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I thought Kim Jung Hyun did Kokdu and Mr Queen post his scandal, but I may be wrong. About Choi Tae Joon, I feel he is criminally underrated and undercasted despite his talent. So, you might be right that he got tired of waiting for good ml roles and took what he got. It breaks my heart for him.
Well, this was weak. The villains weren't scary the heroes and the non-villains weren't giving me any feeling.
The first season wasn't perfect and had its plot holes and inconsistencies, the biggest being the ending. But it succeeded for me in telling a story and bringing out several emotions, heartbreak, anger, horror. This season neither told a story, nor did it have any time for emotion. Even though it was faster pacewise than the first season and a lot of stuff was happening, it didn't give time to tell a coherent story. It didn't feel like a second part of the Gyeongseong creature story, it felt like a collection of scattered events.
I was wondering in the first season: how did Chae ok land in water? didn't she die in Tae sang's arm? did he drop her body in a water body? That part was merely to give us this second part? which isn't worth it.
I thought the first season was complete in itself. I loved it. It was telling a horrific and heartbreaking story. And in that story were the beautiful and heart-touching stories of friendship, comradery, love, forgiveness, bravery. I think Che Ok's death was the perfect ending of that story. It was a time of unfathomable loss and unforgettable sacrifices. So, there was no need to bring Chae Ok back for this. I mean. i think too that she deserves the life she got in the ending of s2, but not going through a non-story like this after her heartrending story in S1. Instead, this season kind of makes the sacrifices and losses of everyone in the last absolutely hollow when they start with Gato's book on the shelf of book shops and Gato's son heading such a huge lab. And then that flashback of Tae Sang's people.
The only times i wanted to ff in season 1 were the times of the gruesome torture scenes because it was unstomachable for me, but i didn't. because people went through torture like that and more during that time, so i didn't want to disrespect by ffing. But here i was tempted to ff a million times because so much dumb stuff was happening (this is the most incompetent police i have seen and the dumbest ever) but i didn't, out of sheer confoundment that how can a story like that become events like these. Utterly disappointed.
The performances were solid. In both the seasons.
p.s. did that old lady pretend to be Maeda before Gato's son or it was just to throw us off? If it's the latter, bad execution. just for one scene? And if it was for gato's son, it doesn't make sense. Shouldn't he know that Maeda was alive because everyone else working in that place knows this.
I have finally started watching and loving how athletic Chae Ok is. Should I be saying that I am loving the story since it's a story of horrifying events, depicts the calamity of wartime and human greed perfectly. The monster is an apt manifestation of how far humans' monstrosity can go. So, I'll just say that the show is telling a story, and I am invested.
And please someone give me hope that Gato dude will be devoured slowly and excruciatingly by his "Goddess".
So happy that it's dropping all the epis at once. I was waiting for this season to finish to binge watch both the seasons together, and the wait was looong. Glad that the wait will be over soon.
This is the only mystery in any Thai show that had me looking forward to its demysteryfication. I was impressed by how they successfully answered the most essential question of the mystery, why 4 minutes, in 8 epis. NGL, I was sure that that was gonna be left unanswered as I have seen done in many k-mysteries. They solve the whole case but leave the core part out, not as a stylistic choice, but for lack of ability to give a good conclusion. Or just they just give the silliest reason. No name coming to my mind right now, but I remember thinking this in many series. I love that in this they made the mystery of 4 minutes the slip knot tail.
This is essentially a mystery show, so imo, the love stories were a bit unconvincing for me owing to the undercookedness.
For Korn-Tonkla, i didn't believe that korn loved tonkla so much to give his life on Tonkla's loss. I believed Tonkla loved Korn. It was developed in the little time it got, yet was something. But I never saw Korn doing anything for Tonkla after the first "meet-cute" at Tonkla's cat's funeral. Then he was busy with managing his fam and fam biz, proving his worth to daddy, and a little bit taking care of Great. he was a good son and brother, that i saw, but not a good bf to Tonkla. And then he offed himself and went to his 4 minutes where he was shown to be wishing to be with Tonkla forever. So if i had to take it as his real wish and all he had been doing till that point was just things he had to do, i will need a little more convincing than that scene.
For Great-Tyme, Great's 4 minutes convinced me that Tyme liked him a lot, but that was not the reality. Irl, Tyme approached Great with a motive, slept with him, leaked his videos, got followed by Great a few times and went on a date with him and smiled a little. saved by him, was disgusted by his selfishness and cowardice (i think 99 % of humans are that way or the world would have been a better place) that he chose himself over a random girl and wished peeps like him were dead, then felt guilty on finding out that Great might actually die. Then his 4 minutes was filled with Great instead of a collage of Great, Tyme's mom and dad, and his granny. So, again I am not convinced.
I totally believed the ending tho. Well i wanted something to be a little different. I was fine with Gtreat-tyme's together time because that could be how their relationship starts, after going thru everything, and their deep love begins. Totally organic.
All the other times I hate open endings. i don't wanna think what happened offscreen by myself, I wanna see it. But this one time, i wished the show ended at when they were checking the watch fearing that this could be another 4 minutes, and the minute hand was stuck at 3. but then it moved to 4. I wanted it to stay stuck and 3 and let everyone including the viewers guessing, is it a 4-minutes? A perfect ending to this well-done mystery show.
