Bride of Water god (HaBaek) - Quick Review

This is just a quick review of the Korean TV Drama, Bride of the Water god (Habaek).  

Just finished watching the 15th episode of Bride of the Water God (HaBaek) 

I'm a bit confused. They say this is the episode before the finale.  Today they will post the final episode on the DramaFever.com site.  But after watching the 15th episode, I just got more questions rather than revelations.  I get it that they are waiting for the finale for that.  However, with so many questions I have, will one hour be enough to answer all the questions?  Are they planning to do a season 2?  If they are, I don't think I will watch it.  It was already hard to finish it.  I only did it because I already invested hours of my time to it.  

The drama is poorly developed.  Specially when this is a screenplay of an already famous web comic, Manhwa, of the same title - Bride of the Water God.  Based on my research for that said Manhwa, the storyline doesn't seem to fit.  I get it that they did try to put some parts of it when they showed HaBaek's first love and how he was cursed to transform from a child form during the day to his original adult self, when the sun sets.  But they since have not gotten back to that in the drama.  With only 1 episode left, they have left me and other viewers scratching our heads.  

Fans of the manhwa were also not pleased with what they did with the storyline.  I'm not oppose to any changes as long as it's for creativity's sake.  But so far the drama feels like eating a supposedly delicious food but it just lacked seasoning.  It's just too lacking.  

Many have left bad reviews regarding the male and female protagonists acting. I don't think it's a problem at all.  And they said they lacked chemistry.  I don't agree with that as well.  

I really feel like it's the story itself and the very slow pace.  It felt like we could have scrapped out so many parts of the 1st and 2nd episode.  It took them so long to try to establish the characters.  While at the same time, the storyline felt misdirected.  They left us with our imagination of what happened in the past that we don't know much of.  And the fact that they did make changes from the original story, they can't assume that we will know the backstory when even the actual fans of the manhwa are not watching because of their disappointment.  

Technically speaking, this is not a complete review since I have not watched the final episode yet.  It will be available later in DramaFever.com.   But I feel like I want to put this review out there before I watch it.  I will update this review after I watch the final episode.  

But at this point, I really feel like I didn't enjoy this Korean Drama as much as I had expected.  

I will be back later to update this.  

For the meantime, read my blog regarding my theories of the ending.  

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