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I wasn’t planning to write a review, but…
[edited on October 9]
I wasn’t planning to write a review but the many bad and one stars reviews I saw for this drama, gave me the need to do so.
I really can’t understand why this drama got so many bad reviews. Alright that it wasn’t quite what I would hoped for when I saw the cast and the screenwriter lined up for this, but in the end, it was still an enjoyable watch.
The chemistry between Suzy and Woo Bin is undeniable, I saw some reviews criticizing it and I couldn’t phantom why. Some reviews also complained about the lack of character development, but I honestly found the drama quite realistic in that sense.
Suzy’s character is a psychopath, which means her brain is different from that of a normal person, you can’t expect a psychopath to suddenly develop emotions and starting to have feelings like a normal person would because they WON’T, that’s a disorder and it can’t be cured, simple as that. The reason some psychopaths become killers is because that gives them a rush of adrenaline which makes them feel something, on the same sense, some go into extreme sports just to feel the rush of adrenaline of something that could kill them, that’s how they work, no miracles here, they don’t suddenly catch feelings and become a “normal person”. All that to say that I really enjoyed Suzy’s character for that, she was moved by curiosity and rules, which makes total sense, the genie made her feel something because he was completely out of this world and evidently dangerous, which gave her that adrenaline rush time and time again, same reason why she was into high risk investments, because the rush of possibly losing it all gives you that little thrill. Besides, I would feel so damn annoyed if they pulled all that “love cures all” bs we see so often in dramas that address some sort of mental disorder, especially so because this one isn’t one that can be treated, and more than that, it would be infuriating to see her change because of a freaking genie instead of doing so for her grandma and best friend.
Now on to the genie, I also think his character just made sense, he is bad, he doesn’t like humans, his loyalty belongs to his brothers alone and that’s it. The only human he ever felt something for was FL because she was righteous and proved his beliefs about human nature to be wrong, and that curiosity — to see and understand something he had never encountered before, led him to slowly fall in love with her during her first life. He is a mystical creature, something above human reasoning, so his lack of emotion for humanity is understandable — especially so when said humans betrayed him in the moment of his despair when he made himself vulnerable for them for the first time, proving his own beliefs all over again — which takes us back to him caring only for her: because from all the humans he came across, she was the only one who ever proved him wrong and the only one who ever cared for him, all of which made his changes in the end completely understandable to me: his rules came from his experience with her and his brothers and what had hurt them, not because he cared for humans, but because he loved his family and wouldn’t risk the same mistakes again.
Honestly, to see so many people criticize these plot points, makes me wonder if we were really watching the same drama… I get this will be a personal experience and each person will feel differently because everyone was expecting different things, but overall, I really enjoyed the drama. The effects were great, the story was engaging and the cast was spectacular, were there some weak points to it? Sure, but overall it was a great watch. The only thing that let me down a bit was the ending, because it felt kind of rushed and undersatisfying (specially because I wanted to see that infuriating death angel suffer miserable and he didn’t), but then again… Netflix. I also didn’t quite like how things turned out in the end, like Iblis disappearing and suddenly coming back… I just hate that kind of plot, however, it was to be expected, since the writer pulled the same thing on Goblin. Eitherway, the bottom line is that I enjoyed and would totally recommend this drama despite the opposing opinions.
I wasn’t planning to write a review but the many bad and one stars reviews I saw for this drama, gave me the need to do so.
I really can’t understand why this drama got so many bad reviews. Alright that it wasn’t quite what I would hoped for when I saw the cast and the screenwriter lined up for this, but in the end, it was still an enjoyable watch.
The chemistry between Suzy and Woo Bin is undeniable, I saw some reviews criticizing it and I couldn’t phantom why. Some reviews also complained about the lack of character development, but I honestly found the drama quite realistic in that sense.
Suzy’s character is a psychopath, which means her brain is different from that of a normal person, you can’t expect a psychopath to suddenly develop emotions and starting to have feelings like a normal person would because they WON’T, that’s a disorder and it can’t be cured, simple as that. The reason some psychopaths become killers is because that gives them a rush of adrenaline which makes them feel something, on the same sense, some go into extreme sports just to feel the rush of adrenaline of something that could kill them, that’s how they work, no miracles here, they don’t suddenly catch feelings and become a “normal person”. All that to say that I really enjoyed Suzy’s character for that, she was moved by curiosity and rules, which makes total sense, the genie made her feel something because he was completely out of this world and evidently dangerous, which gave her that adrenaline rush time and time again, same reason why she was into high risk investments, because the rush of possibly losing it all gives you that little thrill. Besides, I would feel so damn annoyed if they pulled all that “love cures all” bs we see so often in dramas that address some sort of mental disorder, especially so because this one isn’t one that can be treated, and more than that, it would be infuriating to see her change because of a freaking genie instead of doing so for her grandma and best friend.
Now on to the genie, I also think his character just made sense, he is bad, he doesn’t like humans, his loyalty belongs to his brothers alone and that’s it. The only human he ever felt something for was FL because she was righteous and proved his beliefs about human nature to be wrong, and that curiosity — to see and understand something he had never encountered before, led him to slowly fall in love with her during her first life. He is a mystical creature, something above human reasoning, so his lack of emotion for humanity is understandable — especially so when said humans betrayed him in the moment of his despair when he made himself vulnerable for them for the first time, proving his own beliefs all over again — which takes us back to him caring only for her: because from all the humans he came across, she was the only one who ever proved him wrong and the only one who ever cared for him, all of which made his changes in the end completely understandable to me: his rules came from his experience with her and his brothers and what had hurt them, not because he cared for humans, but because he loved his family and wouldn’t risk the same mistakes again.
Honestly, to see so many people criticize these plot points, makes me wonder if we were really watching the same drama… I get this will be a personal experience and each person will feel differently because everyone was expecting different things, but overall, I really enjoyed the drama. The effects were great, the story was engaging and the cast was spectacular, were there some weak points to it? Sure, but overall it was a great watch. The only thing that let me down a bit was the ending, because it felt kind of rushed and undersatisfying (specially because I wanted to see that infuriating death angel suffer miserable and he didn’t), but then again… Netflix. I also didn’t quite like how things turned out in the end, like Iblis disappearing and suddenly coming back… I just hate that kind of plot, however, it was to be expected, since the writer pulled the same thing on Goblin. Eitherway, the bottom line is that I enjoyed and would totally recommend this drama despite the opposing opinions.
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