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Ovems:
Sorry, it's service to your fatherland 😀. Hope you were posted to a good place. Is your PPA providing accommodation? I would have suggested you stay in NCCF family house immediately after camp until you settle down and get your own place but the suggestion is coming late 😔.

Abi o
Yes, it's a good but remote place. It's in Yola but in the outskirt. You know how some of this production firms and their factories are mostly situated outside urban areas. My ppa is one of em'. The good thing about them is their accommodation. Top notch!

My last stay was at NACC (an equivalent to NCCF) before resuming to my PPA. The management initially told me to hold on for a week or two while they furnish my apartment. Hence I had to deal with the not too pleasant stay at NACC. I later heard that those in the latter are living large while they in NACC are just suffering. Well the matter long! Na internal problem with the past officials and the Bishop. Imagine having problem with the Bishop. That's why they're scrambling & managing their life there.


That's by the way, I look at the drama list. Both recently completed and currently ongoing, none has caught my attention yet. I'll do a little added research before downloading. Hopefully I'll get something to feast my eyes.

kangminhyuksho:
Lmao Pele. On behalf of my state, I apologize for the stress

Apologies accepted after eating tuwo shin kafa da Miyan alefo in my PPA.

Random post: The past weeks have been hectic. From exiting camp to moving to PPA, it has not been easy. I had to stay in a temporal accommodation pending approval for resumption. Omo there was no light, no space, no network at where I stayed. Proximity to LG office & outdoor centers was itself another challenge. During these times I had to manage my battery. Staying less online and away from dramaland. Thankfully I'm stable now. What did I miss? Lemme visit nkiri and see. I'm coming

kangminhyuksho:
Random post: thank you nkiri for coming back to me 🤭

P.s: happy birthday to my queens bae Suzy and Kim seulgi

*Currently watching*: a hundred memories, shin's project, to the moon, Walking on thin ice, Ms incognito, one spring night
Song of the day: mayday - suho

Happy birthday to the Kang Chi family and Vagabond

kangminhyuksho:
🤣 I didn't even realize, anyway. I posted my thoughts on the dramas I watched this weekend. I guess it's gone forever

🚶🚶🚶

LMAO 😂😂😂😂😂

@Kang don chop ban again. Nairaland bots at it again. Smh 🙄

kangminhyuksho:
Age is not even a problem. She's 10 years older than he is and I've seen celebrity couples where the female is 12 and 17 years older than the man and they're doing well but why do they expect him to break up with his perfectly fine girlfriend just so their ship will sail. Is that not insanity? Nna na wa. You said it right, I don't know what makes them think they have the right to control people's lives. Las Las it's agencies I blame cos they're the ones that started this thing of presenting celebs as a toy that should cater to whatever their fans want. If care is not taken, we'll soon hear that they've broken up. I need the celebs to go and learn from the school of Lee seung gi, I love how he didn't even care if his fans abandoned him. He made up his mind to marry his girlfriend and he did that even with all the noise they were making. He has my respect big time

Thank you for bringing up the agencies in this matter. I momentarily forget their huge role in this. They're meant to deal with this kind of fans' pressure but instead they invite them. They know how delusional netizens can be. But in the end, the ball lies in his court. Will he bow to pressure or take a bold stand? I hope he makes the right decision in the future.

kangminhyuksho:
Omo I don't even know if the world is getting better or worse. It's like once people clock 11 they sell their brains or something cos tell me why it's big old 2025 and netizens are still being silly. I don't want to believe these are still the same dumb old netizens cos I want to believe they've grown older and wiser. These have to be young netizen babies still being very mad. Lee chae min and Ryu da in have been dating for years as upcoming actors when no one even knew who they were. Their relationship became public when gold medalist was trying to hide Kim Soo hyun's scandal so they used Lee chae min's relationship to divert attention. Those ones lied that they only started dating after working together in crash course in romance but I know they've been dating well before then. They both turned 25 recently and she posted a picture of them celebrating and foolish netizens are attacking her for flaunting her relationship when people are still shipping him with yoona cos they did that time travel chef drama together. Like are you people mad? So she shouldn't celebrate her boyfriend because he's suddenly a big star? Meanwhile some of these people didn't even know lcm until this drama and if not that psh got into trouble and got dropped from the drama, lcm wasn't even supposed to be the original lead so why are they suddenly acting like long term fans that are protecting their oppa? I even saw comments where people were saying they hope he breaks up with her and starts dating yoona and I'm like do you even think yoona wants to date him? 😂 Like enjoy your drama ship without being dumb, this is not fuc((king 2005! The boy has never hidden his relationship so it's not even like they don't know he's in a happy relationship mtcheww these people are so annoying walahi. I hope my girl Ryu da in has strong mind to ignore them and post whatever she wants. That's why all these celebrities keep lying that they aren't in relationships so they'll keep getting cast in dramas. I would have thought this new generation would be wiser and change things but I guess humans are fools regardless of when they are born

