OK, so I think we can definitively say I’m on board the Strongest Deliveryman train (delivery bike?).
But show, it should not take me 9 episodes to care about the main characters! You are very lucky that you have really fun secondary and tertiary characters for me to care about because otherwise you’d be in a lot of trouble. Also, it helps that I was bored today and your episodes are just under an hour long. Less guilt over bingeing.
My sentiments also… I like all the characters at the start… and then I sort of fell back on liking anything much, and now I’m behind them again and I’m just like Why? How? Oh Well… haha
Like, if the show keeps up this momentum I think I’ll be able to stick with it to the end now, but why did we have like, 3 episodes dealing with the car racing plot? I get that it was important story-wise but it took up too much time. And there were weird time-skips that weren’t clear so that screwed things up a bit too when it comes to realizing the relationships. (Like why couldn’t we have had a whole episode of that month of Dan-ah and Kang-soo hiding their side hustle? Why did we need the murderous pipe-plot and prison stuff instead? Unless the prisoners make a comeback later I don’t know why it was necessary.)
But now I care about everyone, I want Dan-ah and Kang-soo to get together, I want not-a-gangster chef to sort things out with Soon-ae, and I want all my deliverymen to be happy. I even care about roommate and the Kang-soo mommy plot (but not the chaebol business shenanigans). Don’t make me regret an afternoon I could’ve spent reading, show.
Yes. Yes. All of the above.
Way too much time on the car racing and bromance angst and it meant very, VERY little development for our main couple. Like Dan Ha got one seen in one of those episodes…
Which is why their relationship starting was weird and jerky.
It’s only last week that I was convinced by it enough to ship it properly.
Same. But it such a weird turnaround. Like to be bad from episode 3 through to 8, and then get better in 9???? Have to say, that’s a first for me. Usually it just goes downhill completely if it’s weak that far through.
Then again, we still have 6 eps left so PLEASE SHOW STAY OK.
It’s just really uneven writing paired with mediocre direction (in terms of the director’s pacing of plot advancements, because the visuals are actually pretty good).
I think I’ll finish, unless like, I dunno, Dan-ah is suddenly the heir to a Ramyun empire and decides that actually, deliverymen aren’t for her and instead, it’s clearly convenience stores that are the moneymakers…Actually, I might watch that. As long as she takes my rainbow unicorn Ji-yoon with her to be her secretary/bodyguard. Obviously Soon-ae will also go along to keep the riff-raff away.
SnarkyJellyfish
September 8, 2017 at 10:45 PM
OK, so I think we can definitively say I’m on board the Strongest Deliveryman train (delivery bike?).
But show, it should not take me 9 episodes to care about the main characters! You are very lucky that you have really fun secondary and tertiary characters for me to care about because otherwise you’d be in a lot of trouble. Also, it helps that I was bored today and your episodes are just under an hour long. Less guilt over bingeing.
sicarius
September 8, 2017 at 11:10 PM
My sentiments also… I like all the characters at the start… and then I sort of fell back on liking anything much, and now I’m behind them again and I’m just like Why? How? Oh Well… haha
SnarkyJellyfish
September 8, 2017 at 11:19 PM
Like, if the show keeps up this momentum I think I’ll be able to stick with it to the end now, but why did we have like, 3 episodes dealing with the car racing plot? I get that it was important story-wise but it took up too much time. And there were weird time-skips that weren’t clear so that screwed things up a bit too when it comes to realizing the relationships. (Like why couldn’t we have had a whole episode of that month of Dan-ah and Kang-soo hiding their side hustle? Why did we need the murderous pipe-plot and prison stuff instead? Unless the prisoners make a comeback later I don’t know why it was necessary.)
But now I care about everyone, I want Dan-ah and Kang-soo to get together, I want not-a-gangster chef to sort things out with Soon-ae, and I want all my deliverymen to be happy. I even care about roommate and the Kang-soo mommy plot (but not the chaebol business shenanigans). Don’t make me regret an afternoon I could’ve spent reading, show.
sicarius
September 8, 2017 at 11:25 PM
Yes. Yes. All of the above.
Way too much time on the car racing and bromance angst and it meant very, VERY little development for our main couple. Like Dan Ha got one seen in one of those episodes…
Which is why their relationship starting was weird and jerky.
It’s only last week that I was convinced by it enough to ship it properly.
Same. But it such a weird turnaround. Like to be bad from episode 3 through to 8, and then get better in 9???? Have to say, that’s a first for me. Usually it just goes downhill completely if it’s weak that far through.
Then again, we still have 6 eps left so PLEASE SHOW STAY OK.
SnarkyJellyfish
September 8, 2017 at 11:58 PM
It’s just really uneven writing paired with mediocre direction (in terms of the director’s pacing of plot advancements, because the visuals are actually pretty good).
I think I’ll finish, unless like, I dunno, Dan-ah is suddenly the heir to a Ramyun empire and decides that actually, deliverymen aren’t for her and instead, it’s clearly convenience stores that are the moneymakers…Actually, I might watch that. As long as she takes my rainbow unicorn Ji-yoon with her to be her secretary/bodyguard. Obviously Soon-ae will also go along to keep the riff-raff away.
Rainbow Unicorn
September 9, 2017 at 1:34 AM
Ji-yoon as her boduguard!! Hahahahahaha! I would lovee that! She is a Rainbow unicorn indeed! 😉