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The ending was not a dream, the entire series was a dream.
People need to get a grip. 😅

What are you talking about?
What author?
What is in the Manwha does not have to be in an adaptation.
This is a lesson many MDLers refuse to learn:
Adaptations can do anything they choose to the story, and usually do.

Everything between when EH fell asleep at his desk and YH sat beside him and watched him sleep, and when he woke up in the last scene, WAS A DREAM.

That it was a dream doesn't make any of it irrelevant or meaningless; EH learned a great deal about himself, his feelings, and what he wants from life.

As I said above, what's not to like?
I fail to see why the ending upsets people.

"All of us" did NOT have the same reaction.

Everything between when EH fell asleep at his desk and YH sat beside him and watched him sleep, and when he woke up in the last scene, WAS A DREAM.

That it was a dream doesn't make any of it irrelevant or meaningless; EH learned a great deal about himself, his feelings, and what he wants from life.

As I said above, what's not to like?
I fail to see why the ending upsets people.

The scene in which he woke up was itself a dream?
Is that what you're saying?

No.
Everything between when EH fell asleep at his desk and YH sat beside him and watched him sleep, and when he woke up in the last scene, WAS A DREAM.

That it was a dream doesn't make any of it irrelevant or meaningless; EH learned a great deal about himself, his feelings, and what he wants from life.

As I said above, what's not to like?
I fail to see why the ending upsets people.

You don't seem to get that everything between when EH fell asleep at his desk and YH sat beside him and watched him sleeping, and when he woke up in the last scene, WAS A DREAM.

That it was a dream doesn't make any of it irrelevant or meaningless; EH learned a great deal about himself, his feelings, and what he wants from life.
As I said above, what's not to like?

I agree about all EH learned in his dream, but it's clear everything between when he fell asleep near the beginning and woke up near the end, was a dream.

Indeed.

IN THE LIVE-ACTION adaptation, not the Manhwa, which is all that matters here, everything between when EH fell asleep at his desk and YH sat down next to him, until EH woke up at his desk near the end, is quite obviously a dream.

That's what an adaptation is...an adaptation in which anything the producers want to change or add or remove can be changed or added or removed.

Adaptations are generally not scene-for-scene, word-for-word replications of the source material.

I loved the surprising ending.

Early in the show there is a scene where YH finds EH asleep on his desk.
YH goes into the room, sits next to him, watching him sleep.
Everything after that, until he wakes up at the end, was a dream.

That's my take.
Early in the show there is a scene where YH finds EH asleep on his desk.
YH goes into the room, sits next to him, watching him sleep.
Everything after that, until he wakes up at the end, is a dream.

But they DIDN'T wait until they were 20 to have sex, which is what confuses me about that whole NY's bit.
They had sex an episode or two before that.
They were making out in a hallway of Don Hyeo's place, then DH picked EH and carried him into a bedroom.
The next morning, EH was complaining that his butt hurt, which is a pretty good sign of butt sex in a BL.

Which means the sex against the window scene was hot, but entirely nonsensical.

Episode 9 & 10:
Well, they certainly pulled one over on me...am I the only one here who liked the ending?
I haven't read through comments yet, but I saw a review above that indicates that may be the case.

The ending is creative, original, and shocking...what's not to like?
Eunho went through all he needed to experience and learned all the lessons he needed to learn, to know exactly how he feels about Dohyeon and where he stands regarding him.
He ends the story with a clarity he never had before.
Again, what's not to like?

I'm not saying that the device is original, god knows that's not true, but the way in which it was used was new to me and somehow refreshing.

