Even this late in the story, with lots of experience about how important timing is, our leads keep making the mistake of taking their time in getting to locations (i.e. Not gonna lie, episode 15 was frustrating for me. The best laid plans….are that, and no more.Īll in all, a great show and watch…enjoyed following the comments of all of you who joined in. I like the lesson of the show that even with a magical line to the future and the ability to change it. (3) On a more contemplative thread, we never do really know the future, do we? Until one final moment, everything is open to question and curiosity, but no surety awaits us. (2) I was OK with not reversing every bad thing that happened in the past. And though if they were gonna do another season they’d have surely gotten around to it by now, I’m pleased enough with imagining our heroes working on another case and eventually having those bottles of soju together. (1) They clearly did point to a new series of events with the re-activation of the walkie-talkie (and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t 23:23 when it turned back on, unless Korea is way closer to the North Pole than I thought it was). Overall, I didn’t mind the open ending, with a few separate trains of thought. This was the first full show I’ve seen Kim Hye-soo in, and she’s a pretty riveting actor, along with the other 2/3 of our main trio.Īlthough I tend to get turned off by overly plotted shows, I did like how they pulled a lot of threads together in the last few episodes. I found this a thoroughly enjoyable watch, even though I don’t typically enjoy murdery things either (thanks for that colorful turn of phrase). This show reminds me a bit of Stranger (the general theme), but while Stranger is more brilliant plotting, this show is much more emotionally gripping, and I was definitely super invested in our characters and cheering for them till the very end. If the show was not quite as hyped I think it would have been easier for me not to nitpick and be happy to go along with the wild, emotional ride, but I think this was just a case of my expectations being too sky high. I would prefer if they just tied everything up properly, but I would still check out the 2nd season if they made it. Obviously this is in service of Hae-yong sacrificing himself for her, but I sincerely hate this trope because it makes no damn sense, is OOC, and is just blatantly there to move the plot.Įnding was okay for me – somewhat looser than I expected given the generally very tight writing in the first 14 episodes, but maybe it was meant to be that way to pave the way for a 2nd season. More screaming at the screen ensued here.Ĥ) Another classic action-movie trope where Su-hyun, a supposedly experienced bad-ass policewoman with what I assume should be superior reflexes, just stares frozen while someone points a gun and shoots at her. I was screaming at the screen here.ģ) Our main characters falling victim to the classic kdrama trope of having long, drawn-out conversations at completely inappropriate times & locations (ex., Su-hyun and Hae-yong getting all emotional about the walkie-talkie in a hospital swarming with detectives looking to frame Hae-yong for murder Getting into the conversation about Jae-han with Kim Sung-bum in the parking lot, even after he pointed out that Kim Bum-Ju definitely sent someone to follow them (and they themselves saying the same thing as they were driving there)). Episode 15 in particular was incredibly frustrating for me for a number of reasons:ġ) Why so many flashbacks? I found myself FF-ing for the first time in this drama.Ģ) All the characters just losing any sense of urgency once they are using the walkie-talkie and spending all of their precious seconds of connection sitting there and crying, or not believing the person is on the other end, etc. I was expecting a god-tier level drama based on the hype (in the realm of My Mister, or Misaeng which are close to perfect dramas for me), but there were definitely parts of the writing that fell short and resorted to tropey/contrived events in service of advancing the plot, which I did not expect in a show famous for tight writing. This show was quite solid, however I did feel that it was somewhat overhyped.
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