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Okay, but Mu-jin's confession sucked lol. I'd reject him so hard if I was in her shoes.

The way I was so hopeful in the first half that the good side of human nature would win out. People were helping each other, protecting each other, and just generally doing a good job at staying alive. But then the cop guy just had to be selfish and ruin everything. This isn't even really a criticism, it's just human nature, and it's often the most reastic part of movies like this. It's at this point that the already intelligent zombies became smarter than the humans, simply because they're not dealing with emotions. And at that point it's no surprise that only one person ended up surviving (two if you count the wife). Heck, Se-jeong was also arguably the character that was guided by her emotions the least, as she ended up being more guided by the mission to secure the vaccine (even if that initial mission turned out to be a mistake).

He just seems like the kind of character that will die to get Ji-an back in the game. It seems almost too obvious, but I don't see what other purpose he could serve.

Yeah, I really don't think this Woojin is some kind of bad guy or anything like that. That being said, he's totally gonna die lol. His chances of surviving the season are like 5%, and that's on a good day.

Damn, episode 6 was crazy. And here I thought that kidnapping plot would take the whole season, but I'm really glad to be wrong about that. I understood the wife's trust issues, given everything (and that video does look convincing), but I'm glad she trusted her husband enough to get out of there with him. I loved how both of them fought against the kidnappers to escape.

The kidnappers are kinda fun in their own way. It's like they're competing as to who's the most messed up. Very curious as to why the heck they're doing this.

There are like 20 different directions this can go in now, so I can't wait to see what's gonna happen next.

Visually very impressive, but rather inconsistent plot-wise. The story isn't bad, but it also feels like it's build on twists that try to hide that the story is actually very basic. Not necessarily a problem, but a lot of the time these twists end up feeling kinda pointless and never really go anywhere. Just like the drama is also very good at just kinda throwing some lore exposition at you right when it's convenient for the plot, only to do very little with it afterwards. The Most Favored Lady of the Court plot plot ended very anticlimactically just because it was then revealed she wasn't actually the villain. The grandmother is literally the start of all the misery (great twist actually), only for her to do nothing after that reveal, and then the finale just kinda lets her walk away and nobody bothers to stop her (this basically applies to most of the human villains)? That cute little thing we all loved just kinda disappeared out of the drama only to come back when it was convenient for the plot. The FL's arrow shooting skills where introduced out of left field when it was convenient for the plot, only to then never be mentioned again until the finale needed her to do something cool. The ML taking the eyes of a gwi-mae is a very cool idea that literally never went anywhere. There's a whole noble idiocy bit in episode 7 but that's just kinda resolved because the FL says it's all "hers to bear", so what was the point of that?

I wished they had focused more on the leads and their personal backstories, and less on all this palace intrigue when most of it was just not gonna go anywhere. Because while their personal backstories were good, it also just kinda fizzles out because we simply don't see or explore enough of it. It's a shame really, because this is an entertaining drama that really could've been a lot more.

If I didn't know any better I'd be saying the ML was having an affair after the episode 4 flashback opening LMAO. Like, that was suspicious.

But I do like the flashbacks, and what they add. At first glance, the wife makes a rather negative first impression, while the husband just looks like a good guy. Her flaws are immediately obvious, while his aren't. But then with each flashback we get more context behind the wife's behavior, while we slowly see that the husband isn't as flawless as he first appeared. Both are good people, though they're also flawed in their own ways.

I also wonder if that's connected to the kidnapper's motive. Supposedly, the cop's wife was kidnapped because the cop did something bad, though we don't know what. The kidnapper basically thinks that it's their own fault. There has got to be a reason, because I don't think these kidnappings are random, as they appear to be very planned.

I can't exactly blame Se-yun for blaming her husband for their daughter's death. She needed somebody to blame, he wasn't there, so he became the easy target. Obviously not right, but understandable given the circumstances. But what struck me was his utter silence in that moment. Sure, it's understandable and I certainly don't blame him, but I wonder if that's a recurring thing: his silence and avoidance of actually dealing with the problems in his marriage. Even in episode 1 he basically had to be told to try and talk with his wife. What they went through could break even the best marriages, unless you fight for it. But if they didn't, I can easily see how we got to the present day situation. His silence and avoidance only made her resentment grow stronger.

Though it also wouldn't surprise me if more stuff happened. Like, I can easily see how her parents could also be part of the problem.

On the bright side, the theory of her having staged her own kidnapping pretty much went out the window here. Never liked that idea in the first place, so I'm glad. Her actually being kidnapped while her (perhaps soon to be ex-) husband, that she may or may not love anymore, is her only hope of rescue makes for a way more interesting story.

Separated.

Mixed opinions on the first episode. There's some fun moments, and the leads have potential, but then you have all the AI moments, which were so obvious and so fake, that it took me right out of situations that I was supposed to laugh about. Like, how about we focus less on the ridiculous comedic scenes that you can't even pull off properly without using AI, and more on literally everything else?

But can we drop his whole pill usage thing too? I didn't think any of that was funny honestly.

The moment Bang-wool got seriously injured I let out a loud "OH SH*T NO". In that moment I felt the stakes and danger I should feel, and for a second I thought the drama would actually pull off an intense final 2 episodes. It's not that I wanted him to die, but he should've died for the stakes to survive. When he lived, I was just so checked out of everything. There were so many close calls and physical injuries after that, but those did nothing to me because I knew they were gonna be fine anyway. That's the exact opposite of how I'm supposed to feel in a drama like this. Quite frankly, for being a horror, I think the drama played things way too safe.

