Just... why do the show creators feel the need to include the "coincidentally meeting in the past" [Edit: *in the future, not in the past] cliché in dramas? They just make otherwise realistic series unreal. Plus because of this flashback (and honestly, even before that) I immediately knew the connection between the two mains and their families - the boy's father murdered the girl's mother.
These are the kind of series where they splash a ton of information to the viewers in the first 2/4 episodes, they do absolutely nothing significant for 12/24 episodes, then they end the series with 2/4 episodes of action scenes, revelations, plot twists and all they can fit into those 2x60/4x30 minutes. I really hope this one isn't gonna be like that because I'm just a few steps away from not even beginning to watch romance K-dramas. Their quality has become constantly poor in the past 1,5-2 years.
Han So Hee's was possibly the most cliché death on this show. I really don't understand why did they have to add that storyline to the plot...
OH MY GOD, WHY DID YOU HAVE TO RUIN ALL THAT, STELLA?! That's it. I'm done. I absolutely hate when they force a pair together who have no chemistry, compatibility or whatsoever.
There's less than 5 minutes left from this last damn episode, please, let me live and don't make me regret watching this show.
Okay. Did you really just... end it like this? I mean, I'm glad if this show will continue (and hopefully with the same cast), but this was just too strange of an ending.
Also, I didn't mention it before, and I'm half happy about it, but Eun Sol is a prosecutor. Isn't her main job to be in the courtroom and represent the prosecution there? With all the law-related things? We've only been shown about 4 episodes out of the 32 with actual courtroom action. (Again, not that I mind, but why call her a prosecutor when she's more like a detective throughout this series?)
Yeah, that's what this drama needed - a fully closed story from the past reopening again... 2 episodes before the last one...
Yeah... It was a little too obvious when Joon Tae said the culprit might be shorter and older than what they thought, and that the investigators trust each other too much. Plus, they always do that with the cameras too: a liiittle bit too many seconds lingering on people who might seem innocent but are not.
I really like this series, but sometimes it's too easy to guess who the killer is.
Okay, now Han So Hee doesn't seem like as big of a b*tch as before. (Though I still don't like her because she two-timed Baek Beom and Kang Yong.)
OMG, I love Soo Ho's silly ass for recording Baek Beom's thanks. xD
And I also have to praise the show's makers. I didn't count how many episodes does it take for them to solve each case, but the drama definitely has a strange format. I think none of the murder-solvings' last parts ended where an actual episode ended (so they ended like halfway through the episode, not at 30 mins). This is unusual, but I like it.
Though the real reason I'm saying a cheers to the creators is because they make the murder cases almost as signs to be aware of, to open people's eyes. Women can be culprits too, old and weak people are easy targets, even our loved ones / colleagues can be victims, school bullying and expecting too much from your child could lead to overdose, a loved one's death can lead to suicide, etc. - these aren't unique cases of death, and this drama makes huge steps to bring people's awareness to signs and problems related to these deaths.
By what we know about her, Han So Hee seemed like a b*tch. Going out with Baek Beom who was ready to propose while sleeping with (at least once) and carrying the baby of Kang Yong. I'm not saying she deserved to die in that car accident, but she definitely wasn't that dream girl material what Lee Hye Seong described.
Finally Kang Hyun came to his senses! But still being shady by hiding a page of Seo's call history...
Are you kidding me? Isn't it enough that they let Kang Hyun lead the investigation which he's clearly not objective about, they're just gonna let him rule out a suspect with way more probability to be a killer than Baek Beom and question people who're known to dislike Baek Beom or disagree with his methods? If these aren't the best examples of subjectivity, I don't know what are.
So Eun Sol just happened to solve the mystery of how that kid's body was 5 meters from the wall - while she was almost unconscious from all those pills. Yeah, sure.
I think I couldn't express more how I hate when there are a ton of recurring characters by silently mentioning that I didn't know who the killed person was (in this episode's last 5 minutes). Not by taking a look at his face, not by his name. And it wouldn't be so frustrating if the other characters wouldn't make a big deal about it - being all shocked and crying when I literally can't remember him even the slightest.
