Right now, I’m watching W: Two Worlds Apart and I’ve decide to post the game I’m playing called “My Guess Who the Murderous Culprit Is.” And for episode 16, it’s over.

And these are my thoughts…

Starting with the least irritating: our female lead was so brainwashed with infatuation that she brought harm on herself and loved ones for the gratification of love from a fictional character. Yeah… she admired him before… but in a very small timeframe, she convinces herself it’s deep love and brings this fictional character to the real world pretending it would not have long lasting consequences. This man cannot survive in the real world. How does he hold a job? How does he get a drivers license? How does he own property? There is no record of him so he can’t do anything. All responsibility is on her now.

The next issue I have is a topic I’ve seen no one address. This manhwa has self publishing powers. (I’m gonna let that sink in for a second) Self. Publishing. Powers. The rules are not made clear how, when, or why so its pretty possible that ~even if the author is dead, the tablet disappears, or Kang becomes fully human~ this manhwa could continue a story if it wanted to. No one seems concerned about that. I can feel the reprimands coming. “The manhwa can’t continue because A, B, and C…” or “It didn’t self publish! So and so always had to approve.” To that I say… we saw different shows cause the manhwa definitely didn’t need human intervention to publish after ep… like, 4! I think the manhwa is still a threat and story could continue. The self publishing of this manhwa is possible cause the story didn’t set concrete rules for this plot device.

Which leads me to the last point. The MOST irritating. If you’re going to craft a story that bends reality, you still have to set and abide by rules to structure your story within. You can’t state or imply a rule then ignore it 2 eps later. An example: Christopher Nolan can’t tell you in “Inception” that time is expansive the deeper you go then only allow 5 minutes in the 3rd dream stage. A writer has to be consistent with their make-believe logic. And our show’s writer did not abide by this. She fell into the same trap that the fictional manhwa writer fell into. I believe she didn’t know the full story. Maybe she knew 2 episodes worth? She set rules and laid logic in those 2 eps, guided the audience to understand the story’s premise, then threw out those rules selectively whenever it benefitted her.

so I just looked up the writer to make sure I got her gender correct only to discover she won a writing award for this show. (rubs temple) so this is gonna be fun.

The argument’s been made that the show’s writer is making fun of the fictional writer. A comment from one of my previous posts put it- “It’s a dig at writers who start to write without having any idea of how to end it…they have to continue in the same haphazard style, hoping for any idea to strike at the opportune moment.” I’m not calling out this user specifically- I just liked their quote cause it sounds like the situation with this show. Why did eps 3-16 seem so disconnected from eps 1 & 2? In eps 1 & 2, the themes are about mystery and discovery. The show’s writer lays a foundation of logic and reason to understand the two worlds. The plot’s pace is healthy cause the audience needs time to digest. Then, eps 3-16, everything changes. Immediately, we’re through with slow revelations; its imperative to reveal everything by episode 6. Mystery and discovery are dismantled less than midway through. And because of this, we hit a wall and realize we can’t move the story forward in the same direction. That’s fine! Create a new timeline! Wouldn’t it be handy if our protagonist to acquire a new talent midway through. Anything is possible if the episode needs it! Is the manhwa controlled by author, tablet, or manhwa itself? Who cares! If we don’t like it, change it in the next episode! The alternate world becomes chaotic. Rules are broken, multiple timelines created, unrealistic resurrections, and ridiculous seeds planted to help the story move. The alternate world seems like a burden for the rest of the show. This feels like the author losing focus cause she didn’t plan in advance.

Very often, a development would occur in the story and I’d respond, “hold on, that can’t happen – cause something happened in a previous episode that doesn’t allow this to happen.” Rules were broken all the time. Logic was manipulated to benefit the current episode. I know its Sci-Fi, and there’s creative liberties, but state those liberties early on and hold to them throughout the show. Don’t forget or evolve halfway through. I’m aware it might be a language barrier thing, I missed something in the plot development, but this isn’t my first meta-world rodeo, and I’m confident that my expectations for story clarity and logic are not outrageous.

This show wasn’t terrible but it definitely wasn’t a favorite.