Dhakra

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On 5/31/2021 at 9:44 AM, abs-oluteM said:

2. Secret Love Affair 

Such a good drama, very atmospheric, but definitely more of a heavy meal. And the music 

Btw Noonalicious, hoooow much ep have been released of 'Mine'?

23 hours ago, Chocolate said:

Overall, this drama was entertaining and I looked forward to it every weekend. However, I think the first half was more exciting/tighter while the second half had more hard to believe/insult to our intelligence bits. If there is a second season, it's got to be better than the last few episodes of S1.

 

I agree. The first and second half of the drama felt totally different. The first half had a darker, more ruthless aspect. The second half was sometimes a little bit too silly and implausible. Do Ki felt like an unbeatable cyborg, who doesn't need to rest and can't be harmed. I mean, he got beaten several times hard by a baseball bat and still could defeat a whole army, drive and continue fighting the next day. 

I did like the drama aswell, but the second season needs to have a little more fine tuning. Well choreographed fights are good, but if every episode is about Do Ki fighting dozens of guys while none of them learning anything over several episodes, it's a bit.... 

17 hours ago, SnowBlob said:

Very true! I suppose they want to end it with good feeling for the watchers. I really thought mr Park would die... Lol .. Although i must say i'm happy that he didn't. 

Adding to my text above, this is another issue I have. Team Rainbow Taxi just felt superior, nothing bad happened to them over the course of the drama. I mean, I am the happiest  that nothing happened to Go Eun and I would have go nuts if she would have went through something similiar like her sister, but for example, CEO Jang had so many bad guys in his apartment through the course of the drama. So many thugs broke into his home. Cho Do Chul, Baek's thugs to just name a few. And they suddenly went all soft on him. 

Park also survived his small adventure with Miss Lim, somehow got rescued after being thrown into the ocean and is probably the first who survived the truck of doom.  I am glad he survived, but sigh..... I really need to close my eyes to not rant too much. 

5 hours ago, JenL said:

But to be fair, I think Korea at least talks about it and makes films about it. If we're honest with ourselves, I think this sort of sort stuff happens in every country, often to those in minority groups. Australia is a fairly egalitarian society, but this sort of stuff has probably happened with Indigenous teenagers who get caught by white police in the rural countryside. Racism and classism still exist everywhere unfortunately. 

Woo, that's good that there's no "time limit" for a crime not being a crime 

The Korean law I always find weird is that it's not a murder if they don't find the body...but there's so many K-dramas where a serial killer hides the bodies really well...a law like that just encourages criminals to get better at hiding the evidence  Apparently you can still be charged for murder here without a body if they have the evidence.

But wouldn't it be better if they don't need to make movies out of it at first? 

Well, racism definitely exists her aswell onfortunately, classism to a certain degree aswell, but not in front of the law. At least I do not know any cases of forced confessions in Germany. I did a bit of research on google myself and haven't found anything aswell. And even if people did it, it was pretty much revoked quite soon, cause it wouldn't stand the actual trial. 

Yeah I never understood that either, with methods of dissolving, hiding or burying it well, I can't understand how it can't be murder if they don't have the body. The murderer can literally confess, but if they don't have a body, it's not murder. 

5 hours ago, JenL said:

You're right too - a real life version of OYC definitely wouldn't have begged which is why we didn't feel it was genuine in the show - a more realistic reaction would have been anger. They should have shown him getting more angry and acting more violent than GTY or Chairman Baek (who are more realistic depictions of psychopaths!). They also should have made his son seem more like the type of son that a psychopath would value ie. someone who is seen as a winner, whose opinion he would care about if he hated him ie. scholarship student, handsome etc rather than a weak sort of guy, since a psychopath would not feel bad for a son like that and would probably have abandoned him anyway. 

Anger, revenge or the complete opposite, playing it either cool, being just stonecold or reject it. We saw him being quite methodic while killing, playing with his victims. So him being soft, submissive and weak just doesn't fit. 

Now that you mention it, that's true. OYC pretty much showed what he thinks of types like his son, by actually bullying and hurting weak younger man. 

I also wonder, since OYC is a known serial killer, who knowingly brutally murdered several people, it's clear that he would be under heavy guard. Why was Han Dong-chan so helpless and defenseless? Since OYC most likely is imprisoned in a high security prison, why wasn't han at least able to defend himself even a little? He should know how to handle a prisoner. 

4 hours ago, JenL said:

 

Yep agree! I do think they tend to like some pretty fairy tale type endings sometimes where it's meant to be "touching" but it doesn't necessarily make sense? 

Then at least let Do Ki and Ha Na have a kiss at the end  I mean their talk about faith and trust was so cheesy. 

On 5/30/2021 at 4:17 PM, JenL said:

I was conflicted that OYC's son was sort of used as the pawn in the revenge, but it doesn't seem like KDK and CEO Jung knew what OYC was going to do to the bodyguard that was his son...only that they leveraged what happened to torment OYC. I think I was the opposite to you @mademoiselle in that I liked that CEO Jung did reveal the truth to OYC  to break him - letting him know he had hurt/destroyed the thing that he most valued with his own hands would be a way of making him feel like he had lost. That's what you get with messing with security guards, OYC! 

Let's not forget this also wasn't the first time Rainbow Taxi used the kids of the criminals to apply pressure. Mr.Jang also mentioned the daugter of Cho Do Chul to make him compliant. 

I also agree that it was good that CEO Jung revealed it to him, especially in the chosen form with a picture. Do Ki mentioned that he didn't want to give OYC a picture to yearn onto, because it would show him also a little bit of mercy. But now CEO gave it to him so he can visually see his actions, every day in the form of a picture. 

