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It's not often that stories make you feel both satisfied and dissatisfied with its conclusion.

The thing to remember about Descendants of the Sun is that it is ultimately a love story, rather than a war story or a medical drama, and as far as the romance part of it went, it was as perfect as love could be. Every couple had a happy ending, and apart from the odd glitch/argument between the secondary couple, their relationships were all impressively mature and rational.

On the drama side of things...well, let's say that it felt like that part of the story ended at episode 12. Sure, a few things happened in episode 14 and 15, but those were really afterthoughts. After the tense and tight Uruk arc, the plot line after returning to Seoul was bordering on recklessly flippant.

I know a lot of people have been talking about the Yoo's resuscitation - to be honest, I switched off my brain after he rolled out of the ambulance because I knew it was going to be =____= I've seen people talk about the beeping of the machines are wrong - let's be fair, the beeping of the machines is the least of the problems with that scene. In a real resus you're less likely to pay attention to the alarms than the actual patient and what the alarms/indicators read.

In particular - and firstly, kudos to the filming crew to actually be correct in using the defibrillator on someone who is showing ventricular fibrillation on the rhythm monitor - but after 2 shocks, the monitor is still showing VF (i.e. he may/may not have output but it's a shockable rhythm and NO ONE would call a stop at this stage, especially on a young fit patient) - the junior doctor says, "all signs of life is extinct". Umm....

I don't even know why he has a dressing on his abdomen which in no way explain the pattern of blood splatters on him and at this stage I'm too afraid to ask.

His predicament lasted all of 10 minutes, which.......while it frees him up for plenty of comic/romantic relief, really doesn't do any credit to what the series had been able to achieve.

The "deaths" in episode 15 ultimately feels like a retread of exactly what this scene entailed, except dragged out over 40 minutes and overturned in the last 5 minutes with what I thought was a poorly scripted episode ending...I don't mind that he comes back, but I think the reunion would have been better left completely to episode 16 so that episode 15 ends on a cliffhanger.

I think episodes 13-16 really dragged the series downwards, even though the ending was happy and complete. There was a lot of romcom which were sweet but done at the price of treating the more serious and dramatic moments with gravity.

Episodes 1-12 (well...okay, 3-12) were great in the way it successfully married medical/military thriller with rom-com, with some wonderfully written characters and some very witty dialogue. Episodes 13-16 sank more and more into cheesy rom-com territory, and the higher the stakes (and there were some good poignant plot points in those last 4 episodes), the more ridiculous it seemed when they were resolved so glibly.

It will still remain one of the better K-dramas I've watched (erm, out of 5? LOL) but the last 4 episodes really were quite anti-climatic and worth watching only because the actors manage to carry it on charisma alone.

But Captain Yoo and Doctor Kang, I think, will always be my favourite couple
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