I don't know Korean language. But doesn't Ga Gyeong mean "a person from the capital?" it's like more a nickname (for a homeless child or an amnesiac adult) or a miltary call sign, than a proper name. Like a former ISIS leader was named Al Baghdadi. Lee, well, is a very common surname, So Lee Ga Gyeong is like to be "Seoulian Lee", or to call a British person "Londoner Smith." A person without almost any proper name, past, biography, connections -- well, maybe, according their accent they are from the capital, but it's a pretty big city.
Jang Gun Yeong and O Ye Jin - how did they find out where the trade (fish market) will take place? How did they…
Yes, that's what I thought. Remember how Jan Gun Yeong asked his investigator to get everything they had on the Ikeda clan, They should have a moment with the investigator saying about the fish market as their base of operation.
Did ML really kill BGJ? If she hadn't threaten him with his meeting with Ikeda Yuji, maybe he'll spare her, yes?
Perhaps. I'm not still convinced though.
1. We didn't see the Baek Geum Ji's body. The show isn't afraid to show viewers people being killed or their dead bodies. But in this case it was just a black screen and shots. Maybe it wasn't her, but her brother and driver being murdered.
2. Cheon Seok Jung literally said Hwang Guk Pyeong not to do silly things and just keep an eye on her after he had suggested to murder her. Either Hwang was set up before his bosses (Cheon, for example), or she isn't dead. But now Hwang is dead too, so the former option wouldn't work, would it? I'd like to see a scene between Gi-tae and Cheon Seok-jung before with Gi-tae saying Hwang is unhinged and for some reason tried to kill BGJ/had her killed, and Cheon okaying Hwang elimination which happens later.
Anyway I don't understand BGJ's motivation. Cho Yeo Jung was charming and moving, but I couldn't get what she tried to achieve after she had been surviving in that world for so long (she does look like she is at least in her late 30s). Everybody told her to GTFO to the US and occasionally threatened her, nobody supported her, she didn't have cards to play except the baby.
I know a woman is a writer, and I can't see any point of the episode and the character except trying to make female audience sad, "Oh, she is just a poor woman who wanted to be loved and was betrayed by those bad pesky men. Just like me."
I liked the first episode. What is going on with the laugh?
Did you watch episode 2? Gi-tae and his junior from KCIA discussed how the prosecutor's father had been in an asylum for 20 years. He obviously doesn't fit to the current South Korean society and refuses to play by common rules. The laugh may or may not be a hint for some hereditary neurological/mental issues of the character who focused on his goal and doesn't care about possible costs, including personal ones. Probably the message is sometimes the society needs a literal crazy, insane person on an important job to achieve just some level of justice, because any sane person would feel they have to get along with it, because there is too much power behind criminals, because it's in national interests, because this or that.
There wasn't any sex scene, nudity or even a kiss in first 2 episodes. It's a political crime drama thriller, and overwhelming majority of scenes are about various crime, investigations and East Asian politics of 1970s. But one of the main character (yet to be introduced) is an owner of the high-profile brothel for members of the elite. We'll see, how it's going.
Yes, they were. But all Rainbow Taxi's members were competent enough in general and outstanding in their respective fields. Sometimes Choi Gyeong Gu and Park Jin Eon served as comic relief, but they weren't silly, and jokes weren't made at their expense. That's why the show had been working. It used to be a team project.
The show's creators put their main characters through traumatic experience and dramatic ordeals, but they weren't cruel to any of them and didn't make them to be cruel and/or condescending to each other.
You can just not watch it because you hate it so much. You weren't forced to watch it. They've always been like…
Is this site only for puff pieces? I thought it's for critics too. Can anybody criticize anything, or critic in general is forbidden, because it might offense someone, so anyone has just to suck it up and be silent?
I watch this season, because I loved season 1, it's one of my favourite K-dramas of all time. I also liked season 2, but I didn't love it, because it had too much levity, so I hoped season 3 would return to its roots and be more dramatic and serious. I wrote it here before the premiere. The first couple of episodes had its flaws, but they seemed to be a step in a right direction.
Both previous seasons didn't have that issue I write about, that's why I write about it. All Rainbow Taxi's members were competent enough in general and outstanding in their respective fields. Sometimes Choi Gyeong Gu and Park Jin Eon served as comic relief, but they weren't silly, and jokes weren't made at their expense. That's why the show had been working. It used to be a team project. If those issues were in the first season, I would have just stopped watching in the middle of the season and forgot about it. But it is the show I have really liked for years suddenly changing the style and direction. So here I am.
