…I can’t believe there was a Season 2 just for this. I can’t believe I spent another 16 hours just for this. I can’t believe our Ahjumma and cranky detective got this ending. #MysteryQueen2 😶🤕💔
xD thanks for giving me a space to rant lol. and also gather my thoughts to try and figure out why I felt disappointed.
so…..
1. Chief Kim. The mysterious figure who is supposed to be the Big Bad behind every Bad that occurred to Ahjumma, and Detective Crankypants’s ex-gf Seo Hyun-Soo. It turns out that he was this guy who was a father figure to Wan-Seung? :/// Like… for no reason at all??? In the scenes with the two of them, he was so warm and nice to Wan-Seung. I just don’t understand why they had to make him the bad guy. I guess it felt like they had to make up a bad guy somehow? But there wasn’t really any motivations given for why he was being mean and shady and trying to kill people.
2. Seo Hyun-Soo. Seriously. ))): This is the girl Detective Crankypants has been missing for 17 years of his life. The girl who vanished before his eyes, supposedly kidnapped and killed by some evil Big Bad. We finally find out that she was his love, and we finally get him realizing that it was her all along, and THEN SHOW DECIDES TO KILL HER?! They didn’t even get a chance to talk! About their lost past, about their feelings, about the years they spent longing and looking for each other. Oh-so-conveniently, she gets shot and dies. So we’ll never get to address and fully comprehend how Wan-Seung’s feelings for her are like, especially when compared to his for Ahjumma. Like, is he over her? Does he not have conflicting feelings when he developed feelings for Ahjumma? How is he going to get closure now, for a second time? It was all just so cruel.
But heck, we get a time slip, and it’s like he shrugs it all off like it’s not a terribly big deal to lose her again…
3. Which leads me to this. There is then no progression/resolution for Ahjumma and Detective Crankypants’ relationship. They just…….. resume, after a time skip, after he suffers two major events – one betrayal from a trusted father figure, and this time having the love of his life killed, for sure, again, and this time, before his very eyes, with him being drugged and unable to do anything about it – they just resumed their bickering and non-acknowledgment of their feelings for each other.
Whaaat?? I just.. can’t. ㅠ.ㅠ
4. Other things: Wan-Seung just felt so dumbed down this season. Also his brother randomly decides at the end of the final episode to join forces with Chief Kim or something. We just got a cryptic phone call and some furious staring at the screen.
)): I just felt so let down. I was waiting for the ring to turn up, so that Wan-Seung and Seol-ok could have like some honest and clear acknowledgement to each other about just like. Him buying a ring for her, for romantic reasons. I waited through all the cases and perverts running about the streets, just to get closure here but… :/ It no give me closure.
Sigh. >.< Thanks for letting me spoiler you and release my suppressed frustration, @zgs1994
And the non-acknowledgment of feelings is a cruel, cruel way to end this series. Like, what do *want* from us as the audience? We’ve been shipping them like crazy since the beginning and THIS is how to do fan-service? I feel so wrong and angry right now!
And the shoddy development of the mystery pisses me off even more! Like, didn’t you get a 2nd season to SOLVE that mess in the first place? How can you dupe the audiences like that AGAIN? I hope this show never gets approved for a 3rd season.
I feel like the 1st season had a very lightly Sherlock feel about it. And I only just got to know that its because this season had a different director and omg I am AMAZED at how much difference proper cinematography can make on a show. Also, the score and background music of the 1st season was so quirky and engaging while this one was just so bland and typical!
Augh.
Thanks for spoiling me @rhapsophie ! Not many people are brave enough to do so! <3333 🙂 😀
@zgs1994 well now you know not to watch the last few episodes, to not raise your blood pressure further 😅
and yes, seo hyun soo was the bakery girl >.< it was only hinted at and revealed towards the last few episodes, that she was actually seo hyun soo, just that she has a different face now.
and you're right, maybe the lack of closure on the relationship front was to keep the possibility of a SEASON 3 open 😶
I also agree with you – I preferred the soundtrack and mood of the previous season.
rhapsophie
April 21, 2018 at 10:30 AM
…I can’t believe there was a Season 2 just for this. I can’t believe I spent another 16 hours just for this. I can’t believe our Ahjumma and cranky detective got this ending. #MysteryQueen2 😶🤕💔
zgs1994
April 21, 2018 at 4:01 PM
what happened? spoil me!
rhapsophie
April 21, 2018 at 9:53 PM
xD thanks for giving me a space to rant lol. and also gather my thoughts to try and figure out why I felt disappointed.
so…..
