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SW selling his superpower and not taking advance payment. These are the people who already attacked him a few times. Does he really trust them to let him walk out of there with the cash when he’s powerless? Again, I can tell what they’re setting up for, the rogue scientist will help him somehow, and he’ll use the bag of cash to wreak havoc on the lab. But I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch another episode, even though they’ve just introduced Lee Chae-min’s character.

P.S. He rushed to sell his superpower so that there’ll be no proof when the police finally catch up to him. What does he think he’s being accused of? Didn’t quite catch it, I was probably too busy being annoyed at the show.

Edit: I needed a background show for while I’m doing chores, so I thought I might as well continue where I left off as I don’t intend to pay full attention anyway. Apparently the whole selling-the-superpower bit was a con to get into the lab, where a safe containing (non-digital) documents they happened to need was right there in the same room used for extracting superpowers. How convenient for them, eh? Then to continue the trend of our characters acting in frustrating ways, our hero has 4 billion won, none of it in his pocket even though he’s running away from armed mercenaries, which he then loses because he decides to answer a call 🙄🙄. I mean c’mon, I know we can’t make it too easy for him, but did he have to lose that money that way??

The FL, Min-sook, is pretty unlikeable as well. While I liked how she created that chart of money spent vs power gained, I couldn’t believe she scolded Sang-woong when he saved a bus full of people. I know she’s supposed to be a foil character or something for Sang-woong, but she’s just over the top. If she’s so obsessed with saving money, why didn’t she use her legs to get out from under that fallen bit of ceiling when Sang-woong was holding it up? She did the experiments with him, she knows how the power works, and surely she could hear all the coins falling. I don’t believe it’s “shock”, she had the presence of mind to ask Sang-Woong where he got the money to save her. Later on, when a propane tank exploded in SW’s face and he didn’t have money on him, I didn’t think that was supposed to be survivable. But hey, plot armour. When MS found out that SW saved himself and her with wedding gift money, she made a displeased worried face, like, “Ottoke?”. I was like, really?? That money would’ve burned in this fire anyway, why does she care?? SW saved MS’s life for the second time already, which he wouldn’t have had to do if she (1) evacuated the burning building like a normal person and (2) didn’t stupidly provoke the obviously superhuman creature with fire hands.

I had the same response to Cashero as when I watched Sisyphus. More often than I’d like, I kept yelling at my screen because the characters acted in ways that didn’t make sense to me, the prime example of which was when they *hung out* and had a nice chat inside a burning building that was collapsing just moments ago, but conveniently stopped collapsing when they were having their heart-to-heart 🙄🙄. I know the scene is set up like that so Fire Dude can interrupt and fighting can ensue, but I’d rather not be able to see things. Just like I knew an accident was going to happen right when Sang-woong got that windfall which happened to be the exact amount they needed for the house deposit—it was too obvious.

Interesting premise, but the writing falls flat. It’s boring.

Is anyone else bothered or amused by how the big accident happened in “Europe”, but the flashbacks have cars with what looked like Florida license plates and the background actors saying “call 911”?

Totally agree, the show fell apart in the latter half.

Jin So-beak supposedly felt partly responsible for giving Eun-su the idea to get rid of Hui-su’s husband, and I can be persuaded to believe that he stepped in because he had the resources and connections so it was easier for him than the two novice criminals. I actually liked the idea that he decided to help out these two women out of the goodness of his heart and not because he was trying to get into their pants. I was confused about how that flashback with his kid was related to anything, but he said that was twenty years ago, and I read somewhere that his kid would have been the girls’ age at that point.

I am just seeing this comment now. Coincidentally I am currently halfway through Still 17 and loving it so far. Shin Hye Sun is just brilliant. I will add Angel’s Last Mission to my list :)

Well said. I also started watching this show because of Shin Hye Sun, and I also ended up slogging through the latter half of the series, maybe even earlier.

I felt bad for Sang Do’s character, as his unrequited love felt like filler. Also, the amount of drinking in the show is just ridiculous.

Some bits I liked: I adored Ha Yul - from the first episode she seemed to be the most mature of all the ladies living in that Seoul flat despite her age. I loved how she played wingwoman to her mother. That surprise ending for Man Soo, hilarious!

Perhaps this show could’ve been much better if they kept it to 10 episodes.