John Master

Dont forget to see my additional comments on this series at the List "Body Swap Series With a BL Flavor."

Thank you, Lynn.

Id like to be selective about the list to keep it lean, but if you think of hybrid series inhave missed, let me know!

Thats why I write these things. Lay out strengths and weaknesses of a series, amd let people draw their own conclusions about whether to watch.

Did you get the recipe? If so, how did it turn out?

I really appreciate the sharpness in your reviews. The humorous YouTube videos led me to suspect you might like everything, in the sense that your evident fondness for the genre would lead you to hold your punches when you write a review. But the ones I've sampled have been fair: praise where it's deserved, harsh when that is deserved. Most MDL "reviews" boil down to uncritical gushing about why the reviewer thinks Series X is "the best" they've ever seen. It's refreshing to see some actual thought put into why a series works well or doesn't.

It was a good review. This series requires the reviewer to choose between holding back necessary details or revealing too much. Not much middle ground. You walked the line well.

"Meen feels like he's overacting..., but it's deliberate. When he's being sincere...." i read your meanings here like this, but correct any misconception: What at first seems to be Meen overacting, is later recognized as a deliberate choice to express Tiew's character. Later, when Tiew is sincere with Mork, it is easy to see subtley and power in Meen's acting.

In other words, when you wrote "he's being sincere" its not clear whether the sincerity is Tiew's or Meen's. Put another way, the original sentence starts out and concludes discussing Meen as an actor but seemingly analyzes Tiew in the middle. Or i am wrong and younmeant something else.

Thanks. I think that was meant to reference Ossan's Love, but I just deleted the reference. I never did like howit disrupted the flow of that sentence. Lol. Thanks for the fact check.

Any chance you could copy this comment and paste it as a "new" comment to my review of the series? I like the way it spins what I wrote but isn't coming from me....

@4563g: I consulted a friend about Ep 1. While she disagreed with you (she read Takara as a college student), her take still made me wrong. So I fixed that passage to make it safely generic. Thank you for the fact checking.

Ok. I know the actors are the same age. I read his wardrobe in Ep 1 as a school uniform, but that may just may have been me assuming: too accustomed to dramas about high school students and seeing them everywhere. And if there was a subtitle that clarified that, it probably popped up in one of those moments my eyes were not on the bottom of the screen. I'll adjust the text at some point.

Fair take. I found your other comment about Yujin repressing his feelings after reacting here, and I agree so much with that, i think the "consumption" question (who has agency?) actually must account for that self-deception in reckoning an answer.

Does Yujin consume Takara? Or does Takara subsume himself to Yujin?

Your usage of the passive voice was telling in this instance. I see Takara as the one with agency in their relationship, at least insofar as either "consumes" the other. [Thru 8/9 available to me attjmeof writing]

I agree with your take. The list feature has a word limit, and i ended up doing synopses rather than critiques, but i agree that curious narrative choices led this series to underwhelm. The actors held,their ground just fine. My one sentence Ohm joke was meant as a placeholder, and youve just reminded me i need to go back and write out a proper description for the Shipper.

Jenny was great in this role. I kept seeing the ost video before I watched. The Shipper is one of a few series I initially skipped over because the written description failed to entice me, but repeat exposure to a high energy music video intrigued me enough to start watching.

I would apply your last sentence to the genre in general. Lots of BLs need to show the building of relationships. Its as if Bl exists only to depict the coming together. The hard work of making a relationship work...apparently we are a minority.

You're thorough, as always.

Thank you for the kind feedback.

You're welcome. Glad it helped.

Hi, Pixie, I think your comments raise some potential pitfalls and contradictions a series with this sort of premise is likely to face. And I would like to believe it will call out bad behavior rather than valorize it. However, I wouldn't skip a well-done movie about slavery just because I disapprove of slavery. What matters is whether the finished project spitshines deplorable behavior or positions itself against it. It is valid for a work "primarily" entertainment to depict the seamier side of life without being accused of glorifying bad behavior. Leaving aside how the project chose to market itself in the selection of its tags, the description also suggests the series aims to expose (and, presumably, critique!) bad behavior and bad actors within the industry. To me, that's a stance that should be rewarded by viewing first. If the execution of that goal merits criticism later, then heap it on them. That's a point those criticizing your stance seem not to appreciate as they attacked you for your views. By the way, congratulations on defending your views so staunchly.