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For pple who compare this with webton! True psychopath was junseo!
Opinion of sb wise :I honestly think this show was fundamentally telling a different story from what we expected in episode 1 and what’s in the manhwa. Jun-seo never really saw or understood Ah-jin. That “documentary” misrepresented her completely and was clearly designed to ruin her.. but not so she couldn’t hurt people anymore. That’s just what he claimed. Because if that was his interest, he could go to the cops so she could face justice for her actual crimes. But he didn’t do that. Instead, he wanted to make her dependent on him so he could be the one to control her, which is what he explicitly said in the car. He viewed it as him saving her but that was him lying to himself.
And also, does it even make any sense that he decided to go that far because of what Jae-ho did? He knew it was Jae-ho’s conscious decision and the show goes out of its way to make it clear he wasn’t coerced. And after being married, what did Ah-jin actually do wrong that wasn’t her trying to protect herself from someone who was determined to break her? Jun-seo didn’t do it for any noble reason; he did that because he wanted to be the one to control Ah-jin, as he himself admitted.
And when you think about it- isn’t he the true sociopath of the story? And I mean that just in terms of the clinical definition and not their actions. But isn’t he the one who couldn’t genuinely engage with Ah-Jin and make her laugh like Jae-oh did? Who couldn’t connect with Re-na (versus Ah-jin who actually did connect with In-gang)? When did you ever see him genuinely smile? Over the course of the show, Ah-jin showed more emotions than he did for sure.
And then there’s the part where we as the audience realize that this whole framing of Ah-jin as a sociopath is something that Jun-seo himself created from the documentary that was shown at the beginning of the series. It’s not actually based in fact or from any actual direct evaluation by a psychologist.
Now did Ah-jin do many terrible things that she should be held accountable for? Yes without a doubt. But I think any inconsistencies in the story or characters were very much intentional because Jun-seo, who was the source of much of our understanding of her, is an unreliable narrator who never truly saw her. so with that in mind, the ending blew me away and I thought this show was excellent. but I think if I’d read the manhwa first, I would have had a hard time because it seems the stories are very very different.
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