My prediction being true is the last thing I want, but I can't shake the feeling that that is the way things will go down. I've had this feeling since episode 50 or so, and its not going away.
the utter lack of any revenge and the loss of anything that made the characters compelling and any tension. The characters, all of them, have ceased to make sense or be interesting about 20 eps back.
No truer words, Mousie. No truer words.
so I wonder if it's a common problem in these lengthy epics (though Seoul 1945 seems too have avoided that).
I think it is. Even a lot of the Sat/Sun family dramas have this problem - they start to drag during the second half. I think a lot of Korean writers have problems handing 50+ episode dramas, because they don't understand how to keep things flowing with that many characters and storylines.
I think Seoul 1945 did alright because it was about pre-WW II Korea and followed the characters into the Korean War - that's a lot of historical things to use (Giant more or less ignored the historical stuff after episode 20-something - and there were major events happening in the 1970s and 80s in Korea); plus, there were many characters and while it focused a lot on the four leads, it also showed a lot of the struggles in their families. Some of my favorite stuff in that drama are the family scenes. I loved the way all those characters grew and changed as their worlds rapidly changed around them.
My take is this: the Lee Brothers are just stupid. They should have just shot Satan years ago. They could have cut the wires in his car and caused him to die in a car crash. Instead they sat on their asses and let him ruin (or nearly ruin) so many lives - including the lives of MW, Miju, and WJ.
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Date: 2010-11-30 10:45 pm (UTC)the utter lack of any revenge and the loss of anything that made the characters compelling and any tension. The characters, all of them, have ceased to make sense or be interesting about 20 eps back.
No truer words, Mousie. No truer words.
so I wonder if it's a common problem in these lengthy epics (though Seoul 1945 seems too have avoided that).
I think it is. Even a lot of the Sat/Sun family dramas have this problem - they start to drag during the second half. I think a lot of Korean writers have problems handing 50+ episode dramas, because they don't understand how to keep things flowing with that many characters and storylines.
I think Seoul 1945 did alright because it was about pre-WW II Korea and followed the characters into the Korean War - that's a lot of historical things to use (Giant more or less ignored the historical stuff after episode 20-something - and there were major events happening in the 1970s and 80s in Korea); plus, there were many characters and while it focused a lot on the four leads, it also showed a lot of the struggles in their families. Some of my favorite stuff in that drama are the family scenes. I loved the way all those characters grew and changed as their worlds rapidly changed around them.
My take is this: the Lee Brothers are just stupid. They should have just shot Satan years ago. They could have cut the wires in his car and caused him to die in a car crash. Instead they sat on their asses and let him ruin (or nearly ruin) so many lives - including the lives of MW, Miju, and WJ.