W (2016)

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They say friends are the family you choose, the wine to life, the yin to yang, but what does friendship mean to you?

It may embody all of the things mentioned above, or it might make you think of the ones closest to your heart. Whatever the case may be, it’s always nice to be reminded of the VIPs in your own life. By the same token, it’s nice to remind your besties just how important they are to you too.

Famous authors, poets and everyone in between have been trying to put friendship into words for ages. Whether you’re celebrating something special or just want to remind your BFF of how great they are, our collection of friendship quotes will help you get started. There are true friendship quotes to help you acknowledge those there for you through thick and thin and funny friendship quotes to make your best friend smile.



Quotes About Friendship
We could all use a reminder every once in a while of how important friendship is. Whether you’re trying to cheer someone up or add a sweet sentiment to a gift, the words below will help you craft your message.

quotes about friendship
Sometimes, being with your best friend, is all the therapy you need. -Unknown
Keep the ones that heard you when you never said a word. -Unknown
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
A true friend accepts who you are, but also helps you become who you should be. -Unknown
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. -
Sometimes you meet a person and you just click—you’re comfortable with them, like you’ve known them your whole life, and you don’t have to pretend to be anyone or anything. -Unknown
Because of you, I laugh a little harder, cry a little less, and smile a lot more. -Unknown
Just Because
quotes about friendship
That’s when I realized what a true friend was. Someone who would always love you—the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you—because that is what people are supposed to do. -Unknown
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
True friends are like diamonds—bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.
A good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helped you create them. -Unknown
A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself. -
There’s nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. -Unknown
Rare as is true love, true friendship is
Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.

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That one thing, which after more than 50 kdramas led to finally make an account here

Spoilers ahead. Major spoilers. Don't read ahead if you haven't seen it already.

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I've been watching kdramas for a while now. And the one thing, that, as a filmmaker, led me to finally make an account here, is to mention the one, probably the main, gaping plot-hole, that is, Oh Seung-moo being such a bad writer (mind me here, his art is spectacular, obviously), that he released so many episodes of his manhua without even having the slightest idea, or preparation of who the actual killer is? I mean, if I was a faceless killer, I would've been the same level of pissed as Kang-Chul when he discovered the reality.

And I absolutely love how well they have stitched the manhua world and real world together. And I genuinely enjoy watching it. But the only fact that no writer on earth would set one main objective for their protagonist, and set them as their main goal, would not give any thoughts to it. Idk, but that probably explains why he hasn't been famous all these years before this manhua. Given the situation though, the characters are behaving very naturally for people who have discovered that they are not real.

(I have also not completed watching it yet, so I will post edits and updates to my previous comment. I am also quite drunk, binging on this series, so I will get back to this when I'm sober to see if I've said any bs that I don't agree with while I'm sober. Although ranting this long about kdramas is not something I usually do, so I might also be drunk the next time I visit this post. Or not, because I'm going to seek treatment)

Also, I apologise for unrelated oversharing.

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Convoluted Creativity

The initial episodes was very exciting. Original story with webtoon characters coming back to life. But as each episode kept getting fresh twists and turns, it became too convoluted and complicated to relate to. Even the writer must have found it difficult to get out of this maze of their own creation. They should have stopped with 10-12 episodes.
Even the doll-like cuteness of the ML and FL and their acting could not make this story or their romance relatable. There were scenes where the ML / FL was crying and I was just bored and waiting for the story to move on. It took a couple of months for me to force myself to finish watching this series, just to have that sense of completion and to get it over with. The last few episodes were watched at 1.5 speed. I am celebrating my successful completion of this watch by writing a small review as a reminder to myself mostly. Will definitely not choose to rewatch it ever again.
Watch this if you want some fantasy brain twister story where you can never guess what will happen next and stop with episode 10 or 12. I'm sure many people would get sick of the series by then like I did.

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I loved it because of the many twists and turns!

This drama was on my list for a while after I heard it was similar to Extraordinary You which I really enjoyed.
It has a fresh concept and a very intriguing plot. It has a number of twists and turns (some people even said too many, but tbh this is what kept me at the edge of my seat) and nearly all episodes ended with a cliffhanger (which makes it very hard to stop watching). It's quite adrenaline-filled as well and its second half kept me at the edge of my seat either screaming at my laptop or chewing at my nails.
What I also really enjoyed was the merge of a variety of genres from a cheesy rom-com (first half of the drama) to an action-packed adventure and thriller in its second half.
The first few episodes are filled with comedy and I genuinely was able to have a good laugh and destress after a tiresome week at work. I especially enjoyed the character of Park Bu-Song, he was an extra and purely there for the comical relief, but he executed his role so well!

