Post by ajk on Jan 27, 2024 9:45:02 GMT -5
Marked as 32 in the episode list on YouTube….
We all knew what was going to happen in this one, but still I’d have to say this was the best episode so far. Just because it was presented very well and it was the first time I can remember watching an episode intently from start to finish without my attention wandering or without lulls or questions. You know, the way you watch a really good episode in a really good series, it grabs your attention and keeps you focused the whole time. The material could have been mishandled but it wasn’t. It may not have been perfectly accurate, but you could believe it all happened this way or close to it.
And actually this is one time I won’t complain about the traumatized-little kid scene because it was fair and an important part of the story.
The problem with this episode wasn’t the episode specifically, it was the lack of setting up the reasons and the case for Youngjo being justified in killing Sado. I’ll save this for the post-mortem thread, but the moment Youngjo orders Sado’s death I immediately started wondering On what grounds? He’s done nothing to justify this! Which of course is far from the truth, but the series has gone out of its way to soft-peddle Sado’s story and instead it gave us this weird rebellion angle.
What was that business about him wanting to wear his little boy’s hat? Messed-up mentally or not he has to know it won’t fit him. That was weird.
This was maybe the strongest moment of the episode. How said, and very believable, the devotion that she had for him and how she and everyone else around Sado suffered and stressed over him. Too bad we never got a name for her, even a fictional name.
We all knew what was going to happen in this one, but still I’d have to say this was the best episode so far. Just because it was presented very well and it was the first time I can remember watching an episode intently from start to finish without my attention wandering or without lulls or questions. You know, the way you watch a really good episode in a really good series, it grabs your attention and keeps you focused the whole time. The material could have been mishandled but it wasn’t. It may not have been perfectly accurate, but you could believe it all happened this way or close to it.
And actually this is one time I won’t complain about the traumatized-little kid scene because it was fair and an important part of the story.
The problem with this episode wasn’t the episode specifically, it was the lack of setting up the reasons and the case for Youngjo being justified in killing Sado. I’ll save this for the post-mortem thread, but the moment Youngjo orders Sado’s death I immediately started wondering On what grounds? He’s done nothing to justify this! Which of course is far from the truth, but the series has gone out of its way to soft-peddle Sado’s story and instead it gave us this weird rebellion angle.
What was that business about him wanting to wear his little boy’s hat? Messed-up mentally or not he has to know it won’t fit him. That was weird.
This was maybe the strongest moment of the episode. How said, and very believable, the devotion that she had for him and how she and everyone else around Sado suffered and stressed over him. Too bad we never got a name for her, even a fictional name.