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They don't put enough emphasis on important things, but overexplain some basic ones...

This might sound weird, but damn suffering on screen fits Yun Xi so much 🥲

Honestly speaking, unless the purpose of the story is to explore current socio-political issues in an exaggerated version of post apocalyptic scenerio, i don't think shows like that need that much world-building. I don't think this show tried to do that, it was just a fun post-apo entertainment hahahah

Is there a lot of overlap right now? Sure.

But we need to remember we are only 5 episodes in out of 16. A lot can happen.
Some people did not even have a chance to have a private conversation. I think only after new girl joins anything will start to solidify. They all still need to explore their options and see who they like the most, who are they just curious about etc.

Best example is Ju Mi and Mingyu - he did not even consider her an option because he was 100% sure she is not interested in him. Now that they had a chance to talk, things might change. And the same applies to everyone.

I was scared I would not like it, because even before I started watching I was already hesitant coz of all the hype and popularity of this movie 🤡 Luckily I did end up liking it a lot

Lee Sun Woo and Cha Young Jin are canon couple in my head 🤣
I also agree how the characters and their relationships were the best aspect of the drama. Loved all the good guys - be it main characters or supporting ones.

That said... I was actually not amazed by the villains. for me they were rather cliche and a bit too exaggerated un presentation. For me, they were the weakest aspect of the whole show 🥲

he was definitely not 100% to blame for becoming this psycho< about this, none of the psychos are 🤣 be it more biological or social factors that made them this way, in all of the cases, it's not really their choice 🤡

Great review 😊

Totally agree! The villains were not only the weakest, but just... weak writing. You can have weaker elements that are still good, but here the bad guys were just... so empty and cartoonish. At the same time the good guys were all so well written, even the supporting characters had more depth and were more realistic than the bad guys 😅

it started actually quite decent, but literally led to nowhere 😅

i rather see it as him being a willing tool for her to catch the bad guys, but on a few conditions (for example going as "legal" as possible and not hurting innocent people.

Her issue is not her not being as smart as she think she is, but rather underestimating others. If she starts to see ithers as capable, she would be more or less unstoppable.

both Togo's parents stuck so much.
but he also sucks. there is literally no worse trope in romance than breaking up with someone for their own good 🤡

also, Ro Um kind of has no right to be angry at other kids for being part of her parents dying, she was literally the one who told them that no matter who might die, they just have to follow orders. But now that it was her that was screwed over, now it's wrong and she wants revenge 🤡

I am so done with the 4th wall breaking. It's just so poorly done in terms of blending it into the story and the scenes. Especially since she always explains extremely basic things so these small monologues towards viewers are pointless and bring nothing of value.

I also have a bit of an issue with Han Moo Young's presentation. For someone with such a high level of empathy he truly does not give a flying fuck about his co-workers and how his actions might affect the whole firm 🤡I think it would be far more interesting if they actually showed how conflicted he is, because his goals are at times contradicting and whatever he does, someone might get hurt.

Also... damn why is everyone so unlikable lol 😅

tiny correction, technically speaking psychopathy is not recognized officially as a disorder, antisocial personality disorder is. But then the whole categorization is all messy, coz some differentiate between antisocial personality, psychopathy, sociopathy, some add sub-clinical psychopathy to the mix, some researchers say most of these are names for one and the same disorder ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but yeah, disorder wise, if she has one (I'd say she does lol), it would be antisocial personality disorder, since psychopathy colloquially speaking (as it is used by most characters) is more of an umbrella term for many asocial and antisocial behaviors.

fair enough not that I think about it he literally kissed a dude he was 100% sure is not attracted to him when he was sleeping.
I guess they do deserve each other 🙃

both Ichijou Souta and the co-worker SUCK.
Her just being so pushy and not knowing boundaries is annoying.
Him giving her false hope knowing well he does not have any romantic feelings is wrong.

Mahiro deserves better overall.

But his level is pathological because it literally negatively affects his life and makes his work almost impossible to do (for example - how he completely changed the clients he takes because of that one case he "failed"). That's my point - he is not just highly sensitive. The difference between something being pathological or nor is whenever it hurts the person or people around them.

Basically to explain with FL's case - psychopathy is not a disorder, it's a mix of personality traits that exist among all people on different levels. But then antisocial personality disorder is a disorder because it crosses the line when it has highly negative effect on person or/and people around them. Same with empathy - being empathic is trait on spectrum, and whenever someone is externally low or extremely high in most cases not preferable and can be dangerous. Both having a lot of empathy and having little empathy have positive and negative aspects/consequences, and if someone is far on that spectrum, they will face more severe ones, and in most cases they won't be able to deal with them alone.

For you example of introversion - that's a personality trait. But in extreme cases we talk about Avoidant Personality Disorder, when someone's "introversion" is so high they themselves feel trapped in it. Feeling sad is not disorder, depression is. Feeling happy and excited is not a disorder, manic phase of bipolar disorder is. Extreme levels of any normal behavior are viewed as pathological because they negatively affect person's life in a long term.

because being this level of empathic as the main lead is literally emotionally exhausting for him and can lead to chronic stress and that long term can really deteriorate one's overall health.

Any personality trait that is on the far end of the spectrum usually have many negative aspects to it, no matter if generally people view said trait in a positive light.

In his case he is literally overtaken by the emotions of other people. Highly doubt they will talk about this in drama, but it can affect one's sense of self since it might be hard for them to differentiate between their own emotions and emotions of others, since they do experience them on the same level.

It's a bit like having a good memory is overall a good thing, but having photographic memory can affect someone's life on a really negative way, especially if it means they cannot move on from negative memories, since they never fade away (normal human memory will burr the past which means it will have less emotional effect on a person when they recollect it).

Most people cannot really imagine the negative effects of high empathy because they will never experience this level of being "in tune" with someone else's emotions. It's more than just "I will sad when someone else is sad".

this^ and show does perfect job at showing that he might be highly empathic, but he is not naive. Dude is really smart and can be cunning himself.

I actually truly love how the show clearly points out neither having high empathy nor psychopathic traits is all back and white - both have positive and negative aspects and one has to learn how to navigate if they are on far end of spectrum of either of these traits.

Technically speaking even psychopathy is not an illness, but just a character trait (or rather a mix of character traits that often exist together). Now, depending on what one might want to do in their lives both psychopathy and being highly empathic might cause troubles and would need some type of treatment (not necessarily pills tho, but a therapy would be needed). Being lawyer and being highly empathic is not exactly compatible. His character trait makes it harder for him to move on from case to case, accept loss etc. which could cause chronic stress.

Also, I think they made it rather clear he is not just highly sensitive - he literally feels exactly the same pain, loss, emotions that people he connects to. To the point that it negatively affects his life and that's usually how disorders are separated from just personality traits.

Everyone has some level of empathy and psychopathy in them, the drama points out how people on FAR ends of said spectrum would operate, work, behave and what issues they might face.