P.s: happy birthday to song seung heon oppa

*Currently watching*: a hundred memories, shin's project, to the moon, walking on thin ice, Ms incognito, one spring night
Song of the day: wine - taeyeon

Mtcheew!!! Very dumb fans... Yoona is older than lcm by farrrrrrrr! Because he's suddenly a superstar & d wanna start controlling his life? This is my problem with fame! You work so hard to earn it but when you do, you end up getting more than what you have bargain for. Somehow every minute details of your life begin to matter.

Aigoo! We fans should just remain in our fantasy abeg and not try to force things to reality.

kangminhyuksho:
Today is for happy news. First Kim ok vin unni is getting married ❤️ her husband is a non celebrity. I wish them a happy life

Song Kang is back from the military 🕺🕺 he already has a drama he's doing and I'm sure lots of scripts are waiting for him. Here's hoping his acting skills have improved tremendously 🤭

P.s: happy birthday to yoon Eun hye unni. I wonder if she's the one who isn't interested in acting again. Her last acting work was in 2018 and I'm pretty sure Korea has "forgiven her sins" cos she's been busy promoting with her group but she isn't doing any dramas so it's either scripts are really really scarce or she's over it. I miss her🙂‍↕️

*Currently watching*: a hundred memories, shin's project, to the moon, walking on thin ice, Ms incognito
Song of the day: anger - spica

Things I love you to see on screen. Welcome back champ! Give us sth to feast our eyes pls

Ovems:
I pray you get a good PPA...........then we go help you calculate the total 😄.

Amen o
I need that PPA badly. A good one o 🤭🤭🤭🤭

Ovems:
I pray you get a good PPA...........then we go help you calculate the total 😄.

Abi o. Abeg make we come back to our dramaland 🤭🤭🤭🤭

Ovems:
Abeg join the parade o. It's part of the experience. 🤣

Abeg o 🤣🤣🤣🤣

kangminhyuksho:
Lol that's my state of origin o🤣 very dry state but e beautiful sha, I guess 🤭

LMAO 😂😂😂😂
This one na motivation abi na wetin? 🤭🤭🤭🤭

kangminhyuksho:
Eeyah, congratulations. Which state Dem carry you go?

Adamawa o. They call it the land of beauty and sunshine 😍😍😍😍

Ps: I don't need anybody to help me to calculate my #77 + 30 + PPA ooo 🤑🤑🤑🤑

Ovems:
Congratulations! 👏

I don't envy the soldiers in camps these past few years because in addition to teaching corpers the NYSC anthem, and the parade/match pass that will never be perfect before they pass out from camp, they have to teach them the new National Anthem as well 🤣.

Asin eeehnn... Speak to me directly 🤣🤣🤣🤣
In the sense that I feel like an olodo when both the national anthem and the NYSC anthem are sung. I'll just be chopping my teeth. If you can come to Damare camp in Adamawa, tell the soldiers there to avoid me. I no kukuma join parade to avoid heavy embarrassment 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Omo I'm obeying the Clarion call. Gat no time to spare for dramas 😭😭😭😭
Until after two weeks. I'm enjoying and following your write up @kang
Pls keep it up 👍

toykathy:
I'm actually in for a second season. The story will unfold better. Fingers crossed!

