Moving (2023)

I enjoyed the exposition of each major character's story, particularly that of Kim Bong Seok's and his mother's. Han Hyo Joo is one of my favorite actors and I thought that Lee Jung Ha did a great job. I loved the way that the writer teased out the connections and tensions with the more minor characters, which made me care about the minor characters almost as much as the major ones. So far so good. But the drama went downhill for me during the climactic battle scenes between the superheroes. The battle seemed like just the usual over-the-top but predictable superheroes battle. The "surprise" plot twists were emphatically not. Argh.

Perhaps I would not have been as disappointed had my expectations not been raised sky high as a result of the earlier episodes as well as by praise from reviewers everywhere? I kept hoping for one of those "I did not see that coming" moments. Maybe it will come in the sequel, in which case, I might reevaluate this review.

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Moving was......MOVING!!!

DISCLAIMER!!!
I may have some serious biases lol because, in my opinion, this is the BEST kdrama this year. Fight me on this!

The whole premise of MOVING revolves around the children of 3 former ANSP agents and 1 father who is madly protective of his son. It basically dives into their backstory and what their life was like prior to becoming parents. How they were taken advantage of and have gone into hiding in order to prevent their children from not being used for selfish gains like they were.

Shows that tend to focus on the children of people with superhuman abilities most often tend to graze over the parent's backstories and just hyper-focus on the kids which isn't necessarily a bad thing. With MOVING, I love the special attention to not only the parents, the children, or the agency but also the enemies as well. We got backstories and explanations for every angle of this story. I commend the writers and directors on this cause this is something that's hard to execute without losing the main plot and straying far ultimately losing the attention of viewers and confusing everyone in the process. The shifting/time jumps in each episode felt natural and didn't feel rushed or cause confusion. And even when a plot line/time jump wasn't explained in the following episode it didn't cause any confusion and was picked up in another episode and tied in perfectly with the situation happening at that time.

I'm patiently awaiting season 2 because the writers have a lot of explaining to do.

1) YoungTak and his time-stopping power. Who is he? Why did he transfer in his senior year? Did they know about his power? Who are his parents and did they work with the ANSP? so many questions to answer.
2) Who tf is that girl that walked into YoungJoon's office? Is she the true brains behind that operation?
3) Naju's daughter. Her death had to be faked. Where is she? What happened to her truly and did the ANSP track her down?
4) Frank. Is he actually dead?
5) KiSoo. who is he really? How did his injury happen and why does he know about those with abilities?
6) That new guy in the last scene. What slimy shady selfish reasons in the name of 'protect and serve our country' is he gonna do now?
7) Are there more people with abilities?
So many questions that season 2 needs to answer and I can't wait.

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Best k-drama webtoon adaptation

17 whole episodes just for background introduction story, I have no complain. for a deep serious story it should be that way.
almost every character is meaningful, the only problem is player role ambiguity. I assume flying boy is the mc since he is the one that has most character development through the story so far.

every character developed for the better or worse. main role, villains, even a support characters like the bully does.
at last a k-drama that gives a thoughtful love for their characters existed. let the original author do the drama writing really payoff.

last 3 episode rushed so much, many will think that still so much left out unsolved plot. moving might be planned to be multi season series, but there has to be a proper ending like episodes for this season. multi season or not last 3 episodes still bring a decent last battle vibes, pretty nice.

I'm surprised that I have no complains in the story progression or the characters, in the future k-drama webtoon adaptation really need to let the original author to do the writings or at least let them actively contribute in the writing process.

now moving to mainstream battle comic stories problem, power scaling. I'm a flipping geek, I cant believe myself talking about power scaling in a k-drama.
first of all, most op regeneration. this far regeneration means immortal, frank is still alive even after get burned yet gouged eye doesn't heal how far a wound can heal or not still uncertain.
another might be op power shown is time stop, only shown a little bit but if wanted to be shown later on this need to have certain limitation
then the induction power, in the ending shown a lightning strike. but power source of a bus definitely doesn't sufficient. a lightning strike carries at least 1 billion joules energy which needs several electrical bus energy to do that. lets say its not actually as powerful as natural thunder strike its just visual, in this series this power so far represented as the weakest when supposed to be the strongest. with proper power source bungaeman is basically a super human canon. a gun bullet speed is mach its already almost impossible to dodge, while electricity is speed of light nothing can escape that canon.

in summary, im pretty happy with this adaptation. I usually says that adaptation better to stick with the original webtoon as much as possible. but not this one, it doesnt matter this series is good enough as stand alone series. lets just hope disney will make season 2 happens

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Worth to see. Something alike X-Men

__*Moving(2023)*__ - 9/10 -kdrama

its mainly action, :nation war: drama something like X-Men if mutants are breed and trained by nations and used in as secret agents in their wars.

For me action storyline aint anything precious you can see such theme and scenes alot in western movies. I liked romance parts. Whole drama time skips from one story to another making complete story.
For example in few eps you get story of kids in later eps you get story about their parents how they met etc.

