LilMeggs
San Jose, CA
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When I found out this drama was actually 15 eps, 10 minutes each, I got scared. Happy that this would be a simple and quick watch, but also scared because short dramas are a hit or miss. I saw the trailers and previews for this all over instagram and youtube and was excited to see this main character Yoon Chi Woo as this suspicious attractive vampire that was good and bad ready to find some romance. Instead, we got this drama about 3 boys who fell for half vampire/half human Son Yeon Seo. There was nothing about her that was spectacular except that she wanted to be a human and not vampire, but had this special ability to smell blood and find attributes about the human it belonged to. As for the boys, I felt that the fortune teller did a great job at explaining their "love square" : Do Hyun Je was connected to animals (hence the werewolf), Yoon Chi Woo related to blood - but also related to bad, and Song Meo Ru who had a great fate, but a tad dumb. I am not sure if it was Viki's subtitles, but I laughed so hard because this was basically everything we needed to know about these guys and all we were going to get.
Also, for a drama that "revolved" around "love" and Yeon Seo figuring out which of the boys she wanted to be with, even though there was only really one guy she wanted to be with since the beginning, I didn't believe that she was actually "in love" with Meo Ru. If anything, I feel like she was attracted to his blandness and mundaneness. All she ever wanted was to live a bland and normal life and what better to do that with, with the blandest boy ever who was maybe anemic... or maybe he was just being dramatic but he was super sweet so he got some points. But, I still think that she had better chemistry with the two other boys, especially with Hyun Je, which was super random.
If anything, my favorite character who was the ONLY one who went through any character development which is wild in these short episodes, was Chi Woo. He came in as this bad boy who was hired to track down the blood of "the one" and who was the ex-fiance of Yeon Seo. Along the way, he learned to act sincerely on his feelings and also redeemed himself as everyone thought that he was this terrible vampire causing trouble when he was just chilling at home. I also enjoyed that they hinted that he was bisexual and I LOVED his banter with Hyun Je.
But with everything I did like, there was so much more I didn't like and was disappointed.
I know with such a short drama, we weren't able to get background information, but ANYTHING would have been nice. I feel like whenever there was an intense moment something random and huge was brought up like we were supposed to know their motivations for doing things. It just made emotional scenes empty and it was hard to connect with all the characters. We did get a little but of background with why Yeon Seo wanted a normal life, but it was brought up so casually as everyone talks about their mother being drained of her life force by their vampire husband.
This drama had SO much potential if the episodes were longer and we were given more information. I felt like the watcher was pushed into the middle of a story without context, to witness a single minor plot, and then pulled out of it.
Also, for a drama that "revolved" around "love" and Yeon Seo figuring out which of the boys she wanted to be with, even though there was only really one guy she wanted to be with since the beginning, I didn't believe that she was actually "in love" with Meo Ru. If anything, I feel like she was attracted to his blandness and mundaneness. All she ever wanted was to live a bland and normal life and what better to do that with, with the blandest boy ever who was maybe anemic... or maybe he was just being dramatic but he was super sweet so he got some points. But, I still think that she had better chemistry with the two other boys, especially with Hyun Je, which was super random.
If anything, my favorite character who was the ONLY one who went through any character development which is wild in these short episodes, was Chi Woo. He came in as this bad boy who was hired to track down the blood of "the one" and who was the ex-fiance of Yeon Seo. Along the way, he learned to act sincerely on his feelings and also redeemed himself as everyone thought that he was this terrible vampire causing trouble when he was just chilling at home. I also enjoyed that they hinted that he was bisexual and I LOVED his banter with Hyun Je.
But with everything I did like, there was so much more I didn't like and was disappointed.
I know with such a short drama, we weren't able to get background information, but ANYTHING would have been nice. I feel like whenever there was an intense moment something random and huge was brought up like we were supposed to know their motivations for doing things. It just made emotional scenes empty and it was hard to connect with all the characters. We did get a little but of background with why Yeon Seo wanted a normal life, but it was brought up so casually as everyone talks about their mother being drained of her life force by their vampire husband.
This drama had SO much potential if the episodes were longer and we were given more information. I felt like the watcher was pushed into the middle of a story without context, to witness a single minor plot, and then pulled out of it.
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