A Korean Odyssey (2017)

If it contains any spoilers, it conserns only first 5 episodes.
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Firstly: the story.

The link between main characters reminded me of Goblin, which If you ask me is a pretty accurate observation. In both those girl is out of luck and out of family (o.0), good-hearted and strong (in a way), while the guy is a super-being, bound to appear whenever his lady calls. Here though the stories go their separate ways. (Obviously I’m not saying there couldn’t be found more similarities).

I must say I enjoyed most of the character in the show and their relationships. The story was a nice balance of humour, drama and bits of horror.
I liked how the reason for Kong’s love wasn’t ignored. Like - we knew it all along, but it was nice that it was reminded every then and again. Also the way the love all-together was treated was very humane. I like that it was perfectly understandable why she felt the way that she did. I think it shows good writing.
I liked that Sun Mi wasn’t just all fragile; a damsel in distress. /I like her more than the Goblin FL (but maybe that’s something about me)/

And though the overalls feelings were rather positive, there are some negatives that I cannot leave out.
Something that really bothered me was the unnaturality. Which may just be the very essence of kdrama, and it’s romcom genre. Something about the theatricality. How come they have so much monologues? It just seems scenic, and kind of pretentious.

Secondly: the music. As such it wasn’t bad. But it’s not just what, but how. And I didn’t appreciate the use of the ‘main song’. The one that must play in every episode, and it must be every slightly maybe romantic situation, so that I, the viewer don’t have a doubt who is supposed to fall for each other.

As for rewatch value i must admit i don’t know. I wouldn’t watch it again, but then again i rarely do rewatch, so I don’t know.

I’m not such If you could make something out of my rambling I just felt as though that my poinys may’ve accure to someone as well.
PS: As you may’ve notice English is not my first language, so if anything feels oddly worded – not you know why.

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Power Girl

Amei essa história! O fato da atriz ter uma imagem super madura, segura e poderosa e ela é! E ela literalmente faz o amor acontecer! Ela não humilha e não tem medo! POWER GIRL!! E doramas é difícil achar um papel feminino marcante,
potente e imponderado! Sempre as mulheres são indefesas e sonhadoras a espera de um príncipe encantando!
E isso me deixa realmente decepcionada! Mas nessa história não, ela usa os poderes do herói e arrebenta meu coração
de amor por um papel feminino tão emocionante!! ADORO!!
Por ser fantasia, muitos tem receios de personagens de demônios , e caça aos espíritos, mas eu adoro o sobrenatural, lutas e passado. E aqui tem tudo isso incluso! Tipicamente exorcista me atrai completamente e isso faz o dorama ser maravilhoso!
O ator Lee Seung Gi arrasou ele é apaixonante, ápices de raiva ao extremo, ao mesmo tempo sentimentos de amor e muitos suspiros de sobra também! E cá entre nós um herói lindo e maravilhoso é muito bom!
Difícil final, muito vago e muito complicado de entender um amor que transpassa barreiras do mundo.
Mas se você assiste dorama já está acostumado com os finais coreanos que quando é maravilhoso no começo
meio, pode adivinhar que o final vai ser sempre assim. kkkkkkkkkkkkk!!

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Amei. Amei. Amei. Amei TUDO. Nossa, acham o final trágico. Como assim? O final foi perfeito, foi um final feliz! Ele indo no submundo achar ela, colocou uma marca nela para poder encontrar ela, foi lindo. O final do Rei Demônio com o filho foi lindo também. Não coloquei fé nesse drama, e me surpreendi, amei muito. E não achei que fosse ter história para 20 episódios, teve e foi perfeito. Me surpreendi com personagens que cresceram e se tornaram importantes, exemplo a Zombie. Nossa que atriz linda, que personagem linda. Amei a história da sacerdotisa também, ela se transforma de várias formas. Achei a história dos dois irmãos bem original também. E gostei como o drama não teve pena de matar os personagens. E o romance foi do jeito que eu gosto, essa incerteza de sentimentos, um magoando o outro, mas se magoando no processo. Os dois se apaixonando aos poucos... E eles tinham uma senhora química. O bromance então? Lee Seung Gi e o rei demônio foram hilários juntos, e adorei que até o final a comédia se manteve no mesmo nível, claro com lágrimas a mais, mas o drama continuou engraçado e não foi só depressão. Todos os personagens foram muito marcantes, a secretária cachorro foi muito legal também. E a trilha sonora? Sensacional. Amei esse drama. Amei DEMAIS.

