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Just re-watched ep. 6 and still cannot get over how Kinn stayed cuffed for DAYS with death at the door just to get closer to Porsche. Does Porsche know that's why Kinn did it?

Wait, what is TMOTB? As for Night Flight, it has a very gratifying ending where the homophobic fuckers get their due. I do not want to give spoilers, but the movie is so good that if this entices you to watch it, then go ahead. This director has done3 films about being gay in Korea, and none of them make it look like it is easy.

But not just his movies. There is even a mixed message with Korean BL's like Where Your Eyes Linger and Cherry Blossoms After Winter showing horrifyingly homophobic parents. Hell, Cherry Blossoms After Winter had the mom of a gay son acts as if she'd just discovered he was a freaking monster. She screams and shakes on seeing him give a small peck on the mouth to another boy. I thought, wait, which shows are giving us the real deal about gay life in Korea? Do they really think gays are monsters? Alas, I think that while it's getting better, the BL's which depict a homophobic society are still more realistic.

I think the BL's do not show that because they are designed to appeal to women and women want romance. Which is no, is not necessarily a bad thing (although the Thai BL's suck). I think women love BL's because we feel like we're getting a glimpse into this secret, sweet side of men. It's the side of men that men fear showing to women. I feel that, anyway. But hey, I also happen to love stories of counterculture and watch gay women movies too. I highly recommend Cate Blanchet's "Carol" if you're interested in a starting point. Like "Night Flight" it is about the struggle to be gay in a place/time when it was not easy, but from a lesbian's view.

I got why the tall one fell for the goofy little one . One, the tall guy was, as the plot told us, always, knowingly gay. Two, the short guy was adorable. But there was definitely less explanation for why a heretofore hetero man would give up on the girl he's adored for a long time to be with a man instead. It makes it seem as if being gay is just some casual twist, when in Korea it's actually a big deal. I did think they had some nice allusions to the shorter one's male on male attractions at the start when he stared at his face in the computer room, and then at his naked body in the bathroom. It should've increased those scenes instead of decreasing them, which it did.

Speaking of how awful it is to be gay in Korea, have you ever seen Night Flight? Christ, the gay character is horrifyingly abused in that. I had to hide my eyes at one scene. And the writer/director is, himself, a gay Korean man. So I trust his take on things in his own country.

Granted, acting really matters and I did notice that the taller, model, guy was not as natural in his part. But the shorter guy had more experience acting and did well (he's in a wonderful short film about a cafe barrista who falls for a customer).

Either way, it was not the acting that attributed to the weakness of the show, but how it felt like there were entire missing episodes to explain the leaps the characters took. We needed to see more about why (1) the taller model ran away and (2) how/why the shorter guy gave up on the girl and fell for the guy. Those 2 things each needed their own episode to develop.

"My Beautiful Man" was only 6 episodes and a total success, but that was 25 minutes per episode, while this was only 15. It took too much on for such little time. So, ok, not a 10. But not a failure either.

Not "only" cuz they are nice looking, but it certainly helps. Else why is that the mass majority of movie stars are good looking? It's not some weird aberration but, rather, the norm.

Maybe not a ten if it weren't a BL, but still a high rating cuz the leads were both really cute and it's nice to see nice looking men. Also, the shorter one can act. So that right there ups the rating.

I totally get why you liked it, and as I said to you in my personal message, I knew you would.. I wanted to like it more but it had too few episodes and too little time. It felt like they were rushing things. Hell, they WERE rushing things. Even "My Beautiful Man" at 6 episodes was 25 minutes each, while this was only 15 . You need more time to tell a story, else why do it as a series at all? Just do it as a compact 90 minute movie and pay attention to motives -- such as the motive the cute lead did not have when he took off . You were right about that. I also wanted to see the short lead fall in love . We saw some of it with him focused on the tall guys lovely face earlier, but damn, that was so good I wanted more. Incidentally, the tall guy is a fashion model, and the short one is in a very popular short K-BL playing a cafe clerk who falls for a customer. Anyone here have the name of that?

Oh, and to the guy above who accused LykeItRuff of "homophobia". LikeItRuff is a gay male. We correspond privately and I know his personal info, though I won't reveal more here. It's just that he differs from a lot of gay men in that he doesn't think there is anything wrong with straight women liking BL's. He has a theory that we like them because it allows us to see a secret side of men. In short, it's a way of knowing men better. I think that is spot on and there is nothing wrong with that. Hell, if it were a "fetish" as some say, we'd be pulling up gay male porn, but we don't. We don't want strictly sex, but the psychology of men falling in love. See?

This show seems to have struck a lot of us the same way, in so far as we wanted to like it more because it had potential, but we were let down by the ending with Ji Woo's confession to A-Ro coming out of nowhere. If it only had one more episode it could have filled that gap between Ji Woo liking the girl to realizing, no, he actually has feelings for the guy. It is already a short show that had given us a lot of big feelings in a condensed way, so just one more condensed 20 minute episode would've filled that gap nicely.

I wonder why they felt compelled to have it be only 6 episodes. Is it that much more expensive to have another episode? Frankly, it felt as if they did have another episode between 5 and 6 because the actors were reciting lines as if they were continuing them from another episode that we, the audience, simply never got to see. Indeed, when I pretend that there was another episode in there, I find that suddenly the show works.

I cannot find episode 6 anywhere, but I know it must be out there because people in these comments have seen it. Where are you guys seeing episode 6?

Yes, 'loner" makes much more sense. See, this goes to show how vital proper subtitles are for understanding a show. The subtitles on the version I had seen definitely had A-Ro say he "had no friends," and it was odd. So thx for clarification.

Do you live in a Muslim country? I know being gay is tantamount to a death sentence in Islamic countries like Iran or Afghanistan. South Korea is not as bad as that, but when it comes to gay rights they lag far behind America and Europe

Yes, I think you are right Thank you!

OMG, I had seen this before but just did not know the name of it. I adored this little film. Thank you!

The K-BL series make it seem like it's easy to be gay (eg, Semantic Error), but if you watch feature films set in Korea, such as "Night Flight," and "Eclipse," you'll see that homophobia is still rampant and that young people are terrified of being exposed. The K-BL series, however, are made for a more tolerant audience of Western viewers and, of course, for BL fans, so they portray homosexuality the way their target audience wants to see it, rather than what it's really like.

do you have a link? thx!

In episode one, Ji Woo thanks A Ro for a fun day and adds that he's never done things like this with a friend before because he has no friends. I didn't get it when he said this in episode one, and now I have watched 5 episodes and still do not get it. He's a handsome, pleasant kid, so why would a character like this have no friends? Is this based on a manhua and if so, does that explain what the deal is with his having no friends???

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QUESTION :

There's a scene at the end of episode 5 wherein Ro A is talking to Yu Na, and she suddenly gets a text. Ro A grabs her phone to read the text, which said, "I only wanted to scare him. Did I do alright?" As soon as Ro A reads that text, he exclaims, "That bastard" and runs off. So, here's the question: Who the hell sent that text?

I found it! Thank you so much.

I agree that 2 more episodes of 20 min each does not seem like enough time to resolve all the plot points this show raised. However, "My Beautiful Man" also had only 6 episodes of 20 min each, and that show pulled it off beautifully. I am hoping we'll get the same result with the final 2 episodes of "Love Class."

Thank you! But can you also tell me if episode 5 is out today or tomorrow?