The Killing Vote (2023)

An Interesting Watch

I was keeping up with this drama’s updates since it was announced. I kinda wanted to read the original Manhwa but then I thought otherwise because I didn’t want to spoil anything for myself.

The first half is interesting to say the least. There’s lots of characters, we see a bunch of side stories and the the cat and mouse game begins. But right after that it almost felt like they were just dragging the storyline a bit too much. The underage characters annoyed me so much to the point I went through the comments to check if anyone else was finding them annoying. Lo and Behold, some people did.

I really wanted to see character development for some characters especially Mu Chan. Man it hurts so much to see him being the way he is ? even in the end. If I were to say the ending just brings us back to square one then it wouldn’t be an understatement. We basically end up at a dead end. Unless they’re planning a s2, it was a very half assed ending in my opinion.

Coming back to the characters, Kim Mu Chan my boy you let me down. The FL was okayish. The professor’s character was good and my favourite has to be the teacher guy (don’t mind me I finished watching this like a month ago so I cannot remember their names)

I shipped the main protagonists ? and loved their banters in the beginning. When she goes to his house, how he experience a “nightmare”, when she picks up a gun and decides to shoot the villain guy. I really wished they had more moments together because in the later half they started acting like strangers. All that chemistry just for them to be estranged? tsk tsk

Now the plot. I hate how Korean cyber unit couldn’t trace the IP address for the life of them. The whole steaming thing was very unrealistic but I get it, it’s fiction. I let it slide but still it was just hard to swallow.

The character motivations often didn’t align with their personalities. I hate how they killed that ONE character in the end. It was so unnecessary. (unless they’re planning on playing a trick on us??)

Where’s the backstory for our protagonists?? Kim Mu Chan lost his mother but what happened next?? What’s the story behind the FL’s scar? Why do we never find any closure for their traumas? Maybe they’re planning all of that for S2. ??‍♀️

But this Kdrama did bring me out of my Kdrama slump. I feel like 2023 was a bad year for crime-thriller genre. This was a good addition to it and a good way to end such a terrible year.

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Is this a joke or something? Who writes such stupid scenarios???

Just three episodes. That was my threshold on watching a pile of impossible plot nonsenses!
Spoilers ahead.


This drama's plot is based on tbe following technically impossible scenario. A self proclaimed avenger of Judicial injustices sends via sms on each and every single Korean person's smartphone an Android app ( like this could be even possible, I mean to send a whole app via sms ) in order to use it and vote for or against the execution of an alleged criminal.
The app auto installs ifself lol... but strangely this doesn't bother or worry a good number of people whose smartphones were actually hacked.
Instead they use the auto installed app (a.k.a malware) in order to vote for or against the execution of the criminal instead of freaking out for such a massive hacking incident and call their mobile providers and the Digital Crime Police or whatever such department deals in S. Korea with such cases. Anyway they go on and use the malware to vote not worrying that this app might make their smartphones explode or something!!

The same type of poll is repeated after 15 days with no reactions whatsoever from anyone. The hacker "avenger" is streaming a video too through the malware app straight into the hacked devices asking their owners to vote again via their hacked phones.
Which they do because due to their obviously limited or non existent IQ don' t mind having installed in their phones an app that they never willingly installed themselves, and they don' t care either who hacked their phones, while also no one else is taking any action to prevent them from doing so, either by advising them to delete the auto installed malware app, or disconnect the hacked devices from the mobile network, or take action to shutdown the mobile network temporarily in order to prevent the vote of a second killing. Letting the public vote freely in self arranged referendums, from a malware app for an execution is not so serious as COVID after all! LOL LOL LOL...!
I assume that at the fifth episode (that I didn't bother to watch) the smartphone hacker avenger asks the public if they would like him to execute the S.K prime minister! They vote yes and then justice and democracy prevails!!

And that' s all. I can't bother writing something more about the complete and utter stupidity of this plot concept but I can' t bother either to watch the rest of this nonsense of a drama.

Who writes such stupid scenarios???!

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De Uma Premissa Brilhante a Um Final Frustrante e Contraditório

"The Killing Vote" começou com uma premissa envolvente e eletrizante. A ideia de uma votação popular decidindo o destino de criminosos era inovadora e gerou grande expectativa. No entanto, à medida que a trama avançou, especialmente do meio para o final, a história começou a desmoronar, culminando em um final decepcionante e mal estruturado.

