I Feel Like Shit Again 9tails
Anjelle
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Story 7.0
Interim/Cast 9.0
Music 8.5
Rewatch Value 7.5
This review may comprise spoilers
That ending was a... choice
There's a lot to exist said about this wonderful however somehow disappointing have on gumiho and Korean lore, and having just finished it I detect that I have surprisingly complicated feelings for something that, in the beginning, I was confident that I would end up either loving or hating information technology.
I experience a fleck bitter.
The drama's strengths lie in its product, its cast, and some of its characters. Some, non all. The brothers Lee Yeon and Lee Rang were easily down the well-nigh well thought out office of the story as both characters had a lot of depth to them, and their actors had a lot of chemistry on ready. From the very get-go, LR's grudge is made articulate and we're given context to their very strained relationship. As the story leaves more than pieces for us to put together, we come to understand his character a lot more. Better yet, their human relationship and LR's character every bit a whole have by far the most growth out of the whole bandage. Fifty-fifty, I as someone who didn't care for LR in early episodes, grew to capeesh his office in the story.
The rest of the cast, for the near part, was a compliment to their chemistry. Ki Yoo Ri and Gu Shin Ju did a fantastic job portraying the slow-developing second couple and, honestly, their chemistry was a lot more compelling than the main pair. They're fun, they're cute, and the more you lot see them together, the better they await together. The Gatekeeper couple was such a treat, likewise, in a different way. Watching them fight and bicker so, eventually, come up together again, was and so nice. For me, the principal problem and the reason I was never 100% onboard was Nam Ji Ah's grapheme. I plant her very likable and refreshing in the showtime few episodes but that started to taper off around episode 4 or 5 where I started to discover her grating. The extra'south acting was passable, just a lot of times it didn't feel genuine. Her motivation was clear in the beginning - to find her parents - simply equally shortly every bit they were back, the story forgot about them unless information technology needed a hostage or a funny picayune couple scene between NJA and LY. It felt a piffling strange. And then, this character who in the starting time we were shown was potent-willed, motivated, and could take care of herself was now in constant need of rescuing. And I mean abiding. She was practically helpless throughout most of the story. In episode 13 she even fell victim to the 'woman fainting because stress' trope. There were as well many scenes where she had to 'play the villain' so to speak and act as Imugi, which... was a choice. She didn't make for a great villain. The interim was cheesy and over-the-height, which I came to wait from other aspects of the evidence like the dialogue (which was absolutely cringy in some spots) but when you take a villain you want to look threatening, that's non a very good sign. I have more gripes with her grapheme at the ending, too. A lot more.
Before I move on, Lee Tae Ri was an odd pick to play the villain. Information technology'due south non that he's a bad actor, just he doesn't really have a threatening or large presence. He made Imugi's level of threat seem kinda silly, honestly, then I never felt similar there was any real tension when he was on screen.
The plot... permit's be honest, information technology's a hot mess. Information technology'southward coherent enough to understand and enjoy, simple plenty that you lot've seen this story a k and one times already, but if you remember virtually it too long, it starts to fall apart. Just take the very get-go scene where NJA's parents become missing. We empathise that attack to have been orchestrated by Imugi's minion KHR, but who was it that actually attacked them? Who was it that LY saved NJA from that night? They were shapeshifters, we can assume maybe they were foxes like the others? But why did they do it? Why did they listen to KHR? Ameliorate yet, what was the point of taking NJA's parents to begin with? Was it only to employ them as leverage years after? That seems a bit silly - they could have taken them at any point subsequently Imugi was revived to the same effect. With Imugi'south illusions we've seen that he can get whatsoever he wants whenever he wants information technology. It just feels unnecessary. I loved the scene itself and it was a not bad introduction, but there wasn't much reason for information technology other than giving NJA a flimsy character set-up. In fact, if the parents had just been killed that dark I probably wouldn't take much to say almost it - it could have been a harsh introduction into the world we were near to footstep into. The trouble is really the fact that it ties back to the principal villain.