With Hye-ryung and Si-won, it's not that I don't think it wasn't well handled, I just think both make such extreme jumps at the end that require making too many assumptions to really work. The drama took it's time to set these two characters and their friendship up, and it just needed more time at the end so the extreme jumps these characters made would feel more understandable. I just think with the pacing at the end, their actions end up feeling too extreme, and not understandable enough, and I think there needed to be a better balance between the two to work.

I hate how Na-ri just became a one-dimensional villain in the end. I was fine with the rivalry with Se-ah before, but in the finale that conflict just felt stupid and forced imo.

I also think the flashback episode felt rushed in the end. Logic aside, I feel like the drama did a decent job at building up the Hye-ryung/ Si-won dynamic, but then in the end it felt like the characters immediately jumped to doing extremely drastic and extreme things that weren't properly build up. We really could've used an additional 15 minutes there.

Admiteddly one of my bigger probems; I feel like the drama lacked real stakes in the last 2 episodes. I felt like there were real stakes in the first 3 episodes: Hyeong-wook died, characters were getting seriously injured left and right, and almost dying. But that gets old pretty quickly when it becomes increasingly obvious that the drama isn't actually gonna kill any of them. And then it makes a crucial mistake in episode 7: it lets Bang-wool live. Don't get me wrong, I like him, but what am I supposed to think when you injure him like that and he still doesn't die? I'm sorry, but if you're afraid to kill off the arguably most expendable character, do you really expect me to believe that you're going to kill anybody else? You can physically injure them as much times as you want, but that's pointless if you're not actually afraid that they can die. It just becomes pointless shock value after that.

Finally finished this. I enjoyed it, but I also feel like the drama is also often it's own worst enemy. Visually etc, it's all good, and the drama does certainly have some cool ideas, but the more you get into it, the more the excecution of it becomes rather questionable.

The drama lacks a certain logic, lacks a clear ruleset of how everything works, and lacks proper worldbuilding. Things happen because they happen. This becomes a real problem later on when the drama attempts to "explain" things with backstories, but that just ends up suffering from the same problems. Why should I bother to think about the story when it feels like the writer didn't bother to think about the rhyme or reason behind everything either?

The characters are... fine. They're not bad, and I ike them, but I also wasn't also overly attached to them, and the story didn't make me become attached to them either because of the aforementioned problems. Though some of the characters were done dirty imo. Though at least the drama is smart enough to not really make it about the romance.

I'm honestly pretty disappointed in this one. I was really excited to see Ryuga & Rian reunited again, except they end up being seperated for 80% of this season anyway. The final fight with both of them is great, but even that feels so short. Ryuga & Rian are at the heart of this season, yet they are at the heart of an underdeveloped story that feels manufacted just to give them a bittersweet heartbreaking ending. The season randomly adds to excisting lore, and then manufactures the character of Rian around that, but never really explores any of it. She often feels like a side character in a story that's basically about her. This sadly feels like the ending of their story together, yet I feel like both characters just deserve better than this.

That would've happened in an ideal world, but this isn't an ideal world. But even then, Hiromi would still be hurt, and then he'd be an asshole for immediately ditching her just because he saw his first love again. So maybe not that ideal?

But even so, the reasons why he pushed Makiko away in the first place still applied. The mistakes didn't start in the present, a lot of the present day situations are a consequence of choices made when they were kids.

Of course she had a choice. She always had a choice. She chose to stay with him despite it all, knowing their relationship wouldn't lead to marriage. She chose to ask him about his future and what he wanted to do, despite knowing full well what the answer might be. Sure, he is a coward, but then don't make him out to be an asshole that couldn't wait to kick her to the curb when things finally got better for him, because he was too cowardly for that. There was no ideal solution for this, the only thing they could do was be honest. Being honest isn't an excuse, it was the only possible solution, even if somebody got hurt because of it. People can keep arguing about how wrong it is, but nobodies actually offering a better alternative. Is there even one?

Please quote me the part where he said it's time for them to seperate. He spoke of his wish to be there for Makiko, after she asked him to speak about the future and after she asked him to tell her what he wanted to do. She was the one who decided to end their relationship right at that moment because she knew their relationship had run its course. Everything in that scene was initiated by her, all he did was be honest (which is what she asked).

You underestimate Hiromi way too much. That woman wasn't blind, nor was she naive or stupid. She knew, and still did everything anyway, and that was her choice.

She knew he had feelings for Makiko, and knew her relationship with Junichi wasn't last or lead to marriage. She knew she was more into this relationship than he was, and yet she still chose to stay with him despite everything, nor did she decide to blame Junichi for any of this. He didn't kick her to the curb, she chose to leave. Is it fair? Of course not, Hiromi is the absolute best, and deserves only the absolute best, but Junichi can't offer her that.

It was a complicated, messy situation, and there wasn't really an ideal or right way to deal with it. You can very much debate Junichi's actions, and while they certainly weren't "right" or "ideal" (there was no such way), I don't think for a second that he didn't respect her or wasn't grateful to her. So how should they have dealt with it? In the end, it is better being honest, even if that honesty might hurt a person that doesn't deserve it, because it's better than living in a lie, which would've made everybody miserable.

I don't even necessarily hate the ending, but I really don't like how it's executed. Like I get it, long distance is hard (especially when there's no set end to the long distance), but this ending only makes sense because of the logic behind it, and not because they were actually properly building up to this. The "ex-boyfriend" thing is literally dropped on us in the last minute when they were literally doing fine 2 minutes earlier. What makes it more frustrating is that they wasted precious minutes on a flashback montage when they could've used those to show us how their relationship deteriorated.

Seriously, we spend 10 weeks with them and watched how they tried to make their relationship work, only for the drama to unceremoniously tell us "they're broken up btw" in the last freaking minute. You could've shown me that damn it.