Reviews

Catching a murderer

Geu-ru’s photographic memory won’t let him rest because he didn’t find a pet camera in the teacher’s belongings. Sang-Gu helps him find it in a ceiling vent. This provided the evidence needed to prove boyfriend was guilty. Him laughing was a horrible thing. Geu-ru and Na-mu give the teacher’s gifts to students and friend. The only good thing that came of this other than false boyfriend getting arrested was Sang-Gu confronting the other abusive boyfriend that obstructed his running path. The detective gave Geu-ru her card. He refused it saying already memorized and rattled off all her information. Her reaction was funny, she was basically looking like she didn’t know all that from memory. Na-mu is tailing the uncle, finds out he is trying to sell the business and that he is fighting underground. Or rather being beaten. Whoever is blackmailing him is forcing him to lose fights.

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Retracing mom’s steps

Geu-ru has connected the dots and figured out why the mom was at the bank. He is all ready to tell the son, but learns his uncle tossed the heart box. His uncle is developing a conscience and helps find the box in a landfill. The son of the deceased is a disappointment. His main objective is still the money. But Geu-ru gets him to a tailor shop and the son sees how she saved his gift until she could get him the suit. I can only hope he will become a better person. Na-mu is determined to help her friend become more independent without his dad, but her mom isn’t happy about it. Her dad is a sweet person trying to keep both of the women in his life happy. He sneaks civil service practice tests in Na-mu’s backpack so that his wife will think she is studying for a job. For now everybody is happy with this arrangement. There is a backstory with Cho San-gu where he is being blackmailed for injuring a fighter. During an evening run he sees a couple where the boyfriend was abusive. Their next trauma case turned out to be at a murder site. Geu-ru takes it in stride and gets ready to clean the scene.

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Filler atau "side story"?

Episode kali ini tidak terfokus pada pemeran utama, bahkan menurut saya pemeran utama di episode kali ini (ryu dan arm) menjadi pemeran pendukung. Dialog dan scene yang ditampilkan membosankan, dialognya terlalu berat dan tidak sederhana, episode kali ini menjelaskan banyak sekali flashback; semua berkumpul dalam satu episode. Tidak ada romansa pemeran utama, sama sekali tidak ada. Dari segi warna, sangat biasa saja bahkan tidak konsisten, ada yang punya pallete warna cool, kemudian berubah menjadi matte, bahkan ada yang punya pallete glow. Dari segi cerita, mungkin episode kali ini bisa menuntaskan beberapa hal yang masih abu-abu di dalam cerita, namun cerita utama menurutku tidak benar-benar berproses. Selain itu konflik toon sangat tidak relevan dengan inti cerita utama, konflik ini terasa seperti filler untuk menambah durasi series, yg menurutku bahkan jika tidak ada pun "mungkin" series ini tetap bisa bertahan. Tokoh baru yang datang seperti "ken" tidak benar-benar membantu dan tidak punya dampak krusial yang siginifikan ; mungkin semua pendapat ini bisa saja terbantahkan jika benar mereka semua mempengaruhi cerita utama di episode selanjutnya. Sejujurnya saya merasa ngantuk menonton episode kali ini, sejujurnya saya benar-benar terfokus pada ryu dan arm tetapi di episode ini mereka benar-benar seperti di belakang panggung. Saya harap episode selanjutnya tidak seperti ini.

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