TheDarkestPath

I don’t want 16 eps 😣 I love dramas that are 8, 10 or maybe even 12 eps. 16-20 is exhausting and they usually drag or go downhill in the latter half.

Idk what you mean by, ‘if it is based on Webtoon it is not a BL,” there are multiple BL’s based off Webtoon’s ie. Love for Love’s Sake, Cherry Blossom’s after Winter, Semantic Error, Blueming etc. so what did you mean by that? 🤔

I definitely get that it can be a bit jarring for people who came in expecting something like Our Dating Sim and nothing more. However even the fact that the last part of the story feels so different than the first part makes perfect sense to me. Yeowoon and Myungha are from two different realities after all. The cinematography when we view Myungha’s life in his original world drives this point home. His previous life was completely different than the one he’s living with Yeowoon. I think the story telling is so brilliant in that way. I can understand the opposite side, they definitely could have benefited from a longer runtime but I think they did a great job with what they had : )

Summed up my feelings exactly, every free moment I have I think about it lol

On the contrary for me, I loved the first half. it was cute and simple like Our Dating Sim and Love Tractor. But the last episodes really brought so much depth to the characters and story, more than I anticipated going in. The first half was good but the second half made it one of my favorite shows in general, such a beautiful story.

There were events that were supposed to happen but never did because of Myungha’s interference. For instance during the “de-buffing,” while Myungha was still in the negative bad things would happen to Yeowoon but when Myungha would prevent the bad thing from happening it would effect him instead, that’s why he fainted in the stairwell after stopping Yeowoon and Sangwon from fighting. Similarly when he changes the course of the story, it backfires and causes errors. It seems that everything needs to be balanced, there’s no give without take and every decision has consequences.

Not sure about everything but to answer as best I can:
I kind of assumed the people that Myungha was closest to are the ones who forgot him, we saw him disappearing from the main character’s lives but maybe bystanders still remember him as they don’t have anything to do with Myungha’s wish for Yeowoon’s happiness.

I don’t think the “Dating Zone Supremacy,” was ever a game or fictional nor were any of them “characters,” my take is that it’s formatted like a game and controlled by Myungha’s friend who is an entity/deity/puppet master but that it is in fact an alternate universe just as real as Myungha’s original world and that Myungha was put there in order to find the happiness that he couldn’t in his first life. I feel like this makes the most sense because the world continues to exist and move forward and the characters still interacted with each other after he left as though it’s a real world, if it was simply created for Myungha or fake they would have ceased to exist without him there.

The reason for them talking two days apart could simply be from the disruption that Myungha leaving then re-entering the world caused.

Staying in his original world wasn’t a choice, he may have regretted dying but it was too late, Myungha died at 29, only after his death did he choose to return to Yeowoon. The ending is reminiscent of Pan’s Labyrinth to me if you’ve ever watched it, it’s left up to interpretation wether or not the world he returned to is real or simply the after life.

I think the first couple kisses made sense considering that Yeowoon is completely inexperienced, they even acknowledge this by Myungha telling him that he’s tensing his lips and teasing him. So I guess the practice helped in the end lol.

Kissing or any representation of queer couples is banned in China. The closest thing is bromance or heavy implications of romance. I recommend Stay With Me, it’s one of the most forward I’ve seen in terms of representation.

I never said that longer length AUTOMATICALLY means it’s lower quality. Look back at my comment, I said most of these companies can’t afford both. The reason Light on Me has long episodes is because the company has already produced games and decided to make a live action adaption. And Semantic Error is a Watcha Original, which is already a streaming service. So yes those companies can afford to make longer high-quality BL’s. But Korea has just broken into the BL genre. There’s plenty of talented people out there who would love to make full-length BL’s but can’t because of lack of budget. The best we can do right now is to support the series we like and they’ll eventually be able to make longer dramas. You are right that there have been some not-so-great series. But that’s to be expected, there will always be sucky dramas. Short length or not, BL or not. Like I said let’s support the dramas that are great despite being short and we’ll get there some day.

If you want longer episodes the series itself is going to be lower quality. Not all K-BLs are produced by the same company. Most of them can’t afford long episodes + decent quality. So we can get longer episodes but don’t complain when they’re comparable to most Thai BL’s. Be patient, Korea only started making BL’s a couple years ago.

Did you not watch the ending? Koo is the one who released the footage of Hyuntae on the boat and in the end Je Hui goes to police and submits the evidence that gets Young Sook and Hyuntae arrested. Like Koo said, she should’ve focused on helping the victims rather than killing the perpetrators. With how smart K is she could’ve easily had them locked up. But like someone above said she has an innate desire to kill, and all it takes is a person’s word. If she were to become unhinged again she could devolve into killing even more innocent people, she’s just dangerous and clearly very mentally ill. Koo did the right thing because even though she saved the bad guys lives, she sent them to jail for their crimes. K is the one who doesn’t care about justice, she just wants to kill and her “moral code” is a justification.

We’re all allowed to have our own opinions, I never said you had to like it lol but calling it shallow fanservice couldn’t be further from the truth. I personally liked it because I could identify with the characters. For instance when Shinwoo is talking about being outed in middle school, his feelings were the same as mine, the realization that we don’t get to be like everyone else. Is everything 100% realistic? No, but that’s okay for me. It’s a sweet story, it was interesting and it didn’t shy away from real problems that queer people face. Share your opinion by all means but don’t slander someone else’s creative work like that. You can just say you didn’t like it.

If you actually think “Light on Me,” is shallow fan service you either didn’t watch it or weren’t paying attention. The fact that it brings up homophobia, what it’s like to be closeted and outed, societal pressures and that we can see the characters struggling with all of these things proves otherwise. Most BL’s don’t bother to even acknowledge these things. And the fact that the characters all had their own personalities and arcs. Just because a show takes a less gritty, depressing approach to queer stories doesn’t mean it’s fan service. We deserve happy stories too.

Have you watched “Wish You: Your Melody From My Heart”? Btw, “Color Rush” is coming out on the 30th and “You Make Me Dance” sometime next year, you might like those.