Is anyone surprised that there was not a single article on MDL about the Baeksang Awards nominations that were…
No surprise at all. It's MDL. Made up scandals are much more fun than reporting on awards given out for high achievement. Destroying artists is a big-sell in Korea, rewarding them not so much.
news writers such as lo_ve prefer scandalous koreaboo type of articles instead of reporting on real news unfortunately
"news" writers like "lo_ve" aren't the biggest problem here. That would be the MDL editors and senior staff who allow this kind of crap to run.
I'm American. The tone of this sort of article and the statements put out by the Korean agencies in relation to them are downright cultish/creepy to me. There's a North Korean/authoritarian/psuedo-religious vibe to verbiage such as "...reflect on herself and become a better person..."
Note also the BS claim that the actress made her own choices to drop herself from projects, etc., when that is highly unlikely to be the case. Rather, she was almost certainly forced to do so. The parallels in mindset to both North Korean, Communist, thought-control and its mirror-image, South Korean, military dictatorship-style, self-criticism papers and such is downright freakish.
So that's TWO young Korean actresses currently being tortured over high school bullying accusations, two others being dragged for the crime of, you know, DATING, Yoo Ah In still being hounded and obsessed over for drug allegations, and all this in the wake of Lee Sun Kyun' s suicide just three months ago, from which the press, police and psycho fans learned nothing.
Oh, and let's not forget that yet ANOTHER 30-year-old K-popper Park Boram supposedly dropped dead out of the blue during a drinking party four days ago. Theo stories being published in relation to that are more about telling us to shut up and not speculate, than they are to getting to the bottom of what actually happened, which does not include anything put out in yet another platitudinous agency announcement, letting us know that yet another K-Pop star has gone to bea star in the sky to watch over us, making sure we know how heartbroken the agency is and oh btw, stfu.
One of the most bizarre things about kpop agency suspicious death announcements is how often they express "condolences" TO THE DEAD PERSON, rather than to her family and friends, so that her "soul may rest in peace." Condolences go to the survivors, not the dead for god's sake.
For the millionth time, all that matters to a live-action adaptation is what we see on the screen. All your references…
Using "literally" doesn't make you sound smarter.
Nothing you wrote contradicts anything in my comment. Adaptations can be whatever the writers and directors decide they will be in relation to the source material. And adaptation can be extremely faithful to the original, or it can be extremely different. "Adaptation" merely means the series is BASED ON the source, there is no law requiring it to "follow the novel."
In fact, there is no way any live-action adaptation can be a word-by-word on-screen version of the novel. If it were, it would be 325 episodes long.
I repeat: All that matters to the viewers of a series is what is presented on screen or in dialogue. If something isn't shown or mentioned, then for the purposes of the series, it didn't happen.
It's been some time and I had to come back here. I know that it was the right choice to cancel the theatrical…
Yet another absurd, Asian entertainment "scandal," in which mere accusations are taken as FACT and cowardly production companies halt production or distribution of movies/dramas/music despite the fact nothing has been proven.
It's hilarious to me that an "aspiring actress" claims she was told to "take off her clothes" to "check for tattoos" and to get used to being naked in front of a camera; in response to which she allegedly undresses like a complete moron, then claims to have been "coerced" into sex. lol Being stupid enough to get naked in front of someone you hardly know because they tell you to should be the crime here, not the asking.
Has this "aspiring actress" ever considered saying "hell, no!," leaving the apartment/hotel and taking her story to a newspaper or such, rather than getting naked, having sex, and THEN later, after not landing the role she was hoping for, claiming to be a victim? This kind of behavior is incredibly infantilziing of women, as if they can't even move their lips to form the word "no." As if they're mentally disabled. It's embarrassing and insulting to women who are more than capable of saying "no.."
I think this is better, we get to deeply know the characters and see their romance. People who are complaining…
Work on reading comprehension.