On 5/30/2021 at 4:17 PM, JenL said:

- With that said, I felt like the scriptwriters didn't really look so deeply into psychopaths. I'm not an expert but I guess I've read a lot about them over the years because I've always been fascinated with empathy and how some people really don't have it. The first thing that I was a bit meh on was them saying psychopaths could love their kids. I really didn't think so, but I had a look on some psycho/sociopath threads on reddit after the episode and most psychopaths said they don't think they do - they feel 'fondness,' but love is hard for many. It's probably not impossible, but more in the way that psychopaths think of their kids being an extension of themselves or something useful/beneficial to them. So OYC missing his kid was a bit of a stretch, but it's possible that he thought his kid was the good part of himself or something. 

4 hours ago, mademoiselle said:

Ehhh were off somewhere playing your phone in this part? Hahaha. He finally feels bad because he finds out (via CEO Jang) that his son was the one he beats up and coz of that his wife died too. Yeah no, if he is a psychopath I also don't think he'd feel remorse.

Do you know the YouTube Channel "JCS - Criminal Psychology"? The Channel ist about investigating and talking to criminals of famous cases in the interrogation room and tactics to get a confession. So when they showed the behavior of the psychopath, I actually was reminded of a video that was released a few days back which showed the case of a recent shooting at a highschool in Florida. The offender pretended to be crazy and mentally ill, but for comparison purposes they showed a "real" psychopatch who wasn't able to feel remorse or guilt. He was totally calm and rational. He didn't try to look crazy, he just was. 

I put it in a spoiler with a timestamp.

So the case of OYC was really odd, because I think his character was based on tropes in the end. I don't buy it. Especially the last scene of his where he falls on his knees, asking for forgiveness and begging. That doesn't look like a serial killer, who murdered several people before and couldn't care less. 

He doesn't change his character so quickly after years of being imprisoned and being a serial killer. 

All in all it looked a little too much of KDrama Christmascandyland.

8 hours ago, SnowBlob said:

True...BUT..that eye that's supposedly blind moved well! Unsure though whether a blind eye can still move around following an object it sees? 

Hmm i thought OYC apologising had something to do with CEO Jang and or KDK? Thought they must have threatened him with sth for him to apologise like that... Because dont think he_s remorseful at all (unless he got a brain transplant from someone's who is 'normal' like in Mouse...)

Honestly, I think it's another case of the drama not willing to make the last step. The drama started by giving us the impression that our Team is willing to make any kind of sacrifices and do every means possible to get revenge and get the bad guys. 

But slowly and steadily we learned that they don't, they lack of professionalism, pretty much everything relies on Do Ki and even the first so highly praised Mrs. Baek, who looked like the queen of the underworld, is only a woman who has too many untalented thugs and two big babies. 

They really didn't want to harm Deluxe Taxi in any way. More than once Do Ki looked invincible and unkillable. Even Ms.Baek, who always looked like she knows no mercy, seemed to fail and go soft on CEO Jang. His eyesight looked very normal at the end.

Btw is Park the first person in KDramaland that survived the Truck of Doom?  

10 hours ago, Nohamahmoud2002 said:

@Dhakra  so good to see you here 😀🎶🎶

Oh?  Thank you, that's so nice of you. Always doing my best. 

1 hour ago, LaLa said:

What drama do you associate with me? When you see me, which drama do you immediately think of? :)

LaLaLand 

It's not a drama and I probably never saw you in any thread before, so I am totally not qualified to answer that question, but that never stopped me before answering one. So here you go.  Always ready to give my unqualified answer. 

Episode 15

• Two minutes into the episode and I am already angry again!  That poor girl on the ground, her poor kids, killed in cold blood. 
• How fast the brother turned at each other. That's something one should always know, there is no honor among thieves, thugs or criminals. They turn on you the moment they need to save their own skin. 
  It's good to see Kang Ha Na being in the driver seat though, finally she holds the cards to victory.
• Do Ki showed Ha Na pretty much everything, he is very open to her and doesn't hide anything, he truly trusts her and want's to repent for his actions. But I feel like she is very disappointed of him, I have the feeling to some extent, she actually likes him, not in a romantic way, but could see why he did some things and that it was necessary and imminent. 
  But after seeing the prison and realising he was co-conspiring with Baek and actually knewing about the prison, she realized that she needs to lock him up and that there is no way around it. 
  "This isn't the Do KI I know" was a very deep look into Ha Na's mind. She acknowledged Do Ki's acts. She even began to like him in some way.
• She also tried to protect Do Ki, knowing what he went through after the death of his mother. Seeing him pass out.
• So getting a confession under torture is actual possible in korea? Oh boy.....I mean I guess it was done behind closed doors.....but.....man those drama always make the korean law look really bad. 
  It's even more sad that it seems this was a real life case and some cops fabricated a murderer. 
• How Do Ki's body language and facial expressions changed after Ha Na told him about the claims of his mom's killer. He suddenly changed from being a man into a confused boy. He completely lost his defensive act and became insecure.
• The scene of her death was so sad. Poor mom. Even on the edge of dying she protected her son. 
• "Will you end up being a murdered?"......Well technically.......  he already is....

