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Goodbye Earth (Drama Hangout)

Welcome to the Drama Hangout for Netflix’s dystopic sci-fi Goodbye Earth, where Ahn Eun-jin and company are faced with the earth’s imminent demise in 200 days.

This is your place to binge and chat about the drama. But stay tuned — we’ll have an opening review coming soon!


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

 
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A simple question please for those who have started this: is Yoo Ah-in in it at all?

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He's in it a lot! More than expected. I've been treasuring all his scenes.

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Can't wait to start this and to see him on screen again.

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Thankyou, thankyou - very reassuring!

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That is a relief. I thought he would barely get any of his scenes included.

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Kind of boring (on 4 ep). Who think to make it 12 ep drama? 6 eps would be good.

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This show is kind of a mess, and for the most part, all over the place. The editing certainly doesn't help, but I'm not sure if that's because of Yoo Ah-in, who's in this way more than I expected, because a lot of this stuff generally has nothing to do with him.

Still, despite all this, I found myself invested in this show, and it's characters. And the actors certainly do a good job here. And despite my love for high-stakes stuff, my favorite moments of the show was when they weren't dealing with any of that. I loved the more quiet moments, the emotional scenes, scenes where characters are having fun, or when people were coming together. Like, I don't need 2 cults, give me more of the chickens instead! Those chickens never failed to put a smile on me.

It's why the last 2 episodes were actually my favorite, as those really focused more on the characters, and how they're dealing with everything. It suddenly became very real that all these people were in fact gonna die. Those episodes broke my heart, but it's exactly the kind of heartbreak I signed up for when I started watching the show. And I wish the whole show was more like that. Things like In-ah and her sexuality, and her relationship with her mom is stuff that really should've been explored throughout the season and not just in the last 2 episodes. Also, having the main four jump around in joy only to then immediately cut to the asteroid that's coming to kill them all is a pretty mean trick, not gonna lie.

The ending is... not what I was expecting, but I'm also not sure what I was expecting. In the end, people made their own decisions as to how to spend their final days, and as to how they'd go out, and those decisions made sense for these characters. We see the asteroid show up in the sky at the very end, but maybe we're better off imagining that the kids actually did fly off in balloons. It's certainly better than the reality where they were living in hiding because a father sold off his own daughter. These people deserved better, but that might just be the entire point. And yeah, having a big group of characters you've come to like over the course of the season all die because of an asteroid just really hurts. It's the pain I expected, but that doesn't make it hurt any less.

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I'm glad Yoo Ah-in is still in this drama.

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Goodbye Earth is an adaptation of the work of Japanese novelist, Kōtarō Isaka titled The Fool at the End of the World ("Shūmatsu no Fūru"). The original novel is a collection of stories about people trying to make sense of the end of the world a few years before an asteroid destroys it. However this dystopian science fiction K-drama, follows the tragic story of Se-kyung, a school teacher. Despite the trauma she suffered from the arrival of an asteroid which will ending all life on Earth, Se Kyung keeps her promise to protect her loved ones while hunting down her attackers and those who murdered her students.

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The plot presents different perspectives of other characters while touching on the idea of ​​the reaction of certain individuals, communities and social classes. Children become more independent. Political and religious leaders form their alliances. Villains and criminals seem to gain the upper hand as cult leaders wreak havoc and unexpected characters appear from time to time to spice up the drama. All these aspects create an interesting plot similar to The Walking Dead without the zombies, humanity is simply its own enemy before the asteroid hits in 200 days.

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I just completed this 12 eps drama in one sitting yesterday. I'm not going to say it is the best dystopian science fiction of the year but still I'm happy to see Yoo Ah in has enough screentime, almost as much as the main character. With every character has their own tragic, dark story, his character Sang-eun seems the only one whom looks normal.

However because of the editing due to the controversy, his character feels like a wasted opportunity; he just exists as Se-kyung's long time boyfriend. He just exists, with not much to contribute. His storyline feels unexplored and his emotional complexities are not highlighted very well.

I can't be disappoint with Yoo Ah In because there is nothing he can do about it (the messy editing). He still shined in every scene and gave us something to look foward to. He showed grest chemistry with Ahn Eun-jin and his character's pure love for his fiance moves me.

I hope Yoo Ah in will get through the controversy and return to the Korea entertainment show because he is very talented and it is sad to see it go wasted.

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