A simple question please for those who have started this: is Yoo Ah-in in it at all?

Kind of boring (on 4 ep). Who think to make it 12 ep drama? 6 eps would be good.

This show is kind of a mess, and for the most part, all over the place. The editing certainly doesn't help, but I'm not sure if that's because of Yoo Ah-in, who's in this way more than I expected, because a lot of this stuff generally has nothing to do with him.

Still, despite all this, I found myself invested in this show, and it's characters. And the actors certainly do a good job here. And despite my love for high-stakes stuff, my favorite moments of the show was when they weren't dealing with any of that. I loved the more quiet moments, the emotional scenes, scenes where characters are having fun, or when people were coming together. Like, I don't need 2 cults, give me more of the chickens instead! Those chickens never failed to put a smile on me.

It's why the last 2 episodes were actually my favorite, as those really focused more on the characters, and how they're dealing with everything. It suddenly became very real that all these people were in fact gonna die. Those episodes broke my heart, but it's exactly the kind of heartbreak I signed up for when I started watching the show. And I wish the whole show was more like that. Things like In-ah and her sexuality, and her relationship with her mom is stuff that really should've been explored throughout the season and not just in the last 2 episodes. Also, having the main four jump around in joy only to then immediately cut to the asteroid that's coming to kill them all is a pretty mean trick, not gonna lie.

The ending is... not what I was expecting, but I'm also not sure what I was expecting. In the end, people made their own decisions as to how to spend their final days, and as to how they'd go out, and those decisions made sense for these characters. We see the asteroid show up in the sky at the very end, but maybe we're better off imagining that the kids actually did fly off in balloons. It's certainly better than the reality where they were living in hiding because a father sold off his own daughter. These people deserved better, but that might just be the entire point. And yeah, having a big group of characters you've come to like over the course of the season all die because of an asteroid just really hurts. It's the pain I expected, but that doesn't make it hurt any less.

I'm glad Yoo Ah-in is still in this drama.

I watched this show purely for Yoo Ah In. I'm glad they kept a lot of his scenes. It was great to see him again and as usual he did a fantastic job of portraying his character's emotions.

This type of show is not really my thing. There were aspects though that I liked. One was the depiction of human behavior at its best and worst in reaction to unavoidable future trauma. I can imagine how a scenario like this could play out, with people turning toward or away from one another, toward finding a solution or giving up, toward religion or crime. Show passed the Bechdel test and I appreciated the strong women leaders. I also liked how the lead was a classroom teacher who cared deeply for and worked to protect her students. Teachers are usually seen as either warm mentors or mean bullies but rarely as heros.

The actors did quite well, including the child actors. They needed to convey a wide range of emotions here. The CGI was neat, I especially liked the stark contrasts shown like the Christmas celebration in the street, before and after. The music was well done, emotive and creating tension.

I wish they had not chopped out YAI. His research would have been interesting. And plot seemed choppy and confusing at times, perhaps because of the cuts. Like what was the meaning of the huge scar on his side and the blinking light device?? Never saw it after that one early scene. It made me wonder how well the story might have flowed without this unnecessary editing.

I hope we'll be able to watch Hi.5 and The Match someday without editing, maybe even the original version of GE. I feel for everyone who put time, effort, and money into producing these shows. I wish they'd just show them outside of SK if Koreans won't watch them. And most of all I'm still hopeful that Yoo Ah In with his immense talent will return to acting in the not too distant future.