I love these assumptions like "one glass was smashed, but there's another one missing just because in the second row there are 3, and in the first one there's only 1". Why be so sure about it just because that would be symmetrical? Maybe he broke it long ago, so there's only 5 in total now. Maybe the 6th one is in the sink, the fridge, the dishwasher or anywhere else. Really, why make assumptions based on what should be normal?
At first I really liked Kang Hyun, but in these last few episodes he's just getting on my nerves by pointing fingers without real evidence. Did he really get a warrant to exclude Baek Beom from doing an autopsy on Seo just because he was the last one he called before he died? Not even gonna mention those 3 other people who he called 1, 2 and 5 times respectively on the same day? I hate being the drama-killer, but man, this chap has to back off with his temper and grudge against Baek Beom.
Yeah, sure, it's totally accurate that a criminal mastermind who fools the police and detectives several times stops literally next to a prosecutor and looks at her for a few seconds. Right when he needs to escape. Unnoticed. Not ruining his alibi. Smh.
Lol, they said "Cha, an active detective" in the TV news, but later the press conference mentioned only a "suspect A". It's a little too late for anonymity now, buddy.
Way to ruin a good drama with the "sworn-enemies"-living-next-door-to-each-other cliché.
Did they really not search the victim's pockets in the first investigation? That's not so professional...
Did they really let him loose after he killed and started to eat his cellmate?! WTH.
Okay, I couldn't hold these in any longer:
- Why didn't they put a knife in the "father"? I know, morality and all that jazz, but if they set their mind to kill him, wouldn't that be the most logical thought to try to actually kill him with a 100% sure method, not gamble with those crushed up pills?
- Why the hell didn't Margot just make a run for it when she opened the balcony's door? She stopped like 3 times just to make sure his "father" didn't hear anything instead of actually trying to escape.
- Lol, how TF could "father" dig a little hole into Seth's forehead just by pressing his finger into it?
- And what is Jules so depressed about since like episode 2? She's overreacting to everything, doesn't sleep, always has a dead look on her face... Oh, and...
- When Jules and Margot went through the House for the second time, why did it only contain Margot's fears in all of the rooms? I believe it would be time to know what Jules is so terrified of that she's on edge all the time.
As of the others who went in the House with them:
1) That bearded survivor guy knew too much about the system of the last "room". I'm sure he wasn't a first-timer, but then the question of his wife-or-not rises: who is she really? A girl who escaped from him and started a new life with a new husband in the House? But she didn't seem like she actually knew the bearded guy, so...
2) Remember those realistic face-statues of the participants in the first room? Only the JT replica's head wasn't torn apart. So how come he was killed by his House-self? Wouldn't that head signify that only he stayed sane or something like that? It's a shame they didn't think this through.
I have a few questions (as usual):
- Why did the show appear again in TV after both Mike and Eddie were stuck in that other world (Candle Cove)?
- Why was Eddie a tooth monster? If I remember correctly, Gene "only" broke his finger, so he could've been a bone monster or something, but there wasn't anything related to teeth in their childhood fights.
- Why could only children "find" Candle Cove on TV (or more accurately: why did it appear only to them)? And what was that in the show that made children attack people, kill them and obey to Eddie? There weren't any hidden messages, orders for assault or anything like that in the episode snippets we've been shown...
- Why did the children listen to Mrs. Booth? Just because he sacrificed his son to Eddie?
- If Eddie was the real creator of Candle Cove, how did he make the show? How did he broadcast that on a secret channel, only to children to be seen?
- What kind of powers did Eddie have to have been able to stop Mrs. Booth's seizures?
I know it's fiction, sci-fi, but I think they could easily have answered all of these plot holes. Not with down-to-earth things, but I'm sure they could've think of something if they just took more time to build a better plot.
I don't get why didn't Marla tell anyone about her encounter with that fan of the show. She met him in the second episode and is keeping it a secret ever since.
In whose house was Jess in the middle of the night? What/who was she looking for? Why didn't she shoot the child(ren) (at least in the leg) after they attacked her? Then why didn't she run like crazy, as far as possible from there?
