Flying, fighting, and friendship in supernatural sci-fi Moving

by solstices

It’s the first day of school for the peculiar protagonists of Disney+’s Moving, a fantasy sci-fi based on the webtoon of the same name. Following its first teaser, the drama treats us to a longer glimpse of its main characters and the superpowers they’re endowed with.

Awakening from a dream in which he’s plunging down to Earth, Kim Bong-seok — played by Lee Jung-ha (Nevertheless) — falls back onto his bed from the ceiling, where he’d been sleeping all night. His mother Lee Mi-hyun, played by Han Hyo-joo (Happiness), stuffs a weight plate into his backpack before shooing him out the door, and we soon see why. In the middle of class, Bong-seok starts levitating, sending him into a wide-eyed panic — hmm, it seems like he doesn’t have control over his own ability.

In comparison, Jang Hee-soo — played by Go Yoon-jung (Alchemy of Souls) — is having a relatively calmer morning, bidding goodbye to her dad Ryu Seung-ryong (Kingdom) with a smile and a salute. Elsewhere, the bespectacled Lee Kang-hoon — played by Kim Do-hoon (The Law Cafe) — approaches his father Kim Sung-kyun (Divorce Attorney Shin) outside a neighborhood mart.

As luck would have it, both Jung-ha and Hee-soo are running late for school, and they collide right in front of the school gates. Jung-ha goes flying to the ground, and Hee-soo stares at him curiously, as if she’s sensed something odd about him. Her suspicions are soon confirmed when Jung-ha floats up to the top of a stairwell before her very eyes, leaving her stunned.

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Not to be outdone, we see Kang-hoon punch a tree with such strength that it snaps in two and keels over. Before long, our trio bond with each other over their special abilities, with Hee-soo sweetly saying that she’s cheering them on.

However, the world of the adults is much more unforgiving. We’re given a montage of the kids’ parents — including Jo In-sung (It’s Okay, That’s Love) — harnessing their powers to fight their way through danger, complete with guns, explosions, and crackling electricity. “Someone is eliminating us,” Mi-hyun realizes, as the superhuman hunter Ryu Seung-bum (Tazza) arrives at the airport.

Through flashbacks, we see even more sinister undertones. In what seems like a brutal training camp, Kim Shin-rok (Reborn Rich) delivers a tight slap to a bloody and disheveled Hee-soo. Worse yet, we see young boys with awful scarring on their backs, forced towards what looks like a containment facility by armed guards. It’s clear why our protagonists’ parents are so determined to conceal their children’s powers — the world is hostile towards superhumans, seeking to either exploit or eliminate them.

Helmed by PD Park In-je (Kingdom 2) and PD Park Yoon-seo, with scripts penned by the original webtoon author Kangfull, Moving premieres on August 9.