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I came to this thread to make this point.
Thank you for doing it for me.

MDL inserts judgment qualifiers like this into its headlines all the time. The implication is always that the public has some pressing right to know everything about a celebrity's personal life. If the celeb opts to disclose anything after the fact, words like "belatedly" betray the reporter's pique at not being told upfront, and ever-so-sneakily suggests there must be some dark reason this was HIDDEN from them.

It's not just MDL, however. This is the attitude of Korean trash media and Knetz that manifests in relatively benign headlines such as this, all the way to driving celebrities to suicide with horrifying regularity. Anyone in the public eye is looked upon as owing the Korean nation a lily-white, pure business, personal, and private life. Nothing is off the table for judgment and condemnation, regardless of how minor or thinly sourced it is.

Nothing.

Ji Hun and Ha Min. I'd love to watch these two make out.

BaWu does not have much in the way of lips.

I wish I could know how the actor ended up playing the character this way; whether it's more his fault or the director's. I lean toward the latter theory because there is so much else about the show that sucks, and all of it, including this actor's character interpretation, is his responsibility.

The last time I saw anything in BaWu's demeanor toward JiHun other than disdain and rudeness was probably somewhere in episode 2. This thing is a mess.

omg...the rating for this is absurdly high.
OK...fess up. Who here is up-rating this bore-fest and why?
I totally stan both Pillow Lips boys, but you can do that and still recognize this story sucks.

You're not missing anything, except two of the best pairs of pillow lips in BL World.

The rest is lame.

Not going to happen. That's a transparent side-tease.

But it's all so badly written that I don't care one way or the other. I'm watching because I have nothing better to watch right now. This is really bad.

Bad writing.

This is well-written. My thoughts exactly, though I'll watch to the bitter end.

Ba Wu is indeed frustrating/annoying to the point of unlikability. But it is so obvious that his actions make no coherent sense that it's difficult for me to get too worked up about it.

Episode 5: More lameness.

The same old gears grinding the same old way, over and over, through another ep of characters transparently pretending not to understand what other characters say/want/mean because that's what's in the script, not because it makes sense.

It's unfortunate, because there is a good, potential core story here: A young man, unrequitedly in love with his best friend, cuts off the best friend to protect himself. The best friend is deeply hurt, comes to understand that the young man loves him and...he loves him back. The best friend attempts to confess to the young man time and again, but is thwarted at every turn; thus, he is the one who ends up in what he believes is an unrequited situation.

However, the way this is written makes none of the above believable. Add to that, boring direction/acting/setting and you have a dull-fest with pretty faces.

It doesn't help that this is one of those BLs with zero budget for extras. As a result, the school campus feels as if these three young men are the only survivors of a nuclear war or zombie apocalypse. Except for the three male friends and the girl, I suppose. But the friends are terribly portrayed and seem less than human so perhaps they're zombies.

Speaking of the girl, she gave the best performance so far. When she spoke of her affection for the MC and her pain at having been rejected, but her pain is intensified by the fact she seems to have lost his friendship too, something she cherished more than the idea of a romantic future with him, I was quite moved. More so than by anything happening among the guys.

Guys are cute. I'll forget this when it's over.

Oh look! It's back five days later to drool another bilious wad of sad spittle into the comment thread.

What's YOUR excuse for being an obsessed-with-driving-celebs-to-suicide Knetz Killer Klown...dude?

I didn't say you were "obliged."

You "disagree" with what

Consider that the source of your "discomfort" was your preconceptions, misconceptions, and prejudices regarding romantic relationships between "siblings" who are not blood-related.
Consider that the plot of Unknown is intended to challenge you, and therefore make you uncomfortable.
Consider that meaningful art OFTEN makes people uncomfortable. That is what happens when art challenges our prejudices and asks us to examine them.
Consider this quote from Mexican poet Cesar A. Cruz:
"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."

I'm curious: Did you watch Unknown all the way through despite your discomfort? Did it make you think about the validity of your preconceptions that made you uncomfortable?

Actually, my opinion is not irrelevant because it is, you know, the truth.
Yours, on the other hand, is intentionally delusional. It is also typical of the standard Church Lady/Busy-body MDL demographic.

What is the name of your country? I'd like to check out those rules on sibling marriage.

Your particular opinion of what does or does not make two people "brothers" is irrelevant.

I intentionally used the term "BLOOD brothers" above, which you ignored. You are attempting to conflate the terms "blood brothers," "adoptive brothers," and "two boys who were raised together" as if they are all in the same category under "brothers." Having been adopted into the same family unit does not magically make two boys blood siblings, nor does being raised together accomplish this.

Two people not related by blood cannot, by definition, commit "incest." Furthermore, in the U.S. at least, siblings who are not blood-related can legally marry.

Your conflation of these three terms is deliberately inaccurate and misleading. Blood brothers are NOT the same as adoptive brothers or two boys who happen to have been raised together. Why you are making this deliberately misleading assertion is your secret, but that too is irrelevant.

Furthermore, blood brothers cannot conceive and produce children, the primary reason given for legally banning incest so, you know...who cares and how is it anyone else's business, including yours?

I repeat, NO Boys Love drama (Boys Love = Asian) that features BLOOD brothers as lovers. No one cares that you, for reasons of your own, want to cram blood brothers under the same heading with adoptive brothers and boys who have been raised together.

Please stop leaving deliberately false statements in MDL comments.

There is not a single BL in which the lovers are blood brothers.

That would be hot.

This kind of MDL headline kills me every time. lol

"Jo Bo Ah firmly believes Lee Jae Wook is not her lost brother..." because he is NOT her lost brother. He is an actor in a show she is also in.

May I suggest watching something with an accurate portrayal if you really want to understand BDSM? This is a Barbie's Malibu Dream House version.

Pardon my misinterpretation of your statement then.

I'd argue the film doesn't portray BDSM at all, but somebody's giggly, sugar-coated fantasy of what it maybe, kinda, might be like if it were a Barbie accessory by Mattel.