Why did the sheriff girl think that it was a good idea to ask some questions from that teacher (again) in the middle of the night? Or break into her house after Mrs. Booth didn't come down to open the door? Or go down the basement after hearing some tiny noise from there? Didn't she see any horror movies in her life?
I'm more and more curious how and why that show (and basically Mrs. Booth) influences the kids to do these things. Though the plot has its holes and it's not a fast-burning horror, it still keeps me on edge.
The little but noticeable mistakes take away from the show. Like in the pilot, not even her friend called her June because she had a new name, but June/Offred still called her Moira - and Janine on her own name too. And in this one, while they were playing Scrabble, Offred's letters were in this order: M-N-A-T-I-O-N. Then she put down the first-from-the-left letter, and it was N.
Okay, so about my comment of 3 episodes ago... Though I'm surprised by Harris' pettiness. I guess this show is more about easy f*cks than the actual scientific parts.
I don't know about anyone else, but it's a little disappointing for me how easy I can guess things they're (and by "they" I mean characters with supposedly much more knowledge than I have) looking for for a long time in the episodes. Like that meteor rock when they needed a material that wasn't existent on Earth, now Croft being the traitor (come on, who couldn't see that coming by his weird actions?)... What's next? Grace leaving Harris for Darius? Because I believe that's a meant-to-be-a-plot-twist coming closer episode by episode.
Other than the fast-burning "love" between Liam and Jillian and how dumb they made her character for not realizing that Liam technically spelled the secret out for her, it was an awesome start for the show.
I don't know what to write. I don't even know how to rate this movie yet.
Choi Tae Joon's acting was incredible! Moon Ga Young was good too, but playing a cute girl who likes someone isn't that hard. However, I'm not impressed by Kim Shi Hoo at all. I get that his role was a shy and quiet boy, but shouldn't he have been a little (lot) more disturbed by that job he was offered? Not talking about taking it and bringing it further...
I can't really say if this movie is a one-sided BL, bromance or obsession. But it's clear that Se Joon isn't mentally stable. Bullying could be common (though that's not normal, either), but really thinking and believing that drugging girls then taking them to some middle-aged man who'll rape them is "not doing anything wrong"... then raping and (accidentally) killing a girl who's interested in your friend/crush(?)... Oh, boy.
And turning himself in at the end was unexpectable. But seriously. How he treated everyone around him before, how he had no problems with helping people do illegal things, how he bullied, punched people and smashed their phones (or his own), how he reacted every time he saw Yoon Jae and Eun Young getting closer to each other... There's no way he would've had the guts and especially the guilt in him to turn himself in to the police.
The other thing I wasn't so thrilled about was Yoon Jae's behaviour. He seemed like a decent student. A little shy, but that's fine. Taking a bit risky job seducing girls to have money for your mother's hospital bills - okay. Becoming friends with a passive-aggressive bully who's only kind to you - hmmm... not a wise choice, though it may be acceptable if you can't make any other friends. But taking a job where you have to do illegal things like drugging someone, taking them to another place without their consent and dropping them off so that a pervert old man could rape them? I don't even know how guilt didn't kill him slowly from the inside. It was obviously shown that Yoon Jae had moral problems with it, yet just because it offered 10 times more money than a regular job, it was okay for him to ruin stranger girls' lives? And I thought at the beginning that he was a good guy... Ha.
The ending was a bit rushed, or I don't know. They jump to the time where Se Joon is already in prison, and when the boys finally talk again, neither of them can say what's truly on their mind. (Yoon Jae about liking Eun Yeong and maybe about Se Joon being a psychopath, and Se Joon about liking(?) Yoon Jae or at least being jealous of everyone who dares to talk to him.)
I'll give this a 7. Although it kept me on edge, especially at the last 20 minutes, some parts still needed a little more explanation or deepening. I know how Koreans still are regarding the LGBT+ themes, so this movie is not a bad attempt from them, but I missed a clear sign from the creators that this was intended to be a BL or not. (I mean, it's like 98% clear for me, but I still need that 2%.)
