La creatura di GyeongSeong (2023)

Mistura de história, romance, mistério, ficção científica e monstros!

Assim que terminei o último episódio, sentei para escrever esta resenha. Mas confesso que estou até o momento tentando entender se gostei ou não do drama. Não que eu não tenha gostado, mas também ficou longe de ser um dos melhores que já assisti. Talvez pela expectativa que criei já que tínhamos nada mais nada menos que Park Seo Joon e Han So Hee no elenco, eu estivesse esperando um drama daqueles de tirar o fôlego. E na real, nem achei que eles combinaram tanto assim como casal na trama.

Como destaque, embora A Criatura de Gyeongseong seja uma história de ficção, ela leva a sério seu cenário histórico já que é ambientado em momento traumático da história da Coreia. Gostei da abordagem que representa claramente a histórica da ocupação japonesa sobre a Coréia porém incorporando elementos de aventura e fantasia resultando em uma narrativa envolvente que prende a atenção.
Ainda dentro dessa abordagem histórica da ocupação japonesa, também fica óbvio na trama os limites da ciência num confronto militar com experimentos desumanos realizados no hospital onde a história se desenrola o que acaba adicionando mais profundidade à trama

O final da primeira temporada deixa margem muito clara para uma possibilidade de segunda temporada que pode ser totalmente diferente. Além da cena da Criatura ter transferido sua energia ou essência vital para sua filha, tendo a possibilidade de trazer o personagem de Han Soo-hee de volta à vida, o episódio 10 inclui pós-créditos que avança para décadas no futuro enquanto um homem interpretado por Park Seo-joon aparece. O que pode significar a continuidade entre gerações. Muitas possibilidades que poderiam surgir numa possível segunda temporada já que além destes dois fatos existem alguns outros que ficaram em aberto: O que aconteceu com o bebê de Myeong-já? O que aconteceu com Lady Maeda?

A curiosidade é grande mas não resta outra coisa a não ser aguardar!

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beautiful, tough and historical

first of all even tho im not interested in history i was very invested in the plot. the historical part was quite important, but it didnt feel like a history class!!
secondly i love this 'creature' idea, its really fascinating to me how it will work on a little baby....
what's next, it might be my problem, but it was difficult for me to get attached to the characters, so i couldnt bring myself to cry. despite that i love the was main actors showed their emotions (seo joon and so hee are truly the best)
the acting was good but what was making this series hard to watch for me, is the fact that they were almost all the time at one place. but i got through this
and the ending!!! that was really something. didnt expect that the 'mother-creature' would pass its parasite(?) to chae ok....
after that ending i really cant wait for a next season ;)

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everybody's dumb

I usually structure my reviews in positive points and negative points, where I try to be as objective and critical as possible, but I don't think I will be able to do just that with this one. No, this one is going to be pure rant and little else.
The disappointment is still too fresh as I'm typing this, but I don't want to wait to cool down before writing, because... I don't want to devote any more of my time to Gyeongseong Creature, honestly.
It's not a terrible show, I would like to make it clear; it has had its good moments and the first episode started strong, promising a thrilling and suspenseful trip in secret government structures and terrifying depictions of human experiments and the horrors of war and enemy occupation, but that didn't actually happen and I find more annoying things than great ones.
Reading the summary, I had expected a completely different plot, but that's on me for creating mental fan fictions before actually watching the thing. For some reason I convinced myself the monster (which had no human past, but came from another dimension) was haunting an abandoned hospital and built my own expectations from there.
But back to the review.
What really gave me the ick with this drama is how absolutely, utterly dumb the characters and the writing are. I will point out a couple of examples to clarify what I mean.
Let's start with the nature of the monster itself.
For 8/9 episodes out of 10 I thought the little germ they found in the glacier caused the mutation, but that bit was actually the humans. The najin solely makes the person an aggressive apex predator whose only want is to attack humans and eat their brains (basically a zombie, but without the rotten skin). They are faster and stronger than a normal human being and can heal from any kind of wound in literal seconds. The only weaknesses: fire and sunlight (but not really).
So why, WHY, even inject that mad scientist formula to begin with? You already have a superhuman, you only need to find a way to tame them. Why turn them into three-meter-tall monsters with tentacles and all of that jazz that you can't even keep in a cage? I understand those doctors are psychos, but they are just creating a problem where there could easily be none.
But I also understand they needed a disgusting monster for this show (it's in the title, after all), so I'll let it pass...
I mean, they could have omitted the part where it's the human-made injection that causes the mutation and blame it all on the najin, but let's not go there.
Other rather dumb behaviours can be found in the prisoners (and I feel bad in saying so, but it has to be said) and our protagonists.
So, you are a prisoner and you know terrible things are going on in the place you are being held in and nobody returns after they are taken from the cell, so explain me why
1) you eat and drink without a second thought the things your psychotic captors are offering you. I know you are likely starving, but you should also have some sort of survival instinct and a lot of trust issues given what you experienced. But, nope, just gulp it all down. The soldiers don't even need to hold you at gunpoint to force you.
2) WHY are you touching the weird spores flying out of the menacing and tightly sealed carriage pushed by soldiers covered HEAD TO TOE in protective suit? I was just about to scream in frustration when I saw that happening.
Now, onto our named characters.
You very secretly get into a dangerous and off-limits enemy base and you don't want them to know you are here. So is it REALLY necessary to kill those (already unconscious and taken care of) guards with a katana? Is it REALLY necessary to swing it freely around and above your head so that the soldiers standing guard in the tower can see what's going on and give the alarm? Don't think so but the writers decided it was, apparently.
At least they are consistent in making the characters dumb, I'll give them that. We got dumb villains, dumb heroes and dumb victims.
This show saving grace could have then been the horror part, but the creature itself lost its impact and horrific nature the moment it was fully and clearly showed. The CGI wasn't even that bad, considering it's for a Netflix k-drama, but I believe showing the monster is a common mistake many horror movies and shows make. After all, what is more terrifying than the unknown?
I only felt some kind of chill and anxiety during the very first episodes, when we still couldn't see the creature, just a confused shape hidden in the shadows and tentacles jumping out of nowhere. My imagination did the rest in creating a scary monster, but the instant they showed THEIR monster... it was all gone. I find it ridiculous more than anything and I even stopped feeling disgusted whenever it sucked brains with its tentacles. Which, admittedly, was the ONLY truly horrifying thing it did as the big bad monster of the show and the only time I looked away from the screen.
I truly believe with a better writing (and a little less wooden-looking FL) this drama would have been great and unforgettable, because the idea was good and the first episode very promising.
Instead we got something unoriginal, poorly executed and with underdeveloped characters. There was no built up to the experiment and the monster (although I liked the fact it was the mother our FL and her father have been looking for for ten years) and we're pushed right into the action minutes after meeting the characters. We don't get to know and care for them nor they get to know and care for each other – the love story between those two makes no sense, because how many interactions did they actually have, besides the ones where they are either fighting or running for their lives?
The more I write, the more frustrated and disappointed I fell, so I'll end it here.
I know I should watch season two to understand what was going on with the very last scenes of the season finale, but right now I really don't care nor feel like wasting any more of my time. In the future, perhaps – or I'll just go read some reviews with spoilers of s2 and spare myself another possible disappointment.