Okay.
Me: my hands are off. I no send their papa again. Lol 😆

toykathy:
Miss him ke? His drama is currently on nah. "My Youth"

Abi 😁
Lemme go and dig in

toykathy:
To be very honest and fair, twelve had a solid plot. The problem is the plot development. The write wasted a good story. I bet if one of marvel's writer develops such story it would be a bang! All the same, the cast was wasted

Is it everything that they must include romance? Sponsored ads everywhere in the drama. Poor writing. Twelve problem is many. It's the audacity for me to tease us of a second season? 😕
They should just end the drama there

Ovems:
@ toykathy

And to think that I was very upset when initially there was a rumour that Ji Chang Wook was going to be cast and then when the cast was finally announced, he wasn't among. I was like, "this guy doesn't want to act in a good drama with Ma Dong Seok who is a ratings magnet actor". I was going to come and rant here but held back (thank God for self control 🤣). But now, I am glad he wasn't a part of it. Maybe he read the script and saw what we are seeing now.

Ji Chang Wook dodged a great bullet here 😁😁😁😁

kangminhyuksho:
Just another day of me sighing and eye rolling Koreans. They'll wear the most beautiful clothes in dramas and when it's awards season they'll come out in either the plainest most boring gowns or just pure garbage eww. If you see the rubbish Kim yoo jung wore at the Busan film festival 😩 I wan cry

P.s: happy birthday to song joong ki oppa

*Currently watching*: The mantis: original sin, a hundred memories, shin's project, romance in the house
Song of the day: where u at - taeyang

Happy birthday Mr Vincenzo Cassano. We miss you on screen. When will your next project be? Wishing you more wins and dramas

Trojanzeus:
I've gotten someone guys! if i however need more, i'll be pulling from the existing applications. Thank you.

Alright. Congratulations to that one lucky person 👏👏👏👏

Please check your mail and inbox. I have sent you a message. Thank you in advance

kangminhyuksho:
Lol as much as choosing great scripts help your rating as an actor, not every actor has the advantage to wait till a good script comes along. If their agency needs them to accept whatever script they get so they can get some money to pay the agency's staff, they have no choice but to accept some rubbish script 🤭 so that their companies won't go bankrupt

This make sense to me. In the end, it's all about money and risk.

kangminhyuksho:
‎Shin's project is here and of course han suk kyu is killing it as usual! I like the story, I like the cast, I like the cameos. what I didn't like was the annoying setups. I know the writer is going for humor but there's absolutely nothing funny about being mean and I don't get how this writer thought what he did makes any sense. set up no 1: how bae Hyun sang started working with han suk kyu. so you have a judge who just graduated from law school going on his first work placement and his most respected role model, takes him to a chicken shop, dumps him there and leaves, no explanation, nothing! I honestly don't get how that's supposed to be funny cos in real life, you will not leave until you explain why you want me to work in what is clearly a chicken shop. set up no 2: han suk kyu and bae Hyun sang meet and he's automatically rude and mean to him talmabout I don't want you here, you're fired bla bla bla to someone you just met? like the boy brought himself there or something. no explanation of what they do in the chicken shop just straight up insulting and calling him nakkasan cos he was brought there, I get that it's supposed to later on be a cute nickname but saying that to someone you just met without context is straight up bullying. then you would think Hyun sang's reaction would be to go "what the hell am I doing here, why do I have to take all of this rudeness and insult, I'm a freaking judge" but no. instead his reaction is, I'm going to try my best and bend over backwards to please you until you accept me🙄 3rd setup: bae Hyun sang and Lee re meeting 🤦 you meet someone for the first time and you're automatically rude and mean to him, ok let's even say fine, she's a naturally rude and mean person, they're trying to potray Gen z as being rude whatever but why the hell did she have to hit someone she's meeting for the first time and more than once🤦 I honestly just don't get it. nothing about that is supposed to be funny. we're in freaking 2025 but the setups is giving 2001 drama writing style eww. thankfully, so far that was the only thing wrong with the drama. the story is great, love the cases. bae Hyun sang always has such great chemistry with older actors. from miraculous brothers to family by choice and now here, he's literally the perfect person to cast. Also not him reuniting with his father from family by choice in episode 1 lol. by the way, is my baby Lee re about to have her first adult on screen romance here kyaaa I'm so excited, my girl is growing up. I remember being just as excited when Kim so hyun turned 18 and had her first onscreen kiss😭 I'm like my baby is a woman now🤣 I feel the exact same way and Lee el is already 19 years old and her character in the drama is even 24 years old so yes old enough for a proper romance role and I hope this drama gives me the ship, I mean it's pretty obvious those 2 already have a crush on each other. if I don't get a kiss scene, I fit faint 🤣

