seeing him crying on the floor while she called his name gave me the ick LOL. and yeah like everyone else has been saying, the whole tortured-ML and the FL's sudden upheaval are so forced
I think it’s really cringy, to the point I felt secondhand embarrassment watching some scenes 😭 Kim Yoo jungs…
yeah she made song kang's acting look good lmao... it sounds like she's reading off a script. hopefully her acting improves once the nerves have settled or something
production dumbed down this character a lot just for sake of prolonging plot
yeah, him favoring junmo over all the other members so blatantly and frequently was a cheap cop out. made him look like he possessed 0 emotional intelligence
I do...and I will. He wasn't a good person, just because he had love for FL or emotions or he was innocent in…
the director clearly tried to illustrate that the ML had become more depraved than gichuel (was willing to target family members). this is such a awful take
Jung Gaechul was a drug dealer and a Gangster, who knows how many kills where under his belt before he reached…
dont let some comments on here dehumanize him. committing piracy or dealing drugs and committing “eye for an eye” killings are depraved, but nowhere near betraying or killing innocent/well-intentioned people. despite everything gicheul had gone through, he had a good heart and was even a better individual than junmo (the scene where junmo suggests targeting family members it meant to illustrate how much more evil than gicheul he’s become). he also considered euijung and junmo his family that he wouldve done anything for. they gave him hope. he was ready to pass down his empire to JM. gicheul’s blood is on their hands despite him not succeeding in doing what he was about to do at the very end.
Q: In genre works, the femme fatale character often takes a form that transforms the 'Tazza' (Korean gambling film) character. How did you set up Hae-ryeon?
A: At first, I also wanted to go with a strong character like a 'Tazza' character. Her first appearance isn't too strong or stylish, is it? But as she gradually steals Jun-mo's heart, I tried to make her feel pure, like a child. The fun of watching such a character like Hae-ryeon lies in it. Even though Ui-jung is a warm wife to Jun-mo, there is also a transformation in her becoming colder.
guys its been 10 hrs since i finished this and im still sobbing every now and then when i think of GC. betrayal…
been so long since ive been emotionally impacted by something i watched like this. the last thing that ever incurred this level of emotion was cowboy bebop
idk why i was so invested but i was sobbing during the final episode? awaiting the final reveal, it was practically physically painful. seeing JM go into cop-mode seriously made me break out in chills. i kept contrasting his first goofy appearances with the way he looked towards the end; the way he was carrying himself. it was seriously as though he'd grown 5 feet and another head or something. i was dubious towards how convincingly they would've pulled off showing his whole arc. but the minute he put the cuffs on gicheol, my jaw dropped. and that last confrontation with all three of them was so intense — i don't remember the last time my heart pounded like that while watching ANYTHING. like ive watched hundreds of kdramas and rarely anything anything above a 5/10... i was expecting this to fall-short for me as well.
and this might be an unpopular opinion, but: i hate junmo. yeah, GC was a thug who made it out of the hood with his criminality and ended up betraying people to get to where he was, but his heart wasn't completely hardened. if anything, his actions proved that he was too soft for the game and too foolish, possessing almost a childlike naivety. the scene where he told JM to chill wrt targeting family members was damning. something about the betrayal just made all of this so much rawer. everything he did for euijung and junmo...man. to me, their betrayal is the worst of evil. and if euijung really cared about him, she had a really funny way of going about it. "i wanted you to be a better person...knowing full-well id be breaking your heart in the process 🥹"
no clue why JM didn't just shoot GC's hand or his shoulder or something. but it's fine, all the more reasons for me to hate him. also, haeryeon's arc w/ her caretaker or whatever was so poignant and good!
2. worst of evil
3. empress ki
"They used to be in love, but they broke up. When they meet again, it's about not letting go."
Q: In genre works, the femme fatale character often takes a form that transforms the 'Tazza' (Korean gambling film) character. How did you set up Hae-ryeon?
A: At first, I also wanted to go with a strong character like a 'Tazza' character. Her first appearance isn't too strong or stylish, is it? But as she gradually steals Jun-mo's heart, I tried to make her feel pure, like a child. The fun of watching such a character like Hae-ryeon lies in it. Even though Ui-jung is a warm wife to Jun-mo, there is also a transformation in her becoming colder.
>but as she gradually steals Jun-mo's heart
😭😭😭
and this might be an unpopular opinion, but: i hate junmo. yeah, GC was a thug who made it out of the hood with his criminality and ended up betraying people to get to where he was, but his heart wasn't completely hardened. if anything, his actions proved that he was too soft for the game and too foolish, possessing almost a childlike naivety. the scene where he told JM to chill wrt targeting family members was damning. something about the betrayal just made all of this so much rawer. everything he did for euijung and junmo...man. to me, their betrayal is the worst of evil. and if euijung really cared about him, she had a really funny way of going about it. "i wanted you to be a better person...knowing full-well id be breaking your heart in the process 🥹"
no clue why JM didn't just shoot GC's hand or his shoulder or something. but it's fine, all the more reasons for me to hate him. also, haeryeon's arc w/ her caretaker or whatever was so poignant and good!