LUCA episode 12 is a suitably loony finale which sees many characters come full circle. Lee Son ends as he began: half-barbecued by Zi-oh. Gu-reum reverts to tough maverick cop mode, yes getting beaten up again but also doing some proper detective work and forcing Kim Chul-soo to poke lift buttons with his nose. Baby turns out to be THAT baby in episode 1. And Zi-oh, sadly, is back to being creepy and dead-eyed, though his perm is combed into something a bit less ahjummah.
Actually, in spite of all the fights and chases, episode 12 is almost melancholic in tone. It starts on a bizarrely comic note, with a near-zombified Lee Son flinging a stepladder in ZO’s general direction and babbling random threats. But in less than a minute it becomes unbearably sad: Lee Son’s last gasp turns out to be a plea for his own death, not ZO’s. This is echoed by ZO’s heavy sigh near the end of the episode. In between, we get GR’s sensible ahjusshi colleague, and then poor GR herself, joining Team Leader Choi in the Big Cop Shop In The Sky; ZO killing his biological mother without turning a hair; and, most significantly, GR trying but resoundingly failing to persuade ZO to cut the superior species crap. With GR’s death, ZO’s original reason for 10,000 ZOs – to bestow normality on Baby – is curdled by hatred for humans. Sigh.
Well I don’t think they have managed to hit the 10,000 mark, but the final image of lots of little ZOs in plastic pouches, sending bolts of electricity to the ceiling, was the last thing I expected when I started watching this show. I certainly didn’t expect Dr Ryu to survive, let alone be the only character to get exactly what he wanted. And I love it! I love the fact that the “only person who helped me” trope and even the usually powerful “childhood connection” trope just shrivelled up and died in the face of Dr Ryu’s utterly sincere arguments for creating a superior species. I don’t love this show enough to hope for a second season, but it’d be fun to see how Dr Ryu and his grouchy son get along in the future. Jung Eun-chae would be a worthy successor to Jin Kyung. And how about Baby helping her adoptive father and his colleagues defeat some evil boss?
Whoa, what an unexpected ending. i caught the first few eps then lost interest, and therefore – thank you for putting this post up. I’d never have expected Dr. Ryu & Zi Oh to pair up and be the winners lol. What happened to Zi Oh and GR’s baby?
You’re welcome! Here’s a pretty long-winded account of Baby’s fate:
Because ZO had agreed to, er, birth 10,000 ZOs, the baddies were no longer interested in Baby at the end of ep11. The chaps in black suits pursuing GR and Baby in ep12 (and at the start of ep1) are actually led by ZO, who understandably wants his wife and child back. Equally understandably, GR doesn’t want Baby anywhere near people messing with 10,000 ZOs. Surrounded by black-suited chaps, she decides to hide Baby by dropping her from the top of the circular building to some hidden spot on the ground floor. (Cos she knows Baby will generate a force field or whatever when in free fall.) The next day, Baby is discovered in the circular building by a random ahjusshi. A few months later, while being photographed for a family portrait with random ahjusshi and his wife, Baby – also perfectly understandably, cos family portraits are a pain – zaps the photo studio to kingdom come. And that’s the last we see of her. I hope her adoptive parents don’t decide to ship her to a children’s home there and then…
They didn’t. She took a bullet from Kim Chul-soo (Lee Son’s boss), who had been aiming at ZO. Kim’s client was willing to pay a great deal of money even for ZO’s corpse… It’s details like these that make LUCA such a scream haha.
knewbie
March 10, 2021 at 12:36 AM
LUCA episode 12 is a suitably loony finale which sees many characters come full circle. Lee Son ends as he began: half-barbecued by Zi-oh. Gu-reum reverts to tough maverick cop mode, yes getting beaten up again but also doing some proper detective work and forcing Kim Chul-soo to poke lift buttons with his nose. Baby turns out to be THAT baby in episode 1. And Zi-oh, sadly, is back to being creepy and dead-eyed, though his perm is combed into something a bit less ahjummah.
Actually, in spite of all the fights and chases, episode 12 is almost melancholic in tone. It starts on a bizarrely comic note, with a near-zombified Lee Son flinging a stepladder in ZO’s general direction and babbling random threats. But in less than a minute it becomes unbearably sad: Lee Son’s last gasp turns out to be a plea for his own death, not ZO’s. This is echoed by ZO’s heavy sigh near the end of the episode. In between, we get GR’s sensible ahjusshi colleague, and then poor GR herself, joining Team Leader Choi in the Big Cop Shop In The Sky; ZO killing his biological mother without turning a hair; and, most significantly, GR trying but resoundingly failing to persuade ZO to cut the superior species crap. With GR’s death, ZO’s original reason for 10,000 ZOs – to bestow normality on Baby – is curdled by hatred for humans. Sigh.
Well I don’t think they have managed to hit the 10,000 mark, but the final image of lots of little ZOs in plastic pouches, sending bolts of electricity to the ceiling, was the last thing I expected when I started watching this show. I certainly didn’t expect Dr Ryu to survive, let alone be the only character to get exactly what he wanted. And I love it! I love the fact that the “only person who helped me” trope and even the usually powerful “childhood connection” trope just shrivelled up and died in the face of Dr Ryu’s utterly sincere arguments for creating a superior species. I don’t love this show enough to hope for a second season, but it’d be fun to see how Dr Ryu and his grouchy son get along in the future. Jung Eun-chae would be a worthy successor to Jin Kyung. And how about Baby helping her adoptive father and his colleagues defeat some evil boss?
greenfields
March 10, 2021 at 3:10 PM
Whoa, what an unexpected ending. i caught the first few eps then lost interest, and therefore – thank you for putting this post up. I’d never have expected Dr. Ryu & Zi Oh to pair up and be the winners lol. What happened to Zi Oh and GR’s baby?
knewbie
March 10, 2021 at 10:47 PM
You’re welcome! Here’s a pretty long-winded account of Baby’s fate:
Because ZO had agreed to, er, birth 10,000 ZOs, the baddies were no longer interested in Baby at the end of ep11. The chaps in black suits pursuing GR and Baby in ep12 (and at the start of ep1) are actually led by ZO, who understandably wants his wife and child back. Equally understandably, GR doesn’t want Baby anywhere near people messing with 10,000 ZOs. Surrounded by black-suited chaps, she decides to hide Baby by dropping her from the top of the circular building to some hidden spot on the ground floor. (Cos she knows Baby will generate a force field or whatever when in free fall.) The next day, Baby is discovered in the circular building by a random ahjusshi. A few months later, while being photographed for a family portrait with random ahjusshi and his wife, Baby – also perfectly understandably, cos family portraits are a pain – zaps the photo studio to kingdom come. And that’s the last we see of her. I hope her adoptive parents don’t decide to ship her to a children’s home there and then…
greenfields
March 12, 2021 at 3:39 AM
😂
Thank you for this explanation. One last question, why did the men in black kill GR if Zi Oh sent them?
knewbie
March 12, 2021 at 4:41 AM
They didn’t. She took a bullet from Kim Chul-soo (Lee Son’s boss), who had been aiming at ZO. Kim’s client was willing to pay a great deal of money even for ZO’s corpse… It’s details like these that make LUCA such a scream haha.
greenfields
March 13, 2021 at 5:30 PM
LOL thanks! 😀 Sounds like it was a funny show, despite also being something of a trainwreck. Maybe I should give it a second go haha