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The queen’s gambit but make it revenge
I had no expectations when I started this drama because I discovered it one day randomly whilst I was bored scrolling through the upcoming section on Netflix lol.
From the first episode, it hooked me! I do admit that the short run time did catch me off guard cause I was expecting at least a 40-50 min episode, but it did work okay in the beginning, but ultimately not much by the end.
The revenge was rather disappointing cause in the end it was revealed that he only abandoned her and her mom due to his inferiority complex towards his own genius daughter and the drive of wanting to get better, but stuck and thinking his family must have been a reason why he couldn’t do his best.In that moment, I was like “Ofc it’s that reason, men”.
It felt rather anticlimactic because by the end, for me, it wasn’t clear if she had come to love shogi and wanted to continue it, basically having a goal. It’s like throughout her revenge, we just lost the goal...
I feel like if it was given 2 more episodes or a longer run time, then maybe we could’ve gotten a bit more on the story cause the ending felt just super underwhelming, and that’s the problem about revenge stories cause it can either be done well, or we just don’t know how to write it.
It’s a shame tho cause it started strong only to end up lackluster.
From the first episode, it hooked me! I do admit that the short run time did catch me off guard cause I was expecting at least a 40-50 min episode, but it did work okay in the beginning, but ultimately not much by the end.
The revenge was rather disappointing cause in the end it was revealed that he only abandoned her and her mom due to his inferiority complex towards his own genius daughter and the drive of wanting to get better, but stuck and thinking his family must have been a reason why he couldn’t do his best.In that moment, I was like “Ofc it’s that reason, men”.
It felt rather anticlimactic because by the end, for me, it wasn’t clear if she had come to love shogi and wanted to continue it, basically having a goal. It’s like throughout her revenge, we just lost the goal...
I feel like if it was given 2 more episodes or a longer run time, then maybe we could’ve gotten a bit more on the story cause the ending felt just super underwhelming, and that’s the problem about revenge stories cause it can either be done well, or we just don’t know how to write it.
It’s a shame tho cause it started strong only to end up lackluster.
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