1ctechperson
Disconnected scenes and shaky cam
It's a great start, in terms of actor choices and story line. Story concept is good, and I was really looking forward to it after You Are My Hero.
Where does it fail?
* The FL (a senior medical resident) is a whiny little girl who makes remarkably stupid decisions. In ep 1 she wants something she doesn't deserve, and squats/sulks. There are multiple cases where she makes a decision that is both dangerous to herself and her team, such as not telling her team what she's doing and going off to search for victims on her own. This characteristic doesn't improve over the episodes.
* The 2FL, a firefighter, squabbles with her team. She doesn't listen to orders and she acts like a spoiled brat. She is also extremely clutzy, tripping and falling regularly. There is no way the team would tolerate her on the squad, and I can't believe she passed any of the tests. (FYI: I'm ignoring the pretty overt sexism, in that she is the only female firefighter, and the rest of the team supports her giving her the easy tasks etc.)
* Shaky cam. All of the dangerous scenes (fighting a fire, cleaning up after an earthquake, etc) are shaky cam. Episode 2 actually made me nauseous. But it's not just the dangerous scenes. It's everywhere. We even see it in restaurants, when people are sitting and chatting.
* There are multiple occasions when things are just bizarrely unprofessional or unrealistic. For example, leaving a doctor to tour the firefighting facility on her own, with no guidance about what's dangerous or where she can't go (and surprise surprise, she gets in trouble). Or having the firefighter fix the engine of a modern car out in the field (they never tell us what's broken).
* Scenes are cut really strangely. It jumps. Sometimes I've wondered if I accidentally skipped an episode. For example, there's one scene where FL says something to ML, and that's the end of the episode. You expect start of next episode to continue the conversation... but it jumps to a following day. It's almost impossible to tell how much time has passed between scenes. There's a woman who gives birth to a baby... in about 2 minutes of screen time... and in the background *nothing* else has happened in the course of the rescue operations (no victims extracted, etc).
Why should you watch? Simon Gong.
Where does it fail?
* The FL (a senior medical resident) is a whiny little girl who makes remarkably stupid decisions. In ep 1 she wants something she doesn't deserve, and squats/sulks. There are multiple cases where she makes a decision that is both dangerous to herself and her team, such as not telling her team what she's doing and going off to search for victims on her own. This characteristic doesn't improve over the episodes.
* The 2FL, a firefighter, squabbles with her team. She doesn't listen to orders and she acts like a spoiled brat. She is also extremely clutzy, tripping and falling regularly. There is no way the team would tolerate her on the squad, and I can't believe she passed any of the tests. (FYI: I'm ignoring the pretty overt sexism, in that she is the only female firefighter, and the rest of the team supports her giving her the easy tasks etc.)
* Shaky cam. All of the dangerous scenes (fighting a fire, cleaning up after an earthquake, etc) are shaky cam. Episode 2 actually made me nauseous. But it's not just the dangerous scenes. It's everywhere. We even see it in restaurants, when people are sitting and chatting.
* There are multiple occasions when things are just bizarrely unprofessional or unrealistic. For example, leaving a doctor to tour the firefighting facility on her own, with no guidance about what's dangerous or where she can't go (and surprise surprise, she gets in trouble). Or having the firefighter fix the engine of a modern car out in the field (they never tell us what's broken).
* Scenes are cut really strangely. It jumps. Sometimes I've wondered if I accidentally skipped an episode. For example, there's one scene where FL says something to ML, and that's the end of the episode. You expect start of next episode to continue the conversation... but it jumps to a following day. It's almost impossible to tell how much time has passed between scenes. There's a woman who gives birth to a baby... in about 2 minutes of screen time... and in the background *nothing* else has happened in the course of the rescue operations (no victims extracted, etc).
Why should you watch? Simon Gong.
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