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She suspected that Jin Mu was involved. She knew her dad had to be changed into soul shifter, as he himself was not good enough to do it himself. She had enough reasons to keep investigating, but she did not...

the only times she helped with investigating Jin Mu was for Jang Uk's benefit and his "issues" and not her own...

It's refreshing coz it mixes all the best from mainstream kdrama productions with all the basics of wuxia. But for me... this is not enough. There were too many things that started to annoy me half way through, especially in terms of how the writers treated female characters...

drama wise, I usually can do up till 5 and finish (depending on the length), movies I rarely drop, so any rating can happen. There are a few cases of shows so bad, I felt the need to finish and write down all my thought in a review - especially if I found the show to have some problematic messages.

But many people don't drop shows at all, no matter how bad they are. They might not enjoy a show almost at all, and still rate it 7+, because "they feel bad for people involved in making it". There are also people who rate everything they watch as 10, no matter how much they liked it. So even among people who finish all the show, majority does not use the full scale...

Pulling the knife out can actually kill someone faster. Which he should know being a police officer.

I just feel like the writers added too many layers into this, filled it with misdirects and for me it usually (before the show ends I cannot say it's the case here tho) means the writers is trying to hide either lack of writing talent or a predictable plot...

Hye Jin was killed by the killer for her dad's involvement in the past events right?
But Sung Joon's theory was that the taxi driven killed her coz of his anger issues. (same as he tried to kill the teenage girl). Is it me, or are they making it way too complicated? I thought they made it obvious everyone in the juty was somehow related to the past events. But they kind of moved away from that idea, and are setting "one of the jury is the killer". They are adding layers over layers of information, not denying nor confirming anything, and while up till now it's fun, it will be tiresome at some point...

I see people in comment section already giving up trying to figure out the story, and I don't think making it so complex it's confusing should ever be a goal of any crime/thriller story. For me, a good story leaves you with "damn, it all makes sense now" by the end, and not with "it all makes sense now, right? I think so... but I'm not sure. Would have to rewatch it maybe a 3 times to make sure nothing contradicts itself and it's cohesive as a plot", and I'm scared this will end up in that 2nd category, if they keep adding new things, instead of expanding the ideas they already have.

I stopped caring what will happen to Ryu Sung Joon. He is so reckless and stupid I just hope his action will not fuck up other people too much. Sung Hoon is a saint to have patients with him.

Also, I have a question/complaint about the plot, will hide it under spoiler in a reply

If they will go with that it will be painfully dumb.
Coz the pills don;t make people killers, they make them hallucinate. A planner murder cannot really be excused by a spontaneous hallucination... Also... he only took 2 pills. I think this is all a misdirect (a pretty obvious one) to make him a "possible" killer, when the killer is someone else (someone working for Jang Gi Do).

He did not fire her. He wants to use her. He needs a good face for his new project, but she would obviously not agree to it if she became a partner (better gig for her). So he had to force her out of her high horse and make it seem as if this offer is him helping her.

He never wanted for her to truly dream big. He was using her from the start.

This is such a fun watch. Jang Gi Do is obviously behind the killings. The writers want to pin it on Si Baek for entertainment. Maybe they will use it to make him an actual suspect later (they already had it go that way with the detective and his "story" during the questioning).

The cast is crazy good. In some weird way I really like Oh Ha Ran. Her "축하해" after hearing the dude was murdered was amazing 🤣

That's what I do. I don't really read reviews before I watch a show, but I tend to check some after I'm done. Especially ones that rated the show differently than me. I usually upvote reviews that I feel like explained their opinion/position well - if even if I disagree, I can understand why they liked/disliked the show.

Here's the thing about dominating review section - if you write a lot you establish some kind of presence there, which leads to people remembering you, which leads to them checking your reviews, because they know more or less what to expect (what are the focus points, your writing style, if you include spoilers etc.), which leads to more upvotes, review being on top, and getting more people to read it... and it's the same story all over again.

While I'm 100% okay with upvoting other review, downvoting someone just because other people read and upvote their reviews is not a good thing. This is how we get "sdjhfhsgfds this show is sooo goood!" copied x10 to hit the minimum number of characters - type of reviews on the first page, because people try to downvote actual review for one reason or the other...

Downvote is not there to making sure everyone can equal chance to be "on top", but to show the review was not helpful.

that's... one of the most counterproductive things you might have done. If you really disliked the review, you should have just downvote and that's it.
Your comment will only bring more people to read it, and at least some of them will hit upvote, which will only bring his review up, which is opposite to what you wanted ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I saw her and I right away thought - I need it!

It's all about the context. Usually in discussion it has more of a demeanor tone. It's a bit like calling your friend "bitch" is different than calling a random person you interact with "bitch".

I said what I wanted to say, pointed out his sweetie was wrong, the OP's reply and calling him toxic for no reason was wrong ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You are set in stone with your view, so I will just remove myself from this conversation, since it would be rather pointless to continue.

I wouldn't even call it strictly misogynistic anymore, but it's often used to indicate someone is "below" you and not worthy being taken seriously. It was in past used by men more, but now it's used as much by women for the same effect.
Personally, I got the "sweetie" and "honey" from other women more than men on this website, but then there are more women than men here, so that makes sense.

If it's true, you should contact the people whom he plagiarized, not use it as a reply to his comment that was not even related to reviews. If it's true, and you think it's wrong enough to call him out, why not report it with screen shots as a proof. Admins deal with situations like that if it's backed up with photos.

I'm not. I clearly said, no matter what his intentions were, it's annoying and not good to use sweetie. My case was - he was called toxic before he did anything toxic. The person who replied to his comment did act childish and ridiculous. I hate the word "sweetie" so if someone used it on me I would just block them.

But you are acting like like him saying it was completely unprovoked. When the other person started with accusations with no proof. They literally accused him of plagiarism ;/ But you are acting as if he attacked a poor soul who did nothing wrong ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ If you decided to point out his wrong behavior in that conversation, you should also do the same for the other person.

Sweetie is an annoying term whenever it's used by men or women, and that is a fact. Whenever the intention might be from the person who uses it, the person that receives usually see it as demeaning. So being annoyed when someone uses it is valid.

That said, the other person literally said he has "toxic masculinity" ONLY based on the fact he said episode 15th was trashy. Which is also ridiculous behavior. Guys are not misogynistic and toxic just because they don't like something and say it. He was not spamming with negative comments... maybe he wrote a few, but in the sea of 2178, it's hardly noticeable. Comment section is here for both positive and negative opinions.

That's a big accusation that makes little sense... if you did it for all your replies, people would call you out on it in comments under said reviews. but I read quite a few of yours, and I never saw anyone complaining about it.