Nah! I didn't like it either, it was super predictable and had zero likable characters.
I found it all frustratingly nonsensical. The premise had to keep fighting itself in order for the plot to happen the way the writer(s) wanted, rather than in a way that actually followed the internal logic of the story. Watching smart characters be constantly forced to behave stupidly in order to keep the concept going just thoroughly undermined what could have been a great series. It was so unfortunate.
And I didn't ask for yours, yet you gave it anyway.
Are all MDL users like you? Immature children who throw tantrums when they encounter someone who doesn't unequivocably like something they do? Why does it hurt your feelings so much that I didn't particularly enjoy the first season of this series?
By the end, I honestly did not care what happened to them. He's an idiot, she's a useless idiot, and no amount of trauma-milking made them less wearying to watch. When the psychopath says to one of them, "Die. You're tiring me.", I very much agreed.
Which is a shame because there are elements here that are truly intriguing, and meditations on how guilt and desperation can eat away at logic and pervert concepts of love are almost always compelling, but the movie seems to give up on all that in the final third so it can get on with the bloodshed. The bloodshed wasn't particularly interesting, as I was constantly distracted wondering how this secluded, signalless, internetless, filthy, island "restaurant" run by two overt weirdos was getting so much positive word-of-mouth. That chicken soup must be out-of-this-world, slap-yo-mama delicious.
Those ladies didn't even pause to check Fukami might move toward the elevator. Doors were barely open and they swooped in like seagulls spotting a hot dog. I know the moment was meant to be somber but I chuckled. Like, damn, give the boy a second, he was there first.
Yin Zhou becomes such a useless, snivelling little twerp whenever one of his parents is around that I have to keep reminding myself, in another timeline, the bastard actually won.
And both OST main songs were made with STUTS, so dreamy and sad and beautiful 🫶I also prefer these kinds of…
Right?
Look, I know you and I disagree on some content (for instance, I appreciate "The Untamed" for how the entire crew worked to give the CCP the proverbial middle finger while still working within the rules; reminds me of how my ancestors obeyed Jim Crow laws while also flaunting the rules) but I can also acknowledge how even situationally "progressive" material can be broadly "regressive".
That said, I give Japanese productions no cuts, no buts, no coconuts. Japan has been about that life for a long, long time. "Taboo" is a goddamned glitter pen in their world. Therefore, I will not and do not accept this nonsense of a series.
Even divorced from the suggestive Homosexuality, the supposed "philosophical underpinnings" are shallow and well-trodden and fairly boring, all said. I am annoyed in facets.
Episode 5:This is the first Chinese BL drama I have enjoyed to this degree.If not for the dubbing, I'd be near…
Ugh, the dubbing, always the dubbing! with Chinese BLs. Or, frankly, all Chinese shows.
I fell most-of-the-way in love with "L.O.R.D. Critical World" but the dubbing hurt my soul. Made even worse by the fact that they included BTS excerpts in the credits, and the actual voices of the actors were almost always so much better. Hell, "L.O.R.D. Critical World" is not a BL, but the dubbing actually makes it seem like an explicitly censored Homosexuals Loving Homosexuals work (there are a couple of lovely lady couples in it).
From a global perspective, we all really need China to just...stop, and pull it the fuck together.
On the lower lip thing? Yes, yes I do, on occasion. Catches me off guard.
I said what I said. If you all don’t understand male bodies, I can’t help you. You literally have to bend…
Your view is hot garbage. You are precisely the type of person who contributes to underreporting by male victims of sexual assault. You're the type of twat whose beliefs led to Denim Day.
Hundreds of thousands of male inmates, of all shapes, sizes, and ages, are raped every day in prisons around the world; millions of women have been forcibly sodomized by date-rapists and strangers; and you're over here insisting they all had to be willing because you quite stupidly think the Human anus is impervious to forceful incursion.
You should be ashamed of your rank ignorance. And that's before even considering your pathetic level of media literacy, you absolute walnut.
Are all MDL users like you? Immature children who throw tantrums when they encounter someone who doesn't unequivocably like something they do? Why does it hurt your feelings so much that I didn't particularly enjoy the first season of this series?
Which is a shame because there are elements here that are truly intriguing, and meditations on how guilt and desperation can eat away at logic and pervert concepts of love are almost always compelling, but the movie seems to give up on all that in the final third so it can get on with the bloodshed. The bloodshed wasn't particularly interesting, as I was constantly distracted wondering how this secluded, signalless, internetless, filthy, island "restaurant" run by two overt weirdos was getting so much positive word-of-mouth. That chicken soup must be out-of-this-world, slap-yo-mama delicious.
Are you ok?
Look, I know you and I disagree on some content (for instance, I appreciate "The Untamed" for how the entire crew worked to give the CCP the proverbial middle finger while still working within the rules; reminds me of how my ancestors obeyed Jim Crow laws while also flaunting the rules) but I can also acknowledge how even situationally "progressive" material can be broadly "regressive".
That said, I give Japanese productions no cuts, no buts, no coconuts. Japan has been about that life for a long, long time. "Taboo" is a goddamned glitter pen in their world. Therefore, I will not and do not accept this nonsense of a series.
Even divorced from the suggestive Homosexuality, the supposed "philosophical underpinnings" are shallow and well-trodden and fairly boring, all said. I am annoyed in facets.
I fell most-of-the-way in love with "L.O.R.D. Critical World" but the dubbing hurt my soul. Made even worse by the fact that they included BTS excerpts in the credits, and the actual voices of the actors were almost always so much better. Hell, "L.O.R.D. Critical World" is not a BL, but the dubbing actually makes it seem like an explicitly censored Homosexuals Loving Homosexuals work (there are a couple of lovely lady couples in it).
From a global perspective, we all really need China to just...stop, and pull it the fuck together.
On the lower lip thing? Yes, yes I do, on occasion. Catches me off guard.
Hundreds of thousands of male inmates, of all shapes, sizes, and ages, are raped every day in prisons around the world; millions of women have been forcibly sodomized by date-rapists and strangers; and you're over here insisting they all had to be willing because you quite stupidly think the Human anus is impervious to forceful incursion.
You should be ashamed of your rank ignorance. And that's before even considering your pathetic level of media literacy, you absolute walnut.