#aouad ended on BIG cliffhanger

[rotblut]

i’m currently watching sweet home s2 (will finish today and i saved your rant ask about it to read after)

so far i’m mostly having a good time, it’s entertaining, but it’s just … making me reminiscent of season 1? i think s1 had more heart; learning about hyunsu’s backstory and the aching theme of wanting to live, of fighting to live, and humanity and hope in the darkness. idk if im explaining it well but like s2 just feels like a generic apocalypse show now. i know it’s completely diverged from the webtoon now, but i feel like we’ve lost the why of the show. i’m a little :/ because i was really really looking forward to this season because s1 left off on such a cliffhanger and i’d thought we could expand on the story, but lm not interested in military politics.

(also am i the only one put off by seeing song kang’s body so much!? im already not a huge fan of him as an actor - i like him in this show cause he’s just bloody and pathetic - but i think the directors forgot his character is supposed to be a teenager. his head is too small his shoulders are too broad his tits are too big like is this how lesbians feel?)

I agree with your criticism of the SH drama. that's why the drama shouldn't have deviated so strongly from the source material original story. again, looking at season 2 the title doesn't even make sense anymore. the story from the webtoon was always focused on hyun soo and his outer and inner struggles from the beginning till the end and strangly enough he was the human+supernatural anchor that held all the emotional storylines together and made it work but in the drama, it got lost and replaced with violent scenes of him being naked and chained, that had no meaning and felt flat and fanservice-y. also feel like it counts that hyun soo was hardly in s2 as well. and he felt more like a side character instead of the main one. I feel like they also should have explored eunyoo's backstory a bit more because in s1 it was all tell but not seen and they could have used s2 to show us instead of just told us all the time. and even tho i enjoyed her search for eun hyuk it would have been great if she had gotten room for her own character that did not have anything to do with either of the 3 guys. didn't also understand the reasoning why all the female characters were acting *antagonistic* in regards to her as well. also, the violence in general for s2 was just so different from s1. i feel like those kinds of dramas need to move on from having a military-political and scientific-medicine-focused subplot and just concentrate on the *normal people* as they struggle to survive but they won't let that cow die. see them put that same shite subplot in season 2 of all of us are dead as well once they finally decide to give us updates on that one after nearly 2 fucking years...............like as if anyone gives a fuck about any of the other projects that the main cast gets when we all want s2 of aouad.......... insanity

also i'm not commenting on kang's body. it's fine and pretty. and true he's not the best actor but when he hits he hits so it all depends on the role and writing. but also there was a 3 year time jump in sweet home so i guess they had to put some fanservice in there......... but i was surprised about all the bare skin left and right in s2.

[koreandragon]

aewfkljs;flk pretty sure your secret valentine will be happy with any length letter you send them...

yeah that's what makes netflix originals bingeable.. them being short and usually keeping them under 50mins but with aouad they said this one going to be long............ took two days to finish it mainly to avoid coming across any spoilers knowing that netflix originals are being watched by both kdrama fans and casual watchers who aren't part of the fandom.........

i heard kingdom s2 ended in a cliffhanger... and there's no news about a third one and it's more likely it's cancelled as i'm seeing the writer is already planning her next drama.. bummer for all of kingdom fans!! even though some could work with multi-seasons i think with so many seasons writers tends to lose the story and by the end of it it turns into MEH or worse GARBAGE, i dropped lots and lots of shows because of how bad they got in the later seasons.... so it's good to know when to stop the story and end it at its highest instead...... lets not forgot arthdal chronicles it ended right when the story started and i really got hooked and love few characters as i found the premise very intriguing............... i'm still angry about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so touch your heart was the first one.. i still feel that one still fairly new so you haven't been in the fandom for too long........ did you check the old gems...? not necessary the 2000's but those 2010~2016 dramas...? befor i got into the j/kdrama i started with movies to get used to the languages, their acting, the directing, etc.... and with both i started with those web short ones while the jdrama sucked a big time i ended up enjoying the kdrama one as it went on it was fun.......... i watch jdrama with different lens than kdrama if that makes sense........lots of jdrama tends to feel old even if they're recent ones and they tend to use natural lightning as much as possible.... except for netflix ones they always feel very high quality...

omggggggg same i avoid sageuk and only watched very few ones so far, they've been producing them a lot lately and my favs have been casted in them ://// do they hate me that much.... i usually prefer the medical ones over the law dramas....

same i feel like i have to get through it as fast as possible because people will spoil it for me i almost ran into some spoilers on twitter while i was still watching it so you gotta be quick.

i loved kingdom but honest to god i couldn't tell you how s2 ended but then they made ashin of the north which is a like a prologue/origin story so it basically takes place before the events in kingdom. so idk i don't remember it having a cliffhanger, but vagabond which i mentioned did have one so they just left that there to hang but alas

that often happens with 16-20 episodes dramas too since the episodes are so long the plot just gets lost on the way like right now the king's affection comes to mind like why was it 20 episodes, what was the reason when everything kinda came to conclusion by ep 14. i didn't even finish the whole thing.

well i'm 4 years and 236 dramas in so it's not like i just watched the ongoing ones, i spent the majority of my time watching older ones and classics. thing about some dramas before the year 2014 is that they're so unbelivably soapy and weirdly edited/shot that i cannot watch them. have you seen me attempting to watch secret garden? i almost died. how long have you been watching dramas?

i totally get what you're talking about regarding jdramas they're very different and when i watch them i have to get into a different mindset too. the first one i watched was good morning call which was horrible and i still watched like a whole season of it. that's why i don't watch them a lot like i watched cherry magic and all the ones with yamaken in it lmao

omg don't even tell me about the recent surge of sageuks i've been suffering....everyone and their mother decided to star in historicals recently not paying mind to my mental wellness...my friend said that it's probably because sageuks are shot in a more controlled environment ie. the historical sites so it's easier to abide by covid regulations. another thing the virus has taken from me...