Not the ending I hoped for, and was really looking forward to seeing Ahn Bo Hyun in Yumi's Cells again. I thought…
Well, I like Woong too but this series is based on a webtoon, and although they made some changes, Iām pretty sure sheās going to end up with the same āend gameā ML like in the webtoon.
Yesss Lee Jun Hyuk as a priest/pastor :3 I hope there wonāt be romance though (as it seems that heās playing a grown man and the FL is a high school student), and more like a mentor-mentee relationship.
I wrote almost everything you said to a friend earlier today! I jokingly asked if the last two episodes were written…
Glad that we thought alike!
Apparently at first the series was supposed to have 16 episodes, it seems like they squished 11-12 episodes into 10, which isnāt that big of a difference and only made some things feel rushed, but they they had to squish the remaining material of like 4 episodes into just 2, which resulted in what we got. Because of the length change they probably had to make some changes in the original drama plot as well. I donāt know from what moment was it changed from 16 to 12 episodes, it might have been before filming, or it might have been in the middle of filming, which could have made an impact on story consistency. Those are my assumptions.
More thoughts with spoilers... they spent way too much time in the last two episodes on things that didn't help…
Exactly, they also did basically nothing regarding that plot point with his ex-friend (the girl that was calling him throughout the series). From my understanding, and from what we got in the drama: she unintentionally caused a fire in their dorm or whatever (which was actually probably a fault of GyeonUās bad luck/curse accumulating in people around him) and the blame for it went to GyeonU. Now, she seemed to be in a hospital for a long time (GyeonU congratulates her for going home after the first timeskip, thatās like a year from the beginning of the series, and this only assuming that the fire happened not long before the fist episode), and with how she repeatedly said she hated him, Iād have expected that she suffered burns in that fire, or maybe she fell during it or something due to smoke and got injured (or the smoke inhalation messed with her health idk) that altered her look (like a burn on her cheek or something) or mobility etc. that changed her life or she most likely wouldnāt be able to do archery anymore. But then they show her all fine, they made up, and it 3 seconds this whole part of the story was resolved, they had buildup for nothing (also with what they showed of her, her hate towards GyeonU is totally disproportionate to what happened with him and her, like there was actually no explanation). I just, I donāt know, itās a rom-com but thereās a fair point of angst in this drama too, and theyāre not afraid to show the more āroughā and serious/hard hitting stuff when it comes to the shamanism-related plots (baby dying, shaman dying, suicide etc), so I was hoping theyād make this part of the story more serous and ātragicā too. Instead itās like they dismissed this part of the plot. When you look at it from the perspective of the whole drama, itās almost useless (the conclusion of just finding happiness and peace etc is good, it was nice, it also ties to the scene when GyeonU was cornered by his ex-teammates in the bathroom - on a side note, that scene also strengthens the impression that something serous happened with that girl, with how her teammates speak about her, which further makes the ending of that storyline feel weird - but it could have been brought up regardless, and making the situation more serious wouldnāt hurt the ending message).
Iām not saying that Iād want her to suffer more exclusively because itād fit more, but they never really explained what happened with her because of that fire, just that she hates GyeonU and feels guilty, so I really feel like it was incomplete and glossed-over just to get to the end of the drama (if it was supposed to be like that, why put so much emphasis on the phone calls earlier in the drama, if it wasnāt supposed to be a bigger plot or a more serious situation??).
The cinematography was actually really nice and the shaman stuff were also very intresting. Wanted more of yeomhwa…
The shamanism stuff was well done and very engaging, I really liked it too. I canāt find any other drama where itās a big plot point and itās so well done.
Can you tell me whatās the relationship between yeomhwa and the fl mum? They seem close
The FL mum is also Yeomhwaās āmotherā. She adopted Yeomhwa and raised her, but Yeomhwa was hurt and turned evil, and abandoned her mother. Then the mother āGeneral Dongcheonā happened to meet little FL who was abandoned, and took her in too, as her daughter. So the FL and Yeomhwa are lowkey adopted siblings.
I still relly love the whole shamanism aspect of this drama, it was done so well and it was consistently an important part of the story (some dramas tend to lose the initial plot part for the sake of the romance shenanigans and I often donāt like it, since a drama is advertised as one thing but turns to another mid way - itās not the case here), I canāt find anything else like it.
