Goodness. I had no idea when I started watching that this series would become one of the most intriguing/engaging/original BLs I've seen, among hundreds. Through ep. 4, its zaniness and Japanese freak-show style was good enough to keep me following along, but now it's become angsty, touching, tender, and conflicting, all without losing any of the aforementioned qualities.
Pretty sure the subs I'm getting are a tad fucked-up, but even that fits the vibe of what's going on here. For once, even as presented in the show's off-the-wall vibe, a gay panic arc makes perfect sense given the character experiencing it and the circumstances. I loved how tender, sweet, and new their interaction in that moment felt right up until "...my dad told me to mow the lawn." hahaha...lol
Even the subsequent Kimino/Yumeno conversation/explanation got its point across without losing the off-kilter thread of this thing. I'm certainly not sure what to make of the nutcase, shrieking, town gossips' fantasy ("rolling around naked," what? lol), but it's all part of the fun, as is the most profound and hilarious, core theme...CUCUMBERS!!! :D
I adore this show and I adore Yumeno most of all. His central place in the story snuck up on me slowly and now, he and the script are pulling off his crucial arc with a rare and successful sort of believable craziness. Love it all.
Oh, and our hero's calm presence at the center of all this madness, which comes both from him and AT him simultaneously, is...hilarious. He is a quietly acquiescent flower with balls of steel.
In the case of this BL I don't think the explanation provided in episode 5 is exactly truthful. I think DH is…
For me, a show like this has already crossed some lines it can't come back across because even if we get some last-minute revelations that explain this and that, the fact remains that DH cut things off and disappeared for 12 years without bothering to CLARIFY whatever was his basis for doing that. It's a common BL habit: Make HUGE life choices based on info you can't be certain you are perceiving correctly. Plus, in this case, DH got his panties in a twist because he supposedly believed JY to have struck his father...well, f**k yeah, he knew his father had been beating JY regularly. The idea that he would be upset that JY finally struck back is absurd. Hell, DH himself nearly put a knife in the old bastard's back. It's just insulting.
Sharing roughly your opinion, and having watched "Hidamari ga Kikoeru" and "Happy of the End" with a similar opinion,…
Well, DO go into it with an open mind. God knows the raving majority on MDL thinks it's a "masterpiece." lol I was impressed and engaged immediately with ep 1 but it began to slip by the end of 2, then...well, you know my story. :) Give it a chance; no harm in doing so.
I have no interest in trashing good shows. Hell, I wish they were all good, so I would have a lot more BL material to enjoy. That's not the case.
Earth - possibly worst actor in BL history. Always the same, no range. Terrible series, waste of money, time, everything put into it. Dropped after 1 1/2 eps.
how could you Rating this movie and it's still hasn't released yet?? first you watch it then tell us your think…
Not on MDL. Here, thought-police down-rate shows they claim deceived them into believing it was a BL. Of course, they haven't seen it yet, so how would they know?
Bigger question is why does MDL allow rating of a show that hasn't even been released yet?
Wow! You really laid your cards on the table. I appreciate and respect your candor. Personally I have viewed over…
My four-show list refers specifically, and only, to RECENT BLs that "started strong and went to shit." Of course, there are hundreds of BLs that are shit from start to finish, but they neither started strong and went to shit, nor aired in the last few weeks.
No, people, Do Hoe does not need therapy. He needs a good beating, followed by institutionalization in a facility focused on teaching grown men not to be douche bags.
Oh look! Another BL in which MCs make huge, life-altering choices based on absolutely ridiculous assumptions resulting from entirely unbelievable circumstances. Oh look! Another BL in which MCs make no attempt to contact each other for countless years, then run into each other and solve everything in three minutes, followed by a kiss. Oh look! Another BL in which MCs don't age even a little bit over more than a decade. Oh look! Another BL in which MCs are psycho/angry/unbalanced for the flimsiest of reasons. Oh look! The first BL I've seen in which a tiny piece of paper remained neatly folded under the edge of a desk leg for 12 F**KING YEARS. (Though similar miracles are legion in BL World.) Oh look! Another BL in which multiple hot, smart men chase after an unattractive, abusive, mentally-ill protagonist. Oh look! Another BL in which...on and on, blah blah blah...