Episode 16

• I really wonder about the stature of limitations though, so murder can expire in korea? I only know about the german law and here all kinds of murder will never expire. No matter how long it has been, you will always be charged here. 
  That's why we even charge some very old people (like an 90+ year old recently) who committed war crimes in WWII. 
• Do Ki.....dude....if Go Eun knocks at your door.....you open up. 
• The usual: "One last job" 
• Do Ki shrugging with his shoulders was so funny after kicking these punks. 
• The moment he began to talk about ramyeon and starting the first step of taking revenge felt huge. It was similiar to the line Young told Do Ki about his mom. Damn....
• I don't know, but whenever I hear someone talk in a Kdrama about transfering someone from a hospital somewhere else to a "foundation" and helping someone, I automatically get a bad feeling. I mean we know Do Ki is genuine and Blue Bird is a good foundation, but after watching so many dramas, I automatically expect stuff like that to harm or kill people. 
  I mean just take Ep1 and Maria's case. 
• So Young beat up his own son? And later again? Oh man......so in the end......his actions killed his own family....his wife and more or less his son. 
• " Mr. Kim, you're worth it"......well I have seen worse love confessions in dramaland  I really wouldn't mind a second season with them being a team and develope this further  
• There is an empty desk in her office, Investigator Wang sadly passed away, but Do Ki would probably be a good match for the team. 
• So Kang decided to bury the cases, let them go free, even thanking them for the service they did to the victims and is ready to resign and take the fall, but Prosecutor Jo beats her to it and resigns first, taking the fall before her, telling to make up for this by catching 100 big fish like that. Jo looked at the start as the usual corrupt boss, but later looked like he was a guy the his heart at the right place. 
  And even now he protects Kang, his old friend, Rainbow Taxi and the victims. He truly is the MVP at the end.
• Baek got 10 years first and 20 years later, and she already mentioned her revenge on Kang before......second seaaason, hellooooo. She mentioned it is easy to kill people from the prison. 
• So in the end, they reassembled Deluxe Taxi after a year, Prosecutor Kang joins and she now has pretty much her own investigation Team. Do Ki worked alone and continued to catch bad guys.  It also looks like he helped Kang in the past occasionally. They all have "real" jobs now though, which gives them a lot more options. 
• Honestly the last 5 minutes set the stage for a second season, especially since a murder case popped up and all of them reassemebled with Kang on board. 

I think I give my final verdict of the drama in a few days. Still deciding if I am going to preorder the OST of the drama on Makestar.

Champions League Finaaaaaals! WHOOOHOOO!   THE CHAMPIOOOONS! 

On 5/28/2021 at 9:11 AM, TRaNz said:

Dont get me wrong, BTS are cool n that, but I just think they could have designed the meal with a bit more changes from BTS to make it a bit more different from standard items from the menu. Because its supposed to be a special collab yea? a bit of a soft effort on Maccas here.

(sorry for rant, i take my McDonalds seriously.....haha)

Bro.....we both know how the KPop Industry works, we both know BTS themselves probably never had anything to do with the menu. It was most likely a deal between McD and Big Hit Company, using the faces and names of the group. We both know that it's as simple as slamming faces or names onto a product and suddenly it sells. Innovation? Making something special? Why bother? As long as it has the name or faces on it, people will buy it and resell it later for incredible amount of prices. It works with everything, noodle soup cups, flip-flops, hell, companies slam their groups on the most random stuff and we all know, there are people who are going to buy it worldwide. 

And due to the pandemic companies have become especially greedy and lazy, because they need moneeeeeeey cheap and fast , everything that was kinda free before the pandemic, is now behind a payment wall.

Didn't watch ep 15 yet, I watch both episodes on Sunday combined. Hey.....it's Champions League finals today!

2 hours ago, JenL said:

Hahaha I have always found this super distracting too!!! Like she's dancing in such a showy way too. It's the weirdest ad to have at the end of such intense episodes 

Well I don't mind the showy dance itself, I wouldn't mind it, if I would see it somewhere else, it's just weird when the end was totally tense, episode ends with a cliffhanger, you are on the edge of your seat and suddenly there is a pretty girl smiling, dancing in front of you, while the other screen next to it still shows desperate or crying people....or back then the death of the Inspector. 

1 hour ago, JenL said:

I'm glad violence against women can affect guys as much as girls...and bring out that anger towards evil guys  I enjoy violence between gangsters, but abuse is a completely different thing and it sickens me whenever I have to watch it.

My anger goes in every direction, no matter who it is that harms girls. It makes me go.   It doesn't even need to be physical. People who treat women bad in any way are scum. If I witness someone harming a girl, physically or mentally, he is done. Instead of Do Ki, I would have never stopped punching them. 

Violence between gangster is fine for me too, violence against men doesn't affect me much either (in a drama at least).

But abusing, especially sexually, is something I can hardly endure and which makes my blood boil. I always feel like I need to do something and want to step in to protect. When Do Ki began to punch them, I'm sure I had tears of joy in my eyes. 

1 hour ago, JenL said:

Hahaha the age old rule for good guys in films dramas that focus on morality rather just action is that they can't kill anyone....otherwise what makes them different from the bad guys?  I know, it sucks because I just want the bad people wiped off this planet too...but then KDK would have to go to jail for a long time in their place which would also suck 

Well, let me answer that with a quote about the difference between the bad and good guys from one of my favorite video game characters: 

"They will stop at nothing to destroy everything, but we will sacrifice everything to save it."

1 hour ago, JenL said:

Hahaha yes, but mostly because people force conversations onto  me and I don't want to stop responding to make it more awkward.

You mean people are actually starting to talk to you? I imagine how it would be if one would suddenly begin to talk to someone in a men's toilet. Maybe a confused murmur, people jumping into hiding, everyone being confused at what just happened, somebody broke the holy silence. 