Koreans and their wahala. I'm guessing it's cos of what Netflix said recently concerning actor salaries. Anyway people are saying park hyung Sik was paid 400 million won per episode for twelve and his agency is denying the fact and I'm like is that necessary. I mean whether he was paid 400 million or not, whose business is it? It's not like he held anyone at gunpoint and forced them to pay him that amount 🤷 or maybe it's for tax purposes 🤣 cos yes if they agree that he was paid 400 million, he'd have to pay a larger amount of tax. Anyway I honestly don't see the need of responding to the rumors but then again with this Korea, na small thing dey damage person career so I can understand them for coming out to clear the air. Omo they live very exhausting lives biko

For some reason, all through yesterday, I kept trying to do "guess the song title without vowels" and nairaland kept banning me. I don't know what's so offensive about not using vowels 🤷 or maybe they think I'm a bot that can't spell🤣🙄 anyway I'll try again today and if they still ban me that's the end. I guess I'll only be doing "guess the drama title" or the screenshot own or none at all sef

*Currently watching*: the mantis: original sin, a hundred memories, shin's project, romance in the house
Song of the day: midnight Sun - sf9

Abeg o. I bin no get time to read this your epistle yesterday but as I did today. I notice say you mentioned my Kim Soo Hyun. Truly na wetin sweet me be that for the write up since I no follow join for the drama were you dey currently watch. Now about Netflix and rising wage cost, honestly it's a call for an alarm. This actors be receiving high pay while acting rubbish. Partly you won't blame because of the poor script. But you self as an actor why will you accept to play in a poorly scripted drama. Somehow it'll backfire you. About nairaland police bot, I noticed it too. I see a new post notification, tap in to check only to come and meet old post 😁😁😁😁
As I type this self, na new post notification carry me come but I no see anything new 😁😁😁😁

This is crazy asf 🤣

kangminhyuksho:
So apparently depending on how big you are, Netflix has been paying top actors and actresses 900 million won per episode but now they've decided that the highest amount they'll give any top star is 300 million won per episode. That's obviously a downgrade but I understand where they are coming from. Apparently after paying that kind of big money to top stars, there's even less to spend on the budget including other cast and crew which has led to less dramas being produced. If this leads to more dramas being produced and enough money to spend on budgeting then I support it. Obviously there is always room to increase the salaries later on, especially if the dramas do really well. It might be sad news for the top stars but I think it's good news overall.

So somettime last year, I think probably around this period, I had a lot of dramas on my plate. I think that was around the time I was watching good partner and the rest plus some American series too but I had 2 dramas on my radar I wanted to watch, love next door and Romance in the house and I had space to squeeze in only 1 drama. I did eenie Minnie mini Moe and ended up choosing love next door while I decided I'll find time later on to watch romance in the house. Well the day has finally come lol, I'm going to start watching it today and I hope I'll enjoy it

P.s: happy birthday to Soo ae my gorgeous unni and Lee Jin wook

*Currently watching*: the mantis: original sin, a hundred memories, shin's project, romance in the house
Song of the day: 홰이럴까 - 수지

I think the likes of TVN, Disney + and co should learn from this. Aside from just producing more dramas, resources should be channel on assembling A-level crew members in producing better and quality dramas. In this present age, with the invasion of AI in almost every sector, stars alone cannot save the performance of a drama. We need quality and not just quantity. Some dramas this days will be like AI generated writing. They need to do better abeg

Meanwhile bon appetit wants to take four episodes to get over with the envoy wahala. I guess that's the peak of drama and probably were the drama meets its end. We've got four more episodes to go. I wonder what it still got in store for us? Fingers crossed 🤞🤞🤞🤞

toykathy:
@Mickey02. I can't read your epistle even @Kangminhyuksho dey learn work from you. Twelve equals to waste of cast

Forget about the epistle. Your last statement is 📌📌📌📌
It's not just a waste. All the budget went to their paychecks. If only they paid for good writers, good editors, good visuals, etc. we won't get this travesty of a drama.

