Did I miss the scene where they mentioned how they resolved the problem with Yun-seok's dad at the end? Or did they not even bother to tie up that loose end? Hopefully he died of a heart attack or was hit by a bus or something.
If it weren't for everything that happened after they confessed their love for each other, I would have rated this movie 2 additional stars. Also, Se-ri's wavy hair looked very cute and made her stand out from the other girls.
I don't understand the ending. Why wasn't Hyun-ji in the village? The ending seems to imply that Hyun-ji is at a different village. But wouldn't Hyun-ji have disappeared because her body was found? And why would that girl, who's a ghost, be able to interact with Wook and Jang when they can no longer see ghosts?
These are just a few of the sloppy, poorly thought-out plot points that really detracted from my experience and made me enjoy this much less than most.
My takeaway from this drama is that Eun-jung is a pushover. Also, there were parts that were very well-crafted and realistic, but then there were other parts, like all these ridiculous coincidences where everyone is connected to each other, that were cheesy. And they went too far with the tear-jerking in the last couple of episodes. It just made me cringe because I wasn't feeling it, since I didn't believe that one of the characters deserved anyone's sympathy. She just remained a selfish psychopath to the very end.
Despite all this, there was some great material here. I think if you went through all the footage and re-edited it into a 2-hour movie, cutting away all the nonsense and hard-to-believe stuff, you could have a really excellent and emotionally mature product.
I don't understand why they included this Yaba character at all. They could have saved Maiguma's acting fee and used it to pay someone to rewrite the script.
My favorite part was when the Queen of Hearts was giving various alternate explanations about what was going on, involving far future virtual reality games, aliens, androids, etc. I thought that all of those ideas were way more interesting than what the real explanation turned out to be.
Also, I'm going to pretend that season 3 never happened.
The message of this show seems to be that bending the rules because you're greedy or sadistic is bad, but bending the rules to punish bad people is good. I thought the law was supposed to be the process to fairly adjudicate these conflicts, since individual decisions can be imperfect and biased?
Also, do the biggest and most prestigious law firms in Korea handle personal injury and family law and criminal defense cases as well as corporate law? Because US law firms certainly don't mix such drastically different law practices. It would be absurd for an attorney who charges thousands of dollars an hour to handle such small-time personal cases. But of course, for dramatic purposes, the setting has to be some big, prestigious law firm in a fancy high-rise, but if they showed the typical corporate legal work that's done in such settings, viewers would fall asleep. So they have to show the melodramatic personal cases that everyone can relate to, even though these are typical handled by attorneys who advertise on billboards and work out of small offices in low-rise commercial buildings and strip malls.
I dropped this in the middle of episode 6. The directing and editing were kind of clumsy and off, like the creative staff weren't working at the highest levels. And the ML character was dull and failed to capture my interest. Same with the main mystery plot, which in my opinion has way too many people and moving parts involved. I just didn't really care. The only thing that kept me going to the halfway point of the series is Ryeo-won's charisma and acting. She's the only reason to watch this.
I was familiar with Han Ji-min from her later dramas before I watched this, and I was blown away at how beautiful she was at such a young age. And her acting was riveting, with her intense love and suffering. I've seen her in almost 10 dramas, but this is still by far my favorite role of hers and the one that defines her for me.
This was OK. It was full of cliches and had too much filler, but the good feelings made up for it. Thankfully, there were a lot more characters who were good people than the usual Kdrama, and they greatly outnumbered the few evil characters. I'm so used to the only decent human beings in an entire show being maybe the 2 leads, a grandparent, and one best friend, while everyone else is either an NPC, a coward who joins in with the bullying majority, or pure evil. I'm glad that wasn't the case here.
I only watched the first 3 episodes before dropping it (I generally don't like sleazy documentaries), but that was enough to almost make me ashamed of my Korean heritage. It seems like all the corruption, sadistic bullying, herd mentality, cowardice, dishonesty, greed, fanaticism, and injustice that you see so much in K-dramas actually reflects a lot of the real Korean society. Of course, every country has its good and bad sides, but I was expecting more from Korea, especially since Han is such an important part of its identity. You'd assume that there would be way more sympathy for victims, the powerless, the lower classes, and the oppressed than there seems to be. But, again, you can probably say the same for every country.
If it weren't for everything that happened after they confessed their love for each other, I would have rated this movie 2 additional stars. Also, Se-ri's wavy hair looked very cute and made her stand out from the other girls.
These are just a few of the sloppy, poorly thought-out plot points that really detracted from my experience and made me enjoy this much less than most.
Despite all this, there was some great material here. I think if you went through all the footage and re-edited it into a 2-hour movie, cutting away all the nonsense and hard-to-believe stuff, you could have a really excellent and emotionally mature product.
Also, I'm going to pretend that season 3 never happened.
Also, do the biggest and most prestigious law firms in Korea handle personal injury and family law and criminal defense cases as well as corporate law? Because US law firms certainly don't mix such drastically different law practices. It would be absurd for an attorney who charges thousands of dollars an hour to handle such small-time personal cases. But of course, for dramatic purposes, the setting has to be some big, prestigious law firm in a fancy high-rise, but if they showed the typical corporate legal work that's done in such settings, viewers would fall asleep. So they have to show the melodramatic personal cases that everyone can relate to, even though these are typical handled by attorneys who advertise on billboards and work out of small offices in low-rise commercial buildings and strip malls.