It could’ve been so badass to see a woman in the game (we literally only see men playing the game) working alongside him to shoot up the enemies.South Korean TV shows have kept the audience wanting more. I get that our male lead is traumatized by the shitty people he invited into his life and how PSH’s character heals that (he learns to trust again), but she literally serves no purpose in the drama. But besides her playing the role of Emma in the drama, who is a major key created by Se-joo for the circumstances of his disappearance, her real life alter ego doesn’t really do much. I would’ve been absolutely chill with a drama about a woman running a boarding house in Spain and learning to love a rich CEO who gave her millions of dollars to live off of for the rest of her life. I did wonder, however, what exactly Park Shin-hye’s character’s purpose was. There are some major twists in this I never saw coming and got me gasping, so I appreciated the risks they took in choosing death and life among characters. The main focus of the plot then solely goes into being figuring out what happened to Se-joo and why the two worlds are merging for the players, as well as spiraling quickly into a crime genre show because the cops are starting to get involved. It seemed to hold more mystery to me in the Spain portion, where the land held this mysterious aura and was absolutely foreign and ancient. I will be honest though, once we got into the Seoul portion of the drama, I found myself caring less and less about the plot. He’s quite the formidable and intimidating figure. While alive, he only stole Jin-woo’s wife from him (they cheated), but after his death and rebirth as the NPC, he is a glaring figure, one who does not speak, only glares and hacks with his sword. It’s absolutely insane the presence this character takes as an NPC, because he’s almost in every single episode. This is where the plot quickly begins to get tricky, because Jin-woo’s rival dies after dueling with him in the game, and is now literally hunting him as an NPC. Jin-woo needs to buy the game, but Se-joo is now missing, so he develops a plan in order to buy it from his sister, who is his legal guardian. Only those playing the game with the contact lens in can see the monsters and people attacking, so, to the average passerby, the person playing looks absolutely insane. Jin-woo begins obsessively playing the game that Se-joo developed-it’s conducted via the contact lens his company creates, and it takes place in the real world. They moved to Spain because they thought she was a guitar prodigy, but after her father and mother died, Hee-joo abandoned that dream to provide for her grandmother, brother, and sister. This hostel is rather small and not up to our rich CEO’s standards, but it is how Hee-joo manages to make money for her family. Se-joo is frantic on the phone, telling Jin-woo he needs to come to Spain to meet him, and so Jin-woo ventures to Grenada, Spain, at a small Korean hostel on the side streets owned by Se-joo’s sister Hee-joo. The story of this drama kickstarts when CEO of a tech lens company, Yoo Jin-woo (played by Hyun-bin), gets a call from youth game developer Jung Se-joo (Park Chan-yeol). It was absolutely beautiful, and if we could’ve set the entire movie in Grenada I would not have been mad. But my absolute favorite part of this drama was the setting in Spain. It’s a bit cautious considering the real state of our world, how we manage to blur the lines between reality and fiction, as well as one’s addiction to video games. I really didn’t know what this drama was about when I pressed play, but if I were to describe it now, it’s the mixing of a violent video game world with reality. And oh my god I wondered how I missed this drama, because this was one hell of a ride to get through. I think I was intrigued by the lead couple being played by Park Shin-hye and Hyun-bin. I’ve been on such a K-drama kick as of late, so when I saw this in my suggested, I pressed play. Perhaps it’s my friend’s hatred of Park Chan-yeol rubbing off of me, but when this came out I remember the massive hype surrounding it. I really don’t know what took me so long to watch this drama.
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