kira
Could have been so much better
I cannot express in words just how unsatisfied this drama left me. There are sooo many issues with this, and I don't want to waste much of my time thinking about all of them - so I'll just go with the ones that pissed me the fuck off.
1. Seong Ho. If there ever is a more annoying supporting character, I haven't seen them yet. And I'm willing to bet that I won't be seeing one in the future either. He's wishy-washy and annoyingly self-righteous about the worst things, and oh so creepy with his interactions with Han Bom in the beginning. And yet all of this is written off so easily when ji won is introduced that it gave me whiplash.
2. The unbelievably unrealistic HE for SH x JW. What sort of future is there for a human and ghost? What about all the problems that is shown because of him being a ghost? Nothing is resolved, simply written off, like every other stupid thing about SH. Ugh. For god's sake, she can't see him and he can't touch her.
3. The number of resolutions. Every time I think oh, it's done, they go - oh no, not yet. There's yet another problem to resolve (and yet another episode with a pseudo ending to watch). This happened 4 times, and each time it was so unwarranted - like everything was so obvious and they could have so easily finished things off so much earlier without dragging it on and on and on and on. It's like one of those horrible C-list movies that have a perfectly reasonable ending with a dumbass post-credits scene showing that the villain is still alive/risen back from the dead so that they can make a sequel.
That's the top 3 - if I start thinking, I can probably list many more. But that's brain cells that I'll never get back so I'm not going to. The worst part is that this could have been sooo much better - the overarching villain reveal was actually pretty well done, it had a good plot that tied together a bunch of seemingly unrelated plot points, had pretty likeable main and supporting characters (SH notwithstanding - that one's a lost cause.)
So despite everything, I'm giving this a higher rating than it probably deserves because of above listed reasons. And because this made me binge it in a day, so something about it was worth watching.
1. Seong Ho. If there ever is a more annoying supporting character, I haven't seen them yet. And I'm willing to bet that I won't be seeing one in the future either. He's wishy-washy and annoyingly self-righteous about the worst things, and oh so creepy with his interactions with Han Bom in the beginning. And yet all of this is written off so easily when ji won is introduced that it gave me whiplash.
2. The unbelievably unrealistic HE for SH x JW. What sort of future is there for a human and ghost? What about all the problems that is shown because of him being a ghost? Nothing is resolved, simply written off, like every other stupid thing about SH. Ugh. For god's sake, she can't see him and he can't touch her.
3. The number of resolutions. Every time I think oh, it's done, they go - oh no, not yet. There's yet another problem to resolve (and yet another episode with a pseudo ending to watch). This happened 4 times, and each time it was so unwarranted - like everything was so obvious and they could have so easily finished things off so much earlier without dragging it on and on and on and on. It's like one of those horrible C-list movies that have a perfectly reasonable ending with a dumbass post-credits scene showing that the villain is still alive/risen back from the dead so that they can make a sequel.
That's the top 3 - if I start thinking, I can probably list many more. But that's brain cells that I'll never get back so I'm not going to. The worst part is that this could have been sooo much better - the overarching villain reveal was actually pretty well done, it had a good plot that tied together a bunch of seemingly unrelated plot points, had pretty likeable main and supporting characters (SH notwithstanding - that one's a lost cause.)
So despite everything, I'm giving this a higher rating than it probably deserves because of above listed reasons. And because this made me binge it in a day, so something about it was worth watching.
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