Big Oral Fissure: Episodes 15-Xvi (Final)
Our tale has ended, but that doesn’t hateful it was satisfactorily resolved. If you lot like loose threads, disposable characters, too wild rides that Pb nowhere, man are you lot gonna dear this one.
EPISODES 15-xvi WEECAP
Well, I survived, which is more than I can order for half the characters inward this exhibit. While there is something to be said for subverting expectations, it doesn’t really function when y'all throw your whole setup out the window. If you all retrieve, we were fed a line of work well-nigh ordinary citizens taking downwards large bad elites. We become a lawyer who can’t contend crime within the police force, and so he goes outside the constabulary to do it. Fair plenty. But and then he becomes the rich and powerful leader of a criminal gang to accept down rich too powerful leaders who commit crimes. Irony aside, what happened to our underdog floor?
I’m non even certain how to write this weecap because it turns out that about of the data we were given had zippo to make amongst how things wrapped upwardly. Rather than get through all the details but to shove them to the side at the terminate, I’d prefer to focus on Mi-ho. This grapheme last got the epic moment she deserved — the one I was waiting for — where her intelligence shined through in addition to she was fix to relieve the solar day every bit both a teammate in addition to a heroine inward her ain right. And then, they killed her off then that Chang-ho could be the hero. The exclusively matter I tin say is ick.
We ended concluding calendar week with Chang-ho deciding to run in the adjacent mayoral race and, separately, preparing for a stand-off alongside the mayor. These ii things come together when Mayor Choi decides to go for re-election. Chang-ho states that the bespeak of running for mayor is to destroy Mayor Choi alongside constabulary too judge, rather than do anything shady. Just proceed this data in heed as nosotros parse the remainder of this.
The squad, which like a shot fifty-fifty includes Ji-hoon, throws all kinds of things at the mayor to try to accept him downward legally. They tell the residual of NR Forum nigh his identity switch equally a child, simply the members immediately side alongside the mayor since he took over all the chairman’second shares and is the almost powerful human being in town (Joo-hee owns the other one-half of everything). They bring out that the mayor gave exceptional handling to NR Forum members spell in role, just he denies it too it gains no traction. They fifty-fifty try to detect the chairman’sec solely kin — a “series killer” son inwards the U.south. — to dispute the volition, only this comes to nada.
The entirely betoken of Chairman Kang having a long lost serial killer boy is so that we can larn that the death row inmate that’s been helping Mi-ho is non at all a serial killer. He’sec simply a kid who took the rap in central for getting his mother a needed surgical process. His mother didn’t last, in addition to at once, sick alongside cancer, he dies as well. He together with the other model inmates became ill when they were sent on run unloosen too repeatedly exposed to radiations — which is how Mi-ho as well gets tardily-phase lymphoma.
When in that location was a collapse at the worksite one day, Mi-ho ran in to rescue her framed serial killer friend, too wound upward amongst cancer as well far advanced to treat. She decides to say no 1. Chang-ho is busy preparing to become mayor as well as riding about inward SUVs amongst an entourage, piece Mi-ho takes the autobus abode lonely afterward her physician’sec date. For me, this sums upwardly their human relationship.
The team’s concluding hope to have down Mayor Choi legally comes with the televised mayoral argue, where Chang-ho too the current mayor volition effort to reveal each other’s misdeeds. Leading up to this, Mi-ho goes to come across Joo-hee together with says that everything about the hospital, the clandestine lab, together with the sick prisoners volition be revealed in addition to the corrupt individuals are nigh to go their just desserts. Joo-hee asks if Mi-ho tin handgrip the despair that comes with exposing the truth in addition to having nil modify. Mi-ho is an optimist, merely Joo-hee is right — this is how things will cease up. Sort of.
Before nosotros make it at this disappointing ending, there is an amazing sequence of events involving Mi-ho leading the Big Mouse gang like a boss (in addition to me thinking for a few minutes that the demo was about to come up through inward the final 60 minutes). As Chang-ho prepares for the on-air fence, Mi-ho has her minute, going behind Chang-ho’sec dorsum for once, gathering the guys too taking a caravan to a fish farm related to NK Chemicals. She does this purposefully during the live argue then that the mayor can’t live notified of what’sec happening because he’ll live on-air.