Itās great, and I love Cho Yihyun in this role and genre too! And Choo Young Wooā¦ I could watch them play main roles in different shamanism-related dramas a dozen times. Or in all kinds of dramas. I feel like they nicely fit each other on screen, I hope theyāll star in something other together too. I really like them together in this drama.
One thing Iād have loved to see is for it to have more instances where GyeonU walks upside down into the shrine. The visual of that scene was sick, and when it happened again when it showed the way of his death (soaked in water from drowning or standing in the flames from the burning building) it was absolutely amazing and a hard hitting scene. I wish we got a bit more of that (like him walking upside down when the suicide ghost appeared, or on another instance when he was made to visit SeongA and still was under the 21-day curse). They could have gone a little darker on some points of the negative energy/ghosts etc/dark shamanism.
Am I a bit disappointed by the last 2 episodes? Yes, yes I am. But I still really like this drama. I still think itās a very good drama. I feel like, with timeskipsā¦ like, the plot was so tight before, but once we come across a bigger timeskip it ends up becoming loose. Like, the plot was plotting so tightly before, like a tightly knitted fabric, but once thereās a big timeskip the loops in the fabric get bigger and bigger, and it all gets loose, it connects but the wind easily gets through all the holes, itās not plotting like it was before. Does that even make sense lol? Like itās harder to connect to it, while watching, and itās harder to connect it with the very tightly knitted story from before (especially if you have a time limit on that story too, like here it was 21 days and then some, so maybe like a month? thatās a pretty short time), itās like a scale jump (from small scale look to big scale look). But the story isnāt bad per se. It just feels disconnected. But as I said, I still like it.
I feel like I liked this drama so much as it was airing, that I made myself have this huge expectations, not even for something specific but just for a feeling that I felt, like amazement or something, that I became underwhelmed by the end, and thus a bit let down. Itās not my fault that I enjoyed it so much to the point of ābreakingā too early, the story could have been developed a bit differently in the last two episodes, it could have been better (although I donāt even know exactly how š¤¦ I just know that there are the feelings, the reaction that it could have, should have given me). But itās still good, i still like it, and I still think that itās one of the best dramas of this year. Itās well done after all, the sets, music and acting are all very good too.
By the way, how come people say it way good until halfway? It kept on mostly the same level for 10 episodes!
Iāve got to say, that I would have preferred if they kept Yeomhwa evil till the end. Because likeā¦ all that effort for nothing? Her character development happened all off screen (I mean, sheās not the main character so, I would want to push her too much) so itās hardly believable, a bit. Not full on evil, since she did tone it down and she changed too over the course of the episode like 6-10 or 6-11, but still rather bad, hurting and with bad intention, like she was in episodes 9-10, or maybe if she passed because of that ritual at the endā¦
Although I liked her last severe, with GyeonU and butterfly, that was fitting.
Since apparently they had one more freaking year till graduation, I feel like everything would have been fine if they just made this all happen in the 1.5 years (no problem with him being an archer either, high schoolers can go to the Olympics etc and heād be 19 anyway) and make her go back, in time to take the photo or something on graduation day. Then they could have an āupdateā kind of timeskip to show them doing good etcā¦
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I hope there wonāt be romance though (as it seems that heās playing a grown man and the FL is a high school student), and more like a mentor-mentee relationship.
Apparently at first the series was supposed to have 16 episodes, it seems like they squished 11-12 episodes into 10, which isnāt that big of a difference and only made some things feel rushed, but they they had to squish the remaining material of like 4 episodes into just 2, which resulted in what we got. Because of the length change they probably had to make some changes in the original drama plot as well. I donāt know from what moment was it changed from 16 to 12 episodes, it might have been before filming, or it might have been in the middle of filming, which could have made an impact on story consistency. Those are my assumptions.
From my understanding, and from what we got in the drama: she unintentionally caused a fire in their dorm or whatever (which was actually probably a fault of GyeonUās bad luck/curse accumulating in people around him) and the blame for it went to GyeonU.
