "I'm sorry for not telling you earlier. And I'm sorry... for being born." to his registered father.

I can't believe that I actually finished this show. While it wasn't the worst drama out there, for me it was the least deserved drama I ever gave my time to, subjectively speaking. Tak Goo was okay but he was barely an inspiring character, and his magic (you know, turn people to love him) only worked in Disney world.

A really naive drama. At the earlier episodes, I found the only thing that the supposed-good characters deserved was to die. So this man who was married had a son with his wife's servant, and it was his wife fault? Because she couldn't bear a son? Not to mention he was so cold to his wife, and the husband's mother was acting all supportive about the affair (because the wife's servant was her favorite girl).
Then at the later episodes when the husband's mother found out that the wife had a son with her husband's secretary, she (the husband's mother) treated her daughter-in-law like a complete evil traitor.
And they (the supposed-good characters) dared to act like an angel, the victim of the devils. Gah, at least the villains weren't as prudent and pretentious. It was basically their fault that the villain got more and more villainous.

I fell asleep so many times, and skipped so many parts. It was a fun series, yes, but I wasn't really having fun when I watched it. The whole drama was so lighthearted, even the events that it didn't take lightly still felt 'light'. I mean they were independence fighters of a colonized country, but that fact simply had no 'weight'. Though, from the last 20 or 30 minutes of episode 15 till the last five minutes of the drama was like, super awesome. But it also felt like watching a whole different drama, meant a pity that the previous 15 episodes weren't anything like that.
And I got this really weird feeling that even the actors were bored when they were acting.

I stopped watching at episode 14. I was marathoning it, I wasn't annoyed or bored. I even thought I would finish it all the way. But then something butted in and I had to stop from watching it for a while, then I realized that I didn't care. I didn't care about the characters, story, plot, music, cinematography, or anything at all. For God sake the only character I felt happy when he/she popped out on the screen was Gyo Tae, and the only scene that amazed me was the one when Ari was tortured.