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honou_no_izumi Apr. 5th, 2022 01:34 am)
honou_no_izumi Apr. 5th, 2022 01:34 am)Signal SP
Yanno when I first watched the Japanese adaptation of Signal, I really can't help noticing that there was at least one case that were in the original that weren't included in the Japanese version. I usually assume that it's because Jdrama tend to have shorter runs so when adapting from Kdramas that had twice the usual length, some parts from the original would have to be omitted.
To be fair, I never expected the series to revisit the case--heck, I didn't think that the Japanese adaptation would even have a sequel, so when the movie and sp was announced I was very delighted.
So the case that haven't appeared in the jdrama made appearance in this sp, which was the case of a woman who was supposed to be dead end up actually still alive. It's interesting to see how the case was rewritten in the sp to be set much later than in the original. So instead of this case being the origin as to how the secret evidence of corruption came to light, it end up becoming a way to reveal the truth of the death of one of the corrupt officers.
Signal Movie
Since it probably gonna be long wait before we would ever get any news of a sequel on the original, we might as well make do with the Jdrama's version of a sequel to the series. Anyway I'm also curious on what kind of plot we'll get, since aside from the one used in the SP, I think there wasn't any other cases from the original that haven't been covered in the series. And it turned out that it'll be an original case.
Since the SP already implied that the corrupt politician who had been the bane for our pair of detective and profiler in the series finally had their crimes revealed, it makes you wonder what else for our heroes to do. But it turned out that we still have the the underlings of the corrupt politicians and a whole new kind of villain. So I guess that's enough to set the stage for Oyama and Saegusa to work together again, as the SP left us with yet another cliffhanger.
So this time it was murders via poisonous gas and terrorism. A whole new story unconnected to the original kdrama plot. I guess they decided to base the movie plot to something that's familiar to the Japanese audience, cos the moment I see the mention of a poison gas and terrorism, I immediately thought about a Sarin gas attack that I once read in the news. And Jdramas really do love to reuse the plotwist about Public Safety being full of dark secrets.
Overall, it's a fine movie. It kinda took me a while to get used to seeing a much more excitable Oyama in the special and movie compared to the drama, but I guess with Oyama already getting fond of the adult Saegusa and his younger self I can't really blame Oyama to be super happy about being able to work together again with him.
There are some parts that I likes and some I didn't like, but the movie was quite decent. It's cool that BTS still contribute a song for the movie's ending cos I thought they just gonna reuse Don't Leave Me or something. We still got yet another cliffhanger--our faves can't seem to be able to meet properly--but that set a possibility of another sequel. Wishful thoughts, haha. Like I think I used to hear that there's a possibility for the kdrama to get a sequel after so long, so I guess they wanted to keep the open end to allow for such possibilities.
Yanno when I first watched the Japanese adaptation of Signal, I really can't help noticing that there was at least one case that were in the original that weren't included in the Japanese version. I usually assume that it's because Jdrama tend to have shorter runs so when adapting from Kdramas that had twice the usual length, some parts from the original would have to be omitted.
To be fair, I never expected the series to revisit the case--heck, I didn't think that the Japanese adaptation would even have a sequel, so when the movie and sp was announced I was very delighted.
So the case that haven't appeared in the jdrama made appearance in this sp, which was the case of a woman who was supposed to be dead end up actually still alive. It's interesting to see how the case was rewritten in the sp to be set much later than in the original. So instead of this case being the origin as to how the secret evidence of corruption came to light, it end up becoming a way to reveal the truth of the death of one of the corrupt officers.
Signal Movie
Since it probably gonna be long wait before we would ever get any news of a sequel on the original, we might as well make do with the Jdrama's version of a sequel to the series. Anyway I'm also curious on what kind of plot we'll get, since aside from the one used in the SP, I think there wasn't any other cases from the original that haven't been covered in the series. And it turned out that it'll be an original case.
Since the SP already implied that the corrupt politician who had been the bane for our pair of detective and profiler in the series finally had their crimes revealed, it makes you wonder what else for our heroes to do. But it turned out that we still have the the underlings of the corrupt politicians and a whole new kind of villain. So I guess that's enough to set the stage for Oyama and Saegusa to work together again, as the SP left us with yet another cliffhanger.
So this time it was murders via poisonous gas and terrorism. A whole new story unconnected to the original kdrama plot. I guess they decided to base the movie plot to something that's familiar to the Japanese audience, cos the moment I see the mention of a poison gas and terrorism, I immediately thought about a Sarin gas attack that I once read in the news. And Jdramas really do love to reuse the plotwist about Public Safety being full of dark secrets.
Overall, it's a fine movie. It kinda took me a while to get used to seeing a much more excitable Oyama in the special and movie compared to the drama, but I guess with Oyama already getting fond of the adult Saegusa and his younger self I can't really blame Oyama to be super happy about being able to work together again with him.
There are some parts that I likes and some I didn't like, but the movie was quite decent. It's cool that BTS still contribute a song for the movie's ending cos I thought they just gonna reuse Don't Leave Me or something. We still got yet another cliffhanger--our faves can't seem to be able to meet properly--but that set a possibility of another sequel. Wishful thoughts, haha. Like I think I used to hear that there's a possibility for the kdrama to get a sequel after so long, so I guess they wanted to keep the open end to allow for such possibilities.
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