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I know what you mean. I feel the same. Maybe when I was 16 I would think this is cute, but now that I am only 3 months away from being 24 and have watched hundreds of dramas, it just doesn’t seem like something worth my time.

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Yes, I watched it with eng subs. If I remember right, since it has been 5 months, she ends up with the Emperor. Give it a try and you will know for sure.

It’s not that I didn’t know what was going on at all, but in terms of writing it felt very messy, especially the ending. But from what I read no wonder the ending was like that, the writer and director wanted different endings, the writer wanted a sad ending as it was supposed to be but the director wanted a happy ending, so they ended up doing a mix of both which resulted in a sloppy ending. But yeah, every person has different opinions and likes different things. That’s why we have the comment section so we can share our views and help people who didn’t watch it yet to decide if they want to give it a try or not.

Hate to break it to you if you haven’t finished it yet but it will get even messier. So many puzzle pieces thrown at us that at some point we forget what the puzzle was even supposed to look like. Some good ideas but the execution was a disaster.

Completely agree with you. Too many subplots made it very confusing and even boring at times. By the end of the last episode my first thought was: wow, I just spent all these hours so I could find out where the damn missing tape was. All those deaths and all those "tape eodiseo?" made me forget that this story was suposed to be about Black (444). And the ending was...well, I didn’t like it. Definitely does not deserve such a high rating if compared with other dramas.

Ikr. I wish Moo Gang stayed around. The way he died and how everyone thought he was still alive felt very unfair for him. That was one of the things that I was not happy about. I almost dropped it a few times too and the whole missing tape thing was getting tiring for me. With such a high rating I expected something better. But experience has showed me not to trust ratings. I have hated high rated dramas before and was pleasantly surprised by some low rated ones.

I also get what you mean and as I said in the other comment I understand it being fantasy not everything is logical, but I did expect logic in scenes where it was required like when Ha Ram and Man Soo were stabbed and were bleeding for such a long time. If it was Black I could let it pass since technically he was not human and ok, Ha Ram was half and half, but Man Soo was human and he was stabbed 3-4 times with a large knife.

The writer could have made it more believable either by killing him (although that was the least wanted option) or by making him only get stabbed 1 or 2 times like Ha Ram and maybe use a smaller knife too. The way he got stabbed, not only was I expecting him to die, but for it to take less than 30 minutes.

One of the genres being Fantasy does not mean that the drama does not require any logic or an organized plot, if so even a child could be the writer and create a story that makes no sense. I have watched other fantasy dramas before, of course they were not realistic since it was fantasy, BUT the plot was neat, everything had a purpose. I feel that here the problem was the writer had some good ideas but no idea how to organize them and create a consistent plot, which resulted in a lot of unnecessary cases and characters that just dragged the whole missing tape case, which in the end made a lot of people feel like this drama was not about Black, Ha Ram or grim reapers but about a missing tape that took 20 years and lot of unnecessary deaths to finally be found in the last episode.

Of course everyone has his/her own opinion. A lot of people enjoyed it and were not bothered by these things. It was not my case since I am a little picky and have watched way too many good dramas so what was a masterpiece 2 years ago I now might think it is just an ok drama.

Anyway, I am glad you liked it. ^ - ^

That does have some logic and I can accept that but doesn’t change the fact that there were still a lot of plot holes. Like I said, I liked the enjoyment I got out of it but at some point I was only watching because I wanted to know what would happen to Black. Everything else didn’t matter as much to me.

Exactly. I have a love-hate relationship with this drama and its even leaning more to the hate part. I am someone who loves thrillers, mistery and suspense BUT things need to have logic, you cant just throw ridiculous plots at me and expect me to buy it. There were too many things that bothered me, one of them being what you said about Ha Ram not being able to see the shadows, like, at least in the halloween party Black was wearing a WHITE shirt, so she should have been able to see it and there were other times. When she and Man Soo got stabbed, she was stabbed twice with a large knife and Man Soo was stabbed 3-4 times if I remember right, it took like what, 2 days for them to be found? You want me to believe that 2 human beings were bleeding to death for 2 days, without eating or drinking anything and were still alive?? Some stitches and a few days at the Hospital and BAM they are all good. There were more things but I would be here all day writting about it.

Anyway, I agree with you. I feel like the writer(s) did not bother to organize the good ideas they had and ended up creating something messy and with no logic.

Let’s be honest here. The high rating is purely for the enjoyment given by the drama to the people who watched it. I enjoyed parts of it too BUT that doesn’t mean I can ignore MAJOR plot holes, like how each person and case were connected in a way that would never happen in real life, how getting stabbed 2 times or more and bleeding for a long time yet being found still alive is considered completely normal and humanly possible, and let’s not even talk about the endind. Also the amount of time spent looking for the lost tape was ridiculous. Like someone said, the drama should not be called Black but “Saga of the Lost Tape”. Or like another person said, and this is completely true, the most used sentence during the entire drama was "tape eodiseo?". No joke! I sticked with it only for Black but in the end I felt like I spent so many hours watching the story of a lost tape, which makes me feel incredible dumb and think the writers were treating us viewers as a joke.

