honestly the whole "murder" thing sounds dodgy af like a trap that KSH, GM, LJH and his cartel gang laid for GS…
It's the smart thing to do if you are in a scandale. Staying quiet until everything settle down. Innocent or guilty. Because the more you try to defend yourself when the scandal is still "hot" the more guilty you appear even if you are 100% innocent. Everything you will say will be twisted and that could lead to more if they try to also correct it. It's how public opinion & media work.
That being said, I think he is guilty for the underage stuff & leaving her quite hopeless afterward. So it could have been better if he did the mistake to be overly defensive. Too be bad he is smart or his entourage is. And sadly the girl's entourage just was so toxic she decided to make that decision. I blame him but all of her relative are also partly to blame I think. Everyone suck to be honest and now that the girl is dead, all those monsters strike at each others.
SIGMA DISRESPECTFULLY, F#CK OFF!!!!Akin deserves a big hug. He's been going through wayyyy too much:(
Yeah I don't get it. Why the old man is so petty. Did he just do all of that because Akin refused to sign with his agency ? Like, he already have the current "Top Star" (aka. Jin) & he knows that Akin is his lover. A smart guy - who seems to own a very successful business - wouldn't create such a messy situation over petty feeling, right ?
Well, I don't think two more episodes of this loop would be better tbh. :PSure they could give us a bit of their…
Well when you see "Something's Not Right" that have a similar pattern, more episode doesn't mean more development. For me, this one is "better" just because he was shorter. :P
I watched some really short KBL recently ("Match Play", "Love in the Apocalypse" & "Romeo and Romeo and Juliet") and while they aren't masterpiece - mostly because of the vertical format & 3min episode - they focus on what's matter.
I enjoyed them more than this one for sure at least. :)
KBL's have been a bit disappointing this year, I was happy to expect 3 airing so closely together but they've…
Agree. You probably talk about this one, "Heesu in Class 2" & "Something's Not Right", right ?
All of 3 have been a bit frustrating with their main leads running in circle about the same problem until the final episode. And when they finally get together, it's already the end. :P
I don't have too much to say tbh. The Main Leads have a lot of chemistry but the story is an infinite loop that…
Well, I don't think two more episodes of this loop would be better tbh. :P
Sure they could give us a bit of their time when they are happy and together but most KBL doesn't do that unfortunately. They love their angst and the final episode being the moment they finally accept each others.
I'm not a huge fan of misunderstanding in the first place but it could have been good if they didn't drag the whole thing this much. If their whole plot & idea were this much, two episodes would have been fine. Four is they wanted to extend on the side characters a bit.
But 8 of the same misunderstanding is just WAAAY too much.
Or at least used their own idea. Like the "Be my boyfriend for a week" thing. It didn't change their dynamic one bit. It reminded me of another recent KBL that I forgotten the name (ML liked his teacher but tried to date is best friend for a limited period of time to move on). Like it could have fleshed out a bit the plot instead of the same issue again, again & AGAIN. :P
like @justine says, no idol actors. plus love triangle--otp is a pair of fake sibling, some viewers don't like…
It's fine if you would never do that. All I'm saying it's to not take it too seriously. As for people who ship evil & toxic red flag, they are really a minority as most people tend to say non-stop that they want them to die quickly especially if he is a SML. And if they do it's mostly in a unserious way because they find the actor hot. :P
like @justine says, no idol actors. plus love triangle--otp is a pair of fake sibling, some viewers don't like…
Well, sure it's delulu to expect the SML to become the ML. I know only one drama so far that actually did that. Between Love Alarm S1 & S2, they switched the ML & SML (meaning ML became SML and SML bacame ML in S2). It wasn't... well received to say the least. Personally, I found this quite unique & interesting but yeah, most people hated it when it did actually happen.
All of that just to say, peoples shipping with SML don't do that that seriously (even if some do) & it's just to banter or complain about the actual ML. BUT even if they actually mean it, I don't see how you could see that as cheating or disrespect toward the ML. You mean the FL, right ? As, I don't see how viewer could "cheat" on the ML. It's not like we need to be faithful toward him. Hell, we would cheat left & right when we engage in another drama with another ML. :P
Anyway, it's only in people's imagination and doesn't really involve the actual drama or FL. It's really not that deep. ^^'
No human is too big too fail..don't believe in such nonsense..any sane and rational viewer will boycott his current…
Some actors that did SA are stiil around. They lay low a bit and come back like nothing happened. And it just... work for them. So yeah, I don't put faith in humanity. I don't say it will happen here - sometime they are cancelled for good BUT sometime they aren't and everyone forget about it sadly.
cw: date r*pe, sexual violence, manipulation, etc.I haven't read the original source material, but I didn't like…
The thing is it wasn't written as a r*pe. The whole thing went down more like a "cheating" situation. The distress of Akin wasn't about if he was r*ped but if he cheated on Jin while he was drunk. Not saying he wasn't r*ped. He clearly was but it was pretty clear they wouldn't talk about this issue or characters would react as a r*pe happened.
