Even though Reply 1994 might be having a slightly less compelling storyline than its predecessor and successor, I can bet this one is the most crazy hilarious and funniest out of all three reply series
OMG!!!! Holland!!! And Han Gi Chan!!!! Might as well give us another season of WYEL! I'm crying rn ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜! Having really high expectations this time!!!
I sincerely feel it would've been more appropriate in casting at least a slightly healthier actress to play the role of Jang Mi Ran, as the character LSK was portraying didn't really match the shade that everyone kept throwing at her in the entire show although she did her best in acting all tomboyish and buffy yet feminine at the same time.
Hey there! First off I wanted to say welcome and also thank you for your feedback!!!As to your questions and comparisons.Out…
It so appears that both of our reviews boils down heavily on personal preferences. I prefer watching more mature, real slice of life and relaxing dramas and it appears to me that you prefer more laid out elaborate dramas with a made up storylines.
To what you may rate high and me low all resonate with the real life experiences I've had, and to what extent i might find something actually happening in real life, with real human emotions. Well I'm not aware of your age, it could be the age gap.
Including a number of shows that you have mentioned, MODC turns out to be the most frustrating drama I've ever come across with the dumbest ending possible. Mr Heart was more of a skinship sort of a fanservice drama with a really unbelievable stalker type of lead replaced in a straight love story scenario as a BL, which is far from happening in real life. Light on me was a total 13 year old fangirl production I need not talk much about that. And yes, even 2gether the series was my window to asian dramas as a whole so even I have my soft corner for it as well, but the closer of 2gether season one was so shallow, it totally portrayed the actors real intention of playing the roles was mere clout.
DBK portrayed the most realistic scenario of an actual gay couple onscreen, I don't know if you've ever been in a relationship, but the kind of relationship they had with Kao being the anxious overthinking closeted guy who refrains from outing himself for the pure sake of his mother's well being totally stole my heart. I dunno if this is more of cultural thing or something the west do not wish to consider, I'd leave it upto you. Sotus was the torch bearer of BLs at its time, so much so that it was even advertised once in Times square as far as my knowledge goes. Sotus 1 focused more on the hazing part of college life, and it focused more on the student relationship aspect than the romantic relationship in itself, but here in the asian context college seniors and colleagues relations are what matters most, cause it always helps in socialising and maintaining relations which both acting as mutuals helping each others in need and also expecting juniors to respect their seniors not just in college life but in actual workplace as well, and why the relationship is important cause college professors are rarely any source of help to students in college.
It is always the seniors insights which help you in academics plus post college experiences and job opportunities. The show clearly focused more on the positive aspects of college rituals not the western HAZING which is solely for the purpose of entertainment. Plus the show never portrayed any character who had the intention of gaining control over any person, but the job was to make freshman fearless enough to face an sort of hardships one may face in real life. It was only in Sotus S that the actual relation between Arthit and Kongpop was explored
The show also portrayed well the inner fears of Arthur, and how he slowly overcome the dreaded fear of being judged by the public. I seriously cannot how you can so easily overlook all these aspects. GMMTV shows, mostly the good ones always focused more on the mental and emotional aspects than physical displays of affection, and is pretty evident in most of their works.
H2 wasn't something as eventful or impactful to be spoken about, so I'd rather prefer to skip that. I never appreciated or promoted MSD in my comment, it was just an easy watch with a very convenient storyline, and your spiking unnecessary hatred and frustration towards that show was what caught my attention.
And looking at your watchlist, I can clearly see you lack a lot of beautifully written mature shows which I would sincerely want you to consider adding to your watchlist. Most of the shows you've watched are pure BLs which are solely catered to female audience (Fujoshis) and not actual LGBTQ people like us. If I were to list them out they would be In Between Seasons, Reply 1997, The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese, Moment@18. Yet to watch ~ Goodbye Mother (as far as the reviews go this one portrays the dynamics of an asian family most accurately), A distant Place. These shows would be difficult for you to find on major streaming platforms as it wouldn't necessarily appeal to so called Fujoshis, cause it's beyond their scope of apprehension. Fortunately, they are available to stream on core LGBT platform GagaOolala. Also sadly, Gaya sa Pelikula has also been rated badly by you :(.
Hope my writing and a few suggestions help in broadening your perspective slightly. Thank you! :)
Being a closeted gay myself, I can totally understand your pent up frustration with BLs catering to 13-14 year old fangirls. But looking at your watchlist, I am seriously finding it difficult to understand as to how do shows like Light on Me, 2gether, Mr Heart and MODC which have the most unrealistic of plots pass your screening and well written mature shows like Sotus, Dark Blue Kiss, H2: R/W fare so low?
Even though this show had its fare share of plotholes in the lousy script, the progression of their relationship felt very natural. Nothing to be hated about that much.
