morpheus
somewhere on tatooine
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A wild gory ride
I binged this kdrama in a day and ohhhh boy was it worth it, a lot of people were excited the webtoon was being adapted into a drama, and I have to say, it’s the best action-horror I’ve seen this year.
The monsters were done surprisingly well. I would’ve preferred practical effects, but the CGI wasn’t terrible, they were convincing enough to give out those creepy / gory vibes, so that was a plus.
The acting performances were spot on, giving a shout out to Song Kang (he’s actually the reason I started watching lol) because his acting was fire in this show.
The plot is anything but cliché, the characters and actions of those characters made it interesting, AND we got some great background stories, you can find more about character backgrounds in the webtoon. What made this show great was the ending didn’t feel the slightest bit anti-climatic, like many other kdrama endings I’ve seen this year. The end gives you enough info or enough closure for you to be sufficiently satisfied, with a good chunk of the characters, best part? All of the webtoon wasn’t adapted in this one season we got, SO, that leaves room for our unanswered questions, to be answered in s2 (if any).
The pacing of this show I’ll commend as well, I find kdrama pacing can lack sometimes, as in: odd-cuts or no purpose filler episodes, but none of that happened in this drama. Not once. Every scene had a purpose in plot and character, and that’s another reason why this one is a winner.
Now for the things that bugged me ...
The atmosphere, really felt more like an action-zombie series instead of a horror-thriller,if that makes sense, even though it’s labeled horror-thriller lol that’s a lie, it had a “zombie apocalypse” feel more than anything, which isn’t ... bad, someone mentioned in the comments feed Studio Dragon should’ve hired the people who did The Guest, I strongly agree with this, I think atmospherically they would’ve done a better job in setting a darker-mature tone to this drama, which the webtoon most definitely had.
The soundtrack wasn’t spectacular, as a horror fan I find most horror shows don’t have solid soundtracks to begin with, but hearing Warriors by Imagine Dragons every time a character decided to grow a pair, got old real quick lol, also I didn’t think the song fit the vibe of the show, nor did the music overall, but that’s imo, so take it with a grain of salt :)
As for character deaths, I think some of them were unnecessary, like Han Du Sik’s, he was actually one of my favorite characters, and his death could’ve been better imo, as for Jae Heon even though he went out like a badass, I felt he deserved to live, the man was a fighter till the end.
The cliffhanger, *sigh* ... kdrama writers do this thing where they set the plot in motion, give us a cliffhanger, but we have no idea if there’s going to be a second season, so technically this show could end right at 10 episodes, and we’d be stuck with an unnecessary incomplete ending, I know the show is adapted from a webtoon, doesn’t mean it doesn’t bug the sh*t outta me ... especially when kdramas don’t normally have second seasons to begin with, normally there’s one season with 16, 20, or 32 ep’s and that’s all we get. This happened with Vagabond where the end was foreshadowed at the beginning of the show, but it was still left incomplete for us to assume what happened to all the characters. I’m prayinggggg this show gets renewed for another season by Netflix. PRAYING. The final episode was kick ass, and initially we found out Sang Wook (aka gangster dude) has been hidinggggg some important stuff lol, as in what tf does he want with Hyun Soo, the biggest WTF moment for sure, Yi Kyung is off on her own now and the rest of the group is faced with an unforeseen future, good characters died, and the stakes are higher than ever. What will happen to Hyun Soo? Will he be experimented on like the rest of his kind? Will he find a way to overcome his inner monster? What was in the suitcase? How many others are there like Hyun Soo? Will there’s of the group survive? Only the webtoon can tell us, as for this drama continuing, I truly hope it gets a s2, I look forward to it in hopefully 2021 or 2022 ??! That’s all I got :)
The monsters were done surprisingly well. I would’ve preferred practical effects, but the CGI wasn’t terrible, they were convincing enough to give out those creepy / gory vibes, so that was a plus.
The acting performances were spot on, giving a shout out to Song Kang (he’s actually the reason I started watching lol) because his acting was fire in this show.
The plot is anything but cliché, the characters and actions of those characters made it interesting, AND we got some great background stories, you can find more about character backgrounds in the webtoon. What made this show great was the ending didn’t feel the slightest bit anti-climatic, like many other kdrama endings I’ve seen this year. The end gives you enough info or enough closure for you to be sufficiently satisfied, with a good chunk of the characters, best part? All of the webtoon wasn’t adapted in this one season we got, SO, that leaves room for our unanswered questions, to be answered in s2 (if any).
The pacing of this show I’ll commend as well, I find kdrama pacing can lack sometimes, as in: odd-cuts or no purpose filler episodes, but none of that happened in this drama. Not once. Every scene had a purpose in plot and character, and that’s another reason why this one is a winner.
Now for the things that bugged me ...
The atmosphere, really felt more like an action-zombie series instead of a horror-thriller,if that makes sense, even though it’s labeled horror-thriller lol that’s a lie, it had a “zombie apocalypse” feel more than anything, which isn’t ... bad, someone mentioned in the comments feed Studio Dragon should’ve hired the people who did The Guest, I strongly agree with this, I think atmospherically they would’ve done a better job in setting a darker-mature tone to this drama, which the webtoon most definitely had.
The soundtrack wasn’t spectacular, as a horror fan I find most horror shows don’t have solid soundtracks to begin with, but hearing Warriors by Imagine Dragons every time a character decided to grow a pair, got old real quick lol, also I didn’t think the song fit the vibe of the show, nor did the music overall, but that’s imo, so take it with a grain of salt :)
As for character deaths, I think some of them were unnecessary, like Han Du Sik’s, he was actually one of my favorite characters, and his death could’ve been better imo, as for Jae Heon even though he went out like a badass, I felt he deserved to live, the man was a fighter till the end.
The cliffhanger, *sigh* ... kdrama writers do this thing where they set the plot in motion, give us a cliffhanger, but we have no idea if there’s going to be a second season, so technically this show could end right at 10 episodes, and we’d be stuck with an unnecessary incomplete ending, I know the show is adapted from a webtoon, doesn’t mean it doesn’t bug the sh*t outta me ... especially when kdramas don’t normally have second seasons to begin with, normally there’s one season with 16, 20, or 32 ep’s and that’s all we get. This happened with Vagabond where the end was foreshadowed at the beginning of the show, but it was still left incomplete for us to assume what happened to all the characters. I’m prayinggggg this show gets renewed for another season by Netflix. PRAYING. The final episode was kick ass, and initially we found out Sang Wook (aka gangster dude) has been hidinggggg some important stuff lol, as in what tf does he want with Hyun Soo, the biggest WTF moment for sure, Yi Kyung is off on her own now and the rest of the group is faced with an unforeseen future, good characters died, and the stakes are higher than ever. What will happen to Hyun Soo? Will he be experimented on like the rest of his kind? Will he find a way to overcome his inner monster? What was in the suitcase? How many others are there like Hyun Soo? Will there’s of the group survive? Only the webtoon can tell us, as for this drama continuing, I truly hope it gets a s2, I look forward to it in hopefully 2021 or 2022 ??! That’s all I got :)
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