What can I say? Deal with it. You can just stop reading me. Or maybe I write things one should think about.
I am watching episode 11 now, and I have to take a break, because it's too much. I have already complained how this season turned Choi Gyeong Gu and Park Jin Eon, aerospace engineers and the most intelligent and educated members of the Rainbow team, into a couple of incompetent clowns. And here we are again! Gyeong Gu does another dumb thing, and then Kim Do-gi says a basic obvious thing, like it's some kind of revelation. I am so annoyed, you wouldn't believe. I'm not angry or mad, because it's just a TV show, but I am being really, really annoyed right now.
The show was delayed because of KDW being arrested for a DUI just after they finished filming, then postponed…
I know about the cast issues. Well, I have seen 4 episodes and I can say it's both. The show is mediocre in terms of performances (from pretty bad to pretty good) and subpar in term of writing.
Can someone explain me the scene with the Baek siblings and their mother's memorial scene. Why weren't the middle sister bowing? She was just standing at the door of the room and watching at her brothers. I Is it a gender thing? think I remember daughters doing it for their late mothers in other Korean shows. Was it some kind of statement from her? She seemed to be loyal to Ki-tae in the next scene of the supper, so she wouldn't challenge him like this.
The show is pretty great, and it may become the best K-drama of 2025 for me. Can they stick the landing of the season and the show in general? I had some hope for Nine Puzzles (both shows are from Disney+), but it didn't stick the landing, the ending was predictable, but unsatisfying at the same time. Tempest also had its highs, but the lows were too low, and I ending and motivations of the characters were very underwhelming, even disappointing.
This show has had spme flaws, and it remains to be seen, if those flaws are fatal. I like they made it a bit of competence porn. Like. there isn't anything superheroic or extraordinary, just people doing their jobs properly. So I thought the certain actions of Jang Gun Yeong toward the ending of the episode 2 had some hidden agenda. No, it happened to be just a mistake, and example of incompetence and negligence. It's all double hijacking once again.
Hyun Bin has been immaculate, it might become my favourite male performance of the year (the female one is Dear X, of course): charismatic, charming, precise (I want to see how the character changes in different circumstances, so we'll see). Jung Woo Sung's performance is a bit peculiar, especially his manner of laughter is weird and a bit uncanny., But I hope it's a future plot point, and as much a sign of his hereditary mental issues (his father has been in an asylum for 20 years) as his dogged determination at work. that's why he doesn't fit (someone may say he is normal, it's the "normal" society that's actually mental).
I also like some other things, Maybe they are common knowledge for Koreans, Japanese and other Asians, but they aren't very well known for Westerners. Like the structure and Korean origin of a huge part of Japanese yakuza. Or interesting cooperation of North Korean, South Korean and Japanese special services in the illegal drug industry despite complicated historical relationships between countries.
Quite honestly, I still don't understand what's with the sudden shift in the ML's character.In S01 and S02, he…
To be honest, I would be okay with Rainbow Taxi eliminating villains. Just show me a consistent and plausible character ark leading to that. I would believe in it in season 2, but they made a step back and turned the season into something light-hearted with music performances and whatnot. Or it might have been some events at the beginning of season 3 shocking the team, so they became a bit unhinged. That would work for me too.
But it didn't happen, and there is no main storyline in season 3, like in season 1 and 2. It's just a vigilant procedural now, a collection of unconnected stories from one vigilant's life with some secondary, almost useless colleagues. So there isn't any space for character growth, progression or even the opposite, regression and spiraling into righteous vengeful insanity. Things just happen to the main character, and that's it.
The best season of this show is still season one, good acting and stunts, clear punishment for the antagonists,…
Well, we see it with ratings and score. Season 1 and season 2 had 8.8 and 8.9 on MDL, but season 3 has had just 8.2 (and it was 8.1 a few weeks ago). I don't know if it's made up by streaming and international numbers, but ratings of season 2 in South Korea were between 13 and 18%, season 2 finale got 21% nationally, season 1 was between 12 and 15%, season 3 barely gets about 10-11%. The audience decreased 1.5, maybe even 2 times. Numbers are still very good, but they aren't outstanding anymore. But again, maybe viewership specifically depends on streaming more than few years ago, I don't know.
honestly the ending of ep 10 was a little weird. like did she let go because she thought he might fall with her…
She gave up. Furthermore, she gave up long time ago. Kim Do-Gi had said it a few minutes earlier, "Everyone has their failures, but you have been spiraling just after one failure." She could have made a real successful agency, she had an eye for potential idols and knew how to train them. In sport many successful coaches are former athletes who didn't reach real success or realize their potential, because of various unfortunate circumstances (like accidents, injuries and so on). But she decided to harm young girls to make them "pay" for what had happened to her decades ago (when majority of them haven't even been born). So it was easy for her to give up once again.
