I went back in forth in my feelings for this drama. From about episode 1-7 I was really into it. Then I thought it was ok. I wanted to quit watching by episode 17 or 18 but I had invested so much time I powered through it. The last few episodes made up for the times I wanted to quit watching as they were fairly good episodes.
I felt that Leader Moe and Jae Hwa were phenomenal characters who I felt like I really got to know and love but the downside to that is that I wish I felt as strongly about Shin Jung Tae who is the main character. It wasn't until towards the end of the show that I started to appreciate his character more. I love a good fight scene but I got tired of seeing Shin Jung Tae fight everyone all the time and on top of the fighting I had to watch him train to fight too. I got bored. I felt the spark it had when it started disappeared and then made a comeback right at the end. They had good characters that they could have done more with and bad characters they should have done less with. Sometimes I would laugh at the logic behind why some of the characters were doing what they were doing mostly because there was no logic. What the show tried to pedal as romance was lackluster as well.
One of my biggest pet peeves is when a drama or even a person says they are going to do something and then they don't deliver.
(my examples are just examples btw) Example: if you say it's a fight to the death then someone should actually die or it's not really a fight to the death and you shouldn't call it that, if the doctor says you have 1 week to live you shouldn't magically be healed. These feel like lies to me. This show had a habit of making the stakes high for certain characters and then not delivering, letting me get all worked up for nothing. Of course I hate to see any character I love die or get hurt but don't make me cry over spilled milk if your actually not going to spill it.
All in Alll if the show were just 18 episodes I would have liked it better. I felt some episodes and parts of the storyline I could do without and it made the show draggy often.
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