Gyeongseong Creature 2: Episode 1 (First Impressions)
by starrygazer
Gyeongseong Creature 2 begins out with a grisly homicide case which is ready 79 years after Season 1. Up to now, the second season already has some full circle moments linking us to our main couple’s previous, and a few down proper creepy and surreal moments of their current. Will our main couple survive this time round, or is that this homicide only the start of the difficulty to come back their approach?
Editor’s notice: That is an Episode 1 evaluate solely. For a spot to talk about the complete drama, go to the Drama Hangout.
EPISODE 1
In modern-day Seoul, our heroine YOON CHAE-OK (Han So-hee) continues to be working as a sleuth discovering lacking folks. Chae-ok receives jobs by buddy/acquaintance MADAM NA (Kim Hye-hwa), who’s working at a jazz bar. Madam Na is Chae-ok’s barrier between her and the world. Chae-ok appears to wish to keep hidden – and who can blame her. Madam Na contacts Chae-ok (codename: Silverbill) to discover a consumer’s son who has been lacking for ten days. Chae-ok accepts the job, however has some surprises ready for her when she arrives on the motel the place the son has been hiding out.
In the meantime, our hero JANG HO-JAE (Park Search engine optimisation-joon) is in the same line of labor as a personal investigator for his buddy’s enterprise. However there’s one small drawback: Ho-jae has no reminiscences. You see, there was a brutal assault on Ho-jae that befell a yr prior. Ho-jae was ran over, overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of assailants, stabbed a number of occasions, despatched flying off a bridge, and informed by a really creepy dude to “neglect every little thing.” It appears like his reminiscence was wiped after this (or due to this), and might I simply ask how the hell is Ho-jae nonetheless respiratory in any case of that?
KWON YONG-GIL (Heo Joon-seok) is Ho-jae’s buddy and I think he’s maintaining Ho-jae at the hours of darkness about his previous. This appears much more probably when Yong-gil appears at his grandfather’s image and asks why he requested him for this favor. (Presumably, the favor is taking care of Ho-jae, as a result of his grandfather cherished him.) Now, Yong-gil’s grandfather was Grasp Jang’s (Park Search engine optimisation-joon’s character in Season 1) good buddy KWON JOON-TAEK (Wie Ha-joon) within the first season, main me to consider that his household have been taking care of Grasp Jang ever since. (And is Ho-jae’s actual id Grasp Jang?)
Exterior a motel at evening, Ho-jae and Yong-gil arrive to get photos of somebody dishonest on their partner (the enterprise isn’t doing nicely and that is how they’re getting cash proper now). Ho-jae goes as much as the room alone with Yong-gil as back-up ready exterior. What Ho-jae was not anticipating was to be within the fallacious room, have his ass handed to him by a cloaked determine, and discover a very useless physique within the toilet. The poor useless man was Chae-ok’s lacking individual. He was an worker of Jeonseung Biotech and had a sketchpad stuffed with drawings of a acquainted monster. The cloaked determine who attacked Ho-jae was Chae-ok, and Ho-jae did handle to get footage of her along with his spy glasses. (Are these on wholesale in South Korea? I’ve by no means seen a pair in actual life however they’re in a number of dramas!)
When Yong-gil arrives within the lodge room after seeing the scuffle from the spy glasses stay stream, Ho-jae is alone and the physique is within the toilet. Not unsurprisingly, each Yong-gil and Ho-jae find yourself within the police station. It seems they know the captain, and the captain suggests they discover the cloaked determine if Ho-jae doesn’t wish to be arrested for homicide — as a result of this does look fairly unhealthy for him. One of many detectives asks the captain if it’s sensible to ask civilians to discover a potential serial killer, and he tells her that Ho-jae has helped him earlier than and he’s excellent at his job. Attention-grabbing… How a lot historical past have they got?
Madam Na is shocked when Chae-ok agrees to search out the useless man’s killer, because it’s not a job she would usually tackle. However Chae-ok has questions after seeing that sketchpad and her little run-in with Ho-jae. So it will appear our main couple now have a typical aim: discover the killer. Ho-jae distributes an image from the footage of the cloaked determine to all of his informants to try to discover her (Chae-ok), pondering that she is the killer. When Ho-jae will get a report that the woman within the image frequents a rooftop, he goes straight over. He sees Chae-ok, and she or he walks previous him, so he follows her.
Sensing somebody behind her, Chae-ok goes down a number of alleys and lies in wait. When Ho-jae stops as a result of he has overlooked Chae-ok, she seems behind him and holds a bit of wooden to his again. It’s humorous how it is a full circle second to the primary episode in Season 1 the place the shoe was on the opposite foot, and Grasp Jang was holding a gun to Chae-ok’s again after she had been following him.
Our heroes set up that neither of them are the true killer, adopted by Chae-ok handing Ho-jae his ass once more haha. However as soon as Chae-ok will get a very good have a look at Ho-jae, her eyes fill with tears and she or he hugs him tightly. The look of sheer bewilderment on Ho-jae’s face did make me giggle. He has no concept why she simply kicked his ass then hugged him — discuss combined alerts. However when Chae-ok calls him “Grasp Jang” a high-pitched sound goes off in Ho-jae’s head. Are his reminiscences attempting to power their approach out?
In a voiceover we hear Chae-ok say “very quickly the cherry blossoms will bloom” which connects us to her final phrases in Season 1 — “the cherry blossoms misplaced their flowers,” which signified the tip of her and Grasp Jang’s connection. (ICYMI, the deal was for them to half methods when the cherry blossom timber misplaced their flowers, though they did half by her demise which was surprising.) So, for Chae-ok to say the cherry blossoms will bloom on this season provides me a modicum of hope for our main couple.
In the meantime, our resident assassin (who kills utilizing his tentacles at will – FYI) is ransacking Chae-ok’s hideout and finds the sketchpad she took from the useless man’s motel room. This doesn’t bode nicely. It’s made obvious that experiments are nonetheless taking place with the Najin (the parasite that creates the monsters). Additionally, the place the experiments are taking place appears similar to Onseong hospital from Season 1, creepy elevate to the basement and spherical gap within the ground included. Did Ho-jae have a parasite that was eliminated? Is that why he can’t keep in mind something? And is that why Ho-jae has that scar on the again of his neck?
Chae-ok clearly has her mom’s parasite, which her mom gave as much as save Chae-ok in Season 1’s finale. This explains why Chae-ok is so sturdy and within the monster drawings. She was dwelling quietly pondering this was throughout, and now it appears she was fallacious. Has something really modified during the last 79 years? Or is Jeonseung Biotech simply an extension of Onseong Hospital? All these questions and connections are positively sufficient to pique my curiosity. Now please excuse me while I’m going and binge the remainder of the season.
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