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Yes, in interviews they sometimes call it aura, and they say it in English

I felt awful for Tee and Prae. I hope Chita's motive is really, er, motive-ing - I need some sort of justification.

So this just adds to my confusion at Chita's red aura when James was asking him about Prae taking Ji. Was "that Chita" a different Chita than the Nour one? Idgi.

And is Ken just red-blind or entirely color blind, seeing the world in black and white? Because in the beginning it seemed like the first case, but then there was the scene explaining the rainbow (which he would have seen as a human anyway, but I guess it's been a very long time...)

Of course most of us realize that Suzuki has reasons for not realizing it's him Serizawa likes (he didn't know Serizawa back when the crush started, for example). That's not the point we've been making - we know WHY this is happening within the world of the show as well as everyone else. The issue is that it's taking too many episodes for the plot to move forward and grating our nerves _as consumers of fiction_ who want the plot to move forward before the show is over so we can get cute scenes of them together. lol

Again, it's not that 'it doesn't make sense' with the story they built, no one is claiming Suzuki's obliviousness is a nonsensical plot hole; it's simply that the lack of plot advancement after 2/3 of the show is done is frustrating to some of us, as viewers. It has nothing to do with media literacy, just with personal preference regarding pacing. :P

We know (well, at least I do), but it's taking too long for Serizawa to actually tell him and it's frustrating because their part of the story isn't moving forward at all.

I'm not big on slow burns -I can handle them as long as they don't go on for too long - but this is definitely excessive at this point. (IMO. obviously.) Too many misunderstandings... Poor Serizawa really needs to say it, with all the words, ASAP.

EDIT: Of course most of us realize that Suzuki has reasons for not realizing it's him Serizawa likes (he didn't know Serizawa back when the crush started, for example). That's not the point we've been making - we know WHY this is happening within the world of the show as well as everyone else. The issue is that it's taking too many episodes for the plot to move forward and grating our nerves _as consumers of fiction_ who want the plot to move forward before the show is over so we can get cute scenes of them together. lol

Again, it's not that 'it doesn't make sense' with the story they built, no one is claiming Suzuki's obliviousness is a nonsensical plot hole; it's simply that the lack of plot advancement after 2/3 of the show is done is frustrating to some of us, as viewers. It has nothing to do with media literacy, just with personal preference regarding pacing. :P

Yes to all of this

Which is what I referred to right here.

"If they wanted to make him into a bad guy, they should've had him make that mistake a few episodes ago on purpose or something... "

Did you read my comment with one eye closed? :P

Plus, it was never confirmed that he did that, only that he allowed a leak, apparently because he was too new and incompetent - and how does that relate to illegal gambling and having a gang of minions, anyway? There was 0 foreshadowing of him being a gangster with a sadistic streak.

I liked it a lot, in general - not this last episode, though.

This weird Omaeda plot (that wasn't foreshadowed at all as far as I can see) felt completely out of place imo. If they wanted to make him into a bad guy, they should've had him make that mistake a few episodes ago on purpose or something... As a whole, this episode felt wrong. @_@ The violent scenes looked faker than average, too, and the blood even had an orange tint to it. Meh.

Listen, I'm a crier. I've cried to everything from Disney movies to ads on TV, and, of course, in a bunch of these episodes - but episode 6 is so. freaking. sad. Even if you see all the flags, even if you convince yourself it's fine because it's just fiction, it's just so sad (and melodramatic; honestly, sometimes it feels like the writers are emotionally manipulating you) @_@ Do yourself a favor and prepare tissues or something.

He saw Nine pretending to have cramps and stepping on Wan, so he chose a side. I'm with him. XD

Renji is such a chaos goblin <3 And I love Time, he needs more screen... time 8D

So, that ridiculously useless acting coach works for VE Entertainment, or at least is 'on their side'? Is that why he's been ignoring the n00b who needs him the most? I still think he deserves to be fired, and have been saying that since the first time he appeared lol

Finally, communication and cuteness <3 But imagine the level of silly-billiness needed to not just say 'dude, come on. I put that box there! just open it' when things weren't going correctly. Better change the 'surprise' than not give it to him...

I'm hoping James, the bf and the father are all red herrings and it's, like, one of the mechanics or someone without a big obvious connection. It would be the most unexpected twist IMO @_@ But it's too soon; lil bro' isn't even dead yet, so it's hard to find any hints to speculate with.

same

Hey, Risa isn't the neighbor! That's Amp! Risa is Jin's friend who clearly likes him XD (I hope neither of them sent the bear, we don't need female fans to be written as deranged _again_)

So, episode 2 was the one in which all suspects were introduced (we saw a bunch of them on episode 1, of course, but now we get the whole picture)

a) Pissed-off acting partner
b) Extremely nice bf
c) Homophobic father
d) Supportive mom
e) Fan Who Lives Next Door
f) Tiny Love Rival
g) and h) Inseparable (for now) Friends from Mechanics

And, of course, our main 4. Anda and Pod have protag-armor until the show says otherwise, but Dunk and Bumm aren't getting out of the suspect list that easily, not yet.

Anda got a lot of hate after coming out and announcing his relationship on TV, but that creepy teddy bear situation happened before that. Was it just some weird sasaeng that had nothing to do with the murder? I don't think so. u.u I believe they're trying to trick us into thinking he's gonna get killed for the contents of the interview, but that's not the real motive at all... >_>

But we still don't have enough to speculate (well) about the reason IMO, so all I can do rn is wonder about generic possibilities - the fallout from the interview (acting partner, bf, father - all three seem like red herrings at this moment, IMO), crazies (sasaengs, haters, homophobic creeps), actor rivals or school rivals (someone who's jealous or envious)... Nothing world-shattering. Yet.

Shout out to Mr Fanboy and Payback, since those are pretty recent and had some interesting criticism of both the fans and the industry!

One more reason for me to never use that hell-app.

That kind of thing has happened to me, too, and to other people around me. It's not great. -_-

One thing a lot of people watching this show don't seem to understand is that Bumm wasn't even sure Pod liked Dunk. He never told her - even in this episode, when she asked him when he'd started crushing on Dunk, he changed the subject. If she liked Dunk and he asked her out, sure, she could've talked to Pod before accepting (the same talk she had with him on the bleachers this episode), but she _didn't even know for sure_ how he felt... I think it's fine to talk to him about it now and it's not that big a deal. Even less if Dunk is straight, which seems to be the case.