I do not accept that my standards need to be lowered for BLs because well, they're BLs. I have seen enough well-written BLs to know that the genre does not require bad/lazy/improbable/implausible writing/plotting to qualify for the BL label. So why does this phenomenon repeat itself over and over, even in high-quality shows like this with high production values?
I do not know the answer, but I have questions: Do the producers/directors/writers get lazy because they look down on their audience and figure if people keep watching crap out of Thailand, they'll watch anything, so why bother? Do the same people get off on insulting their core audience? Does the BL industry, even outside of Thailand, attract a less talented, creative, and hard-working pool of industry professionals with lower standards than their counterparts in the mainstream?
Hell, I don't know, but I do know this is the fourth recent, non-Thai BL to start strong and go to shit with the problems mentioned above: I Hear the Sunspot Happy of the End Love In the Big City Let Free the Curse of Taekwondo
If nothing else, at least this disappointing series has exposed me to the talents and good looks of Lee Seon, who has been the bright spot in this otherwise increasingly dreary mess.
Bloated, pretentious, pile of over-wrought, badly-written crap.
oooh look! Countless, on-the-nose allusions to the passion of the Christ. That's never been done before! Any film whose plot takes place in Asia, that has all its Asian characters speaking in stilted English, even to each other without an American in sight, is doomed from the start. Apparently, Josh Hartnett was too lazy to learn Cantonese so they made all the Asian actors speak English...badly.
Masturbatory delusions of grandeur from the director. Just ponderous and awful. I kept watching out of fascination with how much money had been wasted and how many absurdities there were in the writing.
Hartnett's acting is flat as usual, and the hot chick who lays around whimpering, when she's not servicing various men, is one of the worst actors I've seen.
2/10 The two stars are for Hartnett's shirtless scene. LBH's over-muscled body is cut to the point of being off-putting. Any man with that kind of body spends little time outside their home gym, and we never saw LBH lift anything heavier than a gun.
Why? So the lead can repeat the behaviors he repeated with FIVE men here another FIVE times to make TEN? Why?
I will do a quick, bullet-point type list. I have explained this countless times here already, so I'm not up for a detailed analyses. Especially since this was so clear and obvious. Here is the pattern of relationship behaviors our hero repeated five times:
Fall in instant, fabulous, breathless love at first sight; also, the other party falls in ecstatic, star-bursting love with the MC. Date/f**k/hang out in glorious, enchanting, perfect happiness. Move in together after a very brief period. Things go well for a brief period. MC begins to question his feelings for the other party. MC becomes a grouchy, irritable bitch who snarls at his partner at the slightest perceived slight, such as "open the windows! I told you not to do laundry in here!" MC becomes increasingly disenchanted with the relationship. MC dumps partner during a vicious argument, of leaves a note and sneaks out in the middle of the night. Partner is devastated because the MC is supposedly not only fabulously handsome (which he's not) and possessed of the most attractive personality known to humans (he is nearly the opposite of that), that they literally grovel at his feet and offer to change into someone else entirely to suit his whims. MC tells them to fuck off and walks away. MC becomes severely, clinically depressed. MC's little friend group shows up to see him and he is instantly cured of his clinical depression. MC goes out drinking with his buddies, gets wasted, and BOOM! meets his next victim and we're back to the instant, spontaneous falling in love at first sight thing. Rinse and repeat.
Of course, the details of this cycle vary from victim to victim, and there are variations, but overall the same pattern repeated itself four or five times. Worst of all, the MC never learns anything from the cycle, never changes or grows, and remains the same in word and deed from start to finish of this series. I would have been happy to see him get MORE vicious in how he treats people; at least that would be change and would be interesting, but no, we get nada/nothing/zero in the way of character change one way or the other.
The cycle repeated five times and then the show was over.
