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I don't really understand the 'diamonds issue' early on: at 4:25, does Hon kill Undertaker because he wanted the others not to know about the diamonds? But they all do later on. (Had to re-watch 2:25 to see who wears which mask to even get that far)

At ~33 minutes, it's not clear to me how & why the others want to ambush / rob / kill Hon. Does he notice just based on them holding handguns?

Major spoiler next:

A bit much silly CGI, an overall gripping story, and acting that's not pure clowning around. Unlike some IMDb reviewers, I really didn't like the body cam part.

Fully understanding the story might require rewinding to earlier moments once or twice.

Very entertaining; at times also very bad.
Sadly the last sequence stops adhering to any previously established universe rules.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_Chen_photo_scandal

- murder charges against Tan vanish. he gets exiled, but returns without issues, and nobody ever looks into his death ledger or trophy collection again. we don't see what trophies he takes from his murders of the two brothers of ML.

- later on, Tan commits mid-air suicide. just why?

- corruption charge against Wi kinda just vanishes.

- Min comes back from a less important post through nothing and takes charge again — just because Wi asks his office for assistance to bully and humiliate the crown prince. I don't follow how he can reclaim Noron leadership. later on he's not even in the mood to lead anything anymore, after he's turned into a heroic good guy.

Is it just me, or does whoever of Sukjong, Yeongjo, Sado, Jeongjo, etc is played by a popular attractive actor always get shown in a more positive light (= as a more benevolent and more competent person), whereas the respective father or previous king is portrayed as more of a tyrant?

I get that Park Moon Soo / Bak Mun-su is some sort of historical corruption-fighting superhero, but after being such a joke character at the start, I couldn't take him seriously later on — neither in his ideological convictions, nor in how he's a (seemingly historically accurate) master of armed combat. Perhaps for me it's not the right choice of actor.

Some plot complaints in the spoiler below.

- the assassin must be on ALL dashcams in the country, not just the victim's, after the murders in ep1
- why does assassin initially want to abduct FL's kids? that just makes more of a fuss out of the "heart attack". VERY counterproductive.
- how does assassin/cleaner have the same listening stickers as the top secret NIS R&D? (in ep14 waved away with "they use them too")
- how does ML control NIS stickers he gets from SFL? he steals them and they're brand new tech, so he surely doesn't have a manual or control software.
- continuing: why can't ML use his NIS sticker to listen to the conversation with the abductors in ep5 to know he doesn't need to rush in guns blazing to rescue FL?
- ep7 secret door should not work with the power off
- ep9 instead of living in his apartment and not leaving, to avoid NIS supervision, ML goes in and out of the house 3x per day to pass messages to FL – of course right under the eyes of hostile NIS agents.
- ep9 how does he get his blue sports car back from police/NIS? he jumped off the bridge where he left it.
- ep11/12 "death protocol" first has everybody die, then has everybody successfully get out, all while being watched from behind? like the two armed officers exited out of the door at the back of the van, but from behind the van doors never opened. just ???.

This is surely in the top5 dramas I've seen in terms of the amount of product placement thrown at the viewer... I'll make sure never to eat at Quiznos, never to shop at Tiffany's, never to drive a Range Rover, and then we have the mandatory red ginseng plastic bags to slurp, and that sudden tacked on advert for face wash, or the FL putting on copious amounts of makeup to have breakfast with her kids at her parents' house...
(And of course the Samsung S-Pen controlling a screen-shared PowerPoint presentation? And that hideous app where your children's faces get transposed onto things.)



Someone else already listed plot complaints: https://kisskh.at/27703-terius-behind-me#comment-5683295 , but I have a few more in the spoiler comment below.

It's a comedy show with action, but not a serious thriller.

Not *really*. I mean: yes, but not clearly shown on screen.

I also thought that initially, but as you see at the start of the next episode, that's because it's someone else's gun.
There's a mistake the way you describe though in the flashback of ML being shot in Poland: he's shot twice from the same silenced gun, but the second shot is much louder.

Viki as another legal streaming platform typically has the same content removed as Netflix – at least that's the case with the Reply series, where all the blurring, swapped out songs, and removed scenes really affect things.

Thirty But Seventeen was available in various countries until two days ago (Jan 09). Right now it's gone from Netflix in all countries but Japan.

Is it just me, or does whoever of Sukjong, Yeongjo, Sado, Jeongjo, etc is played by a popular attractive actor always get shown in a more positive light (= as a more benevolent and more competent person), whereas the respective father or previous king is portrayed as more of a tyrant?

She doesn't get to do more than perhaps 1.5 different facial expressions in this one. It's different in, say, Black.

Nope

How does that make it a 1 out of 10?

About 2/3 into the show, the mystery of who was shown at the start of ep1 is very clearly solved, and explored in depths. Did you skip episodes?

They seemed to have too many episodes in their budget, thus added too many filler storylines, and IMO they messed up all redemptions arcs as well.


For the first third or so, Min Yu Ra is the second most evil character to be seen, and in the last third she's somehow vindicated, but not before taking another life (ultimately unpunishedly). After doing this she satisfiedly dies, and is magically revived in the happy end timeskip segment and adopted into the Good Guys' Family.

The fates of the two male leads are just WTF.

Felt like due to the 'live shoot' system, this show changed halfway through to add more generic K-drama comedy scenes and such that don't fit the tone set initially.