W (2016)

Started to watch because of Lee Jong Suk stayed also for him and the plot

I really enjoyed the show and watched it in three days. Sorry university assignments... The story was so immersing I wanted to know what would happen next. What has the writer planned next? I have read that some people disliked the second part of the story and I can understand that. I also think the first part of the story was much more well written. Why does it almost always feel like K-dramas start really strong but near the end the story flops?

Before this drama I watched Extraordinary You. Both have the same idea that the story is manhwa related. The setting is slightly different though. Not going to write anymore about EY since spoilers but personally I liked W's setting more. In W there is a popular manhwa called W that is thriller. The main character has tragic past and is trying to find the killer who murdered his family. He is millionaire who has a strong sense of justice, is good looking and popular with ladies. Sounds interesting thriller and action manhwa that I would read. If the manhwa is connected to real world the story could go to any way right?

So of course they don't write the story that would be more interesting in my opinion. They emphasize romance over the thriller. And the romance isn't even that well written. Don't get me wrong. I didn't dislike the female lead. I just think that the chemistry wasn't that strong. Also Kang Chul's character changes too much when he falls in love with the female lead. I dislike the fact that one woman becomes his top priority when he could have had also other things he could have focused on. Of course love as well but not as the main thing. Imagine if they would have written passionate sexual relationship between the main leads (then the female lead should be different) and kept Kang Chul in character. Not as a sweet romantic type. But I guess they wanted to take the poorly written romance path then. In my opinion they wasted Kang Chul's potential as a character. He was still awesome though.

Nonetheless I was still addicted to the drama. Wanted to see more of hot Lee Jong Suk as Kang Chul. Wanted to find out who was the killer. Wanted to know how W (the manhwa) ends. W was really enjoyable ride with plot holes and twists here and there. It wasn't perfect and I felt a bit betrayed by the drama but that's usually what happens with K-dramas so nothing new. My final verdict is that the drama would have been a lot better if the romance part would have been different. Maybe not so high lighted. I think I'm going to rewatch the show at some point for getting more clear picture about it.

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W : a wonderful show but a bad execution

Honestly, this show kept me hooked im not gonna lie. it was very good, especially at the start but it all started going down once the storyline kept getting dragged and there were plot holes everywhere.

Whilst the romance was good, there was very less character development on the FL's side and her work seemed unrealistic, she was a cardiothoracic surgeon i don't think she'd have that much free time but then again its all fictional.

Kang Chul's storyline was very nice, hence why i have the story a 9/10, would've been 10 if it didn't have so many plot holes and it wasn't dragged.

The ending was okay? it left me a little disappointed but from what i remember (i watched this long time ago) it had a good ending so i cannot complain on that behalf.

The actors... the ML's acting was incredible but the FL... meh not that plausible but it was still good enough. All the other characters seemed pretty okay.

Now the main reason i have this an 8 was because of the rewatch value. This may not apply to everyone but i had a very hard time watching this. I kept skipping parts or speeding them up and I'd constantly stop the episodes and come back. It was either in the filler episodes or when things would get too spicy. Eitherways i wouldn't re-watch it again. I don't think its cause of the psychological aspect cause for example It's okay not to be okay focuses on psychology and its much deeper than W but unlike W, id rewatch IONTBO a million times.

I just think that it could've been better but i still remember that i enjoyed this and i binged watched it too so it couldn't have been that bad. It was just the continuous plot holes and the constant skipping of parts that makes me not want to re-watch it or rate it any higher than 8. Which by the way i think its a generous rating but i enjoyed it and the show made me cry so its okay. would recommend it but to your own risk!!

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Some like, some hate, some moderately liked:I went through these three opinions

Honestly, it's very hard to review this drama because the opinions are very clear-cut: either we loved it, or we liked it a little, or we absolutely hated it.
Personally, I went through all these opinions while watching this drama.

I hated it:
- From the middle to the end of the story. It doesn't make sense anymore, we could finish the drama at episode 12
- The acting of the main actress, which sometimes is really bad. However, we see a real evolution of her acting in the drama. She is good at the end hm.
- The 15 min rewinds before each episode.

