In sk getting plastic surgery isn't a big deal and a person's physical appearance is a big deal. Its problematic…
A random scene about random plastic surgeries that cause financial concerns....! I know that it is part of their culture to fix their facial features but they end up all looking somewhat similar, because they try to come as close to their beauty standard as possible. The funny thing is that all these surgeries don't make them look any better because their beauty standard concerns them and only them. ( the South Koreans I mean). It is not so international. Real story. In an exchange of librarians that took part some years ago, we hosted in my country a group of South Koreans, mostly women. Well they were ecstatic of visiting Greece and most of the women obsessed with the Greek guys as they combined the visit with some holidays ( mostly the latter!). But this didn't work the other way round. The guys didn't like them because they found them ( as one of them told me privately) very artificial in their behaviors and appearance. They tried their best to make them have a nice time, took them to the clubs and joined them for sea bathing and such things but no romance came out from all that, though some of these ladies were single and interested. It was very unfortunate because all of these ladies were very nice persons. Very polite and shy and very respectful. We had a difficulty to persuade them not to bow to everyone because here it is considered inappropriate to bow. But anyway. Their manners and style didn't work the way they expected. That is how I came up to the conclusion all that fuss for their appearance and behavior overall is only for ... "domestic consumption"!
Excuse me but if their younger sister asked for a nose job ( that she didn't actually needed) instead of a field trip would they borrow money to get her the nose job? What is wrong with these people there in S. Korea? Have they completely lost it?
That he wears some kind of lace mask to hide it, that doesn't cover it either way, instead or wearing a patch... but then he would look like a pirate... lol
He is a character actor and very good on that. His advantage is that he looks like his age and he takes roles…
He was never convicted for something that wrong and that was decided twenty years ago in a court of law. Those who claim otherwise have not read the verdict or they don't respect courts of law and they prefer to play the judges themselves.
On regard of character actors. Character actors play always the same or of the same kind characters. And that is the reason why they cast them. It is not that he can't play something different. It is that they hire him to play this particular kind of roles because they always add such a kind of characters in all sort of dramas. So if you don't like this kind of character/s don't blame the actor/s blame the writers who add such kind of characters in their dramas. This is not of course very creative on regard of the roles that an actor can play. It is typecasting but on the other hand those who do this job never run out of roles.
The question is not who, but why and the story behind it...
I guess for those who are patient enough and have plenty of time in their hands to watch the first 8 sluggish episodes in order to reach up to the 9th and 10th episodes where at last something is going to happen. Excuse me for asking, but is this some sort of patience competition or something? I'm asking because I don't understand the reasoning behind "wait it will get better". Haven't I given to this drama enough of my time?
The question is not who, but why and the story behind it...
They have already revealed the why. Because their father ( better say parent) was in the wrong place at the wrong time. And the detective is corrupted and he killed him.(how original! ), and then they tried to cover up the murder and Lee Chang Woo took the blame in order to protect the child witness. We know from the very first episodes who the villain is ( Chairman Kwon) we know the weapon ( the Adamas ) we know that the twins are looking for their parent's killer and in the middle of the show they revealed the killer and why he killed their parent. ( who wasn't their real father). What else is there to know?
It wasnt for you anyways because they weren't using the correct LATIN PRONUNCIATION for adamas 😔
Adamas is a Greek word and not a Latin one! You can't imagine how pretentious is to use phrases or words from two different foreign languages and in both cases wrongly.
But this has nothing to do with the plot that keeps on repeating the same thing for 8 episodes straight.
I want the 5 dollars! lol This thing is unwatchable because it is not only that it is slow paced but the fact that its plot is stalled. I dropped it after the 8th episode because they revealed who did it so there's nothing there to keep my interest. I don't have the mood to watch another 8 episodes in order to see what sort of bad end will have the villain that we already know what he has done and what his motives are. And I'm not interested to see the comings and goings of the twins even if they add some violence and action.
Dropped after 8th episode. The plot is completely stalled. We keep on watching the same thing and we know on top of that whodoneit. I'm not interested at all to watch another 8 episodes in order to see what sort of bad end the villain will have.
Did you ever listen to English (or American) people massacring Latin? All those hard consonants going soft, all…
I've just pointed out how wrong it is to use expressions that they don't know how to pronounce them and nothing more.
As for the drama I'm dropping it after watching the 8th episode because the plot is stalled. We keep on watching the same thing. There is nothing there to make this drama interesting as they revealed in the process at the 7th episode who killed their father, something that wasn't either way the most interesting part of the plot but ok... it added something to this boring thing. Now there is nothing there.
Did you ever listen to English (or American) people massacring Latin? All those hard consonants going soft, all…
Dead language means that it is a language that it is not used frequently and so it doesn't evolve. It doesn't mean though that those who use it, can pronounce it with whatever way they like, because if they do so the language will not sound like Latin. And if you think a little about it, if they have no intention to pronounce Latin expressions in a comprehensible manner, then what is the point of using them? It is better to avoid to use something that you are not sure about its meaning or its use, than trying to prove that you are knowledgeable by using wrongly such kind of expressions.
Did you ever listen to English (or American) people massacring Latin? All those hard consonants going soft, all…
I agree. The u at the end is what is killing it. But it is also that they call it Adamas instead of adAmas (capital A where the tone should be). adAmas means diamond and if one is very keen to pronounce it absolutely correctly then it is pronounced as athAmas ( th as in the word this). There is no letter d in Greek language. There is th.. So they pronounce it completely wrong. They say Adamasu. ( what is this? lol ) As for the persona non grata, There wouldn't be any chance to understand what they said if I didn't read the subtitles. Ok.. I don't speak Korean in order to understand what they say in Korean, but WTF... I can read Latin ( not speak as it is technically a dead language. It is spoken only in Vatican). But I can read in Latin and I couldn't understand a word. Anyway.. My point is that if the writers intent to add such expressions in order to show how literate and academic they are, it would be good to teach their actors how to pronounce these words and expressions correctly.
