This show is just people sitting around in rooms talking about un-give-a-hoot-able things with no consequence. It's devotion to sterility was almost like a Beckett play. Scene after scene. No dynamism, stretched out to twenty 1h20m episodes for some reason, where dramatic turns are setup and resolved in 2 minutes just so we can have more scenes of people sitting around talking.
Show was ok. It had its problems, had a lot of filler (some of which i enjoyed), was more than mildly offensive in parts and like usual was better at the beginning. And i wish i had a boyfriend who could just give me a job at his company. But...
Why can't we see people be in love and act like normal people? When did this sickening puppy lovey dovey trend come to be the standard way romance is shown - when characters finally figure out they love each other and turn into mawkish baby-talking babies. That's attractive to people? To this extent? It made me wish for the screams of Mr. Effeminate Walking Stereotype to come and interrupt it.
Maybe it's just software company CEOs, because it was the same in Lucky Romance. They're in love, the switch is turned and they become children, blabbering their love at each other to a level that is completely unearned and completely unreal. Maybe i could stand it IF IT WERE EARNED. When did romance become just a bunch of nauseating loud vacuous signals thrown at each other? This reached critical mass. I'd like it to stop please. I realise there's no hope for that.
I can't believe someone who wrote something as sweeping, full of emotion and consistent as You Who Came from the Stars could put out vacant trash like this. A reminder that there's no sure things in dramaland.
I liked Sim-chung's relationship with the little girl and classy homeless lady, and Si-ah and her family.
Very late to this show. I'm only four episodes in. I love it, but dear me every time I see Siwan's character I want to give him a wedgie. I can definitely see how he was an influence for Kim Soo-hyun's stupid grin useless trainee character in the Producers (seriously what television network would let someone like that pass their recruitment process?), and at least he's better and more forgiving than that. Everything else in the show is great, if a little broad with its little moral brush at times. Looking forward to seeing where it goes.
EDIT:
Finished it. A little disappointing. Or more so, uneven. Geu-rae was the most irritating character I've seen for some time. It's nothing he did, it's just the role he served to the show - this pathetic exposition puppy that's meant to be our point of identification. Hey fine, have that character, but to base the show around him and try to churn our emotion from him was a mistake.
I'm imagining a show without him and it would totally work. The only purpose he served was that point of exposition. If he asked "What does that mean?" one more time I would have turned the show off instead of swearing at him. He was like a ghost in the room for the other characters to reflect on or take comfort in. His useless voiceovers with the Go metaphors, his unearned sentimentality, his mopey-dopey look - all cringeworthy, pointless, and only took away from the emotional core of the show.
The rest of the cast were good to great. But even within them, the writing was very hokey at times. I don't get the praise. Yeah, it's a kdrama, but if you're trying to raise the art, I'm going to criticise you on that raised level. Gah, once again I'm out of touch with the drama watching community.
I think i'm beginning to realise i'm an Lee Jong-suk anti. I'ver never been an anti before. It's quite exciting. Which dark corner of the internet do i go to to find support?
He is the worst thing about every drama he is in, and he is ruining this for me. The writing, the imagination and twists and turns hit every mark (although drama length does dictate a few too many twists and turns), every other actor ranges from great to fine - yet i can't get emotionally attached to this at all. And i blame him.
The romance is there - i see it in the material - and with any other actor i believe it'd be registering with my little black heart. I don't get his appeal at all. Is this like a case of Arnold Schwarzenegger being perfectly cast as the Terminator because a robot is an ideal part for a lumbering he-man with bad english skills? Here, Lee Jong-suk cast as this lifeless, smarmy, pretty boy talent vacuum of a manwha character because that's all he is fit to play.
Maybe i'm wrong and he is doing some incredible conceptual method acting performance and playing that 2D hero to a T, but i don't think so. His previous work demonstrates his limit, and the way the drama has evolved you'd think his character would have shown some development by now. Maybe it is good casting. But that's good casting for the on paper/webtoon W, not the drama W. I want to turn this off every time i see his dumb smile. I hate him, and that stupid car he's trying to sell me.
