Bad. I'm not sure what happened here. Probably one of two things:
A) production stopped and they had to use a limited scene selection B) the directors, producers, writers behind this show have zero experience in the industry and this was their first ever TV show project.
It's all over the place. There are no reasonable transitions from scene to scene. You go from extreme violence to heart warming moment as an example. It's abrupt. Sometimes there are literal gaps where you feel there should be a scene. You think "wait, what? How did these two get in a room together?" so even when you ignore the transitions and focus exclusively on one character and their journey... it doesn't flow. And you know how some people dislike flashbacks as a stalling technique? Yeah. This show has flashbacks that aren't necessary to explain stuff already happening while filling in none of the blanks like "how did that person end up in an interrogation room?", "how did that person free themselves from being captive?".
I could go on and on - but episode to episode, scene to scene, character progression when you focus on one of them or some of the side characters.... none of it flows or feels like a natural progression.
EP5If I was in the John place I would had "coronged" so hard forever.Listening to the commentaries of the channel…
Did they say they cut it? I was thinking the end of Episode 5 was the perfect set up for it where Mariko joins Toronaga and then John comes soon after to complain asking to leave and then pointing out the gardener was killed over a bird. This sets up Toronaga perfectly. He now knows John cares about life. He knows he needs to slowly back Mariko out of being a translator because she's not getting John to settle down.
I thought it was good. Wish it had more episodes to take things a bit slowly instead it threw some popular stuff at people with a bit of a Thai flavor twist to it. I enjoyed it but wanted more of the serious theme stuff.
Hoping there are more shows with roughly this kind of story where something extreme happens. There was an American show I remember where all adults disappeared as an example. Just something radical that changes the world like this one where almost all men disappear.
I think it's a pretty good start. I prefer CEO Yoon with the little brother/male lead because they fit each other better so far but maybe that will change.
The feeling through the first couple episodes reminds me of when I discovered Rome or when I started watching Game of Thrones. Hoping it succeeds and FX, Disney and other companies look at similar stories set in pre-industrial history whether that's Japan or anywhere else.
It's an interesting concept and I'll give it a try. I wonder if other countries will try it with a bit more seriousness to highlight some of the problems women face today by showing men experiencing them by virtue of there being many fewer men in the writers' fictional universe
I like the princess better than Gu Rong as a fit for the guy. Overall it's okay. The guy keeps doing The Office thing where he breaks the fourth wall and talks to the audience so if you don't like that, you probably won't like the show.
I think 7 and 8 were a bit weaker than previous weeks. They have 4 more episodes to start unravelling things so hopefully there's improvement next week.
The show is starting to lose me. Sure there are controversial scenes as people are discussing below but if you take a step back from that - what happened over the last several episodes?
- Hyo Shim - no debt, debt, no debt. Tae Min tried to force himself on her but she already knew how he felt and so did the audience. Tae Ho asked her out which is a bit more surprising to her but the audience knows it has been building. She rejects them both. So now we're essentially waiting for her to choose Tae Ho whether that's episode 20, 30, 40. Hyo Shim's story is now going to revolve around side characters and her interactions with them. I guess she learned once again her mom used her and took the $100,000 she had saved up. But she hasn't really had a response to it yet and went to a loan shark to save her brother. There is no growth yet.
Now lets delve into the side characters
- Anchorwoman keeps whining Tae Min doesn't like her and they're not going to get married but they're going to get married. Lol. It's been like this since she was introduced. It's going in circles. - Hyo Joon, studying to be a lawyer. Still the exact same as the early episodes. Nothing has changed. We can see where the story will go eventually now that we know he used to make indie movies and his next door neighbor is a lawyer but it hasn't actually moved along. - Hyo Do, the highschool dropout with the princess syndrome. Nothing has changed. Nothing has moved. To start the show he was (allegedly) unintentionally participating in a scam. He met a girl. He lost the girl. The plot has literally not moved from the introduction of his character. - The evil cabal. Secretary and Tae Min's parents. To start the show they were drugging grandma. She escaped. They were desperate to find her. That all disappeared. Grandma might as well be drugged up in that home again for all they've been doing. - The upstairs roof gang. Tae Ho's grandma, that other grandma, the six year old and that man. They just bicker and talk with each other. Their relationship dynamics haven't changed much. - Hyo Shim's oldest brother and his family. Again, what's really changed here? I guess their resentment has all bubbled to the surface.
