VenomGoblin

The stacked cast and performances are what elevates it and the engaging story in my opinion! I can see though how some people may prefer other things.

Cdramas always have the voices overdubbed so the mouth movements never matches the words coming out and the production always looks too cheesy and silly, low budget. Never seen a Cdrama as serious and gritty as Alchemy of Souls, maybe that's why it's so popular. Don't know, just my opinion lol

Still no soundtrack, it's AI y'all. Getting tired of the AI songs and artwork in recent shows. First Nine Puzzles (the intro I would bet my life on was partially AI generated), Typhoon Family with the train song and now this.

No offense, but If you haven't seen it, you don't know just how inconsistent and stupid the writing in the second season is then. No character felt the same, they botched all our beloved characters and I'm not just talking about Go Youn-jung coming back, it was everyone. It's like watching a whole different show. People who hated the original story and only wanted romance as a focus, blasted the ratings up to season 2, when people who were avid fans of part one have some serious issues with how they ruined a 10/10 show.

It's pretty obvious when it came out that the writers made a big "whoopsie" and didn't leave enough room for what they were trying to go for and churned out a cliché ridden story to appeal to a majority of Women viewers who felt there wasn't enough romance in part 1, when part 1 was meant to have everything in it, which would appeal to what I would assume both genders. There was something for everyone. But the second part is extremely extremely boring and drug out, full of plot inconsistencies and bad clichés. Only 2-3 episodes had real plot.

There's nothing wrong with making a romance targeted towards Women viewers, but season 1 was a completely different objective that they destroyed later on.

Funny you pointed out a Kdrama that was toxic, I felt part 2 of Alchemy of Souls had the toxic romance cliché added to it and it made me sick to my stomach.

Supposedly Production confirmed it's not a BL too, like I thought from the beginning. Hate when people try to ruin friendship/rivalry based dramas with trains of thought that were obviously wrong. People can be friends that are the same gender, can't believe it's so hard for people to wrap their brains around such an idea like it's a novel concept or something 🙄

Ever heard of people manipulating votes because their "favorite" is in it? case and point with that season. Or people who enjoy rom-coms more than what the show was originally about, it lost it's flavor and turned into a braindead cliché romance amnesia plot.

"Those who watched this season" uhm, I watched it too, didn't enjoy her acting at all. That season is very split in opinion, not liked enough to have 8.9 but whatever.

I'm nobody's fan and didn't know who any of these people were when first watching this show. Go youn-jung makes 2 facial expressions in every show she's in. I feel like her face is stuck.

Not to mention the whole plot went to garbage and clichés a plenty.

It's horrible, one of the most blown out of proportion ratings this year. I don't drop dramas, but I couldn't make it past episode 10 and never felt the want to go back. I'd give this about a 6.5. Save yourself the trouble from this disaster.

9 and 10 were the worst ones for me, it gets back on track after! Those were not very good.

While I don't think it's right to be hateful, it's not wrong to point out if someone can't act. That's the whole "Craft" here if you noticed. You can't act, you shouldn't be cast just because of popularity. Same case with Omniscient reader's prophecy, cast only because of popularity. That's just using someone instead of for their real talent.

It's not rude to point out a poor actor/actress, because that's quite literally what they're being paid for. Same as you wouldn't be too happy if someone who's supposed to know plumbing came to your house and only knew how to fix cabinets.

I don't see anyone being overtly mean about it or anything, y'all just can't take criticism to your favorite. If someone can't act, they can't act lol and nobody should be berated for their opinion if they're not being a jerk about it, and I don't see that many being jerks.

That villian had the potential and smarts to be one of the greatest villains of all time, but he got done dirty bad. All the smarts went down the drain the third and fourth episode of that case. Sad, I could see it in his eyes that they were toating him as an incredibly intelligent bad guy who would be able to see through the teams schemes, but it happened too little and too late. There's no way he'd leave his gun in that truck, didn't make sense. They couldn't help themselves but kill him I guess.

I was dreading the military storyline, not looking forward to next week as much as usual to be honest.

Everyone thinks it's an AI song and I agree. Netflix original kdramas have been using AI soundtracks lately I swear.

Yep, the conflict with GMJ made people absolutely lose it, when it was dealt with so quickly in the drama. Some went as far as to drop the drama and hate on the Actor. People can be so toxic sometimes, it's alarming.

Unpopular opinion: Jun-ho is picking fine scripts, audiences are just becoming more nitpicky about everything and can't enjoy a simple dumb fun superhero show. It's based off a Webtoon, they're always like this guys. I can't even watch something new anymore and read the comments because someone, somewhere will find a completely ridiculous reason to complain. It's gotten so much worse lately, it goes beyond just pointing out the issues with a drama, it's borderline unhinged the way some are speaking about newer dramas. You never could trust reviews, but you REALLY can't now.

And Typhoon Family was spectacular. Probably one of my favorite shows of all time. Subjective like or dislike, but you can't deny these at least had high production value and were well made. Wasn't like they just threw these up and didn't take care into them.

Maybe it's because I haven't watched over 100+ Kdramas, but I do realize the clichés and everything that tons of dramas have. A handful of newer ones avoided quite a few clichés, but still so many complaints. Almost as if... viewers need to take a break from Kdramas then if they're getting burnt out and can't enjoy literally anything anymore.

Hey now, you don't need to rudely reply to every comment you disagree with lol It's true that they need to stop casting him. If you know what he did, he got off way too easily.

It doesn't completely ruin the show, no, but it's undeniable the guy is a very bad person who got away with some extremely bad stuff and it sucks they keep casting him and ruining certain scenes.

The cover reminds me of Mr Hiiragi's Homeroom.

I love how the villains are intelligent, hopefully they continue to be tomorrow. Now that'd make things really interesting.

The one where he pulls the bus up and the scene where he flies with his girlfriend was a nice sounding song, but it's nowhere to be found. Seems like if there's a full English soundtrack on a Netflix original drama, they're either never released or possibly AI. I'll believe it's at least somewhat made my humans if the song ever comes out :/

I seriously don't understand why there's 0 soundtrack released yet. I see most of the singer credits look from unknown artists somewhat, so maybe that's part of the issue, or it's all AI.

One had writing credits I believe with Aalia, which is a known person, so I don't get what's going on here. Wanted to hear all the songs but nothing. Wouldn't be surprised if Netflix is literally just pumping out AI soundtracks now.

Actually, yes, many people in the comments at least did before the episodes aired and warned people. Don't know about other sources though lol

That's how Webtoon based dramas always are usually. They're like live action cartoons lol