The CGI is pretty good but this drama is so full of things that annoyed me.

It started off pretty well and gave us enough exposition to explain the current situation, but suddenly stuff goes sideways and we see how inept and pathetic the Republic of Korea Armed Forces were. They are so undermanned that they had to rope in 3rd year High School students to help fill in the numbers.

Now these kids.... they make some really stupid decisions that had me asking if any group of rational people would make the same decisions they did. And some scenes made no sense, like in one scene they were stuck in a garage and the danger was coming in through the roof but the car keys were stuck behind a cabinet. They made it very clear it would be in any moment and yet found 10 minutes to draw lots to determine who would be bait and lure it away so somebody could try to grab the keys... the same amount of time they could have easily moved the cabinet and grabbed the keys! That is just one of many idiotic moments that had me cursing at my TV.

Best moment is the huge sacrifice at the end. Really emotional and was a great way to end part 1.

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An okay drama that’s just mid

Everything about this drama is just mid. Average. Okay. There is nothing outstanding about it, it spends most of the time just cruising along as medium speed and medium pace with hardly any strong emotional investment in any of the characters. Wayne Lai is completely wasted here as the character he plays is completely two-dimensional as this nice guy ex-stuntman and this does not change even 21 episodes in, and I know it will not change due to the pacing and story beats happening. The only character worth watching is again with the awesome Rebecca Zhu as this strange wildcard of a person who suddenly returns home. Despite her past being the most interesting, it is barely touched upon, again wasting a huge opportunity. I really wanted to like this drama because Brian Chu gets to be a lead character and I do thoroughly like his acting such as in Al Cappacino, but here he is like a plank of wood with rarely any facial emotions outside of his typical thousand yard stare. Overall, this is not a bad drama, but it’s nothing exceptional either, it is just average and that is a huge shame.

Update: I just completed watching this series today and well… it is still pretty average. There were some touching moments, but overall it doesn’t shift my rating. What I found hilarious at the end was the romance between Brian Chu and Rebecca Zhu’s characters. Brian just suddenly blurts out “Hey, let’s be together” but he doesn’t love her and she just brushes it off. This made sense as they both has no romantic moments together in the drama. But, suddenly, in the final episode in a flash forward to the future scene for 1 minute we see the implication that they are together without the show outright stating it. Yes, it is really cheap for not showing us them getting to the romance stage, but at least I can say it is a better love story then Twilight. Literally.

You know, the entire show kept asking if 輕功 was an actual thing, and we see some implications that 輕功 does indeed exist, but I think the show missed out on an opportunity here. If 輕功 was real in the world of the drama, surely 氣功 is real, and if 氣功 is real then surely 九陽神功 is real, and if 九陽神功 is real…

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This has Wong Jing's trademarks all over it

TVB: What should we do for a TV drama?
Wong Jing: Hear me out. It's the 90s, there is this night club where the girls there sell their bodies for cash but they are not called prostitutes, we can't call them that. Then we have some goldfish there that men can only look at and not touch, but later they get touched, then we have this girl sell her virginity because that's what horny men wanna see. Add in a few triads and drugs and cops, this will be a hit!
TVB: Dude...
WJ: I'm bringing back Monica Chan
TVB: F yeah! I'm in!
WJ: And we'll play all the popular HK cantopop songs from the 80s and 90s!
TVB: Whoa... what about licence fees...
WJ: I know the owners, I'll call in some favours
TVB: Dude! This is gonna be a hit!

Update: ending sucks

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Boring af!

So boring! Man like wtf were the producers thinking? A young Justice Bao is all good but come on, a 10 year old kid as Zhan Zhao running around with a sword and doing dangerous stuff? No! What were they smoking?

The worst part is that it all takes place at an Inn and I could tell it would not deviate from that inn because I am 10 episodes in and they are still there investigating the same single case. I know this is a young Bao Zheng who has yet to become an official, but they make him look incompetent as he is stuck in this inn trying to unravel a murder mystery while being unable to leave due to the outside being too dangerous, all the while being protected by a 10-year-old. Geez.

It started off looking really promising but hot dang the mystery has no pulling power and I got so bored so I am going to drop it. The whole point of Justice Bao is that he solves multiple cases - one after the other - using his wit and intelligence to showcase his abilities, but this drama is clearly focused on one case and one location. This could have worked but only if it wasn’t associated to Justice Bao. Why do this?

But the worst sin of this drama? None of the female actors in it are memorable. They are all just a mush and nobody stands out at all. Wait I take that back, there is one girl Zi Fu Er who played Bai Ruan Ruan who clearly had a main role but was… sadly… ugly. They somehow managed to make a pretty girl look ugly, and that in of itself takes effort.

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