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I really liked this series! However...
Revenged Love really packed a punch! I enjoyed it, with some real reservations. Here are my pros and cons:
PROS
ACTING. This was some of the best acting I've seen in a BL in ages. Everyone was great.
CC. Interesting character. I could have done without the snakes, but that was part of his makeup, so who am I to judge? He had a lot of sexiness and charm. I do have some reservations, which I will list under cons.
YUE YUE. The girlfriend I loved to hate. I just would have liked for her to get more of a punishment.
MUSIC. Loved it!
CONS (I posted this as a reply in the comment section and decided to repost it here)
FLAWS IN STORY. I, like some others, was bothered that the gang rape scene in Ep 1 was just brushed off as a "character flaw" in CC. I can take watching a rape scene, as long as it's portrayed as the violent act that it really is.
I am a gay guy, and the part that bothered me even more was WSW barely being able to walk the day after the first time he had sex with CC. I've engaged in all kinds of sexual acts -- even rough -- and I've never been so sore I could barely walk the next day. A guy (even into BDSM) would seriously have be so brutally raped for hours against his will for that to happen, likely to the point of rectal bleeding.
And many viewers' reactions were "Oh! Look how WSW can barely walk!" As if that was so cute and CC was such a hot sexy stud. A number of women BL writers go this way (MAME, anyone?), and there's nothing cute about it, it's gross. What if it were a woman that had been banged so hard she was limping around in pain the next day? Still cute? Still romantic?
If you want to write THAT story, make it a thriller/drama, not a love story.
I've given RL an 8.0.
PROS
ACTING. This was some of the best acting I've seen in a BL in ages. Everyone was great.
CC. Interesting character. I could have done without the snakes, but that was part of his makeup, so who am I to judge? He had a lot of sexiness and charm. I do have some reservations, which I will list under cons.
YUE YUE. The girlfriend I loved to hate. I just would have liked for her to get more of a punishment.
MUSIC. Loved it!
CONS (I posted this as a reply in the comment section and decided to repost it here)
FLAWS IN STORY. I, like some others, was bothered that the gang rape scene in Ep 1 was just brushed off as a "character flaw" in CC. I can take watching a rape scene, as long as it's portrayed as the violent act that it really is.
I am a gay guy, and the part that bothered me even more was WSW barely being able to walk the day after the first time he had sex with CC. I've engaged in all kinds of sexual acts -- even rough -- and I've never been so sore I could barely walk the next day. A guy (even into BDSM) would seriously have be so brutally raped for hours against his will for that to happen, likely to the point of rectal bleeding.
And many viewers' reactions were "Oh! Look how WSW can barely walk!" As if that was so cute and CC was such a hot sexy stud. A number of women BL writers go this way (MAME, anyone?), and there's nothing cute about it, it's gross. What if it were a woman that had been banged so hard she was limping around in pain the next day? Still cute? Still romantic?
If you want to write THAT story, make it a thriller/drama, not a love story.
I've given RL an 8.0.
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