- Mei

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Stranger things vibes

At first it was a little boring and had a slow start, I had a really hard time watching it and figured I might drop it, but then my friend started watching it and she went a lot further with the show and started to talk to me about how good it is and that I should continue it, so I listened, and i’m glad I did!!!

Trust me, once they get into the hospital (wink wonk), shit goes DOWN! It’s so good.

The arcs built up, the way they connect things to each other and the way all of it slowly gets revealed.

I don’t want to spoil much but to say overall, this gave me a lot of stranger things vibes at first and I was lowkey here for it, they did it really well— it was like….watching schindlers list mixed with strangers things almost?

The betrayals the sacrifices, this will bring you to tears, truly. Also the ending had me jump out of my seat!!!! I hope season 2 happens!
I never really liked the actor (park seojoon) and didn’t think he and han sohee fit each other but they showed their chemistry and i enjoyed it a lot.

Its a good watch, 10eps, perfect honestly, they didn’t drag it out (except for maybe a little in the beginning but then again i am very impatient) , built the drama up well, every new ep something new gets revealed, although theres still some plotholes like (***spoiler) how does lady maeda know about chaeoks mother and what kind of teacher was she to her? why were they so deeply connected that lady maeda remembers her? also was the japanese painter in love w chaeoks mother?😂 this one is just my personal theory.

Anyway I recommend this! Good watch!

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Gyeongseong creature- between not absolutely horrible but not great either

The first 5 episodes honestly made me rethink starting the drama and then dropping it because it fell terribly flat, be it the characters or the pacing. The show really starts showing some actual substance after episode 6. Still the plot and character building was rushed, character development felt sloppy and there were some glaring plot holes that cannot be overlooked as anything but plot armor.
The drama in my opinion failed when it tried to do a lot of things at the same time but not hitting the right balance. The atrocities and crimes committed by the Japanese occupation subsequently got overshadowed by the supernatural aspect of the drama. Half the time I wasn't sure how to feel because you have some very dark material that horrifies you and then you see a 10-11 ft monster just rumbling about. You aren't sure whether to be curious and thrilled about what the monster can do when you have a man being tortured still fresh in your mind.
Now, the last 4 episodes kinda brought them together in a good cohesion and an overarching theme to bind them but in a 10 episode length drama thats quite late. Han so hee was amazing throughout, especially her action scenes and crying scenes gave me goosebumps.Park SEO Joon's Jang tae sang character development was finicky but it made him act more like a main character rather than a showpiece so..i guess it's okay. The ending felt like a leeway to season 2 and less like a proper ending to me. Loved the opening theme song extremely haunting and appropriate for a drama like this. Production, cinematography, cgi were pretty good. Overall not bad but not great.

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Vamos esperar o desfecho.

