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Exactly. I don't get why MDL BL members have such a hard time using the points below 7 on a 1-10 scale. They are there for a reason.

Blueming is my number one fave BL. I thought I was the only one...I don't even want to think about how the hell this is supposed to be a "parent story." wth? I wish they'd make an actual sequel to Blueming.

omg...lol I almost slashed my wrists over the awfulness that is Ocean Likes Me. That bleach blonde, anorexic singer whose mouth hangs open drove me nuts. And the other guy is actually a fair actor, or so I thought previously.

NO! Especially this last episode when they stood facing each other outside the library. I prayed they would say together "Oh...f**k DBW...let's you and I hook up!" Then, they would go off to the dorm and bang like bunnies, and we would get to watch.

lol Well said.

Episode 8/Epilogue: lol Terrible/kill me now bad.

No human being who has been in love with another person for years, has spent each day pining and longing for them, could stand looking into that person's face, hear them say the words you've longed to hear and then kiss you (with THOSE lips), without falling to pieces, embracing them back and kissing them with all your heart, your tongue in their stomach. That's just a fact.
This show is:
Boring.
Stupid.
Boring.
Poorly written.
Boring.
Poorly directed.
Boring.

What has happened to KBL?

I kept watching only for Ji Hun's sparkly personality, laugh, smile, and especially, those LIPS.

6/10 Every point is for Ji Hun.

Awesome! Your comment is so inviting now. :) I'm going to read it again.

Psst...watch out, this Cynthia person is a whack job.
The number of exclamation points used is always a give-away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Episode 7: lol
The old BL saw, "I finally get the love I wanted from you, but YOU ONLY PITY ME, isn't that true?!!!!" trope. hahaha Lame af.

There is no reason, none, that these two handsome, intelligent, sweet young men would both be in love with the odd-duck, personality-free Do Ba Wu.

I said: This is a 3/10 at best.

Oh man...you're a nut. Please pretend I never replied to you.
Thanks.

Anyone else here lusting after Jin Su, the office intern?
I kept hoping he and MJ would hook up.

I'm of two minds about what you said. Yes, he can be dull to look at, but consider: When he see him looking that way, he is almost always looking at JH, with whom he is always on-guard for reasons we know. Secondly, he is a depressed person. A common symptom of depression is a lack of affect, the very monotonous, flat expression you speak of.

ooh...well put.
Maybe more like a light snack without salt or pepper.
Costumes/sets were bland, too; everything shades of beige, gray, off-white.
I'll assume that was deliberate, but it only emphasized that there wasn't anything flavorful going on in the story.

"Do we not deserve BLs with actual plot? Thrillers? Detectives, action? Hell, medical dramas? "

I don't disagree that this show was a failure. However, if what you're after is thrillers/detectives/action/Yakuza/murder/etc., and I like those things too, wouldn't it be wise to seek them out in feature films that have the budget to do them justice? BL is not, by its traditional nature, equipped to handle the elements you mention. Almost everyone I've seen try to do so came off as silly and low-rate.

I know of several good-quality, gay-themed feature films that include the elements you're seeking. Let me know if you want the suggestions.

"Boys Love" has the words Boys and Love in it because that is what it is primarily about.

Just my view, take it or leave it. All best to you.

I enjoyed reading your comment. I found much within it to agree with and to ponder. I too, am ambivalent about this show. It addressed some intriguing issues surrounding memory, but in my view, the writers/director made a mess of it.

I have a suggestion. Please know this is offered in the best possible spirit of friendliness. I do not wish to offend you. But...please consider breaking your comment up into paragraphs where the thought transitions...it would be so much easier to read and do justice to what you have written here. Also, a lot of people skip over comments written in a block like this. Hell, a lot of commenters here skip over anything more than two or three sentences. lol

Anyway, thought I'd throw that out there. Thanks again for your wise and thoughtful post.

Episode 6/Finale:

These two are headed for a lot of misery, culminating in a messy murder-suicide.

I felt a lot of headway was made each time MJ stated clearly, multiple times throughout the series, that they were simply INCOMPATIBLE, regardless of the whys and wherefores and who's to blame and who's not or whatever. Ultimately, none of that matters. They are not suited for each other.

But each time the story took us to that place, within the next 5 minutes, MJ went running around looking for JH or vice-versa, and the cycle of misunderstanding, passive-aggressive behaviors, and pain started all over again.

The ending gives us no reason to believe anything will be different/better the next time the cycle takes them around again, which no doubt began as soon as the camera left the two of them deluding themselves and each other on the bench at the airport. We can dismiss the white suits-and-wedding bit at the end as an absurd fever dream, experienced by one of them or the other as they lay dying in the pool of blood and misery following the murder-suicide I mentioned above; the mind's final delusion as they follow the light into oblivion.

I said it several times before; I'll say it again: This show attempted to tackle several potentially fascinating elements of memory/recall and how it differs for each person who experiences it as part of a shared experience. However, the writers/director here are unsuited to the task., and the show is a failure.

Still, for whatever reason, I kept watching as opposed to dropping it; and I'm not afraid of dropping shows, so that's something.

6.5/10

As I said, it's insane. That's primarily a Thai thing.

I am intensely hostile to people like SweetCat above, who "doubts" KSH's innocence, as though they are in any position to judge and have all the information by which to do so. THAT attitude is part of the Korean Celebrity Suicide Machine that has killed off dozens of entertainers and public figures over the last 25 years.

So, my hostility is not "for nothing." Also, please point out where I stated that SweetCat does not "have a right to their opinion." Thanks.

Totally agree. The history and background of how South Korea evolved to this weird hyper-conservative public attitude of prudishness and celebrity-torture, while at the same time being full of sexy-time movies, young women dancing in their undies while singing Kpop songs, and the Gangnam, Hongdae, and Itaewon districts of Seoul nightlife being rife with prostitution and people vomiting in the streets each night, is fascinating. It goes back to the first SK dictatorship's legacy of Puritanical laws forced on the people.