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    Smile Review : Invincible Paratrooper(Super Rookie sequel)

    Title : Invincible Paratrooper.

    Synopse : Billed as a sequel to New Employee(aka Super Rookie), Eric Moon returns as an unemployed loser who gets hired as an agent for Korea's national intelligent agency as a favor(Paratrooper is a Korean slang for someone who lands lucrative jobs as a favor, not based on merits) after unintentionally saving the life of an old woman about to be hit by the President's Limousine. On the job, Eric meets his first love, an overachiever who is also an agent at the agency.

    First Impression : This sequel is better made than Super Rookie, but not as funny. Eric reprises his role as a loser who accidentially lands a job he doesn't deserve, but not as convincing as the first one as the setting has been changed from a regular company to secret intelligent agency, and it does not correlate to sufferings of millions of unemployed young people who personally related to Eric's struggling character in Super Rookie. Interestingly, there are lots of references to cancelled "Wolves" as well, with same lead actors(Eric and Han Ji Min), and same "Saving the girl from the rushing car" scene. That scene must have been hard to swallow for Eric who is still fresh with memories of that terrible accident.

    So the summary is that The Invincible Paratrooper is a better made show, but not as funny as the first one.
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    Here's the image for the drama. I wouldn't have thought it was a sequel, looking at the other english title used, Korea Secret Agency.

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    he's doing a sequal? wow. i really want to see super rookie. can't wait until it come ouyt.
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    Eric's eyebrows look a bit too umm how should say this....feminine? It looks like it has been plucked and who's the other pale skinned dude in that picture?

    Any more pictures?
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    this show is interesting but not as funny as 'super rookie'. i like the actor that plays eric's younger brother in 'super rookie'. he was funny. they made the younger brother for this series a little smarter. eric isnt as goofy in this series but he still carried his roles well.

    i think he'll be better in 'sweet guy'. hopefully, they'll choose a good female costar for 'sweet guy'. i dont really like 'han ji mn' as much. they dont look good together.

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    More screenshots, cast photos:

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    Hmm from the photos they look more like the underworld than secret agents. Is this drama fast paced, and full of action sequences?

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    Hmm from the photos they look more like the underworld than secret agents. Is this drama fast paced, and full of action sequences?
    No, Eric's too busy playing a playboy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JonDoe
    No, Eric's too busy playing a playboy.
    I've watched 4 episodes and he sure is getting busy chasing skirts but he doesn't seem much of a loser to me. More like a bumbling "hero" who wins the day unwittingly. Pretty entertaining so far. Please tell me that there won't be some silly three- or four-way love entanglement, that they so love to do in many other Korean dramas.

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