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[ENDED] [KBS2] "Hwarang: The Beginning" (화랑(花郞)) Official Thread


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Hansung's death just confirmed why I should've dropped this drama after the 4th episode. 1st ep was interesting, 2nd got into the drama, 3rd dropped so bad but I thought that it might pick up again in the 4th. I had to sit through 18 hours of plotless romantic drivel based on the main female character (who I thought might just hold her own, in the 1st episode) constantly getting tied up / nearly killed / crying and having two men battle it out to save her, only to have the character I was watching for uselessly die after 10 minutes of total screentime only to provide manpain for Sunwoo, just when his story was starting to progress.

 

The saddest thing is that this drama had so! much!! potential!!! A group of young men caught up in a political battle between 3 nations, hiding the one who was meant to be king - goddamn that makes for a good story. Even if it was mainly focused on the comedy element, the interactions between Hwarang were the best part of this series, so there's no issue there. But it's not just the main storyline they fucked up - it's every single piece within it. How can you make two complex characters like Banryu and Sooho hate each other but not offer any backstory, any explanation? Why were the queen's motives for hiding Jidwi kept so vague throughout the entire series? Were there even any motives? (If there were, I apologise, I skipped through at least half of the last 5 episodes) Sure, Hansung's death had shock and emotional value - which is all that he was there for, probably - but could they not have established and developed the situation with his family further in previous episodes, instead of spending 20 mins doing a continuous run of finds the letter->flashback->dansae and sunwoo fight->hansung dies->oh no everyone's in mourning but now there are problems with the other characters so let's focus on them instead. There are a ton more things that could have just been handled so much better, I'm too tired to think of them all

 

Anyways I'll probably still check out the last 2 episodes just to see how it all turns out, seeing how they have to fit 20 episodes of action into 2 hours. I'm glad this show gave V a chance to start his acting career, and I've grown attached to the cast so I'll see it through to the end. I just feel bad for the actors, people behind the scenes etc who put so much effort into this show only for it to turn into a clusterfuck of whatever semblance of a plotline it was supposed to have thanks to the utter incompetence of the writers and director 

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