Eu já esperava que o final ia ser assim, aberto, mas eu desejei que não, que acabasse ali e pronto, não gosto dos dramas da Netflix porque ela tá com mania de fazer continuação e pra mim com Dorama isso nunca funcionou, isso estraga a história
Enfim, não sei se estou satisfeita com esse final, eu torcendo pra Maeda morrer, ainda tava viva e provavelmente ia virar monstro, o nojento do Kato ficou vivo e ainda tinha o bebê e acho que pra piorar TUDO a mãe quis salvar a filha que ODIEI essa cena dela ter matado a própria filha e ela vai virar monstro também. Não gostei.
E o final do tae sang no futuro, no caso um ancestral dele seila, não entendi
Mas o que eu gosto de gyeongseong, inclusive me lembrou muito de mr sunshine é a luta e o sofrimento que eles retratam na época da invasão do Japão, eles sinto que eles gostam disso porque eles sobreviveram e no fim venceram, eu realmente gosto disso, me sinto aprendendo história sem nem precisar sentar pra ler sobre. Esperava mais do drama, mas ele entregou muita atuação, principalmente da so hee e o seo Joon, que dupla e muitas reviravoltas.

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great cgi & plot

8,7/10. Alur menarik, cast bagus, cgi-nya juga oke. Cuma agak disayangkan, some of their scenes kadang rada boring gatau knp. Jadi agak berat gitu tiap mau lanjut eps berikutnya. Juga beberapa scenes dibuat sangat mendramatisir, tapi masih bisalah dimaklumin. Banyak bgt org munafik di drama ini 😂 even org terdekat yg udah dipercaya kaya keluarga. It hurts, tp emg itu yg sering terjadi di dunia nyata. Surprisingly walaupun ini kubilang banyak scene yg bikin boring, di eps 6 aku nangis bombay 😅😅😅 ohya ini juga mostly nyeritain tentang perjuangan korsel ngelawan jp slma masa penjajahannya ya. Beneran sbrutal itu 😢😢😢 thrillingnya ini DAPET BGT, gaboong. Deg-degan parah tiap eps takut ketauan ama militer jp 💔😁😁😁 dan untuk siapapun yg bilang seojun - sohee ga ada chemistry gw tinju lu bjir 👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻💥 ga ada chemistry apanya tai gw nangis pas di ending cok 😭😭😭😭😭 gw akuin ini acting sohee bagus bgt. Kalo seojun mah gausah dinilai blio ni juga udh bagus 👍🏻 untuk ending... GANTUNG. Anjir ga nyangka bgt nungguin part 2 biar bisa langsung kelar semuanya taunya tetep digantung sama season 2 💔💔💔💔💔 smoga gk lama lama yh lu @Season 2 ntar gw lupa jalan critanya njirt

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impactado

estou meio chocado com esse daqui. eu assisto séries de ficção/fantasia sul coreanas sabendo que minhas chances de se decepcionar são baixas e mais uma vez minhas expectativas foram atendidas. eu não estava esperando que a série tivesse um teor tão político, é muito clara a crítica a ocupação japonesa e os danos que trouxe à sociedade, é uma clara demonstração da tomada de liberdade e o que se configura viver constantemente oprimido. além da crítica talvez não tão explícita do modelo como mulheres eram tratadas nessa época. enfim, um show em tudo!

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Interesting genre-bending premise but ultimately gives way to tropes... and romance

First of all, I love k dramas that blend genres, and most of the time they succeed. Unfortunately, this is not one of them.

The production value is high, and the cast is high caliber, the premise is intriguing, I also love this time period for dramas, and there's decent action between the long stretches of dialogue.

So herein lies the issue. The tags are Action, Thriller, Historical, and Sci-Fi. I love all those genres. The main genre is actually a Romance. It should be its main tag. It should be at the front of the line. Everything eventually is just about the Romance between the 2 protagonists. Despite having so many other interesting avenues of plot and storylines, it ultimately devolves into a love story. Which doesn't sound terrible but when it takes place in a gritty historical setting with war, atrocities, and monsters, it sticks out like a sore thumb.

It's especially jarring when the ML is a white knight that constantly sweeps in to save the FL despite the FL establishing she is a very competent and capable badass. But then he sweeps in like a male Rey Skywalker in every scene, being good and perfect at everything. Our ML is a Gary Stu (male Mary Sue). He is the best businessman, he's also the handsomest, he's also the best fighter, the best shooter, he knows everyone and everything, he out rebels the rebels and out sleuths the sleuths. At one point he even teleports. I kid you not. He is physically on one level and magically teleports to where the story needs him to be. And all the characters (and I mean ALL the characters) seem to be trying to help the ML get with the FL, all while on the run from soldiers and monsters. It's insane.

And at one point someone seemingly dies. Then they totally do not. What is this!? A MAKJANG???!!! And things like this happen quite a few times.

But in the end, I did enjoy it overall. It's a good production, the action scenes are on point, I'm still a sucker for this time period, and the Sci-Fi and horror aspects I found intriguing. I just didn't expect romance to be the driving plot of the whole story. And the plot logic is all over the place. Just be prepared to suspend your disbelief for a LOT of it and enjoy the ride.

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