7 hours ago, mademoiselle said:

Interesting. I thought boys would be sizing each other up when they do their business. Hahahaha. That was insightful, thank you. xD

 Naaaaah! Absolutely not, you rather try to hide everything as best as you can. That's why a toilet next to the wall is always the sweet spot. It's also rude or gives you at least weird looks if you use a squad toilet next to someone. Always one free squad toilet distance between two guys in a public toilet. Every guy knows that. Only if all are used, its okay. 

Here you go, some other insights. 

12 hours ago, scandi said:

Yes, I have seen a lot of thugs carrying more than a steel pipe all over Kdramaland. When I wrote my comment, I only had the thugs on Taxi Driver in mind. I should have made myself clearer. Silly thought that those thugs would even observe the law to begin with, but now that I think of it, I can't remember ever seeing Seok Tae carrying a gun to protect Madam Baek or himself. Even in the private prison when they were waiting for Do Ki to show up, there was no gun in sight, right? I guess they just relied on all their minions to get rid of Do Ki easily so they never bothered to prepare any guns and thought no one could ever defeat them anyway.

Overconfidence? Maybe. Still, they preobably are the only organization in the whole underworld who seemingly don't own guns. I mean, I like good choreographed martial arts fights, but when I see Do Ki beating the same guys over and over again, I question myself why none of them came prepared the second, third or fourth time. 

I mean, Ms. Baek has an injection to cloud someones eyes, but nothing to incapable Do Ki? At least Do Ki, a woman in her position, should have a gun somewhere. 

11 hours ago, abs-oluteM said:

Due to watching way too many dramas I have only finished ep 11...lol. 

That's what you get for your....oppatism!

3 hours ago, JenL said:

OMG Yesss. This is like the most frustrating trope of Kdramas. Not just Kdramas - they do it in Taiwanese dramas too! I don't think I've ever had an important conversation in the toilet. 1) You don't know who's listening 2) It's awkward because you can hear people doing their business 

So you had "unimportant" conversations in the toilet?  I don't know how it is in women restroom's, but male restrooms are probably the most silent, calm places on the planet. I've never seen a guy talk in there. There are two unwritten rules in every public male restroom, eyes straight and don't talk. Besides flushing, you could hear a needle drop. It's like everyone else is invisible to you. 

9 hours ago, Chocolate said:

Last week's episodes showed how unprepared and ill-equipped the Taxi Group is to deal with real bad guys. They only have one Kim Do Ki and though he can fight 40 men (who miraculously do not have guns), he cannot be everywhere. The other 4 basically cannot defend themselves.

 

I also have some rants about episode 14:

• Please, call the police when you need to save lives.
• Mr Park, you drive by Ms Baek's office where your friends' lives are in danger, see Prosecutor Kang and drive off? Shouldn't you tell the police where the hideout is so that they can save your friends?
• Go Eun, stamping on the sister's ex-boyfriend's phone to destroy it in anger. For what? Shouldn't you be trying to access the phone and delete all copies of the files that he has stored so that it does not surface again? Since you are apparently so traumatised by that video that you can't even fight back when the guy was going to rape you?

Exactly! I also wondered, after all this time, did no one else except Do Ki got at least basic combat skills? Especially from Go Eun I expected some basic skills to defend herself. I mean, although at this point Do Ki is more or less superman, he cannot be everywhere. I thought at the start they were kind of an elite group, but as it seems, once Do Ki is taken out somehow, the group is done. 

And for Go Eun, omg, I totally forgot to write about it too. That's another thing that was taken directly from drama-tropes, she is our special hacker girl that gets into any system, takes down whole servers in the matter of seconds and once she discovers that there still exists a copy, all she does is throw it at the ground and stomp on it? You know that doesn't do anything. The harddrive will be still intact and you do not know if he maybe did some backups and uploaded them into a cloud. 

You destroy evidence, pretty much THE SOURCE so carelessly?

8 hours ago, mademoiselle said:

@Chocolate I'm with you on the rants. I can never understand why the hero has to fight bare hands when there's weapons all around can be used or snatched from your opponents. I'm not a fan of heroes fighting bare hands against over 30 men. Do Ki is only human, not a mutant, regardless how well trained he is in that special army force, it makes no absolute sense to me for anyone to fight without a weapon. A metal rod is still harder than a fist! This kind of action irks me because it's stupid.

Defeating people bare hand also takes quite a few hits if you don't plan to kill them directly. With the metal knuckets it does get easier and deadlier. When he fought in the dark at their base, at least we saw that he always aimed towards the head with the spanner. Some of them definitely got a fatal blow. 

But it's totally unlikely that he would be able to defeat them without any sort of help. I mean, even John Wick had a lot of guns while fighting multiple enemies.  

And why did never thought about just throwing the knife at Do Ki instead of going into a melee fight? 

7 hours ago, mademoiselle said:

Hahaha to be honest I was more annoyed to see the way she stomped on it like a girl (even though she is a girl). It was not forceful. It didn't even crack the screen so I'd definitely be very very concern that the hardware that store the data was unlikely damaged (or recoverable).

It didn't even make any difference. It probably only made it worse. Especially if you think about the fact that they handed them over to the police. She maybe destroyed THE main evidence. 

4 hours ago, scandi said:

I read the comments about why the thugs don't carry guns. It's because in South Korea, only government-authorized personnel are allowed to carry or own guns. (I'm not Korean, but I happened to read about this some time ago).

 

Also, Do Ki found Go Eun and Maria right away because he had been to that storage house before (in one of the UData episodes). 

