Everybody acting leagues above Wooseok, for a split second I had hope they put Steve Noh as the main character. The things I do for watching you IU... Story is kind of cute, feels like a young adult novel.
Beautifully filmed, and at times very artistic. Park Min young portrayal is good enough to not make her look absolutely guilty eventhough all the clues point to it. But the pace could go a bit faster, or they could make shorter episodes.
On the first Boys Planet I loved Jay and Kamden, they had talent and a beautiful dynamic, I was crying for the whole finale when I realized they weren't going to make it. 5 hours of it. Awful migraine the next day, which was a working one.
So I created my own helpful guide for a peaceful Mnet SVS; Do not stan anyone that doesn't make it to top 8 in like 1 voting (no, the first one doesn't count). You only have a chance of getting a dark horse and you are not going to bet on the right one. Do not stan anyone with abysmal K to G/C ratio. I learnt this the hard way and started watching B2P convinced I wasn't going to get Kamjay-ed again.
I didn't manage. Not completely.
In comes my second plan, If all of these fail and you end up liking trainees not meeting these criteria, then be thankful for having meet these trainees and be ready to follow them wherever they go. So Yoonmin, Woojin, Haneum and Yumeki and his song Chingyu I will follow your career and hope your talent makes you debut.
And to Leo and Sangwon, congrats boys, you made it.
Short and sweet. I don't expect the biggest love story even told, but I expect a lot of humor and misunderstandings, and I am getting that. For how strong South Korea BL's started the year we really are getting less and less good dramas during summer (Japan specially has been getting stronger) I hope they pick up towards the end of the year
Wtf happened to KBL quality? What happened to the quality that gave us Jazz for Two, Cherry Blossoms After Winter,…
I don't know, like I have this crazy theory that they don't prepare the actors to be cast in a BL or what a BL means. Because Kim Kang Min, while not being a great actor, also looks very uncomfortable the whole time, even when he is supposed to be falling in love with his co-star.
IMHO, I wouldn't mind if they didn't kiss but at least look like you like this guy. To me is like Kevin is really pouring his all and it's met with a wall in Kang Min. South Korea produces a massive amount of dramas, I am sure you can land a role in a het series about high-school or something.
Learn a thing or two about Secret Relationships to name another K-BL that came out this year and that it's starred by an idol.
(And to add to your list I think this year we had Ball boy Tactics which was pretty good in the chemistry between leads department)
You know what? Some people end happy in life and some people do not. Some people deserve that bad ending, and others are just victims of the world around them. Krailert, Naran and Dhevi are just part of that bad undeserved ending.
Would ending up with Krailert make Dhevi happy? Absolutely not, and she knows this, but in a way it would be more scandalous for her to be left by her own husband, and she knows her family would chase Krailert and Naran down.
She chose her pride over trying to please Krailert. And Krailert choose what he felt was "right" and "deserved", not what make him happy. This is so bitter, but I loved it. It felt real.
And then in contrast, we have Trin and Tanwa who both completed their own journey, who both mourned their own way, and I loved how that second introduction could mean that they both met again as more mature persons. And they did get their happy ending by choosing what made them happy.
The beginning of episode 4 has a song that it's so much like "Concerning Hobbits" I thought they would get a copyright strike.
I have the feeling this was a movie and some executive decided it would be a good idea to expand it to a full series, but in writing down checks for the actors he forgot the scriptwriters.
If my years of drama-watching have taught me anything is that when the plot advances this slowly, there is no plot, it's just filler until the last two episodes in which solve the conflict.
Episode 3 made me feel like it lasted 1 hour and 30 minutes, checked the time, and it's less than an hour. They can't settle on the tone, the lore, the powers. The characters are flat as if they forgot to give them personalities. It looks like a showcase for Ma Dong Seok to be well..Ma Dong Seok. Why did they cast Park Hyung Sik? At least I hope he got a nice check.
Dunno I am giving it 1 more episode and that's it.
I wrote a whole essay about who Ogwi was, and how weird to me is that they are searching for the Haetae stones, as if the mythological creature had rebelled in the past, and then I clicked a link and it got deleted. Sigh. And that the good thing is that this drama made me look up some Korean mythology and then sigh because with this premise I don't understand why I feel it drags so much.
I feel Ogwi and Mir have a story together.
The characters are cute, but they do not reach the status of wanting me to adopt them and do good in life. We know nothing of most of them. But there's also little time to explain.
I cannot deal with Lee Jo Bin acting, I don't know why but every drama I find her endearing but so meh, to me at least.
I'll give them one more episode, but the fighting choreography is not to my liking at all. Maybe it is because recently I watched some good "fighting" dramas, but to me, it looks slow and sloppy, and half of the episode was that fight anyway.
I love myself a dark PHS but TBH... Song Kang's single knife-wing in Sweet Home was a bazillion times better.…
Hey we are back at watching the same dramas! I can't lie I wanted to watch this for PHS. The action scenes were a bit of a letdown in general, or too overdone already.
I am also guessing their personalities are based on the traits of the zodiac animals, which is what I am lacking, gotta do my research.
I found this drama very average, almost boring, it's a pity because the premise is very interesting. Since you mentioned it, I have to agree, Sweet Home was a banger from start to finish. Second season was confusing but the first one is so good.
