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Do you guys feel they're laying ground for making MC not emotionless in fact too? With brain chart Han Yeo Jin drew and that conversation with the doctor who planted the idea that sometimes all emotions are lost due to the operation, sometimes not (or not permenently lost, I don't remember his exact words now). I hope it won't go too much in that direction.

I know about it, but it's still an absurdly literal regulation disregarding the context of the whole drama. A staged corpse or a pool of blood is ok to see, but knife in it isn't. I'm just not getting how is one or two pointy objects this or that way any more traumatising than the whole stuffy atmosphere in the prosecutor office. I could understand blurring potential triggers in a daytime show, but this has age appropriate marks and airs in the evening.

Ktdiva3: crime and corruption tied to police and law forces. Smartly written and cinematic.

why do they even bother blurring wounds in this show, it's not like everything else here is rainbows and unicorns...

I catched up with last few weeks of episodes, and now I can't really blame anyone who dropped it sooner. I enjoy it in a way since I considerably lowered my expectations, but so many things are hard to buy (instrumental use of poison and its timing being the easiest of them). The level of angst is unproportional and for something that mostly relies on a great love and whatnot, relationships accelerate from 0 to 100 in a blink. Why do they even love each other, and through all those years? Who knows. Acting is better than character building, so it carries the whole show. Maybe even not acting, but pure charisma. We have powers, but no real struggles - instead two lovesick boys bickering over a terribly underinformed girl making stupid choices. People act half assedly all the time and keep dragging whatever serves as a plot here with misunderstandings, lack of communication and keeping others in dark, but we're to believe that they care deeply about revenge or justice (but not deep enough to bother going and finding a stupid pot or drawing a usable map or whatever). It reminds me of the second part of The Moon That Embraces The Sun or Joseon Gunman in a wrong way.
/ok, it get's better in the 2nd halft of 27th and in 28th.

Thanks guys! I'll put it on hold and wait for more episodes to come. It wasn't dragging so far, but I have little trust in long-run cdramas in general. Hope it'll turn well.

According to asianwiki Park Hye Jin. Looks like he/she's a rookie, because I can't find this person's previous works. If you trust imdb it's a she, and she's an actress too, playing in The Crucible (http://mydramalist.com/people/5694-park-hye-jin).

how was this week? I saw first 16 episodes but started losing interest in the plot. Was it eventful? Does it look like it was going to drag and run in useless misunderstandings from now on?

Zero no Shinjitsu has quite an emotionless heroine, but I don't remember whether it's due to a brain damage or not.

I watched it to see what's the deal with Won Bin and still don't know. He has a nice voice I guess. I read that in the early draft, MC was supposed to be a man in his 60s experienced in the North, and now can't get rid of the idea that it would be more meaningful that way, instead of dramatic head shaving, gratuitous abs and a frame created for wearing suits, but maybe it's just me. But it's still a solid movie, even if oozing with empty coolness. Violence and gore are neatly balanced with skillful editing and coherent looking photography, so it's both sickening and somehow enjoyable watch.

Oh, that's a start, I can at least check if it's worth looking for a physical copy if everything else fails. Thanks :)
By the way, I can see now it's available on Dramafever in some regions, in case someone else wanted to watch it.

any luck finding a full copy? The gooddrama link below doesn't work anymore, and the title is extremely not google-friendly.

I have to ask: is it just a similarity of the topic and setting, or does it have multiple POVs and all those quirks Durarara had?

no kidding, we finally got amnesia part? Now I can come back to pairing socks in my drawers and sleep sound.
/ironically, someone must have deleted it from the synopsis recently.

I understand. I'm saying there's nothing much to ruin since what's they're keeping is name and possibly water-related powers.

I'm sceptical too, but trying to stay open minded. I read they're changing a lot both in setting and in MC's character, so it doesn't matter that much how he was in the source material anymore.

I don't think it's just he's getting lead roles before Im Joo Hwan, but Nam Joo Hyuk shouldn't be judged only by his Scarlet Heart performance. He did a fine job both in Cheese in a Trap as a sidekick and in Weightlifting Fairy as a lead recently. I can't be objective for School 2015 though, but it was still better than Scarlet Heart.

but he's a lead here, maybe it'll work out for once!:)

I agree with you too, siracorn. The list could also be called 'a few recent most hyped dramas I liked'.
At first I thought that recommending dramas like K2, DOTS or SWDBS which have mixed feedback at best would be counterproductive, but then again I was sucked in with an atrocity called Mary Stayed Out All Night and it worked just fine, so it really doesn't matter where one starts.

In case someone wondered whether it's rushed compared to k-version: it's not. It needs only 40% of time to deliver the same story and the pace is neck-breaking, but by some sorcery it's not rushed plot-wise. Serizawa Naoto runs all the time like he was solely responsible for compressing 20 hours into 9*, so it's draining to even watch him, let alone bear the emotional load of things happening around him. The editing is frantically fast and dense, it cuts out connecting movements Breathless-style or speeds up the footage on fillers. Ok, maybe not Breathless because it was more random there, but you get the idea.
And yet, despite all that madness, the story has a gripping pace making you want to already know the whole picture, what happened then, how will it all end now and who'll make it out alive. It's sparse with revealing things from the past. Recurring shots of Naruse Ryu's face and his red lit den balance it out a little, as does the music.
I don't see myself rating it anything below 9 if it stays as good as it is.

*Don't want to unbury old comments, but some commenters said running all the time makes Serizawa less believable as a cop/adult. I politely disagree. It fits him and his history, and it's not like other characters take him very seriously either.