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Short enough to watch
The production with soft lightening and some atmospheric shots, some dialogues, main leads' chemistry and acting were good, but the story used roundabout ways to achieve the plot goals.
The "mystery" part added no value as we knew nothing about the stalker at all. Plotwise it basically served the goal to make Ji Woo walk Yoo Na home + add some tension, post anonymously on the forum. And there're so many more creative and time-consuming ways to do that, because the only relevant plot point was post on the forum, and you don't need a stalker for that - anyone could have done that.
Kim Hye Won's character was annoying and totally irrelevant to the plot. Her crush on the teacher and their resolution was too out of place. As a "friend" character for Yoo Na a simple supporting character would be more than enough.
Kim Nam Joon's character was interesting, but his subplot was left dangling. I looked forward to some development with him abd tge "third roommate", but no - that roommate just vanished from existence. Why was he even introduced? It wasn't rational at all.
So basically much stronger and tight plot for 6 episodes would have the post incident around episode 3, exploration of Ji Woo's uncomfortability, Lee Ro A supporting him but also realizing Ji Woo's far from being ready to come out, and complication of their relationship in the next 3 episodes, with a proper breathing room for falling action. Needless to say without all those irrelevant side characters.
There could be a stalker subplot if these 2 terms were met: the stalker is a character present in the story, whom we follow closely and the series is at least 8 episodes long.
The "mystery" part added no value as we knew nothing about the stalker at all. Plotwise it basically served the goal to make Ji Woo walk Yoo Na home + add some tension, post anonymously on the forum. And there're so many more creative and time-consuming ways to do that, because the only relevant plot point was post on the forum, and you don't need a stalker for that - anyone could have done that.
Kim Hye Won's character was annoying and totally irrelevant to the plot. Her crush on the teacher and their resolution was too out of place. As a "friend" character for Yoo Na a simple supporting character would be more than enough.
Kim Nam Joon's character was interesting, but his subplot was left dangling. I looked forward to some development with him abd tge "third roommate", but no - that roommate just vanished from existence. Why was he even introduced? It wasn't rational at all.
So basically much stronger and tight plot for 6 episodes would have the post incident around episode 3, exploration of Ji Woo's uncomfortability, Lee Ro A supporting him but also realizing Ji Woo's far from being ready to come out, and complication of their relationship in the next 3 episodes, with a proper breathing room for falling action. Needless to say without all those irrelevant side characters.
There could be a stalker subplot if these 2 terms were met: the stalker is a character present in the story, whom we follow closely and the series is at least 8 episodes long.
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