So, I was skimming through Season 3, and it occurred to me you could throw out most of it and nothing of value would be lost. Just start out with Sangwoo being nice to Bum, maybe one or two chapters at a fuck hotel, then in chapter 3 kill the uncle and go from there. Get straight to the creepy mom backstory, because I’m pretty sure that’s the whole point of this arc.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot.
I remember the editor describing the season as ‘maddening’, which makes sense if they were referring to the pacing (k, sorry that was mean).
Koogi said once in an interview that Killing stalking would be either 3 of 4 seasons long, and I wonder if her editor had persuaded her into doing the latter. Then when creating the 3rd arc, there wasn’t really enough content to create ~20 chapter, so certain scenes were stretched out and filler events were added in. Also with shorter chapters, there’s less room for multiple major events to fit into the same chapter, so they’re spread out over the weeks.
lDK, I feel like I’ve been waiting this entire season for things to ramp up, and when it finally does, the chapter ends. Like there’s some really good content this season (like when they went drinking and almost crashed into a truck), but every time I purchase a chapter, I question if I’m better off just looking at spoilers on tumblr.
I was one of the persons the editor told “next season will be mad” so it really hurts lol
As you said, the seasons has very good moments ( for example I really liked the uncle’s death, because it focused more on Bum’s reaction than in the murder itself) but all in all, nothing really relevant happened. At least, it seemed the uncle’s death could have been a game-changer for the plot ( we have seen a lot of character development in Bum) but then in chapter 51 they were back to Sangbum fluff as if 18 chapters never existed.
And even the flashback of Sangwoo’s past are mostly pointless. Differently from Bum’s flashbacks that changed in a relevant way the plot or their relationship – chapter 19 is the cause of Jieun’s death while the ones with the Uncle is season 2 were the catalyst of one of the most powerful chapter in the series – Sangwoo’s backstory didn’t add anything, especially because we have already known most of the information since the beginning ( Sangwoo’s abusive childhood, her mom was crazy, his trust issues) or we had figured in season 1 that his mommy issues were the reason he targeted girls with a beauty mark . Actually we’re even more confused because after two chapters and a half we still don’t know if the father was a 100% good man or a wolf in sheep clothes, or simple but important details as where the fuck is the small table that led to one the first bonding scene between Sangwoo and Bum.
Plus,
it’s not that the past is suddenly influencing Sangwoo’s actions now, and Bum doesn’t know anything about it.
I still love KS like the first day but this season has been a huge filler, I can’t wait for season 4 at this point
Yeah, there’s definitely been some great moments, but the unbearable tension from the first two seasons is gone. And I feel like the mom flashbacks would work better if Bum knew about them. Sangwoo was so chatty about his mom when Bum poisoned him, how come he doesn’t talk about it now?
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