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6 Days of Doomsday (/Doomsdom)
So the progress goes:
6 days ago:
Do I smell a series that will not give the young audience the standard digestible, forgivable cheating, but the very hurtful deal? I'm in!
3 days ago:
My oh my, I am into ep. 6 and I am fed up with Toh and Jimmy, the characters (fortunately we have the lovable, adorable Fah Teh here). Jimmy is just a greedy baby who will not say no to anything since it is offered to him, while Toh just doesn't know when to stand up and leave. If he did, maybe many more things could be solved.
Jimmy? He is your friend? Well, you have too many friends for my liking.
And Toh? You do realize you have more things in your life than the male organ between your legs, right?
OK. Now go and do something with your lives, because this is horrible.
2 days ago:
EP. 8
Jimmy: "I tried my best."
Me: This is your BEST?! 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀
/then it got worse/
Jimmy: "He was so stubborn."
Me: Victim blaming? 🤔
Jimmy, the f**k, grow up first, please. You are as dumb as a rock and twice as useless. If lying after a cheat-and-lie game is somehow "the best you could do," then you have a loooong way to go to learn how to do things properly.
And a suggestion — try exchanging your flings for some self-development. It would do you a world of good.
The last day of torture:
Why did this get stupider and stupider with each later episode?
I would say that, in the writing, the story itself was written fine — it could stand — but the relationships were written very poorly. It is a very strange mix of quite deep potential for personalities that somehow landed flat, as if someone had written it while thinking about secondary-school relationships.
They were not the worst kind of flat characters at first, but they became flat in the later stages of development — and you can't recognize that from the first episodes.
It somehow culminated with supporting characters in the last episode doing something totally improbable that no normal adult would realistically plan to do. But it strangely sounds like a secondary-schooler fantasy or wish for things to happen that way.
It is not an entirely bad story, and whatever is bad about it does not have anything to do with the budget. It is just that the majority of us seem to be adults, or at least of an adult mindset, and even if shown kindly, these stereotypes from the story do not appear in this format in real life.
So as fantasy it is fine, but you need to have huge objections when comparing it with normal behavior or acceptable paths in these situations.
Note: it was not the acting or the chemistry of the actors — that was good.
There is also a certain level of comfort, cuteness, and security, and that is mostly delivered thanks to the fact that you know how it will happen. You know the Happy Ending in advance. You know you will run into some hurtful stuff, but it is not going to be a fatal transgression. No mortal trespass.
And so it is still a comfortable and, in places, cute watch, which makes it digestible even if most of the actions are not.
6 days ago:
Do I smell a series that will not give the young audience the standard digestible, forgivable cheating, but the very hurtful deal? I'm in!
3 days ago:
My oh my, I am into ep. 6 and I am fed up with Toh and Jimmy, the characters (fortunately we have the lovable, adorable Fah Teh here). Jimmy is just a greedy baby who will not say no to anything since it is offered to him, while Toh just doesn't know when to stand up and leave. If he did, maybe many more things could be solved.
Jimmy? He is your friend? Well, you have too many friends for my liking.
And Toh? You do realize you have more things in your life than the male organ between your legs, right?
OK. Now go and do something with your lives, because this is horrible.
2 days ago:
EP. 8
Jimmy: "I tried my best."
Me: This is your BEST?! 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀
/then it got worse/
Jimmy: "He was so stubborn."
Me: Victim blaming? 🤔
Jimmy, the f**k, grow up first, please. You are as dumb as a rock and twice as useless. If lying after a cheat-and-lie game is somehow "the best you could do," then you have a loooong way to go to learn how to do things properly.
And a suggestion — try exchanging your flings for some self-development. It would do you a world of good.
The last day of torture:
Why did this get stupider and stupider with each later episode?
I would say that, in the writing, the story itself was written fine — it could stand — but the relationships were written very poorly. It is a very strange mix of quite deep potential for personalities that somehow landed flat, as if someone had written it while thinking about secondary-school relationships.
They were not the worst kind of flat characters at first, but they became flat in the later stages of development — and you can't recognize that from the first episodes.
It somehow culminated with supporting characters in the last episode doing something totally improbable that no normal adult would realistically plan to do. But it strangely sounds like a secondary-schooler fantasy or wish for things to happen that way.
It is not an entirely bad story, and whatever is bad about it does not have anything to do with the budget. It is just that the majority of us seem to be adults, or at least of an adult mindset, and even if shown kindly, these stereotypes from the story do not appear in this format in real life.
So as fantasy it is fine, but you need to have huge objections when comparing it with normal behavior or acceptable paths in these situations.
Note: it was not the acting or the chemistry of the actors — that was good.
There is also a certain level of comfort, cuteness, and security, and that is mostly delivered thanks to the fact that you know how it will happen. You know the Happy Ending in advance. You know you will run into some hurtful stuff, but it is not going to be a fatal transgression. No mortal trespass.
And so it is still a comfortable and, in places, cute watch, which makes it digestible even if most of the actions are not.
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