What makes you think Taishin is in his mid-20s? He has just started studying, which means he should be 18. He…
hahahahahaha...even 18-year-olds from the country have genitals and sex drives. At that age, we men have semen leaking out of our ears. We are horny 24/7. I take it you are female or lying.
I'm really struggling with this drama. I find Taishin's character beyond pitiful. I simply can't wrap my head…
BRAVO again JG! You said it all much better than I tried to above. When Takara pulled Taishin onto his lap, I hoped with all my heart that Taishin would jump a bit and say "...but...but Senior...why do you have a big carrot in your pants?!" Alas, it was not to be. Cut to Takara waking up in pants, shirt, and sweater under a comforter and Taishin playing the virginal, sexless bottom/housewife making breakfast. lol
This show is a parody of fluffy, sex-phobic BLs, which are made for the portion of the BL audience who sees sex as dirty and disgusting and nasty. But what good is a bottom when there's no boinking?
Yes, I'm back again this week to rag on this boring show, simply because I want to.
Why it doesn't work: The only indication they're in a "relationship," or that Takara is attracted to Taishin, or of any other important aspect of this plot, such as it is, is in the DIALOGUE. They tell us they're feeling all kinds of things and having all kinds of thoughts toward each other but we SEE none of what they're talking about in the way they interact, look at each other, walk together, nothing. This script breaks a cardinal rule of good drama: SHOW, don't TELL.
We all know that if Takara dumped Taishin tomorrow, Taishin would fall to pieces. Without attention and supposed affection from Takara, he is a non-entity. He has little self-identity or confidence outside of how he perceives that Takara sees and feels about him. Don't forget, the only reason he went to that college was to stalk Takara. That is not the kind of person a grounded, assured dude like Takara would go for. It's ridiculous.
Finally, these supposedly healthy, fit, and spry young men apparently have had their genitals and sex drives surgically removed. Their lack of physical desire for each other is absurd, unrealistic, and prudish. If these characters were even slightly human, they would have been all over each other long before now. This is a show for the Little Girls cohort of the BL fandom, who are terrified of boners and want nothing from their BL boys but fuzzy bears, rainbows, and unicorns. Meanwhile, the true Fujoshsis, who started all this for us, wonder why these two aren't banging away at each other.
So, that's the episode 9 analysis for this week, for those of you who I know are dying to see me here in comments again. :) I'm enjoying this hate-watch. :D
I realy want to watch ,i am into incest dramasa so give me 2 reasons i shouldn't watch
It has been almost four years since I started following Asian cinema and BLs, and I am just now starting to be able to recall the names of favorite Korean, Japanese, and Taiwanese actors without looking them up each time. I'm still pretty hopeless with Thailand and the Philippines. I'm American and, like you, the sounds and spellings of Asian names was impossible to hang on to. Almost all of my favorites are Korean though.
It's only now that I automatically remember that their last name comes first, then their given name after that. I used to have to remind myself all the time.
It's complicated by the fact that often, in the Western press, Asian actors will use their first and last names switched, just like we do, so I have to deal with that. lol
But then of course, in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Thailand the first name comes first, like in the West, so I have to remember that. It's easier though, because Hong Kongers often have Western-sounding first names as a result of being colonized by the British for so long in the past. The Taiwanese are the same, but I think that's out of a deliberate effort to identify with the West after the Chinese communist civil war drove anti-Communists out onto the island.
Yoo Ah In is awesome. Just incredibly talented. Check out the following films if you haven't done so already: Veteran Default Burning Antique Bakery Punch Boys of Tomorrow The Throne
They Have Been Remaking Series & Movies In Different Languages & Cultures Since Entertainment Was Invented. For…
I don't really know what you mean by that, since you could have deleted those sentences...but that's fine. I will probably watch at least the first episode to see what they are trying to do with the remake. Who knows, maybe they came up with some wonderful new approach and screenplay that improves on the original. :)
Just finished episode 1. I agree with those below who said this is like watching a mash-up of Blue Boys and Bad Guy. For me, it's mostly about the ambiance/mood/vibe of the show being repeated over and over and over that makes this one begin to feel tedious. Which is unfortunate because again, the acting is quite good, although the smaller guy does feel like the same character I saw him play before. Also, the background noise and the lighting here had me believing they were in some little pub somewhere. But now we're getting the same frustrated straight girl thing again, on top of the MC vibe being the same as the other two.
I don't get what SUKFILM is trying to accomplish by producing three well-done but repetitious BLs right out of the gate.
Lord, I just glimpsed the beginning of episode 2 and I think they're in the same restaurant as in the other two series. lol wth?
On edit: It IS the same freaking restaurant! hahaha Is this a three-series prank on the audience of some sort, maybe to show we'll watch anything BL? Or maybe they're saying all BLs are basically the same anyway, so why bother much with re-writing scripts and all that stuff.
