Neptic
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Unsatisfactory Ending with Unsurprising Twists
Non-typical review as this is just my thoughts as I was watching this week to week
(Writing under ep. 12 is more of my overarching thoughts on it)
Ep. 8
The first two storylines where they crackdown on the construction fraud with the executive and the housing money fraud was such a strong start and had me pretty locked in. The introduction of the main ML and the president and vice-president was done nicely. The motive of the ML was established quite nicely, but after those two storylines, it hasn't been as strong in my opinion.
The cafeteria was somewhat interesting, but it didn't have the same suspense as compared to the serious injury involving the construction person, an executive being fired, and the ML's long time hoobae being arrested under fraud. The vice president role has seem to be played down significantly as well with the later story lines with BIMS program, program that automated cost and labor of construction, and the current arc of unfair hiring.
I think the program one had such an anticlimactic ending with the person selling the information. He just threw the data that was hidden in the flask out of the window and it ended with him just going to jail. Compared to the leadup and how it was unraveled it just felt unfulfilled and didn't seem like there was much repercussions in response to that. The first part of the unfair hiring where the the younger ML was being accused of being an unfair hire, because some documents were not found also felt like filler just to get the point across that the ML actually has some humanity when it comes to the younger ML and that he outright didn't distrust him. The younger ML is so naive as well and says some of the cheesiest shit when it comes to the ML of this story as he is sooooo lonely since he can't trust anybody and how he was butthurt that he was sitting him out in the investigation. The man was doing his job, what the hell is he supposed to do, change his entire character, because of this make believe relationship that the younger ML thinks he has with him.
Lastly this was just revealed at the end of episode 8, but I don't get what's wrong with the Seo Jin, the young female in the audit team, with her uncle being the vice president. She was obviously qualified with her high marks on the exams and her grades in University, I don't think she did anything wrong to cheat the system. I bet the whole company is going to pull a PR move and pull her from a team until further evidence comes out and then in one episode she's going to be right back on the team with nothing major happening.
Ep. 9:
Why did the one guy alone take the documents. Are they dumb or what. Bruh, the guy is definitely staging something. Why did they not take the documents when they had the lead audit team ML, young ML, and the vice president in the same car. Kdrama logic at its finest. The reveals are getting so obvious as to how they hint at who did what. Like it was clearly the guy that somehow got the documents stolen. The reveal was not even done in a span of 30 minutes since the documents got stolen. I'm still going to finish this out, but the suspense in the beginning has faded significantly.
Ep 11:
The way they were painting the narrative of how the vice president was the bad guy at the beginning and the president was someone who was trying to uphold justice, I pretty much expected the president to be the bad one. I was kinda zoning in and out of the 11th episode as it was just the usual investigating with the expected buildup to the president using the Head Chief of the subsidiaries who was in on the paper company, the main person who was communicating with the president, to take out the Audit Chief at the same time. I didn't know if they were going to reveal it at the end of episode 11 or wait for the last episode, but since they revealed it at the end of episode 11, I have a sense of what is going to go down. The president is probably going to go to jail and the niece is going to be happy that her "uncle", the vice president, wasn't the person who killed his own brother, and lastly the chief is going to leave the company as all the rats and corruption will be gone within the company.
Ep 12:
Nothing about the ending surprised me and was overly satisfying. The president got prosecuted like I thought he would, with head Choi faking his death, a recording of their phone calls, along with documents tracking the flow of illegal funds. The only thing that kinda surprised me was the faked death, but with the way this show was going it wasn't overly complicated as how they did it. He literally just took the IV out of his arm and pretended to keep it attached. The reveal of the president's initial coma and the lead audit ML was typical as well. At this point they only hinted at his past like 2 or 3 times, so it didn't have that much of an impact as it wasnt too surprising. The reason for becoming serious about audits was that his own oversight on improper documentation of construction materials lead to his father's death.
As for the other main characters including the younger ML and FL, they were involved in the ending, but they didn't have much character development. The young ML stayed innocent and saw the older ML as a role model, while the younger FL's only character development was that she received help from the vice president and she was really hoping that he wasn't a bad enough person to kill his own brother. All the other supporting cast didn't add much to the story and were pretty much just people to do miscellaneous work when it was related to an audit. Only reason I wouldn't give this below a 5 is because of the strong storylines in the beginning that kept me interested.
