lord_varvara

it was effin terrible. Boring, stupid, miscast, it's a long list of what went wrong. And it baffles me that they thought that putting more and more focus on it and giving the couple more cringe montages would fix the problem. No, what would have fixed it was discarding the romance altogether and focusing on what worked so well - bromance. But that got resolved in ep 9 and from that moment on it was all dumb romance in the front.

I don't think it's an overstatement. It is very obvious that the "finale" tried to cover up that their star wasn't there to film so they padded the running time with old footage and had the cast sing hosannas to LDW's proxy Yeon. The whole thing felt like a bonus feature on Blue Ray rather than an actual episode. I guess he hoped TOTNT would be his Goblin (as in that he was ML now) but it was just a bad imitation and his lazy too-cool-for-school (read: this drama) shtick got old quickly. So he's to blame for the fiasco too, not just the writer who made a mess out of sheer pandering to his/her star, which left the show directionless with too many underwritten characters (that could have been easily scrapped).

Aint that truth. I honestly have never seen such a thing. Any show and movie that has Good vs Evil premise has at least some clear idea what they want from their villain and hero/villain dynamic since that's the pivot of such stories. However, this drama was completely clueless and they were changing the villain's motivation in each episode. He wants to be Mountain God/Dragon/Whatever...no, scratch that...he wants to be loved cause of some sob story in his past...no, scratch that... he wants rule Samdocheon...no, scratch that...he wanted Granny's son to love only him not his wife or something. Hot mess. No wonder the show crashed and burned. If you lose focus of your hero/villain dynamic, what kind of dynamic you want it to be, everything crumbles. It's writing 101. No rocket science.

I gave it 6 because of Kim Bum, Score and supporting cast. KB and supporting actors had an uphill battle and they did it admirably and the score is fantastic. So I wanted to say "your effort did not go unnoticed" ha ha but otherwise I agree 6 is generous.