Good that you dropped this! I don't think that you can comprehend a complex drama like this which is more about…
You went back to school for a cyberbullying degree, and now you can silence others who speak their views online? I guess that too is some form of accomplishment...
This could have been four to six hours shorter, and that still would have given more than enough time to flesh out some side characters / couples more.
Another 2-3 licensed songs wouldn't have hurt, either. For 18 hours and this many flashbacks, there's a palpable lack of variety.
1. Unknown2. None are two-sided3. The classic "can't live without each other", I suppose4. Uhhh... perhaps not?…
The ML claims he was shy about the FL not liking how he looks, so he did not reveal himself until she recognises him (but they regularly met for weeks in the same place).
In other dramas that might happen with similar pretense, or pretending to be strangers might be a joke between the two characters.
1. Unknown2. None are two-sided3. The classic "can't live without each other", I suppose4. Uhhh... perhaps not?…
The ending of TWTWB you can take as: – reality: a simple few-months flash forwards, basically just skipping rehab time for both – ML's dream, with FL dead (less reasonable; unless the scene of her having survived and adapting is his imagination, while the reuniting scene after is hers) – FL's dream, with ML dead – ML's coma / "hopeful imagination in moment of death" – FL's coma / "hopeful imagination in moment of death" – ML's & FL's common, literal, afterlife, after both die semi-simultaneously; basically heaven
Pick any!
You can't take ML & FL meeting at the restaurant & talking like strangers as the inside joke of a couple. That is dispelled by the dialogue.
1. Unknown2. None are two-sided3. The classic "can't live without each other", I suppose4. Uhhh... perhaps not?…
Some stuff happens at the end and it's up to the viewer how to interpret it. It's not an "open" (unclear/stops suddenly) ending but a "consider it to be how you want it to" ending.
The leads aren't 'together' before that, so them *never* actually getting together is a potential way to take it.
At around 4 minutes into the first episode there's the first taste-of-things-to-come scene.
The ML seemingly throws an undercover cop off a building, to his death. Or at least we see the policeman fall to his death from a rooftop, and the male lead stands at the top of the building and reports "it has been taken care of" into his phone.
What is the point of this scene? What is the message? For the first 85% of the show, the ML tries very hard not to become a murderer. If he was one to begin with, more notably killing a policeman, what is the point?
I read the comments here and didn't understand-why all of them say that the ending is a sad ending when it's clearly…
The drama ends with a post-highlights ~8 seconds shot of the ML in a busy street wearing an out-of-character white suit and talking on the phone. That is the hint to him being alive, I suppose, though he looks gangsterish there none the less – and it doesn't make much sense that just a bit earlier his "ghost" appeared before the FL (in his old hideout).
The writer's ill-conceived whodunnit from the early episodes ruins everything. It comes to an absolutely idiotic resolution and the last two or three episodes are far out there. I feel generous giving it a 5/10. Some plot ideas get regurgitated so much that dialogue bits are copy-pasted as well. The more Game of Thrones-y elements feel like they've been thrown in for pure shock value. The OST variety is sub-par; the camerawork / direction / acting are fairly so-so. Every time I have excessively high hopes for a drama, they're crushed bitterly.
Another 2-3 licensed songs wouldn't have hurt, either. For 18 hours and this many flashbacks, there's a palpable lack of variety.
In other dramas that might happen with similar pretense, or pretending to be strangers might be a joke between the two characters.
– reality: a simple few-months flash forwards, basically just skipping rehab time for both
– ML's dream, with FL dead (less reasonable; unless the scene of her having survived and adapting is his imagination, while the reuniting scene after is hers)
– FL's dream, with ML dead
– ML's coma / "hopeful imagination in moment of death"
– FL's coma / "hopeful imagination in moment of death"
– ML's & FL's common, literal, afterlife, after both die semi-simultaneously; basically heaven
Pick any!
You can't take ML & FL meeting at the restaurant & talking like strangers as the inside joke of a couple. That is dispelled by the dialogue.
The leads aren't 'together' before that, so them *never* actually getting together is a potential way to take it.
What is the point of this scene? What is the message? For the first 85% of the show, the ML tries very hard not to become a murderer. If he was one to begin with, more notably killing a policeman, what is the point?
Some plot ideas get regurgitated so much that dialogue bits are copy-pasted as well.
The more Game of Thrones-y elements feel like they've been thrown in for pure shock value.
The OST variety is sub-par; the camerawork / direction / acting are fairly so-so. Every time I have excessively high hopes for a drama, they're crushed bitterly.
Maybe wouldn't have been "appropriate" TV material.