Why is every bl so frustrating right now??? If I was Jin, I would be pissed at Akin. Also I can't believe ZeeNunew,…
More than being leaked as a couple, it was basically a "sex scandal" in the eyes of the public. You can see previous sex scandal, celebrities are always tarnished by them. Even straight one but two men ? Public outrage will definitely be a thing. Here, we are in a safe bubble but don't think that BL is "well perceived" in the eye of the mass. Test it for yourself and watch it in a very public setting. You will see at least heavy side eyes or even worst.
Weird take. Korea have ton of good webtoons & webnovels. Why straight-washing a BL story when they have really…
Oh god.
- It's a fact that rookies accept such project to gain popularity. Is that a 100% recipe for success ? Absolutely not. But like any of their debut drama, some success, some fail. It's just in the hyper competitive regular drama they cannot land a main role but can in the niche BL Drama scene (or Webdrama in general). It make them "more likely" to success. As to why they do it in the first place. You really don't need to "pity" them. It's literally their job. Do they get some lunatic on their SNS ? Yes but they are more flooded by "positive" one. Read their interview "post-success". They mostly all have the same feedback. You can really stop the "think of the actors!" pity party. Maybe yourself you don't know - you can go educate yourself on the subject now - but everyone know about this practice to debut. The industry know, the long term BL fan know & obviously the actors themself know. Nobody put a gun on anybody here.
- And wdym, they don't need to follow exactly the OG work ? Sure a copy/paste is not really needed or wanted but changing the essence of the work itself - aka the BL part of a BL webtoon - is not just changing a few things. Like I said, they could just adapt a straight mainstream Webtoon or Webnovel. And they didn't. They choose this and choose to straighwash it. They didn't that to make it "better", they did that to make it more "acceptable" to the lambda viewer.
- And that link to my third point: "BL watchers are less in comparison to Straight drama watchers .. nd if they're watching it they can have maybe good opinion about it or maybe totally bad opinion that they start hating .. why taking such risk ..?!" Exactly, why did they choose a BL webtoon ? If it was "such a risk", why start with this project ? You really think they did that for "the cause" in a more... politically correct way ? No. They did that for the money as like you say, they are more likely to have a larger audience if they tone down the touchy subject of homosexuality. They are probably correct financially BUT it's still disrespectful to the OG work & their fans. Yourself can be completely fine with it BUT don't expect us to share the same mindset. Not everyone is fine by being disrespected you see. :)
People are saying Heesu is the one with side role .. but no ! We got to see through his point of view all the…
Weird take. Korea have ton of good webtoons & webnovels. Why straight-washing a BL story when they have really solid straight comic & novel waiting to be adapted ? We didn't expect a "bold move". They took a really good BL story and you expect said fan of said story to not expect to... just follow that damn good story ? Oo
So why using a BL story ? Bait. The "backslash" of it is just that worth it. BL fans will still eat it regardless and the final product will still be "acceptable" for the lambda viewer. But at some point, it's also quite normal for BL fans to feel upset by this marketing technique.
If at least they put some effort in writing this straight couple and made them original & interesting half of the "hate" wouldn't exist. It would still be a slap in the face of the OG work BUT we would have seen some effort at least. But it was SOOO lazy. It was the most basic & generic storyline.
As for the actors gaining backslash from playing queer characters. It's true to some extend. It's very true when an already established actor take those role BUT they also gain a lot of support from it. Lot of hate & lot of love. Most of them gain more than they lose in the process. They aren't stupid and it would be naive to think they do that for "the cause". It's a calculated risk but I do concede that I don't think that it's a pleasant process.
But for rookies ? They don't have this sort of trouble. They generally gain MUCH more and aren't harassed for taking such role as much as popular actor. For most, it's truly a way to gain popularity & "easy" recognition quickly.
Every bad drama deserves criticism And yes this drama deserves the negativity People are not settling for less…
She did remember the back of the ML & the bamboo pattern. But again, I don't see what wrong with her still having amnesia. Are you just mad the romance between ML & FL is rather slow ? It's not about being bad, it's just that you don't like this. It's fine, you know, to not like something. But not liking something is completely different of this same thing being bad. Didn't know we still needed to explain that...
