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I'm also a little excited for how much more absurd it's about to get...

No, definitely not just you. By the time we got to the end of the third episode with the brothers repeatedly saying Milk is "so cool" for not having to stay long in the hospital and Pun leaving to get groceries with the family instead of returning to the hospital, I knew this show had lost all grip on reality. Not to mention the episode four preview - I mean, the list of absurdities is endless. These characters just do not behave like actual human people.

That's why Pun doesn't bother me - he's just too implausible. He doesn't seem to have any other patients, his work schedule is whatever's convenient for the plot, he goes to a patient's house to collect their things with no one batting an eye, drives the patient home, talks about the details of other patients' lives to his one patient (and the lives of the doctors!), tends to the patient when he's not on duty (which, I can't imagine would be allowed) - the writers clearly have no idea how hospitals work. You kind of have to watch the show like you're remembering a dream.

Right, though?? I'm desperately hoping we get an exposé about this show à la The Disaster Artist.

Honestly, Pun's character is so illogical (and so is how nonchalant everyone is about what he does) that it's surpassed creepiness for me. The list of absurd things he has done and gotten away with is so long you could make an encyclopedia out of it. Pun's actor acts like he himself is being held hostage by his character.

If that isn't the truth. I'm starting to think the real plot of this show is how this show got made in the first place. It's starting to give off "The Room" vibes. You know the backstage drama has to be delicious.

Yeah, I think I'm mainly watching it to figure out what it even is and how many missteps it's taken. Also, I feel like things will get a lot more interesting when Pun and Milk stop talking and start kissing.

Yes, it feels like a medical high school. Like everyone's just gossiping about each other to whoever will listen, and they're gossiping very, *very* slowly. Not sure the writers have ever been in a hospital before. And yes, Milk is very cute even if his character is non-existent.

I know there's no point in asking this, but does ANYONE know what the plot of this show is? Something to do with advertising, something to do with a friend's death and the doctor who lied about being in a relationship with him, something to do with a coma patient, also something to do with a doctor who's engaged but in love with his patient (I can't even tell if he's aware or not)? I think I'm watching it mainly for the mystery of the missing plot. Also, Pun and Milk have a strange kind of chemistry. I can't explain it.

I mean, I'm having fun watching it. I feel like the leads have pretty good chemistry, and it's intriguing. I wouldn't call it a must-see, but it's one of the better BL's airing lately.

I guess I'm glad I'm not the only one with this problem. Don't understand why they need a phone number. Just take my money!

I would love to watch the full episodes, but for some reason I can't seem to sign up to ch3 because it says I don't have a valid phone number? It's extremely weird. Anyway, I'd be more than happy to watch it legally, but as I want to watch the full episodes, it seems like I have to wait for dramacool (which is taking so long!). Does anyone else have this problem?

Yes, I agree completely! I'm still just trying to process what that episode even was. But it would have been so easy for them to actually face what the actual problem was - they want to be together, their families are toxic, and they don't know how to be together. But the episode *tells* us there's no other way for them to be together other than running away, rather than shows us. And yeah, if the theme is fighting for your love, this was barely a fight at all. The whole thing felt very manipulative and inconsistent. If they don't want to fight for their love when it's actually threatened, why should the rest of us care?

And again, more than these two families reconciling with each other, they need to reconcile with their sons. Really this whole episode should have been about the parents realizing their sons had left and starting to wonder "Were we actually good parents?" And thinking through how they'd treated them. The next episode could have been them trying to learn to live with each other.

And all I get from the time jump is that it will be easier for them to pursue each other. So, I guess the theme is fight for your love if it's easy and/or your parents are on board.

Yes!! Omg, why doesn't he at least try to talk to her!! Is she really so ridiculous that she thinks Pat is exactly like his father? Why would that make sense? And why another story about people who can't be together because they can't have their family's support? (And - if that's not true, that they'll defy their families in 12, then why the stupid time skip and break up?)

Yes, I 100% agree with your opinion. I'm down for cute moments, but Pat and Pran were very passive characters here and that's not satisfying.

Yeah, thanks again for your response.

