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Agreed. So much for special task force where the only combat able member is Serge Yoo and she's also the Asset of the team. The other is an old man, half decent at this point since he might have tactical experience but I doubt he can actually fight one on one at this point. The other one is a hacker and therefore far from the scene.

The OST was incredible. Very well thought out story on humanity's black and white sides. Jung Kyung Ho was reaaaaally good in this. I already thought of him as a good actor but I loved him in this.

Then later on, Tae San finds the videos of his pawnshop friends talking about sending him to Paju that day but he doesn't contact the cops or the prosecutor to go and look at the pawnshop computer....nor does he at least take a damn video of it, something...
And then at ep11 Tae San is inside a car, gets in a tunnel and there's that assassin on foot carrying a knife. Any sane person would either run him over but get away, or back out and get away.
And when he saw he couldn't he could at least close that damn door lock instead of waiting for the assassin to open the door and both of them push and pull...

Mainly, because Tae San's whole argument for keeping the digital camera to himself instead of giving it to the prosecutor(which could at least retrieve it from Man Seok's girl without her alerting cops), was that it was not gonna help him prove his innocence. Well....had he alerted the prosecutor/cops to the damn video showing the other goons talking to their boss about sending Tae San to Paju and the rest of the things he said, would have at least proven that they lied and their whole statement was fabricated, therefore making it believable that he was framed. Also, while they did find a needle mark on him, first off, it wasn't on his elbow veins but much higher(rather atypical place) and secondly, druggies in any respectable cop/csi show, are habitual(especially when they are long time gangsters, they either do or they don't do drugs) but I'm willing to assume that Tae San did not have needle marks that looked old. It's like the detectives are all made out of the same hotheaded,unintelligent mold. And Seung-u is supposedly a rather high rating detective...that makes me think, how many innocent people he might have put behind bars because the evidence were too perfect.

Such lazy writing.

UPDATE: Turns out he did keep the videos...but he could have avoided a lot of fuss had he released copies earlier...at least make the cops look into it more.

By starts out, you mean just the first ep right?
Because I'm at the second ep and the man is refusing to speak to the police about the fact he's supposed to go through surgery in a few days. Even if someone is behind this, the kid will die if he can't get out. And at this point EVERYTHING points towards him. Which is kind of a tell in itself since there are too many coincidences. And for one thing, are the detectives dumb? They said it was premeditated, but on the other hand, they also said it was a crime of passion...does it even make sense? They contradict themselves.

I thought Dong Hyun Bae reminded me of Taeyang(Big Bang)....well, I wasn't far off. He's the elder brother of Taeyang.

Nearing the end. Kinda disappointed to how disfunctional the main couple is. But then again, there are such couples. One thing notable though was Seo Kang Joon. I'm constantly amazed by how different he can be in his various roles. Great actor. There are many actors I like, but many of them are basically playing one role in all dramas. He keeps changing completely. Are You Human, Watcher and this one are totally different roles.

Kim Won Hae is really suited to the God role,though I have yet to see him in a role he wasn't awesome at.

Same director with Stranger...ok it all makes sense now.

This story and its caliber is reminiscent of Stranger(Forest of Lies). Honestly I wasn't expecting sth that good when I started it, but I'm pleasantly surprised. The 3 top roles have incredible actors. Also Seo Kang Joon amazes me yet another time after his Are you Human? gig. For a young actor, I see a lot of potential.

Btw, this is just for conversation. I'm happy for you that you at least enjoyed it. I'm sure the original is better.

Near the end, Da da went to a weird place with the robot Ma Wang Joon and she baited him with that peanut allergy(clever although predictable) and since Kronos had no data about it the robot revealed itself as fake(although not a robot).
Then she spent some time staring at the fake MWJ trying to figure out who he is. She's been living with an irregularity(robot) for so long at this point and all her troubles revolve around Khronos and robots, she should have gotten a clue instantly. Instead she had to wait until the real MWJ came, asked him straight up if he was a robot, and she looked down in disbelief(as if she couldn't believe in robots), even when the fake one had grabbed the real one by the neck, lifted him up, with just one hand.
And then she did the next brilliant thing, knowing about robots, she kissed it to reset it.

In just 3-4 consecutive scenes, she has gone from brilliant and experienced(as in knowledge from recent events) to stupid, to brilliant again.

