Replying to CursedXistence • Nov 1, 2023
Title Absolute Zero
2022-2023 had a couple of BL series where a meteor was crashing into Earth...This series has enough padding they…
It seems strange to me that they will spend less time on the two relationships they want us to care about; the present day couple as their older selves as this is the conclusion, and the younger version couple; not the origin in terms of chronological order but the origin in terms of who the audience came to care for first. Couple that with giving the most screen time to the depiction of the relationship with older and younger, which for a group of reasons just doesn’t work in a way for the emotions to resonate or for the audience to connect to this iteration of the coupling; it serves as a HUGE miss. I don’t think this is all down to the acting capabilities of the actor who plays older Soon. At least I don’t know if his acting is bad or if it just seems that way because every creative choice that concerns his character is falling flat. It’s interesting to see that compared to the last couple of episodes; episode 1 and the second half of this episode with the younger versions just works. Everything just clicks. I think it was a poor choice to ground this series so heavily in the origins of the older and younger relationship. Anything they were trying to achieve through spending time with this couple could have been achieved in one episode, two max with 5 or 10 minutes dedicated to them in future episodes to tie in the story together.

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