But they're thugs! They do organ trafficking, kill people, doing TONS of illegal stuff, even say they have connections to some very mighty people and you think they care "if they are not allowed to carry or own guns"?  I don't think Baek and her minions are people who obey to the law very much.  How many thugs have you seen in Kdrama land who wore a gun and weren't officials? 

I mean she was able to hide criminals in an underground bunker and later took them to a freaking ambassody. They bought chemicals to dissolve bodies! There is no way that she wasn't able to get her hands onto a few weapons. 

I knew how he found them, but it's so unlikely that in that short amount of time, he would have told the random green minion about the storage. I mean they could be happy that they stayed together and didn't split up. If the one guy would have taken Maria somewhere else, she would have been gone for good. 

But like I said, the reality aspect of the drama is gone since quite some time. 

8 hours ago, mademoiselle said:

All in all, I'm disappointed with the execution for episode 13-14. Too many actions, not enough intelligence.

PERFECTLY said. I totally sign this..

3 hours ago, JenL said:

I get what you mean - the show does a good job to show that there are really bad evil people in the world...but the are still people. They do get hurt if they're catfished even if they deserve that kind of treatment. I guess nothing is wrong with you...in fact you're probably a good person for sympathising and feeling a little bad for her (unlike her who feels nothing for the people she scammed!)

Yay, nothing is wrong with me 

I think she wasn't treated like this very often, she even hesistated to open up her heart. But well, at least we got rid of her.

Episode 13

• Cha Ji-Yeon's voice is so beautiful. I really like her performance on stage. As Baek is noticed though, her gaze was very cold and she almost felt hurt. It looked like she meant what she was singing. It looks like, she really does love the Chairman.
• And what did we learn today while driving? Look at the street and not at your co-driver! 
• So they actually didn't let the people die, like the insurance worker for example, but imprisoned them all. Is it weird that I'm a little....disappointed about it? It makes me worried that they are transported somewhere else and may roam free at one point. Especially the guy who was still talking about Maria, the world would be a better place without him. Gosh, all the stuff he did to her. And now they're all free again and can be anywhere! How can both parties be so unprofessional?
• Seeing her on the phone, being all worried, seehing him, put me at such unease, that I pretty much skipped the whole section. 

Episode 14

• Do Ki saved Maria and Go Eun. I don't care how he find them in time, it doesn't make any sense that he was able to find them so quickly but boy if something would have happened to them, or if they had recorded some weird shit, I would have dropped the drama faster than anything before. I skipped a lot during the scenes because I wanted to see them being rescued fast. I can't bear it watching woman/girls get hurt. It makes me want to cry and furious. 
  It annoys me so much that I thought they were so professional and cleaning cold at the start, but lack so much professionalism at the end. 
• And seriously, if you don't kill them for good this time and bury their corpses, I don't know when. Look at what they did to Marie and Go Eun AGAIN! Gosh, it makes me so angry!
• Seeing Cutie-Beauty with so much blood on her face, I would never stop hitting him. I always knew if I ever would kill somebody, it would be to protect my mother or any girl/women. 
• Said it from the start, Baek isn't someone you want as an enemy. She really stabbed Jang into the eye and made him blind on one eye.  Holy ....... I think I rarely saw so much brutality in a single drama. 
• The accident of PJE was so sudden. Another reason why I hoped they WOULD HAVE KILLED THEM ON THE SPOT, back then. Now they cause more death and pain to innocents. Goooosh, Taxi Driver, you disappoint me. 
• Honestly, Mr. Baeks people got beaten up so often by Do Ki, I wonder why they wouldn't just play dead the moment they see him. Just throw yourself on the ground the moment you take eye on him. Saves time and pain. 
• I think at one point Do Ki turned into a super hero. He can be kinda happy though that no bad guy ever thought about getting/buying a gun. He is a bit like batman.
• Kinda cool how he "tricked" Baek though, I mean at this point we can pretty much throw away any point of realism, and just go for the entertainment. Do Ki can be very cruel too, the way he sliced a little bit on Baek's face. That was kinda insane and badass. 
• Kinda fast how Do Ki fought out of the jail with all the baddies around him to stop Baek. Maybe NOW they took the "play dead" approach and agreed on a "oh no, please not again". 
• Glad he is invincible though. 
• Well kinda thought Ha Na would show up, or I hoped so. "Please make a false move, so I can shoot you!" That one line was enough to make her worth being on the drama. 
• ..... yeah sure he looks totally like he could drive.....I mean why not.....he just got beaten up close to death, I'm sure some parts of his body are broken. He is like a video game character who just takes a few health potions or med kits after each fight to restore some health. 
• And how bad must you be if you can't fight off a half dead Do Ki with 4 people? Seriously, Baek always says how much money she made, but she never thought about affording a gun. 
• At the end Do Ki looks and walks like he was straight taken out from a zombie movie!
• "I have faith in you" was straight out of the drama-trope book. I wonder they didn't kiss afterwards. 
• So I wonder how the last two episodes will be, it looks like Do Ki will confess everything and go to jail as an accomplice. Well I kinda liked how they worked together at the end, but it looks like the "final" case will be about Do Ki's Mom.
  I really hope they don't do any Baek breaks free again shenanigans or recycle any of the old criminals again. I swear I don't survive anything anymore if it hurts Go Eun or Marie. 

Sorry if I am a bit harsh to the drama at this point or make a little too much fun about it. I do like the drama, but I'm honestly a bit disappointed. And I was so mad during the last half and the first half of ep 13+14, violence against women is a red flag for me. 

