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Lets be honest, you deserve a bit of mocking for not even thinking to look things up yourself or understanding unceremoniously holding a door open for other people is basic humaning/adulting.

So, like I said, you obsessively express uncritical zeal when faced with information contrary to your predjudice. Anyway, no point in me arguing endlessly with a zealot, bye.

Aw, knowledge does not a fanatic make. You, on the other hand, are expressing excessive zeal and devotion to the cause of 'eek LGBTQ...icky' 😆

Great! Semantic Error is the only one that's also about university students. If you can handle a little bit of angst ´I Told Sunset About You´ is a lovely story with really nice writing and production. The way they show the emotional connection is so good. There's a second season, in a slightly different style, about what happens in College, but it's not even necessary to watch that to enjoy the awesome first season, which is a complete story on it's own.

My School President, Thailand
Semantic Error, Korea
Kieta Hatsukoi (Japan original and shorter, Thailand longer adaptation)
History 2 Crossing the Line, Taiwan
Light on Me, Korea

Me too. It was hilarious the judgemental male doctor was screaming that a woman stole HIS uterus. The insinuation that society claims ownership of women's bodies and reproductive organs was infuriating, but you had to laugh.

There's many many Kdramas that are BLs, the most famous are probably Love in the Big City and Semantic Error. There has to be around 100 KBLs by now, most don't have a massive budgets. Bromance is the kind of show that doesn't go all the way to BL but plays with gay relationship dynamics, without outright stating it. Chinese censorship has forced recent adaptations of stories to be made into Bromances in China, but there's no censorship in Taiwan. Japan and Thailand also make plenty of BLs. There's no need for BL watchers to be fanatical over lack of BLs.

No, the showmakers themselves said the character of Ga On is traditionally written for a woman. That is why the romantic dynamics are off kilter. It's a dystopian story, so the off kilter straight bending dynamics add to the atmosphere.

This show is an obvious variation of the classic Gothic story, where an innocent woman (Ga On) ends up in a gloomy castle or manor house, living with or married to a monstrous man (Yo Han). In the fairytale department an example of this is The Beauty and the Beast. The Gothic genre is characterized by mystery, horror, and gloom, and combines the genres of romance and horror. A part of making the Devil Judge's world unsettling is the gay undertones, because for Korean society that is still an uncomfortable subject, and many still think gayness is society destroying i.e. dystopian.

That would be because the romantic tension in this drama is between Ga On and Yo Han. Take your blinders off and look again, the creators of the show did this on purpose, this is general knowledge.

I Told Sunset About You is a another BL loved by the community. It's quality stuff and lots of people seem to really relate to the coming of age story.

I don't think the point of the show is sexcapades. There are some scenes, but they aren't trying to be extra scandalous or all that explicit.

Episode 1 one was interesting, almost as good as 2 and 3.
Episodes 2 and 3 were good and gave me hope this would be a really enjoyable series.
Episodes 4 had just about enough screen time for the main couple.

Episodes 5,6, and 7 were a scene salad that needed to be watched on double speed most of the time.

I'll definitely watch the whole thing. Still hoping the show gets its groove back and won't end up resembling an endless swamp, like the original. Each episode is over an hour long, they don't have enough material for a run time like that. The main couple carries the whole show, but they don't get enough screen time. I really like the fake boyfriend trope, it's a pity the show doesn't utilize it to its full advantage.

You are missing my point.

The point was that the show chose to show the audience there are gay men in the military and that is NOT infact a neutral statement: South Korean military laws and procedures discriminate against sexual minorities, or lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) individuals, who serve in the military. Recruits are categorized based on their physical and mental health. Sexual minorities can be marked as having a “mental handicap” or “personality disorder,” which determines their status and duties as personnel. So they hide in the military. Under Military Penal Code, homosexuality acts are labelled as “sexual assault/harassment” and considered punishable by a maximum of two years in prison. This applies to consensual acts that occur outside of military facilities during off-duty hours. (wikipedia)

Yes, the bar and the kissing scene are in a gay enclave, it was basically a gay bar, of course it's a gay enclave. The point was that the show created this moment where the ML was just blending into the outside world, lots of people walking by, he was not "special" the kissing was not noteworthy it just was. I liked how they shot that scene. I liked how they told the story letting the audience notice details and make connections on their own.

I think notification issues happen when the other person has edited their reply, or deleted it.

He is the guy from episode 3 that had and alcoholic mother right? He told on himself when he said alcoholics are crafty, they construct their excuses like a Dutchman building a dyke, meaning they are skilled in avoiding their problems. That's what he himself seems to be doing too, when it comes to dancing around his own sexuality.

Our argument is about authorial intent, what the creators of the show were trying to say, not what spoilers viewers might have heard before watching the show.
Assuming the viewer doesn't know the story beforehand, while watching, the viewer is required to reevaluate their perception of the ML, because information about his HIV status is revealed out of chronological order. It's not about stigma alone, it's about the absence of anything related to being HIV positive. The beginning of the show was more carefree without the knowledge. After you find out, you go back in your mind to see if there were any causal links between his positive status and what was going on in the story. Alternatively, if being positive didn't affect his life over much, what does that say about HIV and the ML.

Nonlinear, as in information is given out of chronological order disrupting your perception, which is what happened here. You can bury vital information on purpose for effect, whether or not you agree it worked, is up to you. Fact remains, if you had known earlier that he had HIV, you would have seen the character in a different light.

I agree that you shouldn't be misleading.

Well, this show wasn't a sex education class, but I'd also be interested in hearing what you have to say.

It's nonlinear storytelling, that's the point. You are supposed to circle back and re-evaluate. That is what it adds to the viewing experience. I studied literature at university too, just saying.