SPOILERS:
I also really enjoyed the FL. I thought she was hilarious and relatable. I didn't see her as a damsel in distress either. Her facial expressions whenever she was dragged into the webtoon were hilarious, especially when she was trying to make sense of the whole situation at the very beginning.
I especially loved her desperation to leave the comic-book world at the very start of the show.
My favourite scene was when Yeon Joo was desperately looking for a way out of the webtoon in episode 2 and resorted to at first slapping and then kissing Chul, poor man was so confused but sorta liked it and we all knew it ?. I was also expecting this (it was a little obvious in the lead up to the slap and when that didn't work my thoughts went "omg she's gonna kiss him now ... there she goes!")
I think what would have made Yeon Joo's character a little better was if she had a little bit of Chul's sassiness.

Okay, now let's talk about Chul.
This man is unbelievably attractive (and not just physically, but as a character). He has so much charisma. The way he carries himself just exudes this sort of influence and power like you know he is badass, successful, rich but also a sweetheart.
Every time this man winked my heart was ready to just burst. He was so sassy and flirty that most times I couldn't even tell whether he was being serious or just messing with the FL, but what I can tell for sure is that he was messing with my heart ... and I was ready to give it all up ... even though he's a fictional character.

The romance, I'll be honest, felt a bit unnatural to me. Not because the ML and FL literally kissed in the second episode (I honestly liked that ngl) but because I couldn't tell whether Chul really liked Yeon Joo or not. I think this became even more confusing to me in the episodes that followed the whole amnesia memory erase scene.
I also think this barrier between faking the kisses and I love you's that Yeon Joo sort of initiated as an attempt to get out of the cartoon world and actually liking Chul (and him developing feelings for Yeon Joo) overlapped a little bit.
The episodes following the amnesia scene where the couple is reunited once again are a little bumpy in terms of their romance. I know it will take Chul some time to get used to Yeon Joo and get to know her once again but again I couldn't tell whether his actions (dates and kisses and stuff) were justified by his feeling towards her or because he wanted to remember what he felt when they were together.
Also, I really wish they didn't wait for 15 episodes for Chul to say "I love you" to Yeon Joo and I really wanted that to come out way sooner in the drama. When he finally said it, it felt really unnatural. Like he just said it, because Yeon Joo was sad he never said it to her before and he just wanted to make her happy and didn't really mean it.


The drama has quite a few plotholes too, especially in the last episodes. I quite liked that Yeon Joo's father was a sacrifice that meant his daughter would lead a happy life. It was also the most logical part of ending the series. I mean, he started this mess and he was going to finish it.
Her father was unhappy, despite the success he gained from the webtoon and a drunk who seemed to not have much going for him. His life was sad which is what personally I think made his sacrifice even sadder.

But I can't help and be curious about what happened to the other characters of the webtoon. Do Yoon and So Hee specifically. We knew Chul was no longer the webtoon's main character and my only guess on how he was able to come to the real world was because the author intended on that's how his story would end - after all the author was the God. But what happens to the webtoon's universe? Do they continue living as if nothing happened or do they cease to exist since there's no longer a story to tell?

Also, I really wanted the drama to explore the whole how did this happen scenario. And why was it all controlled through one drawing tablet? Was it a magical tablet or was it just magic because it was the og tablet used to create the characters?

Apart from the plotholes, it left me a little confused with the very tacky time jumps and some unnecessary scenes that didn't really fit in well with the whole plot of the episodes. Sometimes I caught myself reminding myself that Yeon Joo was either dreaming or reminiscing or imagining things just so that I was not left even more confused.
Several parts in the drama are easy to catch on to (like you know what the characters will say or do before they say or do it). For example, I could tell pretty early on that Yeon Joo's father never really knew who the killer was in his comic book because he never got to develop that character.

Overall though, this was a great show. I watched it in two nights just because I could not let go and was so obsessed and eager to see how the plot will evolve. The many twists, in my opinion, really reflected the whole theme that this comic book suddenly had a mind of its own and its plot would move in unpredicatable directions.

