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The Silent Sea korean drama review
Dropped 3/8
The Silent Sea
24 people found this review helpful
by cc5
Dec 25, 2021
3 of 8 episodes seen
Dropped 1
Overall 1.0
Story 1.5
Acting/Cast 6.0
Music 1.0
Rewatch Value 1.0

Science and Astronauts will be crying.

I was eagerly waiting for this series and it disappointed me so much.
This series had a lot of budget that went into making it, yet the script writer, nor the director didn't even think of consulting some professional who can help them in aspect of spacecraft and moon since this is a sci-fi genre, but I guess the writer and the director decided to trust their own brains that doesn't have a clue about it. Not just science sucked at every episodes, the camera work, the dialogues also brilliantly sucked.

SPOILERS AHEAD...BE WARNED.

The series starts with FL and our ML along with other crew members set out to voyage to the abandoned Balhae moon station, where 117 researchers died five years earlier. Their goal is to retrieve some mysterious sample from that moon station and return back. At this point I was ok, but then the tragedy of this series began.

The FL, ML and their crew are ready to go to the moon without even having at least a few weeks of simulation training. It is so ridiculous that our FL is shown struggling to put on her seat belt because she doesn't know while she is about to go into the space in next few seconds. I mean what the hell is that. Just when you get over this absurdity another one immediately gets thrown into your face.

Just few minutes before launching off the earth, all of a sudden one of the pilot of the spacecraft gets changed. Going to moon itself is a complex mission, yet last minute they change the pilot as if it is as easy as changing driver for your car.

I kept my patience and positivity even after this. Then comes another blow, where apparently now our team took off the earth by blasting 1, 2,3 and is going on their way to moon. And apparently their spacecraft is loosely bolted to the docking machine. I cannot believe this is the reason they come up with, you can go with many internal problems to show why you should take emergency landing but they took the impossible never happening loose bolt as a reason. And the worst thing is, because of loose bolt they can't communicate to the space center crew on the earth. How does loose bolt will lead to communication system damage???

And mind these mistakes are only half of the mistakes from first episode, I could fill pages with just first episode itself. I could have let the science mistakes slide if this drama didn't have budget, but it had. It had everything to make this show proper, but they didn't. The laziness and haughtiness could be seen in the direction. The camera work is done so worst that expect for FL, ML, you cannot properly have other characters fit into the frame with clarity.

And dialogues, omg, they talk like some kind of street business men. I don't expect astronauts to never talk slang or use profanity or talk normally, they do but still you get a sense of knowledge and professional aura even when they speak in a informal way. But this one has dialogues that seem so bland, over the top, like a frosting served without a cake.
At one point, one of the side character astronaut literally says "can I remove my space helmet, is it safe" when literally in front of him two people opened their helmets seemingly fine and what kind of writing that makes astronaut so stupid that he doesn't even know if it is safe to remove his helmet or not.

I cannot watch a show that makes blunders after blunders, and think everyone will be ok with it because the characters belong to A list actors.

Anyone in replies will try to oppose me or criticize me go ahead. I cannot stop you, but I stand true to my review.
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