Unfinished & Incongruent Plot Points

I think they did a good job of continuing the story from Sweet Home Season 2 and keeping it interesting with the questions of the neo humans, Lee Eun Hyuk reappearing, the origin and possibility of destroying all the neo humans, and the genetically created infected people including the girl with the tentacles, the rock guy, and liquid metal guy. There was some tear jerkers with the Wang Ho Sang turning, Yi Kyung dying in the tunnel trying to save her daughter, and the little boy turning into slime. I'm kinda glad that they included the slime boy even if he didn't do much for the story. I guess it is stuck to the webtoon story as I don't remember the little slime boy doing much of anything besides guiding somebody somewhere and I think the mom recognized him like they did in the drama.

Now are the things that they just mentioned and hinted at, but didn't give a conclusion too. First off is Dr. Lim and the infected monsters he created and the vial that was in their stomach. That was just mentioned towards the end of season 3 and I don't think he explicitly said how they worked and even what they were composed of. Sergeant In Hwan mentioned that it was Sang Wook's blood, but I don't think Dr. Lim said that and he was just saying that to stall him when the crow platoon was sneaking residents out. Dr. Lim took the vial out of Ja Yeong, girl that could sprout hundred of arms out of her back, but it didn't seem to affect her when it was taken out, but she already was hinting at her pain before that.

One other big plot hole and I thought it was going to make a big impact in the last fight was Chief Ji's son that transformed and was hanging from the ceiling. It maybe was a cocoon, but it seemed that it ate people in that form and it was also hinted at neohumans being drawn towards it. The neohumans were killed outside of the entrance by Sang Wook on a whim and he hinted at them being drawn to something after being reborn, so I thought Chief Ji's son was going to come into play later. Tak In Hwan also mentioned they were going to eliminate her son, but they never followed up on that and Chief Ji was so hung up over it and I don't even think she made an appearance after that talk about her son and her suicide attempt.

Biggest plot point and one that the Sang Wook was worried about was the source of the neohumans, because they were immortal in comparison to Sang Wook. They mentioned this in like 6th episode when Hyun Soo and Eun Hyuk were in the church after they met up. They talked about it like they were going to stop all future neohumans by destroying the source, which I thought was going to turn out to somehow be Chief Ji's son, but I guess they didn't have enough budget to finish that plot point.

Kim Young Hoo the rouge soldier that was sent out to the lab in season 2, I didn't care much at all for his plot line as it felt like it was just used as a bridge to help bring together Eun Hyuk and Hyun Soo and Eun Yoo. One other character that I didn't care at all for was Father Peter and Sun Hwa, the one person who stayed behind while others was evacuating, as they didn't have much character development. It seemed like they were hinting at a relationship, then it randomly shows a flashback of her briefly showing monsterization symptoms, but it felt like those two where an after thought when it came to the plot.

One thing that I thought they did well was the internal conflict that was often brought up in the original webtoon and I liked how they portrayed that in the drama like when Hyun Soo initially brought Yi Kyung back from monsterization and when he was fighting within himself between his true self and monsterized self.

I felt like they made Yi Su so much weaker then she could've been, because she summoned the giant buff monster to show off to Sang Wook. If she could do that, then couldn't she have an entire army of over powered monsters at her hand, instead of just turning residents and making them pretty much just meat shields with no attack ability.

I felt like they were just killing of people to make for tearjerker moments, but the way they were going about it didn't have that much impact for me. The only death that impacted me was Yi Kyung, but even then I felt like I couldn't dwell in the death, because it immediately moved onto the next scene where Yi Su was being dragged off. Eun Yoo showing signs of monsterization all of a sudden and then going off on her own felt like they didn't know how to end her story line, so they just choose something easy that wouldn't affect the main plot. Yi Su's character absolutely killed the acting, as her acting was on point when it came to the crucial scenes. I think her character stood out most for me, as her character was most congruent throughout the story and made sense.

Lastly I think it was fine to end it how they did regarding the rooftop scene to pay homage back to the beginning of their encounters with each other. The neohumans coexisting with humans was so rushed and did not make much sense for how the plot was being setup before with them possibly destroying the source of the neohumans. That point felt hashed together to put a cap on what they would do regarding the neohumans.

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Boyhood: A unique story that is fully of comedy and serious moments as well

Loved the drama overall. The drama was just pure comedy up until episode 6, where it got dark when the SML became a super bully after he regained his memory and started to really bully the ML to the point where he beat up his own BF to just get money from him. The way he got his love interest taken from him and how he was treated like garbage was just depressing overall and showed the real effects of bullying and how it can make people so desperate and feel like they are worthless. The training arc and revenge arc that took place for the last 3 episodes was great and I loved the ending where he finally took his revenge. The only thing that I wish was maybe they could've expanded on the ML's first love interest as she just becomes a forgotten character after she becomes the SML's girlfriend. Also it would've been nice seeing the ML and FL have more romantic scenes together, but maybe that would of derailed from the focus of this story.

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Unsatisfactory Ending with Unsurprising Twists

Non-typical review as this is just my thoughts as I was watching this week to week

(Writing under ep. 12 is more of my overarching thoughts on it)

Ep. 8
The first two storylines where they crackdown on the construction fraud with the executive and the housing money fraud was such a strong start and had me pretty locked in. The introduction of the main ML and the president and vice-president was done nicely. The motive of the ML was established quite nicely, but after those two storylines, it hasn't been as strong in my opinion.