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could have been better

w failed to deliver many things and the main thing for me were the characters. none of the characters seem fleshed out, and their relationships felt surface-deep. cheol and yeonjoo didn't seem like they had any real connection, like i didn't feel any chemistry at all. their relationship did not seem developed at all.
another thing was the nonsense of it all. bad things were constantly happening and our main leads never got to take a break. i wish there was at least a moment where they could have enjoyed being together and got to know each other more, but it's villain after villain. some of it didn't make sense to me and things could have been better explained. the ending was kind of mid, i didn't even realize it was the last episode until there was no more.
performance wise the acting was cringe to me sometimes. it was so "kdramalike" the way their eyes move and the way they'd smile at nothing, or thinking out loud.
all in all i think the first episode set the tone for the rest of the show. didn't expect much and i was right

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So convoluted

When I began W, I found it extremely exciting and fast paced and I loved that. After completing it, I feel like the writer/director decided to keep adding twists and turns and the sheer number of complicated storylines is what brought my rating of this show from a 9 down to a 7. W is certainly impressive but I also have to agree with those that say that episode 12 could have easily been the finale. I do see the effort behind the writing but I just got a little tired of it by the end to the point that I didn't care if the ending was a happy or sad one. I just felt exhausted for the poor protagonist. Any normal human being would need lifelong therapy after just half of that.

For those that enjoy romance, you will get plenty pretty early on. The action scenes were at times just average. However, I loved the animations and the blending of reality and the webtoon visually beautiful. The cast did a good job portraying their respected characters. However, the actors playing the male lead, Kang Chul's friends got a raw end of the deal. Their characters are not particularly deep or impressive. At times I wondered if Kang Chul really did consider them friends or not.

There also seems to be a missing element to this plot. Neither the creators nor the characters were truly in control. Then what made this webtoon special that brought life to these characters and what made Kang Chul resist the edits. Why was a window between the two worlds created in the first place? I would have loved to understand that and how the window was closed by Kang Chul.

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conflicted

i don't even know how to feel about this one. you know how sometimes you're js sitting there like: "ah, so the plot thickens" or whatever? yeah well i had that moment probably like 16 times, which is quite a few too many times. The plot felt a bit convoluted, but at the same it wasn't confusing, it just felt like too much. there were so many times where i felt like the show could've just ended right there, but nah the plot thickens LOL. BUT at the same time the concept, and parts of the story were definitely very interesting.

However the reason i stayed was because of the actors. i am absolutely a big fan of han hyo joo, and she is the reason i watched in the first place, and i think her and lee jong suk both did great jobs in their roles. kim eui sung also did a great job with yeon joo's father.

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It's been a while since I've written a review, so please bare with me as I try to find the words to describe this. It's also been a while since I have decided to watch a kdrama as well - before I would sit down and binge for a few days, and now I think it took me 3 weeks of watching a few episodes here and there before finishing. Recently, I realized that I watched a lot of "underground" dramas, instead of the popular ones, and maybe that is why I haven't had to desire to watch anything new... so I decided to pick a "popular" drama from random and that is how I landed on W.

I remember my previous roommate watching this one and loving it, a few years back, but also that she had a knack for spoiling plot lines... which is why I kept putting this one on the backburner. Now, a few years later, all I knew about this drama was that it was a love story about a girl and her "book boyfriend" and that Lee JOng Suk was in it... and I still can't believe this is the first drama I have ever watched with him in it.

Overall, I very much enjoyed the beginning and end of the drama. The middle was alright.. but I felt like there were 10 different subplots in the middle where I honestly forgot why certain characters would start blinking out of existence. I liked the newness and surprise from the characters in the beginning whenever they would meet in the comic world and how much Kang Chul had this childlike wonder when it came to Yeon Joo. Then at the end, when they were both in life of death situations, I loved how Kang Chul would do anything to keep Yeon Joo safe and happy. That being said... I am not sure if it was the 10 different subplots, or Lee Jong Suk's acting... but I could NEVER tell what he was thinking. Even when he would come out and say how her was feeling, I still didn't believe it. I felt that Kang Chul's character went through 5 different character changes, along with the plot changes... where I just didn't believe that he was in love with Yeon Joo until the very end. Then we have Yeon Joo... who was this spazzy but strong character in the beginning and then gradually just became this person that her dad and Kang Chul needed to protect. Eventually... I just didn't care much about her or her character.

I don't think I will watch this again, BUT I am curious to see another Lee Jong Suk drama to figure out if it was the script or it was just the way he acts. I feel like I've been a similar drama like this.. but instead of a comic book, a video game, and it was done a lot better. Don't get me wrong, I loved some of the subplots that were thrown in.. but others, I felt were unnecessary. If I was a mundane living in this world and waiting each week for an episode to be uploaded... TBH... I might have dropped it once there was a supernatural element to it. Plus...I would have been bummed by the comic ending.

