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A Bona Fide Killer — Review
It was a pretty good drama until Episode 5. Then Episode 6 happened, and the writing completely started going off the rails.
My biggest problem is the FL. She isn't just highly skilled — she is written as if she has absolutely no limitations.
She's supposed to be an elite sniper, which is already an impressive specialization. But apparently being a great sniper isn't enough. Now she also has to be an expert close-combat fighter who can take on younger opponents with knives.
And the way she behaves makes it even worse. She's incredibly arrogant.
There is literally a scene where she removes her own earpiece so she doesn't have to listen to her handler/hacker, even though he's trying to tell her that she's fighting their own people and that she could have killed a new assassin.
All because she has decided to protect an old criminal she barely even knows.
Why is she even meddling in this business?
She's an assassin herself. She is perfectly willing to kill people, but suddenly she decides that this particular old criminal needs to be protected — even if doing so means fighting her own side and potentially killing another assassin.
And nobody around her seems willing to question her.
Everyone is basically:
"Wow, she's such an amazing sniper."
"She's incredible."
"Nobody can beat her."
Meanwhile, I'm sitting there thinking:
She's a sniper. Why does she suddenly need to be the best knife fighter too?
The problem is specialization
Humans have limitations.
Everyone has roughly the same 24 hours in a day. If someone spends years developing one particular skill, they can become extraordinarily good at it, but that doesn't mean they automatically become world-class at everything else.
That's why I find the FL's character so unbelievable.
It's the same reason we see specialization everywhere — even in AI.
There are chess-playing AI systems specifically designed and optimized for chess. They can absolutely destroy a general-purpose AI at chess.
You wouldn't expect a chess engine to suddenly become the world's best image editor just because it's excellent at chess.
But this drama essentially wants me to believe the FL is the one perfect AI model:
Best sniper + best assassin + best close-combat fighter + great strategist + physically capable of beating younger opponents + always right + never really vulnerable.
She's basically a one-woman AGI with every benchmark at 100%.
😂
And that's where the character stops feeling like a highly trained human being and starts feeling like a power fantasy.
If she's an elite sniper but gets caught in close quarters by a younger knife fighter, that's a weakness. And weaknesses make characters interesting.
She could use her experience to create distance, manipulate the environment, escape, or find another way to win.
That would actually make her impressive.
Instead, the writers seem to say:
"Don't worry. She's the Great Ajumma Sniper. She can fight too."
And apparently being 46 doesn't matter either. She can casually beat younger women in physical combat because... she's just that awesome.
There's nothing wrong with having an older female protagonist who is extremely capable. The problem is making her capable of everything while giving her practically no meaningful weaknesses.
A character doesn't become better because you keep adding skills to her character sheet.
Sometimes "she's the best sniper in the world, but she's not a great hand-to-hand fighter" is much more believable — and much more interesting — than "she's the best at everything."
The first five episodes made me think this could be a really good assassin thriller.
After Episode 6, it started feeling like an "old aunty badass fantasy" where every other character exists to admire her and the writers desperately want the audience to know how amazing she is.
Good drama until Episode 5. After that, the FL became so overpowered, arrogant and unrealistic that it completely ruined the tension for me.
It was a pretty good drama until Episode 5. Then Episode 6 happened, and the writing completely started going off the rails.
My biggest problem is the FL. She isn't just highly skilled — she is written as if she has absolutely no limitations.
She's supposed to be an elite sniper, which is already an impressive specialization. But apparently being a great sniper isn't enough. Now she also has to be an expert close-combat fighter who can take on younger opponents with knives.
And the way she behaves makes it even worse. She's incredibly arrogant.
There is literally a scene where she removes her own earpiece so she doesn't have to listen to her handler/hacker, even though he's trying to tell her that she's fighting their own people and that she could have killed a new assassin.
All because she has decided to protect an old criminal she barely even knows.
Why is she even meddling in this business?
She's an assassin herself. She is perfectly willing to kill people, but suddenly she decides that this particular old criminal needs to be protected — even if doing so means fighting her own side and potentially killing another assassin.
And nobody around her seems willing to question her.
Everyone is basically:
"Wow, she's such an amazing sniper."
"She's incredible."
"Nobody can beat her."
Meanwhile, I'm sitting there thinking:
She's a sniper. Why does she suddenly need to be the best knife fighter too?
The problem is specialization
Humans have limitations.
Everyone has roughly the same 24 hours in a day. If someone spends years developing one particular skill, they can become extraordinarily good at it, but that doesn't mean they automatically become world-class at everything else.
That's why I find the FL's character so unbelievable.
It's the same reason we see specialization everywhere — even in AI.
There are chess-playing AI systems specifically designed and optimized for chess. They can absolutely destroy a general-purpose AI at chess.
You wouldn't expect a chess engine to suddenly become the world's best image editor just because it's excellent at chess.
But this drama essentially wants me to believe the FL is the one perfect AI model:
Best sniper + best assassin + best close-combat fighter + great strategist + physically capable of beating younger opponents + always right + never really vulnerable.
She's basically a one-woman AGI with every benchmark at 100%.
😂
And that's where the character stops feeling like a highly trained human being and starts feeling like a power fantasy.
If she's an elite sniper but gets caught in close quarters by a younger knife fighter, that's a weakness. And weaknesses make characters interesting.
She could use her experience to create distance, manipulate the environment, escape, or find another way to win.
That would actually make her impressive.
Instead, the writers seem to say:
"Don't worry. She's the Great Ajumma Sniper. She can fight too."
And apparently being 46 doesn't matter either. She can casually beat younger women in physical combat because... she's just that awesome.
There's nothing wrong with having an older female protagonist who is extremely capable. The problem is making her capable of everything while giving her practically no meaningful weaknesses.
A character doesn't become better because you keep adding skills to her character sheet.
Sometimes "she's the best sniper in the world, but she's not a great hand-to-hand fighter" is much more believable — and much more interesting — than "she's the best at everything."
The first five episodes made me think this could be a really good assassin thriller.
After Episode 6, it started feeling like an "old aunty badass fantasy" where every other character exists to admire her and the writers desperately want the audience to know how amazing she is.
Good drama until Episode 5. After that, the FL became so overpowered, arrogant and unrealistic that it completely ruined the tension for me.
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