Completed Uncanny Counter.
The show started strong and as it happens with most of the show it lost steam in later episodes due to under developed antagonist, garden variety baddies and several plot holes.
As show progress body count started going up to remind us it is a OCN show. The world and mythology remained un-clear. We know about counter and how they are chosen but what about their Yung counterpart? Are they really needed? How does an evil spirit escape?
The show wrapped up nicely but I might not tune in for second season. It was an okay watch and I would recommend it to people who are in mood for some action.
Lost me when it fridged a female character. But I guess I might finish it. I was uncomfortable with the level of violence and wasn’t entirely sure it made sense.
Violence doesn’t get better, if not it gets worse.
There was something that I was not totally happy with in the second half, and then when you mentioned in some comment how excessive the violence was, I realized it was that. It was making me feel uncomfortable.
Also when female character was killed for no reason.
It’s entertaining, but not that entertaining. At least not to me.
The last three episodes didn’t click with me, especially the 15th one, I think it was the weakest one. As it’s based on ongoing webtoon with season 2 it will have it’s second season also but I won’t probably tune in although I love Seojong.
The growth of power for the villain was done greatly but I can’t tell that about the counter and I have still lots of questions like where the healing possession of Ho Joon’s character went to when his soul entered Mun. It looks like Mun is the Messiah of counters but even Vigen was surprised about it but…
I’m disappointed with this show, tbh.
I know it was an OCN show, but the violence was excessive in my opinion, and the show had lots of plot holes: what part play Yung in all of this? Why was Mun so extraordinary? How can an evil spirit change from one body to another in demand?
The last four episodes could have been reduced to one, and the last episode… what was it all about?
I confess I mainly FF these last episodes and will not sign for a second season for sure.
It was good until episode 10 (why is it that there are so many dramas that are good until episode 10?).
I didn’t mind the violence and I hate horror movies. I didn’t mind the evil spirit doing lot of this kind of things, because he was the top final level of evilness and he could be comparable to reincarnation of Lucifer so it makes sense and Mun as a prodigy child could make snse also but it wasn’t done in the same manner as those evil spirits.
At the beginning I understood that Yung territory was one of many and that it was their part to keep working in that limited of space until Mun was capable to call it anywhere he needed. But what about other territories and why they didin’t join forces with other counters to battle the absolute evil? Finally they were the only one for entire South Korea?! That doesn’t make a sense at all. I didn’t mind the police inspector to be killed because that’s life and I somehow expected it, but how come MuTak couldn’t meet the police inspector in the afterworld?
The last two episodes were the biggest waste of potential and it will be like that all the time because tv-series are not reality shows, you can’t write a good script in a week and work on the set meanwhile as well. I thing they have those first episodes printed already and after start chasing of ppls and popularity.
Everything I loved about the drama wasn’t there in the last three weeks, so to me the drama died of success.
As for violence, don’t get me wrong. I can handle the violence used (Sam Peckinpah is one of my all time favourite directors and compared to him Quentin Tarantino is an amateur), it’s just that to me violence must have a meaning and here it didn’t.
And to add some more questions to my previous ones and yours: if an evil spirit can only get inside someone who’s already rotten (we’ve been told this all drama long) how come Shin gets inside the son of the Mayor and yet he still can be good and have a redemption arch?
CasualDramaFan
January 24, 2021 at 12:18 PM
Completed Uncanny Counter.
The show started strong and as it happens with most of the show it lost steam in later episodes due to under developed antagonist, garden variety baddies and several plot holes.
As show progress body count started going up to remind us it is a OCN show. The world and mythology remained un-clear. We know about counter and how they are chosen but what about their Yung counterpart? Are they really needed? How does an evil spirit escape?
The show wrapped up nicely but I might not tune in for second season. It was an okay watch and I would recommend it to people who are in mood for some action.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
January 24, 2021 at 12:45 PM
Lost me when it fridged a female character. But I guess I might finish it. I was uncomfortable with the level of violence and wasn’t entirely sure it made sense.
Eazal
January 25, 2021 at 2:14 AM
Violence doesn’t get better, if not it gets worse.
There was something that I was not totally happy with in the second half, and then when you mentioned in some comment how excessive the violence was, I realized it was that. It was making me feel uncomfortable.
Also when female character was killed for no reason.
It’s entertaining, but not that entertaining. At least not to me.
Bebe | Nessa❣️
January 24, 2021 at 6:44 PM
They went thru a change in scriptwriters starting episode 13
BC
January 24, 2021 at 9:16 PM
The last three episodes didn’t click with me, especially the 15th one, I think it was the weakest one. As it’s based on ongoing webtoon with season 2 it will have it’s second season also but I won’t probably tune in although I love Seojong.
The growth of power for the villain was done greatly but I can’t tell that about the counter and I have still lots of questions like where the healing possession of Ho Joon’s character went to when his soul entered Mun. It looks like Mun is the Messiah of counters but even Vigen was surprised about it but…
Eazal
January 25, 2021 at 2:10 AM
I’m disappointed with this show, tbh.
I know it was an OCN show, but the violence was excessive in my opinion, and the show had lots of plot holes: what part play Yung in all of this? Why was Mun so extraordinary? How can an evil spirit change from one body to another in demand?
The last four episodes could have been reduced to one, and the last episode… what was it all about?
I confess I mainly FF these last episodes and will not sign for a second season for sure.
It was good until episode 10 (why is it that there are so many dramas that are good until episode 10?).
BC
January 25, 2021 at 4:44 AM
I didn’t mind the violence and I hate horror movies. I didn’t mind the evil spirit doing lot of this kind of things, because he was the top final level of evilness and he could be comparable to reincarnation of Lucifer so it makes sense and Mun as a prodigy child could make snse also but it wasn’t done in the same manner as those evil spirits.
At the beginning I understood that Yung territory was one of many and that it was their part to keep working in that limited of space until Mun was capable to call it anywhere he needed. But what about other territories and why they didin’t join forces with other counters to battle the absolute evil? Finally they were the only one for entire South Korea?! That doesn’t make a sense at all. I didn’t mind the police inspector to be killed because that’s life and I somehow expected it, but how come MuTak couldn’t meet the police inspector in the afterworld?
The last two episodes were the biggest waste of potential and it will be like that all the time because tv-series are not reality shows, you can’t write a good script in a week and work on the set meanwhile as well. I thing they have those first episodes printed already and after start chasing of ppls and popularity.
Eazal
January 25, 2021 at 5:08 AM
Everything I loved about the drama wasn’t there in the last three weeks, so to me the drama died of success.
As for violence, don’t get me wrong. I can handle the violence used (Sam Peckinpah is one of my all time favourite directors and compared to him Quentin Tarantino is an amateur), it’s just that to me violence must have a meaning and here it didn’t.
And to add some more questions to my previous ones and yours: if an evil spirit can only get inside someone who’s already rotten (we’ve been told this all drama long) how come Shin gets inside the son of the Mayor and yet he still can be good and have a redemption arch?
BC
January 25, 2021 at 4:46 AM
AAAAAhhh! Isn’t it like Ying and Yang (yung) energy?