2021/01/24
There s a notable change in Yoo-han s disposition in episode fix of Color Rush as the always masked young man begins flirting more openly with Yeon-woo. Also he starts to more aggressively lose the mask, confirming my suspicion that the mask was acting as a handicap to
Hur Hyun-jun s weak acting talent as much as anything else. Worry not,
Hur Hyun-jun isn t terrible in the role, and everybody has to start somewhere. But it s hard to escape the feeling that a webdrama as weird as Color Rush got funding at least in part to boost
Not that Color Rush must have been particularly expensive to film, mind you. The color effects are cool, but hardly something requiring state of the art technology. As in the first half of the drama, all of the action takes place on minimalist sets. While the drab backdrop was good for the first half, since it heightened the contrast of the color explosions, it loses a lot of punch in the second half as the story moves away from Ye
2021/01/08
Yeon-woo (played by
Yoo Jun) is a Mono. I m still not completely sure what that actually means, but apparently he sees the world largely in grayscale. Yeon-woo s mother was also a Mono, before she died due to some horrible circumstance that will presumably be explained in later episodes but for now is being kept kind of vague. Anyway, when a Mono meets a Probe, they start seeing the world in countless colors simultaneously. And for Yeon-woo, that Probe is Yoo-han (played by Color Rush thing appears to be some kind of metaphor for being gay.
I have to expend a surprisingly large amount of energy just figuring out how the worldbuilding in