Thank you for this reminder. I'm attracted to black holes and rabbit holes, so try to stay off reddit, but I've…
I guess telling the people who disagree with you that it's because they don't pay attention or have your gift of insight isn't an attack ... it's just stating facts lol.
Also this cs is not it, if some of you want to also read positive opinions reviews and stuff from people who paid…
LOL .. so I guess if I "paid attention" and knew how to "understand" this masterwork I'd realize how great it is.
When you start telling people you disagree with that they're not smart enough or insightful enough instead of simply making your own points in rebuttal, you have lost the argument.
Well at this point this is just mysery porn. They are just using all the ammunition they have to create implausible…
Yes! This was my reaction from the first episode. The whole setup reeked of phoniness. This is not a "profound" story. It's arbitrary garbage angst dressed up in the hope that it looks deep, with no real connection to the first season.
The director should have stuck to romantic comedy. She must have been reading her own notices and figured if everybody says she's a genius then it must be true. She took all this budget and made a mess of it, plus ruined a perfectly good Season One for all of us who would occasionally enjoy rewatching.
Oh my god, I'm blown away. Yin's acting is superb! He totally nailed his "big scene" at the end -- I was so moved! -- and Vee's anniversary moment with Ploy was just right -- exactly how I think it would be when trying to process so many revelations along with the denial that any of it is happening.
So far, War's performance has been stuck in "suppressed emotion" mode. Given the ups and downs of this story I expect he'll have some dramatic moments of his own.
A lot of credit goes to the screenwriter and director. They understand how people behave and think, and didn't fall back on stereotypical ways of treating the big turning points in the episode.
On the downside, I do wish that Mark had comforted Vee with a hug first. Going for the kiss right away seemed a little opportunistic. But with the way Vee has been chasing Mark relentlessly, only to be rebuffed time and again, maybe Mark's kiss was the only reassurance that would matter.
This is possibly the most boring and pointless BL I've seen - zero originality, and we followed a tedious story,…
Kaneda's character really grated on me this episode.
Honestly, what is it that Yanase is supposed to be so attracted to? Their maturity levels are so different it makes him seem like a bit of a creeper to be pursuing someone with the EQ of a 13yo.
To me the scene where Vee apologizes to Mark in the locker room is so cute. The way Vee says "Sorry" repeatedly and ever more quietly, and eventually whispers it into Mark's ear, and the sheepish look on Vee's face as he seems to realize that Mark truly has him whipped.
In that scene it seemed Mark was also going to apologize to Vee for saying that he hates him, but alas that other kid had to interrupt. It would have been a sweet moment.
Also, Yin's acting in the scene where Vee is rescuing Mark from the knife-wielding mental patient was really intense. Even though I knew it was a "play within a play" it really got to me! He's been getting the right training as an actor and I have to say he's growing ever more handsome too. ^_^
To take a break from my usual griping about this series I will speculate as to the revelation that will explain Ji Woo's behavior.
I think he unexpectedly heard from his ex while he was still with Seo Joon and realized that she was still very needy and planned to approach him for a reconciliation. He didn't want to put Seo Joon through that or reveal that he was in a gay relationship, so he chose to disappear for enough time to establish himself back at the hometown that he shared with the ex. This way, the ex would have no clue to his relationship with Seo Joon and Ji Woo would be able to deal with her away from any emotional entanglements over his new relationship.
(In this regard, the "Waiting for You" of the restaurant name was referring to the ex, not Seo Joon.)
Seo Joon showing up in the rural town was an unexpected complication, so Ji Woo did everything he could to make him go away so that Ji Woo could deal with his ex on his own. Ji Woo had no intention of getting back with his ex, but he cared about her enough to sacrifice one year of his own happiness to put her on track to find her own.
He is trying to let her down easy. In the last two episodes he will put a rest to any notion of him reuniting with her. Or, maybe she'll figure it out and do the classy thing and pull back from trying so hard at winning Ji Woo.
Who thinks we will have a happy ending , because I am not sure anymore if it happens or if I even want that to…
This question is the only reason I will keep watching. I think it will be a happy ending, but it will be completely unbelievable and will end up being the only joke in the whole season.
I feel like if you make a sequel to a series, it should be faithful to the nature of the original. If you're going…
This will probably be my biggest disappointment of 2022. You're right, they should have just adapted the script for new characters and hired different actors.
It's time to say last rites for "To My Star" as a franchise. And, ironically, it's the people who gave it life in Season One who have killed it. Oh, to be a fly on the wall in those story conferences.
Before I watched today I saw comments on twitter along the lines of "I can't believe Ji Woo did that," and it made me expect to see him sleeping with his college ex by the end of Episode Six. Who knows ... maybe they don't get together until the next one. She's doing well on her campaign to win him back and at this point Seo Joon would be wise to let them have each other.
The biggest mistake here was in re-envisioning the Ji Woo character. In Season One his grumpiness was funny and lovable because he skewered the idea of celebrity, and we could all relate to that in some way. In Season Two he's just an a&&hole who none of us would want to spend one evening with, let alone date.
