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finally someone understands my comment!

It's pure cringe to watch an adult like Yanase making moves on a guy who has the emotional comportment of a 12yo. Why would someone who is socially adjusted find a guy like Kaneda attractive? Who finds that endearing? Not me.

Yes, many of us in the sewing circle are just as concerned.

Well, maybe I'm stretching the premise when it comes to KinnPorsche, but when it turned out that Porsche's mom was Kinn's dad's adopted sister it disappointed me the same way the "childhood meeting" gimmick usually does.

This series is a work of artistic expression, and like with all art, people respond to it differently. What one person sees as a masterpiece might strike another as kitsch.

I agree that the directing and acting for this series were top notch. I just feel that the script was way too indulgent and did not make sense given the characters we met in Season One.

(On the other hand, if Season Two of "Bleuming" is angsty I'll think it is more acceptable, because we get a proper glimpse at the darkness in both lead characters during Season One.)

I would probably have liked this more if it had been based on brand new characters who hadn't been established in the earlier season. My biggest complaint is that it reinvents Ji Woo for the sake of some flashy histrionics and then cops out with a fluffy ending out of nowhere.

Really, though, I didn't come over here to spoil the party -- I came by after I thought I saw an issue with the way MDL had recorded my rating of it. I needed to check what I saw here on the page when I clicked on "Completed".

My point there is that I honestly don't care about this series anymore. I commented because I thought I should point out that the "haters" have mostly vacated the premises, so why are all the "lovers" so obsessed with them? You can now rearrange the furniture, hang your own posters on the wall, and have your friends over without anyone here to spoil the vibe. :)

... and Minato's Laundromat, and they used it in KinnPorsche.

I don't think the preoccupation with the "brief encounter" trope is limited to fujoshis. Having watched a lot of Asian dramas with a m/f focus I can say that there's generally a big attraction to stories where the main couple had some sort of decisive encounter in their past, usually as children or teenagers, and became obsessed over it while also (illogically) forgetting what the other person looked like.

I've started to wonder if it taps into some kind of belief system about karma and destiny.

The Mangkorn-Ashing side story had as much substance as a wet Kleenex but still carried the day.

This is one to move on from, fast.

People attach a label to someone who disagrees with them when they want to dismiss their opinion without having to refute it on the merits. It happens in politics and it happens on MDL.

In my case you couldn't be farther off the mark.

Why do so many supporters of this series wish to dismiss the people who don't support it as crybabies and intellectual inferiors? I can "handle" flawed characters and don't require a storybook prince as a lead character, just as I don't assume you require every BL character to be an asshole.

And in "Brothers". I was trying to remember the name of the Leo and Fiat series -- I still remember Leon walking down those stairs in just his boxers!

This episode enhanced the depth of the series. Now I can trust that they have enough material to sustain 12 episodes. I wasn't so sure before.

Day and Itt's vacation house ... that house has been in so many series, it's crazy!

The Itt-Kim movie date that we never got to see was one of the worst fakeouts. You can NOT convince me that it wasn't two hours of sexual tension as they sat next to each other on the couch ... in the dark.

I also didn't like how they brought Kim to the beach and he was the only one of the three hotties to keep his shirt on.

"Also, 'Thank you for teaching me how to think.' Just how immature Baiboon is/was before he joined the mafia?"

Loved this. Literally LOL'ed !!!

Oh, I didn't know that. They do need to leave enough time for a HEA that convinces us it really is for "ever after".

I think the cliffhanger at the end of Ep9 will be resolved within minutes of the start of Ep10.

My biggest hope for Ep10 (aside from the HEA) is that they take a little time to set up the next series in this new franchise, which appears to be Fuse's love story in "Future". I wouldn't mind them setting up Nuea's remake either.

And he gets the first decent kiss in the series.

Ah, the old "air conditioning is broken" trick. Well at least two of the hottest guys got to kiss, and it was a pretty good kiss. That's what they should have given us in the final episode of Nitiman.

Shun's body is worth a series all by itself. I kept thinking "Take off that shirt! Take off that shirt!" ... and then he did! 😋 Somebody on that production staff knows what's up.

It's like trying to drive a car with four flat tires. I think Bear might actually be asexual.

I thought he was ok until he made a pass at Mark. And even after that, as he was leaving in his car he dropped a hint to Vee that Vee shouldn’t give up the fight too soon. And then Pack commented to himself that he should back down to give Vee a shot at winning Mark back. So while he does seem a little slimy he had some redeeming qualities.

I think the only reason Mark would date him is that Mark was new to dating at the time and Pack was available. Otherwise they don’t seem like a very good match.

If you’re a VIP on WeTV’s app, you can pay 99 cents to watch Episode 9 in advance. I assume that Ep 9 will be available the usual way next Saturday.