Try watching something well-written and plotted, that isn't repetitious and dull.
lol Oh gosh, brainless, rando fangirl on MDL says "no body rlly cares about u..." Wait while I kill myself, OK?
As always, comments from your type devolve into personal insults, cause that's what you've got.
OMG...MY COMMENTS HAVE NO LIKES!!!! Please, wait while I kill myself a second time, OK?
To summarize your comment: Your life sucks! You are insignificant! You are SO insignificant! Nobody in the entire world cares about you! Your comments have no likes! I hope your life is shitty! Oh, your life is already shitty!
Meanwhile, you aren't able to coherently argue a case for how LITBC is a great show. All you've got is insults for those who disagree with you. Speaks for itself, fetus.
I know that when I block an MDLer, all their comments disappear from my view along with any of my replies to their comments. But do those comments and replies remain visible to everyone else? Just curious...
And what do you mean by gay stereotypes ... ? You know that more than the writer who actually wrote the story…
Much like that other dumbass bothering me with stupid replies like this, you are another fetus that is nearing the point of being aborted. One more reply and you're down the toilet...let me know.
And what do you mean by gay stereotypes ... ? You know that more than the writer who actually wrote the story…
lol Your dissing of FF and LLC speaks volumes, child. No more need be said. I don't gaf what you and other mindless trend-followers find appealing, I care what I find appealing.
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Goodness. I had no idea when I started watching that this series would become one of the most intriguing/engaging/original BLs I've seen, among hundreds. Through ep. 4, its zaniness and Japanese freak-show style was good enough to keep me following along, but now it's become angsty, touching, tender, and conflicting, all without losing any of the aforementioned qualities.
Pretty sure the subs I'm getting are a tad fucked-up, but even that fits the vibe of what's going on here.
For once, even as presented in the show's off-the-wall vibe, a gay panic arc makes perfect sense given the character experiencing it and the circumstances. I loved how tender, sweet, and new their interaction in that moment felt right up until "...my dad told me to mow the lawn." hahaha...lol
Even the subsequent Kimino/Yumeno conversation/explanation got its point across without losing the off-kilter thread of this thing. I'm certainly not sure what to make of the nutcase, shrieking, town gossips' fantasy ("rolling around naked," what? lol), but it's all part of the fun, as is the most profound and hilarious, core theme...CUCUMBERS!!! :D
I adore this show and I adore Yumeno most of all. His central place in the story snuck up on me slowly and now, he and the script are pulling off his crucial arc with a rare and successful sort of believable craziness. Love it all.
Oh, and our hero's calm presence at the center of all this madness, which comes both from him and AT him simultaneously, is...hilarious. He is a quietly acquiescent flower with balls of steel.
Also, please note my deliberate use of the word "possibly."
I have no interest in trashing good shows. Hell, I wish they were all good, so I would have a lot more BL material to enjoy. That's not the case.
The player is a good actor. Wonder if he ever did anything else?
Terrible series, waste of money, time, everything put into it.
Dropped after 1 1/2 eps.
1/10
Bigger question is why does MDL allow rating of a show that hasn't even been released yet?
Oh look! Another BL in which MCs make huge, life-altering choices based on absolutely ridiculous assumptions resulting from entirely unbelievable circumstances.
Oh look! Another BL in which MCs make no attempt to contact each other for countless years, then run into each other and solve everything in three minutes, followed by a kiss.
Oh look! Another BL in which MCs don't age even a little bit over more than a decade.
Oh look! Another BL in which MCs are psycho/angry/unbalanced for the flimsiest of reasons.
Oh look! The first BL I've seen in which a tiny piece of paper remained neatly folded under the edge of a desk leg for 12 F**KING YEARS. (Though similar miracles are legion in BL World.)
Oh look! Another BL in which multiple hot, smart men chase after an unattractive, abusive, mentally-ill protagonist.
Oh look! Another BL in which...on and on, blah blah blah...
I do not accept that my standards need to be lowered for BLs because well, they're BLs. I have seen enough well-written BLs to know that the genre does not require bad/lazy/improbable/implausible writing/plotting to qualify for the BL label. So why does this phenomenon repeat itself over and over, even in high-quality shows like this with high production values?
