Hwarang (2016)

NOTA GERAL: 6,6/10

Homens lindos pra todo lado! Espera, você quer uma análise mais detalhada? Bem, Hwarang não tem uma história… muito bem desenvolvida. Mas se você quiser ficar babando na sua tela, esse é o dorama pra você!

• História (6/10): Podia ter focado mais nas questões políticas (vulgo, no rei) e menos no triângulo amoroso. Além disso, vários problemas ficaram sem resposta, deixando mais dúvidas do que no início do drama. O final foi rushado.

• Visual (6,5/10): Não faz feio, mas também não faz nada pra impressionar. Se eu tenho uma reclamação é com os figurinos dos personagens masculinos. Além das perucas feias, os trajes dados a eles fizeram com que diferenciá-los fosse uma tarefa praticamente impossível.

• Som (6/10): Música pop em um romance histórico? Uma decisão arriscada e que, infelizmente, não me agradou muito.

• Personagens (7/10): Hwarang tem um elenco muito vasto. Os atores se encaixaram bem em seus papéis e fizeram um bom trabalho ao dar vida a seus personagens, mas é aquela velha história, em um triângulo amoroso a garota sempre vai escolher a pior opção. Não que Sun Woo seja uma opção ruim, mas o tipo caladão não me atrai muito e o rei tinha conflitos muito mais interessantes e era bem mais carismático (e bonito!). Também foi meio estranho ver o “irmão” se apaixonando pela “irmã”. E a protagonista feminina… não fede nem cheira. Ela é até um pouco esquecível.

• Entretenimento (7,5/10): No geral, foi um drama bem descontraído e que não deve ser levado a sério. Apesar de ser um pouco lento em algumas ocasiões, não chega a ser cansativo. Eu diria que foi um potencial desperdiçado.

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Hwarang began at the top of my list for most anticipated drama. It boasted a star studded cast as well as the fact that it was pre-filmed which seemed to promise a quality show that would become "the next big hit". As it turns out, the drama became a pitiful case of lost potential.

The story was lacking, to say the least. It didn't seem as if there really was one sometimes to be honest. The episodes were mainly made up of small conflicts that didn't seem of much importance to the central story at all. Even the the climax of the main story was resolved rather anticlimactically in the last episode. I often found myself wondering what the heck happened after an episode, not because I was shocked by the events, but because nothing really did happen. The story trudged along at a horse and buggy speed and it seemed that our lead female Ah Ro was just along for the ride. She didn't seem to have any purpose in the story, but to give our leads some angsty tension (not that it was needed because they had enough of that on their own). The main couple had no chemistry whatsoever and I even found myself bored at their scenes. And lets not even begin talking about the plot holes. There were many and they were extremely noticeable.

The acting was mediocre. This is an average amongst this large cast; some were better than others. Going back to the issue with the main couple, I believe it wasn't totally the fault of the cast. Park Seo Joon had amazing chemistry in his last drama with Hwang Jung Eum and Go Ara did well in Reply 1994. While they are not exceptional actors, they have shown good acting skills, and even they could not salvage how stale the plot was. Minho's acting became a lot more natural though and Taehyung did well with his emotional scenes.

The OST itself is pretty good and some of the songs were actually quite memorable. I did notice though that the music editing was not very good throughout the entire drama. It cut off weirdly and some of the music didn't even fit the scene, which is disappointing coming from a show that was prefilmed and edited.

Overall, it was only slightly enjoyable to watch so I will not be rewatching. I would like to give some honorable mentions though to my otp Ban Ryu and Soo Yeon, Sung Dong Il the designated ahjussi of kdramas, and Park Hyung Sik's face (it's beautiful :')).

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