I'm just about to start this drama and looking at the trailer, the CGI seems really well done (yes, CGI does affect…
She's a good actress (seen her before). She has a good intro in this one (I'm only on ep3, so we'll have to see). HMH usually has good chemistry with anyone (you watched FoF, you KNOW it's true) and he brings up the rest of the cast with him.
First three eps are good - he looks so much younger than in FoF, she's playing a cutesy but wily swindler/demon, the older Zhuo bro is the last part of the triangle, LOL, the OP BGM is AMAZING, good effects (so far).
The whole drama ends in two weeks, what's with this schedule. Elongate it a bit atleast ☺️
Glory is going to air in parallel to this one. I wonder if the production companies raised a stink about it yet. They (whoever made the decision) played dirty.
sorry. I don’t see the point of th story. it’s the worst superpower ever ! I’ve watched 3 episodes already…
I kind of think that's the whole idea - useless superpowers are superpowers that one shouldn't even wish for, LOL. And it's not even that they're useless, they're harmful and require high sacrifices in order to get a little help...
Not like Japan was practically annihilated by nuclear bombs and innocent humans melted into nothing with their…
It's not on the victims to be accountable though. It's on the aggressors. And there's been no accountability so far. People will take the chance of giving punishment if remorse can't be found.
The longer this goes on (or if he/his agency ignore it completely), the worse the effect on SK audience, precisely because there has been so little remorse or even acknowledgment on the part of Japan for so many years. Every small incident where they show they're insensitive or ignorant of what the country has done to its neighbours will grow out of proportion with the lack of any kind of reaction from them.
Again, we'll see how big of an impact it will have when the drama airs. I think this will be revisited if it's not solved sooner, though.
This was good :) One of the scifi superhero kdramas that lands the ending. My major problem with it is that it's…
TK girl could have just eaten chocolate for her calories. Much denser than just some breads. I wonder if they explain why she doesn't do that in the webtoon.
That little girl at the end with the piggybank LOL - she should go into pro baseball or cricket at least, she has more strength than a regular pro hahaha~
Whatever happened to Mr. Lawyer lawyer's cancer/tumor caused by drinking?! I thought they'd revisit that.
Just how much time does MinSook lose by going back to help him? We're talking months, years, half her lifespan, what?!
So, given fire girl survived, there HAVE to be some others who also did? And do any of them recover their powers? Or once it's gone, it's gone?
According to the spending rules... SangWoong CANNOT recover the money at all. Where the heck did they get all the money to buy the freaking ap't?!
Moneylender lady's daughter never even made an appeareance. I'm a bit sad about it. I wanted to see MinSook's competition LOL.
This was good :) One of the scifi superhero kdramas that lands the ending. My major problem with it is that it's short and there's not a lot of development on the villains, they're just villains because.
And then there are a few things that rub me wrong. Overall though, a fun watch. Short though. And a long time coming, I guess we won't be seeing a second season or something.
ETA WAIT, the FL is Jeong JiAn?!!! Can't help myself then... LISTEN UP, JEONG JIAN!!
Not like Japan was practically annihilated by nuclear bombs and innocent humans melted into nothing with their…
There are articles where what the media is reporting is treated as gospel, why be picky on this one?
And TBH, I am not all that heated up about it, since it WAS a long time ago and maybe he did educate himself since (or at least learned to keep his mouth shut in topics like this), OR never intended it the way it was taken.
That being said, I've read a lot of comments in this topic dismissing or excusing what happened in the past because it was long ago, and Japanese people learn a different history than the rest of the world. or about forgiving and forgetting and moving on from this... And even blaming Koreans for being too sensitive on such topics while ignoring other problems or accepting Japanese culture (and their market) for Korean businesses and so on and so forth.
It needs to be said that
1. history is known now. There are no excuses possible for what Japan did pre- and during WWII. Yes, the population also suffered. Still, these things happened and not all of them were done by the leaders - the soldiers got blood drunk and participated willingly. Read up on the Nanjing Massacre, it was NOT something they were forced to do individually. They turned it into sport.
