"Hero" - Final episode, MBC TV (Thursday, 9:55 PM)
But it was disappointing that "Hero" was unable to find a way to get its heartfelt message across on more than a few occasions. The drama had a clear story, appealing characters and a serious theme -- the very reasons that viewers could not empathize with the show. Considering the fact that the story shined with the most shameless and hilarious energy when Yongduk Ilbo had been Monday Seoul, it was all the more disappointing because "Hero" had all the potential, in the beginning, to be more dramatic. If the drama had disguised its message in a more seasoned and less honest way -- just like its original title "Suspicious Heroes" -- the show's catch phrase "Weird guys change the world" would have been more powerful.
Despite such shortcomings, "Hero" stuck to its original topic to the end and was thus able to deliver a thread of hope as its ending. The ending about hope was all the more important because the story had hinted of a tragedy from a line delivered by Do-hyuk (played by Lee Jun-ki) -- that the reason Hye-seong's (played by Uhm Ki-joon) father committed suicide was "not because he was weak but because he had no hope." In "Hero", the characters say that "people are more important than anything" and that "each person" counts. The reason they believed that and called it hope is so that they would not repeat such a tragedy. Like that someone who dreamed about the beautiful world that people live in.
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