Operation Proposal

I liked the Japanese version much better. It was shorter, not so wordy and melodramatic. Maybe if I had seen this first, I would have thought what an original idea those Koreans had, but they didn't. The idea belongs to someone else. They just appropriated it, spiced it up with the Korean standard – sprawling, almost unbearable drama and plot holes. It's a shame because I was really looking forward to it and was curious to see what they would do with it on the Korean peninsula. For my taste, nothing that great. I didn't like the fact that he stayed in that past for so long and had so much influence over not only his fate, but that of all his friends. At the beginning I was curious to see how their fate would change, but in the end... Besides, after that I kind of got lost in it and didn't really catch on to where they were going. This series didn't work for me, I'd be more likely to recommend the Japanese version – shorter, more moderate, and more importantly it doesn't make up crap near the end just to stretch it out; plus, it has more sensible dialogue. (06.06.2012)