As requested by @Growing_Beautifully and @Fern. 🙂
I’m still working on my review. Meanwhile, let’s enjoy Zombie’s dance.
Gif credit: kdram-chjh’s tumblr. Thank you for these great gifs of Cho Jin Hyuk dancing.
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Thanks for this thread @pkml3!
I’m glad show has not forgotten the original crimes and is actually positing the reason why zombie became a zombie. That is so rare in a kdrama, that I’m applauding. I’m guessing that bad Vet Noh was actually already toying with illegal toxic substances that he was injecting into the poor animals who came to his clinic, to ‘zombify’ them. His illegal dumping of the chemical wastes created the environment that turned our zombie, Kang Min Ho, into a zombie.
I’m appreciative that now we get the backstory of how Kim Moo Young passed on the keys of his office, and investigations to zombie, and why he died. Now that we know how, why and who committed the crimes that gave us our current situation, we can concentrate on the battle between good and evil, and whether zombie-ness can be reversed (holes in body, notwithstanding!!).
@GB, I’m glad the origin of Kang Min Ho’s story is coming to light. I was wondering about the possibility of re-humanifying him. By now his bones would be powdered, not to mention all of the holes in his body. He may need a time machine.
I looked up Chinese Zombie (Jiangshi) because sometimes I can’t help myself.
Wiki says ‘…depicted as a stiff corpse dressed in official garments from the Qing Dynasty, and it moves around by hopping quickly with its arms outstretched. It kills living creatures to absorb their qi, or life force, usually at night, while during the day it rests in a coffin. Basically blind, they can’t find you if you hold your breath. A sealing spell pasted on their forehead stops them… BIL did his research on his fictional international competition. 😆
-And thank you, @packmule3 for indulging @GB, me and hopefully a few others.
I wonder what happened to Dr Noh’s daughter?
@Fern yes that Chinese zombie was the best. Thanks for researching them. I didn’t bother LOL. I have ‘seen’ them before in Chinese ghost stories. Never understood the hopping/jumping thing. That BIL and his lame stories, I just can’t.
His only good movie was his first ‘The Fast Train to Busan’ … and that scene where zombie and Sunji watched the video of him in full Zombie mode and cause the popcorn to be tossed, was a fantastic rip off of Goblin, where Goblin was watching Train to Busan with Eun Tak. LOL. Everyone in the cinema was shocked by his screams and disgusted that popcorn was strewn and sticking everywhere. LOLOL.
@GB, I see that I have to surrender and watch Goblin one day, else I’ll be missing references forever.
I think that the interesting thing about BIL’s scripts is Zombie’s reactions.
In the first, Zombie asked how the zombie’s weapon is patience.
In the second, he queried why a corpse with only one leg can move so fast?
BIL said, ‘Before he died he was a sprinter.’ (Like Kang Min Ho)
Zombie remarked, ‘If he was a sprinter, his leg is important…It must feel terrible to be beaten with his own leg.’
In BIL’s first script, he had the human younger sister accepting of having a relationship with non-humans: an incubus ex and potentially the zombie. 😯 In the second script the daughter succeeded in reinvigorating her father, but there’s a catch. The medicine made from the zombie leg makes him a zombie too. 🧟♂️ A warning to be careful what you wish for?
I’m not a huge fan of tiny dogs for myself, but Hodu is a legend. 🤪🐕