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Disney nabbed it because they're bulking up their Korean/Asian offerings.

Episodes 4-8, I hit fast forward through scenes with ML and church Lady and didn't miss anything of significance. It was either that or throw a shoe at the set every time ML appeared. Episodes 9 and 10 are watchable, though.

I see your point about Han Da On's limitations and his personal empathy for victims families. I also acknowledge the script for the early episodes tells me the comeuppances Kang Bitna delivers don't allow closure for the victims' families. On the other hand, I agree with Kang Bitna when she responds to a family member's plea that her father's killer 'gets what he deserves', with "I've always made my judgments that way."

I won't examine what it says of me that I find Bitna's brand of justice more viscerally satisfying than the legal system version, but I strongly suspect that if I had been the mother/grandmother of the murdered family in E5 and the brutal killer of my loved ones had suffered physical quid pro quo - methodically beaten to a bloody pulp, then ritually stabbed 21 times, before having his head branded with a ticket to Hell - I would be more satisfied with that than a couple of years in a psych ward - or even a quick, relatively painless death penalty by the state; and, when a killer again strikes close to home with Han Da On, he makes the same judgment.

I was 8 1/2 episodes in and yet to see development in Han Da On's character. He was a always willing to break laws he didn't like, ex: playing the recording in court after being reminded THE LAW said it wasn't admissable. His walk on the dark side is just an amped up display of the same self centric moral certainty.

Probably a good idea to look up both the definitions of character arc vs story arc and of fact vs opinion before popping off like this lol.

Probably also check up on the definition of "ignore."

Opinion, as in you get to believe a single dimension - rigid moral certitude from start to finish, with nary a hint of self awareness - is an arc if you want to, but that doesn't change the definition of the word.

Don't take this so personally. You're acting like I kicked your metaphorical puppy. You still get to crush on Kim Jae Young, no matter my opinion, and I still get to have my opinion, regardless of your crush

The press conference with the slut shaming questions.

...speaking of priggish, self appointed arbiters.

I hope Kim Jae Young's paycheck for this role is generous enough to make up for him having to play this cringe character. Kim's Han Da On is the series' self appointed sole arbiter of ethics and morality - a one man Greek chorus. Han is a man to whom nabbing serial or mass killers of the innocent takes a back seat to exposing the Demon judge who sends those murderers to their grisly and ultimate doom. Han Da On is a self righteous detective whose own family was murdered by a serial killer, so now he's Hell bent, pun intended, on protecting the rights of ... serial killers.

I'm no scriptwriter, but surely there is one talented enough to make Han's rigid adherence to the laws that matter to him (because other laws conveniently don't and he belligerently breaks them) less priggish. Perhaps one that could make it credible that Park Shin Hye's deliciously demonic Justitia / Kang Bit Na would fall for the one dimensional Han and thus risk eternal damnation. Sadly, that scriptwriter does not work for this series.

What was up with Pleng's bizarrely cruel sexual teasing of Wan in E5?

If you think that was misogynistic, wait until you get to episode 8 where Eak's obsessive, violent stalker, near homicidal, failed suicidal behavior is explained away as the slutty women drove him to it. Poor heroic man.

Let's hope twink doctor has a thing for the obsessive stalker type who doesn't mind whipping out a gun if things don't go his way.

The first meeting and one night stand between Wan and Neung was after Neung's broken engagement to Chet. So, at their second, platonic, mischief-making meeting if Neung was wearing someone else's ring it would have to be Aneung's.

After joining this site for a while I'm convinced there are people whose only purpose here is to downplay the value of women characters and the talents of women acting.

Well, yeah, a man being faithful for 600 years deserves a happy ending.

It took me a while to warm up to his character, then I realized I was holding the bad haircut against the character.

That's a typical scenario on this site: blaming the actress for the misogyny of the scriptwriters.

Wuh-oh. Rang dies? So unfair. The trouble with romance is that the main character cannot sacrifice her/him self without a public outcry.

The insanity laced villainous cackle made its appearance in S1:E13. This cackle is required by the Goddess of k-drama to be in every drama with an evil villain. I know this because it's in every k-drama with an evil villain.

Respectfully, I have zero patience with the "but it was based on a true story" justification of the homophobia and bi-phobia of the story. That excuse ignores that the producers choose which story to tell and they chose this story; they choose the manner in which the story is told, and they chose to packed it full to the brim of with the worst anti lesbian and bisexual stereotypes, depicting the lesbian partner as predatory, controlling and eventually psychotic, and the other partner as opportunisticly bi just until she got religion and found the perfect man.

The producers had 100% editorial control and this is how they CHOSE to exercise it.

The first episode was promising, but the series turned into bait and switch, brim full of anti-lesbian, bi-phobic stereotypes. One FL was a deceitful, manipulative liar, the other moved from budding to full blown psychopath.

To me, they worked as friends. As lovers, not so much.