what about the whole thing about SDJ's wife? wasn't she acting real sus? I guess they just dropped that.
There was a scene where police officer Jang (I think?) overheard her suddenly call a presumed male after Jang asked her some probing questions, and the police made a note to check who she called. That story thread was either left for a Season 3 or forgotten about entirely.
A few things I wish had happened: more interaction with Shi mok and Seo Don Jae before and after kidnapping but…
She (Han) basically has the option to go back to her precinct, but wants to prove the bullies wrong and further her career. That's why she cries after the phone call with her old partner. Not because the two guys from the reform unit are mean to her, but because it means not going back to her comfort zone and the people there.
how is the directing compared to season 1? is their much difference? I'm kinda sad its not the same director but…
It's very different. There are a thousand occasions of the camera lingering on really mundane things; some episodes have a few ambassadorial scenes seemingly made to sell Korean cuisine and culture to foreign viewers; dal.komm is very clearly the official coffee chain sponsor of the show.
I don't recall if the first season also very often skipped over a meeting / conversation and instead fed it to you as voice-overs that a departing character is reflecting upon in their car.
(question bellow) I loved this series so much. Such a good and intricate plot. I was glad Shi Mok could return…
LCJ (Mr. Lee) seems to talk YSW (Mr. Yoon) into properly planning the murder and doing it to serve a 'higher purpose'. LCJ thinks a shock like that is needed to enable true change in society, and saw himself as too far gone to be redeemable, whereas he views SDJ (Mr. Seo) as someone who can still save himself, and expresses that with his final words. Aside, LCJ needs the murder and investigation (full of breadcrumbs) to set up HSM (Mr. Hwang) as the cleansing hero. Only after LCJ and YSW kill PMS (Mr. Park) can LCJ appoint the protagonist to handle the case, ensuring the following course of events.
It's a bit contrived how LCJ would rather die than stand in front of a court as a defendant, and how he can simultaneously both be completely corrupt for years, and a radical reformer secretly recording all of this corruption. Both essentially murdered with the intention of being caught later on, from what I recall.
Kdrama rom-coms have always been too much lovey dovey... that's the reason why most people get hooked to kdrama…
Sorry to barge in here, but OK/notOK definitely deserves a proper chance. I gave it a 9, while this here is only a 6 if I round up generously. It's just leagues beyond competing shows. Rugal to be fair isn't even a 6, besides the action scenes it's completely useless. Horrendous writing.
I'm surprised the rating for this show is still above 7! I guess a lot of people are still enjoying it regardless…
Tae Woong might be the leader on paper, but every time they go out as a team (starting from the earliest episodes), Gi Beom walks ahead and in the centre like he's the coolest and strongest power ranger ever. When he assigns the others absurdly colourful team jackets, he himself gets to still wear the cool guy jacket. It's truly a 12 year old's narcissistic super hero fantasy.
There is a "what the characters do in the future" thing, but the core (political) plot is unresolved enough to allow for a second season. It's a happy ending for the main characters, in terms of having the freedom to choose their own paths.
I feel like the story is gonna be continued, the main villan is still alive and from the looks of it he's still…
He was not "in Rugal" but merely a test subject; while escaping from the lab he killed the father of Mi-Na, which made her become a 'tough police chick'.
The implication is that the mess in his mind was either created or deeply worsened by the human experiment done on him.
It’s not that she lost the ability, i think it’s more she came to terms with it on her own without him and…
I re-watched the initial scene with her father's death, and I still don't understand how it could be prevented by Joon being erased. Just makes no sense.
I think making Ha-Ram a regular human ruins the whole "accept diversity" or "embrace being special" message, because the show in the end says that to be happy, she must not be 'a monster' with that special ability. It would have been much nicer and more wholesome to have her understand and accept what happened (and have Joon/444 demonstrate the guitar play and kissing he practiced).
Well, it's a curse in the sense that every death she prevents will usually backfire in some way, either on her or on others. That's what the 'blind guy' character (other reaper hybrid) is there to show.
whom did ha ram married, after black disappeared. Was it oh man soo
She had a long happy life with a not-shown husband. Just a new arbitrary character. Reaper-Leo kept staying around as a friend and to protect her, as he vowed to Black.
i have big doubt in the ending. how Kang Ha rams soul became young and who is she going with Han mo gang or joon…
Ha-ram jumping into the sea is erased by the timeline reset (erasing Joon's human life). Her parents' car accident was shown earlier in the show, I sadly don't remember when, so I don't know if removing it is complete nonsense or Joon not existing would also prevent the car accident.