Sure, I enjoyed it but I had to take out my brain and forget about a thing called logic while watching most of it.

If you like me enjoy thriller, suspense and mistery but need things to be realistic and to have some logic, you will probably end up having a love-hate relationship with this drama.

Anyway, and this is not a popular opinion, but this is far from being the best drama of the year like some people are saying, although not the worst (yeah, Im talking about you "The Bride of Habaek"), but definitely not the best either.

Dropped it after episode 4. I don’t know, I just couldn’t get into it and felt that watching it until the end just for the sake of finishing it would be a waste of time. I could use that time to watch something better. But then again, although I got into dramas thanks to animes and mangas, I am not really a fan of japanese dramas. Of course there are exceptions, but most things that would be acceptable for me in mangas and animes look ridiculous when acted by real people. And because of that most japanese dramas look extremely weird and the actors, as good as they are, look like they are overacting. Not trying to say japanese dramas are bad. Every person likes different things and I do like some of them but in general they stay far behind in my priority list: 1st kdramas, 2nd chinese/taiwan and then japanese/lakorns.

I don’t need to say much about this one. Story, characters, cinematography, music, everything was done very well. tvN is one of my favorite channels for a reason. When you have a regular plot and are able to make it an interesting drama that makes the viewers feel all the emotions the characters feel....well, you know what you’re doing. Also, I gotta give an honorable mention to Kitty/Woori. Cutest cat of Kdrama land.

After reading some comments and watching a certain YT video, I saved myself from another heartbreak. Goes to my list of "Not Interested".

I did not read this until after I watched the drama. I honestly did pick this for the love story and although those expectations were not properly met, I do not regret watching this. I agree the second half was less interesting than the first half but overall I still think it was worth my time.

Like a someone said above, this was not a story about romance, it was about love, yes, but mostly not the romantic type of love, it was more about friendship, loyalty and the sacrifices people sometimes make for the ones they love more than themselves.

There were 2 ships, but San could only get on one. Depending on which ship you wanted her to get on, you might love or you might hate the ending. For me, surprisingly, in the end I did not care as much for which ship she got on but how I understood the REAL meaning behind those words we heard on the first episode: "This is my story, me, who loved YOU more than myself". (might not be these exact words but thats more or less how I remember it)

Although as a romance lover I would have usually liked to see more focus on the romance, I have to say I liked how friendship (also a kind of love) and loyalty where the most important. The character development was also really good, specially one particular person that I cannot name or it would be a huge spoiler.

In the end, I cannot say I loved it as it did not have as much romance as I expected, but I cannot hate it either. And I think only people who already watched it can understand this feeling of neither loving it nor hating it. Unless you expected San to get on one ship and in the end you got it wrong and she got on the other - then you might hate it.

P.S. - I got the ship she would get on right. ^^

The romance is far from being the main focus and is very slow paced. If you want to watch it for the romance you might be disappointed. If you are watching for the story and the romance doesn’t matter that much to you, then go ahead and watch it.

I watched because of the romance and did not drop it, although I did have to fast foward a lot. Still worth since it’s a short drama. And the ending wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Still, could not give it more than 6/10, but that’s just me because I watched it for the romance. You might like it more than me.

I put it on hold like 5 times and was finally able to finish it. I think the problem is they gave us a promising plot and a few interesting first episodes that raised our expectations and then gave us like 35 episodes of normal people daily lives. I am not saying it was completely bad. They just made us believe they would feed us an extraordinary dish that we never tried before and then gave us plain rice.

This drama has too many pros and I am sure most, if not all, were already mentioned by someone else. So I will just mention 2.

1 - The acting. The actress playing the female lead and the other actors did well but I have to say that the actor playing the male lead was outstanding. Whenever he had to be serious, he would put on a serious face, when he had to be funny/silly he would definitely make you at least giggle just with his facial expressions and when he had to cry and be hurt, you would feel his suffering. I found myself crying more than once and this is not even really what would be considered a sad drama. (can’t say more without spoilers)

2 - The music. Overall the OSTs were pretty good but there was one that stood out for me: Always by Hyolyn (aka Hyorin).
I have been listening to her and her ex-group’s (SISTAR) music for around 2 years now (they are all talented but Hyorin’s voice is just incredible). And this drama gifted me another one of her songs filled with memories of the good time I had watching this.

I would say to give it a try. You probably won’t regret it.