Even when you're describing the break up, I can understand how, maybe for another couple that might have been really powerful. It just didn't feel tonally right for these two. Like that's *such* a mature way to break up. And mind you, there was plenty of time for Pat to break down in tears during the song (and who wouldn't?), but he just seemed to gaze lovingly at Pran. And again... I do think there are other options they could have explored to keep their relationship alive that would have involved them going home. Not sure why they weren't. Maybe if they'd been clear that nothing else would work (maybe if the subtext had been stronger when Pran's like my mom will never forgive your dad), it would have felt a little more obvious what was going on?

I can't tell if they were too self-sacrificing or not tbh. But if they were, I would have liked to have seen that conflict be highlighted a little better. I don't think breaking up is going to fix them being self-sacrificing. :/ Unlike in IPYTM where breaking up actually forced them to be better people, seems like breaking up here wouldn't make Pat and Pran any more developed. We'll see, I guess.

See, I feel like there is hypothetically stuff at stake (their relationship with each other, with their family), but the way they don't really face or fight their families afterwards made it feel like there were no stakes. Like, this is hard, oh no, let's stop. I know their family's support is important, but it almost felt like they got bored or were like "Oh, we're being very silly. This was dumb." I thought they weren't just running away for each other, but because they were fed up with how their family was treating them. Once you lose a connection to the minds of the characters, it's hard to understand the specific stakes.

Oh, I can just do this! Sorry! :P

https://kisskh.at/682589-bad-buddy#comment-8396229

More actually would be a post on the forum - I posted after you. I meant review for this specific episode. If you still can't find it, let me know, and I'll copy and post it in a reply.

Definitely appreciate your response, you do raise some good points.

I mean, for me personally, had I not seen comments beforehand or watched the preview, I would not have understood they'd broken up. For as in love as we've been led to believe they are and them being teenagers (I'm assuming 19 at this point, possibly even 20), the fact that Pran is on the verge of crying does not feel like a believable response to breaking up with the person who has more or less been the love of your life (or rather, giving up on the dream). I get what you're saying about Pran having foreseen it - although he did in the end allow himself to hope it could happen, so he would really have let his guard down. And Pat seemed sad, but not like devastated. Maybe if one of them had been devastated and the other had been reassuring (like in 10) but they seemed too calm for their age and the circumstances. Not to mention how they looked at each other in the final scene; it felt like they were still very united.

I think most of us get why (assuming they've broken up) they would have broken up. But for one, I'd say it felt too obvious and uncreative a narrative choice. There are so many shows that have gone the same route in much the same way (usually with one character lying about why they're breaking up because they don't want their s/o to be separated from their family., think WHY R U?). And as for them being close to their immediate families...honestly, I'm not convinced. But yes, you have a point in that they're teenagers and prone to being impulsive (especially Pat). Was running away a good option? No, but why can't Pran try to explain that Pat's innocent in his father's mistake? Why don't they at least try to fight for their relationship now that they know the circumstances?

I mean... I'm willing to believe they're genuinely broken up. It just doesn't feel like it was well done or particularly affecting. Inserting the message right before the breakup also didn't seem to make much sense, since they seemed to agree.

I don't hate the show myself, but I definitely felt like this episode was sloppy. Like it was milking angst rather than realistically following through with the situation.

Thanks! I love it, too, and truly don't want to have a negative opinion of it. I keep wondering if I've missed something or mis-analyzed something, but I still have no idea what the conclusion was supposed to mean...

I totally agree - I just posted my own review on this episode that echoes yours, and I was weirdly bored, too! I think in part because it was very unclear what the tension was (and not that everything's fine, by any means, but like, what do *they* think is the problem?). Just because their families won't reconcile, does that mean they can't be together? (Also, what does Pa think about what he dad did?) I know this show is a romance, but familial relationships are central to this plot and this episode just dropped them.

Agree about junior - especially when the Mom was like "At his age, I wanted to be a pirate." Like... Pat and Pran ARE literally at the age where they're making adult decisions about what to do with the rest of their lives. If people are taking their majors seriously, they should be taking their significant others seriously. That's not an accurate or helpful parallel.

Agree with you on the character's chemistry. Sometimes the playfulness comes across as guarded rather than intimate. It almost seems like the actors themselves are a little afraid to be so intimate with each other, even though they clearly adore each other.

I figured P'Aof would subvert the seme/uke trope and was very grateful for that. He's definitely broken all the BL clichés (in fact, not sure BB classifies as a BL anymore).