Why are they calling them angels when they are the 12 zodiac signs? People can do research. But it's fine. I thank MDL for writing which animal is each character, because apart from Tiger I didn't get a lot, I blame myself for only knowing what zodiac signs are there and which one I am. I should also do some research. But then since Crow is so devil coded, I guess it makes sense to be "angels". IMHO, loved the supernatural bits of this (the ritual to awaken Crown) but was kind of meh over the Angels (MDS's angels) doing regular stuff. Give me more supernatural dramas, c'mon!
I watched episode 1 and am I the only who found the fighting scenes kinda sloppy? There were some weird angles…
It's my own problem because I keep watching action dramas, and they all do the same fighting scenes, and I am tired, but we need something more than the usual line-fighting. What I mean is, this whole 1/2 persons vs 30 thing is very overdone and most of the time it's just hilarious, specially if you start looking at guy #18 and how he is fighting the air. The first fight in this drama was like this.
Such a good actor, he surprised me a lot in Kieta Hatsukoi, then I saw him in My happy marriage and it's a different character, and then watched him with Snow Man and he is another different person. Amazing. I wish him the best career.
Story is kind of cute, feels like a young adult novel.
But the pace could go a bit faster, or they could make shorter episodes.
So I created my own helpful guide for a peaceful Mnet SVS; Do not stan anyone that doesn't make it to top 8 in like 1 voting (no, the first one doesn't count). You only have a chance of getting a dark horse and you are not going to bet on the right one. Do not stan anyone with abysmal K to G/C ratio. I learnt this the hard way and started watching B2P convinced I wasn't going to get Kamjay-ed again.
I didn't manage. Not completely.
In comes my second plan, If all of these fail and you end up liking trainees not meeting these criteria, then be thankful for having meet these trainees and be ready to follow them wherever they go. So Yoonmin, Woojin, Haneum and Yumeki and his song Chingyu I will follow your career and hope your talent makes you debut.
And to Leo and Sangwon, congrats boys, you made it.
For how strong South Korea BL's started the year we really are getting less and less good dramas during summer (Japan specially has been getting stronger) I hope they pick up towards the end of the year
IMHO, I wouldn't mind if they didn't kiss but at least look like you like this guy. To me is like Kevin is really pouring his all and it's met with a wall in Kang Min. South Korea produces a massive amount of dramas, I am sure you can land a role in a het series about high-school or something.
Learn a thing or two about Secret Relationships to name another K-BL that came out this year and that it's starred by an idol.
(And to add to your list I think this year we had Ball boy Tactics which was pretty good in the chemistry between leads department)
You know what? Some people end happy in life and some people do not. Some people deserve that bad ending, and others are just victims of the world around them. Krailert, Naran and Dhevi are just part of that bad undeserved ending.
Would ending up with Krailert make Dhevi happy? Absolutely not, and she knows this, but in a way it would be more scandalous for her to be left by her own husband, and she knows her family would chase Krailert and Naran down.
She chose her pride over trying to please Krailert. And Krailert choose what he felt was "right" and "deserved", not what make him happy. This is so bitter, but I loved it. It felt real.
And then in contrast, we have Trin and Tanwa who both completed their own journey, who both mourned their own way, and I loved how that second introduction could mean that they both met again as more mature persons. And they did get their happy ending by choosing what made them happy.
Amazing series.
I have the feeling this was a movie and some executive decided it would be a good idea to expand it to a full series, but in writing down checks for the actors he forgot the scriptwriters.
If my years of drama-watching have taught me anything is that when the plot advances this slowly, there is no plot, it's just filler until the last two episodes in which solve the conflict.
They can't settle on the tone, the lore, the powers. The characters are flat as if they forgot to give them personalities.
It looks like a showcase for Ma Dong Seok to be well..Ma Dong Seok.
Why did they cast Park Hyung Sik? At least I hope he got a nice check.
Dunno I am giving it 1 more episode and that's it.
I feel Ogwi and Mir have a story together.
The characters are cute, but they do not reach the status of wanting me to adopt them and do good in life. We know nothing of most of them. But there's also little time to explain.
I cannot deal with Lee Jo Bin acting, I don't know why but every drama I find her endearing but so meh, to me at least.
I'll give them one more episode, but the fighting choreography is not to my liking at all. Maybe it is because recently I watched some good "fighting" dramas, but to me, it looks slow and sloppy, and half of the episode was that fight anyway.
Too many characters not enough characterization IMO.
I am going to give them a couple of episodes more to see where they are going with this plot. At least if it's not good it won't drag for 16 episodes.
I can't lie I wanted to watch this for PHS.
The action scenes were a bit of a letdown in general, or too overdone already.
I am also guessing their personalities are based on the traits of the zodiac animals, which is what I am lacking, gotta do my research.
I found this drama very average, almost boring, it's a pity because the premise is very interesting. Since you mentioned it, I have to agree, Sweet Home was a banger from start to finish. Second season was confusing but the first one is so good.
I thank MDL for writing which animal is each character, because apart from Tiger I didn't get a lot, I blame myself for only knowing what zodiac signs are there and which one I am. I should also do some research.
But then since Crow is so devil coded, I guess it makes sense to be "angels".
IMHO, loved the supernatural bits of this (the ritual to awaken Crown) but was kind of meh over the Angels (MDS's angels) doing regular stuff.
Give me more supernatural dramas, c'mon!
What I mean is, this whole 1/2 persons vs 30 thing is very overdone and most of the time it's just hilarious, specially if you start looking at guy #18 and how he is fighting the air.
The first fight in this drama was like this.