Also, unrelated, if i were an in-show fan of W (the manhwa) i'd be pretty annoyed by now how cornball, nonsensical and badly written it has become. It works great for the drama, but i can't believe they haven't had a scene of former fans just en masse giving up reading it because it's now terrible (the professor at the hospital not included. His gripe was with Yeon-joo's character).
Sorry for this negative outpouring. Disregard as you will. I just want the drama that i believe this could be. I want Queen Inhyeon's Man, i want Nine. I want a man (underline: man) to play the kind of hero this writer writes. I want to fall for him as hard as the female lead. I guess he's not going away and dramaland is stuck with him. Oh wait... military service. I look forward to it. Maybe then he'll come back that man.
When Jang Hyuk was on screen: drama of the year.
Why can't we see people be in love and act like normal people? When did this sickening puppy lovey dovey trend come to be the standard way romance is shown - when characters finally figure out they love each other and turn into mawkish baby-talking babies. That's attractive to people? To this extent? It made me wish for the screams of Mr. Effeminate Walking Stereotype to come and interrupt it.
Maybe it's just software company CEOs, because it was the same in Lucky Romance. They're in love, the switch is turned and they become children, blabbering their love at each other to a level that is completely unearned and completely unreal. Maybe i could stand it IF IT WERE EARNED. When did romance become just a bunch of nauseating loud vacuous signals thrown at each other? This reached critical mass. I'd like it to stop please. I realise there's no hope for that.
I liked Sim-chung's relationship with the little girl and classy homeless lady, and Si-ah and her family.
EDIT:
Finished it. A little disappointing. Or more so, uneven. Geu-rae was the most irritating character I've seen for some time. It's nothing he did, it's just the role he served to the show - this pathetic exposition puppy that's meant to be our point of identification. Hey fine, have that character, but to base the show around him and try to churn our emotion from him was a mistake.
I'm imagining a show without him and it would totally work. The only purpose he served was that point of exposition. If he asked "What does that mean?" one more time I would have turned the show off instead of swearing at him. He was like a ghost in the room for the other characters to reflect on or take comfort in. His useless voiceovers with the Go metaphors, his unearned sentimentality, his mopey-dopey look - all cringeworthy, pointless, and only took away from the emotional core of the show.
The rest of the cast were good to great. But even within them, the writing was very hokey at times. I don't get the praise. Yeah, it's a kdrama, but if you're trying to raise the art, I'm going to criticise you on that raised level. Gah, once again I'm out of touch with the drama watching community.
Oh and that ending...
He is the worst thing about every drama he is in, and he is ruining this for me. The writing, the imagination and twists and turns hit every mark (although drama length does dictate a few too many twists and turns), every other actor ranges from great to fine - yet i can't get emotionally attached to this at all. And i blame him.
The romance is there - i see it in the material - and with any other actor i believe it'd be registering with my little black heart. I don't get his appeal at all. Is this like a case of Arnold Schwarzenegger being perfectly cast as the Terminator because a robot is an ideal part for a lumbering he-man with bad english skills? Here, Lee Jong-suk cast as this lifeless, smarmy, pretty boy talent vacuum of a manwha character because that's all he is fit to play.
Maybe i'm wrong and he is doing some incredible conceptual method acting performance and playing that 2D hero to a T, but i don't think so. His previous work demonstrates his limit, and the way the drama has evolved you'd think his character would have shown some development by now. Maybe it is good casting. But that's good casting for the on paper/webtoon W, not the drama W. I want to turn this off every time i see his dumb smile. I hate him, and that stupid car he's trying to sell me.
Also, unrelated, if i were an in-show fan of W (the manhwa) i'd be pretty annoyed by now how cornball, nonsensical and badly written it has become. It works great for the drama, but i can't believe they haven't had a scene of former fans just en masse giving up reading it because it's now terrible (the professor at the hospital not included. His gripe was with Yeon-joo's character).
Sorry for this negative outpouring. Disregard as you will. I just want the drama that i believe this could be. I want Queen Inhyeon's Man, i want Nine. I want a man (underline: man) to play the kind of hero this writer writes. I want to fall for him as hard as the female lead. I guess he's not going away and dramaland is stuck with him. Oh wait... military service. I look forward to it. Maybe then he'll come back that man.
Threw up in my mouth whenever Bo-nui and Soo-ho got lovey dovey though. Sigh to have characters act like adults...