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[timescout]

Tried the 1st episode of Incarnation of Money but gave up half way. I just couldn't get into it, something with it wasn't sitting right with me. I can't put my finger on what's wrong, maybe I'm not in the mood for that particular brand of angst right now but I'm going to give it a rest and try again later. Maybe

Comments

[mookiehyun]

I share similar feelings towards Incarnation of Money, just a stronger dislike. I think the acting is across the board screechy and pompous, the writing is treating us as retards, the characters are introduced as caricatures fitting into so tiresome and predictable molds.

Ranty spoilers:
Daddydearest honcho, is going to be stupid over a plastic face mistress and her lover and shoot them all at his party at his house full of every person in his life with his freaken rifle from his collection your and his game plan is the sound will be covered up by his fireworks?! Why not get a damn wet red rug for the bloodletting while you are at it?! If a honcho chaebol is gravely ill, possibly poisoned, where is the heightened security?! There is not even the humidifiers, inexcusable laziness. Even scratching that, the medical staff?! It's just said out loud in a line the nurse is out. Out?! Taking a break?! Grabbing a sandwich?! HUh?! So the baddie can be all alone in the hospital room contemplating pulling the plugs by just pressing one damn black button for the longest lingering seconds while strings of DRAMATIC is blasting and...he still didn't get this 'simple' thing done.

Park JiBin is the least talented K child actor I've seen. I'm allergic to his style of overplaying every bit of emotion and failing at it, too caught up to ham up the act and get loss with connecting it with genuineness. In my books, KJH is along that vein , not my cuppa.

[timescout]

I think you might be right about the writing. The story felt rather stale and filled with makjangy clichés. I mean, I can almost predict how the plot will develop and I didn't even get far with ep 1. I'm usually game with the typical recycled kdrama plots (let's face it, that's most of 'em) but I always hope they add at least a new angle or something so i won't get frustrated and/or bored. I didn't watch enough to comment on acting.

I don't think Park Ji Bin is all that bad. He was probably told to act in a certain way to match up with his adult counterpart. He's serviceable enough, though not in the same league as Yeo Jin Goo, Yoo Yeon Mi et al.

I'll probably try again during weekend to see if I feel any different when I've watched both episodes properly.