These are a few observations which did not reduce my enjoyment watching the show. Surprisingly, the show did a good job not hodgepodging the different threads of the story.
And the chemy was steamy like my glasses needed oft-wiping. And the acting was what i expect from a BOC show. I mean, they gave me my queen, Thankhun. What more needs said.
The first season wasn't perfect and had its plot holes and inconsistencies, the biggest being the ending. But it succeeded for me in telling a story and bringing out several emotions, heartbreak, anger, horror. This season neither told a story, nor did it have any time for emotion. Even though it was faster pacewise than the first season and a lot of stuff was happening, it didn't give time to tell a coherent story. It didn't feel like a second part of the Gyeongseong creature story, it felt like a collection of scattered events.
I was wondering in the first season: how did Chae ok land in water? didn't she die in Tae sang's arm? did he drop her body in a water body? That part was merely to give us this second part? which isn't worth it.
I thought the first season was complete in itself. I loved it. It was telling a horrific and heartbreaking story. And in that story were the beautiful and heart-touching stories of friendship, comradery, love, forgiveness, bravery. I think Che Ok's death was the perfect ending of that story. It was a time of unfathomable loss and unforgettable sacrifices. So, there was no need to bring Chae Ok back for this. I mean. i think too that she deserves the life she got in the ending of s2, but not going through a non-story like this after her heartrending story in S1. Instead, this season kind of makes the sacrifices and losses of everyone in the last absolutely hollow when they start with Gato's book on the shelf of book shops and Gato's son heading such a huge lab. And then that flashback of Tae Sang's people.
The only times i wanted to ff in season 1 were the times of the gruesome torture scenes because it was unstomachable for me, but i didn't. because people went through torture like that and more during that time, so i didn't want to disrespect by ffing. But here i was tempted to ff a million times because so much dumb stuff was happening (this is the most incompetent police i have seen and the dumbest ever) but i didn't, out of sheer confoundment that how can a story like that become events like these. Utterly disappointed.
The performances were solid. In both the seasons.
p.s. did that old lady pretend to be Maeda before Gato's son or it was just to throw us off? If it's the latter, bad execution. just for one scene? And if it was for gato's son, it doesn't make sense. Shouldn't he know that Maeda was alive because everyone else working in that place knows this.
And please someone give me hope that Gato dude will be devoured slowly and excruciatingly by his "Goddess".
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This is the only mystery in any Thai show that had me looking forward to its demysteryfication. I was impressed by how they successfully answered the most essential question of the mystery, why 4 minutes, in 8 epis. NGL, I was sure that that was gonna be left unanswered as I have seen done in many k-mysteries. They solve the whole case but leave the core part out, not as a stylistic choice, but for lack of ability to give a good conclusion. Or just they just give the silliest reason. No name coming to my mind right now, but I remember thinking this in many series. I love that in this they made the mystery of 4 minutes the slip knot tail.
This is essentially a mystery show, so imo, the love stories were a bit unconvincing for me owing to the undercookedness.
For Korn-Tonkla, i didn't believe that korn loved tonkla so much to give his life on Tonkla's loss. I believed Tonkla loved Korn. It was developed in the little time it got, yet was something. But I never saw Korn doing anything for Tonkla after the first "meet-cute" at Tonkla's cat's funeral. Then he was busy with managing his fam and fam biz, proving his worth to daddy, and a little bit taking care of Great. he was a good son and brother, that i saw, but not a good bf to Tonkla. And then he offed himself and went to his 4 minutes where he was shown to be wishing to be with Tonkla forever. So if i had to take it as his real wish and all he had been doing till that point was just things he had to do, i will need a little more convincing than that scene.
For Great-Tyme, Great's 4 minutes convinced me that Tyme liked him a lot, but that was not the reality. Irl, Tyme approached Great with a motive, slept with him, leaked his videos, got followed by Great a few times and went on a date with him and smiled a little. saved by him, was disgusted by his selfishness and cowardice (i think 99 % of humans are that way or the world would have been a better place) that he chose himself over a random girl and wished peeps like him were dead, then felt guilty on finding out that Great might actually die. Then his 4 minutes was filled with Great instead of a collage of Great, Tyme's mom and dad, and his granny. So, again I am not convinced.
I totally believed the ending tho. Well i wanted something to be a little different. I was fine with Gtreat-tyme's together time because that could be how their relationship starts, after going thru everything, and their deep love begins. Totally organic.
All the other times I hate open endings. i don't wanna think what happened offscreen by myself, I wanna see it. But this one time, i wished the show ended at when they were checking the watch fearing that this could be another 4 minutes, and the minute hand was stuck at 3. but then it moved to 4. I wanted it to stay stuck and 3 and let everyone including the viewers guessing, is it a 4-minutes? A perfect ending to this well-done mystery show.
These are a few observations which did not reduce my enjoyment watching the show. Surprisingly, the show did a good job not hodgepodging the different threads of the story.
And the chemy was steamy like my glasses needed oft-wiping. And the acting was what i expect from a BOC show. I mean, they gave me my queen, Thankhun. What more needs said.