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Eu não esperava muito desse drama, mas me apaixonei completamente! É um dos melhores que eu já vi na minha vida, sério. Uma história inovadora, divertida, cheia de conflitos, muita comédia que você vai se apaixonar completamente. É impossível não se apaixonar. Primeiro, pode achar meio estranho e não gostar, mas se você assistir com fé que vai ser bom, do segundo capítulo para lá, você vai amar. Sério, eu pensei que não ia gostar, ia achar muito... sei lá, sabe? Mas, agora, eu nem tenho palavras para descrever esse drama. Esse foi meu primeiro show com o Lee Seung Gi e agora me pergunto todos os dias 'Como eu não conhecia esse homem antes?'. EU FIQUEI COMPLETAMENTE APAIXONADA POR ELE. Uma atuação 10, super engraçada e que super combina com o ator na vida ral. Recomendo assistir e re-assistir muitas vezes, falo por experiencia própria.

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Plot is important, something the writer/director/whoever doesn't seem to understand but

..... its okay because the main heroine makes up for it, oh wait no she doesn't.

Three episodes in and I'm majorly struggling. To be fair though, I can be kind of picky but this drama was something else. The first episode was fine. Everything after that went downhill so, so fast.

Where is the plot, people? Where???

This drama has no storyline and it has about 3 main characters, one of which I couldn't care less about. The other characters are so much on the peripheral that they literally have one task in the show each, whether that's solely to listen to the main hero (Winter King) complain or to constantly comment on how weird the main heroine is (dude who works for her).

The main heroine is also realy boring, they haven't developed her character at all and it doesn't seem like they will in the next couple episodes either. She's so hung up on main guy protecting her even though in the first ep she was like, I dont need you anymore. When she was a kid, she used her umbrella. 25 years later and she still has that same umbrella and no self defense/ fighting training at all. You can see why im not convinved that if i stick around for more episodes, they'll give her some growth. They couldn't even do that in 25 years.

Plus idk why we'd even root for her. She has no personality apart from wanting to be protected. If you've watched Master's Sun, then you know that the main girl was absolutely terrified of ghosts but she still aways tried her best to help them. The main heroine here does not. Oh i mean sometimes she'll squat next to a ghost of a child and give him popcorn but that's it.

Also, also, the fact that she has no friends/family. Like i get they want to make her pitiable but now she has no personality AND no people around her. She doesn't even seem to sad about it actually, so why should we?

I really like the main dude though. Until they forced him to fall in love in a desperate attempt to have some sort of plot, ugh. And the soundtrack has been awesome. But that's about it.

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I feel like I’m going to be disappointed

im obviously not even half way through this drama but I had really high expectations after reading the reviews and seeing its rating . However it took me a week to get to ep 3, not really attention catching in the beginning. My first impression are that the story line is interesting but a bit off; really weird takes and lines, sometimes funny but an example close to the end of episode 3, once you watch is completely cringe and unrealistic (yes it’s fantasy genre but even in this world was unrealistic). Can’t say much yet, but it’s my first review and I really had the urge to post this as I love reviewing stuff but don’t normally get the courage to don so.
I’m still giving it a go because I believe in the potential it has since the characters integrate you and capture curiosity. Hope it catches my attention and gets me to finish it.

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I abandoned watching this show because the main female lead was just so uninteresting. Her character was too reserved for my liking and she was so emotionless!

The first two episodes were really good because of how the main lead was villainous towards the female lead and very ruthless in wanting to eat her to gain power. He also tried manipulating her into suicide by using her loneliness against her so he could eat her. I also liked how the female lead had spunk in the beginning, and the tension between them was so intense. As soon as the main ML got the love bracelet on him which essentially makes him fall in love with the main FL until she removes it (thus preventing him from killing her), he became so dull. The narrative would have been way better had he fell in love with the main FL naturally instead of doing so bc of the love bracelet. Both of them were so dull. The FL was so annoying as she continuously throughout the show she questioned If the ML if he really loved her when it’s obvious his feelings towards her was because of the bracelet. In addition, she was too forgiving of the ML. GIRL HE MADE SAUCES TO EAT YOU. Not only that, but she is apparently the CEO which is not believable as her history of seeing ghosts prevented her from functioning in real life and so I failed to believe how she attained that position of power. Also she is constantly chasing after ghosts, so how does she have the time to run a company??? She also had one employee, that’s it

The FL ruined the show for me. She was just too lifeless. My favorite characters were the side ones especially the devil king, his assistant and Richie. But it wasn’t enough for me to continue sadly.

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