Rather, it’s the fact that this villain cannot be stopped. It’s not even that the villain is particularly violent or gruesome. W Two Worlds has one of the truly scariest villains I have ever come across. If one doesn’t tie the villain down by rules they become unstoppable. This is the ultimate cautionary tale for all writers. Related Post: Stranger Than Fiction – A Unique Story for Writers How does one fight a faceless villain? If this goal doesn’t come to fruition either, again, set a new one no matter how hard it is to let go. All one needs to do is to set a new goal and live life one day at a time.
With great messages sprinkled throughout such as that the world doesn’t come to an end if one cannot achieve one’s initial goal. Talk about an existential crisis!įor a fantasy where characters move between a real and a fictional world, this drama is surprisingly applicable in real life. Kang Chul, on the other hand, is a fictional character that takes a bite of the apple of knowledge only to find out that everything he is and has known came from the imagination of a man who was escaping his own reality due to depression and unhappiness. That was something that kept them going and gave them strength. They always knew they were the real people even if their eyes were opened to the false reality around them. Remember Neo’s choice between the red and blue pill in the Matrix? And Alice falling down the rabbit hole? In the context of those stories, they were real people awakening to a different world. Even before meeting Kang Chul for real, Oh Yeon-joo sighs that “he is handsome, talented, well-mannered” and that “his eyes are very sexy.” Down the rabbit hole… It makes him very appealing to both men and women (in different ways of course!). His name even literally translates to steel. Kang Chul must be one of the strongest characters in the history of fiction. With those petty fingers, you drew like an absolute being. “Do you have any idea what I went through? You wouldn’t be able to withstand any of it, but I went through it countless times. Kang Chul – The main character of W the manhwa Kang Chul does not accept death when it’s senseless and so the story starts changing in ways that even the writer cannot control. Interestingly, because Oh Seong-moo made Kang Chul to withstand any hardship, he instinctively resists plot points that don’t make sense to him. And, even more importantly, it is a disservice to his characters. So, killing Kang Chul and leaving the mystery unsolved is a betrayal of his readers’ trust. The problem here is that the writer set up the entire manhwa in such a way that the protagonist has one goal: to find the murderer of his family and bring him to justice. As long as it makes sense in the context of the story. Now, there is normally nothing wrong with killing off characters in one’s writing. It quickly becomes evident that Oh Seong-moo, the writer of W and Yeon-joo’s father, wants to finish his best-selling manhwa by killing Kang Chul. How could it be murder if the creator destroys his own creation? It’s not murder rather it’s judgement. I can do whatever I wish to when it comes to my manhwa! I created everything in my manhwa.
Does killing one’s own character count as murder? It is only when she is back in the real world and reading the latest edition of W that she realises that she has just visited that world and saved the life of Kang Chul.
Oh Yeon-joo finds herself pulled in to W only to come across a man who is bleeding out from stab wounds on a rooftop. The real and fictional world collide in the very first episode. So she has a much closer link to this manhwa and its characters than most. Not only is Yeon-joo a fan of W, she is, in fact, the writer’s daughter. Kang Chul, the main character, and he has been her perfect man since she was a teenager. That is exactly what happens to Oh Yeon-joo.
Haven’t we all fallen head over heels for a fictional character at one time or another? Now, imagine getting to meet that character and live in his fictional world. (A manhwa is the Korean equivalent of the Japanese manga.) Related Post: Lost in Austen: A Fun Take on Pride and Prejudice W – The most popular manhwa in Korea This show works on so many levels! It’s suspenseful, it’s intelligent, it’s thrilling, and, of course, romantic. Those that keep on impressing the viewer long after they are over. But then, there are those that one’s thoughts keep drifting back to. There are dramas one watches, enjoys and largely forgets. W Two Worlds has crept into my heart and has occupied a permanent spot in it. It takes cool to a whole new level and then keeps on elevating it throughout its 16-episode run. Let me start by saying that W Two Worlds is cool beyond words. W Two Worlds (2016) – Korean Drama Review
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