I know I'm getting dragged for saying this but I still have problems with the plotting. We had seven episodes on the kids, then a two episode flashback with one set of parents, then another two episode flashback for another set of parents that didn't have much overlap or continuity with the previous episodes. Not only that but episode 10 kept jumping back and forth in time for no reason, so it was flashbacks within a flashback episode. It all feels very disjointed, especially because the middle seven episodes don't have the same kind of continuity that the first seven episodes had.
It's not that there aren't great moments in the episodes (especially the Oldboy homage fight in the hallway) but because of the way the narrative is constructed it's constantly yanking us away from people we've become invested in and throwing us into an entirely different setting with new people. The plotting doesn't seem to be a problem for most people but for me it's making it very hard for me to stay interested in the characters. Like by the time we get back to the kids will we even remember what they were up to when we last saw them?
Finally some real messiness out of this show - Irin and Hack are a full on disaster and I am unexpectedly into…
Irin and Hack are bringing the toxicity I was looking for from the beginning and I love it. Florence is so much more interesting than every other FL, it's kind of embarrassing how she blows them out of the water
The backstories are like half of the original webtoon's story and I believe its context is essential before the…
The backstories aren't bad, it's the narrative structure that's weird. It's something that might work well in a webtoon where you can read at your own pace and easily page back to earlier scenes if you've forgotten something. But imo it doesn't work very well in a series where the episodes only drop twice a week and a month can go by before you revisit earlier scenes and characters. I loved the first 7 episodes but four weeks are going by before we revisit the teens. I didn't love eps 8 & 9, but even if I had we're not getting any more story on them for at least three weeks. That's a long gap.
What do you guys btw think about the gore? I did not expect this drama to have this graphic gore. For example…
I agree with you, I was recommending this show to friends of mine and they were interested but then one of them asked me if she could watch it with her kid and I realized wait a minute there's actually quite a lot of graphic violence in this thing. Otherwise it would totally be family appropriate, you have a lot of talk of humanism and values, looking out for other people, and the kids are utterly charming.
If we seriously get 7 episodes about adults now, I'm afraid that it's not gonna maintain its momentum. Even if…
In addition to everything you said, even if you love the romance in episodes 8 and 9 you're not going to see those people together again for at least four episodes. It's a weird narrative choice.
It seems a bit strange to spend 7 episodes on developing the kid characters and talking about the importance of…
I also find the editing and time given to various stories a bit strange. It's a four week gap in the younger generation's story, that's a very long time.
What do you mean back story about a couple? Literally they're the main leads of the drama. I think upcoming episodes…
There were definitely security cameras in 1994. I worked at a video store in 1987 and we had security cameras installed. So the time period had nothing to do with her not expecting cameras.
Frank was a child treated as a bargaining chip between the US and Korea and then abused and exploited for his powers, he's a victim, not a straight villain
To start with... I like this drama.We can see so many good actors in this drama too.I've watched until ep 9....…
I agree with you on eps 8-9, 1-7 was multilayered where you got the relationship development between Bong Seok and Huisoo, some of Huisoo's (badass) back story, some revelations about the parents and their powers plus Frank stalking everyone to add tension. Eps 8-9 were just loooooong and sloooooow scenes of Mi Hyun doing paperwork and Mi Hyun and Doosik sitting under bad fluorescent lighting. Those scenes dragged out for way too long and I wasn't feeling the chemistry.
Yeah, I guess that one of things that people find hard to believe is that even us adults can enjoy the teenagers'…
I agree with you on the development of the adult romance being inorganic. I would have much preferred seeing them on missions together and getting to know each other instead of this weird love at first sight thing on his side, plus the agency manipulating them to develop the romance made it feel less authentic to me. My favorite bits were when we could see where Bongseok got his endearingly goofy personality but it wasn't enough to save these episodes for me.
It's not that there aren't great moments in the episodes (especially the Oldboy homage fight in the hallway) but because of the way the narrative is constructed it's constantly yanking us away from people we've become invested in and throwing us into an entirely different setting with new people. The plotting doesn't seem to be a problem for most people but for me it's making it very hard for me to stay interested in the characters. Like by the time we get back to the kids will we even remember what they were up to when we last saw them?