That being said, I think he is guilty for the underage stuff & leaving her quite hopeless afterward. So it could have been better if he did the mistake to be overly defensive. Too be bad he is smart or his entourage is. And sadly the girl's entourage just was so toxic she decided to make that decision. I blame him but all of her relative are also partly to blame I think. Everyone suck to be honest and now that the girl is dead, all those monsters strike at each others.
I really don't get it tbh. x)
I watched some really short KBL recently ("Match Play", "Love in the Apocalypse" & "Romeo and Romeo and Juliet") and while they aren't masterpiece - mostly because of the vertical format & 3min episode - they focus on what's matter.
I enjoyed them more than this one for sure at least. :)
All of 3 have been a bit frustrating with their main leads running in circle about the same problem until the final episode. And when they finally get together, it's already the end. :P
Sure they could give us a bit of their time when they are happy and together but most KBL doesn't do that unfortunately. They love their angst and the final episode being the moment they finally accept each others.
But 8 of the same misunderstanding is just WAAAY too much.
Or at least used their own idea. Like the "Be my boyfriend for a week" thing. It didn't change their dynamic one bit. It reminded me of another recent KBL that I forgotten the name (ML liked his teacher but tried to date is best friend for a limited period of time to move on). Like it could have fleshed out a bit the plot instead of the same issue again, again & AGAIN. :P
That took a turn. Don't know if all of that is true but this shitshow will continue I guess.
All of that just to say, peoples shipping with SML don't do that that seriously (even if some do) & it's just to banter or complain about the actual ML. BUT even if they actually mean it, I don't see how you could see that as cheating or disrespect toward the ML. You mean the FL, right ? As, I don't see how viewer could "cheat" on the ML. It's not like we need to be faithful toward him. Hell, we would cheat left & right when we engage in another drama with another ML. :P
Anyway, it's only in people's imagination and doesn't really involve the actual drama or FL. It's really not that deep. ^^'
- It's a fact that rookies accept such project to gain popularity. Is that a 100% recipe for success ? Absolutely not. But like any of their debut drama, some success, some fail. It's just in the hyper competitive regular drama they cannot land a main role but can in the niche BL Drama scene (or Webdrama in general). It make them "more likely" to success. As to why they do it in the first place. You really don't need to "pity" them. It's literally their job. Do they get some lunatic on their SNS ? Yes but they are more flooded by "positive" one. Read their interview "post-success". They mostly all have the same feedback. You can really stop the "think of the actors!" pity party. Maybe yourself you don't know - you can go educate yourself on the subject now - but everyone know about this practice to debut. The industry know, the long term BL fan know & obviously the actors themself know. Nobody put a gun on anybody here.
- And wdym, they don't need to follow exactly the OG work ? Sure a copy/paste is not really needed or wanted but changing the essence of the work itself - aka the BL part of a BL webtoon - is not just changing a few things. Like I said, they could just adapt a straight mainstream Webtoon or Webnovel. And they didn't. They choose this and choose to straighwash it. They didn't that to make it "better", they did that to make it more "acceptable" to the lambda viewer.
- And that link to my third point: "BL watchers are less in comparison to Straight drama watchers .. nd if they're watching it they can have maybe good opinion about it or maybe totally bad opinion that they start hating .. why taking such risk ..?!" Exactly, why did they choose a BL webtoon ? If it was "such a risk", why start with this project ? You really think they did that for "the cause" in a more... politically correct way ? No. They did that for the money as like you say, they are more likely to have a larger audience if they tone down the touchy subject of homosexuality. They are probably correct financially BUT it's still disrespectful to the OG work & their fans. Yourself can be completely fine with it BUT don't expect us to share the same mindset. Not everyone is fine by being disrespected you see. :)
So why using a BL story ? Bait. The "backslash" of it is just that worth it. BL fans will still eat it regardless and the final product will still be "acceptable" for the lambda viewer. But at some point, it's also quite normal for BL fans to feel upset by this marketing technique.
If at least they put some effort in writing this straight couple and made them original & interesting half of the "hate" wouldn't exist. It would still be a slap in the face of the OG work BUT we would have seen some effort at least. But it was SOOO lazy. It was the most basic & generic storyline.
As for the actors gaining backslash from playing queer characters. It's true to some extend. It's very true when an already established actor take those role BUT they also gain a lot of support from it. Lot of hate & lot of love. Most of them gain more than they lose in the process. They aren't stupid and it would be naive to think they do that for "the cause". It's a calculated risk but I do concede that I don't think that it's a pleasant process.
But for rookies ? They don't have this sort of trouble. They generally gain MUCH more and aren't harassed for taking such role as much as popular actor. For most, it's truly a way to gain popularity & "easy" recognition quickly.
100% agree that his "natural" torso is more attractive. :P