In the second timeline she doesn't meet or know Joon / Moo-Gang / the others. But the reaper Leo stays around as her friend.
It's a Joon-revival that she summons by remembering memories of the previous (deleted) reality as she is about to die, triggered by Reaper-Leo's gift. He looks like Moo-Gang because that is how she knows the adult Joon. That the show left out 444's transformation into his real body, 13 year old Joon, is one of the many plotholes. His body was found after his second mother's suicide, after all.
It could hypothetically be 007 looking like him (he can wear the face of someone else?) to "escort her to heaven", but that's even sillier.
such a strong statement, thankyou, putting this in my PTW list!
Your post works as both. I also thought it could have been amazing plot-wise.
If you watch it in the knowledge that the ending is absolutely horrible (due to the dumb ideology of the writer and the director's half-assed attempts to change course), surely the resulting rage won't be as fiery.
It’s not that she lost the ability, i think it’s more she came to terms with it on her own without him and…
No Donny, in the ending as seen on TV her parents never get into an accident, so her father never gets inhabited by a reaper (the previous 444?), and she never is born as a reaper-human hybrid, and just lives a happy life.
The problem is that something must prevent her parents' accident. I admit I cannot find when in the show it was first shown, since it was a short fleeting moment, so I don't recall if the driver of the truck is in any way Joon-related. Otherwise only Leo, who nonsensically stays intact with 444's short-term reaper partner in him, could affect the timeline in some way.
There are a thousand occasions of the camera lingering on really mundane things; some episodes have a few ambassadorial scenes seemingly made to sell Korean cuisine and culture to foreign viewers; dal.komm is very clearly the official coffee chain sponsor of the show.
I don't recall if the first season also very often skipped over a meeting / conversation and instead fed it to you as voice-overs that a departing character is reflecting upon in their car.
Aside, LCJ needs the murder and investigation (full of breadcrumbs) to set up HSM (Mr. Hwang) as the cleansing hero. Only after LCJ and YSW kill PMS (Mr. Park) can LCJ appoint the protagonist to handle the case, ensuring the following course of events.
It's a bit contrived how LCJ would rather die than stand in front of a court as a defendant, and how he can simultaneously both be completely corrupt for years, and a radical reformer secretly recording all of this corruption.
Both essentially murdered with the intention of being caught later on, from what I recall.
Rugal to be fair isn't even a 6, besides the action scenes it's completely useless. Horrendous writing.
It's a happy ending for the main characters, in terms of having the freedom to choose their own paths.
The implication is that the mess in his mind was either created or deeply worsened by the human experiment done on him.
I envy you, after just a week I'm still a tiny bit angry at the writer and the director and so on... ;D
I think making Ha-Ram a regular human ruins the whole "accept diversity" or "embrace being special" message, because the show in the end says that to be happy, she must not be 'a monster' with that special ability. It would have been much nicer and more wholesome to have her understand and accept what happened (and have Joon/444 demonstrate the guitar play and kissing he practiced).
Well, it's a curse in the sense that every death she prevents will usually backfire in some way, either on her or on others. That's what the 'blind guy' character (other reaper hybrid) is there to show.
Reaper-Leo kept staying around as a friend and to protect her, as he vowed to Black.
The writer wanted to force a sad ending, the director tried to force a happy ending. It's a mess.
Her parents' car accident was shown earlier in the show, I sadly don't remember when, so I don't know if removing it is complete nonsense or Joon not existing would also prevent the car accident.
In the second timeline she doesn't meet or know Joon / Moo-Gang / the others. But the reaper Leo stays around as her friend.
It's a Joon-revival that she summons by remembering memories of the previous (deleted) reality as she is about to die, triggered by Reaper-Leo's gift.
He looks like Moo-Gang because that is how she knows the adult Joon. That the show left out 444's transformation into his real body, 13 year old Joon, is one of the many plotholes. His body was found after his second mother's suicide, after all.
It could hypothetically be 007 looking like him (he can wear the face of someone else?) to "escort her to heaven", but that's even sillier.
I also thought it could have been amazing plot-wise.
If you watch it in the knowledge that the ending is absolutely horrible (due to the dumb ideology of the writer and the director's half-assed attempts to change course), surely the resulting rage won't be as fiery.
The problem is that something must prevent her parents' accident. I admit I cannot find when in the show it was first shown, since it was a short fleeting moment, so I don't recall if the driver of the truck is in any way Joon-related. Otherwise only Leo, who nonsensically stays intact with 444's short-term reaper partner in him, could affect the timeline in some way.