There are numerous other examples of the show taking weird turns like that or having but badly written scenes, but if I tried to write them all out nosotros'd be here forever. Correct me if I'thousand wrong, but we never got closure on why NJA'south parents visited that island where the Imugi ritual was performed, did we? Why did they bring back her parents if they were going to practically forget about them immediately later? The girl gets to run into her mom and dad who she knew were likely expressionless after so many years and there'southward a brusk few scenes near them reuniting and then it's like they were never gone in the showtime place. They never even get an caption for where they were or why they were at that place all that fourth dimension. Anyway. My point is that there are a lot of holes in the story, and even more bad choices. It didn't brand me hate the show only every bit I saw more than of them, I started to realize that this wasn't the drama I hoped it would exist.
Allow'south skip the wearisome heart of the story and skip to the catastrophe. A lot of the build-up was instead filled with mushy, cheesy scenes between LY and NJA, the couple with the to the lowest degree amount of chemical science in the story. So our climax hits and it goes exactly how everyone expects - almost. Going into the final two eps, I expected LR to die instead of LY. You know, that old 'redemption in expiry' trope again. I accustomed it. Merely then LY went through with his initial plan and there was crying and tears and LR held his wine canteen like information technology was a newborn infant and... that was information technology. I hoped. To be honest, I was fine with that. LY dying, NJA learning to move on, and their love ending on a bittersweet note might have had me applauding the evidence for not giving u.s. a candyfloss ending. My favourite moments in the whole drama were seeing LR interacting with his newfound family unit, upset and lonely over the loss of his brother but finally, subsequently so long, finding happiness in the visitor of others. He didn't have his brother, simply he had a family.
And then they fabricated him a damn martyr and had him sacrifice himself for his damn brother. They gave their nigh well-developed graphic symbol a cheap ending. If he had died fighting Imugi, I would have been fine with that. If he died considering his time was up (they alluded to him existence at the end of his lifespan several times and so they, I don't know, forgot almost it? Decided they didn't care?) and then I wouldn't even have been upset. Only instead, they waited until he had his happiest moment and took it all away, not even giving him a proper goodbye. What message does that really send us? He only lost everything once he grew as a character and became a amend person. And I'thousand not proverb that his growth nullifies all the terrible shit he'due south washed in the past - it doesn't, he's a murderer and the fact that he'due south docile at the stop of it doesn't alter that - simply information technology's just in one case he started on a better path that he meets his end, and I'1000 not sure I can become on board with that.
To me, NJA dying would have made sense. No, not there, I don't think anyone should have sacrificed their lives for LY to come back regardless of who information technology was. Only her sacrificing herself earlier on would take made sense. The Gatekeeper was correct - she was the reason so many people were dying, even if it wasn't directly her fault. While I tin can sympathize LY'south desperation to not accept history repeat itself, even if they weren't characters that we saw on screen, a lot of people died in the story. An insane amount, even. Saving her while all of them were dying was in fact pretty selfish of the both of them. A lot of heartache from the characters could have been avoided that way, too. Would information technology have been a very satisfying ending? Not certain. But what we have isn't really satisfying, either.
I did enjoy some of the scenes afterward LY returned, but ultimately, I don't think they were needed. Possibly I'thousand merely bitter. If I based my rating solely on the catastrophe, it probably would take been a 6. Merely I tin can't ignore the fact that I did enjoy the early episodes, and after on I enjoyed most characters exterior of Imugi and NJA. It was a cringy, sappy journeying that a function of me regrets going on, while some other office is happy to have at least had the journey, even if it led downwardly a road not worth travelling.
EDIT: A FEW THINGS I FORGOT TO LEAVE COMPLAINTS FOR AT THE Ending:
-LY is supposed to be reincarnated except is brought back as himself but human being. An developed. How does that make sense? Why did they non explain that?
-LR beingness reincarnated as a 10-year-onetime boy... when he died a few months agone? Does that brand sense? No. Nothing does, apparently.
-That very cease - so is he not a human after all? Is he lying? I get that maybe he tin can still employ his special sword umbrella but why did his eyes modify? Is he still a fox? WHAT WAS THE POINT OF THAT?
I'chiliad aroused all over once again.
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