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I'm responding to annoy you.
What part of "I can live with that" don't you understand?
Looks like you Google-translated your own message to clean it up. This is far different from that mess you sent as a first reply.
It's "BRAIN," not "BRIAN." A brain is the thing inside one's head. I assume you have one, though that's not self-evident so far.
"Brian" is a Western first name.
Brain is Dong Hee, the smart, studious half of the MC, who dumps his beloved for no coherent reason, as we often see in BL.
"Athlete" is Ho Tae who is, you know, the athletic half of the MC.

Please do respond again. I enjoy toying with you.

Thanks, me! That was a great comment you (I) wrote!

This is BASED ON a real story. Big difference.

He STAYED drunk on one beer for hours, then had a hangover later.
On ONE beer.
He was not a little "buzzed" or slightly drunk, he was stumbling, slurring, shit-faced drunk. On ONE beer. It's absurd.
You say you got "drunk" on one beer. How drunk? For how long? How do I verify this? :D

But, as I said, it's hardly a big enough issue to make me stop watching. It's that I don't get how this kind of sloppiness gets by the directors in BLs. I don't agree with you that fictional stories, presenting themselves in the universe in which we all live, have no obligation to be faithful to reality.

Hey, I'm glad you related to my comment. I know I have lots of haters here, but I'm OK with that. I AM looking forward to watching the rest of the available episodes over the weekend, so I'll touch base. :)

It's douche BAG, not doucheback.
As I told you, your comment is far too garbled, misspelled, and confusing for me to know what you think you were trying to say. I picked up that you disagreed with and insulted me several times, but that's it. As I said, I can live with that.
I wasn't aware that you were desperate for a detailed reply.
I'm commenting on MDL, not trying to "get somewhere.
If you insist on replying again, please do so in your first language so I can use Google Translate.
Thanks.

Again, it's doucheBAG, not doucheBACK.
A douche is contained in a bag, not carried on one's back.

You're most welcome

Your comment is such a gooey word salad that I'm not sure of your meaning, but I'm fairly certain I was insulted a few times. I can live with that.

But goodness...work on your English and try again later.

ooh...thank you. Glad you enjoyed it. :)

Episode 5:
So slow on the surface, but lots of turbulence below...
The super-smart/aggressive one makes me fear for a school shooting ahead. Creepy.
What a great way to end the episode.

Episode 4:

This is a delightful watch.

The leads continue their extraordinary display of acting skill which, when done as well as they are doing it, doesn't feel like "acting" at all. All of their interactions feel quite genuine, which is why the story is developing into a powerful one. A well-written, acted, produced show will make you forget you're watching a fictional presentation and suck you into the universe of the story. They've done that through 4 episodes now.

Benjamin Tsang as Jiang Tian is blowing my mind with his work here. Tian is one of the most unique and distinctive BL characters I've seen. He withholds so much and shows a poker face most of the time, but with small adjustments of his eyes/mouth//shoulders/head/etc. I feel I know what's going on in his head. It's wonderful. I first saw Tsang in a short film which doesn't seem to be on his bio page. It was low budget and brief, but it was clear then that he's a rare talent.

Liu Dong Qin as Sheng Wang is a powerful opposing force to Tsang's Tian. He shows a lot more emotion but it is never overdone, and mostly quite subtle. Great casting. The two of them together had me misty with feels several times in this episode.

When I first met these two in episode 1, I thought "OK, we have one conventionally handsome but somewhat bland-looking actor and another whose jutting ears, sizeable nose, and tiny mouth still leave him somehow attractive." Now I'm like "Wang gets more gorgeous with every scene, and Tian's ears, nose, and mouth have somehow become incredibly sexy." THAT is the power of charisma and character building.

Tropes all over the place, and I'll never understand the insistence by so many BL directors to include them, but because even the tropes are done in slightly original ways and because everything else is so A+, I don't much care.

Let me respond to your advocational attempts: :)

1. I used to drink a LOT...like, a LOT. No matter how fast you drink one, medium-sized mug of beer on an empty stomach, and no matter how unused you are to drinking alcohol, that one mug of beer is not going to keep you drunk for HOURS and almost make you throw up, then leave you with a hangover.

This isn't a huge thing, I just don't get how things like that make it past a show's director, especially as they edit. Why not have him sneak a couple more beers, chugging them too fast for anyone to stop him? See? I should be a BL blooper-corrector assistant director, right? :)

2. Wow, that is an impressive reach, however desperate. lol Not a chance of it being true, nor was it indicated in the dialogue, but I'll go with it for the sake of harmony on the thread.

