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honou_no_izumi) wrote2013-08-01 09:26 pm
honou_no_izumi) wrote2013-08-01 09:26 pm
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Bad Guy
Randomly watching Bad Guy... cos I had too much feels from Shark, and I wanna watch some of the older drama Kim Nam Gil did.
Another revenge type drama... tho compared to Shark (and Mawang, yeah had to mention it cos of the scriptwriter/director thing) Bad Guy had a lot of shortcomings. The setting was good... and the cast acting was good, but I have to say some of the extra plot complications were better off being scrapped and the main meaty plot being explored more. What I mean was... to not focus too much on the revenge plot device but focusing more on the issue of the true son attempting to return to the family that threw him out and how his life gonna go from there.
To be honest the whole Mo Ne-Gun Wook-Tae Ra complication made me queasy. Especially once you find out the true familial relationship between the three. I rather the triangle just focus between Jae In-Gun Wook-Tae Seong... with Mo Ne being the confused one-sided affair. Incestious relationship is kinda mehhhhhh on me, especially since from the beginning Gun Wook was aware of everything. Even if he somehow wanted to seek love to the people who once considered 'family'. But I do believe that Gun Wook really did care for Tae Ra as an older sister. So that extra sideline flirting thing is going too far. I mean... if you wanna tell your not-really-blood-related-older sister, who's only connected to you by her mom's marriage to your real dad; to separate from her cheating husband--you could just tell her all the dirty secret without going as far as setting up yourself as a love interest. Even if that was more to make your younger half-sister to stop pining on you because she's damn stubborn to marry you. And truthfully, had Gun Wook focused more on trying to create a chance for him to reveal himself as that 'discarded child' and finding out the real reason for him being discarded, would be a more believable plot point rather than the elaborate 'revenge' plan.
And this roundabout rollercoaster about who's the real Tae Seong was annoying. Especially when from the very beginning you already get the impression that Gun Wook IS the real illegitimate son. Despite onwards the show kept trying to convince you that it's not. Because face it, the 'current' Tae Seong had been living like an asshole... but he had no other trauma. Yet for Gun Wook, he had been pushed into a cupboard, almost strangled to death, several attempts of murder, death of parents--a bit overkill if it's just to silence the existence of a 'fake' child right? By logic, he HAD to be the real thing or else what's the reason over Madam Shin's obsession of wanting him dead? All the miscommunications were annoying as well.
Since acting-wise... I don't think the cast did badly. Though, the psycho step-mom was not that convincing actually. And the fact they made Gun Wook as a smart person, for him to not find his 'revelation' to be full of contradiction didn't make any sense. I mean... he heard Secretary Kim tell him that Madam Shin 'rather raise a stranger's child rather than the illegitimate son of her husband', yet by that logic... why did she raised 'Tae Seong' with no problem if he was the real Tae Seong? Why threw away Choi Tae Seong if he was the fake? It doesn't make sense. It's a contradiction! I bet you, the plot would be better had this realisation made Gun Wook change his approach against Haeshin with a new direction. To find out if he was actually the real Tae Seong. Because... if he was fake, why Madam Shin tried so hard as to kill him? Why Tae Seong didn't have that treatment aside from being treated like some shit child in the family?
The writing seemed like trying to hard to include every single Kdrama revenge trope inside here I wanted to cry at the cast for having to follow with the script. It's kinda sad. I wished that plot about Gun Wook being crazy after the accident was real and not him pretending. Cos he had that right to lose his mind. People have been screwing with his life too much it was a miracle if he did not NOT go insane. Seriously... the plot is just so screwed up... and we're not even talking about the ridiculous rushed ending for the last two episodes. It's like the show have a quota to meet to have to make Kim Nam Gil's character die at the end of the drama. I mean... even if you have to cut short the shooting due to Kim Nam Gil being enlisted into the army, there are many other ways to end the show aside from killing the character actually.
And it was not just of the rushed plotline... but the ridiculousness as to why people don't question about Gun Wook's identity after Tae Seong was revealed as NOT the chairman's son. If Gun Wook's also not the real son... why go so far as to kill him? Just because he wanted to destroy Haeshin? Why don't people question MORE? I felt like I wanted to shake the laptop with my frustration with the needless focus on the Haeshin 'business'. The slot would have been better used to cover all the holes in the plot. It's the write is high on something... and I thought I was high when I did random plot that don't make sense.
Let us not speak of the ending. I love the main cast tho. I'm confused. I preferred they didn't turn Mo Ne into overly attached girlfriend psycho. I mean... DID.NO.ONE.TELL.HER Gun Wook was really the real Tae Seong? Despite the whole shit that went on... she didn't even realised she shot her own half-brother? Did she not suffer anything?