After a battle at the fish farm, Mi-ho gets a video of the owner admitting that the farm is a front end to get rid of waste water produced past NK Chemicals. The water has toxic chemicals too radiations in it, which runs through drain pipes (like the ones that exploded over Mi-ho at the worksite) together with is dumped into the body of water. With the bear witness, Mi-ho in addition to Jerry leave in addition to caput toward the TV station to suspension upwardly the contend, but the VIPs demo upwardly as well as try to stop them.
Mi-ho alerts Soon-tae of what she too the gang have been upwardly to this afternoon too sends him the video. At the same fourth dimension, the VIPs telephone call the police force, where they have friends on the force, as well as say them to place upwardly a road block to cease Mi-ho and Jerry. Understanding the situation, Soon-tae tells Warden Park to call on the Big Mouse ground forces who take infiltrated the constabulary. As the VIPs go by thinking that Mi-ho together with Jerry are being arrested, we larn they are getting a police force escort straight to the argue broadcast.
When they achieve the fence, Mi-ho is allowed to get in during the component part where citizens inquire questions to the candidates. She says she is there every bit a victim of the NK Chemicals radiation leak too tells everyone on live TV that she’second diagnosed amongst final cancer. It’sec the start time Chang-ho, her begetter, or anyone else hears well-nigh this. She and so plays the video she recorded at the fish farm, hoping to incriminate the mayor.
This is past far the well-nigh satisfying series of events inwards the entire work because it uses the ingenuity of the squad together with what we know most each of these parts to convey nigh the outcomes. It’sec the beginning fourth dimension I felt myself rooting for anybody inward this drama and it’second because it’s the get-go fourth dimension it really followed through alongside its setups. It’second fun to sentry this criminal arrangement, amongst their hands in everything, outwit the fifty-fifty bigger criminals. And it’sec even more than fun to scout Mi-ho, Soon-tae, in addition to Jerry draw it off.
And and so, the demo takes all this awesomeness together with throws it off a balcony to its screaming decease. First, null comes of whatsoever of this. Joo-hee was right. The mayor blames everything on the chairman, gets out of an investigation, together with wins re-election. But second, past having the floor go this manner, it stops Mi-ho from being the i who takes downward the mayor (in addition to leaves it to Chang-ho).
An alternate awesome possibility gets waved (i I had pleaded for final week) to accept Joo-hee straight the last blow at her husband. This most happens when Joo-hee sends Mi-ho evidence of the mayor’sec crimes too says she’ll show against him in courtroom. Joo-hee and then goes missing too all charges against the mayor are dropped. We encounter that Joo-hee has been detained inwards the same mental establishment that Chang-ho was inwards.
The storey ends amongst Chang-ho as the single-handed hero. Mi-ho dies quietly at the infirmary together with gives Chang-ho permission to live Big Mouse forever — then long as he’second a “skilful Big Mouse.” Essentially, he becomes a vigilante, out to punish people who hurt others. So, since the legal manner didn’t operate — and all the team’second enquiry and earthworks into the mayor’sec backstory was entirely meaningless — Chang-ho decides to just kill him.
The mayor swims every day too Chang-ho fills the puddle amongst the same waste matter water from NK Chemicals that killed Mi-ho. The mayor starts vomiting blood in addition to we are left to assume he will like a shot go of cancer. On one hand, yous could telephone call it poetic judge. If it weren’t for Mi-ho, Chang-ho wouldn’t even have known well-nigh the waste product H2O inward lodge to kill the mayor this fashion. On the other mitt, yous could phone call it the definition of “fridging” — the present solely allowed Mi-ho’second actions to go far enough to help Chang-ho’sec story progress, and then got rid of her.
In these concluding ii episodes, both Mi-ho too Joo-hee make really cool things that are exciting as well as surprising for the story inwards the right style (rather than the “WTH I don’t become it” style that the show prefers). But instead of letting their actions play out to their conclusions, the writers decided to boot both of them out of the way as well as order, “allow the men handle it.”
I had a hard time watching this drama. Partially because it was a mess story-wise, partially due to the violence, merely more often than not because of its treatment of female characters. The women were disposable from showtime to complete. Remember Hye-jin? The abused married woman who escaped exclusively to be murdered past her husband after? Not only was the thread never picked up over again, it did nil to advance the plot. We watched a women go beaten together with killed patch her husband gets away alongside it, but… for fun. I got into this for Lee Jong-seok only realized early on that even he couldn’t salve it for me. Next fourth dimension, I’ll live more than cautious earlier I commit (something Joo-hee power be thinking correct straightaway likewise).
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