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I don't remember any Netflix show having 20+ episodes, not just any K-drama. I still think they are going to divide the show into 2 or 3 parts, whether they are going to call them "seasons" or not. So maybe the postproduction team is going to finish at least the first part in April. I guess they finished to film those episodes months ago. And the final episodes will be released this autumn or even at the beginning of the next year. It would give enough time to work with them.

Hyper Knife?

But Jang Gun Yeong also was at the same war and he was wounded, they confirmed it earlier. I would like some scenes showing the same or maybe different war experience and how the similar circumstances made them so different.

By the way, when Gi Tae opened the hatch, I thought he would throw a few grenades there, because he thought it's a Vietkong's tunnel, and then they would show it was a shelter for a bunch of civilians, like, maybe kids. And that slaughter would make Gi Tae lose his humanity and turn him into a callous and ruthless killer we see in the show, like "there is no coming back for me after that, so I guess I can do whatever needs to be done."

I don't understand what happens to this drama. At first it was set for 2025. Then even the release date was set for September 2025. However it becomes 2026 and now it's almost 2027. Well, it's December, 2026, but they won't manage to show the entire drama this year.

Was it really shot last year? Has the filming finished?

Finally. That has been one of the most anticipated K-dramas for me. I hope it's a smart show exploring some interesting ideas and philosophical questions. It should be a pyramide: first, you try to explore ideas, second, you create universe, and characters for this exploration, third, they interact to each other, events happen and form a narrative, fourth and last, character have feelings from their interactions. Ideas -- the world and characters -- the narrative -- feelings. Not just feelings (and some narrative in the best case).

In some way it's just a trolley dilemma: you can either push the button, so the trolley either will change direction and crush one person. or do nothing and it will continue to move and crush a group of people. Are you ready to kill actively a human being, or let your inaction to kill a entire bunch of them? Add some extra circumstances, and it will be even more complcated.

Finally. That has been one of the most anticipated K-dramas for me. I hope it's a smart show exploring some interesting ideas and philosophical questions. It should be a pyramide: first, you try to explore ideas, second, you create universe, and characters for this exploration, third, they interact to each other, events happen and form a narrative, fourth and last, character have feelings from their interactions. Ideas -- the world and characters -- the narrative -- feelings. Not just feelings (and some narrative in the best case).

In some way it's just a trolley dilemma: you can either push the button, so the trolley either will change direction and crush one person. or do nothing and it will continue to move and crush a group of people. Are you ready to kill actively a human being, or let your inaction to kill a entire bunch of them? Add some extra circumstances, and it will be even more complcated.

Why would you even think about it? My first idea was about the trial and error method. Like with lab rats and guinea pigs.

> Yes, maybe it won't work, so they will die. Well, that's for the greater good, don't worry, it's fine.
> Oopsie, they really died. Okay, let's change the procedure in this way and find another test subject.
> Oh, it has finally worked. Well, I guess I don't need to kill anyone anymore, so that's good, isn't it?

What did happen to the perpetrators at the end of episode 14? Are they all dead? How did reporter Go explain all those deaths? Like, there was a criminal organization, they used to sell a scamming criminal franchise, now they are killed. Killed by whom? Or they destroyed bodies, so the entire hypothetical crime organization allegedly vanished.

I mean the prosiecutor may be a retiree, but at least the policeman was real, he was officially employed by the government, someone had to give him orders about his daily work, someone paid him the salary. Yes, he might have been corrupted, but he was real and official, and now he is either killed or vanished. Someone even attacked and burnt the police station. Did Go mention it had been him? It's destruction of the government property. So the investigation about the cop and the station is needed. Or were the cop and the station fake? Well, that's even more to investigate. Especially after it became the national news.

We have the boat and the crew, who can tell about a weird taxi visiting the island first time in history. Even Go is vulnerable. So the Raibow Taxi is under the spotlight. Why were they so cheerful?

I guess the drama has basically part 1 and part 2 they called "seasons," but it's not common seasons. Season 1 has only 6 episodes, yes. However season 2 also consisting of 6 episodes is being filmed now and set to be released this new year, this summer or autumn.

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.

> She lives for one purpose: assassinate Sato Shinichi and "die gladly" after avenging her daughter.

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.

The show also makes Jang Gun Yeong kinda dumb, because he can't catch Gi-tae that early (or ever).

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.

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."

It's the most viewed show on Disney+ in several countries last week, including South Korea itself. We'll see how it will turn for the next episodes.

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.

Didn't they work in The Negotiation together? Anyway it would be interesting.

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.

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.