Now, she seemed to be in a hospital for a long time (GyeonU congratulates her for going home after the first timeskip, thatās like a year from the beginning of the series, and this only assuming that the fire happened not long before the fist episode), and with how she repeatedly said she hated him, Iād have expected that she suffered burns in that fire, or maybe she fell during it or something due to smoke and got injured (or the smoke inhalation messed with her health idk) that altered her look (like a burn on her cheek or something) or mobility etc. that changed her life or she most likely wouldnāt be able to do archery anymore.
But then they show her all fine, they made up, and it 3 seconds this whole part of the story was resolved, they had buildup for nothing (also with what they showed of her, her hate towards GyeonU is totally disproportionate to what happened with him and her, like there was actually no explanation).
I just, I donāt know, itās a rom-com but thereās a fair point of angst in this drama too, and theyāre not afraid to show the more āroughā and serious/hard hitting stuff when it comes to the shamanism-related plots (baby dying, shaman dying, suicide etc), so I was hoping theyād make this part of the story more serous and ātragicā too. Instead itās like they dismissed this part of the plot. When you look at it from the perspective of the whole drama, itās almost useless (the conclusion of just finding happiness and peace etc is good, it was nice, it also ties to the scene when GyeonU was cornered by his ex-teammates in the bathroom - on a side note, that scene also strengthens the impression that something serous happened with that girl, with how her teammates speak about her, which further makes the ending of that storyline feel weird - but it could have been brought up regardless, and making the situation more serious wouldnāt hurt the ending message).
Iām not saying that Iād want her to suffer more exclusively because itād fit more, but they never really explained what happened with her because of that fire, just that she hates GyeonU and feels guilty, so I really feel like it was incomplete and glossed-over just to get to the end of the drama (if it was supposed to be like that, why put so much emphasis on the phone calls earlier in the drama, if it wasnāt supposed to be a bigger plot or a more serious situation??).
Itās great, and I love Cho Yihyun in this role and genre too! And Choo Young Wooā¦
I could watch them play main roles in different shamanism-related dramas a dozen times. Or in all kinds of dramas.
I feel like they nicely fit each other on screen, I hope theyāll star in something other together too. I really like them together in this drama.
The visual of that scene was sick, and when it happened again when it showed the way of his death (soaked in water from drowning or standing in the flames from the burning building) it was absolutely amazing and a hard hitting scene. I wish we got a bit more of that (like him walking upside down when the suicide ghost appeared, or on another instance when he was made to visit SeongA and still was under the 21-day curse).
They could have gone a little darker on some points of the negative energy/ghosts etc/dark shamanism.
I feel like, with timeskipsā¦ like, the plot was so tight before, but once we come across a bigger timeskip it ends up becoming loose.
Like, the plot was plotting so tightly before, like a tightly knitted fabric, but once thereās a big timeskip the loops in the fabric get bigger and bigger, and it all gets loose, it connects but the wind easily gets through all the holes, itās not plotting like it was before. Does that even make sense lol?
Like itās harder to connect to it, while watching, and itās harder to connect it with the very tightly knitted story from before (especially if you have a time limit on that story too, like here it was 21 days and then some, so maybe like a month? thatās a pretty short time), itās like a scale jump (from small scale look to big scale look).
But the story isnāt bad per se. It just feels disconnected. But as I said, I still like it.
I feel like I liked this drama so much as it was airing, that I made myself have this huge expectations, not even for something specific but just for a feeling that I felt, like amazement or something, that I became underwhelmed by the end, and thus a bit let down.
Itās not my fault that I enjoyed it so much to the point of ābreakingā too early, the story could have been developed a bit differently in the last two episodes, it could have been better (although I donāt even know exactly how š¤¦ I just know that there are the feelings, the reaction that it could have, should have given me). But itās still good, i still like it, and I still think that itās one of the best dramas of this year. Itās well done after all, the sets, music and acting are all very good too.
By the way, how come people say it way good until halfway? It kept on mostly the same level for 10 episodes!
Because likeā¦ all that effort for nothing? Her character development happened all off screen (I mean, sheās not the main character so, I would want to push her too much) so itās hardly believable, a bit.
Not full on evil, since she did tone it down and she changed too over the course of the episode like 6-10 or 6-11, but still rather bad, hurting and with bad intention, like she was in episodes 9-10, or maybe if she passed because of that ritual at the endā¦
Although I liked her last severe, with GyeonU and butterfly, that was fitting.