Maybe I'm just tired of the same old same old revenge plot but this show really just wasn't fantastic. Predictable plot, flat (and annoying) characters, slow parts, the list goes on.

I thought the acting for the most part was pretty good but there was just too much of the main characters. I kept feeling like there were these great side plots that I was looking forward to watching, but there was so little screen time for other characters that they were all drowned out. The two paralegals (?) or whoever worked in the office with them seemed like characters that had so much potential for side stories and development but the writing just fell flat. I was expecting a little bit of romance (or just something not totally related to the main characters) for one or both of them to happen and it just didn't.

The part that irked me the most about this story was the frankly bad writing that Noh Hwa Young experienced. She seemed too evil to be believable. Why do we hear like NOTHING about her backstory?? It felt like she was extremely one-dimensional for such a main character. I mean I was left with so many questions. (and not in the way that they intended). Why does she want to be high up in the military so badly?? what happened to her finger?? why is there literally zero mention of a father?? how tf did she even raise Noh Tae Nam??? I mean she was just so evil and I kept craving and wanting any sort of big overarching reason of why she is the way she is and it just never came. I was just bothered every time she apperaed on screen. The actress was good though, very evil feeling.

I expected more from Noh Tae Nam. He was truly my favorite character from the get-go. I felt like he wasn't getting enough screen time and his character development was predictable and just boring. It felt like a story that has been told about a million times before. Despite the poor writing, he still was my favorite character. Kim Woo Seok's acting was fantastic, especially the emotional ones.

now, the main characters.
Both annoying. why are they so dead-set on revenge?? what person is like this?? why dont they give up and live a little without being obsessed with their parents deaths? To be fair, they both had their moments where I felt like I really got the characters (when Do Bae Man realized he was a shitty prosecutor and when Cha Wu In beats the shit out of people) I did like the action scenes. I felt like honestly there was too much of them, there was almost no side plot which makes shows very very hard to watch. Also didn't love the romance thing they shoved in at the end. If they were gonna go romance, go all the way. It was predictable and disappointing. The acting was alright for the most part but I just wish their characters were better developed.

My final thoughts: I didn't hate this show, but I will never ever watch or think about it again. There are much better revenge plot stories if that's your thing, and there are much better military stories, if that's your thing. The writers were frankly dogshit and wrote bad characters. If you want to be disappointed (although entertained by the action scenes and every time we saw Noh Tae Nam), you should watch this show.