Em narrativas como essa, é comum que o público acabe torcendo pelo vilão ou anti-herói, e Gaetal era esse personagem complexo que inicialmente parecia seguir esse caminho. Contudo, a tentativa de reverter isso e retratá-lo como totalmente errado no decorrer da história foi um erro que afastou a conexão emocional com o público. Os protagonistas, Kim Moo Chan e Joo Hyun, que no início eram interessantes, começaram a se tornar extremamente irritantes, em parte devido à hipocrisia de suas ações. Kim Moo Chan, por exemplo, cometia vários atos ilegais para prender culpados, mas queria dar lições sobre seguir a lei. Joo Hyun, por sua vez, também tomou medidas questionáveis para pegar Gaetal e ainda teve a ousadia de dizer que não concordava com os métodos de Kim Moo Chan.

Uma ironia central da história foi Kim Moo Chan e Joo Hyun perseguirem Kwon Seok Joo e o filho dele, alegando que era "para protegê-los". Isso foi completamente contraditório, pois Kim Moo Chan sabia que o sistema não funcionava e que os poderosos sempre sairiam por cima. Ainda assim, no final, Kim Moo Chan culpou Kwon Seok Joo pela morte do filho, numa tentativa de pegar a deputada corrupta e, mesmo assim, ela saiu impune. Esse arco tornou ainda mais evidente o quanto a história falhou em criar uma conclusão coerente ou satisfatória.

Esse discurso moralista sobre "fazer o certo e seguir a lei" acabou enfraquecendo a história, porque, nesse tipo de enredo, o público muitas vezes quer ver a revolta contra o sistema e torcer pelo anti-herói, não ser forçado a lidar com discussões éticas cansativas.

O pior de tudo foi o final aberto, que deixou várias questões importantes sem resposta. Não foi explicado se Kwon Seok Joo morreu, a deputada corrupta continuou livre e ainda planejando novos crimes, o que foi frustrante. Além disso, o conceito de "voto da morte", que parecia ter tanto potencial para uma revolução, acabou não fazendo diferença significativa na trama.

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E você votaria sim ou não para eliminar um ser humano malvado?

Quem gostou do tribunal do diabo com certeza vai gostar do voto assassino.
Ele remonta um desejo antigo da humanidade de querer Vingança justa finalização com pena de morte para grandes criminosos Ou seja a população querendo fazer justiça com as próprias mãos, mas dessa vez através de um serviço anônimo, porque em ambas os dramas mostram o mesmo detalhe de que na história de que as pessoas não gostam de assumir as suas decisões publicamente.

De fato o drama é realmente muito envolvente e tem um elenco de peso que atuaram em cada detalhe com muita perfeição.
Minha única crítica seria sobre não ter aprofundado mas as vinganças do voto assassino com outros casos e não ter depois de uns episódios ficado andando em círculos mais em geral gostei muito de tudo e o final deixou um lar de quero mais mas talvez não sei não tenham segunda da série de voto assassino .
Seria bom se eu tivesse Pois é sempre legal ver séries sobre pensamentos comuns de uma população e mostrando os lados reais de quando as coisas passam para anônima.
Inevitavelmente as pessoas suas verdadeiras cores.
Se você é sensível em relação à morte e a crimes hediondos prepare o lencinho e o e um chazinho porque você vai precisar.

No mais um drama de ação policial muito centrado no que promete sem nenhuma comédia romântica.

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أساس القصة مثير لكن تطبيقها مخيب للآمال

بالبداية ، فكرة القصة فعلًا مثيرة للإهتمام ، القصص الي يكون بطلها " مجرم " وفعليًا يطبق العدالة على المجرمين
دائمًا تكون مثيرة للإهتمام ، ولهذا السبب تحمست جدًا للعمل من قبل صدوره ، لكن عند صورة ومع الأسف بداية مخيبة جدًا

السرد القصصي ضحل ، وما تحس بخطر الموقف ، ( ردة فعل المواطنين ايضًا مستفزة ) ما تستشعر الواقعية وانت تتابع
أيضا بالنسبة للمحققة " جون هيون " الدور الخاص فيها بهالدراما وتمثيلها كان غير مُوفق بتاتًا ، ما عندي مشكلة شخصية مع الممثلة لكن الدور بحد ذاته

من الجوانب السلبية ايضًا ( استخدام مٌغير صوت للشرير ) الحركة مبتذلة ومكررة دائمًا ، لو حطو صوت معين او ع الاقل اوهمونا انه صوت ذكاء اصطناعي وبعدها ينكشف صوته الحقيقة لما تنكشف حقيقته بتكون ممتازة الحركة

بالنسبة للجوانب التقنية بالعمل ( مثل عندما تستخدم المحققة الحاسب او المحقق الآخر ) تشعر انهم يبذلون أي جهد ليظهروا لحكم انهم محترفين بزيادة مع ان الموضوع بسيط بزيادة ( فيه مبالغة )

على العموم بعد ثلاث حلقات حرفيًا فقدت اهتمامي بالقصة وما عندي ادنى رغبة اني اكمل او اعرف تكملة القصة
للأسف الشديد فكرة قصة ممتازة لكن تم إهدارها : (

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