I agree with a lot of what you're saying. Bad Guy seriously fails at being a revenge drama, I wish they had just cut that whole storyline. I mean, it's not like it would have affected the plot anyway.
I just watched episode 8 and, as far as I can tell, Gun Wook has not actively done one single thing. He just goes with the flow in every scene. Someone thinks he's Hong Tae-sung? He lets them think he is. Mo-ne wants to be his girlfriend? He lets her think she is. President Hong tells him to go to Japan and be Tae-sung's gofer? He does. I don't understand how a revenge plot is supposed to work when all you do is passively react to your environment. Not to mention that a main character who does nothing except passively react to his environment is just not interesting.
I just recently watched Story of a Man, which is a great Ocean's Eleven type of revenge drama where I was on the edge of my seat the whole time to find out what happens next. In Bad Guy... nothing really happens, period. Everyone just kind of swans around while atmospheric music plays. I was actually really happy when I heard the drama had to be shortened for Kim Nam-gil because I'm praying with some of the filler cut out it'll be more interesting.
Meh, it's kind of annoying to me what a misfire the writers had with regard to Gun Wook's character and storyline. Kim Nam-gil is the whole reason I'm watching this drama, but even he can't do much with what he's given. It's disappointing. :/
I just watched episode 8 and, as far as I can tell, Gun Wook has not actively done one single thing. He just goes with the flow in every scene. Someone thinks he's Hong Tae-sung? He lets them think he is. Mo-ne wants to be his girlfriend? He lets her think she is. President Hong tells him to go to Japan and be Tae-sung's gofer? He does. I don't understand how a revenge plot is supposed to work when all you do is passively react to your environment. Not to mention that a main character who does nothing except passively react to his environment is just not interesting.
I just recently watched Story of a Man, which is a great Ocean's Eleven type of revenge drama where I was on the edge of my seat the whole time to find out what happens next. In Bad Guy... nothing really happens, period. Everyone just kind of swans around while atmospheric music plays. I was actually really happy when I heard the drama had to be shortened for Kim Nam-gil because I'm praying with some of the filler cut out it'll be more interesting.
Meh, it's kind of annoying to me what a misfire the writers had with regard to Gun Wook's character and storyline. Kim Nam-gil is the whole reason I'm watching this drama, but even he can't do much with what he's given. It's disappointing. :/
(lol I'll still watch it til the end tho)
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SOAM was not my type of drama (for various reasons too long to go into) but it was very tightly written.
KNG is amazing in this though, even with the character's limitations.
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