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Another time travel drama with a messed up plot ( and with an out of context/wrong title).
Let's start with the title.
Kairos ( it is read as keros) translates in Modern Greek language as weather and in Ancient Greek language as a time period / a frame of time. It is meant to be used for something longer than one minute. Two months, three months, the Summer, the Winter etc.
By the time that the plot of this series is based on the protagonists' communication that takes place in one minute's time frame, it would have been better to be used as a title the word Stigmi which means Moment, or Hronos that means Time and not the word Kairos in its ancient meaning. It is not considered as Kairos that one minute between 10:33 and 10:34 that they are able to communicate.
Stigmi now comes from the word Stigma which means spot. Stigmi is a spot in Time, a moment in time, a minute for example .
Hronos is also a very valid word, and translates as Time.
As a Greek language speaker the first thing that I thought when I saw the title was that this is some sort of environmental disaster drama. lol Then after watching the first episode I realized that this was an alternative time drama but the title didn't make sense to me either way as one minute is not such a long time to be considered as kairos.
As I predicted, very early on and after watching this drama up until its conclusion, the writers messed up completely the time lines. as they have done after all in many other time travel/alternative time line dramas including Signal, Tunnel, Sisyphus: The Myth, etc.
And that obviously happened because it is almost impossible not to have a "paradox" when you deal with time travel story plot, as any alterations on the past mean alterations on all possible alternative versions of the future which means in its turn, that the writers have to keep detailed notes and track of the story plot on multiple time lines.
Something that as we have realized by now THEY DON'T BOTHER TO DO! lol
As in many other time travel dramas, the writers of Kairos, lost completely the plot.
And I in my turn, lost completely my interest when the protagonists started to remember events that they had not actually taken place in the time line that they were actually living in.
( spoilers below)
How could Seo Jin f.e remember that he saw his wife with her lover and his child in the country villa by the time that at this time line he was killed? As a living person on an alternative time line, it was impossible to have any memory of this event, as some sort of deja vu because he himself was canceled in that time line.
It did make sense that he got some extra altered memories whenever he had already lived an event in the past, that was related with the time line he was living in in the present, but it was impossible to have any kind of memories in the present, if the time line that the past event occurred had been already canceled ( along with himself). lol
In other words the living Seo Jin wouldn't been able to remember his own murder!
Such kind of paradoxes and illogical plot twists were repeated again and again in this drama, creating a mess between the time lines and making the characters looking like they were either amnesiacs or like the had some sort of clairvoyance. And that because there were scenes that they didn't remember things that they should have remembered while on other scenes happened the exact opposite. There were events that they shouldn't know but they ended up knowing for unknown metaphysical reasons!
The acting was great, the production excellent but Kairos is another time travel drama with a messed -very messed up - plot.
6/10 of me just for the sake of the good acting and production.
Kairos ( it is read as keros) translates in Modern Greek language as weather and in Ancient Greek language as a time period / a frame of time. It is meant to be used for something longer than one minute. Two months, three months, the Summer, the Winter etc.
By the time that the plot of this series is based on the protagonists' communication that takes place in one minute's time frame, it would have been better to be used as a title the word Stigmi which means Moment, or Hronos that means Time and not the word Kairos in its ancient meaning. It is not considered as Kairos that one minute between 10:33 and 10:34 that they are able to communicate.
Stigmi now comes from the word Stigma which means spot. Stigmi is a spot in Time, a moment in time, a minute for example .
Hronos is also a very valid word, and translates as Time.
As a Greek language speaker the first thing that I thought when I saw the title was that this is some sort of environmental disaster drama. lol Then after watching the first episode I realized that this was an alternative time drama but the title didn't make sense to me either way as one minute is not such a long time to be considered as kairos.
As I predicted, very early on and after watching this drama up until its conclusion, the writers messed up completely the time lines. as they have done after all in many other time travel/alternative time line dramas including Signal, Tunnel, Sisyphus: The Myth, etc.
And that obviously happened because it is almost impossible not to have a "paradox" when you deal with time travel story plot, as any alterations on the past mean alterations on all possible alternative versions of the future which means in its turn, that the writers have to keep detailed notes and track of the story plot on multiple time lines.
Something that as we have realized by now THEY DON'T BOTHER TO DO! lol
As in many other time travel dramas, the writers of Kairos, lost completely the plot.
And I in my turn, lost completely my interest when the protagonists started to remember events that they had not actually taken place in the time line that they were actually living in.
( spoilers below)
How could Seo Jin f.e remember that he saw his wife with her lover and his child in the country villa by the time that at this time line he was killed? As a living person on an alternative time line, it was impossible to have any memory of this event, as some sort of deja vu because he himself was canceled in that time line.
It did make sense that he got some extra altered memories whenever he had already lived an event in the past, that was related with the time line he was living in in the present, but it was impossible to have any kind of memories in the present, if the time line that the past event occurred had been already canceled ( along with himself). lol
In other words the living Seo Jin wouldn't been able to remember his own murder!
Such kind of paradoxes and illogical plot twists were repeated again and again in this drama, creating a mess between the time lines and making the characters looking like they were either amnesiacs or like the had some sort of clairvoyance. And that because there were scenes that they didn't remember things that they should have remembered while on other scenes happened the exact opposite. There were events that they shouldn't know but they ended up knowing for unknown metaphysical reasons!
The acting was great, the production excellent but Kairos is another time travel drama with a messed -very messed up - plot.
6/10 of me just for the sake of the good acting and production.
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