But as far as I remember in Mawang, unless I am hallucinating, he didn't get stabbed by his partner but by a relative of one of the people he offed in his revenge (the son, I believe) which was oddly poetic. And that one last out he gave was screwed up not by his partner but UTW's older brother. Ultimately, I don't think he could get out of that tunnel at all.
My big problem with Gun Wook walking off into the sunset with or without Jae In is that I think he deserves to be severely punished. I am not nearly as sympathetic to him as I was to Mawang's Seung Ha (who I believe should have been punished too, not for his revenge targets necessarily, but for using innocent people to inflict harm). Unlike almost any other revenge drama, in BG, Gun Wook isn't going just after the guilty parties. In Mawang, even if not everyone Seung Ha went after was a murderer, all of them were guilty of various things. I fail to see what the three kids are guilty of in this case and it just makes me not sympathetic to his revenge plan to see him use them.
Haven't seen eps 11-13 and cannot comment on them :)
Ah, my memory must be screwed up. I think I'm mixing up Mawang and the japanese version, Maou, in which IIRC, it's the associate that stabs him. There are far too many dramas stored up in my brain! lol.
I do remember about that relative from one of the victims now. Yes, I remember thinking it was brilliantly tragic at the time.
There had been far too much bloodshed for Seung Ha to have any kind of happy ending. Bad Guy doesn't have such a high body count so far so I think that, in that way, GW could more believably have a HEA.
Not that I believe he'll get one. He said himself several times that he'll go all the way and then will await his punishment. I wonder what kind of punishment he is seeking. Being arrested by the police seems kind of sterile considering how personal his revenge is. Does he expect to be killed by one of the Hongs? Or a more metaphorical form of punishment (that of having sacrificed his own happiness and living his life as an empty shell)?
When you get to episodes 11-13, you get more details about GW's motivations and the first signs of clear remorse. He hates himself but cannot stop yet. There's one scene in one of those episodes (can't remember which) in which he takes a picture of So-dam from his board and compares it to the old family picture he has, zooming in on Mo-Ne who was an infant at the time. He does acknowledge that Mo-Ne wasn't part of what happened 20 years ago. He seems to be hoping for her to go abroad to study and grow up.
It's funny because I can't predict how everything will get resolved. In Mawang we're plundged in bloodshed and murder from the start so a gory ending wasn't difficult to envision but that's not the case here. The drama does start with a death but it was a suicide.
There's one touching scene where GW's associate asks he he had ever wished for the death of one of the Hongs. GW's answer is very interesting. I'll let you discover it without spoiling it.
My big problem with Gun Wook walking off into the sunset with or without Jae In is that I think he deserves to be severely punished. I am not nearly as sympathetic to him as I was to Mawang's Seung Ha (who I believe should have been punished too, not for his revenge targets necessarily, but for using innocent people to inflict harm). Unlike almost any other revenge drama, in BG, Gun Wook isn't going just after the guilty parties. In Mawang, even if not everyone Seung Ha went after was a murderer, all of them were guilty of various things. I fail to see what the three kids are guilty of in this case and it just makes me not sympathetic to his revenge plan to see him use them.
Haven't seen eps 11-13 and cannot comment on them :)
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I do remember about that relative from one of the victims now. Yes, I remember thinking it was brilliantly tragic at the time.
There had been far too much bloodshed for Seung Ha to have any kind of happy ending. Bad Guy doesn't have such a high body count so far so I think that, in that way, GW could more believably have a HEA.
Not that I believe he'll get one. He said himself several times that he'll go all the way and then will await his punishment. I wonder what kind of punishment he is seeking. Being arrested by the police seems kind of sterile considering how personal his revenge is. Does he expect to be killed by one of the Hongs? Or a more metaphorical form of punishment (that of having sacrificed his own happiness and living his life as an empty shell)?
When you get to episodes 11-13, you get more details about GW's motivations and the first signs of clear remorse. He hates himself but cannot stop yet. There's one scene in one of those episodes (can't remember which) in which he takes a picture of So-dam from his board and compares it to the old family picture he has, zooming in on Mo-Ne who was an infant at the time. He does acknowledge that Mo-Ne wasn't part of what happened 20 years ago. He seems to be hoping for her to go abroad to study and grow up.
It's funny because I can't predict how everything will get resolved. In Mawang we're plundged in bloodshed and murder from the start so a gory ending wasn't difficult to envision but that's not the case here. The drama does start with a death but it was a suicide.
There's one touching scene where GW's associate asks he he had ever wished for the death of one of the Hongs. GW's answer is very interesting. I'll let you discover it without spoiling it.
I'm very curious as to how it will end.
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