10 hours ago, ktcjdrama said:

Nope, you’re not the only one. Been feeling that way since very early on. But many here are watching through VIU so I guess that ads doesn’t appear at all. 

Thank you! 

7 hours ago, mademoiselle said:

With Madam Baek's betrayal, it is clear that Blue Bird/Rainbow Taxi will find another way of putting the criminals back in jail by working with Ha Na. With Investigator Wang's death, Ha Na gets to experience first hand what the victims felt so now she knows all the things she said before were baseless assumptions and her own arrogrance. I don't blame her for feeling righteous and wants to do things the "right" way. However she has to admit that her position/job is still pretty much bound by organisation's rules, policies, convictions and even corruptions.

 

I'm obviously hoping to see not only Ha Na but also her boss/Jang's friend could partner up and work with Rainbow Taxi in the future—potentially Do Ki them all will still work secretly but they will exchange information and tip her off where to arrest the criminals.

Arrogance is a well chosen word for Kangs behavior.

I hope that Rainbox Taxi will be her immediate help in cases where the law is either too slow or powerless. Turning a blind eye on something that requires help right away. 

1 hour ago, JenL said:

I can't believe you've dropped dramas with only 2 episodes left  

I mean if I've invested the time to that point I'll continue so I can curse the drama properly if it's truly fallen off the rails 

Missing 9, Just Dance......all dramas I dropped at the end. Sometimes it's just not about time invested, it's rather about not giving the drama the honor of finishing it. And when I feel like dropping it, I drop it. Especially when the plot turns bad or there is a unnecessary break-up at the end. 

12 minutes ago, abs-oluteM said:

Why? Is it cause it is more feminine? Some shorter hair cuts are pretty too. I thought KSJ's one is fun & fresh.

Fun & Fresh?  Did you have too much sunday-cake today?

It's far from both!

Nah, I wouldn't say it's more feminine, hairstyle doesn't have anything to do with being more feminine. I do know one or two idols with short hair and they are really feminine.

I just think long hair is prettier. It looks nicer. I like it more.  

Episode 12

• Mr.Wang is dead. Sad sad, but......I have a few questions. He attacked GYT upfront, why not call the police first or call them over? He knew he would endanger his own life. I mean he put up a good fight, I didn't expect him to have the upper hand and win, but after such a long fight, the police should have arrived in time if he had called them. Getting stabbed by his twin brother is very unfortunate though. Oh man, when I think about it, he pretty much got killed because the police DID arrive in time, because of this DK wasn't able to finish the fight. 
• The rage of Kang Ha Na is probably what will drag her towards Deluxe Taxi and who knows.....maybe she will sit in the taxi of Do Ki soon. (okay she did.....but I was writing this before the scene....Sigh.....) But she definitely went there on her own behalf and not due to some prosecutor business. They arrested him, but her rampage sent a clear signal. 
• What's kinda "interesting" to see is (I don't know how to phrase it differently), last episode Prosecutor Ha Na was kinda at the sideline watching someone cry in desperation in front of her. You were able to see that she didn't really know how to handle that kind of situation. This episode she is thrown in the same position as the desperate crying sister. 
• Honestly, it was quite satisfying to see how Ha Na hit him in the face. I'm also sure, she will be the next target of the twin brother and potentially Baek.
• I mean, as much as I love seeing Ha Na in the taxi and her playing the "Do you wanna get revenge"-game, it's pretty bold of DK to pretty much reveal everything to her. That's pretty much like a confession. They are so careless sometimes. It's a wonder they haven't been caught a long time ago, if they are slacking to hard to be cautious. 
• But on the other hand, I love it SO MUCH to finally see Do Ki and Kang Ha Na working together. She is such a valueable asset aswell. I hope it stays like this. With this addition, I wouldn't mind a second season. 
• So not even half an episode after Kang Ha Na hired Do Ki, she finally made some progress and actually managed to solve a case. Deluxe Taxi immediately provides results.
• So Baek knew about everything. Her shocking reaction was a bait and Jang believed it. She knew what they were doing, knew about the organ trafficking and planned their escape.
• She did say she never touched civilians, but in one of the first episode we saw her saying to someone who lend money off of her, he will pay with his eyes. He wasn't a criminal, but she took his organs aswell. 
• I wonder if Prosecutor Ha Na will now stop chasing Deluxe Taxi and Do Ki and to some extent, appreciate the work they're doing. Her apology towards Do Ki kinda showed me that she understood Do Ki motive's and that he just helps victims, that cannot do anything themselves. 
• It's kinda like she said during the interview we saw at the start of one of the episodes. Deluxe Taxi is immediate help, who can save and protect a life. The law is a long-term help. So maybe they will work hand-in-hand.
• In the preview Do Ki said that he wants to find the criminal first, but Jang intervenes saying they don't have a prison anymore. I guess Do Ki will hand them over to Ha Na and give them a proper sentence. I don't know how it will turn out though if they did. 
  It's also unclear yet, if DK will tell Ha Na about all of this. 
• War is on. Jang vs Baek. Baek vs Jang. She uses the captured criminals and puts them against Jang. She enters his home and abducts him. 

