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whoever thought having a 3 minutes long scene with a camera rotating around a dinner table in ep 10 is a good idea clearly wasn't forced to watch it (and read subtitles). I think they were saying something important, but I was too busy not getting seasick. Voodoo boxing bag scene was neatly put together though.

/if only they had balls to wrap it up within 8-10 episodes with tighter writing and some goal ahead.

no, I agree with the OP that they do talk much and it's completely different than Stranger since you brought it up. In Stranger people tend to build long sentences and refer to things in a veiled way, but the drama isn't overloaded with dialogue like this one. It relies more on image and editing, using cinematic means and leaving some breath for a viewer to figure things out for oneself. In this one even when characters stop talking and spelling every single thing out, a voiceover narration overtakes - multiple times per episode! So I wouldn't advise against Stranger based on the reaction on this one. Completely different dramas.
The talking isn't pointless, but it's very ELI5 and talking instead of showing style, at least from what I saw so far. Maybe it gets better.

It's witty for a makjang, but doesn't give time for a mystery to brew. An instant gratification type of storytelling.

Nah, should've trusted the comments. The best part of the movie are people on KA cracking from bad subs. Doesn't deserve better ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK7o0wgTQ7U working link, 720p, no subs

That one: http://mydramalist.com/796-jejoongwon perhaps? Western medicine brought to waning Joseon.

Hours after watch and I'm still appalled. What is wrong with those people. The cult is the last of their problems, even with the new insight of Spiritual Father's plans of making Sang Me a new Mary. Narratively speaking, I like that turn of events, with a complex environment sketched rather than just damsel in distress and the squad rescuing her from cult's clutches.
I'm having hard time rooting for Sang Hwan, not even as a romantic lead but as a protagonist. If the writers want to bring him down and give him a space for a redemption arc, well done because he could certainly use one. Possibly before someone else ends up dead or in juvy before he makes up his mind, please. (However, a watcher of typical kdramas in me is glad for an extra wedge between Sang Hwan and Dong Cheol spicing up the future rivalry.) Ok Taec Yeon needs a better agent to break from typecasting, he's chanceless against all those new faces.

No romance so far and there's a possibility it will do without it or with a bare minimum, but we do have two clear leads. It's only a setup for now, so hard to tell for sure what will they do with it.

lol, there's always an option for a lookalike/reincarnation solution with time travels even if he will.

#7
So Ah: At first, you seemed like a cold person devoid of any emotion, but I never would've imagined that you had this kind of a hobby [grooming trees].
Hu Ye: That's being prejudiced. A cold person devoid of any emotions can like trees, too. Also, I'm not a cold person, and I'm quite sentimental!

He's too precious for this drama.

Tightly written and well executed, as expected from Stranger writer. Some twists aren't unseen, but overall it's a skillful, gripping movie.

Thanks! I see someone redone the order anyway. He used to be in upper right.

you mean that three entries of @chariel02 or something else that's already gone? have you reported it? I don't want to send another request if you already did. It's a pity to have such a masterpiece spoiled in any sense, but if you haven't seen it because of the untimely knowledge of the ending, know that there's so much more to it, lots of tiny hints and recurrences and a very interesting mindtrick with the storytelling. I still highly encourage to see it anyway.

I'm not very familiar with OCN dramas, but from the way the showrunners shoehorned 'save me' line into Sang Mi mouths when Sang Hwan finally appeared on the rooftop and all the cues of the love triangle, I'd be surprised if they managed to make it without romantic plotline.

Agree, they need to find a new gimmick. But I'm lowkey amazed they manage to add a new spin to it every time. If we add double timelines, the list goes on and on. And there's still more where that's coming from!
I wonder too, is it a mockery of Chinese ban on time travel in TV? Are they doing so much of it to show they can (and to fill a niche on the international market, if they care for that)?

the synopsis needs fixing. A family of four (with twins, a brother and sister) arrives to a small town in a countryside where a creepy cult thrives under the veil of a benevolent institution. No unemployed, but fellow high schoolers and that's not how they met.

and cows! for all the talk about Korean beef that must be my first time seeing a living cow in a drama.

I think they're just running a help house for addicts using an unorthodox methods (let's call it that way), as was shown with the drunk guy brought by the police. What would be the point of storing corpses? Good old brainwashing and milking all people's money does the trick already, while topping it with desiring the pure young newcomer by both the cult leader and his right hand levels up the creepery. Most of cult followers are old and/or sick, so not a good material for organ harvesting neither. They could run some test on perfecting the potion using people whom nobody will miss as lab rats perhaps? Or try to convert back people who stopped believing in their lies and rebelled?
But hey, where did the idea of dead bodies came from? They seem alive enough to scream. Was there a scene with a corpse?

you mean that boy who looked up in the sky when the cross turned itself off?

Oh, you're right. She's the one standing (but shouldn't the mother still hear a stranger and adult commenting how pleasant her daughter smells? I mean, it's not normal thing to say...). Thanks! I'm not good with unfamililar faces.
But I stand with my general opinion on parents. They know more then they're showing, but prefer to avoid the topic. It's similar with the boy. They knew he may need his sister protection, their reason for moving out in a first place might be he was bullied even in Seoul, but don't approach him directly. It bothers me to no end how such matters are always pushed aside in kdramas and movies & there seems to be no institutional protection for victims.
It wouldn't made much sense for her to fall. Her parents, yes. But the look was strange and they chose it for a freeze screen, so I don't know whether she was starting to admire him or couldn't believe the level of BS he's spouting.