My first sentence stands as written. I know what I'm talking about. I'm a gay man. Thus the "get over it." Most men, gay or straight are "shallow" when it comes to sex. Most gay sex is extra shallow because there are no women to get in the way of what goes down.
99% of Thai BLs suck. The last good one was Midnight Chicken, and that just barely. I have no idea where you get that I "like" Thai BLs. It's not the quick timeline to sex that is the problem in Thai BLs, it is that they are poorly written, directed, acted, and produced. What part of "...the usual Thai "oh you're my STEP-brother!" did you not get?
Your imagined "offense" on my part on behalf of the trash bin that is the Thai BL industry is way off base. Say whatever you want about them. You won't get an argument from me.
For ppl saying this is too much of a slow burn and nothing is happening except angst, y'all have to keep in mind…
For the millionth time, all that matters to a live-action adaptation is what we see on the screen. All your references to stuff from the novel that doesn't exist on screen is entirely irrelevant to the story we're seeing here.
Go post this comment on a discussion board about the NOVEL, where it would make sense.
I think this is better, we get to deeply know the characters and see their romance. People who are complaining…
Most gay guys DO fuck after three episodes IRL, or often after three hours. Get over it. The reason this is different is written into the scenario, with all the adoption/bros/family angle, but in a much more interesting way than the usual Thai "oh you're my STEP-brother!"
The series became increasingly dull with every episode. I had to force myself to watch to the very end. WAY too much standing around, rehashing, remembering, thinking, blah blah blah to fill out the plot, such as it was. This director is not familiar with the concept of "show, don't tell." The final straw was even bothering to explain to that hateful old bag what their perspective was.
Naturally, the MDL rating for this is much too generous.
it gets going after 4 eps man ...for me the best drama I have ever seen..but it's up to u if u wanna give it another…
I'm in the middle of episode 12 right now. This series is going to be one I remember with wildly mixed emotions. There is so much more to LSK's character than that he is a good man doing good things. I'll say more after I finish watching, but I find him to be "good" to a degree that actually, often HURTS those around him. There is more than a dollop of neurosis driving Dong Hoon's behavior.
I feel like this should have been a 12 episode show. We are taken WAY off into the woods way too many times, and the word "filler" keeps popping into my head. Clearly, Netflix contracted for a 16-episode series and the producers were going to find some way, any way to fill those 960 minutes.
Yep, she had precisely one expression for the entire show. Which is to say, the sullen, sulking expression of…
Beautifully stated. My new nickname for her is "IUD." :D
In honor of IUD, I will re-purpose a remark usually attributed to Dorothy Parker, summarizing Katherine Hepburn's performance in some Broadway Play... "Miss IUD's performance runs the gamut of human emotions from A to B."
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I'm American. The tone of this sort of article and the statements put out by the Korean agencies in relation to them are downright cultish/creepy to me. There's a North Korean/authoritarian/psuedo-religious vibe to verbiage such as "...reflect on herself and become a better person..."
Note also the BS claim that the actress made her own choices to drop herself from projects, etc., when that is highly unlikely to be the case. Rather, she was almost certainly forced to do so. The parallels in mindset to both North Korean, Communist, thought-control and its mirror-image, South Korean, military dictatorship-style, self-criticism papers and such is downright freakish.
So that's TWO young Korean actresses currently being tortured over high school bullying accusations, two others being dragged for the crime of, you know, DATING, Yoo Ah In still being hounded and obsessed over for drug allegations, and all this in the wake of Lee Sun Kyun' s suicide just three months ago, from which the press, police and psycho fans learned nothing.
Oh, and let's not forget that yet ANOTHER 30-year-old K-popper Park Boram supposedly dropped dead out of the blue during a drinking party four days ago. Theo stories being published in relation to that are more about telling us to shut up and not speculate, than they are to getting to the bottom of what actually happened, which does not include anything put out in yet another platitudinous agency announcement, letting us know that yet another K-Pop star has gone to bea star in the sky to watch over us, making sure we know how heartbroken the agency is and oh btw, stfu.