Episode 11

• Maybe we shouldn't give up the idea of Kang Ha Na being involved with Deluxe Taxi yet. The Cold Case could be a door opener for her to see. The officer in charge repeated the same words as Do Ki and maybe she needs to be confronted with the relatives of the victims and helplessness of the law.
  I mean, even she can't deny that looking at a sister, crying in desperation in front of her, asking her brother to be revenged and finding those who killed him strains your heart. 
• She is about to reach her limits with Gu Young Tae, she sees first hand how someone plays the law and is slipping through her fingers. 
• And then there is the death of Mr.Wang. We said a couple of times in the thread already, that Ha Na won't join Rainbow Taxi because no one close to her died, so she is unable to feel the pain every employee of Rainbow Taxi has within them. She never felt the injustice before. Now with Mr.Wang's death, that may change and she will do down a darker path and eventually support the path of Rainbow Taxi, especially if they can't find the murderer or indict him.  
• The twist that they are twins, was amazing! Have to admit, I didn't see that one coming. But it made sense after seeing him being released from prison. Why should Baek's Right Hand be in prison?
  Her slapping him looked kinda cute though.
• I also think that the case of the cannibal who killed 20 people with a hammer will also play a role in this. Maybe he will escape aswell and threated Ha Na. 
• Isn't taking a potential cold case from the prosecution involving a father who seeks justice for his son, just after being searched by even those prosecutors, the most obvious bait ever? How can you even think about taking this job, knowing that Kang Ha Na is on your trail, just waiting for more evidence to show up?
• Am I the only one who always things the commercial at the end with the dancing girl is so incredibly misplaced? Especially in this episode Ha Na mourns on the death of her co-worker and suddely there is a girl dancing next to it.

10 hours ago, abs-oluteM said:

It looks nice . You don’t like it ? 

Of course I don't  She had such beautiful long hair before, every strand of her hair looked like it was made out of pure silk.  

4 hours ago, NiteWalker said:

i think @Dhakralike long hair girl lols

Absolutely! Long hair is always better! There are only very few exceptions! 

Kyung Soo Jin cut her hair 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CO3moLcrBlL/

Hello Darkness my old friend......

5 hours ago, Chocolate said:

are you watching?

Not yet 

You know my rules. I just finish one drama and then move on to the next. So you will see me in about three weeks.  Prrrrrepaarrrreeee. 

9 hours ago, abs-oluteM said:

 Yes @Dhakra , good advice there from Do Ki about the 3 savage things you should never show a woman. LOL!  Apart from the fact that Do Ki is a skilled fighter , he's their ace executor because he pays attention to all the details when going undercover. 

I followed every single word of his. Now I just need gold rings, gold chains and a fake pelt coat to go along with it.

I found it even more smooth how he avoided the question about the restaurant of Madam Lim and completely changed the focus of the topic. He was such a fast thinker.

8 hours ago, abs-oluteM said:

it seems that Do Ki going to join Madam Baek's gang to find out what is going on. But now whatever operations that Rainbow does will be more complicated given that KHN has her eyes on them. 

I guess this will be our last case aswell. Do Ki will join, but probably destroy it from within aswell. 

And I have to say, I'm a bit sad how Baek's "company" changed over the episodes. During the first few episodes she really looked like someone with big influence and someone who is involved und a lot of illegal, dark and horrible stuff. Her whole presence and company felt so big and influential. She looked like a big player.

But during the past few episodes that crumbled quite a bit, with DK just walking in, beating everyone up and threatening Baek easily, she also just feels like a backyard gang being involved in some shady stuff. 

Don't get me wrong, I still think she is the type of person you don't want to be involved with, but her company doesn't have this big aura anymore.

8 hours ago, mademoiselle said:

I agree with the toilet scene and this tailing scene. I'm even more baffled how they could find him in such large sea! Or is it because he's already diving underneath, waiting for the moment the barrel is thrown off the boat?

Honestly? They couldn't.

Let's have a few mind games.

If all of this happened in a single day, we can assume that by the time they threw him off the ship, it must have been close to sunset already. They were also quite far away from the shore, so it was open sea. DK later showed a video of them dealing with Park, which I can only assume was taken by either Go Eun or CCK. 

Normally I would say, with enough air in the barrel, it should float on the surface for quite a while, but only IF the barrel is completely sealed off and no water is able to enter the barrel. In this state Park would have been able to survive for quite some time. But finding a floating barrel in the dark or dawn is hard, like really hard, especially if you try to not get caught. They must have been already on the sea or closeby.

Cutie-Beauty also mentioned that they had to deal with sea fog. 

BUT!

We are shown quite fast, that the barrel was sinking after it was thrown into water, which means the barrel wasn't sealed off completely and water managed to enter the barrel. Let's also not forget Park 's hands were tied behind his back. Even if the water somehow managed to open the barrel underwater, I doubt Park had the navy skills (Drown Proofing) to keep himself alive somehow. So the time-frame is a lot, lot tighter to avoid Park dying by drowning. Since the water is cold, he wouldn't be able to survive for more than 15 minutes? He would also get unconscious even sooner.

So either they were pretty much closeby, had some sort of gps tracking device on him or Park having the biggest lungs ever. 

Any way, it is really KDrama-Dreamland that Park magically survived in the dark there. 

8 hours ago, abs-oluteM said:

how did Choi even escape from KHN's watchful eyes when he told Go Eun he can't go to where they are.

Maybe he just jumped into the water and swam to Park directly. KHN probably wasn't able to chase him swimming 

1 hour ago, JenL said:

I think she's starting to be more on the ball, but I'm not sure I like her type of character - which is that she is the annoying cat in the cat and mouse chase of the Law/ police/ prosecution trying to catch the Vigilante crew . Like you, I would have preferred if she joined the crew as well  

Is she though? So far she hasn't done anything that I would say is enough to make her paycheck worth. So far she is a really slow cat in the cat & mouse game. I think she would have joined if she also had some background of someone close of her dying, but we know barely anything of her.
I mean, we are 10 episodes in and barely know any background-story of KHN, did we even see her apartment once?

