![]() ![]() Together, this gives me a better feel for who she is, and what she’s about.Į9. Plus, like I said before, her guns are pink, and her grenades are decorated with stickers. This makes me see her as a little scrappier than I’d imagined her to be at first.Īlso, her casual use of the gas mask, along with her fascination for fun and pretty things, gives me the impression that she’s really young, if not in actual age, then in sensibility. Rather, it seems to me that she’s learned to defend herself and she’s learned how to shoot a gun and a bunch of other survival skills, out of necessity. I’d started this show with the impression that Seo Hae was some kind of trained warrior, but the more glimpses we’re given of the dystopian future that she comes from, the more I think that she isn’t actually a trained warrior. ![]() This episode, the flashback to her and her dad scavenging for useful scraps from what looks to be an abandoned department store, was quite illuminating, I thought. But now, we see that she takes it off as a matter of habit she wants to at least pretend to breathe. We’d seen a hint of this in episode 1, where her father had frowned at her for not wearing it, and she’d explained it away by saying she’d taken it off only for a moment. There’s also a touch of rebellion about her, with how she’s casual about the putting on or taking off of her gas mask. She’s curious about the world of the past, and enjoys cute things and kpop and makeup. This is the first time we’re getting a look at her in a situation where she’s not either running away from people, or fighting people, and from the looks of it, there’s a wistfulness about her. Not only do the ruins look very believable to my non-expert eyes, I like the glimpse that it gives us, into her character. I liked the opening scenes of Seo Hae in a post-apocalyptic Seoul. ![]() Or is that an area of concern at all, with this story?Į4. I just wonder what kind of ripple effects might occur, with her changing the winner like that. The fact that he’s desperately dependent on medication just to get through each day, really undercuts his surface flippancy, and makes him much more sympathetic than I’d first imagined. On the other hand, there’s a deep sense of pathos about him, as we learn that he regularly hallucinates that his dead older brother Tae San (Heo Joon Seok) is around him, talking to him, and he’s deeply torn up and traumatized by the fact that he hadn’t been kind to his older brother, the last time they’d seen each other, before his death. That’s some superhero level of offhanded badassery. On top of that, he actually succeeds in pulling everything together and enabling the co-pilot to safely land the plane, thus saving everyone on board. On the one hand, he projects the type of casual, devil-may-care sort of confidence that makes him feel almost unreal, like when he’s struggling to fix the plane while it’s on its way to crashing.Įven with very little time on the clock, he starts his conversation on the phone with Manager Kim (Tae In Ho) in such a casual, everyday sort of manner, where most other people would be freaking out and imploring the other person to call for help. I mean, if Show wasn’t going to take the emotional pain of our characters seriously, then why delve into it so deeply in the first place? This just didn’t work for me. What this means is that the emotional pain of our characters goes ignored, and this decision tainted the ending for me in a very significant way. I will talk more about this in my comments on the ending, but essentially, without getting into specific spoilers, the problem for me with this show, is that in the end, Show prioritizes the comic book treatment of its story, over the emotional journey of our protagonists. I wanted to root for their success, and I wanted them to be spared the obvious emotional pain, that the journey of saving the world entailed. How can you reconcile treating a character’s trials and tribulations lightly (an almost defining factor in a comic book world), with serving up emotional beats that are stirring?įor most of my watch, I felt that Show does a reasonably solid job of this, and I did become invested in our characters’ quest.
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