I wanted to skip this one after reading the fist comments, but then I discovered it's from the same gang of Tide of Love and I was suddenly excited to start this new journey into sloppiness!!
And I must say I was not disappointed one bit. Except perhaps by the fact that it seems they hired a sound technician. That was a bit of a let down, as the crappy sounds and voice echoes were part of the fun. I guess you can't always have it all.
It all was balanced anyway by the usual astounding editing, especially at the the beginning of the second episode, where the characters' position was reversed seamlessly and the handcuffs appeared and the disappeared in true magical wonder.
I'm glad to see they did not change the kissing scenes attitude, where one of them (the guy who played the student in TOL and is now a cop/pilot - by the way: kudos to the uniform!) seems to be swallowing sour medicine. Love him.
damn boy can kiss!but please tell me i was not the only one laughing my ass off like a wild horse during that…
I swear, I started watching the series because I wanted to re-experience the most grotesque scene I've ever come across. I don't know if it is possible to take it seriously :D
And I love Phob's mindset. The reason why I can't have a relationship with the one I love is that he's a noble while I'm a servant? No problem, I'll crush the whole political and social system and I'll get my man. This is what I call problem solving.
I'm loving this so much! It's the only airing show at the moment that makes me curse when the episode ends :). The only problem I have is deciding which is more beautiful, Ongsa or Inn.
He won't heal until he accepts the fact that he is wounded.Can you imagine Itsuki doing that?Can you imagine him…
"Sadly, I believe the future Itsuki will end up as a suicide, a tropical fish that can't take the heat of the world in which he was placed, gone belly-up as a result. On this matter, the script was not subtle"
this is so spot on and perfectly said.
It resonated with me because I understand the feeling of always being out of step with mainstream society. However, feeling out of step cannot become an excuse to justify any shortcomings or to blame society for one’s own sense of inadequacy. As you rightly point out, Itsuki needs a journey of self-awareness and healing—which doesn’t mean he has to conform to imposed social standards, but that he can learn to live within them without building defensive walls.
Unfortunately, we know full well that he’ll never do that.
The only thing I’m satisfied about, is the shitty father didn’t get his usual shitty redemption a the end. But then again, he didn’t get an end at all, as well as his son and a lot of other subplot lines.
Among Catholics, it is absolutely not forbidden for a priest to love; quite the contrary. They are forbidden,…
Well, yes and no. Loving and being in love are not the same thing. Of course, a priest can love, but if he falls in love with someone (be it a man or a woman), he must choose between remaining a priest and being in a relationship. If this were not the case, Tanrak would not have to choose between god and Barth. This is because it is his duty to love everyone without distinction and, ultimately, to love god above all else. Being in love with someone can make him doubt his loyalty to god. Of course, this is true in the abstract; the reality of things is far less idealistic. In my first comment, I wanted to highlight the difficulty of celibacy.
I’m a wreck. I had to stop for a minute after Barth called the answering machine Just to hear his mother’s voice because my eyes couldn’t stop leaking. Missing your mom is so painful that I think I Will forever be triggered by that feeling.
The series is amazing in every aspect, there’s absolutely nothing I would change.
Barth and Tanrak are fighting against two different enemies at once. One is a relationship not approved by society and their religious backgrond. The other is Tanrak’s vocational call from god that would require him not to have a relationship at all, not even with a woman, as becoming a catholic priest requires celibacy. In fact when he confessed to the father, he didn’t point being in love with a Man as his sin, but being in love at all. How terrible can it be to feel that loving someone is something you should resist and avoid?
The catholic way of thriving on believers’ constant sense of guilt is something I will always be grateful to have left behind.
I can’t begin to describe how disappointed I am. I want to go back in time and pretend the last episode doesn’t exist so I can make up my own ending. They need to stop this “pos parent turning suddenly good without consequences” storyline. It got old a long time ago.
On a different note, I love Up, but here I found him out of focus as a character. It felt like watching Gene from My lovely writer wearing cop’s clothes.
Singto definitely stole the show, sort of like a real Life Grogu 😄. But I wonder: it’s good that the kid helped bringing both families together, but what’s gonna happen when his mother finds a new partner and eventually remarries? How many fathers are there gonna be?
Not really good but not really Bad either. It had a lot of potential but it was wasted along the way with a weak script. The action scenes were very good tho and I appreciated the overall thriller vibe.
I wanted to skip this one after reading the fist comments, but then I discovered it's from the same gang of Tide of Love and I was suddenly excited to start this new journey into sloppiness!!
And I must say I was not disappointed one bit. Except perhaps by the fact that it seems they hired a sound technician. That was a bit of a let down, as the crappy sounds and voice echoes were part of the fun. I guess you can't always have it all.
It all was balanced anyway by the usual astounding editing, especially at the the beginning of the second episode, where the characters' position was reversed seamlessly and the handcuffs appeared and the disappeared in true magical wonder.
I'm glad to see they did not change the kissing scenes attitude, where one of them (the guy who played the student in TOL and is now a cop/pilot - by the way: kudos to the uniform!) seems to be swallowing sour medicine. Love him.
this is so spot on and perfectly said.
It resonated with me because I understand the feeling of always being out of step with mainstream society. However, feeling out of step cannot become an excuse to justify any shortcomings or to blame society for one’s own sense of inadequacy. As you rightly point out, Itsuki needs a journey of self-awareness and healing—which doesn’t mean he has to conform to imposed social standards, but that he can learn to live within them without building defensive walls.
Unfortunately, we know full well that he’ll never do that.
Loving and being in love are not the same thing. Of course, a priest can love, but if he falls in love with someone (be it a man or a woman), he must choose between remaining a priest and being in a relationship. If this were not the case, Tanrak would not have to choose between god and Barth. This is because it is his duty to love everyone without distinction and, ultimately, to love god above all else. Being in love with someone can make him doubt his loyalty to god.
Of course, this is true in the abstract; the reality of things is far less idealistic.
In my first comment, I wanted to highlight the difficulty of celibacy.
The series is amazing in every aspect, there’s absolutely nothing I would change.
Barth and Tanrak are fighting against two different enemies at once. One is a relationship not approved by society and their religious backgrond. The other is Tanrak’s vocational call from god that would require him not to have a relationship at all, not even with a woman, as becoming a catholic priest requires celibacy. In fact when he confessed to the father, he didn’t point being in love with a Man as his sin, but being in love at all. How terrible can it be to feel that loving someone is something you should resist and avoid?
The catholic way of thriving on believers’ constant sense of guilt is something I will always be grateful to have left behind.
On a different note, I love Up, but here I found him out of focus as a character. It felt like watching Gene from My lovely writer wearing cop’s clothes.
Singto definitely stole the show, sort of like a real Life Grogu 😄. But I wonder: it’s good that the kid helped bringing both families together, but what’s gonna happen when his mother finds a new partner and eventually remarries? How many fathers are there gonna be?