why do you think the writing of Qot is sloppy? mention the plot holes too!

Apr 30, 2024 06:07 am

plot hole:

1. the mistress' fake identity

Apr 30, 2024 01:55 pm

CLOY actors both appear as characters in QOT but also within QOT as their fictional characters from the TV show CLOY (which appears on the Hong's TV in episode 5). QOT is trying to have it both ways. As far as we know, Vincenzo is only a character in a shared universe, and not also a fictional character on TV within the QOT universe, but who knows? ??

Kim Jung Nan appears as Aunt Beom Ja in QOT and Ma Young Ae [Senior colonel's wife] in CLOY. Kim Young Min plays Beom Ja's love-interest Young Song in QOT and Jung Man Bok [NK Military wiretapper] in CLOY.

Baek Hyung Woo's security detail was played by the actors Go Gyu Pil & Im Chul Soo (who "previously worked in North Korea"!) These actors played CLOY's Mr. Hong / Hong Chang Shik [Seri Choice team manager] and Park Su Chan [Insurance company employee], respectively.

Living Tribunal

May 2, 2024 09:46 am

imashy:
plot hole:
1. the mistress' fake identity

The whole love line of Soo Cheol and Da Hye. Also can we talk about how the miscarriage topic was forgotten by the writer like she mentioned it in the first half of the show just to show what causes their conflict but she forgot about that in the second half and didn't resolve it properly.

ivybis

May 2, 2024 05:18 pm

Too many overused tropes like memory loss, terminal illness, underdeveloped characters, little character growth. The crazy writing that insulted my intelligence that we were expected to swallow, like the hospital our FL is being treated at receiving a huge donation so that the villain could dictate her care. The lack of follow up of her condition nor how she ever acted like a patient with a brain tumor. How our ML is nearly killed when villain tries to run him over only to have him walk out of the hospital like it was nothing. There are many things wrong with the writing and the performers deserved better.

Ifesal

May 3, 2024 04:29 am

The actors carried this show because the writing was trash.

1. A family that rich and successful cannot be that reckless when it comes to their safety. They didnt get rich if they are that stupid. Maybe there might be 1 or 2 snitches, but their entire household staff being all in on the scam is very bogus. YES and his mom having more security personnel than the chaebols they are stealing from!! That make no sense in real life.

2. After their assets were released and they knew they were being targeted and threatened, they were still reckless. YES was always ahead of them, and they did not know any of his plots. The disclosure of sensitive information like this being normal was ridiculous; even a broke person would know to be careful. How YES was able to get patient details from a foreign hospital and to be able to track her down, even knowing details of her surgery date and time, is unreal

3. The entire surgery, hospital arrest, and YES coming into a patient room that's waking up from such critical surgery was a very big blunder. Which hospital in the world has such a lax visitor policy? A patient that checked in with one spouse, but a random stranger came and claimed to be related.

4. HH told the family she read about their drama online to confirm how close they were, but did the writers forget that YES too had scandals that would have been online, e.g., the press conf video would have been online

And it just continues to go downhill after she returned home. The writers let this story down. Still no explanation as to why the housekeeper/YES's mom was so entitled to their wealth and targeted the family. Maybe that's at the end, I dunno if I can finish it.

pinkcupcake

May 3, 2024 06:30 pm

There's too many twists and turns that makes things either overcomplicated or really tiring. In love with the moments that they finally had but idk it dragged on so much that the plot twists and so forth wasn't making things exciting as it should've, instead it kept going in loops.

Totally agree that it is the actors who really carried the drama. Without them, it would've been like any other melodrama just with a bit more turns and twists, and then a sudden happy ending with a more "realistic" ending, but contradictory because the whole storyline was rather unrealistic imo haha

pinkcupcake

May 3, 2024 06:32 pm

ivybis:
Too many overused tropes like memory loss, terminal illness, underdeveloped characters, little character growth. The crazy writing that insulted my intelligence that we were expected to swallow, like the hospital our FL is being treated at receiving a huge donation so that the villain could dictate her care. The lack of follow up of her condition nor how she ever acted like a patient with a brain tumor. How our ML is nearly killed when villain tries to run him over only to have him walk out of the hospital like it was nothing. There are many things wrong with the writing and the performers deserved better.

TOTALLY AGREE, it's the overusage of these twists and turns and loops that made it really uninteresting afterwards and spread out too thin. Honestly sticking with a few impactful ones would've really carried well. Take the Chinese trilogy drama "Memory Lost" (trilogy because it was soo popular they kept making until the third one, that's how good it was), they stuck with one theme—memory loss—and kept it up to pace so that we don't get tired of it and fully understand what is at stake and at hand without being confused. Makes the storyline so much clearer and viewers enjoy the twists and turns more without overcomplication.