I loved it:
- The main actor is really excellent. I really didn't think he was great at the beginning but he is just made for this job and this role.
- The beginning of the story : I think the main plot is really good but the explanations are too bad.
- The fact that sometimes I was surprised and/or sad: some scenes really gave me chills etc.
- The FX but woooooooooow. The work of the artists is impressive!

Basically I wanted to put 5 but in truth I still had a good time and not listening to other reviews, this note is personal and only based on my feeling! The drama itself is not worth 7. I would not watch it again but I still wanted to finish this drama.

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we should do the things that we should do before life ended

I love this drama so much that I I'll never forget it till my life ended. I wished it came out season 2 ...........









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I liked it. It didn't catch my eyes like others but I think it's because I had seen him in another show not to long ago so I kept thinking of him in the show. Other than that, it's overall a good show. I think I've watched one too many of these fantasy ones but I like the chemistry between the characters and I liked the story line. I liked the love story and etc but I guess I was kind of bored at times, like it has you jumping out of your seat but I personally wasn't paying attention so I may have to come back and watch it again. It's a dope show with a good concept.

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Rahh moi qui m'était promise de ne pas mettre 10/10 car la perfection n'existe pas !
Alors oui certes ce drama n'est pas parfait mais vu que c'est une critique personnelle je me permets de mettre 10 et je vais vous expliquer pourquoi (du point de vue personnel seulement).

Tout d'abord, j'ai du revisionner cette série au moins 5 fois. C'est tellement rare d'avoir une histoire dans ce genre avec dans l'idée de mélanger l'univers du manga et le monde réel. Le fait que les deux personnages aient chacun leur monde avec leur propres habitudes, amis et un background différents nous montre bien, dans un premier temps, le gap entre c'est deux mondes qui nous fait penser que les liés parait impossible, ce sont deux univers complètements différents. Pourtant ca arrive bien et de manière pour le moins brutal. L'écart entre ces deux mondes devient de plus en plus fin au fur jusqu'à nous poser cette question : qu'est-ce qui est réel et qu'est-ce qui ne l'est pas ? Les personnages des deux mondes ont des sentiments, un travail, une vie !
Les acteurs principaux et secondaires jouent vraiment bien et l'histoire est pleine de rebondissements (il y avait certaines choses que je n'avais pas vu venir).

Chacun a son propre caractères (même si je pense que certains personnages secondaires auraient mérité un peu plus d'approfondissements) et l'intrigue nous tient en halène jusqu'au bout.
Pour la fin (c'est a dire le dernier épisode) je suis un peu plus mitigé mais je ne vais pas en parler plus car c'est une critique no spoil.

Le bémol que je pourrais y ajouter, car je me dois d'être réaliste, c'est qu'il y a un court ralentissement du rythme vers le milieu-fin de la série qui pour moi nous sort un petit peu. Ca ne m'a pas personnellement dérangé car j'aime beaucoup l'histoire mais je pense que c'est bon a savoir avant de commencer la série.

En bref, c'est une série originale avec de bon acteurs et certains rebondissements inattendus ! A consommer sans modération, surtout pour ceux qui aiment la romance.

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One of its kind kdrama with good OTP

No wonder W is one of the more iconic kdramas of the new era. It's high concept and way ahead of its time with the parallel worlds and cartoon characters transported into the real world. Even the visuals, how they depicted the webtoon stuff blending into real world stuff is impressive. It may not have executed all it set out to do without hiccups, but I had lots of fun going along for the ride.

Among writer Song Jae Jung dramas, I still have a soft spot for Memories of the Alhambra the most, yes it's also a mess, but maybe I watched it first, and Hyun Bin! He might be more well-known and dreamy in CLOY, but he was so good in Alhambra. I loved the Alhambra romance, but wished it had more like W, where the OTP felt more epic, Kang Chul and Oh Yeon Joo have been through a lot.

I love how the W romance has a little bit of everything: time-travelling partner concept, and pining for a loved one who lost memories of you, which I'm weak for. Song Jae Jung is partial to her 'very very nice to a fault' heroines but I have to admit Han Hyo Joo's Oh Yeon Joo had more to do, than Park Shin Hye in Alhambra. Solid W cast: Lee Jong Suk is still the undisputed king of aegyo acting, and tortured heroine Han Hyo Joo was good, but dad Kim Eui Sung shone the most doing dual roles.