Classic mechanic for korean productions. I think most of them fall into the same trap. They start with checkpoints in the story and try to fill the voids and when it doesn't suit them for a character to be organic(do and behave as the character's personality and traits dictate) they make the character do things that suit the story/transition. It breaks immersion.
And Eum Da Da specifically feels utterly bland in comparison with Diana or even Geu Ri and Yeo Woong that feel more organic and true to their characters. Especially Diana was an exceptional villain. She is childish, immature, psychologically broken and feeling betrayed by mankind. All the tells of someone destructive and she showed that perfectly. On the other hand, Da Da had a blank expression in half the show. The father backstory was nice and the parts about her work too. But her character was uninteresting and lacked flair. And that's, imho, the byproduct of having characters being dictated by the story, as opposed to the reverse.

As for the ending, I understand what the manga did and that's the ending anyone would anticipate in such a story, but they screwed it up in the TV as well. At the end, you're shown constantly how Yeong Goo is broken and won't come back, they say he's been researched a lot, therefore quite dead. And they show that finger movement at the end. Seriously, if you're gonna make it a realistic "he's not coming back again" ending, don't mess it up at the end. Otherwise it'd have been better if he had actually gone and get fixed when he was supposed to go to Switzerland.

At least someone had a good time. I just finished the show but feel like only 2-3 episodes where worth watching. Most of it felt like filler. Nothing happened, the romance was slower than a snail's pace(which is even worse when it's a manga....haven't read Zettai Kareshi but Skip Beat is enough of an example). Where pacing being slow might not be noticeable as much in manga due to short chapters(time to read), it's very much noticeable in TV.
As for characters, both leads had moments where their characters were "organic" and other moments where they just stared into the void for some time. Moments of brilliance versus moments of stupidity.
Can't say anything about the original as I'm not familiar with it, but the remake felt without substance most of the time.

And later on, Song Gyeol tells Gwi that he is a monster who feeds on blood and can't stand the sun and that they humans(SG including himself with the humans) would kill Gwi. I'd expect a retort to that from Gwi, "Dude , you're no longer human. Who are you to call me a monster when you are now one yourself. Not to mention, do you think the humans will accept you?", or sth along those lines. But no....the actual reply was "Stop!". It could not be more bland. Sigh....

Please don't let this one be as bad as the Diary of a Nightwatchman. I seriously can't take another one like that.

Song Gyeol is now a vampire, he's in this predicament because of Gwi and he wakes up, strapped on a tree, looking at corpses with bite marks, and someone comes up to him. He looks exactly like the vampire he saw in the book(that hairdoo is iconic). And his line is "Who are you?" Duh!!!

Okay, first dumb line in ep1.

Well ok, I admit it was handled in a good way. I retract the previous comment.

I just left a comment about this. That's just lazy writing/directing. Btw have you watched Ghost?

Now at ep15, and the usual scenario is established just like @OhDang user says a couple comments below. But what gets me is that yet another production ruins consistency and character growth. Tak Prosecutor gave crucial evidence to Nam Il-ho and Ji-nu's team never backed it up. Didn't they learn anything from their mistakes so far? The video of Nam Gyu Man was lost(Park Dong Ho at least had the intelligence to back it up somewhere for safe keeping). Then Ji nu's slush fund broadcast was interrupted and the evidence lost(otherwise they'd have used them already, though it's weird that they had a USB with them when it was broadcasted since they only needed the printed versions,smells fishy now). This "my protagonist is clever only when it suits me" approach just seems incredibly lazy to me. So overused by kdramas. And I don't mind it the first two times, but at this point there's bound to be some character growth. Anyone else would have become paranoid at this point and stashed away backups. Especially someone in Ji nu's shoes who has encountered cover up after cover up. It's already the 15th ep, meaning 3/4 of the show and they still make the same mistakes. So disappointing, considering the concept of the show is really interesting.
PS: It doesn't matter whether Tak Prosecutor is actually acting the bad guy to get more evidence from the inside. The problem is Ji nu's team attitude.

I'm wondering, couldn't Park Dong Ho attack the fact that the interrogation was not held by the book at ep3? Shouldn't it have happened in a police interrogation room and being recorded? It's supposed to be protocol. And the confession was received after they had arrested the defendant at the funeral hall. All the more reason to have it on video. The fact that it was not done by the book should also be evidence that the confession was coerced. The show just used a trick to reveal it, but this question should support it beyond doubt. Weird that it was not employed. It's kind of standard procedure, so no one can question the results, therefore it's obviously fishy if it doesn't happen. And this is not something they can evade by saying he was not a suspect but a witness like before since like I said, he was arrested prior to the confession.