K-Drama 
WASTED POTENTIAL
I had incredible high hopes for this series.The first few episodes, especially the first one, showed powerful start and fooled the audience by making them believe they know what they were doing. With beautiful visuals and one of the best soundtracks i've heard in a BL series, i expected well throughout storytelling, complex characters and deep emotion.
After a few episodes you come to the realization what an absolute mess this series actually is and that the crew had no idea whatsoever what they actually wanted to make. The series suddenly turns to every possible cliche and storyline you've ever seen is the early start of thai BLs, i was waiting for someone to pull out the guitar....
Acting wise, the actor who plays Jane Patrick held the whole show on his back. It is deeply disappointing that his incredible performance was wasted for such a crap story. Everyone else from the actors involved suck as well. I don't even want to mention the actor who plays little Jane, someone just get him some acting classes.
Ending it on a positive note, this has some amazing visuals and soundtrack, intro "Colorblind" has been on repeat for weeks.
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I'm conflicted
The people who loved season 1, myself included, were yearning for a new season for a hot minute now. Very different atmosphere and setting from season 1 which is understandable due to the consequences from the previous developments and it was to be expected.Season one is objectively almost perfect. Story wise, fight scenes and performances are all equally amazing and well rounded into one cohesive story while season two has, in my personal opinion, even better performances and epic scenes but it is hugely lacking in the storytelling and pacing aspect, which give the season so much damage.
I loved the characters more this season, everyone did an INCREDIBLE job. I also cried my eyes out several times. Showing this season that nobody is safe and no plot armor can save your favorite characters made me also appreciate the story even more than before but by the end of it, it felt forced and cheap. Killing off a bunch of significant characters for shock value loses the impact and emotional depth for the audience. After so many loved characters (POINTLESSLY) lost, last two episodes basically served no point and didn't feel like the climax that it should have been.
Pacing of the last two episodes were atrocious and too predictable. It leaves us with plot holes and questions that i don't know if we will ever get. The washing off and wasting some of the characters (Q, Pasin, Woojin, even Jinman and Minhye) made a huge negative impact of the season counter to the expectation and knowledge how insanely loved and complex the characters actually are and reducing them to just mindless points in your story made zero sense and painful to watch.
What i NEED to point out, and it is extremely important to see is the female dominance in an action based show. There is no gender gap, i was faced with brilliant, capable and intelligent women that were CONSTANTLY in the center of the story and never sidelined.
I would leave it at that as it has been just a few minutes since i finished the show and my thoughts are all over the place.
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