I do not know the answer, but I have questions:
Do the producers/directors/writers get lazy because they look down on their audience and figure if people keep watching crap out of Thailand, they'll watch anything, so why bother?
Do the same people get off on insulting their core audience?
Does the BL industry, even outside of Thailand, attract a less talented, creative, and hard-working pool of industry professionals with lower standards than their counterparts in the mainstream?
Hell, I don't know, but I do know this is the fourth recent, non-Thai BL to start strong and go to shit with the problems mentioned above:
I Hear the Sunspot
Happy of the End
Love In the Big City
Let Free the Curse of Taekwondo
If nothing else, at least this disappointing series has exposed me to the talents and good looks of Lee Seon, who has been the bright spot in this otherwise increasingly dreary mess.
oooh look! Countless, on-the-nose allusions to the passion of the Christ. That's never been done before!
Any film whose plot takes place in Asia, that has all its Asian characters speaking in stilted English, even to each other without an American in sight, is doomed from the start. Apparently, Josh Hartnett was too lazy to learn Cantonese so they made all the Asian actors speak English...badly.
Masturbatory delusions of grandeur from the director. Just ponderous and awful. I kept watching out of fascination with how much money had been wasted and how many absurdities there were in the writing.
Hartnett's acting is flat as usual, and the hot chick who lays around whimpering, when she's not servicing various men, is one of the worst actors I've seen.
2/10 The two stars are for Hartnett's shirtless scene. LBH's over-muscled body is cut to the point of being off-putting. Any man with that kind of body spends little time outside their home gym, and we never saw LBH lift anything heavier than a gun.
Avoid.
Fall in instant, fabulous, breathless love at first sight; also, the other party falls in ecstatic, star-bursting love with the MC.
Date/f**k/hang out in glorious, enchanting, perfect happiness.
Move in together after a very brief period.
Things go well for a brief period.
MC begins to question his feelings for the other party.
MC becomes a grouchy, irritable bitch who snarls at his partner at the slightest perceived slight, such as "open the windows! I told you not to do laundry in here!"
MC becomes increasingly disenchanted with the relationship.
MC dumps partner during a vicious argument, of leaves a note and sneaks out in the middle of the night.
Partner is devastated because the MC is supposedly not only fabulously handsome (which he's not) and possessed of the most attractive personality known to humans (he is nearly the opposite of that), that they literally grovel at his feet and offer to change into someone else entirely to suit his whims.
MC tells them to fuck off and walks away.
MC becomes severely, clinically depressed.
MC's little friend group shows up to see him and he is instantly cured of his clinical depression.
MC goes out drinking with his buddies, gets wasted, and BOOM! meets his next victim and we're back to the instant, spontaneous falling in love at first sight thing.
Rinse and repeat.
Of course, the details of this cycle vary from victim to victim, and there are variations, but overall the same pattern repeated itself four or five times. Worst of all, the MC never learns anything from the cycle, never changes or grows, and remains the same in word and deed from start to finish of this series. I would have been happy to see him get MORE vicious in how he treats people; at least that would be change and would be interesting, but no, we get nada/nothing/zero in the way of character change one way or the other.
The cycle repeated five times and then the show was over.
As always, comments from your type devolve into personal insults, cause that's what you've got.
OMG...MY COMMENTS HAVE NO LIKES!!!!
Please, wait while I kill myself a second time, OK?
To summarize your comment:
Your life sucks!
You are insignificant!
You are SO insignificant!
Nobody in the entire world cares about you!
Your comments have no likes!
I hope your life is shitty!
Oh, your life is already shitty!
Meanwhile, you aren't able to coherently argue a case for how LITBC is a great show. All you've got is insults for those who disagree with you. Speaks for itself, fetus.
I know that when I block an MDLer, all their comments disappear from my view along with any of my replies to their comments. But do those comments and replies remain visible to everyone else? Just curious...
"bruh..." lol dumbass
Oh dear....it looks as though you're about to be aborted...