Suicideboy:
Tempest is becoming slop after each episodes despsite the hype


Watch queen mantis instead ,

Another recommendation 😃
Thanks boss

Omo thank God for 'Bon Appetit Your Majesty' o. If not I'd be swimming in premium tears. Twelve was supposed to be the best drama of the year o. What a letdown? I cannot spend two weeks and be watching nonsense. I had to mix it up with something. Plus @Suicideboy recommended it here. I'm very selective of what I put on my screen. I try to look up dramas and movies before downloading and even watching them. I hate nonsense. I hate hype too. Above all, I hate it when something I look so much forward to end up disappointing. I hate it with passion.

Now that Twelve is done and dusted. My eye is set on the Tempest. Let's see what it got. Hoping for a good watching.

Here's my review on Twelve. @Kang @Toykathy @Raphaella DD permit to rant pls

If I have to summarize this drama in one word, that would be MESS.

When Twelve was first announced, I was initially very intrigued. The concept of the zodiac angels living like humans while trying to regain their powers was very interesting and unique. fantasy plus action is a perfect combo for me. To have a top experience, I opted to watch after it air completely. But the poor review of the first half was so ridiculous that I couldn't help myself but to start watching.

The first two episodes were lukewarm to say the least. The plot didn't seem as interesting as I had expected and the characterisation wasn't engaging enough for me to care about the characters. Still, I decided to remain optimistic. It was only the beginning and the story needed more time to unfold properly. Although Twelve didn't have the strongest beginning, I still had hopes because the story had some interesting traits and I believed that as the series would go by, it would improve.

Alas, the show just went downhill and crashed harder than the Titanic.

The first red flag which indicated that this would be an unpleasant journey was the fighting scenes. Let me tell you that when I watched Tae San fighting these thugs for the first time, I was baffled. Messy choreography. Weird angles. Tacky editing. It felt like he brought the messiness of demon hunters, a flop movie which he starred into this drama. I have no doubt because in the movie "imagine Don Lee punching a demon back to hell 🥴🥴". I forgave him for that. But see what he delivered again 😕😕😕😕

When you describe your drama as action heavy, one would expect something better than these chops of fighting scenes. There were times when it was so painfully obvious that the actors did not hit each other, it was honestly so laughable how unconvincing it was. And don't get me started on the bad guys getting beaten one by one, waiting for their turn patiently instead of attacking together.

The direction and production added more salt to the wound. There were times when I almost wondered if the showrunners were mocking us and if I was part of a social experiment. At least that would made a more interesting plot than the one we had. I am confident that all the budget went to the actors and the rest received dust. There's no other way to explain what I saw on my screen.

First and foremost, the costumes they showed in the flashbacks were absolutely tragic. For a fantasy series, they didn't even bother try out more effort and creativity in the clothes. I've seen cosplayers with much better attires and with clothes that do not look like cheap Shein products. The armors were so bad, the clothes were so mismatched and the wigs were so comical to look at. During some more serious scenes I just couldn't take the characters seriously because of the way they looked. The most prominent example is the scene where the 8 angels mourn the death of the other four. Aside from the bad editing, I couldn't bring myself to care and instead of focusing on the heaviness of this moment, I had to surpass my laughter every time the camera would focus on one of the Angels in these ridiculous costumes. The CGI, albeit not horrible in some parts, left some things to be desired. O Gwi's wings could have definitely be better, they looked bizarre sometimes, especially when he used them to fight.

The lack of a powerful and epic OST was another element that failed to elevate the emotional impact of Twelve. You need a good soundtrack in order to create emotions and Twelve failed to provide us with anything memorable. There is a scene where Tae San opens Hellmouth and the background music is a hip hop track. What are we even trying to do?