What drives me crazy is that they keep on using Latin or Greek expressions or words that they don't even know how to pronounce them correctly. That "persona non grata" sounds like bad Japanese.... lol I don't even want to talk about Adamas...
The ending of ep3 was where I knew its not it but I thought I should watch some more. Then I fast forwarded the…
Ha ha ha... The funny thing with this drama is that it turned out to be exactly as I predicted that is going to be. The writers dedicated two whole episodes to show us an awful female character and pass between the lines their opinion about how females in positions of power are supposed to be and then they switched the plot to something else in order to redeem and justify the actions of that female character. And in the process they didn't even execute properly whatever their intention was supposed to be. It is surreal on how predictable that turned out to be. I personally can't waste any more my time to watch such kind of dramas. And I don't know if you noticed it yourself that 2022 is the year with the most "weak" and uninteresting dramas ever. I have already dropped most of the dramas and I've start to get disappointed.
I know that it is part of their culture to fix their facial features but they end up all looking somewhat similar, because they try to come as close to their beauty standard as possible.
The funny thing is that all these surgeries don't make them look any better because their beauty standard concerns them and only them. ( the South Koreans I mean). It is not so international.
Real story. In an exchange of librarians that took part some years ago, we hosted in my country a group of South Koreans, mostly women.
Well they were ecstatic of visiting Greece and most of the women obsessed with the Greek guys as they combined the visit with some holidays ( mostly the latter!). But this didn't work the other way round. The guys didn't like them because they found them ( as one of them told me privately) very artificial in their behaviors and appearance. They tried their best to make them have a nice time, took them to the clubs and joined them for sea bathing and such things but no romance came out from all that, though some of these ladies were single and interested.
It was very unfortunate because all of these ladies were very nice persons. Very polite and shy and very respectful. We had a difficulty to persuade them not to bow to everyone because here it is considered inappropriate to bow. But anyway. Their manners and style didn't work the way they expected.
That is how I came up to the conclusion all that fuss for their appearance and behavior overall is only for ... "domestic consumption"!
What is wrong with these people there in S. Korea? Have they completely lost it?
If that is the case then the producers had in mind a Star Trek type of commuting... ha ha haaaaaaa
Each episode is five minutes!
On regard of character actors.
Character actors play always the same or of the same kind characters. And that is the reason why they cast them.
It is not that he can't play something different. It is that they hire him to play this particular kind of roles because they always add such a kind of characters in all sort of dramas. So if you don't like this kind of character/s don't blame the actor/s blame the writers who add such kind of characters in their dramas.
This is not of course very creative on regard of the roles that an actor can play. It is typecasting but on the other hand those who do this job never run out of roles.
Excuse me for asking, but is this some sort of patience competition or something?
I'm asking because I don't understand the reasoning behind "wait it will get better".
Haven't I given to this drama enough of my time?
We know from the very first episodes who the villain is ( Chairman Kwon) we know the weapon ( the Adamas ) we know that the twins are looking for their parent's killer and in the middle of the show they revealed the killer and why he killed their parent. ( who wasn't their real father). What else is there to know?
You can't imagine how pretentious is to use phrases or words from two different foreign languages and in both cases wrongly.
But this has nothing to do with the plot that keeps on repeating the same thing for 8 episodes straight.
This thing is unwatchable because it is not only that it is slow paced but the fact that its plot is stalled. I dropped it after the 8th episode because they revealed who did it so there's nothing there to keep my interest. I don't have the mood to watch another 8 episodes in order to see what sort of bad end will have the villain that we already know what he has done and what his motives are. And I'm not interested to see the comings and goings of the twins even if they add some violence and action.
The plot is completely stalled. We keep on watching the same thing and we know on top of that whodoneit.
I'm not interested at all to watch another 8 episodes in order to see what sort of bad end the villain will have.
As for the drama I'm dropping it after watching the 8th episode because the plot is stalled.
We keep on watching the same thing.
There is nothing there to make this drama interesting as they revealed in the process at the 7th episode who killed their father, something that wasn't either way the most interesting part of the plot but ok... it added something to this boring thing. Now there is nothing there.
It is better to avoid to use something that you are not sure about its meaning or its use, than trying to prove that you are knowledgeable by using wrongly such kind of expressions.
adAmas means diamond and if one is very keen to pronounce it absolutely correctly then it is pronounced as athAmas
( th as in the word this). There is no letter d in Greek language. There is th..
So they pronounce it completely wrong. They say Adamasu. ( what is this? lol )
As for the persona non grata, There wouldn't be any chance to understand what they said if I didn't read the subtitles. Ok.. I don't speak Korean in order to understand what they say in Korean, but WTF... I can read Latin ( not speak as it is technically a dead language. It is spoken only in Vatican). But I can read in Latin and I couldn't understand a word.
Anyway.. My point is that if the writers intent to add such expressions in order to show how literate and academic they are, it would be good to teach their actors how to pronounce these words and expressions correctly.
The funny thing with this drama is that it turned out to be exactly as I predicted that is going to be.
The writers dedicated two whole episodes to show us an awful female character and pass between the lines their opinion about how females in positions of power are supposed to be and then they switched the plot to something else in order to redeem and justify the actions of that female character. And in the process they didn't even execute properly whatever their intention was supposed to be.
It is surreal on how predictable that turned out to be.
I personally can't waste any more my time to watch such kind of dramas. And I don't know if you noticed it yourself that 2022 is the year with the most "weak" and uninteresting dramas ever.
I have already dropped most of the dramas and I've start to get disappointed.