Overall this series of drama did very good job in world building and telling story good enough and closed it up well. To be successful even without S2[which I heard will be made later].

__*plot*__ - Shortly existed korean agency[lets name it XXX] for supernatural agents, which thanks some problems was closed. Their agents are on run or in other agencies. Now that XXX agency is recreated and they try train up new blood. Thanks their machinations kids of former supernatural agents which inherited their gifts meets at same school. Of course other countries dont wanna see Korea to have another new batch of superhumans.

__*genre*__ - school, action, romance

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Review 4 (Summer Edition)

“so what’s your name?”
“…”
“why don’t you say anything? you don’t want to be close to me?”
“NO WAIT huisoo- it’s..it’s…kim. bong. seok. that’s my name”
“ok kim. bong. seok. bong seok-aah”
*starts floating out of happiness*

IAHDOPQYWDOQh THE WAY SHE SAID THAT go youn jung makes ME shy and float of happiness TOO. WAHHHH I HAVE SUCH A TYPE IVY I HAVE SUCH A TYPE AND ITS GO YOUN JUNG ITS NOT GO MIN SI ITS GO YOUN JUNG. MY GO MIN SI WAS JUST A PHASE ITS ALWAYS BEEN GO YOUN JUNG.

안녕 아이비!

I MISS GETTING SHY AND FLOATING OF HAPPINESS LIKE BONG SEOK. whenever i really really like someone (even if i dont know i do) i get rlly red and shy and flustered and super lame, but I feel like you alr know that!! NOOO WAIT A MIN THAT MEANS—WHY AM I LIKE BONG SEOK WHEN I WANT TO BE GO YOUN JUNG!? WHERES MY GO YOUN JUNG? omg i love this drama so much ivy you have to watch it. ill watch ur time thing if you watch mine. this is my favorite kdrama since LEGEND OF THE BLUE SEA. it has 3 of the best kdrama couples in one show.

1. go youn jung and bong seok FOREVER. FOREVER. the class president is more my type but NO this relationship is PERFECT.
2. bong seek’s PARENTS OH MY GAWDDD. i lOVE THEM so cool too nuhmoo musheesuh. THEYRE BOTH SO PERFECT BUT I LOVE THE DAD SO MUCH - FLYING DONKATSU DELIVERY?? HOW BEAUTIFUL IVY.
3. also huisoo’s dad and mom — bro IM BAD AT NAVI TOO LIKE HUISOO 아빠. WHERES MY GPS GIRL?? (idk the mom’s name but saying where’s my gps mom felt a little…ㅎㅎㅎ) ive been getting lost EVERYWHERE esp in la its so embarrassing omg. next sem is gonna be such a learning curve but we learn tog, just like physics 12b, 화이팅! (edit: wait a min....i did not know what huisoo's mom profession was...i genuinely thought that was just coffee...maybe not...)

Other relationships (not romantic) that are A1 in my book
1. the black team - huisoo’s dad and bong seek’s parents UGHHH so so so badass
2. the relationships between the parents and all of their kids so so sweet i want to cry

when bongseok was asking huisoo if she thought he was weird and she said “no, youre just different, what’s wrong with that?” i went OH my heart. AH and the way huisoo was looking at bongseok after he made her a playlist ID FOLD TOO. AND WHEN HE LIT UP THE WHOLE SCHOOL FOR HER. THIS SHOW + lauren sleeping over last night makes me so so happy. how is canada?? just kidding, i know all about it of course! how’s jesus? can you let him know i want my prayers back? ㅎㅎㅎ my grandma said lately jesus has been talking to her and she falls backward bc she loves him so much....she also offered to get me a corset with a lock over my pus*y so I don't have sex with men ㅎㅎㅎ LMFAO yeah like she has to be worrying abt MEN ㅋㅋㅋ but more pressingly, she may be going psychotic?

im getting distracted — i love this kdrama. i missed lauren and everyone and home, and i STILL HATE HARVARD but i keep listening to niki’s new album…not to prepare for anything ofc...and planning move-in…for no reason ofc...-THAT DOESNT MEAN ANYTHING IVY I STILL HATE HARVARD. DONT SMILE I FEEL LIKE UR STARTING TO THINK I DO SECRETLY LOVE IT I DONT. ok i gotta go poop. ill edit this review and add more later. (edit: it was a good poop).

summary: gyj is the love of my life. i love every single friendship and romantic dynamic in this show. i miss you a TINY bit — telling lauren all my stories from college and all of them having you made me SLIGHTLY nostalgic but only SLIGHTLY. i was telling her how romantic u r splitting ur eraser for some stranger ;) smoothest move I've ever seen

let’s run the 10k in october ;) for the women!

다음봐, 안녕!
김혜인

P.S. when are you getting goodreads...I've made 4 reviews now....
P.S.S. i got an interview wehehehe worker class here I come!!

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Would be perfect...without the kids

OVERALL
Awesome human, superhero drama. Watch it, no ifs, because there's something for everyone to like!

