I'm not going to go through and respond to each awkward, bumbling point you think you just made here...buddy. I'll leave you to swim the warm waters of your own nonsense.
Your writing gives me a chance to use one of my favorite, opposite-word descriptions: You are deeply shallow. You might not think something shallow could at the same time be deep, but you've proven that thought to be incorrect.
Is homophobia part of Korean mainstream culture? I noticed that they rarely have gay characters in reg dramas…
Mainstream Korean culture/society is still homophobic as hell. Meanwhile, hundreds of beautiful gay boys in kpop groups are entertaining the shit out of the country and bringing in multi-millions of foreign $$$.
In truth, there are quite a few Korean films going back years that feature lead or near-lead gay characters. Let me know if you want some suggestions.
Basically, Korea went from an entirely rural, backward society to an urban-centered, economically wealthy society open to the West in just ONE generation after the Korean war in the 1950s, and the whiplash effect is still predominant. The country has one foot in its extremely conservative past and another foot in the extremely liberal/sexually open present, and people continue to lose their minds over what is and is not acceptable.
Korea has the highest rate of suicide and alcoholism in the entire world, for reasons directly tied to what I described above. It is entirely acceptable to puke out your guts every night after post-work drinking parties, but if you smoke a joint of mary jane you go to prison. Gangnam is full of sex workers, pimps, and customers every single night, but get caught being any of those things and people go insane. Of course, the Internet has amplified all this stupidity by a thousand.
The above is why the number of Korean celebs and entertainers who kill themselves is downright jaw-dropping. They make one false move, and their career is over. The magnifying glass on them is beyond belief.
please don't be intimidated by the nasty Little Girls who try to control comment sections.
If you scroll through comments, you'll see there are a LOT of us who recognize this series as being nowhere near the rarified space reserved for "masterpieces." The use of that word to describe this series is absurd on its face.
It's just that young, inexperienced MDLers throw that term around here like confetti. They think they're making a profound statement when, in fact, the way it is used here renders it a meaningless cliche.
From the Merriam--Webster Dictionary: MASTERPIECE - "a supreme intellectual or artistic achievement"
I completely agree with everything you said. The first half of this series was perfect, but then it went downhill…
"2gether" is #11 on my all-time Worst 30 BLs list. That second season was downright bizarre, with lovers high-fiving like best buds and generally avoiding each other. Very pretty leads, but the terrible acting/story/writing led me to drop that second nightmare season quickly.
"So many people below had the same opinion as me that I must conclude that this show would not have an 8.5 rating…
MDL LGs notoriously swarm to up-rate shows they love. And they mostly love shows in which the man-on-man love/sex relationship is downplayed in favor of rainbows and cotton candy. For them, this disappointing series with a sister-hug as its ending is great stuff.
I haven't done it yet, but I've considered deliberately down-rating shows like this that have absurdly high ratings. If doing the opposite is common, why not?
So here’s what I think as someone reading the manga and how much the show used. The show only goes to the end…
Nothing about a S2 could change how I feel about S1 because as Notawe says so well below, a live-action adaptation should stand on its own as a story that makes sense.
For instance, "We Best Love: No. 1 For You" is a great series that tells a story from a beginning to and end. It needs no sequel to help its arc and ending make sense. It's on my Best 30 BLs list. Then, along comes "We Best Love: Fighting Mr. Second," which is incoherent, clunky, relies on absurd premises, and is on my Worst 30 BLs list.
The first, and awesome, BL I stumbled into and which made me a BL crazy person is the original "Love Sick." S1 does not need S2 to complete it, not in the least. S2 is a completely separate story which takes off from where S1 left us but doesn't finish anything that was left hanging in S1.
Viewers should not have to have read any source material for any series or film in order to make sense of the adaptation.
I respect everybody's right to have and express their opinion, as I have reiterated many times. That is NOT the same thing as not respecting an opinion I strongly disagree with. Why would I "respect" an opinion I see as flawed?
This is not YOUR comment section. Members are free under the rules of MDL to respond to any comment they choose to. If not, they could easily make it impossible to do. You simply don't like that I disagree with you. If I had replied in YOUR comment section that I totally agree with you, you would not have replied to me with the above nonsense.
