K-Drama 
If you don't mind being confused...
I liked this show for the 1st four episodes. After that, I kept asking for consistency, clarity, and comprehension. And I got none of it.
This might not bother you, the reader, but this show forgot the most important rule in Sci-fi. If you make your own world, and then bend it, you have to set and abide by the rules related to the bending. A writer has to be consistent with their make-believe logic.
And our show’s writer did not abide by this. She fell into the same trap of the character she was trying to critique. I believe she didn’t know the full story of “W: Two Worlds Apart”. Maybe she knew 2 episodes worth? She set rules and laid logic, guided the audience to understand the story’s premise, then threw out those rules selectively whenever it benefitted her.
~So, I just looked up the writer to make sure I got her gender correct only to discover she won a writing award for this show. (rubs temple) So this is gonna be fun.~
After a while, nothing made sense.
Who can travel in and out of the comic book world? After episode 5… everybody.
Who has the power to publish the comic book in the real world affecting the plot in the fictional? The dangerous but true answer… the comic book is self-publishing.
Who is the enemy? Beats me.
How many times can a timeline be restarted or rejuvenated? Nobody’s keeping count so… restart the timeline and, while we’re at it, bring a character back to life.
Is there a balance between what a character magically knows and what they have to discover? Characters don’t have to discover anything after ep 6.
And what might happen if our protagonist confronts new obstacles? Give him a new talent and skill out of thin air.
The show is a slight criticism of an author who sells a marketable premise but doesn’t know how to tie up loose ends. Ironic… I think the show’s author is guilty of the same crime. The fictional author in the show loses his inspiration for his comic book and is stuck writing a story with no conclusion. After ep 4, you can say the same thing for the show.
Rules were broken all the time. Logic was manipulated to benefit its current episode. I know its Sci-Fi, and there’s creative liberties, but state those liberties early on and hold to them throughout the show. Don’t forget or evolve halfway through. I’m aware it might be a language barrier thing, maybe I missed something in the plot development, but this isn’t my first meta-world rodeo, and I’m confident that my expectations for story clarity and logic are not outrageous.
There’s a podcast that I listened to related to this show and I was gob smacked at how similar one of the hosts was to me. He said out loud everything I was thinking to myself. I included the link below.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w-two-worlds-apart-full-k-drama-review-ep-4/id1576157542?i=1000529696787
This might not bother you, the reader, but this show forgot the most important rule in Sci-fi. If you make your own world, and then bend it, you have to set and abide by the rules related to the bending. A writer has to be consistent with their make-believe logic.
And our show’s writer did not abide by this. She fell into the same trap of the character she was trying to critique. I believe she didn’t know the full story of “W: Two Worlds Apart”. Maybe she knew 2 episodes worth? She set rules and laid logic, guided the audience to understand the story’s premise, then threw out those rules selectively whenever it benefitted her.
~So, I just looked up the writer to make sure I got her gender correct only to discover she won a writing award for this show. (rubs temple) So this is gonna be fun.~
After a while, nothing made sense.
Who can travel in and out of the comic book world? After episode 5… everybody.
Who has the power to publish the comic book in the real world affecting the plot in the fictional? The dangerous but true answer… the comic book is self-publishing.
Who is the enemy? Beats me.
How many times can a timeline be restarted or rejuvenated? Nobody’s keeping count so… restart the timeline and, while we’re at it, bring a character back to life.
Is there a balance between what a character magically knows and what they have to discover? Characters don’t have to discover anything after ep 6.
And what might happen if our protagonist confronts new obstacles? Give him a new talent and skill out of thin air.
The show is a slight criticism of an author who sells a marketable premise but doesn’t know how to tie up loose ends. Ironic… I think the show’s author is guilty of the same crime. The fictional author in the show loses his inspiration for his comic book and is stuck writing a story with no conclusion. After ep 4, you can say the same thing for the show.
Rules were broken all the time. Logic was manipulated to benefit its current episode. I know its Sci-Fi, and there’s creative liberties, but state those liberties early on and hold to them throughout the show. Don’t forget or evolve halfway through. I’m aware it might be a language barrier thing, maybe I missed something in the plot development, but this isn’t my first meta-world rodeo, and I’m confident that my expectations for story clarity and logic are not outrageous.
There’s a podcast that I listened to related to this show and I was gob smacked at how similar one of the hosts was to me. He said out loud everything I was thinking to myself. I included the link below.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w-two-worlds-apart-full-k-drama-review-ep-4/id1576157542?i=1000529696787
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