Ines
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What makes or breaks a drama whether the story plot holds water going into mid way. CG willful ways despite being a brilliant strategist, and here indifference & disregard for AS predicament, is tuning to be story plot cliche.
Am rooting CG will change. It was riding high all the way up to 24 ... AS, esteemed & calculated general is swayed by woman takes over his better judgment ... typical cliche plot.
25 minutes ago, Ines said:Am rooting for CG will change. It was riding high all the way up to 24 ... AS, esteemed & calculated general is swayed by woman takes over his better judgment ... typical cliche plot.
AS love is unconditional. An old phrase; “Behind every successful man, there is a woman.” Let’s hope CG is not his weakness and downfall.
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2 hours ago, Mila said:
What do you think of Changge's childhood friend? I feel a little sorry for him, because the situations she was angry with him were very complicated.
Regardless whether Hao Du or Wei Shu Yu, both men are equally important characters. Not only for their entanglement with Li Le Yan, but because of the significance of their characters. Wei Shu Yu grew up with both the princesses and he’s in love with Li Chang Ge. But he is unable to protect her because he has the weight of is family on his shoulders. Any missteps will implicates them and his whole family, he’s treading on very thin ice. And this effectively broke them apart. Hao Du, on the other hand only listens to the orders of his adopted father. I believe there is more to Hao Du then a man who only listens to orders. Deep, deep down, he has a conscious and has a heart you can see subtlety in several scenes.
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@k8telynthanks you’re a gem !
For those who can’t get enough of LYN and ZLS
https://www.instagram.com/p/CNox1vEFyU9/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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A lot of intense new clips on https://www.instagram.com/chinese_drama__updates/
wish they have in English subs
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Brilliant review piece ... spot on !
https://www.jazminemedia.com/2021/04/mouse-episode-9-and-10-review/-
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Understanding half of the drama would be an overstatement. Gold standard of screen writer is ability to let the viewers connect the dots. Trust the writer will be able to keep up the “shock and awe momentum” from the start and connect the dots.
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Poorly executed misdirection plot twist ! After 8 intense brain-fried episodes, turns out we’ve got a brain-dead end
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Great observation! One of the few master piece post.
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[Drama 2021] Mouse, 마우스
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I am guessing it will be a ambiguous ending, more questions than answers, as we can see there have been many theories from day one.
A well and in-depth written piece for some of us and those who are frustrated, who can relate to the review below:
SCMP,
Pierce Conran
A journalist, producer and consultant, Pierce Conran has been based in Seoul since 2012, where he serves as an editor of the Korean Film Council’s website KoBiz. He is also an advisor for the Fribourg International Film Festival and Fantastic Fest. Pierce has produced half a dozen feature films, frequently appears on radio and TV news, and has occasionally featured in films, series and variety shows.
K-drama midseason recap: Mouse – serial killer drama devolves into hysterical gobbledegook
Though fun at times, all logic and ethics behind the story and decision-making in TVN’s serial killer drama are at best utterly preposterous
The series also becomes a lot harder to follow when events, locations and characters interact with an increasing lack of rhyme or reason
Following a scattershot opening, the manic and maddening Mouse, a serial killer drama from South Korean television network TVN, briefly came into focus in its third week. Yet that clarity proved to be a double-edged sword, as it only made it easier to parse the show’s weaknesses. In any case, the wobble soon returned and the wheels all but came off again as the weeks wore on.
Mouse features Lee Seung-gi as patrol cop Jung Ba-reum, who teams up with the gruff and alcoholic homicide detective Go Moo-chi (Lee Hee-joon) to track down a serial killer who slaughters his victims and leaves their corpses pointing towards crosses.
Last we met this mismatched duo, the serial killer had abducted a young boy and was forcing Moo-chi to stage a live broadcast on his friend Choi Hong-ju’s (Kyung Soo-jin) investigative TV report programme Sherlock PD.
Episode five is devoted to this broadcast, which sees Moo-chi attempt to solve the serial killings live on air. The killer calls in but Moo-chi and Ba-reum also record a fake video of the victim, a risky ploy which they’re called out on on air. Consequently, the broadcast is abruptly interrupted, then resumed by Hong-ju after she locks out the executives from the control room. The explosive episode ends with the murderer killing Moo-chi’s priest brother live on TV.
Though the logic and ethics behind the story and decision-making here are at best utterly preposterous, it’s a fun episode in which the stakes are raised and are more or less clear. Yet the same bulldozer mentality that drives this episode remains in evidence throughout the rest of the series, which becomes a lot harder to follow when events, locations and characters interact with an increasing lack of rhyme or reason.
The writing aim behind Mouse has reportedly been to focus on the psychology of psychopaths. That started with geneticist Daniel Lee (Jo Jae-yun) identifying a “psychopath” gene, a diagnosis that proves correct 99 per cent of the time. By the middle of the series, our lead protagonist has two brains in his head, one (or perhaps even both) of which is trying to stimulate his desire to kill. So much for getting to the heart of what actually makes serial killers tick.
Speaking of Daniel Lee, he was killed early on in the series, but inexplicably returns midway through to secretly coach Ba-reum through his murderous schizophrenia. His strategy is to sate Ba-reum’s urges by turning him into a Dexter-like serial killer of serial killers.
The lack of probing psychoanalysis aside, if the above conceit sounds fun, rest assured that it isn’t. A serial killer story relies on at least one of two major elements to succeed: an intricate investigation to find a killer, and trying to understand what drives that killer.
Clearly, Mouse isn’t succeeding on the latter front with its twisty, fantastical and utterly inconsistent biogenetics, but it also fails to be an engaging murder mystery. There are many investigations throughout the show and they evolve and are generally solved very quickly but in a confounding and illogical manner.
Viewers are typically going to be a step behind, but we like to try and figure out things for ourselves, and it’s all the better if we feel we were tantalisingly close to the solution when it’s eventually revealed to us. But none of the secrets in Mouse could ever be guessed at by the audience - not owing to any originality, but because the plotting is absurd and characters never behave consistently.
The only thing we can figure out for ourselves is that in the world presented by this show, serial killers are a dime a dozen. At one point, in a flashback, Sung Ji-eun (Kim Jung-nan), wife of the notorious serial killer Head Hunter (Ahn Jae-wook), is accosted by the series’ serial killer while pregnant with Sung Yo-han (Kwon Hwa-yoon), who later becomes a serial killer.
She is saved from a grisly fate by a mysterious young man, who will almost certainly turn out to be another person with serial killer tendencies.
One of the most frustrating elements of Mouse has been its sloppiness, which is evident not only in its writing but also its staging. Case in point is the pregnant cat that Ba-reum takes home one day. We know the animal is in constant danger, and this collision of innocence and murderous impulse is mined again and again, which is lazy writing. Then the cat gives birth… to a month-old kitten. A few scenes later, the kitten – by now orphaned – is an entirely different colour.
With seven episodes still remaining, it’s a little hard to fathom where the show goes from here. Young Oh Bong-yi (Park Ju-hyun) is now part of Hong-ju’s writing staff so perhaps we’ll have more cold cases for her to crack, only for Ba-reum to Dexter them before the manacles get slapped on their wrists.
Meanwhile, Moo-chi and Bong-yi are getting closer to figuring out that something’s not quite right with Ba-reum, and we’re also still waiting for a definitive answer about Ba-reum’s history. Whose baby was he? Is he Jae-hoon? Do we care?