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Was curious about the deluge of positive response on db and decided to give it a quick peek.
Only watched ep1. I like aspects of it, but I did not enjoy it nearly as much as everyone else seems to.
I am in awe at how female centric the show is and really like BDM and CH. Still, I struggled to buy into the world. It may be a case of doctors not being able to watch medical dramas… while I would love the world to be ruled by woman as cool as that, the reality of the matter is that gender discrimination is still rampant in IT. Having women in leadership positions is very rare and even when they get there they don’t last long. I wonder if the choice of field was on purpose…
The other thing that really bothered me was the light and camera work. I am usually not one to comment on such things but here it veers into the absurd, to the point where it takes me out of the story. For the entire first meet with Morgan I was wondering about the source and intensity of the light and could not pay attention to anything else. The style of the shots feels familiar although I don’t recognize the director. I did like the OST at least. On hold for now, might give it a go during my August down time.

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    On the point of gender discrimination in IT, I have to agree with you that what they’re showing in the show is very far-fetched. But I appreciate it nonetheless. I’m a bit bored of watching corporate dramas and workplace politics revolve around men in leadership positions as they invariably seem to. Case in point: the much beloved My Ahjusshi. I’m sure others can name 20 dramas where women were in leadership roles, but nope, those 20 are an exception.

    With that in mind, I WANT fiction to portray a different reality every once in a while. Fiction can influence our own perspectives, and this is a perspective I wish was given to young girls and women more often. Bae Tae Mi and her sunbae remind of the women lawyers I see in action in the Courts, and a few, rare women I came across in law school. These are not women I encountered before this, and it never even occurred to me to be fierce until then. I learnt by watching others, and am still learning, and love what this show is doing with its women. American media may have more of it, but as someone from an Asian country, this is not a representation of women I see often in my media.

    The lighting is terrible. I cannot defend the show on that count.

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      I agree, but in a way I feel it negates and to some extent disparages the true struggles of women in the field. Showing the female leaders as an exception rather than the rule would be more realistic. When you show all people in leadership positions for the top two search engines in Kr as being female I am struggling to take the story seriously.

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        I do completely get what you mean. 🙂 It’s a solid point. I’m just in agreement with @wapz on this – I like seeing this alternate reality. It’s like the show us trying to make a point. Of course, it has to keep this up for the whole duration for it to successfully do so. Haha

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      lighitng and angle is terrible. I’m only putting up with it cause of Jang Ki Yong.

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      I thought it was sort of strange that ALL the leaders were women. However, I noticed that Bae Ta Mi said something about having worked there for 29 years but it shows her being hired in 2006, 13 years ago. So it seems like the show is set sometime in the near-ish future. It seems like they’re trying to show what they want the future to look like.

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    I don’t think the show is trying to be real either. It is a fictional story just like chaebols falling in love with candys. I personally think the writers made it a point that this show will stand the Bechdel test. They just wanted to turn the world the other way around and show women as bosses and the driving force of the drama with the man only being a romantic interest.

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