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I was fully ready to give it a 10, but the last 2 episodes made me drop my rating.
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS GUYS READ AT YOUR OWN RISKS!The story in itself was amazing. The casting was great but I expected nothing less from Jimmy and Sea, and all the characters around them were marvelously played.
The last 2 episodes ruined it for me though. This is where I am going to spoil a LOT of the ending so please be aware before you continue reading this.
As someone who lost my right eye and the lateral vision of my left eye, I know first-hand what eye surgery looks like. And I am telling you right now, it doesn't look like what happened in Last Twilight. The recovery is brutal and graphic. Your eye and the area around it is incredibly swollen, you have bruises the size of a fist. It's purple, then turns black, then purple again, then yellow then it finally fades away. It takes weeks of being completely disfigured until it comes back to normal. I would've LOVED to see that with Day after his failed first cornea transplant. It would've made the pain of the failure even more impactful in my opinion. Having to go through this physical process knowing it was all for nothing would've been so incredibly more heartbreaking.
I am also lowkey disappointed that Day was able to recover his vision so "easily" and so soon. I know it happened 3 years after the first attempt but for a 1% chance to happen twice in 3 years sounds unrealistic to me. Part of his character was how he was able to build himself back up after the loss of his vision as a formerly fully able-bodied person who in addition was also an athlete. The fact that it also happened at such a primordial age for self-identity and self-construction made it a very important point for the fully fledged adult he became. We saw his pain of losing a part of himself, the psychological distress it induced and the struggles he suddenly had to face and overcome, with tools he had no prior knowledge of. We saw how he was able to do all that with the help of the people around him. A massive massive shoutout to Sea for his performance by the way. He did a fantastic job with the way he portrayed the character and the flow of emotions that takes over you when something like this happens to you. So the fact that the show ended with "Day got his second transplant and now everyone can live happily ever after" kinda pissed me off a little bit. I know it can happen in real life. But it's not the reality of most people with a disability, wether you are born with it, or you get it later in life. But I'm only talking from the pov of someone who experienced both. I understand why for most people, this would be the most ideal ending. It wasn't for me. And that's okay. Regardless of my personal feelings, Last Twilight IS a must-watch even for people who are not usually into BLs, which is why even though my rating dropped, I couldn't give it less than an 8.5.
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