namopanik

it's an intimate way of saying it.

there is no original. Only copy of a copy of a copy and all the crucial scenes laying around, waiting for someone to cut a close up from it and put it somewhere.

I saw the SBS version raw on myasiantv yesterday, but it looks they re-uploaded with the international version... Wait, Kissasian has SBS subbed.

Think of it this way: was Lee Bang Won always evil?

It's not cut out, it's added in the SBS version (look, it has a sign).
But not only single scenes are added or removed, there's a lot of tiny changes everywhere (like the ending scene with vision is there in both, but differently put together). The emphasis is put in different places. The SBS version has better flow, I'm sticking to it from now on.
Urgh, it makes me think of all the scenes they make but never show us.

For someone this cunning, CP is such a brat. I don't think he spared a single though to why Ra On was trying not to become eunuch, why is she living as a boy or trying to leave now.
The precious lady business is sweet and all, but it's hard to care about him and his pains when she can be killed any moment while he just wants a puppy. What's romantic about the event in the end? It's extremely thoughltess of him to expose her so much.

Because it's hard to unsee CGI this bad. It hunts you. I stopped comparing the plot or the characters because those are two separate stories now, but when the similar point comes up, it triggers something. Like with the way they handled time jump in a beginning - it's way better here (not the sixpacks, the sequence in a lake).
And it's not like the makers just ignore the old version.

https://youtu.be/g7TxkffmwgQ
starts around 1:18

Say what you want, but there's something missing in the lake scene (super fake CGI perhaps).

That's because of the Olympic break. They didn't trust in the viewer's intelligence to remember details and chose to water down some episodes with fillers. It'll stand out now, especially during binge-watching.

I always thought it's a kdrama-only thing! For some reason they dislike having their main and supporting actors facial expressions obscured (less important characters are fine with fully functional glasses).

At least villains are entertaining. I'm amazed so many people lasted this far. If i could go back, I'd rather rewatched Blood with my skipping finger tied behind my back.

I think they failed to establish two things for the viewers to be able to relate to the heroes: 1. Kang Chul's humanity, 2. W-world being real too (at least for me). I don't see as many plot holes as others do, but I guess it shouldn't be treated as a hard sci-fi, more like a fairy tale with pretty people getting together + meta on the frustration of the viewer, responsibility as a writter, the process of world-building in a making, figuring out the rules that are constantly changing etc. Because it's still there till the end (like when Soo Bong wipes his tears *through* his non-existent glasses).

If she wanted to kill herself, she would go for a neck or made long cuts along veins, not across.

Let's be glad she didn't go with a theme and stayed away from her face.
But what do you mean by making a scene? She didn't scream nor made threats, just used the opportunity when everyone was turned around, silently broke a vase and made rather clean cut on exposed part of her body. How do you suppose her to go through all the layers of skirts, bend and then cut? That would took much more time.
I'd like to see how would you keep your composure stuck in a past, essentially powerless, with some old man trying to sleep with you because dealing with potential riots instead is too bothersome for him

50:50, the pair gets together, someone dies miserably.

I think MBC is just huge so it has more money and smaller stations simply aren't able to produce historical dramas on a satisfying level, maybe those bottle kind of show, with really intimate, in-depth relationships and setting, but not something epic. Sageuks are very expensive to make, with settings, costumes and especially with battle scenes (so in some shows it just happens off the screen). It's a lot to take.
/but once they start, they can - to some extent - just reuse head-pieces, court robes and locations from drama to drama so it keeps rolling/
Frankly, I don't think tvN or other smaller station could afford to produce W so well when it comes to cinematography. They made a really good job in differentiating those two worlds and bringing manhwa to life.

Yayuns, have you seen Drama King? Broadcasting station pay for the drama and has power to shape it to make it more profitable by influencing writter, producer etc. They can cut on controversial bits, give more prominence to the actor they want to promote and so on. Even with preproduced dramas it's not just buying a tv series made in accordance to artistic values of its creators, it's buying a product that has to fit into station's strategy. Moreover, broadcasting stations have their distinctive style and TVN is generally valued for the originality of their dramas. This sign in a corner can change everything.

No, I wouldn't say it is. It's very good, a class of it's own compared to typical kdramas, but falls short in a comparison with this writter previous works which maybe weren't this flashy [again, not a bad thing per se], but had less loose ends, more developed world architecture and stricter logic. And convincible romance, a part that here is just forgettable to me. And I'm saying it as someone who enjoyed W immensely and puts higher standards to it than to other dramas. After 16 episodes I'm not satiated at all. While the show suceeded in keeping me entertained and was never predictable, there are whole parts I'm not buying and which somehow in a process took more prominent place than those that made me attracted to W in a first place.

*cough*in Japan*cough*