City Hunter Episode 1
The Origin Of The Revenge
Because of North Korea assassination attempt against the South Korean President, South Korea plans a counterattack by sending soldiers to kill some North Korean general. Later, South Korea kills its own soldiers that were sent, due to being afraid that the Korean Peninsula Agreement will be annulled. 17 years later, Jin Pyo, the only surviving soldier, is now a ruthless drug lord living in the Golden Triangle. He raised Yoon Sun, Mu Yeol's son, to be a skilled soldier. Jin Pyo tells Yoon Sung the true story of his past and Yoon Sung vows to exact revenge on the five men involved in the killing of his father.
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- Aired: May 25, 2011
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First, let me say that the directing in this drama was spectacular. Without the directing I wouldn't have even made it to the end of this episode. They were able to portray the right emotions despite the obvious problems.
I've got soooo many issues with the writing. This requires more than just turning off your brain. You need to be damn near retarded to ignore the issues:
1) Why kill your soldiers when the submarine is already there to get them? They're soldiers. They'd be court-martialed if they spoke anyway and since they believed in what they were doing they wouldn't have said anything about it if they were ordered to. Soldiers don't speak about their missions anyway. So why not just pick them up and bring them back home like a Black Ops mission. Destroy the evidence and leave it at that.
2) Why in hell did that man steal the woman's baby? Yes, you want to train him to take revenge but do you really think the mother would have been against that? They betrayed her husband too you moron! And it's not like you can train a baby. Just wait until he's older and train him in secret or something! I get that Korean mindset is that women with children are stigmatized but telling her the truth would have given her motivation. Stealing her child and thinking she'd be able to find happiness after that is just fucking moronic!
3) When ML arrives in Seoul his 'father' says to forget his life in America....what? What part of where they were was America? The only place you can find an elephant in America - north or south - is in a zoo! No one spoke spanish, so it's not south America. It's clearly Thailand or thereabouts so why not just say that? Maybe it's a poor translation on dramacool? If not, these people REALLY didn't do their homework.
4) Lastly, "if they find out who you really are those around you will be covered in blood." Why? As far as everyone else knows he's just a baby that was stolen. How in hell would they make the connection that he was there to hunt them down especially when everyone assumes all 21 soldiers were dead. Even the officer who knew he was alive wouldn't think anything of that son being 'found'.
Like, what the hell?I just don't understand how people found this to be great writing. Great directing - yes, all day long - writing? Hell no. I'm gonna need a break before I try starting episode 2.
I've got soooo many issues with the writing. This requires more than just turning off your brain. You need to be damn near retarded to ignore the issues:
1) Why kill your soldiers when the submarine is already there to get them? They're soldiers. They'd be court-martialed if they spoke anyway and since they believed in what they were doing they wouldn't have said anything about it if they were ordered to. Soldiers don't speak about their missions anyway. So why not just pick them up and bring them back home like a Black Ops mission. Destroy the evidence and leave it at that.
2) Why in hell did that man steal the woman's baby? Yes, you want to train him to take revenge but do you really think the mother would have been against that? They betrayed her husband too you moron! And it's not like you can train a baby. Just wait until he's older and train him in secret or something! I get that Korean mindset is that women with children are stigmatized but telling her the truth would have given her motivation. Stealing her child and thinking she'd be able to find happiness after that is just fucking moronic!
3) When ML arrives in Seoul his 'father' says to forget his life in America....what? What part of where they were was America? The only place you can find an elephant in America - north or south - is in a zoo! No one spoke spanish, so it's not south America. It's clearly Thailand or thereabouts so why not just say that? Maybe it's a poor translation on dramacool? If not, these people REALLY didn't do their homework.
4) Lastly, "if they find out who you really are those around you will be covered in blood." Why? As far as everyone else knows he's just a baby that was stolen. How in hell would they make the connection that he was there to hunt them down especially when everyone assumes all 21 soldiers were dead. Even the officer who knew he was alive wouldn't think anything of that son being 'found'.
Like, what the hell?I just don't understand how people found this to be great writing. Great directing - yes, all day long - writing? Hell no. I'm gonna need a break before I try starting episode 2.
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Although this show had promise, but I had to ignore way too many things about this show that really did not make sense. I ended up giving up halfway through because of the numerous flaws, which is a pity given that the show had a solid cast. It really is a pity that the script sucked.
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I really enjoyed the first episode. I first watched the first few minutes of the episode when it first started airing and it didn't really appeal to me. However, I finally started watching it for real today and I ate it up quite quickly.
I didn't quite understand why all the soldiers were shot in the beginning though. I mean why would you shoot your shoulders (even to just silence them) when they're nearly on your submarine. You could just bring them back on board and tell them they can never speak to this ever again.
I didn't quite understand why all the soldiers were shot in the beginning though. I mean why would you shoot your shoulders (even to just silence them) when they're nearly on your submarine. You could just bring them back on board and tell them they can never speak to this ever again.
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I know the show is good when it makes me cry from the 1st ep...I'm also not Lee Min Ho fan but he was hot :D
xxx except for the pink jeans at the end of the ep every thing was really good xxx
xxx except for the pink jeans at the end of the ep every thing was really good xxx
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