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True. It traumatized an entire fandom.

I think it's possible that Kim has always "liked" Way. His relationship (as it were) with the teacher has not gotten far since they've never even kissed, and he doesn't have a gf.

What a sad ending if Way confesses and Kim refuses him!

Gosh, I hope not. If Way knows the truth before Kim wakes up then that will blow the BL potential to smithereens. :(

I would think you're onto something except that they haven't given any hint of Kim still being inside his own body. All of the behavioral clues have been about Pan, and I think the formula for a series like this is to keep things simple.

To me it seems pretty clear that the next big plot development will be Khet realizing that Pan is occupying his brother's body. That will give the screenwriters more comedic gold to play around with.

Either that, or maybe there will be a scene where Way confesses his love to "Kim"/Pan.

For them to kill off Kim would go against the whole tone of the series, and fans (like me) would be outraged over this comic masterpiece suddenly becoming dark and sad .... it would be another "MODC" fiasco.

I honestly don't think it will turn out that way.

Yeah when you put it that way it’s kind of gross to think about lol.

Based on the reaction here it seems like a big hit. I think the thing to do is watch Ryan Ding's profile page and see if Season 2 eventually turns up as a future project for him.

I'm wondering how far they'll push that pseudo-incest angle. Now that Khet has overheard Kim/Pan and Soda, he will figure that Pan is occupying his brother's body.

Which means that by the end of the series First might end up kissing both Ohm and Fluke. Out of the three of them I can't decide who's the luckiest.

So, Way said he's in LOVE with someone else ... who's gonna claim there's no BL potential now? Who else could he be in love with except Kim?

Yes, it's BL ... they're going to serve up Kim/Way and that will be an epic pairing.

With this episode the series really made me sit up and take notice. I was riveted from start to finish.

That Terrence guy is a bitter ex with obvious motives. He's way too good at spinning things to look bad for Gav. Cai, on the other hand, is just too new to relationships and that makes him easy to manipulate.

I kinda doubt that Terrence "forgot" to change his username. And does anyone else get the feeling that he was hitting on Cai, maybe just a little?

The only thing certain to me is that he's the first villain in the series. And. after mainly being a cheerleader on the sidelines Pearl has a real mission now. She's the best hope for getting Gav and Cai talking again.

He was the best thing in 'The Great Seducer'.

This is a review that tracks so much with my own feelings about the series that it's uncanny.

I think only Yoo Seung Hoo could have played the lead in this. He nails it in terms of his character's vulnerability, and yes his crying is indeed top notch. (Another phenomenal male crier is Woo Do Hwan in 'The Great Seducer' -- he turns on the waterworks so believably, and he has to do it in just about every episode. He starts out in the Mean Kids Club but soon turns into a soft pile of mush for the woman he loves.)

I first saw Yoo Seung Hoo in 'Master of Study'. He has a big crying scene in one of the later episodes that's so convincing it's hard to believe that he was just a teenager at the time. The series itself tends to be a little old-fashioned and instructional (it really does try to teach viewers how to study) but it made me a Yoo Seung Hoo fan and led me to 'I'm Not a Robot'.

I think the way they calculate on here makes it tough to get up to 9 and above, whereas on Viki if a series is less than 9 you might want to stay away. (This series gets a 9.7 over there.)

I looked at your reviews .. you seem to hate just about everything. I'm glad you get only one vote on this one. :)

I must admit, the cliffhanger with Gav driving to meet up with Cai was where the series started to lose me. The last part of the episode was Pearl going bonkers to get Cai to run downstairs and meet Gav, then of course it turned out there was a lookalike car and (talk about cliches) Gav was stuck in traffic and his phone battery had died and he happened to be in the only car in the city that didn't have a way to plug the phone in for a recharge.

I don't agree that this kind of writing is standard practice, at least not in fiction that tries to be more than fanfic. It feels like they're trying so hard to work the story around the cliffhangers that they're neglecting the opportunities to have Gav and Cai's relationship grow organically, from talking to one another and sharing life experiences. Right now it has been one external distrupter after another to keep the plot moving and the guys haven't had a decent 1:1 conversation for the last two episodes. Those 1:1 interactions were what got me liking that series in the first place, but they're wearing me down with the shenanigans.

I think you can also predict where they're going with the COVID-19 angle. As the saying goes, if there's a gun shown in Act 1, you know it will be back in Act 3. I just hope by the time Act 3 gets here that the guys will have already established a strong bond and *not* have COVID-19 turn out to be the catalyst for them becoming close.

I don't know if a storyline can be any simpler than the one in Gameboys, where Gav starts out with a clear intention of pursuing Cai and so far everything has been based around that premise. Even the introduction of Pearl and the new guy (Terrance?) are part of that same vector, since they serve primarily to create drama over whether Gav's pursuit is honest or dishonest. And I'm disappointed at how two of the episodes so far have ended with cliffhangers that turned out to be baseless. That feels a little lazy and manipulative. (If the one with Terrance also ends up being no big deal then that will make it three episodes.) To me that "cliffhanger" approach to the writing is the most amateurish aspect of Gameboys.

It's too soon to say if Hello Stranger will do similar things, like use Xavier's girlfriend as a prop to elicit emotion out of Mico. I hope it won't. Instead I'd like for the challenges that the characters deal with to be based on what they discover about themselves and each other as they become closer.

I do give the leads in Gameboys the edge in terms of sheer acting chops.

I thought it was great.

If you're curious whether I blame the series' failure on Bright or not, my opinion is in the review that you don't want to read. It doesn't suit your cute little psychological workup on my personality, though, so I understand why you wouldn't.

I thought I'd done a better job on here conveying how '2gether' was unique for me. I'd never been so invested in a series to start with, and its failure to come through was more upsetting as a result. I guess I'll have to keep posting to make it more clear. :)

I guess you're just hoping to shut me up or something? Because we both know there's not one iota of sincerity in your comment. (You're 'perplexed', are you? I'm sure.)

The comment that you replied to is the first one where I mention Bright in a while, and it was to give an example of how much of an impact 2gether's failure had on me. If all you get out of that is that I "hate" Bright then that's on you. (And if you were such a great scholar of my writing then you'd know that in my very lengthy review of the series I mention Bright in only two sentences, and put more blame for his performance on the director than him.)

I'm not on here constantly either (not for a while now) but then again you didn't really look to confirm that any more than you looked to see how often I "hate" on Bright.