Kate

Well, we clearly have different standards on what would be considered a good character instruction and storytelling.

I gave you more attention that you deserve from me anyway, taking into consideration your personal attacks towards me in the previous replies ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ So feel free to reply if you won't, but I won't engage with you anymore.

I'm more than happy to have a dissuasion with others who disagree, but when someone opens their take with "you are insane", I see no reason to give them more time of my day.

also, i have fetish for well written set up for characters. That's why this episode 1 ain't doing it for me 🤣

Creating a character just so you can kill if off few scene later as a tool to make FL more sad is bad writing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You talk in general, I have issues with details ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't have issues with them giving her bad clothes. I have issues with them giving her the most stereotypically comical bad clothes that are associated with timid and sky nerd girls in pop culture. They literally could have out her in more plain clothes and it would be fine. My issue is who they went out of their ways to emphasize how "pathetic" the character is by using the stereotypes, when it was unnecessary.

"It is also very likely her relationship with her boyfriend" < AND THIS IS EXACTLY THE ISSUE. the fact you had to say: "it is also very likely" and not "her relationship with her boyfriend" means they did not explore the relationship enough for it to be a considered one of the reasons she left. So why even bother giving us the 5 minutes of the relationship when it had no depth and the same could have been achieved if they only focused on the workplace related stuff.

You add more to the story than they actually showed. I'm all for not showing everything on screen, but if I basically have to imagine most of her life before she decided to do 180 and leave, that's just ridiculous.

As for the second part, you are fine with the concept, I dig into presentation of it. That's what bothers me. The change in moos is soooooo drastic between episode 1 and 2, her change of behavior and outlook on life seems just unreal. Because they did a poor job in transitioning between what happened in episode 1 and 2. In paper it makes sense, how they presented it bothers me.

I don't think we will agree on it, since I feel like you focus more on the general context, while I have issue with how they out these ideas in writing and directing.

why I won't bother replying to any other of your comments:
1. You went straight to personal attacks on your first reply
2. You twisted the meaning of my words and then got offended by what your brain created in your head.

When I said "Showed how the boss wanted to sleep with her, and started to treat her poorly after she said no" I meant show me the context of how it happened. I wanted them to show me in more depth her complex situation at work. Which in my mind was for example would be showing what happened in more linear way and adding more scenes of how her boss' attitude towards her changed first after she rejected him, and then after she caught him taking bribes. I don't need more than said message she got.

Instead of trying to making it a got you moment, small plot twist, they should show from the start how it all happened. Her being treated in a decent way, then the message exchange, her rejecting him, and him starting to treat her bad, no one having any reactions nor trying to stand up for her.

If I was making this show I would not include the boyfriend plotline, I would make her mom dead from the start, and not give a random one scene of her dying as if any of the viewers created any connection to this random person and TRULY focus on her work and how she did her best, live focusing on the work only, how she started to feel like her life is meaningless because of that, how she has no people around her, no memories and her days are all the same.

But they decided to pile up all the bad "relatable" things on FL without really diving into any. That's for me is a cheapo way of creating sympathy.

It explains well, but it feels empty and rushed. None of her issue has any depth nor was fleshed out. I could not feel anything about her issues, because they were just piling them up. I wish they told a short, but complete story of her struggle at work for example. Give us more of how much she felt uncomfortable about the boss trying to have sex with her, to then bully her at work when she said no. But it was all: this, and this, and this (...) happened, and now feel bad.

Sometimes less means more, and I feel like they they went quantity over quality and because of that everything felt rushed and empty and I could not connect to it at all.

If they only presented her work related stuff and focused on it. Truly showed how she is underappreciated even tho she works hard. Showed how the boss wanted to sleep with her, and started to treat her poorly after she said no... If they just picked one sad thing about her life and dive deeper into it, and not vaguely said: look at all the bad things, she is poor little thing, we should feel bad about it.