(Writing under ep. 12 is more of my overarching thoughts on it)
Ep. 8
The first two storylines where they crackdown on the construction fraud with the executive and the housing money fraud was such a strong start and had me pretty locked in. The introduction of the main ML and the president and vice-president was done nicely. The motive of the ML was established quite nicely, but after those two storylines, it hasn't been as strong in my opinion.
The cafeteria was somewhat interesting, but it didn't have the same suspense as compared to the serious injury involving the construction person, an executive being fired, and the ML's long time hoobae being arrested under fraud. The vice president role has seem to be played down significantly as well with the later story lines with BIMS program, program that automated cost and labor of construction, and the current arc of unfair hiring.
I think the program one had such an anticlimactic ending with the person selling the information. He just threw the data that was hidden in the flask out of the window and it ended with him just going to jail. Compared to the leadup and how it was unraveled it just felt unfulfilled and didn't seem like there was much repercussions in response to that. The first part of the unfair hiring where the the younger ML was being accused of being an unfair hire, because some documents were not found also felt like filler just to get the point across that the ML actually has some humanity when it comes to the younger ML and that he outright didn't distrust him. The younger ML is so naive as well and says some of the cheesiest shit when it comes to the ML of this story as he is sooooo lonely since he can't trust anybody and how he was butthurt that he was sitting him out in the investigation. The man was doing his job, what the hell is he supposed to do, change his entire character, because of this make believe relationship that the younger ML thinks he has with him.
Lastly this was just revealed at the end of episode 8, but I don't get what's wrong with the Seo Jin, the young female in the audit team, with her uncle being the vice president. She was obviously qualified with her high marks on the exams and her grades in University, I don't think she did anything wrong to cheat the system. I bet the whole company is going to pull a PR move and pull her from a team until further evidence comes out and then in one episode she's going to be right back on the team with nothing major happening.
Ep. 9:
Why did the one guy alone take the documents. Are they dumb or what. Bruh, the guy is definitely staging something. Why did they not take the documents when they had the lead audit team ML, young ML, and the vice president in the same car. Kdrama logic at its finest. The reveals are getting so obvious as to how they hint at who did what. Like it was clearly the guy that somehow got the documents stolen. The reveal was not even done in a span of 30 minutes since the documents got stolen. I'm still going to finish this out, but the suspense in the beginning has faded significantly.
Ep 11:
The way they were painting the narrative of how the vice president was the bad guy at the beginning and the president was someone who was trying to uphold justice, I pretty much expected the president to be the bad one. I was kinda zoning in and out of the 11th episode as it was just the usual investigating with the expected buildup to the president using the Head Chief of the subsidiaries who was in on the paper company, the main person who was communicating with the president, to take out the Audit Chief at the same time. I didn't know if they were going to reveal it at the end of episode 11 or wait for the last episode, but since they revealed it at the end of episode 11, I have a sense of what is going to go down. The president is probably going to go to jail and the niece is going to be happy that her "uncle", the vice president, wasn't the person who killed his own brother, and lastly the chief is going to leave the company as all the rats and corruption will be gone within the company.
Ep 12:
Nothing about the ending surprised me and was overly satisfying. The president got prosecuted like I thought he would, with head Choi faking his death, a recording of their phone calls, along with documents tracking the flow of illegal funds. The only thing that kinda surprised me was the faked death, but with the way this show was going it wasn't overly complicated as how they did it. He literally just took the IV out of his arm and pretended to keep it attached. The reveal of the president's initial coma and the lead audit ML was typical as well. At this point they only hinted at his past like 2 or 3 times, so it didn't have that much of an impact as it wasnt too surprising. The reason for becoming serious about audits was that his own oversight on improper documentation of construction materials lead to his father's death.
As for the other main characters including the younger ML and FL, they were involved in the ending, but they didn't have much character development. The young ML stayed innocent and saw the older ML as a role model, while the younger FL's only character development was that she received help from the vice president and she was really hoping that he wasn't a bad enough person to kill his own brother. All the other supporting cast didn't add much to the story and were pretty much just people to do miscellaneous work when it was related to an audit. Only reason I wouldn't give this below a 5 is because of the strong storylines in the beginning that kept me interested.
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