2. There has been basically no accountability for it. There were very few feeble apologies tendered by Japanese gov'ts in the 80 years since, and nothing much beyond that. This is not ancient history. The last Korean comfort woman who recently died did so in Feb '25. Beside her, there were thousands of Chinese, Taiwanese, Filipino, Korean women taken as comfort women for the Japanese troops. And then there were the Europeans and Australians taken prisoners who didn't escape the same fate (though in far smaller numbers). Japan never apologised for this at all. Nor for the massacres, or for Unit-731, for anything. And they keep visiting Yasukuni yearly, to honor their war criminals. This is not going to go away anytime soon.
Going back to the actor - he said what he did. Whether he meant it that way or not, it's the way it was perceived outside Japan. The least they could do would be to explain what he had meant or offer some apology. I guess we'll see if they'll wait for it to blow over or not.
Almost halfway through, this is good. There's a flair to it that's usually missing from scifi/scifan kdramas. I can't see where it's heading, but so far so good.
What the hell, is the universe plotting against me, I have two weeks to write an important paper and it's the holidays and then two Hou MingHao dramas drop at once and then a Luo YunXi drama, and Cashero just also dropped, why is this my life now and where is all the time I need?! T_T
If Netflix can't cast anyone with a past like that, they would never cast anyone. Every country k-lled millions…
That's also okay.
To note, though, a discussion about the morality of killing is NOT politics. It's either philosophy OR (if religiously motivated) religion/religious attitudes as compared to dogma.
If Netflix can't cast anyone with a past like that, they would never cast anyone. Every country k-lled millions…
Yeah, well, that's kind of hypocritical, isn't it. ~Others do it, so why not everyone~.
The fact Americans celebrate Thanksgiving has zero relation to Japanese people praising the kamikaze (or any other "special" unit). Or any other country praising their perceived heroes. So let's leave it aside (which also doesn't mean it's good that the Americans do it. IIRC, they just made a try at giving up the Columbus Day celebration - which also comemorates the beginning of a colonisation movement - can't even call it a war when diseases did most of the work - and the genocide of native tribes across those continents. Yes yet another genocide).
This actor praised his own grandfather FOR being in the kamikaze special unit though he didn't get to become one. It's not praising a hero. I myself think he wanted to show how his grandfather was brave to even consider it BUT if his grandfather had done it, he'd have attacked Allied ships indiscriminately, according to whoever told him what to target. Any and all ships. As did the others who did become kamikaze. As mentioned before, this is an age where we don't measure bravery in acts done according to such orders. AND HE WOULD HAVE DIED WHILE KILLING MANY OTHERS.
Is that okay according to your rule of all killing is inexcusable? So if one praises a (would-be) killer... what does that make them?
PS One has the liberty to watch the drama or not as they want. So do all Koreans who take offense of this actor being part of the cast.
If Netflix can't cast anyone with a past like that, they would never cast anyone. Every country k-lled millions…
(Side note: Why are you censoring your own words? Is this a new trend of being unable of even writing words deemed cruel? LOL, that's such a... thing.)
What you're writing about is called whataboutism. Yes, country X did this, so what, country Y did it before. And even if country Y did it, then let's see why country Z did it too.
It's not how this goes. Japan DID those atrocities. They DID invade Korea and later China, they DID kill civillians by the tens of thousands, they did commit horrific acts against people they ENSLAVED in the countries they INVADED. It's not up to debate. These things happened.
YES other countries were involved repeatedly in colonisation wars. We're a warmongering species. SO WHAT? It doesn't erase or counter what JAPAN actually DID. THEY DID THIS. And they have to own it. Which they don't.
Which leads us to - the actor very probably didn't intend to praise the ACTIONS of the kamikaze in the war. Or maybe he did (that's the whole idea, and what he needs to clarify). Going by your whatabaoutisms, it's like some German actor up and suddenly starts praising the SS because his grandfather was part of it. Or like some American being ~proud of his heritage~ and showing off (or talking about) scalps his grandfather (or great-grandfather, by now) took in the Indian Wars. It's STILL unacceptable, no matter who does it. It just happened this time it's this actor.
