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The Guardians korean drama review
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The Guardians
1 people found this review helpful
by RandomShell
Aug 31, 2018
32 of 32 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 4.0
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 10.0
Rewatch Value 3.0
+ POSITIVES
- NEGATIVES
= SUMMARY
~ RECOMMENDED FOR

++++++ POSITIVES +++++
+ The characters are very well developed and they all have their own story that the writers are kind enough to share with us.

+ The actors were all really talented and made their characters feel very realistic and believable. They also did a splendid job with the chemistry. Even if there were few love scenes, they were sending me all the right signals to make a romance possible.

+ The story as a whole is very interesting and keeps you at the edge of your seat. The way everything comes together, case by case was a very nice build up to the final boss.

+ The sound track is perfect and all the songs will be on your "To download" list.

------ NEGATIVES ------
- They were repeating scenes over and over even though the scenes were not important and I didn't gain any information from watching it again with a few extended seconds. Fine if it's to remind the viewer of something but in this case it seemed to be to extend the episodes.

- The emphasis was on the drama and the action. I wish there was more case solving and that they kept more secrets. Because they were so out in the open with everything, the build up to the climax disappeared since the show was just one big climax in itself. They should have worked more with the dynamic of having calm, informative parts and then shock the viewer with something instead of mixing it all together. I got bored.

- The whole series felt like I was going around in circles. Some events would happen multiple times without contributing anything to the story. Instead it would just make the characters seem more incompetent and at last, it was hard to take everything seriously because the likeliness of it happening was reaching zero.

- Some lose ends were never tied and some motives where never found. The ending felt very lazy to me.

======= SUMMARY ======

So to sum it all up, the characters were well developed and the actors where excellent. The sound track gave the perfect feels for every scene and the chemistry was spot on. On the other hand, scenes where being unnecessarily reused often, without contributing anything to the story and I felt like the whole show was going around in circles. Events would happen multiple times which caused them to become less believable every time I saw them happen again. This made the entire story feel dragged, repetitive and longer than it needed to be. Not to mention that although the ending was daring and pretty good, it created a big plot hole and left us with some untied lose ends.

~~~~~~ RECOMMENDED ~~~~~~
If you like action with a story, a little bit of romance, vengeance, lies and deceit, this is the poop for you. You will see people getting shot, falling off buildings, a bit of blood, a few fighting scenes and a whole lot of kick ass. This is not a "solve it yourself" type of criminal series though. You will be hand held through out the entire show, with the answers given to you one by one as the episodes go on. You will encounter a few psychos without motives and quite a few murder attempts. If you want romantic skinship in loads, leave now. This show does not have the focus in that sort of place.

With that said...

... enjoy!!!
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