One of the most bizarre things about kpop agency suspicious death announcements is how often they express "condolences" TO THE DEAD PERSON, rather than to her family and friends, so that her "soul may rest in peace." Condolences go to the survivors, not the dead for god's sake.
#2. Because MDL allows people to rate shows they haven't seen, which is bonkers.
#3. Repeat #1.
Nothing you wrote contradicts anything in my comment. Adaptations can be whatever the writers and directors decide they will be in relation to the source material. And adaptation can be extremely faithful to the original, or it can be extremely different. "Adaptation" merely means the series is BASED ON the source, there is no law requiring it to "follow the novel."
In fact, there is no way any live-action adaptation can be a word-by-word on-screen version of the novel. If it were, it would be 325 episodes long.
I repeat: All that matters to the viewers of a series is what is presented on screen or in dialogue. If something isn't shown or mentioned, then for the purposes of the series, it didn't happen.
It's hilarious to me that an "aspiring actress" claims she was told to "take off her clothes" to "check for tattoos" and to get used to being naked in front of a camera; in response to which she allegedly undresses like a complete moron, then claims to have been "coerced" into sex.
lol Being stupid enough to get naked in front of someone you hardly know because they tell you to should be the crime here, not the asking.
Has this "aspiring actress" ever considered saying "hell, no!," leaving the apartment/hotel and taking her story to a newspaper or such, rather than getting naked, having sex, and THEN later, after not landing the role she was hoping for, claiming to be a victim? This kind of behavior is incredibly infantilziing of women, as if they can't even move their lips to form the word "no." As if they're mentally disabled. It's embarrassing and insulting to women who are more than capable of saying "no.."
My first sentence stands as written. I know what I'm talking about. I'm a gay man. Thus the "get over it." Most men, gay or straight are "shallow" when it comes to sex. Most gay sex is extra shallow because there are no women to get in the way of what goes down.
99% of Thai BLs suck. The last good one was Midnight Chicken, and that just barely. I have no idea where you get that I "like" Thai BLs. It's not the quick timeline to sex that is the problem in Thai BLs, it is that they are poorly written, directed, acted, and produced. What part of "...the usual Thai "oh you're my STEP-brother!" did you not get?
Your imagined "offense" on my part on behalf of the trash bin that is the Thai BL industry is way off base. Say whatever you want about them. You won't get an argument from me.
Go post this comment on a discussion board about the NOVEL, where it would make sense.
The reason this is different is written into the scenario, with all the adoption/bros/family angle, but in a much more interesting way than the usual Thai "oh you're my STEP-brother!"
The hug and Yuan's little monologue about the "last words" he had written had me all teary again. This is an excellent BL.
But now there's blood... :(
The series became increasingly dull with every episode. I had to force myself to watch to the very end. WAY too much standing around, rehashing, remembering, thinking, blah blah blah to fill out the plot, such as it was. This director is not familiar with the concept of "show, don't tell." The final straw was even bothering to explain to that hateful old bag what their perspective was.
Naturally, the MDL rating for this is much too generous.
6.5/10
I feel like this should have been a 12 episode show. We are taken WAY off into the woods way too many times, and the word "filler" keeps popping into my head. Clearly, Netflix contracted for a 16-episode series and the producers were going to find some way, any way to fill those 960 minutes.
In honor of IUD, I will re-purpose a remark usually attributed to Dorothy Parker, summarizing Katherine Hepburn's performance in some Broadway Play... "Miss IUD's performance runs the gamut of human emotions from A to B."
Is that not perfect?
Why yes, you did. And you're going to regret it.
If you're any older than 10 and behaving the way you are right now, then you're even more pathetic than I thought.
I can use Google Translate too.
I speak 15 languages.
Wear the label proudly.