![]() ![]() The Greatest Love being a prime example, but even in Master’s Sun our wacko female had a backstory and context. Here’s the thing… the Hong Sisters CAN write a cool female character – who is both pathetic and still strong and lovable. Validation of her attractive face and figure. But that’s what our lead female wants to know. That doesn’t mean I like them, or have romantic feelings for them, or would save them from a burning building, even if it were no inconvenience for me. What?! I think dozens of people are pretty. Instead of asking him something, you know, reasonable… she asks him if he thinks she’s pretty. How does he really feel about her? Does he even like her? Would he really kill her if given the opportunity? Basically, it’s an open window to ask him anything at all – to find out if her crush is one-sided or not – to find out if he cares. In Hwayugi, there is a scene where our lead female is given the chance to discover if the feelings the male lead, our monkey god, has for her are real and not based off a love-spell. This show kinda tries to do a little of everything so it doesn’t really do a lot of anything. Even the ghost hunting was done better in Master’s Sun. It doesn’t have the sweet romantic shenanigans of Oh My Ghostess. It doesn’t have the action and high stakes of Gu Family Book or Scholar Who Walks the Night. I mean, it doesn’t have the heart or the sincerity of Goblin. It’s not the best supernatural story out there. Their bickering and playful fights and friendship was perfect. And Lee Seung-Gi, our monkey god, played off him perfectly. In particular, the comic genius of Cha Seung-Won, our tv host demon Ma Wang. The cast had incredible chemistry and played off each other brilliantly. That said – it was so campy and hysterical, I really didn’t mind the weird plotlines. There’s so many characters and side stories and shifting plotlines. They won’t really tell you the whole story…. What does Ma Wang want? To be… what? Reunited with his deity sweety who is cursed with shitty lives in the real world? Why? She was a deity and he is a demon… how did they even meet, were they friends, lovers, coworkers? Well, they were lovers apparently. I mean… what do any of these characters WANT or NEED? Who are they? We get a vague idea that our lead female would either A. ![]() My biggest qualm with this show was weak character development. More discussion, musings, and spoilers follow…. These two are bound to each other, with contracts and spells. Problem is, she’s been transformed into a mythical monk whose blood grants powers to demons and he’d like very much to eat her and gain that power. She’s our human, struggling with her emotions, and he’s our crazy deity, struggling to have emotions. And he’s spent large chunks of his life imprisoned. She’s spent her life alienated and alone. She is an outcast amongst her own people just as he is. Just… fun.Īt it’s heart, Hwayugi is a love story about a woman who can see ghosts and a monkey god who’s been banished from the heavenly realm. ![]() It’s so over the top and silly that you can’t help but love it. That preposterous nature is where the fun of this show lies. They kinda make sense, motivation wise, though they are also silly and preposterous as well. Most of these supernatural peeps have a job or something they are doing for a reason, or striving for, or living for. We even have a powerful billionaire CEO that spends his evenings playing a servant because these domestic chores bring him joy. The pompous tv host demon who is trying to mend his ways, the shallow celebrity, the bratty exiled monkey deity, the male/female fairy, the demon dog and the zombie girl. In Hwayugi, we have demons, ghosts, deities, fortune tellers and more – and they are all heavily involved in the human world.Īll the supernatural characters in this show are extremely quirky and enjoyable. ![]() So it’s always fun – because each show tends to write their own rules for the game. You also don’t know how involved they’ll be in the human world. Vampires, ghosts, gumihos, goblins, demons, grim reapers, or deities. You never know what you’re going to get when you start watching a Korean supernatural drama. ![]()
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