JustHonestReviewer
Rough draft
There's been thousands of death games since 1970s and the fact that done in Asia. I expected typical romance overtop melodrama stories. I was completely wrong and show caught me off by suprise, so I'll have to watch it again to fully analyze the show. It is clear the show has a lot subtext and hidden meaning. Children games, Colors, Shapes, and Numbers was used through the entire show. What I have so far:blue group = underclass/minority
#= most are in extreme debt, immigrants, elderly, etc.
red group = working class
Circle = Cooks, Drivers, etc
Triangle = The Police
square = The Managers /Supervisers
Blue and red colors are constantly used throughtout the show. Which is part of South Korean flag known as the Taegeuk. The blue represents the negative cosmic forces and the red represents positive cosmic forces as the yin and yang. You have the blue group labeled as numbers and red group as shapes.
black= govt
frontman = enforces the rules
The rules so far:
Player consent form
1. player is not allowed to stop playing
2. player who refuses to play will be eliminated
3. Games maybe terminated if the majority agrees.
O rules
1. always wear mask
2. Do not converse without permission
3. Do not leave the room without permission
yellow = Yellow light shinging on top of the pig = wealth and fortune
The core of the show seems to be social experiment on meritocracy and commentary on social classes.
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For horror fans, this is a cheesy, campy, low budget cgi, action horror, and not a serious show.
This what happens when you don't have good enough budget on cgi and your director's experience is only rom com shows. So, the only option is a cheesy and campy show like shark nado, zombie nation, or any show on syfy channel. Therefore, the show should not be judge as a serious horror. Ep 1 establishes the cheesy tone when they play warrior's music in background and Lee Eun Hyuk is spraying fire hydrant in monster face. It's a joke and this why they play it in every time heoric moment happens.Most of the characters are stale and common tropes, which is the main issue with the show and not a failure adaptation of the character relationships. Like, who cares if the show fail to adapt character relationships, when your main character Cha Hyun Soo has the most overused backstory with family dead, bullied in school, and same boring personality. This isn't even spoilers because this literally every main Asian boy orign story. It's raining and there's either sad piano or violin playing in background and someone they care about dies. At this point, I am starting to think all of the boys in Asia real life are bullied and their families are dead. Furthermore, you got Captain smarty pants, Wannabe gangster dude, Sword dude, Healer girl, etc. Imagine Cha Hyun Soo had a normal personality and his family was alive that would be the real horror.
However, there was a couple characters that were entertaining and what kept me continuing to watch. Han Du Sik made interesting combat weapons and traps with house supplies, occasionally joke around like about his disability, and he is decent actor. Ahn Gil Seop is not your typical grandpa character, who are usually nice, weak, wise, and formal. He is kickass grandpa, had a dark sense of humor, and jokes about his death a lot. They are the main reason why this show was decent to watch.
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This Show is SciFi not scientific documentary realism
So, many people complaning about timetravelling or related to it. Is everyone here timetraveller? Since when was there ph.d degrees for time travelling? Then constant nitpicking minor sci fi scenes. Not a single science fiction show in history is scientifically realistic that why its called fiction. Nobody complains about how in star wars laser beams blowing up ships work. Because you were suppose to suspend disblief anything scientific related. This is Devils deal you make going in watching show with writer. In exchange, you get fun action scenes, amazing story, or realistic characters making hard descisions for situations. This is core you are suppose to criticize and analyze.It started ok. A redemption story of Han Tae Sul for his brother. They constantly showed flashbacks his brother taking care of him and fully financially supporting him. The regret and guilt for abandoning his brother. However, the writer all sudden gives up on the story and started pushing more romance scenes in ridiculous situations. Like, they go on trip to amusement park to have fun, when they are being chased by people who have cctv control, drones, etc. This is bad writing. You can't just give up on main plot to have fun and put yourself easy target to be captured. Also, how many times has he constantly gone back home and magically escaped from future time travellers and military trained soldiers with cctv and drone control? It became to ridiculous to watch, the writer gave up on main story, and repetitive scenario of them getting caught and magically escaping was boring.
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It's not the destination, but the journey.
The show had alot potential. Unfortunately, the fatal flaw of the show is it on the end of story rather than beginning. So, we missed out on all challenges dealing with setting up escort service network and the journey of him becoming rich. For example, how did first appoarch and meet the girls? Why did he choose them? How did he get intial funds? What inspired him to setup the service? All of this content was lost. Instead, we get forced romance couple drama of girl doing ridiculous actions ruining his life just for sake of drama. Imagine if they did Breaking bad the same way and just start him at end. The show would been terrible.Was this review helpful to you?