Not like Japan was practically annihilated by nuclear bombs and innocent humans melted into nothing with their…
That's rich, coming from a (presumably) US person, when it was the US who used two nuclear bombs against Japan in the first place.
Japan never acknowledged they did anything wrong in China, or took much responsibility for the comfort women in Korea (which they had invaded and colonised since 1910.) The people in charge for Unit 731 negotiated giving away their data in exchange for no prosecution or basically no repercussions for their acts against humanity. Their prime-ministers keep visiting Yasukuni and revering war criminals. The current prime-minister is a history revisionist who wants to deny any and all wrongdoing of Japan in or before the WWII.
As long as we're not starting to lie to ourselves, that's not going to be forgotten. Read about it, don't lie to yourself.
PS As for the actor's in case words, he might not have intended to praise the kamikaze or Japan's bloody history. But he could also have worded it a bit more carefully or at least acknowledge the bad with the good, which doesn't seem to have happened. THIS is still in the 21st century. If we go around pretending nothing ever happened, it'll happen again.
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First three eps are good - he looks so much younger than in FoF, she's playing a cutesy but wily swindler/demon, the older Zhuo bro is the last part of the triangle, LOL, the OP BGM is AMAZING, good effects (so far).
Dive in.
HMH looks SO GOOD in this drama, OMG.
BTS are the bomb, LOL - "I'm making them fall in love", hahaha, top matchmaker energy :D
The longer this goes on (or if he/his agency ignore it completely), the worse the effect on SK audience, precisely because there has been so little remorse or even acknowledgment on the part of Japan for so many years. Every small incident where they show they're insensitive or ignorant of what the country has done to its neighbours will grow out of proportion with the lack of any kind of reaction from them.
Again, we'll see how big of an impact it will have when the drama airs. I think this will be revisited if it's not solved sooner, though.
That little girl at the end with the piggybank LOL - she should go into pro baseball or cricket at least, she has more strength than a regular pro hahaha~
Whatever happened to Mr. Lawyer lawyer's cancer/tumor caused by drinking?! I thought they'd revisit that.
Just how much time does MinSook lose by going back to help him? We're talking months, years, half her lifespan, what?!
So, given fire girl survived, there HAVE to be some others who also did? And do any of them recover their powers? Or once it's gone, it's gone?
According to the spending rules... SangWoong CANNOT recover the money at all. Where the heck did they get all the money to buy the freaking ap't?!
Moneylender lady's daughter never even made an appeareance. I'm a bit sad about it. I wanted to see MinSook's competition LOL.
And then there are a few things that rub me wrong. Overall though, a fun watch. Short though. And a long time coming, I guess we won't be seeing a second season or something.
ETA WAIT, the FL is Jeong JiAn?!!! Can't help myself then... LISTEN UP, JEONG JIAN!!
And TBH, I am not all that heated up about it, since it WAS a long time ago and maybe he did educate himself since (or at least learned to keep his mouth shut in topics like this), OR never intended it the way it was taken.
That being said, I've read a lot of comments in this topic dismissing or excusing what happened in the past because it was long ago, and Japanese people learn a different history than the rest of the world. or about forgiving and forgetting and moving on from this... And even blaming Koreans for being too sensitive on such topics while ignoring other problems or accepting Japanese culture (and their market) for Korean businesses and so on and so forth.
It needs to be said that
1. history is known now. There are no excuses possible for what Japan did pre- and during WWII. Yes, the population also suffered. Still, these things happened and not all of them were done by the leaders - the soldiers got blood drunk and participated willingly. Read up on the Nanjing Massacre, it was NOT something they were forced to do individually. They turned it into sport.