THE STORY
I'm not a fan of superhero stories (God knows Hollywood has made enough for anyone to grow sick of them!), but I like stories that combine fantasy/sci-fi with the real world. That root the superheroes in reality. Moving is one of them. There's teenage angst, there're political conflicts; there's romance, there's tragedy. Yes, it's a story of people with superpowers, but it's also A LOT more than a story of people with superpowers.

The Best of this drama:
- The structure of the drama is pretty interesting. It gives away information little by little and keeps you wanting more
- The writing is *chef kiss* You can really tell writers thought it all well, from the episode titles (which are so meaningful!) to some of the lines.
- The long flashbacks, which reveal the backstory of the cast and connect all the mini-plots (there are few) together
- The overarching plot, which is about used people who rebel against the people using them
- The "parent" storylines (especially Bongseok's parents)
- Our teenage ML being overweight (I'm all for this representation!)
- The female characters are all so well written in this drama. Strong and with character, but each in their own way. That's great!

The Worst of the drama:
- Nothing, objectively, but subjectively speaking, I couldn't care less about the kids haha I would have loved a Moving focused entirely on the parents. Probably why I won't like S2 haha
- Also, if I want to be picky, I would say that gore needs a purpose. Sometimes it felt extra for no reason in this drama...

THE ACTING
Fab, fab, fab! It would be hard to pick a best actor in here. They were all SO amazing!

THE MUSIC
Pretty good!

REWATCH VALUE
Average, just because if I rewatch I'm definitely I'm skipping the teenage drama parts!

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Long but good

That fight scene (if that’s even what you call that) between Joo Won and the big guy in ep19 was trending on ridiculous. Really they were like I will just stand there and you punch me, then the other one will just also stand there and await the return punch. Really what was that scene?. I was mind blown because that scene was so surreal and not in a good way, It left me completely bewildered in an otherwise stellar production effort so far.
Anyways I did enjoy the drama overall. I actually preferred the adults story more than the kids because the kids really didn’t even have a story IMO and their abilities were significantly less than their parents or they were not properly trained, the north attacked because they felt the south were training new generations of talent, they really shouldn’t have bothered because that school was basically useless in training them, anyways as much as I enjoyed the drama at the beginning and midway point, I was ready for it to be over by the last few episodes.
I highly doubt I will be rewatching this but I still recommend if you like this genre because although there were some eye roll moments the drama was overall, really well done.

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Disappointed and Confused.

By now everyone must already know the show is definitely not a superhuman genre or even a thriller.
The show for me was very very disappointing, it took me a lot of time to decide on watching a different genre than my usual romance/romcom kdramas.
Suprised why i gave it a rating, me too. How i look at it basically is the shoe the emotion and slight thrill portion very well and basically 3 plot levels made it more of a not only character driven but eccentric to realistic approach to problems of superhumans in a society.
Remember my 9/10 rating is solely for me and highly subjective.
But if i were to objectively rate my whole experience not just plot, 7.5/10 at max.
The 3 plot levels where disjointed and were very loose, some characters were just not fitted well but show made excellent remarks with them and used them to propel more of a eccentric focus on the eotional.flow rather than physical appearances of destruction, revenge , attack or war like most superhero related would .


Yet, even with these hiccups, the show kind of found its own groove by diving deep into emotions. It didn't go the usual superhero route of smashing things up or seeking revenge, which gave it this weird but kind of cool charm. It's this mix of stuff that's got me feeling all sorts of ways, like untangling a messy ball of thoughts that goes way beyond just slapping a number on it.

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What Are You Waiting For? JUST WATCH IT!

"The people are innocent,
Those who force sacrifices are to blame!"

This line defines the whole drama. And the title itself gives you an idea of what it'll be. I thought it would be the typical action supernatural drama where the good fights against the evil and wins at the end. However, it was more than that. I love how it's shown not only the main characters but also the supporting characters' background story. Not one scene is dulled. And it may be because of the outstanding acting by all the cast members, the chemistry between the leads, flawless cinematography and directing, great soundtrack and top-notch action scenes.

No doubt Moving is on my top drama list and the best drama of 2023!

I wanna fangirl over every character!! Mother Han Hyo Joo was mothering! I didn't know that her chemistry with Zo In Sung was something we NEEDED. T-T Let's not forget about our bear papa Jang Joo Won. His love story was heartbreaking. I broke down so hard while watching how he wailed in the elevator. And finally come my babies Hee Soo, Kang Hoon and my boba ball Bong Seokie! They were the heart of the drama. I think it's time to stop my fangirling.

The only thing I was disappointed with is about having no Kim Doo Shik in the present line. I wanted to see more about his timeline in North Korea. Unfortunately, we didn't get to see it. By the way, the last twist I didn't see coming. I never thought that the girl Hee Soo saved was......! (I leave it here. No more spoilers :D)

So without hesitation, GO and JUST WATCH IT NOW!
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT.

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