DISAPPOINTING GOBLIN FINALE

Has there even been a kdrama for you that started of with the an amazing cast including the kdrama guy who you first loved (Gong Yoo) from Coffee Prince and a female lead who you thought was an amazing actress. The casting was amazing, you sat down and watched the premier two episodes and found the cinematography to be outstanding, high quality 1080p kind of high quality. And most importantly a trilling and exciting beginning based with a split from the past and the present.

Plus, the icing on the cake being the fantasy elements of it all. You were hooked ready to suffer through the coming weeks by watching each episodes as soon as they came out. But then something changes, the introduction of the second couple which has more chemistry makes you look at this lead couple with a high schooler who acts very immature and a guy in his late thirty's in a way that this surely doesn't feel right. Even if it is fantasy and is supposedly is 900 years old this still doesn't feel right. 

Even we look at Twilight, he was supposedly hundreds of years old but in real life they didn't look that far apart age wise and also the fact that she acted more mature than her age in the books and movies made it more believable but in this they went the opposite way and what was more sad was in one episode when a younger guy was introduced just as a cameo. I felt more chemistry than with the main lead couple. 

As the episodes carried on I lost interest of the story line, what was the story line? It felt as though the writers came up with an amazing start of a story but just couldn't live up to the hype, just couldn't keep the train moving so instead filled the episodes with a little of humor at the beginning of the episodes but then the depressing acting, the crying that continued in every single episodes just became monotonous. 

What followed was an onslaught of typical overused kdrama scenes and scenarios that didn't add anything to the drama apart from moving the drama along until the finishing episodes. Which were nothing but predictable and disappointing.

 If it wasn't for Gong Yoo I would have dropped this. I wonder why he always  picks the worst drama's after Coffee Prince he hasn't really had a successful drama. Maybe Goblin is successful it sure fared better than BIG. Now that was a joke, even the female lead was awful in BIG. The only common denominator with BIG and Goblin is the writer, I also read that she offered him a role as lead in Descendants of the sun, which I didn't finish and he refused. Just to add she wrote Secret Gardens which I also did not finish.

I don't see him jumping into another drama for a few years and by then he will be in his 40's. He is so talented, he can do romantic, comedy and thriller's I just think drama wise he needs to stay away from that writer because she has failed him twice now and if he does romantic dramas to not pick a drama were the female lead is 10 years plus younger than him because unlike some male actors in their 30's who can pull it off he can't. Do something like 'I have a lover' and have a mature casting or just do drama's without romance. A crime drama maybe, I don't know. 

I do think he is lucky in the fact that he does movies as well and quite a few of them have been successful. His last one Train to Busan was very good.