2. There has been basically no accountability for it. There were very few feeble apologies tendered by Japanese gov'ts in the 80 years since, and nothing much beyond that. This is not ancient history. The last Korean comfort woman who recently died did so in Feb '25. Beside her, there were thousands of Chinese, Taiwanese, Filipino, Korean women taken as comfort women for the Japanese troops. And then there were the Europeans and Australians taken prisoners who didn't escape the same fate (though in far smaller numbers). Japan never apologised for this at all. Nor for the massacres, or for Unit-731, for anything. And they keep visiting Yasukuni yearly, to honor their war criminals. This is not going to go away anytime soon.
Going back to the actor - he said what he did. Whether he meant it that way or not, it's the way it was perceived outside Japan. The least they could do would be to explain what he had meant or offer some apology. I guess we'll see if they'll wait for it to blow over or not.
Mr. Lawyer lawyer is the best, LOL.
Also, good music.
At least they're on different networks, still, this is kind of iffy for them to do.
To note, though, a discussion about the morality of killing is NOT politics. It's either philosophy OR (if religiously motivated) religion/religious attitudes as compared to dogma.
The fact Americans celebrate Thanksgiving has zero relation to Japanese people praising the kamikaze (or any other "special" unit). Or any other country praising their perceived heroes. So let's leave it aside (which also doesn't mean it's good that the Americans do it. IIRC, they just made a try at giving up the Columbus Day celebration - which also comemorates the beginning of a colonisation movement - can't even call it a war when diseases did most of the work - and the genocide of native tribes across those continents. Yes yet another genocide).
This actor praised his own grandfather FOR being in the kamikaze special unit though he didn't get to become one. It's not praising a hero. I myself think he wanted to show how his grandfather was brave to even consider it BUT if his grandfather had done it, he'd have attacked Allied ships indiscriminately, according to whoever told him what to target. Any and all ships. As did the others who did become kamikaze. As mentioned before, this is an age where we don't measure bravery in acts done according to such orders. AND HE WOULD HAVE DIED WHILE KILLING MANY OTHERS.
Is that okay according to your rule of all killing is inexcusable? So if one praises a (would-be) killer... what does that make them?
PS One has the liberty to watch the drama or not as they want. So do all Koreans who take offense of this actor being part of the cast.
What you're writing about is called whataboutism. Yes, country X did this, so what, country Y did it before. And even if country Y did it, then let's see why country Z did it too.
It's not how this goes. Japan DID those atrocities. They DID invade Korea and later China, they DID kill civillians by the tens of thousands, they did commit horrific acts against people they ENSLAVED in the countries they INVADED. It's not up to debate. These things happened.
YES other countries were involved repeatedly in colonisation wars. We're a warmongering species. SO WHAT? It doesn't erase or counter what JAPAN actually DID. THEY DID THIS. And they have to own it. Which they don't.
Which leads us to - the actor very probably didn't intend to praise the ACTIONS of the kamikaze in the war. Or maybe he did (that's the whole idea, and what he needs to clarify). Going by your whatabaoutisms, it's like some German actor up and suddenly starts praising the SS because his grandfather was part of it. Or like some American being ~proud of his heritage~ and showing off (or talking about) scalps his grandfather (or great-grandfather, by now) took in the Indian Wars. It's STILL unacceptable, no matter who does it. It just happened this time it's this actor.
Japan never acknowledged they did anything wrong in China, or took much responsibility for the comfort women in Korea (which they had invaded and colonised since 1910.) The people in charge for Unit 731 negotiated giving away their data in exchange for no prosecution or basically no repercussions for their acts against humanity. Their prime-ministers keep visiting Yasukuni and revering war criminals. The current prime-minister is a history revisionist who wants to deny any and all wrongdoing of Japan in or before the WWII.
As long as we're not starting to lie to ourselves, that's not going to be forgotten. Read about it, don't lie to yourself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
PS As for the actor's in case words, he might not have intended to praise the kamikaze or Japan's bloody history. But he could also have worded it a bit more carefully or at least acknowledge the bad with the good, which doesn't seem to have happened. THIS is still in the 21st century. If we go around pretending nothing ever happened, it'll happen again.