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Lanx

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it's good, we're doing 1eps a day and bing the rest on the weekend up to eps 3 tonight
 

Lanx

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Does anyone else find this kinda slow?
thats why this is hard to binge, but great to watch

also when you see characters do this
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that is the korean equivolent of "you can do it, or i'll do my best" catchall

it's at least once an episode
 
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Lanx

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Felt like they dubbed the voices because I was thinking there's no way they could be delivering lines that badly.
no, thats just how white ppl are "supposed" to sound in asian films

remember this is a korean series for koreans, and to koreans, thats how white ppl sound

i think i recognize the 69 white guy as the defacto "fat white guy" in some films
 
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Hatorade

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Good shit,
the glass bridge was some bullshit. I guess they will just shoot them if they ran along the rails.
 
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Captain Suave

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stupidmonkey

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no, thats just how white ppl are "supposed" to sound in asian films

remember this is a korean series for koreans, and to koreans, thats how white ppl sound

i think i recognize the 69 white guy as the defacto "fat white guy" in some films

Looks like he was in Kate and some other Asian films.
 
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Cybsled

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There was that dude who defected to North Korea during the Korean War and ended up becoming a famous actor there, always playing the evil westerner. His sons now do it, since he passed away recently.
 

Captain Suave

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I was talking about this show with my wife with my kids in the room. My 9 year old son pipes up and says, "Oh, my classmate is in that show!" I assume it's BS because, you know, kids, but then some quick googling shows that, yes, his classmate did the English VO for the daughter character. Small world.
 

spronk

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lol i assume its the phone number on the business card in episode 1
 
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Intrinsic

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I'm only about a 5/10 on this one. Alice in Borderlands was much more my speed for this somewhat related genre show.

The main, personal, complaint was that this was just too mean and sad. Not that it was violent or had a little blood or whatever. But just the slow burn and watching everyone die, get killed, kill each other, watch each other die. It was just too heavy. Again this is a very individual taste thing and nothing really to do with the quality of the show. As a show it was pretty cool. I do wish the games were a little more involved or intricate and allowed for flexibility.

Another complaint is that once you pull back the curtain on this type of thing it gets too convoluted. I mean, even more convoluted than the premise is to begin with. Seeing all the minions interacting behind the scenes and all that stuff. I would rather it were confined more to just the players and their back stories. There was enough there without the other things.

I was ready to jump right in to Alice Season 2 b/c it was fantastical / sci-fi enough to engage me. This was like watching 9 episodes of torture porn with zero happiness.

Will watch a Season 2 if it exists which it will after half the planet watches Season 1.
 
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Ishad

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I'm only about a 5/10 on this one. Alice in Borderlands was much more my speed for this somewhat related genre show.

The main, personal, complaint was that this was just too mean and sad. Not that it was violent or had a little blood or whatever. But just the slow burn and watching everyone die, get killed, kill each other, watch each other die. It was just too heavy. Again this is a very individual taste thing and nothing really to do with the quality of the show. As a show it was pretty cool. I do wish the games were a little more involved or intricate and allowed for flexibility.

Another complaint is that once you pull back the curtain on this type of thing it gets too convoluted. I mean, even more convoluted than the premise is to begin with. Seeing all the minions interacting behind the scenes and all that stuff. I would rather it were confined more to just the players and their back stories. There was enough there without the other things.

I was ready to jump right in to Alice Season 2 b/c it was fantastical / sci-fi enough to engage me. This was like watching 9 episodes of torture porn with zero happiness.

Will watch a Season 2 if it exists which it will after half the planet watches Season 1.
The games in Alice are great, but the manga ending sucks.