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7 Escape: War for Survival (Drama Hangout)

Welcome to the Drama Hangout for makjang extravaganza 7 Escape: War for Survival — bring your earplugs. There will be screaming, the sound of things breaking, and quite possibly some murder.

This is your place chat about the drama as it airs. You can also check out our Episode 1 First Impressions post.


Beware of spoilers! This thread is for discussing the entire series.

 
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This is a kind of drama where at many moments you have to turn off your logical thinking. Many situations simply cannot happen in reality. Nevertheless, the drama contains elements of truth about life. It's a mixture of something absolutely cheesy and unrealistic with something painfully realistic. All scenes with the pathology of life: toxic families, violence, complete lack of respect for the lives of others and their privacy. All these elements are like punching the viewer in the face. For example, in episode 2 there was a scene with the pathological family of one of the characters, where the mother is treated like garbage by the children, one son is addicted to games, the other is threatened with prison, the daughter sleeps with rich people to have money and make a career. All of this is a reflection of someone's reality that takes place in real life. We know such stories from documents, crime news or even from the stories of neighbors or friends. At the same time, the drama is filled with cases, coincidences, and connections between characters that are unlikely in real life. It actually takes a thousand people to create these connections, not just a few. All people are not as mean and practically devoid of human reflexes as in this drama. Despite everything, in the enormity of lawlessness and evil, there will always be people who will prevent the multi-story intrigues, even by accident. This is where the most absurd ideas of villains come to fruition, and they shouldn't succeed so easily. There is one element of this drama that I like the most. The fact that many of the characters are from the entertainment industry. As someone who is not a fan of anyone, I really like how this drama strips away all illusions about celebrities and the entertainment industry in general. Since the screenwriter must have close contact with people from the entertainment industry, I hope that she smuggled into the plot real scandals that are known to the entertainment community, but are hidden from ordinary people. For example, the truth and some idol who pretends to be innocent but is the embodiment of wickedness. Such things have come to light more than once in the history of the Korean entertainment industry. For this reason, for now, the most interesting characters for me are: the evil producer and the opportunistic idol. Both are similar to each other, cruel, destroying other people, including their own children.

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I hope you'll continue sharing your thoughts on the show if you continue watching.

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I liked the first two episodes, I missed this type of crazy and morally sharp drama, so I probably will.

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Episodes 3-4
This drama is very entertaining (and illogical in many ways, but there's no point in dwelling on that) but the amount of bad things that happen to the good characters is enormous. This week in the drama ended with the wrongful death of several supporting characters. There are 7 characters in the drama who in some way contributed to the misfortune of Da Mi, her family and the gangster's family. But this week also gave the impression that none of these characters could have had enough influence that all the bad things that happened could have been their doing. One attempted murder is certainly the "credit" of two characters, the killing of two families is the work of another character. However, there is someone else, more influential, someone who tampers with investigations and creates an alternative history of events. Someone who has influence everywhere and even Da Mi's very rich and influential grandfather lost to him. Is this the mysterious K., the father of Mo Ne's child? Who can be so influential? Some rich man, politician? Even the president of the country came to mind. Too many people were involved in wrongfully imprisoning Da Mi's adoptive father and turning him into a serial killer: the prison, the police, the prosecutor's office, non-governmental organizations. The corruption seemed enormous.

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Episode 3-4:

These episodes didn't drag. Things moved at a fast pace. I didn't feel frustrated, but curious bout the mystery. Dami is for sure not dead. I wonder who is helping her.

I liked that her grandfather turned around. She needed someone on her side. How sad things ended for him.

Anyone else noticed Kim Do Hoon?! Not sure if he's a cameo or not. He seems to be on a new, unknown side. He was seen at the prison, but I'm pretty sure he was in an earlier scene at the youth center when Dami was in the consult room. I had wondered if his nail art matched Ki Tak's hand tattoo, but they're not a match. I don't recognize the actor (Yoon Tae Young). I wonder how big his role will be.

The home deaths... I wonder if somehow they had been saved and hidden away? For their protection.

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