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I know I'm late to the party glad glad I didn't watch weekly or I would've dropped it and dropped series barely get a glance again but I watched 3 episodes per day. It felt odd watching 9 episodes - usually series have even numbers and I know this is a fan favourite. Sorry if you get confused as I still don't know any of the character's names.
I felt it was a mix of a rom com and more drama, angsty series and I didn't like the mix. I've watched plenty angsty, drama, toxic dramas that do have the occasional rom com moment which helps move the plot but in SCD it just didn't work. I liked the first 3 - probably due to action - middle 3 was okay, the last 3 the amount of times I was going to drop but was like I'm nearly done the series so I'll just push through then we get added characters.
The actual story had potential with a deputy turned leader with an university student but was bland. I was thinking maybe because it was a slooooooooooooow burn but that wasn't the issue as done right it can be better than your typical romance. The pacing is what either makes or breaks a series forget about the romance aspect for a minute - it was so dragging. I thought due to the setting it would be a roller-coaster where you're trying to keep up with everything as I thought it was an area of rivals gangs trying to 1 up each other but no - another area that had potential but yet again not explored.
Was I the only one interested in the sister and her husband's story. I was intrigued on her illness and how that impacted her relationships with others. I think Quong Long liked the brother and that is why the wife never felt love from him but then they get killed and their story gets wiped and the whole getting revenge was only mentioned at most twice in the rest of the episodes and I get he needed to move on from his family but he seemed hell bent on getting revenge as it seemed liked Quong Long supposed killer said it was part of a bigger story so the audience was lied to. Maybe the supposed killer was lying to rile up Li but I felt robbed of something had potential to develop further.
Then the detectives, at first I was confused on their role as they came in the middle of the drama and this could've been we know the police is on the MC trail making the audience feel like the MC relationship is fragile and numbered making us anxious on the development of their relationship but no. I felt like I was watching 2 dramas in 1 as they didn't do much interaction and I hate that because the drama feels chunky and mitch matched - is that a word. They didn't cross paths till the end. Then the ending - come on. I hated it. I actually quite like open endings but only when I feel like I got my times and energy worth especially as a bombshell was dropped on us in the last 5 minutes piquing my interest yet again to be disappointed again as motivation, trauma, right and wrong could've been explored.
Communication is key to any type of relationship and I get communication can be hard due to being scared of the reaction, scared of your own feelings and other reasons but seriously I felt like the MC had no proper healthy communication in any of the drama.
I felt it was a mix of a rom com and more drama, angsty series and I didn't like the mix. I've watched plenty angsty, drama, toxic dramas that do have the occasional rom com moment which helps move the plot but in SCD it just didn't work. I liked the first 3 - probably due to action - middle 3 was okay, the last 3 the amount of times I was going to drop but was like I'm nearly done the series so I'll just push through then we get added characters.
The actual story had potential with a deputy turned leader with an university student but was bland. I was thinking maybe because it was a slooooooooooooow burn but that wasn't the issue as done right it can be better than your typical romance. The pacing is what either makes or breaks a series forget about the romance aspect for a minute - it was so dragging. I thought due to the setting it would be a roller-coaster where you're trying to keep up with everything as I thought it was an area of rivals gangs trying to 1 up each other but no - another area that had potential but yet again not explored.
Was I the only one interested in the sister and her husband's story. I was intrigued on her illness and how that impacted her relationships with others. I think Quong Long liked the brother and that is why the wife never felt love from him but then they get killed and their story gets wiped and the whole getting revenge was only mentioned at most twice in the rest of the episodes and I get he needed to move on from his family but he seemed hell bent on getting revenge as it seemed liked Quong Long supposed killer said it was part of a bigger story so the audience was lied to. Maybe the supposed killer was lying to rile up Li but I felt robbed of something had potential to develop further.
Then the detectives, at first I was confused on their role as they came in the middle of the drama and this could've been we know the police is on the MC trail making the audience feel like the MC relationship is fragile and numbered making us anxious on the development of their relationship but no. I felt like I was watching 2 dramas in 1 as they didn't do much interaction and I hate that because the drama feels chunky and mitch matched - is that a word. They didn't cross paths till the end. Then the ending - come on. I hated it. I actually quite like open endings but only when I feel like I got my times and energy worth especially as a bombshell was dropped on us in the last 5 minutes piquing my interest yet again to be disappointed again as motivation, trauma, right and wrong could've been explored.
Communication is key to any type of relationship and I get communication can be hard due to being scared of the reaction, scared of your own feelings and other reasons but seriously I felt like the MC had no proper healthy communication in any of the drama.
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