I dont agree with your view on suicide and since it is a sensitive topic I have to adress it.You cant compare…
I liked your comment and explanation. And I think I came off seriously saying the stuff I said in my comment.
My comment was meant as a sarcasm. I am going through a difficult time in my life and it was hard to finish the drama. But i stuck through it to know what they do with the ending and they didn't disappoint me by disappointing me.
From the beginning the tone of the show seemed like sermonizing the suicidal sinners. Every time i saw Death's self righteous smug face it enraged the hell out of me. They took a sensitive topic and made an adventure sport out of it. On top of that the whole punishing the evil man seemed so out of context of preaching which is the theme of the show. I'd have much liked to watch a drama about a man being unfairly killed and death giving him these chances to save himself and take revenge.
Experiencing others' life can make one's own decision seem stupid. But like you said real life doesn't work like that. So I am watching this but not experiencing. So if while having a difficult time and trying to stop all bad thoughts one sees this they may think, oh so the pain may not end even after death because Death's techy a$$ might get offended because she's called before she made the call and the consequence could be infinitely more painful for the eternity. This doesn't stop bad thoughts, this makes one more anxious.
If they wanted to convey a message that life is precious and you are not alone and when you go you leave the ones who love you behind, hurt, etc., they should have picked a 0 condescending tone.
The only thing I liked about the drama is watching my favorite actors.
It was entertaining and sufficiently triggering for my anxiety (all the 'if you kill yoself u r going to be burnt alive in hell for the eternity but also life is unpredictable so u might lose your job and never get a job again' part). I have one confusion tho. The story is about Cho Yi Jae and his arc. Him killing himself for his miserable condition or that's what he thought because when you think you are miserable think again cos there's at least one person or more than that who's more miserable than you so take a deep breath and think about the people who love you and suck it up. But from the first episode of killing himself to the last episode of realizing what he did wrong that death was trying to hammer home for 7 episodes, where does taking revenge/punishing Park Tae Woo for the atrocities he did against CYJ's incarnations fit? Also, since everything resets in the last episode, won't Tae Woo monster be alive again?
It was surprisingly a chill watch for a saeguk. I usually run opposite from saeguks unless they have my favorite actors, then i just bite the bullet. Saeguk's have unfailingly heavy palace politics and intolerable unfairness towards commoners, especially women, regardless of promising a comedy, or romance or any light theme. Therefore, I always prepare myself for some degree of trauma. However, this one was really a comedy, romance, like the tags promised. The romance part was not that heart-fluttering for me but the whole story was very enjoyable. The characters were well written. My favorite was FL's mil. She was a very interesting character and i kept looking forward to her next move. Overall, had a good time watching this.
Okay, I understand that Pudtarn doesn't remember her parents cause she's Keraked. But in her situation even it was the real Pudtarn she could have a memory loss because of post traumatic amnesia. But her aunt is like, u can't you remember your parents because u r heartless. 😶
A mini makjang, faithful to its genre. I liked it. I love me some easy revenge story. Sung Hoon was as usual, hot, and his Do Guk was a sweetheart. I liked Jung Yoo min a lot. She's pretty and can act. I loved Oh Seung Yoon's acting. He felt too real as a character for a makjang. He played the pathetically helpless yet a dick Se Hyeok very convincingly. But my star players in this are the three older ladies, DO Guk's badass granma, his mom and Yi Joo's stepmom. I wanna see the latter two in a a drama as leads.
In episode 5 how the sugar guy is blackmailing Mok Ha with the video that he'll leak it if she doesn't listen. She could blackmail back that she'll say sugar paid her for it so their name gets dragged and smeared too.
My comment was meant as a sarcasm. I am going through a difficult time in my life and it was hard to finish the drama. But i stuck through it to know what they do with the ending and they didn't disappoint me by disappointing me.
From the beginning the tone of the show seemed like sermonizing the suicidal sinners. Every time i saw Death's self righteous smug face it enraged the hell out of me. They took a sensitive topic and made an adventure sport out of it. On top of that the whole punishing the evil man seemed so out of context of preaching which is the theme of the show. I'd have much liked to watch a drama about a man being unfairly killed and death giving him these chances to save himself and take revenge.
Experiencing others' life can make one's own decision seem stupid. But like you said real life doesn't work like that. So I am watching this but not experiencing. So if while having a difficult time and trying to stop all bad thoughts one sees this they may think, oh so the pain may not end even after death because Death's techy a$$ might get offended because she's called before she made the call and the consequence could be infinitely more painful for the eternity. This doesn't stop bad thoughts, this makes one more anxious.
If they wanted to convey a message that life is precious and you are not alone and when you go you leave the ones who love you behind, hurt, etc., they should have picked a 0 condescending tone.
The only thing I liked about the drama is watching my favorite actors.
This is jmo.
Sorry, it was a long rant. Hope you understand.
p.s. Kim Jae Wook is my bf.