They Have Been Remaking Series & Movies In Different Languages & Cultures Since Entertainment Was Invented. For…
ummm...this was made in THAILAND, the very same language and culture as the original. Your first two sentences make no sense whatsoever as applied to this show.
They Have Been Remaking Series & Movies In Different Languages & Cultures Since Entertainment Was Invented. For…
ummm...this was made in THAILAND, the very same language and culture as the original. Your first two sentences make no sense whatsoever as applied to this show.
Oh my goodness. I feel I've seen something truly remarkable, but that I will need to see it two or three more…
A month later I came for my second watch and yes, this film is now a 9.5/10 for me. I understood a great deal I missed the first time around. Truly, one of the richest, deepest, multi-layered, yet accessible films I have ever seen. Not that I feel I understand everything about it yet, not by a mile. But that doesn't matter because I'm already anticipating my third watch and the discoveries I will make then.
Gorgeous and sensual, this film is an eiderdown bed of feelings and emotions. Highly recommended.
The credits and the first six minutes looked interesting but then the gangster lackey and the head boss took things in a moronic, Three Stooges direction that isn't funny but merely lame and amateurish.
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If you are a dude, I'm sorry that you've been neutered.
This show is a parody of fluffy, sex-phobic BLs, which are made for the portion of the BL audience who sees sex as dirty and disgusting and nasty. But what good is a bottom when there's no boinking?
During the kiss, I pretended I was Taishin.
Yes, I'm back again this week to rag on this boring show, simply because I want to.
Why it doesn't work:
The only indication they're in a "relationship," or that Takara is attracted to Taishin, or of any other important aspect of this plot, such as it is, is in the DIALOGUE. They tell us they're feeling all kinds of things and having all kinds of thoughts toward each other but we SEE none of what they're talking about in the way they interact, look at each other, walk together, nothing. This script breaks a cardinal rule of good drama: SHOW, don't TELL.
We all know that if Takara dumped Taishin tomorrow, Taishin would fall to pieces. Without attention and supposed affection from Takara, he is a non-entity. He has little self-identity or confidence outside of how he perceives that Takara sees and feels about him. Don't forget, the only reason he went to that college was to stalk Takara. That is not the kind of person a grounded, assured dude like Takara would go for. It's ridiculous.
Finally, these supposedly healthy, fit, and spry young men apparently have had their genitals and sex drives surgically removed. Their lack of physical desire for each other is absurd, unrealistic, and prudish. If these characters were even slightly human, they would have been all over each other long before now. This is a show for the Little Girls cohort of the BL fandom, who are terrified of boners and want nothing from their BL boys but fuzzy bears, rainbows, and unicorns. Meanwhile, the true Fujoshsis, who started all this for us, wonder why these two aren't banging away at each other.
So, that's the episode 9 analysis for this week, for those of you who I know are dying to see me here in comments again. :) I'm enjoying this hate-watch. :D
It's only now that I automatically remember that their last name comes first, then their given name after that. I used to have to remind myself all the time.
It's complicated by the fact that often, in the Western press, Asian actors will use their first and last names switched, just like we do, so I have to deal with that. lol
But then of course, in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Thailand the first name comes first, like in the West, so I have to remember that. It's easier though, because Hong Kongers often have Western-sounding first names as a result of being colonized by the British for so long in the past. The Taiwanese are the same, but I think that's out of a deliberate effort to identify with the West after the Chinese communist civil war drove anti-Communists out onto the island.
Yoo Ah In is awesome. Just incredibly talented. Check out the following films if you haven't done so already:
Veteran
Default
Burning
Antique Bakery
Punch
Boys of Tomorrow
The Throne
I agree with those below who said this is like watching a mash-up of Blue Boys and Bad Guy.
For me, it's mostly about the ambiance/mood/vibe of the show being repeated over and over and over that makes this one begin to feel tedious. Which is unfortunate because again, the acting is quite good, although the smaller guy does feel like the same character I saw him play before. Also, the background noise and the lighting here had me believing they were in some little pub somewhere. But now we're getting the same frustrated straight girl thing again, on top of the MC vibe being the same as the other two.
I don't get what SUKFILM is trying to accomplish by producing three well-done but repetitious BLs right out of the gate.
Lord, I just glimpsed the beginning of episode 2 and I think they're in the same restaurant as in the other two series. lol wth?
On edit: It IS the same freaking restaurant! hahaha Is this a three-series prank on the audience of some sort, maybe to show we'll watch anything BL? Or maybe they're saying all BLs are basically the same anyway, so why bother much with re-writing scripts and all that stuff.
Interesting.
Gorgeous and sensual, this film is an eiderdown bed of feelings and emotions. Highly recommended.
9.5/10
The credits and the first six minutes looked interesting but then the gangster lackey and the head boss took things in a moronic, Three Stooges direction that isn't funny but merely lame and amateurish.
Dropped at 10:06...