Just finished the 1st ep (actually couldn't even finish it) and I'm amazed how bad it started! I read the comments and people saying it's similar to SitR (which is one of my all time faves) made me want to watch it but this drama looks like... idk how to put it but... a colder, more boring, more shallow version of SitR?
First of all, I think it was a mistake of the director to use the same actors/actresses from his previous, extremely similar type of drama. Yes ML can be the same but seeing some other characters from SitR, even though they aren't main ones, somehow felt weird and uncomfortable.
The FL was a horrible choice! I'm sorry to her fans, I don't mean to disrespect but she is one of the most repellent characters I've ever seen. She looks so forced and unnatural. Same goes for the love story. I feel like it's so rushed, unrealistic and badly written. It's like they saw the hype for SitR and wanted to hit the jackpot for making sth similar to that.
I see people saying this drama is a more upgraded version of SitR because it has more mature characters but I for one hardly find 1-2 sane, mature people around myself in real world so in dramas, I don't expect to see characters dealing with life the best way possible, I expect them to deal with it how normal people deal with it; badly! The characters in SitR were, even though some viewers cannot relate to them due to their cultures being way too different, extremely relatable for me, that's one of the reasons why I loved SitR so much.
And for God's sake, someone please tell them to stop playing so many American songs in the background! It really doesn't give your art any kind of depth or intellectualness whatsoever, it just causes our ears bleed!
I'll (try to) keep watching this, solely because I love this type of drama but I hope that it proves me wrong about the things I wrote and I get to have another drama that I keep coming to whenever I look for a safe place to be, just like I do with SitR and MLN.
My Liberation Notes and Something in the Rain are two of my all time favorite dramas and I'd like to watch other dramas with vibes alike. Any recommendations?
I mean I get the hype about this drama. Cool effects, great acting, no cheesy romance etc. but a masterpiece? No. Honestly for me, it would've made a lot more sense if the uncle was really dead. The things he did to his little niece just so "she could learn how to survive" was really absurd to begin with. I know it's just a show but there are things that, though unacceptable, at least make sense; and there are things that just make the character look like an a**hole instead of a "cool guardian" and the latter is probably what the producers was aiming for but failed imo (unless you're an LDW fan). And it got no better when the niece grew up. He taught every single person that did wrong to her their lesson well but then a boy came, claiming to be his niece's very close friend, and our ML, who is an extremely cautious person as supposed to be, trusted him even with his computer. Later, he found out that the boy was some psychopath but instead of wiping his existence from the world, he set up a scene to make himself look dead and left his clueless niece figure every little thing out on herself i mean WHAT??? Come on now! You care about your niece so much that you inherit a huge but extremely illegal business to her (well... that's also pretty absurd), you dont tell her any freaking thing about it, and you literally present her to the mercy of your worst current enemies and also possible enemies (as you're doing an extremely dangerous business, literally everyone is a potential enemy) and you know damn well that they murdered your whole family!!? Another type of cliche for me was the good person/bad person twist of characters. For example, why would MinHye try to fool the FL by talking and acting suspiciously instead of straight up telling her about what's going on and trying to gain her trust more easily and quickly? The twists in other main characters like Pasin, Brother and Jung Min were also very poorly handled and totally predictable. And of course, making a looong speech instead of killing your enemy when you have them completely helpless, right under your hands waiting for one final gun/blade shot and as a result, causing them slip through your fingers is another repetitive cliche in this drama, just like in many others. The flashbacks didn't bother me much until the last 2-3 episodes but the final episodes were too boring and draggy that I played them at x1.5 speed, sometimes x2. Though the production make it seem like this drama is a huge deal, the plotline is actually pretty simple; a couple of immoral soldiers make bad things and they often get scolded by their boss and because of that, they hold a grudge against him. That's it, that's literally what the whole thing is all about even though they tried to polish the story. And I can't be the only one who thought of the way Bella stopping the Final War in Twilight Breaking Dawn while watching JiAhn making her speech to stop that huge group of punks ready to loot the place? Both ladies literally prevented a possible barbaric fight with some "convincing" talking to huge group of people who are thirsty for blood? lol... seriously? Overall, I gave it an 8 because of the effects, the almost non-stop action and of course acting; I'm not saying it's a waste of time to watch, though I wouldn't watch it again; but it definitely lacked in many areas and not as spectacular as claimed here. Of course everyone has their own taste and I'm not here to judge. But I must say that I'm not excited for a s2.