So either she has her shining moment in the last episode by catching everyone and putting them in jail, which I somehow doubt will happen or the crew escapes. And then she will go down in the history of KDramas of Prescoturs who achieved absolutely nothing.

3 hours ago, ktcjdrama said:

Haha, I wondered about that too. I guess luck is always on their side 😉😁 Even when Park’s disguise was found out, I was thinking what if they don’t say too much and just kill on the spot? That cleaver was already brushing against his neck

Or when they put him in the barrel and threw him in the ocean. You know how hard it is to find something underwater? What if the tides had turned or the waves carried it away. Park surely didn't have much air for long. This stuff also looked highly risky and unprofessional. 

2 hours ago, abs-oluteM said:

are you gonna watch LBY's new show Mine. It just started . She looks gorgeous

Oh.....mhm......we have six episodes left of Taxi Driver right? So three weeks. Maybe I'm gonna start it somewhere around next week or wait until I finished Taxi Driver. I am definitely going to watch it, I just don't know when.

Episode 10

• CKK new hairstyle is kinda funny.....but for some weird reason I like it. 
• This is definitely CK best role so far, I love his dark, husky voice. It also sounds so funny, but has a nice touch. He really plays the snob very well. How he gained Madam Lim's attention was so well played. She was hooked the moment she entered the booth. 
• He also knows how to be charming. I can learn one or two things from him for sure. I should take notes. I really loved the part about "there are three things you must never show a woman". I totally liked it. And how he dealth with those punk was quite satisfying aswell.
• The date between DK and Madam Lim was so goddamn funny. And later at the bank where he suddenly turned from the mysterious, badass snob to this kinda dorky guy to make Madam Lim laugh. He totally played his charms perfectly. 
• They knew that CKK was being following by Prosecutor Kang, but still all of them decided to join them one evening at the fishing spot. Mhm.
• Cutie Beauty in sunglasses, smiling, the syntheziser song is playing, that's how heaven must be like. I love that theme so much, I TOTALLY need it to add it to my gym playlist. I really hope they release it soon.
• I wonder what they would have done if she put the bag the other way around.....or on the ground. 
• Her sad face in the end made me a little sad. What's wrong with me? I really do have a soft heart when it comes down to woman. She was a girl in love, I can feel her pain somehow. But she ruthlessly killed people, scammed honest people and took their money. She erased existences. She deserved what DK did to her.
  I just fear that somewhere else she will open up a new business, be even more cruel and do worse stuff. And maybe even try to get revenge. 
• A sweet 2 episode case, I liked it, a little lighter and funnier than the usual heavy stuff. 
• I really wonder if Prosecutor Kang doesn't even recognize the car that saved her from U-Data car attack. I mean yeah, she was flashed by the light, but she must have seen the back of the car. 
• I also begin to wonder how DK or the company will end. Jail? Death? Flee? I think at this point we can say that Kang & Blue Bird won't work together and this is a cat & mouse play. 

10 hours ago, abs-oluteM said:

She's a stage (theatre) actress - so that's why she's so good and seasoned.

Ahhh, that makes a lot of sense. It explains her outstanding acting.

Episode 9

• The start of the episode was very interesting. Go Eun's worried look broke my heart when she asked DK what they should do next. She looks so cute, worried and almost innocent, I can imagine why DK chose to act different. It also speaks for her that she didn't want to kill him directly, saying that they wouldn't be different than them if they do.
• I wouldn't have thought Baek and her minions save Mr.Jang. She creeps me out everytime, they way she fed the fishes and talks in the meantime. Glad they were able to catch Choi though, I hope they lock him up again. I also wonder if they called the ambulance or really just let Mr.Jang left behind stabbed and bleeding. 
• On a sidenote, I looked up the actress behind Baek, since I absolutely adore how she plays the character. I would really love to see her in a brighter, nicer role, but it seems she doesn't act that much. Which surprises me, because her acting is superb.
• DK was punched multiple times, got smashed with a baseball bat several times and fighted with multiple people. His ability to still drive is already.....questionable.....but he even runs at the hospital. Seems like he doesn't need healing at all. 
• It seems they already used Choi for organ transplant? Looks like they took his eyes. 
• Do-Ki beating up all of Baek's men was kinda funny tbh. All those bulky, mean looking guys being on the floor. I wished they would have showed how he whopped their asses. He just casually walked in, beat them all up and checks the prison. Pretty lame security standards for something so valuable.
• He was SO badass breaking Baek's cigarette. But damn did it worry me when he did it. She was all nice and funny the moment the realized who was in front of her, but I really would not like to be on her bad side. And GOD DAMN when he did it the second time. Is he crazy? The way she stared at him in the end was horrifying.
• The U-Data CEO was even more scum than we thought. They really had a company to blackmail the victims in exchange for distributing the video? And once they stopped paying, they just continued to upload it. Gosh, after that press conference I wished they could have killed him a second time. They went waaaay to soft on him.
• The advertisement is strong in this one. 
• The presentation of CKK was so cute, I liked how Mr. Jang supported him. He is completely right aswell, victims of voice fishing are always blamed.
• Gosh, DK new role will be SO MUCH FUN. Rich snob will be AWESOME. I think we are going to have an interesting case tomorrow. 

On 5/5/2021 at 6:34 AM, Darkarcana said:

 

I’m like a sleepy corn 😕Want to just wrap myself in some corn leaves and sleep

Gosh seeing the cat in this, I can imagine how much Johnny would hate it.