I just finished episode 3, so a few of your words were little spoilers for me, but I had the exact same thoughts…
I just finished episode 7 and I'm just happy to see more of Johan and North as the series progresses. As someone else said in another review/comment ... Hill's entire character is there to worship Ter, so it isn't surprising me that their story is falling flat.
The shower scene with Ohm and Non threw me off. It was far from necessary and they threw it in there so casually!…
I haven't read the book, but I did see the original series and the bath scene is in there too. I wondered why it was there in both versions ... they could easily have had that conversation anywhere else. My guess is that the scene was more a way to show how close they were, and that this was probably not the first time they did this growing up. Not in a sexual way ... just in a best friends, comfortable with each other, tell each other everything kind of way. Maybe the book has a better explanation.
Hill and Ter are confusing. We get flashbacks of them being intimate and (what appears) them being ripped apart after their families find out .... yet Ter claims to "hate" Hill once they meet up on campus. Hill is flirting so publicly that basically everyone knows that he is trying to date Ter ... except Ter ... even after Hill tells him explicitly in the rain, and in the 2 IG pics, and at lunch when Johan stops by, and again when Ter is hired as the photographer for the Student Union ... the list goes on.
But Ter is hanging on to whatever feud he thinks he and Hill have, and also convinced that Hill liked two other people back in high school. He makes it sound like they were just casual friends who talked occasionally, and that he never revealed his crush because he knew his sister liked Hill too. Except we know that they've spent naked time together.
So why, oh why is Ter "shocked" when they finally talk about back then? Why are they acting like it was nothing but a misunderstanding about Hill liking either Ter's sister or their other high school friend? Why are they both "confessing" to each other as if it was new information?
They eventually get around to talking about Hill's grandfather's involvement in their "big split", and Ter and his sister apologize to each other for something "unknown" that caused them to not talk to each other for the last year ... and I can only guess it's because Ter still feels guilty for sleeping with the guy his sister liked, even though it seems Hill and Ter were at least friends and crushing on each other long before Ter's sister entered the picture.
As more of their past is revealed, the timeline and selective amnesia/cluelessness just doesn't make sense. We know that scenes are never filmed in the same order as they appear .... but I'm thinking that maybe crucial pages were re-written along the way but they didn't worry about re-filming/re-editing anything for the sake of consistency ... making the telling of their story messier than it should be.
What is the difference between the series and the movie? Is it just the episodes edited together? Or is it a completely different edit with additional scenes?
But Ter is hanging on to whatever feud he thinks he and Hill have, and also convinced that Hill liked two other people back in high school. He makes it sound like they were just casual friends who talked occasionally, and that he never revealed his crush because he knew his sister liked Hill too. Except we know that they've spent naked time together.
So why, oh why is Ter "shocked" when they finally talk about back then? Why are they acting like it was nothing but a misunderstanding about Hill liking either Ter's sister or their other high school friend? Why are they both "confessing" to each other as if it was new information?
They eventually get around to talking about Hill's grandfather's involvement in their "big split", and Ter and his sister apologize to each other for something "unknown" that caused them to not talk to each other for the last year ... and I can only guess it's because Ter still feels guilty for sleeping with the guy his sister liked, even though it seems Hill and Ter were at least friends and crushing on each other long before Ter's sister entered the picture.
As more of their past is revealed, the timeline and selective amnesia/cluelessness just doesn't make sense. We know that scenes are never filmed in the same order as they appear .... but I'm thinking that maybe crucial pages were re-written along the way but they didn't worry about re-filming/re-editing anything for the sake of consistency ... making the telling of their story messier than it should be.