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Zogitt
Australia
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2 things stopped it from being a 10/10
In many ways, this was an excellent c-drama. The OTP's romance was super cute and wholesome. They are a true power couple with both doing important and demanding jobs. No wall flower here, thank you. A lot of the story telling was great, awesome meet-cute. How can you go wrong when one half of the story was based in a hospital and the other half was about policing! However, it did tripped over its own feet on two things.
1) The 2OTP was too frustrating to watch. Their relationship was in limbo and dragged on for too long. On, off, mixed messages, reset, noble idiocy, friend zoning, the works. This went on for 30 episodes! Yes, when they did get together it was all rainbows and unicorns and there were some very funny and cute moments but it really went round the garden path a few times.
2) The show was too long. 40 episodes were not long by c-drama standard and It would have been fine if there was enough substance to do 40 episodes but there really wasn't. A few signs pointed to this, the first half of the show was action packed and very well paced. A bit after the disaster relief operation, things started to slow down. There were still dramatic moments but these were islands. The 2OTP issue was particularly noticeable then. When they introduced the girl in the wheelchair subplot, it was pure classic filler trope that came from nowhere and went nowhere. The overseas study trip was another. At least it wasn't too abrupt but it was just a time skip padded out with some video chats and a long sad build-up. They could have shipped her off to a fortnight's training course somewhere and got her onto that bus without changing narrative stride. I think 35 episodes would have been more realistic.
Acting was good all round, I last watched the FL in Oh My General and she did a good job there too. The ML wasn't all stony faced male god and that was good. The male leads all look very smart in uniform.
The OST was nice and easy on the ears. The rewatch value is there but I would hit the fast forward around the 2/3 mark and skip to the good bits.
1) The 2OTP was too frustrating to watch. Their relationship was in limbo and dragged on for too long. On, off, mixed messages, reset, noble idiocy, friend zoning, the works. This went on for 30 episodes! Yes, when they did get together it was all rainbows and unicorns and there were some very funny and cute moments but it really went round the garden path a few times.
2) The show was too long. 40 episodes were not long by c-drama standard and It would have been fine if there was enough substance to do 40 episodes but there really wasn't. A few signs pointed to this, the first half of the show was action packed and very well paced. A bit after the disaster relief operation, things started to slow down. There were still dramatic moments but these were islands. The 2OTP issue was particularly noticeable then. When they introduced the girl in the wheelchair subplot, it was pure classic filler trope that came from nowhere and went nowhere. The overseas study trip was another. At least it wasn't too abrupt but it was just a time skip padded out with some video chats and a long sad build-up. They could have shipped her off to a fortnight's training course somewhere and got her onto that bus without changing narrative stride. I think 35 episodes would have been more realistic.
Acting was good all round, I last watched the FL in Oh My General and she did a good job there too. The ML wasn't all stony faced male god and that was good. The male leads all look very smart in uniform.
The OST was nice and easy on the ears. The rewatch value is there but I would hit the fast forward around the 2/3 mark and skip to the good bits.
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