If it's not broken why change it?

Is my first time doing a review, also English is not my first language but i hope whoever reads it understand my points.

I think most people that read the webtoon would agree that while the casting and acting of all characters was close to perfection, but the changes done to the characters narrative were really bad, the comic was Hyun's fight between his inner demons and his love for his friends and the growth of all of them while being in the end of the world, while in this adaptation i didn't feel most of Hyun struggle nor his triumph against his own mind, his relationship with most characters felt like something was missing and the changes to some of the characters felt pointless, if you are gonna change them is to make them better, but aside of a couple characters, almost everyone changed for the worst.
If this was a completely original drama it would have been a lot more enjoyable, but being an adaptation it was impossible for me to not compare them both, it felt worse than the original story.
Don't get me wrong, i still enjoyed it and think it was a good drama so i still recommend people to watch it, but you should keep in mind that if you got the time maybe reading the original comic will give you a better product.

P.S: Also I'm really annoyed about the overuse of Warriors, who the hell thought it was a song appropriate for the scenes it played?, it ruined my immersion in key scenes.

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First part was mid, second one was worse, despite trying to make it up at the end

TLDR: II would say Episode 1-3>9&10>The rest. It ended being a shut your reasoning for a while and just enjoy fast action scenes. The best part is just seeing the kids interacting with each other in cute and funny scenes and remember that you were once like them. Overall script is just bad and it diminishes the original message the webtoon wanted to convey.

Now for a bit more of my thoughts:
I did a review on the first part where I pointed out the shows biggest problem, I would say this show genre is something like high teen, the good was the very flashy and entertaining action scenes with cute moments between the kids, but most of the script seems to be written by a high school senior on their wattpad. All of this changes were probably done to market the show better.
There's a lot of even bigger plot holes in this season than in the first 6 episodes, probably because there was a time skip but they didn't explain or summarize what happened during that time (Like what even where the kids doing on that location or where as Won Bin in all of this). The first 2 episodes of this season felt like some type of filler because i don't even remember what happened on them and i watched them a couple of hours ago.
Now i will talk a bit of the last 2 episodes, I think it was a good idea to make drama between the group but to be honest it felt forced, and that's because they wrote the kids to be alone in their operation while being in a military operation without a reason. The scenes in the last episode of the show were foreshadowed a bit, but because this was a 10 episode show for some reason they decided to cram everything in 2 episodes and the changes in dynamics and mental of the kids didn't have time to be explored. While they based on the webtoon ending for this, they made it a little too dramatic ,action packed and stretched out for my taste, the fake out of it being an alien attack wasn't sold enough for the real scene to be a twist. The changes they did while adapting the original story made it so the ending wasn't as impactful, Chi Yeol's monologue at the end had to be shown because the ideas he conveyed weren't explicit enough in the show, while in the original, these kind of thoughts were everywhere without having to be said explicitly.

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It's ok, but if you read the webtoon you could enjoy it more

English isn't my first language but I'll try hard to make this understandable.
To summarize the review I just wanna say that while this is an entertaining action show about an ensamble of funny and quirky kids getting surviving the apocalypse while showing a lot of cute moments between them, the best part about it it's that it made me want to read the webtoon, and it's much better in all senses, a beautiful but depressing ride and that's why I think they made changes to be closer to Sweet Home or All of Us are Dead(Specially this one).

It's the second time i write a review and my thoughts are similar to my first one (Sweet home), these webtoons might be fictional apocalypses with a lot of action but what made them good was the psychological and character building aspect, while their drama counterpart makes changes to make them more entertaining for the public but throws away the essence of the original work. Like in Sweet Home, I think some people will say that it's not fair or that you shouldn't say the drama is bad just because it's different from the webtoon. The problem isn't that it's different, but that they changed it for the worse.

On the good side the CGI and action sequences were really well done, I liked the casting for the characters and most of them felt close to the webtoon inspiration, also both of the main soldiers are more fleshed out here and I liked that .
Now to start on the bad side, the first thing i have to say is don't try analyze things too much because you will realize about how a lot of scenes and situations don't make sense at all, I guess the director and writer side was lacking because they went too hard on the immature brats that are too preoccupied with their grades and their dialogues can be very cringy at times, they changed the spheres to fit their action heavy show but then made them feel like billions of were attacking at every time while the kids ammo was infinite, I read comments saying that the aliens treated the kids different from adults and honestly it shows a lot.

I will spoil a bit of the webtoon because after the changes made to the show, I think the second half won't follow the original. In the webtoon the plot armor for the main cast isn't as obvious, some of the kids die and they aren't the dramatic beautiful sacrifice kind, they are fast, unexpected and have 0 beauty. The webtoon is more about how this group of kids are thrown to war and the scars that it leaves on them physically and mentally, but also how they learn to normalize what's happening around them and how scary that is.

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