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Interesting at the beginning, but only okay by the end.

I'm gonna try to keep this as short as possible. "W" has a really strong, interesting premise, but I feel it begins tripping itself up between a third and half of the way through and basically collapses once it passes the finish line. I did find many of its ideas thought-provoking, but I feel "W" tried to do too much and too little at the same time, and thus self-sabotaged itself in a truly unfortunate manner.

The acting was alright. Most of the cast was fine (as a side note, seeing Park Won Sang so happy in his photo in the cast list was a huge jumpscare), while the triad of actors I internally dubbed "the Golden Trio" were absolutely excellent and tugged at my heartstrings every time: Lee Jong Suk (Kang Cheol), Kim Eui Sung (Oh Sung Moo), and Lee Si Eon (Park Soo Bong), with Heo Jung Do (Park Min Soo, aka Yeon Joo's boss) remaining only an honorable mention because he never made me cry (though he sure was funny!). I feel that the four actors I just mentioned gave their absolute all to their performances and it showed, worked well, and significantly improved the drama. In fact, I felt an immense amount of respect for Eui Sung Kim by the end, as just watching his face change from scene to scene was enough to make me cry. In his case, I could fully believe he was who he was portraying, and that's without even considering that he played two roles at once... What an incredible actor.

Han Hyo Joo (Oh Yeon Joo), however... I read that she has gotten awards and recognition before, and I have not watched her other work, but man... I don't know whether it was her, the script, the directing, or all three, but in many of the scenes she was in, she was about as animated as a mannequin. (I swear, the red flags started popping up when I watched the opening titled sequence for the first time with a blank expression even as Jong Suk Lee smiled at her.) She did show some more intense emotion at some points, but I really wanted to see her get immersed in the story and yet, somehow, I didn't. It is partially because of her that I think "W" did not leave a strong impression on me.

For this reason, I almost feel "W" should have been not about Yeon Joo and Cheol, but rather about Sung Moo, Soo Bong, and Cheol. They worked great together as a team, and when the action was focused on them, the story flowed much better because they actually moved with it instead of standing stiffly and waiting to be acted upon. For someone who was supposedly a protagonist, Yeon Joo sure didn't act like one.

And so I feel "W" tried to be too many things. It should have stuck to the more serious, intense tone all the way through. I actually really like romance and am not even remotely opposed to it - in fact, I LIKE when it is included - but here I feel that the over-intense focus on it complicated the story far too much. If it was more of a side thing, perhaps it would have worked better.

The music was okay but forgettable, and having to listen to the same sad song about love in every episode actually got rather annoying. Some editing/filming mistakes were left in the final product but that's more of a minor thing. The thing they did with Eui Sung Kim's face was definitely creepy. The characters themselves were mostly interesting (with those like Yeon Joo being the exception), and I feel that Kang Cheol was the strongest of them all. I'm not one to allow myself to obsess over actors, but with how Jong Suk Lee played the role... I mean, I think I really (respectfully) see why "W" may have been the best webtoon in Korea during its runtime. I just wish they'd given him more of a purpose in the latter half of the series because on his own he WAS a good character.

As a side note, the "W" webtoon art was both beautiful and somewhat inconsistent. I wish they'd structured some of the manhwa sections better because sometimes the chapters looked more like spliced-together highlight reels than actual story episodes. Also, I somehow found myself doubting that "W" could've been the top webtoon when much of its runtime seemed to be focused only on Kang Cheol searching for - and repeatedly failing to find - the real culprit.

The series also left some things unexplained, and seemed to bend its own rules at points where it found itself in a tight spot. I had to turn off my brain after about a third to half of the way through because I didn't want to care too much about a series I wasn't 100% locked in to anyway.

In the end? I guess "W" was okay. I probably won't be rewatching this (sorry, Kang Cheol!), but I'm glad I gave it another chance, at least.

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OLD REVIEW: Had to put this on hold.

I will be revisiting this show, but I honestly found it unbearable on the first watch. The female lead was strange and the story was kind of confused and directionless. I thought the initial idea was good but then everything kept getting more jumbled and unintelligible. It's been a few years since I've watched this but that's just what I remember feeling.

Like I said, I will revisit this but for now this is a no from me.

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