I'm enjoying the acting and the rest of this story a great deal. It's not like I'm going to let the bloopers run me off. :D

Lame. My first paragraph insults only the BL watchers to which it specifically refers, the ones who make up stuff...etc. Don't try to drag everyone else into the category you identify with. Bye.

Wow. Thanks for perfectly summarizing the thought process of a BL watcher who has been programmed to make up stuff that isn't on the screen, ignore stuff that is, and generally fantasize an entirely alternate plot universe for a story that doesn't make sense.

Ho-Tae's mother specifically said..." there is no way, no matter what, that I could ever hate you." She said this after delineating the many ways that he had brought joy into her life. He directly and intentionally blew off what she said as if it meant nothing.

Oh please, EVERY gay man has internalized homophobia. He was 100% aware of his intense love for Ho-Tae. The chance of losing imo's love was non-existent, and Ho-Tae's "playboy ways" were a complete joke as he knew better than anyone, and both of his "girlfriends" had already been dumped.

How does being kicked out by his father justify or explain his treatment of Ho-Tae? EVERYONE knew they were NOT brothers; this was specifically addressed in the dialogue. Quit making stuff up.

LOTS of nice stuff going on here.
I can't decide which of the leads is the better actor, so I'll just say they are equally gifted and affecting.
I spent much of #3 in teariness due to the measured, unhurried, excellent work of the leads.
The moments involving the lemon-honey water.
Wang's deeply moving monologue while sitting on his bed. So real.
Tian's habit of restraining/sublimating his emotions, which are nonetheless apparent in his face, eyes, and body language. Great work.
Love Xi and his "partner." I was surprised he didn't say "husband," since Taiwan has gay marriage now. But we know his dad is a homophobe and in denial, so perhaps that's why that step hasn't been taken yet.
Enjoying the work of Andy Chen and Jed Chung ("Jump the Boy!" "Light!") in their supporting roles. Hard to believe the leads and Jed are all 30 years old. I hope Jed gets his own BL before he gets too old to pass as a college kid. He sure is passing as a high school kid here though. I find myself watching his expressive face and body language as other characters are speaking. He is always very much IN the scene.

I could do without:
Drunk trope stupidity: How was Wang shit-faced on one beer?
Bloopers like Xi the cafe owner telling the students everything was on the house, then later Wang is credited with paying for everyone's tab that Xi already paid for once.
Constant musical cues to tell me how to feel about something being said. I haaaaaaaaaate when a scene takes an emotional turn, the actors are doing a great job, but the director doesn't trust their work and finds it necessary to cue us with tinkling piano out of nowhere, or someone warbling a ballad from the soundtrack album they're selling.
People getting "fevers" because the AC was set low.
People running out for various medicines and treatments following AC incidents and kitchen burns. I thought all BL households had a fully-supplied medical kit in the living room console?

Overall, enjoying this very much though, because the relationship at its core, and the actors enacting it are doing a superior job.

Interesting. I feel suppressed feelings all over the place already in the first three eps.

None of that was explained in this show at all. You are assuming it, but it was not there on the screen. As I've said, BL watchers are SO conditioned to do the work of filling in emotion/plot/motivation/etc. that lazy writing doesn't provide, that they don't even know they're doing it.

Ho-Tae's mother explained to him, in as much detail as she dared, that she didn't mind if he and Athlete were gay for each other. He ignored her. Why did he make that choice? Is he a masochist? Well, yes, it's true, many BL characters ARE masochists, which is the only explanation for behavior like that of the Brain late in this show.

No, it won't. I've seen ULS. Seeing what comes after this does nothing to explain the actions of Brainiac in episodes 5 and 6 of THIS show. If what you say is the way this is to be viewed, then there should have been a huge screen card at the end, saying "BE SURE TO WATCH THE BL DRAMA 'UNINTENTIONAL LOVE STORY. IT WILL ANSWER ALL OF YOUR QUESTIONS AS TO WHY THE SMART GUY DID WHAT HE DID."

I didn't see that screen card. Did you?

As I said though, there is nothing in ULS that explains the lazy trope-ish last two episodes of this series. Why was the Brain so cruel and heartless? They didn't even bother to have him explain, even to himself, WHY he felt it necessary to rip them apart from each other. We're just supposed to know that from all the other BL endings just like it in other shows.

Exactly.