I'm sorry, but if you fall in love with an AI in less than 10 days without even doing anything special together, then you're either not in love with your partner (after 10 years together this would be a little more than awkward situation) or you fall in love way too easily. I don't really know which was the option in Xiao Fang's case, but neither one is too promising...
How could Hao Wen connect the dots so early? He just received an ad(?) asking if he wanted a customized companion for the night. It didn't say anything about the companion possibly turning into a real human, yet HW was flashbacking to all the different scenarios he saw XF talking to or interacting with a seemingly invisible someone.
Lin said if someone touches for example Xiao Fang's phone, they'll be able to see him (Lin). So when Xiao Fang touched his co-worker's phone, he could see his customized companion - which is 100% logical. But when he got Hao Wen's phone into his hand (at the time he went to bring the drunk HW home), he didn't see HW's companion leaving the bar, nor afterwards when HW played the piano in the middle of the night and was clearly talking to and laughing with someone in the room.
Though some people might see it as a movie with a happy ending, I'm sure, I was absolutely opposed to this idea from the moment XF even considered the literal replacement of HW to Lin. A human who supposedly loves someone (and for 10 years, no less) even taking the idea of changing his loved one into an AI and the AI into a human seriously is no less than frightening and evil in my mind. So when XF drugged HW and wanted to get his DNA to put him into the cyber world... Man, I wouldn't even take a step towards XF after this stunt of his - let alone ditching my AI who's actually supporting me and not trying to replace my boyfriend in the real world. Not even talking about getting back together with my ""boyfriend"" who would've calmly sent me into his phone.
The plot was really good; I would definitely watch a show with this (well, maybe not anymore because this movie had all the tension and almost all possible scenes that could be done with this concept). The actors could've been better, but they were not that bad. Like I mentioned before, a more... human ending would've been the best for me (like HW ditching XF for good), though I'm not mad at all because of XF's stunt. Sure, the logical side of it was meh (10 YEARS VS. 30 DAYS, FFS!) but I'm glad it didn't and all rainbows and sunshine with both of them uninstalling their customized companions without any regrets.
Crappy, illogical, WTF, unrealistic, filler episode(s, because about the last third of this series was like that), full of clichés. Still enormously disappointed in China and its ban against homosexual shows/characters.
A total filler episode with all the cringey and cliché parts, as usual.
Parts of that fighting scene were so cringey and (again) badly edited/cut...
I will say this again in the last episode, I'm 100% sure, but I really hate China for banning BL scenes from movies and dramas. Even if someone didn't read or didn't know about the novel this show was adapted from, it's more than obvious that Hsia Yao and Yuan Zong love each other. Not in a friendly way, not in a brotherly way. They're two men in love. Yet they are portrayed as two bestest-bro-friends who care awfully lot about each other. Without any romantic feelings involved.
I'll never understand China's point by hating(?) or not accepting homosexual people - yet still making annoyingly no-homo series and movies based on actual BL novels.
Lol, Da Yu left his car literally in the middle of a traffic jam just to check out a festival? That's a bold move, buddy.
OMG, those magic trick cuts were awful. They could've chosen some easier tricks which wouldn't have required cuts and editing because this way it's just cringey with the poor editing.
This love triangle with the Yuan siblings is getting pretty annoying and (wait for it) cringey. Everyone's feelings are so obvious, how come these 25+ years old people can't realize them, only the dumbest of all of them? Sigh.
Ok, I'm sorry, but that "8 years ago" videochatting was at the beginning of the series, and I'm absolutely sure that 8 years haven't passed in the story since Yuan Zong started to follow Hsia Yao.
[Edit: I posted this part of my comment on YouTube too, and someone answered me that the videochatting was already a flashback at the beginning too, so now this mystery is solved. :D]
It's cute and all that HY wants to surprise YZ, but is it really necessary to go through a forest in the middle of the night? Without any downloaded maps? Like what did you think before going to an area you've never been to in your life?
(But him jumping into YZ's arms was incredibly cute! :3)
That was a smart way to make the reporters believe it was just a staged fight. But I still feel like these episodes are just fillers for the grand finale or something...