If some people are loving all this, who am I to say they're wrong? But I'll never be convinced that this season is a believable followup to the first one, or that there's any pleasure to be had in slogging through these episodes. There's been a lot of declarations here about how brilliant it all is, but nobody has been able to explain why.
There's nothing profound or insightful in the story they're telling. This whole thing is just a game to see how much misery they can pile up before miraculously reuniting the estranged lovers. (Yes, I do anticipate a happy ending, but I expect it to be laughably untrue to all the dark despair, just as this dark despair has been laughably untrue to the delightful first season.)
It's so good. I hope it's a big success that will make them want to remake the other couples' stories too.
I agree that recasting Gun was not only good, it was essential. But Bar in the original series was hilariously sassy, and he had a hot body. It's not unforgivable that he got recast for this version but I don't want to lump him in with Gun either.
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When you start telling people you disagree with that they're not smart enough or insightful enough instead of simply making your own points in rebuttal, you have lost the argument.
The director should have stuck to romantic comedy. She must have been reading her own notices and figured if everybody says she's a genius then it must be true. She took all this budget and made a mess of it, plus ruined a perfectly good Season One for all of us who would occasionally enjoy rewatching.
So far, War's performance has been stuck in "suppressed emotion" mode. Given the ups and downs of this story I expect he'll have some dramatic moments of his own.
A lot of credit goes to the screenwriter and director. They understand how people behave and think, and didn't fall back on stereotypical ways of treating the big turning points in the episode.
On the downside, I do wish that Mark had comforted Vee with a hug first. Going for the kiss right away seemed a little opportunistic. But with the way Vee has been chasing Mark relentlessly, only to be rebuffed time and again, maybe Mark's kiss was the only reassurance that would matter.
Honestly, what is it that Yanase is supposed to be so attracted to? Their maturity levels are so different it makes him seem like a bit of a creeper to be pursuing someone with the EQ of a 13yo.
You can have your sex scenes from "Cutie Pie" and "Tharntype", because that one glimpse of Togawa on fire is hotter than anything in those two series.
In that scene it seemed Mark was also going to apologize to Vee for saying that he hates him, but alas that other kid had to interrupt. It would have been a sweet moment.
Also, Yin's acting in the scene where Vee is rescuing Mark from the knife-wielding mental patient was really intense. Even though I knew it was a "play within a play" it really got to me! He's been getting the right training as an actor and I have to say he's growing ever more handsome too. ^_^
Me. I expected to like it a lot more.
I like Noona romance and I really like Hwang In Youp, but the thought of this current mystery taking up the entire season is already exhausting.
I think he unexpectedly heard from his ex while he was still with Seo Joon and realized that she was still very needy and planned to approach him for a reconciliation. He didn't want to put Seo Joon through that or reveal that he was in a gay relationship, so he chose to disappear for enough time to establish himself back at the hometown that he shared with the ex. This way, the ex would have no clue to his relationship with Seo Joon and Ji Woo would be able to deal with her away from any emotional entanglements over his new relationship.
(In this regard, the "Waiting for You" of the restaurant name was referring to the ex, not Seo Joon.)
Seo Joon showing up in the rural town was an unexpected complication, so Ji Woo did everything he could to make him go away so that Ji Woo could deal with his ex on his own. Ji Woo had no intention of getting back with his ex, but he cared about her enough to sacrifice one year of his own happiness to put her on track to find her own.
He is trying to let her down easy. In the last two episodes he will put a rest to any notion of him reuniting with her. Or, maybe she'll figure it out and do the classy thing and pull back from trying so hard at winning Ji Woo.
Before I watched today I saw comments on twitter along the lines of "I can't believe Ji Woo did that," and it made me expect to see him sleeping with his college ex by the end of Episode Six. Who knows ... maybe they don't get together until the next one. She's doing well on her campaign to win him back and at this point Seo Joon would be wise to let them have each other.
The biggest mistake here was in re-envisioning the Ji Woo character. In Season One his grumpiness was funny and lovable because he skewered the idea of celebrity, and we could all relate to that in some way. In Season Two he's just an a&&hole who none of us would want to spend one evening with, let alone date.
If some people are loving all this, who am I to say they're wrong? But I'll never be convinced that this season is a believable followup to the first one, or that there's any pleasure to be had in slogging through these episodes. There's been a lot of declarations here about how brilliant it all is, but nobody has been able to explain why.
There's nothing profound or insightful in the story they're telling. This whole thing is just a game to see how much misery they can pile up before miraculously reuniting the estranged lovers. (Yes, I do anticipate a happy ending, but I expect it to be laughably untrue to all the dark despair, just as this dark despair has been laughably untrue to the delightful first season.)
I agree that recasting Gun was not only good, it was essential. But Bar in the original series was hilariously sassy, and he had a hot body. It's not unforgivable that he got recast for this version but I don't want to lump him in with Gun either.
I don't want to be greedy, but Mek next, please?