Everything anyone writes on a public forum is the business of anyone else on that forum who sees it...buddy.
"people are just expressing their opinions." You write as if expressing one's opinion is some minor side-effect of what goes on here. It is the very purpose of a comment section, and you are the one so sensitive and touchy that your wrote this reply to tell me to STFU.
Nowhere in any of my comments have I ever said or implied that others should like what I like and dislike what I dislike, assuming that's what you mean by that garbled sentence. If I'm mistaken, please provide the quote from my words.
You can continue to misuse the word "masterpiece" all you want. Knock yourself out. I will continue to disagree with that, and say so when I choose.
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Your writing gives me a chance to use one of my favorite, opposite-word descriptions: You are deeply shallow. You might not think something shallow could at the same time be deep, but you've proven that thought to be incorrect.
In truth, there are quite a few Korean films going back years that feature lead or near-lead gay characters. Let me know if you want some suggestions.
Basically, Korea went from an entirely rural, backward society to an urban-centered, economically wealthy society open to the West in just ONE generation after the Korean war in the 1950s, and the whiplash effect is still predominant. The country has one foot in its extremely conservative past and another foot in the extremely liberal/sexually open present, and people continue to lose their minds over what is and is not acceptable.
Korea has the highest rate of suicide and alcoholism in the entire world, for reasons directly tied to what I described above. It is entirely acceptable to puke out your guts every night after post-work drinking parties, but if you smoke a joint of mary jane you go to prison. Gangnam is full of sex workers, pimps, and customers every single night, but get caught being any of those things and people go insane. Of course, the Internet has amplified all this stupidity by a thousand.
The above is why the number of Korean celebs and entertainers who kill themselves is downright jaw-dropping. They make one false move, and their career is over. The magnifying glass on them is beyond belief.
It's just that young, inexperienced MDLers throw that term around here like confetti. They think they're making a profound statement when, in fact, the way it is used here renders it a meaningless cliche.
From the Merriam--Webster Dictionary:
MASTERPIECE - "a supreme intellectual or artistic achievement"
This series a masterpiece? Ummm...no.
I haven't done it yet, but I've considered deliberately down-rating shows like this that have absurdly high ratings. If doing the opposite is common, why not?
Could you elaborate on what you mean by this statement, please?
I'm glad you enjoy her work, though.
For instance, "We Best Love: No. 1 For You" is a great series that tells a story from a beginning to and end. It needs no sequel to help its arc and ending make sense. It's on my Best 30 BLs list. Then, along comes "We Best Love: Fighting Mr. Second," which is incoherent, clunky, relies on absurd premises, and is on my Worst 30 BLs list.
The first, and awesome, BL I stumbled into and which made me a BL crazy person is the original "Love Sick." S1 does not need S2 to complete it, not in the least. S2 is a completely separate story which takes off from where S1 left us but doesn't finish anything that was left hanging in S1.
Viewers should not have to have read any source material for any series or film in order to make sense of the adaptation.
I think you might have made that up in your head.
I respect everybody's right to have and express their opinion, as I have reiterated many times. That is NOT the same thing as not respecting an opinion I strongly disagree with. Why would I "respect" an opinion I see as flawed?
This is not YOUR comment section. Members are free under the rules of MDL to respond to any comment they choose to. If not, they could easily make it impossible to do. You simply don't like that I disagree with you. If I had replied in YOUR comment section that I totally agree with you, you would not have replied to me with the above nonsense.
Everything anyone writes on a public forum is the business of anyone else on that forum who sees it...buddy.
"people are just expressing their opinions."
You write as if expressing one's opinion is some minor side-effect of what goes on here. It is the very purpose of a comment section, and you are the one so sensitive and touchy that your wrote this reply to tell me to STFU.
Nowhere in any of my comments have I ever said or implied that others should like what I like and dislike what I dislike, assuming that's what you mean by that garbled sentence. If I'm mistaken, please provide the quote from my words.
You can continue to misuse the word "masterpiece" all you want. Knock yourself out. I will continue to disagree with that, and say so when I choose.