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will bls ever evolve past universities and the f-word?
the show starts with an interesting sequence, and had one of the most cool plots imo but it set things up too slowly for my taste and then collapsed under its own weight of trying to fit too many things into 10 episodes. If they cut out the fiancee drama and the side couple (which i liked and wanted more of) and had just focussed on the parallel worlds then they could've had a much better run. it would've also been awesome to see bossnoeul carry the show on their own which i think they could've been capable off and if not; it would've been good practice! i would've also loved to see more scenes between bossnoeul as actual people instead of just becoming their default personality traits of 'oh no are you ok? please let me take care of you' / 'im so innocent please take care of me'. Moreover because the characters felt so 2D all the NC scenes felt very detached from the overall story and did not feel deserving or fulfilling either.
the things i liked:
wimxjin <3333 they were so cute honestly. it wouldve been nice to get more of jin's mind reading but oh well. however they also suffered because of the draggy writing and short screentime.
the cinematography is insanely good like damn the production team really went off! there's so much nice lighting and complicated shots i loved watching it! i especially liked it when they gave phu the warm colours and cir the cool tone colours.
The things i disliked the most was the random fiancée story line like...c'mon. we've seen this a million times. and the whole 'i've loved you secretly from afar since the day we met'-story line is also so cliché and just turned the show into just another university BL. they should've stuck with what they had in the beginning 'these are actually all memories and lives from other versions of us', but alas!
I also didn't like the scenes about consent because it just fell flat and seems kind of tone deaf when Cir is lying the whole time about who he is. I don't think the couple's break up was resolved in a satisfying manner with Cir essentially making an influencer apology video and that's the end of their break up. Phu was presented as a naive and innocent young boy with no experience in love but i think he wouldn't have folded so easily for Cir especially because in the immediate scenes after the reveal Phu was like 'please stay away from me' and really marked his boundaries very clearly. why the f*ck would he backtrack on that so easily? that scene really bugged me. and also the singing again? thai dramas: please stop with the random singing scenes. it's not necessary for an emotional scene unless it's a musical. and the flute scene??? that was random as hell. and the fact that phu is an art student but has zero art supplies with him??
in general, the series could've been great but like so many other bl series it didnt live up to its potential
the things i liked:
wimxjin <3333 they were so cute honestly. it wouldve been nice to get more of jin's mind reading but oh well. however they also suffered because of the draggy writing and short screentime.
the cinematography is insanely good like damn the production team really went off! there's so much nice lighting and complicated shots i loved watching it! i especially liked it when they gave phu the warm colours and cir the cool tone colours.
The things i disliked the most was the random fiancée story line like...c'mon. we've seen this a million times. and the whole 'i've loved you secretly from afar since the day we met'-story line is also so cliché and just turned the show into just another university BL. they should've stuck with what they had in the beginning 'these are actually all memories and lives from other versions of us', but alas!
I also didn't like the scenes about consent because it just fell flat and seems kind of tone deaf when Cir is lying the whole time about who he is. I don't think the couple's break up was resolved in a satisfying manner with Cir essentially making an influencer apology video and that's the end of their break up. Phu was presented as a naive and innocent young boy with no experience in love but i think he wouldn't have folded so easily for Cir especially because in the immediate scenes after the reveal Phu was like 'please stay away from me' and really marked his boundaries very clearly. why the f*ck would he backtrack on that so easily? that scene really bugged me. and also the singing again? thai dramas: please stop with the random singing scenes. it's not necessary for an emotional scene unless it's a musical. and the flute scene??? that was random as hell. and the fact that phu is an art student but has zero art supplies with him??
in general, the series could've been great but like so many other bl series it didnt live up to its potential
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