I'm not here to invalidate your review but i sincerely want to have a better understanding of your ratings.
After getting attached to so many characters, they just started killing them off one after the other. I still…
I felt the story was mostly trying to glue it's characters to the already existing history. The main characters I found were mostly useless and had very little impact on the core storyline and we're just shown as a mere unbelievable heroic stunts. So many unbelievable stunts ~~GO DONG MAE, mf took three bullets and survived and was slit and drowned in ocean and came back to joseon right when the ml came back!
Real plot starts from ep 17! Until episode 16 it's all draggy and I feel quite unnecessary!
Like I wouldn't recommend you skipping it XD but you might as well do it and jump straight to ep 17 and read the summary of previous episodes. They really are nothing but just hugs and handshake. The show may be historically accurate but, the romance but the father daughter is a real put off and slow! Watch it only if you want to watch some patriotic political thriller and not for some romantic love story arc!
This was so terrible, OMG! All the characters were nothing but useless losers! And poor Suyeong had to suffer in the middle of all this! And that trashy Jason! He didn't even deserve her!
This was my only complaint for the entire show
To what you may rate high and me low all resonate with the real life experiences I've had, and to what extent i might find something actually happening in real life, with real human emotions. Well I'm not aware of your age, it could be the age gap.
Including a number of shows that you have mentioned, MODC turns out to be the most frustrating drama I've ever come across with the dumbest ending possible. Mr Heart was more of a skinship sort of a fanservice drama with a really unbelievable stalker type of lead replaced in a straight love story scenario as a BL, which is far from happening in real life. Light on me was a total 13 year old fangirl production I need not talk much about that. And yes, even 2gether the series was my window to asian dramas as a whole so even I have my soft corner for it as well, but the closer of 2gether season one was so shallow, it totally portrayed the actors real intention of playing the roles was mere clout.
DBK portrayed the most realistic scenario of an actual gay couple onscreen, I don't know if you've ever been in a relationship, but the kind of relationship they had with Kao being the anxious overthinking closeted guy who refrains from outing himself for the pure sake of his mother's well being totally stole my heart. I dunno if this is more of cultural thing or something the west do not wish to consider, I'd leave it upto you. Sotus was the torch bearer of BLs at its time, so much so that it was even advertised once in Times square as far as my knowledge goes. Sotus 1 focused more on the hazing part of college life, and it focused more on the student relationship aspect than the romantic relationship in itself, but here in the asian context college seniors and colleagues relations are what matters most, cause it always helps in socialising and maintaining relations which both acting as mutuals helping each others in need and also expecting juniors to respect their seniors not just in college life but in actual workplace as well, and why the relationship is important cause college professors are rarely any source of help to students in college.
It is always the seniors insights which help you in academics plus post college experiences and job opportunities. The show clearly focused more on the positive aspects of college rituals not the western HAZING which is solely for the purpose of entertainment. Plus the show never portrayed any character who had the intention of gaining control over any person, but the job was to make freshman fearless enough to face an sort of hardships one may face in real life. It was only in Sotus S that the actual relation between Arthit and Kongpop was explored
The show also portrayed well the inner fears of Arthur, and how he slowly overcome the dreaded fear of being judged by the public. I seriously cannot how you can so easily overlook all these aspects. GMMTV shows, mostly the good ones always focused more on the mental and emotional aspects than physical displays of affection, and is pretty evident in most of their works.
H2 wasn't something as eventful or impactful to be spoken about, so I'd rather prefer to skip that. I never appreciated or promoted MSD in my comment, it was just an easy watch with a very convenient storyline, and your spiking unnecessary hatred and frustration towards that show was what caught my attention.
And looking at your watchlist, I can clearly see you lack a lot of beautifully written mature shows which I would sincerely want you to consider adding to your watchlist. Most of the shows you've watched are pure BLs which are solely catered to female audience (Fujoshis) and not actual LGBTQ people like us. If I were to list them out they would be In Between Seasons, Reply 1997, The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese, Moment@18. Yet to watch ~ Goodbye Mother (as far as the reviews go this one portrays the dynamics of an asian family most accurately), A distant Place. These shows would be difficult for you to find on major streaming platforms as it wouldn't necessarily appeal to so called Fujoshis, cause it's beyond their scope of apprehension. Fortunately, they are available to stream on core LGBT platform GagaOolala. Also sadly, Gaya sa Pelikula has also been rated badly by you :(.
Hope my writing and a few suggestions help in broadening your perspective slightly. Thank you! :)
Even though this show had its fare share of plotholes in the lousy script, the progression of their relationship felt very natural. Nothing to be hated about that much.
I'm not here to invalidate your review but i sincerely want to have a better understanding of your ratings.