But they decided to not explore any of the issues presented. basically went quantity over quality ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

it was just too much for 40 minutes. Sure, bad things happening, but they dropped so much on her in such a short period of time, I as a viewer could not even connect to the events and her emotions, coz they bombarded me with yet another sad scene.

yeah I honestly did not like episode 1. Too much, too fast, everything there only to show how unhappy female lead is. Literally we found out nothing else about her as a character ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But the ending of that ep made me hopeful, and episode 2 was truly better

No one says it's just the treatment in the work place lol It's everything about her character is episode one - workplace, boyfriend, dead mother, awful clothes, no peace in the public transport - anything and everything to make her look pitiful. As if just having awful job or not satisfying life was not enough for her to want a change 🤣

They made her character look borderline clinically depressed, but episode 2 it was nowhere to be seen. They exaggerated it so much, her quick change to this level of positive outlook just made little sense.

Episode 1 and 2 do not match mood wise. You can have a somber beginning and still do a good job transitioning to a more hopeful one. they failed. Coz they dumped all the bad things in 40 minutes and then went: but she is happy now 👍🏻

Honestly speaking, episode 1 was just bad. They went too over the top in trying to make her seem depressed and pathetic. It did not feel melancholic, it felt comical for me. Especially with these outfits, like damn they tried really hard to make sure the audience understand she is a "loser".

The tone of episode 1 and 2 do not match at all. The switch is not nice and gradual, it's like 2 different shows. If I must be honest, I'd say starting it from episode 2, and skipping first one completely does not sound like a bad idea.

All that, episode 2 was great and I cannot wait for next one 👍🏻

This makes me want to rewatch When the Weather Is Fine 😅
Also, Im Si Wan at it again, stealing every bitch's heart. I am the bitch 🤡

If they did more to establish Beom Seok's character in the first part, I would have no issue with him being more of the center in the 2nd. But he was kind of there, but not really, and then out of the blue everything was revolving around him...

Not to mention that the schools look like they had survived a bombing, an earthquake, and a foreign invasion < omg 🤣🤣🤣 sounds fun.

if this was classified by you as "more realistic", I am curious how wild it goes in Japanese ones. Coz damn nothing about fighting here was realistic, when they students tried to smash each other heads with baseball bats and stab each other with pens 🤣

Shi Eun was honestly amazing, Yeah, he has a bit (a lot) of psycho in him, but he was also really mature in his interactions with his friends.

Truly great review! 😊

The change of title might be because of the audience and not to create the confusion between the drama Voice. It's always better when your movie is the first one in the search, when someone's googles by the title... with Voice it would not happen.

for the ending, only small portion of the victims got the money - only from 2 newest scams. All the previous victims did not get their money back. Which seems realistic. Maybe not that fast (since they would be able to get the money only after the full investigation and prosecution is over), but there is a high chance they would be at least majority of it back. All the people from previous scams tho? Nope.

Shouldn’t the Chinese authorities be in charge? < yes and no. Depends on what police agrees to. Technically speaking these were Korean criminals, stealing from other Koreans. I would say China would for sure want to assist, don't think they would take the lead tho.

all that said, Great review! :)

It was kinda like squid game cop guy's pov, not much depth and too much "action" < omg this PERFECTLY describes the movie 🤣

I did edit it hahaha
I did nit notice the typo until your first comment hahaha

I did spend some time thinking about the show, rewatching scenes while writing the review, since it's all not so "obvious" to me, as I am straight. But I'm glad the effort was worth it and I managed to grasp the depth of the show, even with my limited personal understanding of the topic, since I never experienced something similar myself.

as far as I know, it is the same person, he got his hands on slowing the aging, and took over the Nine Clans Association as the head of it.

Also, the only actor who got to play the role for all the shows he character shows up, as far as I know 🤣

I feel like I should add a legend about the type of lines and how to navigate it 🤣 also, it's hella personal. Like... I added "Emo Boi" under Zhang Qi Ling.

There are some characters missing (literally a few), that were supporting ones and barely had any meaningful connections to other characters and that show up only in like one drama.