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what did i even just watch
man i need to watch something where the story is coherent and makes goddamn sense. i feel like i am not asking for much. watched this solely for cha woongki and coming off with the feeling that i thoroughly wasted my time
the good:
- the cast is very cute, nobody really sticks out to me as a bad actor or anything like that, the vibes are nice
- i do like the videogames transmigration premise
- i liked the soundtrack
- there's a certain dreamlike quality to the way the drama is shot
the bad:
- literally everything else
- the character motivations are extremely conflicting. myungha understands that he went back in time to help yeowoon yet then balks confusedly when yeowoon starts liking him back? wasn't this something you were working towards??? yeowoon starting to like him also doesn't add up whatsoever besides just he oughta since he is the ML. i felt nothing but utter confusion watching them kiss for the first time. the love scenes are very cute but like they are only cute out of context! in the actual drama i feel like none of it is earned whatsoever!
- same goes for other characters, they just appear out of nowhere and seemingly have no internal lives of their own. this could almost be meta considering this is a videogame transmigration story, except it mostly seems to be the writers' inability to write a coherent plot. i am actually infuriated by the waste of my damn time
- the age gap is wholly unnecessary and very uncomfortable. was the author trying to appeal to the 30/18 crowd? feel like this is an extremely bizarre way to go about it though? sua even stresses several times that myungha treats yeowoon like a child or a younger brother like... unless this is appeal to incest likers, but then like, why even bother with plausible deniability, write your brocon story elsewhere
- ditto for the bullying scene where myungha kisses the bully this was weird asf also like the way neither the bully nor the stalker or whatever have any relevance or weight in this drama Just like anything else in it
god i really hated it. this might be the worst thing i've watched, at least other "so bad its good" BLs had compelling, even if infuriating at times, relationships going for them. i am sorry revenged love and only friends for thinking you were bad. i now understand it could be even worse. even cha woongki cannot save this
the good:
- the cast is very cute, nobody really sticks out to me as a bad actor or anything like that, the vibes are nice
- i do like the videogames transmigration premise
- i liked the soundtrack
- there's a certain dreamlike quality to the way the drama is shot
the bad:
- literally everything else
- the character motivations are extremely conflicting. myungha understands that he went back in time to help yeowoon yet then balks confusedly when yeowoon starts liking him back? wasn't this something you were working towards??? yeowoon starting to like him also doesn't add up whatsoever besides just he oughta since he is the ML. i felt nothing but utter confusion watching them kiss for the first time. the love scenes are very cute but like they are only cute out of context! in the actual drama i feel like none of it is earned whatsoever!
- same goes for other characters, they just appear out of nowhere and seemingly have no internal lives of their own. this could almost be meta considering this is a videogame transmigration story, except it mostly seems to be the writers' inability to write a coherent plot. i am actually infuriated by the waste of my damn time
- the age gap is wholly unnecessary and very uncomfortable. was the author trying to appeal to the 30/18 crowd? feel like this is an extremely bizarre way to go about it though? sua even stresses several times that myungha treats yeowoon like a child or a younger brother like... unless this is appeal to incest likers, but then like, why even bother with plausible deniability, write your brocon story elsewhere
- ditto for the bullying scene where myungha kisses the bully this was weird asf also like the way neither the bully nor the stalker or whatever have any relevance or weight in this drama Just like anything else in it
god i really hated it. this might be the worst thing i've watched, at least other "so bad its good" BLs had compelling, even if infuriating at times, relationships going for them. i am sorry revenged love and only friends for thinking you were bad. i now understand it could be even worse. even cha woongki cannot save this
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