The cafeteria was somewhat interesting, but it didn't have the same suspense as compared to the serious injury involving the construction person, an executive being fired, and the ML's long time hoobae being arrested under fraud. The vice president role has seem to be played down significantly as well with the later story lines with BIMS program, program that automated cost and labor of construction, and the current arc of unfair hiring.

I think the program one had such an anticlimactic ending with the person selling the information. He just threw the data that was hidden in the flask out of the window and it ended with him just going to jail. Compared to the leadup and how it was unraveled it just felt unfulfilled and didn't seem like there was much repercussions in response to that. The first part of the unfair hiring where the the younger ML was being accused of being an unfair hire, because some documents were not found also felt like filler just to get the point across that the ML actually has some humanity when it comes to the younger ML and that he outright didn't distrust him. The younger ML is so naive as well and says some of the cheesiest shit when it comes to the ML of this story as he is sooooo lonely since he can't trust anybody and how he was butthurt that he was sitting him out in the investigation. The man was doing his job, what the hell is he supposed to do, change his entire character, because of this make believe relationship that the younger ML thinks he has with him.

Lastly this was just revealed at the end of episode 8, but I don't get what's wrong with the Seo Jin, the young female in the audit team, with her uncle being the vice president. She was obviously qualified with her high marks on the exams and her grades in University, I don't think she did anything wrong to cheat the system. I bet the whole company is going to pull a PR move and pull her from a team until further evidence comes out and then in one episode she's going to be right back on the team with nothing major happening.

Ep. 9:
Why did the one guy alone take the documents. Are they dumb or what. Bruh, the guy is definitely staging something. Why did they not take the documents when they had the lead audit team ML, young ML, and the vice president in the same car. Kdrama logic at its finest. The reveals are getting so obvious as to how they hint at who did what. Like it was clearly the guy that somehow got the documents stolen. The reveal was not even done in a span of 30 minutes since the documents got stolen. I'm still going to finish this out, but the suspense in the beginning has faded significantly.

Ep 11:
The way they were painting the narrative of how the vice president was the bad guy at the beginning and the president was someone who was trying to uphold justice, I pretty much expected the president to be the bad one. I was kinda zoning in and out of the 11th episode as it was just the usual investigating with the expected buildup to the president using the Head Chief of the subsidiaries who was in on the paper company, the main person who was communicating with the president, to take out the Audit Chief at the same time. I didn't know if they were going to reveal it at the end of episode 11 or wait for the last episode, but since they revealed it at the end of episode 11, I have a sense of what is going to go down. The president is probably going to go to jail and the niece is going to be happy that her "uncle", the vice president, wasn't the person who killed his own brother, and lastly the chief is going to leave the company as all the rats and corruption will be gone within the company.

Ep 12:
Nothing about the ending surprised me and was overly satisfying. The president got prosecuted like I thought he would, with head Choi faking his death, a recording of their phone calls, along with documents tracking the flow of illegal funds. The only thing that kinda surprised me was the faked death, but with the way this show was going it wasn't overly complicated as how they did it. He literally just took the IV out of his arm and pretended to keep it attached. The reveal of the president's initial coma and the lead audit ML was typical as well. At this point they only hinted at his past like 2 or 3 times, so it didn't have that much of an impact as it wasnt too surprising. The reason for becoming serious about audits was that his own oversight on improper documentation of construction materials lead to his father's death.

As for the other main characters including the younger ML and FL, they were involved in the ending, but they didn't have much character development. The young ML stayed innocent and saw the older ML as a role model, while the younger FL's only character development was that she received help from the vice president and she was really hoping that he wasn't a bad enough person to kill his own brother. All the other supporting cast didn't add much to the story and were pretty much just people to do miscellaneous work when it was related to an audit. Only reason I wouldn't give this below a 5 is because of the strong storylines in the beginning that kept me interested.

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A heartfelt movie with an ending that I take with a graint of salt.

Another great performance from Dongyu Zhou and the FL. I was on the fence about this movie, in the beginning, but the ending did it for me. I like the relationship between the two even though the FL is definitely acting like a typical gold digger who is trying to take advantage of a lonely guy. That is partly true, but he later finds out the daughter she killed, because she was put in prison for murder, was actually not the daughter of the drunk driver who killed her parents, but someone unrelated. She used the ML's money to pay the settlement to the family. This made me so teary eyed as I knew the next scenes were going to be heavy. Now I don't rate this a 9 or 10, because you could see the ML taking care of the vegetative FL, as she tries to commit suicide after finally paying off the settlement to the family of the daughter she killed, as a selfish move and I kind of see it that way. People have a hard time letting go and he seems to have good intentions, but sometimes you just have to let go and allow for a death that would be less hard on the individual, especially when recovery seems improbable. I know that the director wants to go for an over endearing ML with the FL having an improbable prognosis and family members not willing to help, but the FL could be in immense pain and need multiple forms of pain management therapy to just get through the day. With this sort of treatment going on endlessly makes me question the ending as something that should be seen as endearing. I'm just iffy on the ending, but the reasoning behind her swindling the ML for that exact amount is definitely not the best, but you know that makes for a good twist in a movie, and I see why she tried to paint herself as a bad person, so he would eventually give up on her when she did dissappear. Still a good movie despite the ethical differences I have with the ending.

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