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Just to let you know, the scene with Heesu asleep on Seungwon's shoulder as they ride the bus is in Ep05, around the 25:00 mark. There's even a nice romantic OST softly playing on the soundtrack. 🥰

Ah, but if they do it here it lets them write lengthy, poetic missives that subtly deride anyone who's been disappointed by the lack of screen time for the main couple. Because, don't you see? Anyone who wants more development of the romance for the title character just doesn't understand that real romance will sometimes lurk just beneath the surface, softly asleep under the winter snows until the robins of spring sing in the treetops and love can awaken and yawn and stretch its arms to the sky.

Wow .. very nice! I hope it all works out that way.

ikr!

When Episode 6 started with Chan Yeong running around the track I immediately tensed up. When he's on screen now I guess I'm conditioned to react that way. Anyway, I zipped over all of his 1:1 scenes with Ji Yu and I'm sure I didn't miss anything.

It occurred to me that the only useful thing that Chan Yeong adds to the story is to ruin Heesu's fantasy that Seung Won can end up with Ji Yu. Now that that's happened, CY's relationship with JY can be safely sidelined. Could that have been its whole purpose? After all, their courtship has been very cliched, indicating that the screenwriters didn't waste creative energy on it. It's possible that they've mainly been there as a plot device all along.

If so, we should be seeing much less of them for the rest of the series. 😊

It's the MDL admin for this page that made them main characters. The series production company didn't come on here to do it.

Making them lead characters was a decision by MDL. The production company isn’t on here writing anything up.

I ain't so mad no more. 😍

We need to get the word out about this series. So beautiful!

Alas, from a storytelling perspective I think it says a lot that instead of showing us Heesu and Seong Won having chicken together they went to a scene of Chan Yeong at tennis practice.

When the Chan Young storyline is prioritized so blatantly you know they are consciously giving weight to the straight couple at the expense of even the most meager development of the gay couple. If only to show a contrast between how the boys interact now vs. later, why not give us a minute or two of their chicken dinner? This wasn't a mere oversight. It was done on purpose.

It makes me wonder if all of your excellent points would be lost on the people behind this series. It doesn't seem they think about it even close to that deeply. In fact it won't surprise me if Heesu's transformative moment is done via some kind of stock plot device. At this point I think we need to hope that they'll show it to us at all lol.

Nah. You win. Too edgy and clever for me.

So far they’ve done nothing to establish romantic tension between Heesu and Seung Won, so I fear that when they finally do decide to spend some time on their story it will be rushed and unbelievable.

Yep. Heesu’s story’s not slow-burn. It’s no-burn. And the b-g story is weak sauce.

It’s funny because Heesu and Seung Won are more complex as characters. CY and JY are just pretty people with pretty-people problems.

And the b-g couple is so generic. And of course I'm sure we'll have to watch CY go through a stereotypical conflict with his dad over wanting to play tennis.

Any guess as to whether he'll enter the tournament and win, followed by a tearful realization by his dad?

I think that's when I really sat up and started to get pissed.

I was so excited after the first two episodes, but now the focus is entirely elsewhere. To skip the date and show tennis practice instead. Who writes this stuff?

It's more of an eye-roll. You're one of those people who'd rather attack the person rather than take part in a discussion.

Your reply just now was more of the same.

"Girlies"? Really?

Yeah, some of us think they're wasting time on the b/g relationship. If you don't agree, fine. But no need to denigrate the people who feel otherwise.

great analysis... I think you got it

I like to rewatch this but I always stop at Episode 6. I get the impression that the actors were just not comfortable doing intimate scenes with skinship, so the production tried its best to convey their love in other ways.

Alas, they fell short. The last episode is a muddle.

I hope you ended up loving it!

PJ had a couple of great "thespian" moments, don't you think?

There might be flaws here and there throughout the series, but overall I think it was magnificent. Leon is indeed the breakout star, though. Based on how it all started, who would have thought? 😎