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Potential alone isn't enough
Having read many reviews before, I knew what to expect, hence there is no disappointment that made me lower my rating. This series was what it was: mediocre. A nice watch if you knew what you were getting yourself into, but not outstanding in either way.
I binged this for all the wrong reasons. I wouldn't say this series wasted its potential, but it never even tried reaching it. The acting was good, especially those glances between both mains that could carry a whole conversation without any spoken word. But it just wasn't enough when it came to the deeper aspects of the story - the part that actually had me hooked.
People complained about there being too much trauma, but I would have loved to see an actual plot with character development, overcoming past bad experiences and growing together as a couple. Just that this wasn't the case here.
Out of 10 episodes, 3 were what I'd call fillers entirely. While I don't mind episodes where nothing grave is happening, I feel it didn't help the storytelling to have that many, especially not with where they were placed. The rest could've had actual meaning to it if the resolution of the conflicts didn't always go conveniently smooth to a point where it was clearly unrealistic. Even all the trauma ended up being overcome in the course of an episode. All that buildup for nothing.
All side characters were plot devices entirely, they were either the bad guys creating plot events, ambiguous characters with few minutes screentime whose only purpose was to create angst when required or the nice and supportive ones that were all happy and understanding and did nothing but laugh and smile and create ten layers of fluff. It got dull after a while.
So if you want all happy and fluff, you'll hate certain parts of it, while if you're looking for actual issues to be overcome instead of the usual three apocalyptic horsemen of BL dramas, you will find the execution of that to be lacking.
Watching felt like eating an amazing chocolate cake, only that I would never get to finish the slice before it got taken away. I don't care if you give me chocolate or red velvet cake, I'm fine with either, but let me finish my damn slice. I'm tired of series trying to appeal to every taste and thus leaving them all dissatisifed.
One last thing on the uncut version: The "fanservice" scenes were mostly cringe in my eyes and didn't add anything to the story, hence you can save yourself from having to rinse your eyes and just watch the normal version.
I binged this for all the wrong reasons. I wouldn't say this series wasted its potential, but it never even tried reaching it. The acting was good, especially those glances between both mains that could carry a whole conversation without any spoken word. But it just wasn't enough when it came to the deeper aspects of the story - the part that actually had me hooked.
People complained about there being too much trauma, but I would have loved to see an actual plot with character development, overcoming past bad experiences and growing together as a couple. Just that this wasn't the case here.
Out of 10 episodes, 3 were what I'd call fillers entirely. While I don't mind episodes where nothing grave is happening, I feel it didn't help the storytelling to have that many, especially not with where they were placed. The rest could've had actual meaning to it if the resolution of the conflicts didn't always go conveniently smooth to a point where it was clearly unrealistic. Even all the trauma ended up being overcome in the course of an episode. All that buildup for nothing.
All side characters were plot devices entirely, they were either the bad guys creating plot events, ambiguous characters with few minutes screentime whose only purpose was to create angst when required or the nice and supportive ones that were all happy and understanding and did nothing but laugh and smile and create ten layers of fluff. It got dull after a while.
So if you want all happy and fluff, you'll hate certain parts of it, while if you're looking for actual issues to be overcome instead of the usual three apocalyptic horsemen of BL dramas, you will find the execution of that to be lacking.
Watching felt like eating an amazing chocolate cake, only that I would never get to finish the slice before it got taken away. I don't care if you give me chocolate or red velvet cake, I'm fine with either, but let me finish my damn slice. I'm tired of series trying to appeal to every taste and thus leaving them all dissatisifed.
One last thing on the uncut version: The "fanservice" scenes were mostly cringe in my eyes and didn't add anything to the story, hence you can save yourself from having to rinse your eyes and just watch the normal version.
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