Is Ga Gyeong So Ran's long lost daughter? Or is So Ran Sato Shinichi's vanished wife? I hope not. That would be too soapish.
1. We didn't see the Baek Geum Ji's body. The show isn't afraid to show viewers people being killed or their dead bodies. But in this case it was just a black screen and shots. Maybe it wasn't her, but her brother and driver being murdered.
2. Cheon Seok Jung literally said Hwang Guk Pyeong not to do silly things and just keep an eye on her after he had suggested to murder her. Either Hwang was set up before his bosses (Cheon, for example), or she isn't dead. But now Hwang is dead too, so the former option wouldn't work, would it? I'd like to see a scene between Gi-tae and Cheon Seok-jung before with Gi-tae saying Hwang is unhinged and for some reason tried to kill BGJ/had her killed, and Cheon okaying Hwang elimination which happens later.
Anyway I don't understand BGJ's motivation. Cho Yeo Jung was charming and moving, but I couldn't get what she tried to achieve after she had been surviving in that world for so long (she does look like she is at least in her late 30s). Everybody told her to GTFO to the US and occasionally threatened her, nobody supported her, she didn't have cards to play except the baby.
I know a woman is a writer, and I can't see any point of the episode and the character except trying to make female audience sad, "Oh, she is just a poor woman who wanted to be loved and was betrayed by those bad pesky men. Just like me."
The show's creators put their main characters through traumatic experience and dramatic ordeals, but they weren't cruel to any of them and didn't make them to be cruel and/or condescending to each other.
I watch this season, because I loved season 1, it's one of my favourite K-dramas of all time. I also liked season 2, but I didn't love it, because it had too much levity, so I hoped season 3 would return to its roots and be more dramatic and serious. I wrote it here before the premiere. The first couple of episodes had its flaws, but they seemed to be a step in a right direction.
Both previous seasons didn't have that issue I write about, that's why I write about it. All Rainbow Taxi's members were competent enough in general and outstanding in their respective fields. Sometimes Choi Gyeong Gu and Park Jin Eon served as comic relief, but they weren't silly, and jokes weren't made at their expense. That's why the show had been working. It used to be a team project. If those issues were in the first season, I would have just stopped watching in the middle of the season and forgot about it. But it is the show I have really liked for years suddenly changing the style and direction. So here I am.
What can I say? Deal with it. You can just stop reading me. Or maybe I write things one should think about.
This show has had spme flaws, and it remains to be seen, if those flaws are fatal. I like they made it a bit of competence porn. Like. there isn't anything superheroic or extraordinary, just people doing their jobs properly. So I thought the certain actions of Jang Gun Yeong toward the ending of the episode 2 had some hidden agenda. No, it happened to be just a mistake, and example of incompetence and negligence. It's all double hijacking once again.
Hyun Bin has been immaculate, it might become my favourite male performance of the year (the female one is Dear X, of course): charismatic, charming, precise (I want to see how the character changes in different circumstances, so we'll see). Jung Woo Sung's performance is a bit peculiar, especially his manner of laughter is weird and a bit uncanny., But I hope it's a future plot point, and as much a sign of his hereditary mental issues (his father has been in an asylum for 20 years) as his dogged determination at work. that's why he doesn't fit (someone may say he is normal, it's the "normal" society that's actually mental).
I also like some other things, Maybe they are common knowledge for Koreans, Japanese and other Asians, but they aren't very well known for Westerners. Like the structure and Korean origin of a huge part of Japanese yakuza. Or interesting cooperation of North Korean, South Korean and Japanese special services in the illegal drug industry despite complicated historical relationships between countries.
Good for him. Is it newsworthy though?
But it didn't happen, and there is no main storyline in season 3, like in season 1 and 2. It's just a vigilant procedural now, a collection of unconnected stories from one vigilant's life with some secondary, almost useless colleagues. So there isn't any space for character growth, progression or even the opposite, regression and spiraling into righteous vengeful insanity. Things just happen to the main character, and that's it.