![]() ![]() One glaring instance of that was when one of them takes two rounds to the chest, goes into cardiac arrest for two whole minutes, and then is up and walking within the next ten minutes with only a cast to a previously uninjured arm to show for it. As it was, I felt that they just didn’t want to make their characters suffer and take them out of their comfort zone. By episode 8, there was something really off with the overall pacing of the show which, at its midpoint, was still stuck with basic romantic plot and one big external disaster, while the bad guys had barely been introduced and the screenwriters passed straight by a huge opportunity to raise the stakes and make those characters actual human beings. It wasn’t only a problem with the visuals either. However, I got the feeling pretty quickly that, while the production hadn’t pulled any punches in the first few episodes, they just sat back and relaxed once they got the audience hooked, and that just rubs me the wrong way. ![]() Visually, the first two episodes of Descendants of the Sun are gorgeous, with beautifully shot scenes such as the knife fight from episode 1, or the one when Mo-Yeon fights to save a patient’s life while Si-Jin, halfway across the world, leads an entirely different struggle against ISIS soldiers.
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