Usually I enjoy this type of dramas and after reading the comments, I decided to watch it and had high hopes. But I've literally been dragging myself into watching and I'm only at ep4! Can someone please tell me what this drama is about? I mean... Are we watching this to find out if the ML is the serial killer, or if not, who the serial killer is, or is there something else that I missed? Because I cant see myself watching 16 long episodes for something as basic as "who is the serial killer?", which probably ML isn't, even though they will try to make us believe he is by giving him this dark look, antisocial characteristic and some ghost seeing in his early years just to "surprise" us in the final. Btw I wouldn't care if he really is the serial killer because it's the way they deliver the story and so far it's super boring. I dont mean to disrespect the work they've done but guys I live in Turkiye and we have this reality show on TV where they solve this kind of cases and just this morning, a woman confessed to killing her husband with her bf live on tv and the crew of the show, who was in the area that they live to investigate the case, went out there to search for the body and actually found it based on the directions that the woman gave them! So this drama is waay below the level of thrill that I'm used to xD
First of all, I think it was a mistake of the director to use the same actors/actresses from his previous, extremely similar type of drama. Yes ML can be the same but seeing some other characters from SitR, even though they aren't main ones, somehow felt weird and uncomfortable.
The FL was a horrible choice! I'm sorry to her fans, I don't mean to disrespect but she is one of the most repellent characters I've ever seen. She looks so forced and unnatural. Same goes for the love story. I feel like it's so rushed, unrealistic and badly written. It's like they saw the hype for SitR and wanted to hit the jackpot for making sth similar to that.
I see people saying this drama is a more upgraded version of SitR because it has more mature characters but I for one hardly find 1-2 sane, mature people around myself in real world so in dramas, I don't expect to see characters dealing with life the best way possible, I expect them to deal with it how normal people deal with it; badly! The characters in SitR were, even though some viewers cannot relate to them due to their cultures being way too different, extremely relatable for me, that's one of the reasons why I loved SitR so much.
And for God's sake, someone please tell them to stop playing so many American songs in the background! It really doesn't give your art any kind of depth or intellectualness whatsoever, it just causes our ears bleed!
I'll (try to) keep watching this, solely because I love this type of drama but I hope that it proves me wrong about the things I wrote and I get to have another drama that I keep coming to whenever I look for a safe place to be, just like I do with SitR and MLN.
Honestly for me, it would've made a lot more sense if the uncle was really dead. The things he did to his little niece just so "she could learn how to survive" was really absurd to begin with. I know it's just a show but there are things that, though unacceptable, at least make sense; and there are things that just make the character look like an a**hole instead of a "cool guardian" and the latter is probably what the producers was aiming for but failed imo (unless you're an LDW fan).
And it got no better when the niece grew up. He taught every single person that did wrong to her their lesson well but then a boy came, claiming to be his niece's very close friend, and our ML, who is an extremely cautious person as supposed to be, trusted him even with his computer. Later, he found out that the boy was some psychopath but instead of wiping his existence from the world, he set up a scene to make himself look dead and left his clueless niece figure every little thing out on herself i mean WHAT??? Come on now! You care about your niece so much that you inherit a huge but extremely illegal business to her (well... that's also pretty absurd), you dont tell her any freaking thing about it, and you literally present her to the mercy of your worst current enemies and also possible enemies (as you're doing an extremely dangerous business, literally everyone is a potential enemy) and you know damn well that they murdered your whole family!!?
Another type of cliche for me was the good person/bad person twist of characters. For example, why would MinHye try to fool the FL by talking and acting suspiciously instead of straight up telling her about what's going on and trying to gain her trust more easily and quickly? The twists in other main characters like Pasin, Brother and Jung Min were also very poorly handled and totally predictable.
And of course, making a looong speech instead of killing your enemy when you have them completely helpless, right under your hands waiting for one final gun/blade shot and as a result, causing them slip through your fingers is another repetitive cliche in this drama, just like in many others.
The flashbacks didn't bother me much until the last 2-3 episodes but the final episodes were too boring and draggy that I played them at x1.5 speed, sometimes x2. Though the production make it seem like this drama is a huge deal, the plotline is actually pretty simple; a couple of immoral soldiers make bad things and they often get scolded by their boss and because of that, they hold a grudge against him. That's it, that's literally what the whole thing is all about even though they tried to polish the story.
And I can't be the only one who thought of the way Bella stopping the Final War in Twilight Breaking Dawn while watching JiAhn making her speech to stop that huge group of punks ready to loot the place? Both ladies literally prevented a possible barbaric fight with some "convincing" talking to huge group of people who are thirsty for blood? lol... seriously?
Overall, I gave it an 8 because of the effects, the almost non-stop action and of course acting; I'm not saying it's a waste of time to watch, though I wouldn't watch it again; but it definitely lacked in many areas and not as spectacular as claimed here.
Of course everyone has their own taste and I'm not here to judge. But I must say that I'm not excited for a s2.
I dont mean to disrespect the work they've done but guys I live in Turkiye and we have this reality show on TV where they solve this kind of cases and just this morning, a woman confessed to killing her husband with her bf live on tv and the crew of the show, who was in the area that they live to investigate the case, went out there to search for the body and actually found it based on the directions that the woman gave them! So this drama is waay below the level of thrill that I'm used to xD