The pied piper of Korean drama

I just finished watching Pied Piper. I am highly satisfied. Never a dull moment!

In this case, compared to Black, I am not as impressed with the plot twists. But the plot was still very interesting, and they took care of the details better.

However, there were still some tiny details that I am not that happy with...I would call them forced theatrics.

For example, someone has a bomb strapped to her, and another person is planning to push the detonator. But the bad guy has already walked away, so there is no way for her or her rescuer to know that the guy is going to push the detonator. But somehow, at the moment where the switch is about to be flipped, the rescuer grabs her in a hug as if they know the time is up. *What?*

Another time (*BIG SPOILER AHEAD*) is when they have a plane that is going to crash, and they are debating whether to shoot it down so that it won't crash on the city. But as they debate, the plane is only 5 minutes away from crashing, and people in the city are already seeing the plane fly above their heads! Wouldn't shooting it down be pointless at that point? Again, I feel this was just to drag the suspense out. If they really needed to shoot down the plane, they would have had to do it much earlier! But then I guess they would have lost the dramatic shots of the plane casting a shadow over people in the city, or of the plane almost crashing into a building... :P

Some other plot points were not fully explained... as in, there was one incident, and then nothing for a year, before all the other happenings in the drama. So why that one-year break? It wasn't really explained... though I guess we could say that no opportunities arose to create incidents? I feel that the one-year delay was not really necessary though... they could have made the hiatus shorter.

The bad guy also decided to kill some people but only ruin the lives of others. Why? That part is still a mystery to me... At one time he does say that it is the ones who continue living who suffer. Does that mean that he only killed those who were less "guilty"? However, the one he killed was at the beginning...so in a way, we could assume that after a year, he had refined his plans to not kill.

Another thing that didn't make sense was that the bad guy's sidekick let loose a comment about how he never liked the way the Pied Piper looked at the lead female character. That was to leave us a red herring about the origin of the Pied Piper, as in he would have been in her neighbourhood during her childhood. But when the truth was revealed, that comment didn't seem right after all...because if it wasn't during their younger years, when would the sidekick have seen the Pied Piper look at her?

However, despite those small stuff, the whole drama is really interesting and enjoyable. I would seriously recommend it!