It's definitely early to be making assumptions and I didn't check the webtoon or anything but there seem to be…
The episode is very fast paced, and it's easy to miss details. Since I took some notes while watching, I can answer a few things.
1. We just see that the mother does have more power. When she touches someone, she seems to be able to convince that person of a possible future. I guess this works on weak minds.
2. Why the CEO lives in a hotel, I don't know. Maybe he owns it. There are security measures (door first) and we see several guards trying to stop them, but "unlucky" events stop them (or luck events for mother and daughter).
2b. How she escape. It's clear: he touches the stone (child statue), she touches the doors (and see him via the peephole). Then her pendentive light up, she enters a kind of contact from distance/wall (vision from mind this time). What means she give him luck power. By luck the door open with the stone contact without needing the eye scan. So her power need contact, or something close, maybe close distance. When ML is in the street (bad luck power), the keeper say "don't touch him because he gives unluck". He say "don't let him speak to you, because even that could give bad luck". (not the exact line, but the meaning). I guess the power is less strong than with full contact, but sometimes work.
3. We can't know that at this point. And I don't know who the child in the picture is.
4. The mother is having a ceremony (with daylight), before we see a dove flying. I suppose she is scanning the omens and waiting for the right moment to make a successful escape. She had obviously planned for the tourists. Big white hat on Seul Bi (makes think of dove). Only moment when an escape is possible is 2 years later.
5. He already knows why his mother was killed and because of whom. He knows that it is not Seul Bi's fault. Seul Bi's power works on others, but I'm not sure it involves her.
I think the CEO's son is his real son. A line of dialogue gives us an indication that Seul Bi is not the CEO's daughter. The plot uses a luck/misfortune high-concept whose logic we don't know fully yet. For now it is logically respected (it makes sense that a man takes advantage of it to become rich). I expect the concept to be used with some flexibility, depending on the needs of the plot.
Rewatching i saw there is so much hate for JKJ's acting/Seulhae in the timed comments on viki during the first…
Unintelligible, Jin Ki Joo gave one of the best performance I remember in my kdrama watcher lifetime. It's the kind of thing I have a special room in my mind about actors.
Wow, haven't seen such a boring male lead in a while... Woong was an interesting character from the very beginning,…
Take a second sight. How he hurry the relationship. The fact is so quiet and relax rather than be a bit nervous when he makes a proposal. Why he goes as soon as to another blind date. For sure the character is deeper than that and hides a lot. It will be very interesting to watch his cells.
Just the start, but far more better than season 1 for me so far. Obviously it depends on ones preferences, and…
I'm rewatching season 1, I prefer now than first time. There are many funny situations I didn't noticed (I was not in good condition at this time). Of course the so good "transparent shower" situation. I enjoy a lot season 2. This writer never disapoint.
Yes kaiji has intense emotions, the lead does an amazing job.. Liar game is fun to watch.
Ahh, I was speaking about the anime (cartoon), with an expressionist style. I watched the movies too. I like less, but the main actor is great. Same guy than in Battle Royale and Death Note the movies. This guy is everywhere!
I'm not so interested because season 1 copied too much some others shows. It rely on shock value, while emotions couldn't be feel. I still appreciate anything that was really original in it. Esthetism, the cake game, rich people coming to see the game.
We can watch the anime KAIJI. Mostly copied, even a whole scene. Fun fact about that, Kaiji is much less violent while the emotions are more intense. Other, the famous movie "Battle Royale" and the psycho-cerebral japanese drama "Liar game", which use an island in the final movie.
The writer took 12 years writing the 1st season whereas now it’s only 2 years (?) he’s gonna spend writing…
It's ok. Many screenwriters do that. Some projects takes time to maturate, as some others are done more quickly. You can see mainwhile he wrote and directed 3 movies.
I'm surprised people in the comments are against this sequel. Recently all I see is people hoping for sequels…
It makes sens. People like to have a full story. Myself too. It means the drama have a structure beginning-middle-end. What is frustrating in series with seasons, it leads nowhere, and the writing don't need to be so precise about to prepare the points of the story leading to an end.
But sometimes kdramas with seasons can be good too... - Yumi Cells: the drama is short and have an ending. Anyone can see that and be ok with the end. - Stranger: I watched season 1, it haves a closure and didn't need a season 2. So a season 2 is ok too (and I didnt watched it). - Vagabond: here it's frustrating. We don't feel a real ending. I can note however that the writers certainely have a lot of the ideas for a season 2. As season 2 will never be produced, they worked for nothing.
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1. We just see that the mother does have more power. When she touches someone, she seems to be able to convince that person of a possible future. I guess this works on weak minds.
2. Why the CEO lives in a hotel, I don't know. Maybe he owns it. There are security measures (door first) and we see several guards trying to stop them, but "unlucky" events stop them (or luck events for mother and daughter).
2b. How she escape. It's clear: he touches the stone (child statue), she touches the doors (and see him via the peephole). Then her pendentive light up, she enters a kind of contact from distance/wall (vision from mind this time). What means she give him luck power. By luck the door open with the stone contact without needing the eye scan. So her power need contact, or something close, maybe close distance. When ML is in the street (bad luck power), the keeper say "don't touch him because he gives unluck". He say "don't let him speak to you, because even that could give bad luck". (not the exact line, but the meaning). I guess the power is less strong than with full contact, but sometimes work.
3. We can't know that at this point. And I don't know who the child in the picture is.
4. The mother is having a ceremony (with daylight), before we see a dove flying. I suppose she is scanning the omens and waiting for the right moment to make a successful escape. She had obviously planned for the tourists. Big white hat on Seul Bi (makes think of dove). Only moment when an escape is possible is 2 years later.
5. He already knows why his mother was killed and because of whom. He knows that it is not Seul Bi's fault. Seul Bi's power works on others, but I'm not sure it involves her.
I think the CEO's son is his real son. A line of dialogue gives us an indication that Seul Bi is not the CEO's daughter.
The plot uses a luck/misfortune high-concept whose logic we don't know fully yet. For now it is logically respected (it makes sense that a man takes advantage of it to become rich). I expect the concept to be used with some flexibility, depending on the needs of the plot.
41:30, the CEO says "take care of your daughter", not "our daughter".
This is a blast!! Powerful dramatics, fast paced, good logic.
We can watch the anime KAIJI. Mostly copied, even a whole scene. Fun fact about that, Kaiji is much less violent while the emotions are more intense. Other, the famous movie "Battle Royale" and the psycho-cerebral japanese drama "Liar game", which use an island in the final movie.
But sometimes kdramas with seasons can be good too...
- Yumi Cells: the drama is short and have an ending. Anyone can see that and be ok with the end.
- Stranger: I watched season 1, it haves a closure and didn't need a season 2. So a season 2 is ok too (and I didnt watched it).
- Vagabond: here it's frustrating. We don't feel a real ending. I can note however that the writers certainely have a lot of the ideas for a season 2. As season 2 will never be produced, they worked for nothing.
But a full respect would be no more than 5.
You just can't stand that your darling are killed with objective facts.