Our guy used to be a detective before embarking on a career of insurance fraud investigator. Didn’t he have his training experience to take down an opponent? lol
12. I love this space as it’s dedicated to Asian dramas. And I also love how people openly and freely share their strong and sometimes honest opinions about a work. Sometimes they like a project so much that they start picking fights in the comment thread with anyone who doesn’t agree with their opinion (which is very unsophisticated). But sometimes they agree with someone’s comment and they end up sharing notes of things they loved in a show with a total stranger. And that’s why this open space is so important to just share your opinions and thoughts and critique freely (and hopefully in a civilised way)
Having said that, I’m kinda over this whole “oh they keep crying constantly” narrative that’s building up around Season 2. As if we didn’t see Geonwoo cry in season 1. And that too multiple times. Like what’s so surprising here?! He has always been that guy. Why is everyone so …taken aback by it. In fact, the guy literally was about to cry when they finally defeat Kim Myeong Gil, in S1 Episode 8, at the thought that he has become a violent hunting dog. Which is not his nature. And Woojin has to literally soothe and console him in that moment. That hey, we will find our way back, I’m with you.
I really don’t understand why is everyone so surprised? Did we want Geonwoo to suddenly enjoy a new thrill in bloodlust ? Become this mastermind plotter who is unfazed by the unfolding violence around him ? The guy was always a Pookie. He is still a pookie. Anyway, this “he’s always crying” opinion is quite disingenuous if you actually have watched S1. 😒
(Coming here right after Bloodhounds S2 and Humint, so a bit whiplashed but oddly satisfied. Maybe I won’t be too pissy, or maybe not. who knows 😅) Ok here we go episode 11: so the lady buys a heavy duty hi-tech safe but there are no 24/7 cameras inside. Never heard of that. This I say as someone who knows a thing or two about safety vaults. But oh well. (Shrugs)
But then she also doesn’t run back CCTV footage to check who has been moving suspiciously in her office premises. Justice for CCTV cameras at the Royal Auction house . 😂 I mean just thinking logically.
7. Jason Kim needs to hire professional writers who can write down better dialogue and plot. Just give all your ideas to a team of expert writers who can whip up a functional screenplay that stands the tests of logic as well as storytelling. 8. I DO NOT CARE whoever the eff is Dex. Who the eff is he ?! 9. Action > Story as per Jason Kim’s formula. That’s not a sustainable formula. 10. Woojin needs a backstory. I still don’t know anything about Woojin except that he was a marine, was once a bloodhound for loan sharks, an amateur boxer whose dad was a bronze medalist.
EXACTLY!! THE ARCHER GIRL WAS SO BADASS WHEN SHE COME IN ACTION! When i first saw the intro of ep 1 s2 i was like…
She was there to tell geon woo and woojin about th dark web. 😒 that’s probably the only purpose she served. They found out about the dark web and IKFCs evil enterprise like that. But after that…literally nothing.
The most authentic and real character, and personally for me, the most likeable (of course after our two leads) in this show is Moon Gwang Mu (played by Park Hoon).
Although rugged and uncouth, operating on the margins of what’s legal. He still seems like the best adult in the room for Geonwoo and Woojin. Unlike Hong Min Beom (the 3rd gen Chaebol) and Min Gang Yong (the detective with the perpetual condescending air about him), who operate from a place of ego.
did they not have enough to pay for woojin as a main character...these shows are always cutting corners.
They definitely had the budget to fund the cameo carousel. Just who is this Dex guy ? What is a literal social media influencer nobody doing in this production? Why was that pastry boy needed ?
I agree but there's also a moment where they gave us a glimpse of the same Woojin. That moment where they're dealing…
That’s a great point regarding Geonwoo’s influence on him on living a good upright life. But there are soooo many moments where that spitfire woojin needs to rear his head. But it just stirs and fizzles away. You know what I mean ? It’s like he’s defanged or something
Unpopular opinion continued: 6. Woojin in series 1 was such a spitfire. A hotheaded guy. He loves geonwoo but he took no shit. He wasn’t the jokester he carried around to be. He was dangerous when angry. That fact was established in S1 when the loan shark he was trying to secure funds from for Geonwoo insults them and he just gives him one look. That look that tells you he’s a heart of gold, appears like a chill guy, jokes around and teases Geonwoo cos he’s so simple and upright but if you mess with Woojin he can make you cower with just one look. The guy who effing put up a fight with Myung Gil’s mercenaries alone in pyjamas.