And the preview for next week looks grim. The writers seem to know they've been stalling so out comes Tae Ho's parents and their car accident courtesy of angry anchorwoman! What happened to Tae Ho's investigation? Because the secretary and Tae Min found the car wreck he stopped looking into it?
The show feels like it's lurching from moment to moment and sometimes it takes several episodes to have a moment that advances a story.
Anyways I'm complaining. It's a family melodrama at the end of the day. I'll probably drop it and come back in February or something and fast forward and watch the scenes I want to.
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A) production stopped and they had to use a limited scene selection
B) the directors, producers, writers behind this show have zero experience in the industry and this was their first ever TV show project.
It's all over the place. There are no reasonable transitions from scene to scene. You go from extreme violence to heart warming moment as an example. It's abrupt. Sometimes there are literal gaps where you feel there should be a scene. You think "wait, what? How did these two get in a room together?" so even when you ignore the transitions and focus exclusively on one character and their journey... it doesn't flow. And you know how some people dislike flashbacks as a stalling technique? Yeah. This show has flashbacks that aren't necessary to explain stuff already happening while filling in none of the blanks like "how did that person end up in an interrogation room?", "how did that person free themselves from being captive?".
I could go on and on - but episode to episode, scene to scene, character progression when you focus on one of them or some of the side characters.... none of it flows or feels like a natural progression.
It's genuinely bad.
Hoping there are more shows with roughly this kind of story where something extreme happens. There was an American show I remember where all adults disappeared as an example. Just something radical that changes the world like this one where almost all men disappear.
Still by far the best show on air right now.
- Hyo Shim - no debt, debt, no debt. Tae Min tried to force himself on her but she already knew how he felt and so did the audience. Tae Ho asked her out which is a bit more surprising to her but the audience knows it has been building. She rejects them both. So now we're essentially waiting for her to choose Tae Ho whether that's episode 20, 30, 40. Hyo Shim's story is now going to revolve around side characters and her interactions with them. I guess she learned once again her mom used her and took the $100,000 she had saved up. But she hasn't really had a response to it yet and went to a loan shark to save her brother. There is no growth yet.
Now lets delve into the side characters
- Anchorwoman keeps whining Tae Min doesn't like her and they're not going to get married but they're going to get married. Lol. It's been like this since she was introduced. It's going in circles.
- Hyo Joon, studying to be a lawyer. Still the exact same as the early episodes. Nothing has changed. We can see where the story will go eventually now that we know he used to make indie movies and his next door neighbor is a lawyer but it hasn't actually moved along.
- Hyo Do, the highschool dropout with the princess syndrome. Nothing has changed. Nothing has moved. To start the show he was (allegedly) unintentionally participating in a scam. He met a girl. He lost the girl. The plot has literally not moved from the introduction of his character.
- The evil cabal. Secretary and Tae Min's parents. To start the show they were drugging grandma. She escaped. They were desperate to find her. That all disappeared. Grandma might as well be drugged up in that home again for all they've been doing.
- The upstairs roof gang. Tae Ho's grandma, that other grandma, the six year old and that man. They just bicker and talk with each other. Their relationship dynamics haven't changed much.
- Hyo Shim's oldest brother and his family. Again, what's really changed here? I guess their resentment has all bubbled to the surface.
And the preview for next week looks grim. The writers seem to know they've been stalling so out comes Tae Ho's parents and their car accident courtesy of angry anchorwoman! What happened to Tae Ho's investigation? Because the secretary and Tae Min found the car wreck he stopped looking into it?
The show feels like it's lurching from moment to moment and sometimes it takes several episodes to have a moment that advances a story.
Anyways I'm complaining. It's a family melodrama at the end of the day. I'll probably drop it and come back in February or something and fast forward and watch the scenes I want to.