ZSan
Ireland
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What Started Promising Ended Promising
Do Not Read If You Don't Want Spoilers.......
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Before I fully begin I just want to say that all the actors in this show done a phenomenal job and they should be proud of themselves. Yoo Ahin done a really good job portraying the character Jung Jinsoo along with the other cast members in their specific roles. I remembered Park Jungmin from his role in "You're All Surrounded" so I was happy to see him again. All the staff done a great job from the cinematography to the CGI itself, it was really good.
I was originally going to rate this drama a 3 or 5 because of the way I thought Episode 6 was going to end, the first 3 episodes were very interesting and kept me watching at the edge of my seat wanting more. Then we got to episode 4 and 5. Those episodes felt the exact same, it felt like the plot wasn't going anywhere not progressing at all and very rushed due to the 6 episode limit ( they could've done with at least 3 more episodes)
Youngjae and his wife Sohyun were not very interesting nor did I have any emotional investment into them because of the brief period we were with them. The Policeman Kyunghoon's story is wasted potential unless they hopefully expand on it in a Second Season as it would be interesting to know what he has been up to in the 4 year time skip.
Then we get to Episode 6 which revived my hope for the show. When Youngjae and Sohyun died for their baby I thought to myself "Is this going to end like Possessed" and felt very disappointed. For the record I really hate the "Everyone Dies" endings, I thought I completely wasted my time on this drama getting invested only to be thoroughly disappointed in the end, I had rated the drama a 5 at this point believing that that would be the end of things and that it was going to end so predictable. That's when a scene came on that changed my opinion of the show completely and has jumped it up to a 7. This scene has created so much potential for this show that I want to watch more immediately but unfortunately I cannot. This is why you should have more faith in the screenwriter especially when they have Train To Busan on their record. If you would like to know what this scene was then please watch the show. Thank you.
What started promising, ended promising.
One additional thing I must say is that I love that recently a lot more K-Dramas are exclusively Netflix series with the Netflix money as directors and screenwriters in South Korea are free from the restrictions that cable Tv puts on them and can do more than they could when airing on a network. Nothing is really censored. It is very enjoyable when the creator has freedom of expression. If this drama were to have aired on a TvN or OCN it probably would have been really bad due to a lack of funding and censorship laws that they must abide by.
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Before I fully begin I just want to say that all the actors in this show done a phenomenal job and they should be proud of themselves. Yoo Ahin done a really good job portraying the character Jung Jinsoo along with the other cast members in their specific roles. I remembered Park Jungmin from his role in "You're All Surrounded" so I was happy to see him again. All the staff done a great job from the cinematography to the CGI itself, it was really good.
I was originally going to rate this drama a 3 or 5 because of the way I thought Episode 6 was going to end, the first 3 episodes were very interesting and kept me watching at the edge of my seat wanting more. Then we got to episode 4 and 5. Those episodes felt the exact same, it felt like the plot wasn't going anywhere not progressing at all and very rushed due to the 6 episode limit ( they could've done with at least 3 more episodes)
Youngjae and his wife Sohyun were not very interesting nor did I have any emotional investment into them because of the brief period we were with them. The Policeman Kyunghoon's story is wasted potential unless they hopefully expand on it in a Second Season as it would be interesting to know what he has been up to in the 4 year time skip.
Then we get to Episode 6 which revived my hope for the show. When Youngjae and Sohyun died for their baby I thought to myself "Is this going to end like Possessed" and felt very disappointed. For the record I really hate the "Everyone Dies" endings, I thought I completely wasted my time on this drama getting invested only to be thoroughly disappointed in the end, I had rated the drama a 5 at this point believing that that would be the end of things and that it was going to end so predictable. That's when a scene came on that changed my opinion of the show completely and has jumped it up to a 7. This scene has created so much potential for this show that I want to watch more immediately but unfortunately I cannot. This is why you should have more faith in the screenwriter especially when they have Train To Busan on their record. If you would like to know what this scene was then please watch the show. Thank you.
What started promising, ended promising.
One additional thing I must say is that I love that recently a lot more K-Dramas are exclusively Netflix series with the Netflix money as directors and screenwriters in South Korea are free from the restrictions that cable Tv puts on them and can do more than they could when airing on a network. Nothing is really censored. It is very enjoyable when the creator has freedom of expression. If this drama were to have aired on a TvN or OCN it probably would have been really bad due to a lack of funding and censorship laws that they must abide by.
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