But in season 2, the life has been snuffed out of Woojin. That spitfire spark is gone. Like what happened?!
Everything is just so damn forced and over-the-top.
And here I was begging and pleading Netflix gods to give guns to the good guys in BH2 and …wow. We have an AK47 make an appearance 🙄
Is it an AK or something else ?
12. I love this space as it’s dedicated to Asian dramas. And I also love how people openly and freely share their strong and sometimes honest opinions about a work. Sometimes they like a project so much that they start picking fights in the comment thread with anyone who doesn’t agree with their opinion (which is very unsophisticated). But sometimes they agree with someone’s comment and they end up sharing notes of things they loved in a show with a total stranger. And that’s why this open space is so important to just share your opinions and thoughts and critique freely (and hopefully in a civilised way)
Having said that, I’m kinda over this whole “oh they keep crying constantly” narrative that’s building up around Season 2. As if we didn’t see Geonwoo cry in season 1. And that too multiple times. Like what’s so surprising here?! He has always been that guy. Why is everyone so …taken aback by it. In fact, the guy literally was about to cry when they finally defeat Kim Myeong Gil, in S1 Episode 8, at the thought that he has become a violent hunting dog. Which is not his nature. And Woojin has to literally soothe and console him in that moment. That hey, we will find our way back, I’m with you.
I really don’t understand why is everyone so surprised? Did we want Geonwoo to suddenly enjoy a new thrill in bloodlust ? Become this mastermind plotter who is unfazed by the unfolding violence around him ? The guy was always a Pookie. He is still a pookie. Anyway, this “he’s always crying” opinion is quite disingenuous if you actually have watched S1. 😒
Ok here we go episode 11: so the lady buys a heavy duty hi-tech safe but there are no 24/7 cameras inside. Never heard of that. This I say as someone who knows a thing or two about safety vaults. But oh well. (Shrugs)
But then she also doesn’t run back CCTV footage to check who has been moving suspiciously in her office premises. Justice for CCTV cameras at the Royal Auction house . 😂 I mean just thinking logically.
11. Where is woojin’s scar ? Just wondering. 🤔he had a huge scar on his tummy.
7. Jason Kim needs to hire professional writers who can write down better dialogue and plot. Just give all your ideas to a team of expert writers who can whip up a functional screenplay that stands the tests of logic as well as storytelling.
8. I DO NOT CARE whoever the eff is Dex. Who the eff is he ?!
9. Action > Story as per Jason Kim’s formula. That’s not a sustainable formula.
10. Woojin needs a backstory. I still don’t know anything about Woojin except that he was a marine, was once a bloodhound for loan sharks, an amateur boxer whose dad was a bronze medalist.
Although rugged and uncouth, operating on the margins of what’s legal. He still seems like the best adult in the room for Geonwoo and Woojin. Unlike Hong Min Beom (the 3rd gen Chaebol) and Min Gang Yong (the detective with the perpetual condescending air about him), who operate from a place of ego.
6. Woojin in series 1 was such a spitfire. A hotheaded guy. He loves geonwoo but he took no shit. He wasn’t the jokester he carried around to be. He was dangerous when angry. That fact was established in S1 when the loan shark he was trying to secure funds from for Geonwoo insults them and he just gives him one look. That look that tells you he’s a heart of gold, appears like a chill guy, jokes around and teases Geonwoo cos he’s so simple and upright but if you mess with Woojin he can make you cower with just one look. The guy who effing put up a fight with Myung Gil’s mercenaries alone in pyjamas.
But in season 2, the life has been snuffed out of Woojin. That spitfire spark is gone. Like what happened?!