When we're talking about fantasy, the visuals play a fundamental role in order to establish your setting and magic system. But I was willing to cut them some slack. Some fantasy series might not have the best effects but at least they offer an interesting script.

In Twelve's case, the story was even worse.

When you're making a drama with 8 episodes, one would expect more straightforward storytelling. With short dramas, you cannot afford to waste time. But it's clear that the budget was cut short because neither the story nor the characters delivered what was promised.

It's a serious crime to create a fantasy universe and put barely any effort to expand it. We are thrusted into this world as if we have any prior knowledge about it. Aside from the small intro from Episode 1 and some information via poor dialogues and awkward flashbacks, we never really get to learn many significant things regarding the Angels and God. And what about the Angel's identities? I had to read the description of the actors from my drama list in order to understand which Angel represented each animal. Aside from the most obvious ones (Tiger, Pig, Monkey, Snake, Dragon) the rest weren't that clear. Had I not read the information, I would be stuck trying to figure out the animals Mal Sook and Jwi Dol were supposed to be.

Aside from the poor world-building, I'm still trying to understand the reason why the series was called Twelve when four angels remained dead for the most part. If you wanted to create a series about the twelve zodiac signs, you should at least give information about all the angels and integrate them into the story. Had we seen more of the four angels and how they contributed to humanity's safety, it would have made more sense and it would have added more depth in the dynamic among the Angels. Such thing never happened and instead we basically got deceived.

The structure of the story killed every remaining possibilities of development. Everything felt so hectic and not in a good way. The pacing was painfully slow, sometimes it was as if time had stopped. One would think that the pacing was necessary in order to explore the characters and the story and prepare for the built-up. In Twelve, that simply never happened. There was no deeper exploration regarding the characters, the story remained monotonous and the payoff was definitely not worth it.

The editing contributed to the amateur image of the show. Was there even an editor in the first place? I seriously doubt that. They left so many unnecessary moments uncut. Some scenes dragged so much, they felt like they lasted for hours and hours. Give me one reason why it was necessary, according to the director, to show every single Angel's reaction when something significant happened.

The four angels die? Zoom into every Angel's face and show their reactions. One by one.

Tae San arrives during a dangerous situation? Make each Angel exclaim "Tae San". One.by.one.

The Angels are fighting enemies or getting beaten? Show them fighting. ONE.BY.ONE.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA!? At one point I started taking guesses about the order of the Angels' appearances! Moments like these are the reason why the pacing was so off. We wasted too much time in insignificant scenes instead of using it for more meaningful storytelling.

The usage of flashbacks killed even the few hyped moments in the series. They were so random and the majority of them did not even contribute anything to the plot. Instead of using them meticulously in order to give further information without ruining the pacing, the writers put them in the most bizarre moments. For example, Episode 3 ends with a flashback which came after.a.supposedly.dramatic.moment. They could have chosen to end the episode then but nope, they had to ruin the mood with this good-for-nothing throwback.

I cringed so hard when the series tried to become comedic. It was so painful to witness all of these attempts to add some funny elements. As if it wasn't enough to sit through this wannabe epic fantasy tale, they tortured me with poorly written humor too. Let me tell you that I laughed harder at the scenes the writers did not intend to make funny. I wasn't like with them, I was laughing AT them.

And now the characters. Oh boy, where to begin? To put it frankly: I gave zero f*cks about them. It appears that the writers would take it for granted that the viewers would sympathize with the Angels simply because they were the good guys who had been wronged by humans. Surprise surprise, this is not enough. When the writers do not bother to put any effort in the characterisation, I am not obligated to side with the heroes. I couldn't bring myself to feel anything about these people. They didn't even have proper personalities. Some of them had interesting traits but they were never utilized. A pity if you ask me, especially since they are supposed to represent the zodiac signs so there were many opportunities to incorporate that in their personalities.