I admit it got a bit all confusing there towards the end, with new 'out of nowhere' rules being introduced to make each episode more exhilarating, but this is such a breakthrough kdrama that I can forgive it for that. W just cements the fact I'll always be how 'Oh Yeon Joo is to Kang Chul' at every Song Jae Jung drama: I'll be the sucker fan who'll wish for her drama's happy ending, despite all the ??? in the end.

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Pity...

A very nice concept stands as basis for this show's plot. Nice and original.
That should be enough as reason for a high rating. However, for the rest I might say that the chance to have something epic was just wasted. Pity...
The cast is good, the acting was more than convincing, the music good, also the CGI was well developed, but it was the story that at a certain moment started derailing towards a complete, confused anarchy. The solidity of a story stands into the presence of a structure within which the story itself moves. The structure was initially present, but episode after episode it was simply dismantled and the story potentially could turn into whatever without any logic or sense. Funny thing is that the final itself was "explained" as a consequence of the rules governing the interaction between the two worlds: someone should explain me at this point why someone had to disappear, while the only reason behind the reviving of another one was that the W. world started working independently... So, both of them could have been survived, because there no longer were any rules. Hurray for the fantasy, that's sure, but not for ridiculousness. To explain what I mean, I might say that a good webtoon is the one which has an actual story to tell, a credible one, where the rules and the boundaries are clear or it is just a waste of paper and ink.
In addition to this, some nonsense hit the villains' characters. I understand that the predetermined fate for each of them should be the reason for some illogical actions taken by the same. But the continuous obsession towards the leads, at a certain point became paradoxical and not well credible.
The free will that the W characters start showing and which should be the main reason for their changing from toons to humans, is itself incredibly not explained, not clarified, thus not convincing. Why, for what reason all of that happened? Why did they start acting and choosing on their own and no longer following the plot decided by their creator?
Who knows?
Pity, really...

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Quand les héros traversent la frontière entre le réel et la fiction

Le principe du personnage réel entrant dans le monde fictif, ou du personnage fictif sortant du livre ou de l’écran, ce n’est pas vraiment neuf, mais ça ouvre un univers de réflexion sur le rapport entre l’auteur et ses personnages, le pouvoir qu’ils ont les uns sur les autres.
Il y a aussi dans le drama l’idée que les personnages prennent le pouvoir sur l’auteur, le webtoon se continuant par lui-même, les personnages se mettant à avoir leur autonomie de choix et de décisions.
Là dessus se greffent des enquêtes policières, des ambitions politiques, et la traditionnelle histoire d’amour (je dois dire que j’aurais eu beaucoup de mal à résister à Kang Chul, c’est le héros parfait, et c’est normal, étant le héros d’une BD ! Bon il a des choix vestimentaires discutables, mais c’est la Corée du Sud, certain type de héros ne peut pas s’habiller comme tout le monde ! )
Ce que j’admire dans le drama c’est la cohérence incroyable pour expliquer, justifier tout ce qui est justement totalement impossible et incohérent, sauf la toute fin, qui est « bien », mais là difficilement explicable, même en restant dans l’hypothèse de départ de l’histoire.
Je n’ai pas fait attention à la BO, donc elle est bonne pour moi. Les acteurs sont bons, même si j’aimerais voir de temps en temps un pli, une ride d’expression sur le visage si (trop) lisse de Lee Jong Suk.
je recommande donc, si vous pouvez accepter l’idée de départ !

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LJS's another masterpiece--

●W is a popular comic series in the series and ends up turning into real life when the girl gets sucked into the comic and basically she’s livin a fake life in a comic --
●This gets complicated when the plot of the comic happens next to next in real life and there is our villain who is all out to get them ...
●It’s super complicated because this girl is literally falling for a cartoon character who isn’t real
●THIS IS A MUST WACTCH FOR THE MYSTERY GENRE LOVER FANZs
●Rewatch value is more than average because it will have a spell on u after u start binge watchin this

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