Eunho is one of the most adorbs bottoms in BL history.
Perhaps my fave line from the entire show: "You should see how handsome he is when he wakes up, beeyatches." I LOL'd 🤣
Good for you, Eunho! Guard your man! 😅

Can we talk about Eunho in the soapy shower scene, saying "Oh stop it, you frisky man," while his erect nipples were saying something quite the opposite? 😅🤭🤫

This will be a hard one to rate.
There's a lot about it I like, but DoHyeon's robotic affect REALLY put me off at times.
Can we talk about being majorly on the spectrum as well as obsessive/compulsive and massively controlling?
And the suggestion that their fellow classmates wouldn't know for sure they were in love is absurd.
With relationships like that, you can feel the energy in a room change when one or the other is or isn't or is there.
People ALWAYS know.
They may deny it, but they know.

I'm holding off on a rating for now, but I highly recommend this show.
It's a bit of an odd duck, but well worth seeing.

Agreed, and 10/10 is exactly the rating I gave it.

Up is down on MDL.
Crap flicks get 9/10s while great stuff like Tilted Summer get 6.7s.

One of the best bittersweet endings I've seen.
Highly recommended.

Why do you assume a drama will be high quality just because it's 8 episodes instead of 10?

I'm guessing the older one will turn out to be the younger's "uncle" only as a non-blood-related friend of the family or something like that.

I'll be impressed and glad if that's not the case, but the BL Universe has a history of teasing incest as a plot point but then chickening out.
How many stepbrothers are there in BL?
5,000; that's how many.

Or you could clarify the confusion by using Google.

And you're not "grossed out."
You're intrigued.

Sometimes, it feels like writers forget what they already wrote.
But you'd think the director or SOMEBODY would catch that kind of thing in reviews before the release date, especially with a plot device that such a big deal is made of.

ooh, wow, yes I'm watching Summertime and ooh, yes the window scene! .😮
At first I thought maybe I missed something, as "in" the window implied to me they were on/in a window seat in a window box kind of thing...lol. 😂

No, not beyond the inexperience of the teens, to me.
I think, when humans have sex, it's amazing how instinct takes over and there's not much question of what to do.
It cums ( 🤭 ) naturally, as they say.
And yes, THAT is how teenage boys act, only they don't wait for legally defined birthdays to go to town on each other.

And that's the only qualm I had with that scene, which I otherwise loved: The whole New Year's and being 20 thing made it seem as if the top (I'm too lazy right now to flip over to the Summertime page and look at actor names) had been holding off until the bottom, or both of them, turned 20 and thus were...legal to have sex...?

But an episode or two before the hot window scene, it was made clear that they did the deed then.
This is when the top picked up the bottom and carried him into the bedroom, which was, unfortunately, all we got to see of that lovemaking.
Bottom even came out of the room the next morning complaining that his butt hurt.
So that renders the let's-wait-until-we're-legal angle nonsensical.

Plus, the age of consent is 17 in Korea, and bottom/top are the same age, so legally they could have been pounding away for at least three years prior.
Actually, the age of consent for same-age couples is 14, so they could have been pounding away for SIX years before the window scene...so what the hell was that all about?

Episode 8:
As this one slowly sinks into the sea of humdrum, forgotten BLs, I have but one regret:
That I won't get my weekly dose of the fine piece of actor ass that is Gennosuke.
Looks, talent, screen presence; he has it all.
I'm looking forward to more stuff from him, and I don't mean just in the BL Universe.
Gennosuke could be a mainstream star.

As for the show, the botched casting of the actor who plays Mayama was a weekly challenge I never overcame.
He's unappealing in every possible way: Looks, manner, acting style, all of it.
Thus, I saw nothing in Mayama that Asamiya would be hot for.
I salute the commitment of the actor in Gennosuke, who fulfilled his professional contract each week by pretending to...well, you know...and actually pulling it off.

The writing was weak, too.
I will NOT miss Mayama uttering fascinating lines such as, "uhhh?" "hmmm..." "ehhh?" or "I'm sorry" 20 times each week.
The PSA on chastity and prudence regarding sex that took up half of the finale was ridiculous, too.
That is not how horny teenage boys act.
That is how prudish, virginal MDL Church Girls like to PRETEND their gay boys in love act.

Watchable, but only for Gennosuke.
6/10