A Slow Pointless Ride to Nowhere! The Good Reviews are Clearly Fake.
1) SO SLOW! WHAT'S WITH ALL THE FLASHBACKS AND NATURE SCENES AND POINTLESS INFORMATION!I have never seen a show with so many flashbacks, nor have I ever fallen asleep in both episode 1 and episode 2 of a show.... until this show.
WTF is with all the flashbacks! And all the shots of nature and wind chimes! AND all the information about people who are not the main characters or not even essential to the story in any way! WTF is with this show! It's one of the slowest dramas I have ever seen and that is comparing it to a French Art Film where half the runtime was actually devoted to filming birds flying over the ocean. I would almost rather watch that! Than a fake love story that's clearly Not a Love Story AT ALL!
2) WHERE IS THE ROMANCE! THIS IS NOT A ROMANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS NOT A ROMANCE!
I've almost never felt so tricked by the premise of a show Ever... this is supposed to be a romance, I don't care that it's a BL romance or a straight romance.........THERE'S NO ACTUAL ROMANCE AT ALL! All the side characters (there not really side characters they are just different groups of people making pointless random appearances at random times but still) have more romance than the main characters. Is this show even about the main characters? They seem more like a vehicle to learn about the romantic troubles of every single other person that appears on screen that is not them! WTF IS THIS?! At 10 episodes in I can't even tell if they like each other! Also the actors don't actually look "good" together because of their body types, sure, they are both handsome, but I wouldn't look at them a say visually they "fit" each other, they don't. I would never believe they were a couple in real life either. It's not the acting... it's literally everything else... but visually they don't look good together the same way people sometimes get cast as relatives of each other but don't look in any way alike... they just don't look like they "belong together"... it's the face shape, body type comparison... they don't "fit"... I know people make jokes about rigid Korean standards of height between BL characters and this was the first time I thought, "maybe that's a good thing", but it's not their height, I've seen couples of the same height or weird height proportions "fit together"... it's just... clear to me that acting is overcoming the natural indifference they actually have for each other and the lack of "visual compatibility" they have together.
3) WHY IS THE MUSIC TO PREVAILANT!? YES IT'S ALSO MEDOCRE AND SOUNDS LIKE A COPY BUT IT'S ALSO SO LOUD AND IN YOUR FACE!
I'll forgive most BL's for having medocre to bad piano music playing in the background for some pointless reason all the time... I get it, nobody cares enough to make a real sound track... ok, I've accepted it, I wouldn't even dock a great show more than a point for that........ but why is this medeocre piano track so LOUD and IN YOUR FACE ALL THE TIME! IT'S OBVIOUSLY BAD MUSIC SO WHY ARE YOU PLAYING IT EVERY SECOND LOUDLY OVER THE DIALOGUE! Ok, I'm exagerating, but at times I can't even hear the characters monologue because the music is so bad and so loud
WHY DOES EVERY BL HAVE TO BE TOLD TO THE SOUND OF A MEDOCRE PIANO PLAYER PLAYING THE SAME LAZY TUNE WITH 3 OR 5 DISJOINTES LAZY NOTES? I just don't get it BL people, do you all collectively hate music?
There were GOOD THINGS:
1) The acting is great! Everyone is doing great job acting including the male leads - it's a shame the male leads are not really given much to act with... this lack of story telling heightens the fact that they don't look visually compatable together, but all of the acting including all the side and lead characters is top notch. I will give it to the two male leads especially because it's clear to me that they have no natural compatability and they have overcome this with their acting to pull of a reasonable couple/attraction vibe for the characters. I think some of the female side characters should get their own dramas.
2) the cinemetography - excellent, the best part of the show by far (although the acting is also excellent)
3) The settings are good, no white void of death in the background
However, these three good things just could not overcome the horribly slow pacing or generally pointless storyline that seemed to go nowhere very fast. All of this should have been cut down to like... 5 episodes because that's how much character development the leads actually had in their romance - PLOT MATTERS but PACING IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF ANY SHOW
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