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finished city hunter last night!
Some closing thoughts on City Hunter, which was very, very good.
+ I thought the denouement was a little too brief. Honestly, I think you could watch the show and come away thinking that Lee Yoon Sung was really dead. Plus, I would have it would have been nicer to see some interaction between Yoon Sung and Na Na. They had so little of it after their little moment at SEA WORLD OMG THAT WAS FABULOUS.
+ That said, the actual ending, with everybody shooting everybody else and with Yoon Sung's dad confessing to be the City Hunter. That was fantastic.
+ Na Na didn't have enough to do in the last few episodes. I missed her!
+ Awwww! Mr. Prosecutor died! In such a horrific way! All that blood! I hadn't decided whether I really loved him or not. I respected his commitment to justice, but he was so uptight and not good enough to his ex-wife (who I liked very much) that I wasn't completely won over. UNTIL HIS DEATH SCENE when he told Yoon Sung he would have to be the one to stop the dude because, "I don't think I can go right now." BOOM. Won over. And then he died! I knew he would from the time he left his ex-wife at the hospital and they had that slow-motion view of her over his shoulder.
+ I also knew that the president was Yoon Sung's dad long before the show actually confirmed it. I suspected it from the moment that his mom said, "You're just like him" and when Yoon Sung said "Like my dad?" and she made this weird face. And then I knew from the moment he was eating beans with the president and the daughter. So I was pleased to be proved right. Interesting twist, that.
+ Lee Min Ho definitely had to do his own stunts--the way they shot everything made it very clear that was him, and I was super impressed by all he did.
+ Interesting moral questions raised with the president who wants to accomplish good things but does the wrong thing to do it.
+ I forgot to say last time that it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out that really City Hunter was just Batman--I think it was the third or fourth episode.
+ This show was by far the most political I've seen; it makes me wish I knew more about Korean politics and the social situation over there, so I could see what kind of things it was addressing.
+ This was definitely one of the most well-made shows I've seen. It was at its best in the middle, but start-to-finish it was just very well done.
+ I thought the denouement was a little too brief. Honestly, I think you could watch the show and come away thinking that Lee Yoon Sung was really dead. Plus, I would have it would have been nicer to see some interaction between Yoon Sung and Na Na. They had so little of it after their little moment at SEA WORLD OMG THAT WAS FABULOUS.
+ That said, the actual ending, with everybody shooting everybody else and with Yoon Sung's dad confessing to be the City Hunter. That was fantastic.
+ Na Na didn't have enough to do in the last few episodes. I missed her!
+ Awwww! Mr. Prosecutor died! In such a horrific way! All that blood! I hadn't decided whether I really loved him or not. I respected his commitment to justice, but he was so uptight and not good enough to his ex-wife (who I liked very much) that I wasn't completely won over. UNTIL HIS DEATH SCENE when he told Yoon Sung he would have to be the one to stop the dude because, "I don't think I can go right now." BOOM. Won over. And then he died! I knew he would from the time he left his ex-wife at the hospital and they had that slow-motion view of her over his shoulder.
+ I also knew that the president was Yoon Sung's dad long before the show actually confirmed it. I suspected it from the moment that his mom said, "You're just like him" and when Yoon Sung said "Like my dad?" and she made this weird face. And then I knew from the moment he was eating beans with the president and the daughter. So I was pleased to be proved right. Interesting twist, that.
+ Lee Min Ho definitely had to do his own stunts--the way they shot everything made it very clear that was him, and I was super impressed by all he did.
+ Interesting moral questions raised with the president who wants to accomplish good things but does the wrong thing to do it.
+ I forgot to say last time that it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out that really City Hunter was just Batman--I think it was the third or fourth episode.
+ This show was by far the most political I've seen; it makes me wish I knew more about Korean politics and the social situation over there, so I could see what kind of things it was addressing.
+ This was definitely one of the most well-made shows I've seen. It was at its best in the middle, but start-to-finish it was just very well done.