Nice job, show! Even an infinite number of monkeys typing words at random for an infinite amount of time wouldn’t have been able to come up with this latest crap.
No, I’m going to walk away from this week’s episodes. I’ve read enough comments to know that I’ll find the plot twist tiresome.
It’s tiresome because it seems to sacrifice the original concept, and a novel idea at that, of a ghost pursuing an evil spirit for a tired same old formula of a handsome hero with an infatuated sidekick at his heels.
It’s tiresome because of the writer’s ostensible decision to change the lead male character into a fetch or a wandering spirit of a comatose body, for the purpose of pandering to the needs of fangirls to have a romance happen with their OTP. (Hey, stop making fetch happen!!)
It’s tiresome because the manner in which old characters are disposed, and new characters are deployed in their place, suggests a bait-and-switch. Instead of the Woman in Red being guilty of her crimes, we suddenly have a new suspect, her mother. The one who’s been hidden away for the past 25 years…(yeah, sure, why don’t you dig up her grandma, grandpa, and crazy Uncle Joe while you’re at it, writer-nim.)
It’s tiresome because it breaks one of the tenets of drama which requires the story to adhere to its INTERNAL logic, that is, every element introduced in the narrative must be relevant or it gets eliminated. Chekhov’s gun = unidentified body at the morgue
And last, it’s tiresome because I was expecting this cosmic battle between otherworldly beings with the villainess spreading her evil through murder and self-annihilation. But all I got instead was this two-bit drama about Sun WooHee and her dysfunctional family: wacko mom, alcoholic dad, one son (with problem yet undisclosed) and one daughter with an obsession for red shoes.
Tiresome plot: Dysfunctional childhood caused her psychopathy…
So, no.
I’m not watching this week’s episodes. Maybe after next week’s episodes, I’ll catch up on Choi Daniel’s cheekbones.
“The Infinite Monkey Theorem is a proposition that an unlimited number of monkeys, given typewriters and sufficient time, will eventually produce a particular text, such as Hamlet or even the complete works of Shakespeare.”
Source: https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/Infinite-Monkey-Theorem
I feel you packmule3. I actually hope that he stay dead. He supposed to be the ghost detective.
As much as i ship both Da-il & Yeonwool, I agree with Da-il that Yeonwool need to move on. There are other people in her life. Focus more on her life instead stuck in past.
I hope next week we got another twist. They found dail’s body but it’s already too late. He’s dead and stay as a ghost. 😏
Yeah. Same here. I hope there’s another plot twist to undo the plot twist they did last week. Hahaha.
But go ahead and keep me informed of new developments this week. I’m going to take Lee DaIl’s advice to move on because there are other people…errr… kdramas in my life. But if there’s something promising I’ll return to the drama in a heartbeat.
Also, I read a translation of the writer’s interview in one of the tweets on The Ghost Detective. I couldn’t find the original tweet anymore so I couldn’t give the translator proper attribution. But here’s the pertinent paragraph:
Q: Is there any reason to set the main character as a ghost?
A: In fact, “The Ghost Detective” is a work whose ending has been decided since the beginning, and the ending will not change (laughs). In the process, the characters of Lee Da-Il and Sun Woo-hye have become ghosts.
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As for finding Lee DaIl’s corpse in that madwoman’s house, I hope they don’t find it at all. Instead, I want them to find another body (another John Doe). Lee DaIl’s spirit is trapped in that body/form/whatever as punishment for messing around with killing the Woman in Red’s body. Kinda like what happened to Gil Chae Won’s spirit mother. Her spirit was trapped in another evil person’s body, that Creepy Man in the Tunnel.
hahahaha.
This one right?
https://twitter.com/dramony_/status/1042663357315051521?s=19
We are only half way of the story right now. To the writer, bring it on all the plot twist u have.
I want to know more about the red lady. I understand why she choose Da-il’s mom,Yirang and school teacher. It’s because they feel insecure in their life. But Yirang’s bf? She come to him before Yirang. Maybe i did miss something.
Yes, that’s the one. Thanks! I don’t use twitter often. I only use it when I remember that I own an account.
But I don’t think the “insecurity” or suicide or depression is the whole point of the Red Lady’s existence.
Remember, she started the kidnapping of the children, and she went after that CEO’s child. The two kids were kidnapped simultaneously at around 7pm (?) but the CEO’s child was kidnapped after school at her ballet class, meaning in the afternoon. So I assumed that the CEO’s child was the original target and the two other children were decoy.
I can understand the school teacher abducting her students because she heard voices. But why target those kids specifically? And why did she stagger the kidnapping? First one in the afternoon, then two in the evening. Moreover, the Red Lady appeared to at least ONE of the kids…the boy who sketched a Red Lady. Was that boy depressed, insecure, too?
That was why I was trying to figure out the hospital angle and if the CEO had anything to do with any hospital. But then I got sidetracked by this stupid DaIl-is-in-a-coma…. lol.
I am hoping Da Il is dead in next episode. It would be hard to continue this drama if he is alive. I already prepared his memorial service!
I have little hope I will get convincing answers to the twists/clues she has been giving so far. Sadist mother! Yea right! I am watching The Guest and that too is leading to a sadist mother in one sub plot.
AND I’ll pay for his niche in a columbarium. Lol. I’ve never been this excited to see the male lead die in a hurry. Usually, I’m warning the hero telepathically, “No, don’t do that, you idiot! You’ll die!” But with Lee DaIl, it’s “Listen, dude. Take an overdose, and wake me up when you’re dead.”
Sigh! Why is it always the mother? Don’t they celebrate Mother’s Day in Korea? Where’s da luv for momma?
I was just telling somebody that it would tiresome to see a promising first half end up in run-of-the-mill second half.