“We made the project bearing in mind NSA agents were ordinary people too.”
(Source and my thought, please read comment)

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    Source please click here.

    If you want to tell us an NSA agent is “ordinary people”, please have at least one character (better some) as “ordinary NSA agent(s)”, then have this one “ordinary people”. Watching Netflix The Girl from Oslo (I watched 3 Norwegian dramas, two of them in Netflix, all of them good and thoughtful), there is an “ordinary people” ISIS terrorist, and the character is put in a bunch of typically terrible ISIS terrorists and show how “ordinary” he is (as of Episode 6 of the drama, he is trying to save the two kidnapping victims out from the situation).

    I gave Snowdrop 5 episodes of chances. I don’t see that. I am okay Jung Haein’s character as a North Korean Spy, because he has at least some fellow spies to compare with, not those “ordinary people” NSA spies.

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      This comment got me too. Being ordinary is almost a prerequisite for being evil imo. Is the director going to show us how this happens?

      I’m starting to think we have dislocating genre confusion in Snowdrop. I’m not sure how to explain my sense of this. It struck me during the “at home day'”. The juxtaposition of what we are shown: the dance with flocks of girls mindlessly screeching; and what we are not shown (yet): in a time when innocent students were being imprisoned and tortured in an environment fueled by Communist paranoia.

      Irrespective of that, the girls in the dorm are so boring. I keep on having to remind myself that it’s the 80s. It feels more like the 50s.

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        You know, @jorobertson, after the first 2 episodes aired, I would think the show worth the chance to clear up the water, and may think public is a bit overacted (since I don’t want to judge the show simply because the public doesn’t love it or think it’s offensive, which did happened in past shows). These word is in fact the final nail of the coffin, and I think, yes, that’s enough. The fact that we don’t see those NSA agents (other then Kangmoo and Hanna, I guess?) catching students, which is what they actually did at the time, really disturbed me. In Schindler’s List, Oskar Schindler (by Liam Neeson) is a Nazi who saved Jews no doubt, but we can’t use him for the example as “Nazis are ordinary people”, and we at least have Amon Göth (by Ralph Fiennes) to counterbalance the real fact, right?

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          I don’t want to prejudge either, so I’m still giving it a chance, although I am running out of patience. The director’s words show a lack of depth and judgement. Perhaps a shortfall in qualities that are showing up throughout. I’m so disappointed. It’s a struggle to watch.

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            I wish I have that patience to wait before I give out my final verdict, but obviously Our Beloved Summer is way more romantic and touching (My mine is now all over with Woong and Yeonsu, which had never experienced since discovering IU* in Hotel del Luna. If this happens, my mine can’t watch another drama, from South Korea or not), don’t you think?

            Can’t imagine the writer and PD are second time collaboration since SKY Castle, although the words are not from both of them. I may revisit the drama after some time, but well, my feeling is, that dormitory looks like a Disney castle (with some princesses) put in a wrong place in a wrong time (pun intended: you know where it is aired internationally).

            *Just a side note: IU is releasing a very personal EP tomorrow morning (my time), and the pre-release is mesmerizingly touching (She said, it is inspired by her shooting My Mister).

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          Disney Castle is right. I’ve watched ep 4 now and I will go on to see 5. I loved SKY Castle. It’s hard to believe it’s the same combo of director and writer. I’m hanging in there for now. I’ll report back if it gets too much for me.
          I love IU from My Mister and Hotel. So thanks for this link. I haven’t started Summer yet. One jarring note: when the friend made out he’d been tortured to look good in front of the girl. Another tone deaf moment. My curse is I’m a completionist.

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      I’ve just realised it was not the director who made that comment.

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