No spoilers up here. The typical K Drama has a feel good wrap up ending. This one does not and that's ok. The screenwriters here could have taken the easy route and written a 'happy' ending but instead they wrote the right ending for these characters and this story. After the last reveal and you're faced with the finale and perhaps a little shock you'll appreciate what happens and why it had to be that way.

The series has its share of action and fight scenes but these never take over and dominate the story and character development. There are too many shows and movies where it feels like a little bit of story wrapped around overly complicated and drawn out action/fight scenes. There were a few isolated cases early on with a bit drawn out fight scenes but once the skills of the main protagonist are established his later performance is marked by efficiency - brief fight scenes.

The story stayed with me after the finale as I couldn't help but think about the characters and their choices.

Looking forward to rewatching this one.

I'm surprised these screenwriters don't have more credits given how well written this series turned out.


Warning - Below some questions and comments that contain spoilers. These are not nitpicks but after one viewing questions that I didn't see an answer for.




- Young Kim Soo Hyun was consistently shown with blue eyes yet as an adult his eyes were brown. What was the point of the blue eyes?
- Kang Seul Gi was mentioned twice as the biological daughter of Kim Soo Hyun. How and when this came about was never answered, but would partially explain why Soo Hyun prevented Pavel from killing her.
- Do Hyun Jin aka Lee Young Eun was adopted to replace a dead daughter. What happened to her sire? All the kids were created via artificial insemination in order to provide organs for specific powerful clients. Why was she exceptioned? Why did she even have a name i.e. Lee Young Eun vs a number?

Speculation Given the genetics for organ donors of even family members can be dicey it would make sense for the scheme to create more than one kid from each sire for donations. The main antagonist created Kim Soo Hyun to provide a bone marrow transplant for his sister who named him and then died. Perhaps he also sired Lee Young Eun for the same purpose, and when her half sister died he adopted her as a replacement.

That would make her a half sibling to Kim Soo Hyun and the biological aunt for Kang Seul Gi.