Lol. 'Bad Plot'
Another revenge type drama... tho compared to Shark (and Mawang, yeah had to mention it cos of the scriptwriter/director thing) Bad Guy had a lot of shortcomings. The setting was good... and the cast acting was good, but I have to say some of the extra plot complications were better off being scrapped and the main meaty plot being explored more. What I mean was... to not focus too much on the revenge plot device but focusing more on the issue of the true son attempting to return to the family that threw him out and how his life gonna go from there.
To be honest the whole Mo Ne-Gun Wook-Tae Ra complication made me queasy. Especially once you find out the true familial relationship between the three. I rather the triangle just focus between Jae In-Gun Wook-Tae Seong... with Mo Ne being the confused one-sided affair. Incestious relationship is kinda mehhhhhh on me, especially since from the beginning Gun Wook was aware of everything. Even if he somehow wanted to seek love to the people who once considered 'family'. But I do believe that Gun Wook really did care for Tae Ra as an older sister. So that extra sideline flirting thing is going too far. I mean... if you wanna tell your not-really-blood-related-older sister, who's only connected to you by her mom's marriage to your real dad; to separate from her cheating husband--you could just tell her all the dirty secret without going as far as setting up yourself as a love interest. Even if that was more to make your younger half-sister to stop pining on you because she's damn stubborn to marry you. And truthfully, had Gun Wook focused more on trying to create a chance for him to reveal himself as that 'discarded child' and finding out the real reason for him being discarded, would be a more believable plot point rather than the elaborate 'revenge' plan.
And this roundabout rollercoaster about who's the real Tae Seong was annoying. Especially when from the very beginning you already get the impression that Gun Wook IS the real illegitimate son. Despite onwards the show kept trying to convince you that it's not. Because face it, the 'current' Tae Seong had been living like an asshole... but he had no other trauma. Yet for Gun Wook, he had been pushed into a cupboard, almost strangled to death, several attempts of murder, death of parents--a bit overkill if it's just to silence the existence of a 'fake' child right? By logic, he HAD to be the real thing or else what's the reason over Madam Shin's obsession of wanting him dead? All the miscommunications were annoying as well.
Since acting-wise... I don't think the cast did badly. Though, the psycho step-mom was not that convincing actually. And the fact they made Gun Wook as a smart person, for him to not find his 'revelation' to be full of contradiction didn't make any sense. I mean... he heard Secretary Kim tell him that Madam Shin 'rather raise a stranger's child rather than the illegitimate son of her husband', yet by that logic... why did she raised 'Tae Seong' with no problem if he was the real Tae Seong? Why threw away Choi Tae Seong if he was the fake? It doesn't make sense. It's a contradiction! I bet you, the plot would be better had this realisation made Gun Wook change his approach against Haeshin with a new direction. To find out if he was actually the real Tae Seong. Because... if he was fake, why Madam Shin tried so hard as to kill him? Why Tae Seong didn't have that treatment aside from being treated like some shit child in the family?
The writing seemed like trying to hard to include every single Kdrama revenge trope inside here I wanted to cry at the cast for having to follow with the script. It's kinda sad. I wished that plot about Gun Wook being crazy after the accident was real and not him pretending. Cos he had that right to lose his mind. People have been screwing with his life too much it was a miracle if he did not NOT go insane. Seriously... the plot is just so screwed up... and we're not even talking about the ridiculous rushed ending for the last two episodes. It's like the show have a quota to meet to have to make Kim Nam Gil's character die at the end of the drama. I mean... even if you have to cut short the shooting due to Kim Nam Gil being enlisted into the army, there are many other ways to end the show aside from killing the character actually.
And it was not just of the rushed plotline... but the ridiculousness as to why people don't question about Gun Wook's identity after Tae Seong was revealed as NOT the chairman's son. If Gun Wook's also not the real son... why go so far as to kill him? Just because he wanted to destroy Haeshin? Why don't people question MORE? I felt like I wanted to shake the laptop with my frustration with the needless focus on the Haeshin 'business'. The slot would have been better used to cover all the holes in the plot. It's the write is high on something... and I thought I was high when I did random plot that don't make sense.
Let us not speak of the ending. I love the main cast tho. I'm confused. I preferred they didn't turn Mo Ne into overly attached girlfriend psycho. I mean... DID.NO.ONE.TELL.HER Gun Wook was really the real Tae Seong? Despite the whole shit that went on... she didn't even realised she shot her own half-brother? Did she not suffer anything?
Lol. 'Bad Plot'