“Serving justice may sometimes come off as foolish and boring.” That was what the head of the National Anti-Terror Service (NTS) Kwon Yong-gwan (played by Yoo Dong-geun) said to Jung-woo (Jung Woo-sung) after demolishing Sohn Hyuk’s (Cha Seung-won) gang. Whether that be true or not in real life, that was certainly what drama "Athena" was -- foolish and boring. Continuous errors such as introducing the GBU-28 bomb as a missile or the agents indiscriminately shooting at each other without even the least amount of cover up or hiding, constantly prevented viewers from getting fully immersed with the story. But despite all this, the biggest problem of this drama was elsewhere.
The final episode of the drama where Jung-woo and Hye-in (Soo Ae) met again evoked nothing but an empty laughter, for the scene reflected what this drama was really all about - a story of conflicting love and jealousy between three people. If that was all there was to it, the drama has killed just too many people on its set and wasted too much money outside it. If there is one justice that “Athena” has shown us, it is that viewers no longer tolerate with excessive and meaningless abundance.
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