clairethecapricorn
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Extraordinary You started off great; it had a unique premise, interesting storylines, and a great cast. There were some plot holes and unanswered questions but the plot was still interesting. However, the story just kept dragging on towards the end, with no progress or anything interesting happening. I’m not sure why they chose to make this show so long when they didn’t have enough story to fill up that time. This is a 32 episode show and it easily could’ve been 24, which is about the time I lost interest.
There was a lot that I liked about Extraordinary You. The comic book setting was something I’d never seen before and it was intriguing to see where they were going with it. Kim Hye Yoon was great as lead and her performance fit the character perfectly. Lee Jae Wook was also stellar as the hot-headed, brooding, antagonistic second male lead. Rowoon was good as well, although it didn’t feel like his character was given a ton to do. While Lee Jae Wook’s character, Baek Gyeong, was clearly the more toxic option, his character felt a lot more interesting and realized than Rowoon’s Ha Ru. This wasn’t a case where it seemed like the second male lead should’ve got the girl, but he did feel a lot more interesting on screen and it would’ve been interesting if they explored his character more. Rowoon and Kim Hye Yoon didn’t really seem to have great chemistry, but their relationship had a lot of cute moments.
There were other characters that felt a little wasted as well. Some characters didn’t become self aware that they were in a comic, or at least didn’t acknowledge it, until the end and it left so little time to see their true personality. The main couple in the comic was so boring and then when the girl becomes self aware she was so cool, but it happened so late that we didn’t see much of it.
The actual rules of the comic book world made very little sense but it was pretty easy to suspend disbelief. There were many things (why Ha Ru was the only one who could change things, how Dan Oh was suddenly cured and lived to the end, why Joo Da picked Nam Joo, why there was a shadow in the first place) that I kept waiting to be explained and they just never were.
There was a lot that I liked about Extraordinary You. The comic book setting was something I’d never seen before and it was intriguing to see where they were going with it. Kim Hye Yoon was great as lead and her performance fit the character perfectly. Lee Jae Wook was also stellar as the hot-headed, brooding, antagonistic second male lead. Rowoon was good as well, although it didn’t feel like his character was given a ton to do. While Lee Jae Wook’s character, Baek Gyeong, was clearly the more toxic option, his character felt a lot more interesting and realized than Rowoon’s Ha Ru. This wasn’t a case where it seemed like the second male lead should’ve got the girl, but he did feel a lot more interesting on screen and it would’ve been interesting if they explored his character more. Rowoon and Kim Hye Yoon didn’t really seem to have great chemistry, but their relationship had a lot of cute moments.
There were other characters that felt a little wasted as well. Some characters didn’t become self aware that they were in a comic, or at least didn’t acknowledge it, until the end and it left so little time to see their true personality. The main couple in the comic was so boring and then when the girl becomes self aware she was so cool, but it happened so late that we didn’t see much of it.
The actual rules of the comic book world made very little sense but it was pretty easy to suspend disbelief. There were many things (why Ha Ru was the only one who could change things, how Dan Oh was suddenly cured and lived to the end, why Joo Da picked Nam Joo, why there was a shadow in the first place) that I kept waiting to be explained and they just never were.
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