So therefore, I would’ve written Do-han’s forgiveness into the show. ![]() There was no way out because he was too far in, and that’s why I love it, and that’s why it’s sad because he’s such a damn tragic character. But on the other hand, I see Do-han’s tragedy and how his self-loathing was too deep, and that the only way out was death, and that the way his arc was written, there was no happy ending. On the one hand, I can see the redemption story of how they get out of prison, and how they climb out of the abyss together and it’s beautiful. True forgiveness is grace and grace is given, never earned. There was so much more we could’ve tapped into with those two, and an ultimate confrontation about forgiveness was not given either. At the end, I think we were robbed of some powerful Su-ji/Do-han moments. I do think this could’ve been explored more, and better. I think they learned to love one another in this way, because they were human and they understood each other, and for no other reason. Whoever said that, you hit the nail on the head. I saw a few comments on the chemistry between Do-han and Su-ji and how it wasn’t exactly romantic, but something more-a love between humans. He started to care for her and the team, when he probably hadn’t cared for anyone in a long time, maybe even forgotten how, and yet he’d hurt her too much to ever hope for anything more. This wasn’t about winning through turning the other cheek this was about how a man had been so destroyed, he let himself get to the point of no return, and then someone came into his life and they both started to think differently. I loved that the drama explored what can drive a person to do that. He did he’d just squashed it almost entirely so he could do what he thought he had to do. “You crush someone’s life so that you can achieve your goal, and you don’t even realize that it’s wrong,” Su-ji said to him once. Do I wish I could’ve seen his redemption onscreen, yes, but he’s a tragic anti-hero. ![]() I hated that he was so broken.Īnd yeah, when you look at it, him dying seems like a cop out, but there was no way they could write his arc any other way in 16 episodes, and also there were a million hints that he wasn’t going to have a happy ending. I loved that he was smart, and cunning, and sometimes mean. ![]() I loved that he basically drove himself mad over the ten plus years he’d been planning his revenge. I knew he was not always nice, but I just got drawn into how many masks he had and how many sides he was playing and how he was still a man who could feel empathy and guilt, but after everything he’d been through, he’d kind of drowned himself, given everything of himself to see someone brought to justice. And I think he deserves a different ending entirely, because of who he is as a character and how he’s written.ĭo-han was not a character you were supposed to like, at the beginning. *coughs* Who me? Salty? Nooo…Īnd then… there’s Do-han. ![]() Or, I don’t know, having the daughter of a detective who is locked in a rooftop maintenance room with a fake bomb realize that if you throw a fire extinguisher at a window, it breaks, and allows you to escape. Or like having a seasoned detective of 20 years decide to believe the psychopathic little in the interrogation room and kidnap your fugitive best friend and take her to an abandoned construction site and hold her at gunpoint, that you do it only because you’re bluffing and you’re trying to catch the bastard. There are the obvious things I would change: Like having your main character, a very broken but brilliant man, have a plan B, C, and probably D, as well as a plan for after the trial of the crazy person who tortured his father almost to death that doesn’t just involve reopening the case, but a course of action that sees that case followed through to its completion, and nobody turns themselves in till everything is solved and our teenage psychopath is in juvie. To say I got emotionally attached would be an understatement I have a very large hole somewhere in my heart for this show and its characters, and the ending that could have been. When I finished watching Lookout I wrote 5,473 words on it over two days, I cried 3 times while writing that, and this submission involved three word documents and several handwritten notes. We had two submissions for Lookout, so here’s your chance to choose your own adventure for how it should’ve ended! –girlfridayīy Lookout, you beautiful, tragic thing you.įirst of all, some context about what this show did to me: I’ve only ever cried once while watching a K-drama. 56 NovemNovem A proper sendoff and a new beginning for Lookout by Guest Beanie
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