1. Chief Kim. The mysterious figure who is supposed to be the Big Bad behind every Bad that occurred to Ahjumma, and Detective Crankypants’s ex-gf Seo Hyun-Soo. It turns out that he was this guy who was a father figure to Wan-Seung? :/// Like… for no reason at all??? In the scenes with the two of them, he was so warm and nice to Wan-Seung. I just don’t understand why they had to make him the bad guy. I guess it felt like they had to make up a bad guy somehow? But there wasn’t really any motivations given for why he was being mean and shady and trying to kill people.
2. Seo Hyun-Soo. Seriously. ))): This is the girl Detective Crankypants has been missing for 17 years of his life. The girl who vanished before his eyes, supposedly kidnapped and killed by some evil Big Bad. We finally find out that she was his love, and we finally get him realizing that it was her all along, and THEN SHOW DECIDES TO KILL HER?! They didn’t even get a chance to talk! About their lost past, about their feelings, about the years they spent longing and looking for each other. Oh-so-conveniently, she gets shot and dies. So we’ll never get to address and fully comprehend how Wan-Seung’s feelings for her are like, especially when compared to his for Ahjumma. Like, is he over her? Does he not have conflicting feelings when he developed feelings for Ahjumma? How is he going to get closure now, for a second time? It was all just so cruel.
But heck, we get a time slip, and it’s like he shrugs it all off like it’s not a terribly big deal to lose her again…
3. Which leads me to this. There is then no progression/resolution for Ahjumma and Detective Crankypants’ relationship. They just…….. resume, after a time skip, after he suffers two major events – one betrayal from a trusted father figure, and this time having the love of his life killed, for sure, again, and this time, before his very eyes, with him being drugged and unable to do anything about it – they just resumed their bickering and non-acknowledgment of their feelings for each other.
Whaaat?? I just.. can’t. ㅠ.ㅠ
4. Other things: Wan-Seung just felt so dumbed down this season. Also his brother randomly decides at the end of the final episode to join forces with Chief Kim or something. We just got a cryptic phone call and some furious staring at the screen.
)): I just felt so let down. I was waiting for the ring to turn up, so that Wan-Seung and Seol-ok could have like some honest and clear acknowledgement to each other about just like. Him buying a ring for her, for romantic reasons. I waited through all the cases and perverts running about the streets, just to get closure here but… :/ It no give me closure.
Sigh. >.< Thanks for letting me spoiler you and release my suppressed frustration, @zgs1994
zgs1994
April 22, 2018 at 2:59 AM
Omigosh, really? Urgh!
Is Seo Hyun Soo the bakery girl?
And the non-acknowledgment of feelings is a cruel, cruel way to end this series. Like, what do *want* from us as the audience? We’ve been shipping them like crazy since the beginning and THIS is how to do fan-service? I feel so wrong and angry right now!
And the shoddy development of the mystery pisses me off even more! Like, didn’t you get a 2nd season to SOLVE that mess in the first place? How can you dupe the audiences like that AGAIN? I hope this show never gets approved for a 3rd season.
I feel like the 1st season had a very lightly Sherlock feel about it. And I only just got to know that its because this season had a different director and omg I am AMAZED at how much difference proper cinematography can make on a show. Also, the score and background music of the 1st season was so quirky and engaging while this one was just so bland and typical!
Augh.
Thanks for spoiling me @rhapsophie ! Not many people are brave enough to do so! <3333 🙂 😀
rhapsophie
April 22, 2018 at 4:50 AM
@zgs1994 well now you know not to watch the last few episodes, to not raise your blood pressure further 😅
and yes, seo hyun soo was the bakery girl >.< it was only hinted at and revealed towards the last few episodes, that she was actually seo hyun soo, just that she has a different face now.
and you're right, maybe the lack of closure on the relationship front was to keep the possibility of a SEASON 3 open 😶
I also agree with you – I preferred the soundtrack and mood of the previous season.
zgs1994
April 22, 2018 at 5:59 AM
Definitely not wasting my time on this. Thanks again! 🙂