Among the Angels, the one who was highlighted a lot was Tae San, portrayed by Ma Song Seok. Which makes sense considering he was involved in the writing process too. Too bad he couldn't invest in his character. Tae San was supposed to be this sympathetic leader who has fallen into depression after the tragedies he has experienced and yet I couldn't bring myself to care. Not in the slightest. The writing of his character was so messy, instead of coming across as badass and yet vulnerable, he became comedic. Instead of having so many scenes about him or his interactions with the grandma, the screen time should have been shared among the rest of the Angels in order to flesh out their characters just a little bit.

The story tried very hard to convince me that the Angels are a family. I'm sorry but I was never sold. Whether it was the acting or writing, the chemistry among the Angels was bland and barely existent. They never gave me the vibe of a family that tried to stick together and help each other. It was like watching a bunch of coworkers. Instead of showcasing their bond more through actions, the writers tried to sell it via poorly written scenes. The worst part was the scenes with the characters having discussions while eating. They failed so much to capture the domestic feeling.

The only characters which managed to capture my interest even a little were Won Seung, Mirr and O Gwi. Won Seung was fun to look at and I was curious to see if his character would have been explored more considering he was marketed as one of the main ones. Mirr and O Gwi seemed to have interesting backstories and I wanted to learn more about them. But of course the poor writing had to ruin everything.

Can someone give me one good explanation about why Mirr was written as such a weak Angel? She was supposed to be the only one to retain her powers and yet she struggled more against the bad guys. I swear to God, for the majority of the series she was either sleeping or she was a damsel in distress. She barely had any personality. I feel sad for sounding so harsh but unfortunately this is the plain truth.

O Gwi was one of the biggest letdowns. I tried to remain hopeful and believe that we would see more of him but once again, I was deceived. It's so funny how hard they tried to market him as the main threat for the Angels, only for him to barely have any significant scenes in the first episodes and then be turned into a wannabe misunderstood antihero. There were so many layers that could have been explored but clearly the writers did not care. We learned almost NOTHING regarding his backstory and his motives were presented in such a superficial way.

When the plot is not plotting, what is the best solution in order to make it more interesting? You guessed it: romance. And which characters did the writers decide to pair together? Of course the heroine with the villain, Mirr and O Gwi. The problem is that when you're writing romance, you ought to make it believable. I'm sorry but Mirr and O Gwi gotta be one of the most fraud couples in the history of kdramas. They barely had any meaningful interactions. The one kiss we got cannot even be described as a proper kiss with the way it was filmed. Tell me, why should I care about them and their story when the writers did not bother to explore it? "Oh, but you don't understand, it's a tragic love story and they wanted to be together even though everything was against them and..." AND NOTHING. You cannot write a romance in such a shallow way and expect me to care. You are not writing tropes. You are writing a love story. We never learned how they met each other. We never saw them interacting as a proper couple. We got a shitty montage of some of their happy moments as if it came straight out from a fan made YouTube video from the 2010s. And last but not least regarding this subplot: I apologize, but the actors did not have chemistry. I'm sure that both Park Hyung Sik and Lee Joo Bin are good actors but they were unable to sell the chemistry between them. Their interactions seemed so wooden. I know that this is partially fault of the writing but something was off with the actors too.


The acting was not horrible. But it was poor because the writing itself was poor. The actors did not have many opportunities to showcase their range more and their performances came across as awkward. The delivery of some lines was unconvincing, it was as if the actors themselves couldn't feel the characters or the story. The only moment throughout the drama where an actor delivered a performance with some emotional impact was on Episode 6 when Won Seung mourned the death of a particular character. Kudos to Seo In Guk. The rest of the actors were unable to showcase their full potential but that is the fault of the script. Park Hyung Sik carried the character of O Gwi on his shoulders but even he wasn't enough to save this mess of a plot.

A message to kdrama producers: good casting does not guarantee good writing and good numbers. Audiences are not as naive as you think. If they realise that what they're watching is poorly made, they will give up. That explains the reason why viewership plummeted after the first two episodes. May this be a lesson to everyone, viewers and creators.

Peace out

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toykathy:
I didn't finish reading ur epistle of course but I also think Bora is the killer

I read it and enjoyed it. Sadly it's not my type of drama. I think there is infrared ray camera. This camera can be used for monitoring private space. But I then I don't know what Kang's movie director has in mind.

Pls keep the epistle coming