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WTF
Imagine writing a good mystery, with clues, and likable detectives, chasing a serial killer
And then make it all crash in the end by
-Not revealing how the culprit did these things and got away, magic? teleportation? The how dunnit is the meat of the genre, the audience speculates who is the culprit based on who could have realistically committed the crime and avoid detection, and then you just don't explain it at all???
-Making both mcs act like idiots and literally do what SK wants them to.
-Having SK whose motive and backstory is so bland and so illogical that you wish there was none at all. Seriously, I've never seen a SK antagonist who would make me feel nothing but irritation. There are awesome serial killers whose power and skill you admire. There are tragic serial killers, with whom you empathize. There are despicable serial killers, whom you love to hate. The culprit here is none of that. They were trying to go for empathy angle, but it failed because of how stupid it all was.
Imagine having this quirky yet annoying female lead with superior fashion sense, who is at the same time portrayed as capable and genius profiler, with possible psychopathic personality..... only to have her act like a lost child in the end and ultimately account to nothing. She failed as a profiler too, her profile of the killer was completely off. She did nothing substantial for the investigation, in fact she made things worse by doing what SK wanted her to. And thus, her entire character feels like a red herring, a walking, talking red herring who easily takes 2/3 of the screentime only to crash and burn.
Seriously, you can't write a quirky genius character and then turn them into useless idiot, we tolerate such characters because they are geniuses, without the genius and capable part, who tf would put up with shenanigans of FL, or any other detective you may know from crime dramas (examples: Monk, Sherlock...)? In fact entire profiling team was useless and it seemed they are there just to waste resources.
What a waste of good acting and good cinematography. I am mad.
You know, I will still give it a fairly high rating because non ironically, the work the actors and director put into this drama is outstanding, but what can they do when the writing department failed?
And then make it all crash in the end by
-Not revealing how the culprit did these things and got away, magic? teleportation? The how dunnit is the meat of the genre, the audience speculates who is the culprit based on who could have realistically committed the crime and avoid detection, and then you just don't explain it at all???
-Making both mcs act like idiots and literally do what SK wants them to.
-Having SK whose motive and backstory is so bland and so illogical that you wish there was none at all. Seriously, I've never seen a SK antagonist who would make me feel nothing but irritation. There are awesome serial killers whose power and skill you admire. There are tragic serial killers, with whom you empathize. There are despicable serial killers, whom you love to hate. The culprit here is none of that. They were trying to go for empathy angle, but it failed because of how stupid it all was.
Imagine having this quirky yet annoying female lead with superior fashion sense, who is at the same time portrayed as capable and genius profiler, with possible psychopathic personality..... only to have her act like a lost child in the end and ultimately account to nothing. She failed as a profiler too, her profile of the killer was completely off. She did nothing substantial for the investigation, in fact she made things worse by doing what SK wanted her to. And thus, her entire character feels like a red herring, a walking, talking red herring who easily takes 2/3 of the screentime only to crash and burn.
Seriously, you can't write a quirky genius character and then turn them into useless idiot, we tolerate such characters because they are geniuses, without the genius and capable part, who tf would put up with shenanigans of FL, or any other detective you may know from crime dramas (examples: Monk, Sherlock...)? In fact entire profiling team was useless and it seemed they are there just to waste resources.
What a waste of good acting and good cinematography. I am mad.
You know, I will still give it a fairly high rating because non ironically, the work the actors and director put into this drama is outstanding, but what can they do when the writing department failed?
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