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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. 😒

Park Min Young is the woman. She is so good.

Why is no one asking the million dollar question from Jason Kim? Will there be a season 3? 🤭

(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.

Park Jeong Mjn is just top class

You should absolutely watch it. But don’t expect much of a story. Watch it for top notch action.

It has heart.

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11. Where is woojin’s scar ? Just wondering. 🤔he had a huge scar on his tummy.

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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.

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.

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 ?

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

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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?!

Okay. So I am doing a second watch today (on a slower pace. Cos I want to enjoy the technical aspects of this production). And now I’m coming up with some unpopular opinions. (More will follow).

1. S2 DID NOT NEED THE RETURN OF IN BEOM. No matter what anyone says. In Beom was not needed whatsoever. Any screen time spent on his character in my opinion is wasted screen time.
2. When I started watching the show I whined a lot about “where’s the damn police?!!”. In hindsight, I’m thinking what difference did the police make ?
3. Villains kitted with all kinds of modern gadgetry to support their evil designs, like jammers and shit. And we have this whole law enforcement machinery trying to catch them and all they rely on is batons, cctv footage and tazer guns. Not even surveillance devices like wiretaps and or satellite imagery is utilised.
4. The hotel where the villainous enterprise was staying at (and the lady who alerted the bad guys in advance), just a passing mention. No indicments. Like what the hell does “going by the books” mean here ?
5. Wheelchair girl comeback. Was it required? If so, then why not the archer girl? Like did we need this character?

When the police guy at the end shot the ex-NIS black ops guy, I literally exclaimed “I love guns!!!!” 💀💀💀💀💀💀 and I swear to you, I hate guns. I absolutely hate hate hate those things. But when that scene happened I literally was missing guns 🤭😅

Totally unnecessary.

I don’t mind that he’s crying. Actually I find it totally believable. Also we see that every time he sees a knife pointed at him he sort of flinches and hesitates. Cos he still has that memory of getting his face cut by Kim Myong Gil. It makes total sense that he’s emotional. He’s just a guy who wanted to be a great boxer. And live his life in an upright way that people want to role model (Manny Pacquiao type). So for him to end up in these situations, of course he’s gonna get overwhelmed. He has no criminal bone in him. He struggles with it. I don’t understand why people find him becoming emotional unbelievable or unbecoming. 😒

Also how did knife 2 survive that attack? Like how? I went back to season 1 to see what the attackers did to him. Dude doesn’t even have partial handicap of any kind 😳 wow

He seems like he won’t amount to much but he’s effective in his own way 😅