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She's excellent, indeed.

hmmm...trolling, perhaps?

Episode 7:
M*TH*RF*CK**ING SK bastards.
Never occurred to me they'd do that.
Shitheads.
I hope he tells his new friends whatever they want to know, escapes, and heads back for revenge.

Seo Mu Min (the daughter) is an exceptional actor.
Big things ahead for her.

Whyyyyyyyyyyy would you walk away and trust that psycho sadist to "turn himself in?"
Plus, think of all the other lives he'll ruin.
As a condition of turning myself in, I would have required that the Uncles be given immunity so they could watch over Min Ji.
But that's me.

Great episode.
Great action, stupendous fight scenes.

Episode 8:
Well...that quickly answered all my questions from episode 7. :D

I would think Hye Ri's daddy had learned better than to mess with 66.

Bingo!
Totally, and yet it seems we're meant to take that in earnest.
I'm thinking a lot of things you can get away with in a novel, like the constant soup bit, or XF's pathetic lack of personality, don't translate well to live action.
Also, like a dude like LQ falling for a slug like XF.

Episode 6:
Terrible direction.
I get that the guy is shy, timid, etc., but he has no personality.
He's pathologically dull, pathetic, and wimpy, a mouse.
There's no universe in which LQ would be hot for him unless...that is exactly what he wants, in a master/slave sense.

It's painful watching XF exist.

Maybe his brother will boff his wife.
That would be interesting.
The family is obnoxious, but at least they livened things up.

Thank you.
I thought for a moment that things might take a turn for the kinky, but alas, that wasn't the case.
Perhaps we'll find out in a flashback...?
Did you happen to notice XF's pink, hairless bird legs? :)

Episode 5:
Good god, he's so weak he can't blow out one birthday candle by himself. lol
He even has tiny, bird-like orgasms.

At this point, we can safely conclude that LQ is a sadist and XF a masochist.
No healthy person thinks "I love him, so I'll treat him like shit without a word of explanation, get him a shitty job in a ghetto, disappear, then reappear two years later and give him a wordless handjob."
No one can deny that they deserve each other.

Episode 4:
It's not that XF is a ladyboy; I have no problem with that.
It's that he's a near-catatonic sourpuss, which makes LQ's supposed attraction to him seem absurd.
And STOP with the fucking soup already.

XF's mom is a total bitch to him when he calls home.
Fuck that shit, let her miss out on the coming wheat-rush.

He said "bro" nine times in a row.
I counted.

The dinner: Lord, how embarrassing.
I'm glad ZY gave our resident non-entity a good chewing out in the car.
Someone needed to.
I like how ZY has turned out to be a decent type.
When he was first introduced, I found him nasty.

Don't you think this role was a wonderful catharsis for him, though?

Not only was he greatly buoyed by the offer of the part, for which I give huge credit to the director, which had to have helped him mentally and emotionally, but playing it, with all the hilarious over-the-top drug references, had to have helped him cast out those demons by mocking them.

It would have been so easy for the director to go with the flow of the hateful Korean tradition of canceling humans whose faults are made public (btw, it's NOT a fucking fault that he smoked fucking pot, for god's sake); instead, he chose to help a talented entertainer in need AND get the best actor for the role, T.O.P.! Who could have done that better? :)

I also like that T.O.P. and the director gave a huge middle finger to the Korean public, press, evil Knetz, and legal system, through that role.

BTW, do Koreans refer to T.O.P. by sounding out those three letters, or do they call him "top?"

lol
Thanks for the hearty laugh.
I appreciate the commiseration and wishes for butt problems on the ex, too. :)

You know, by the close of Spring semester, with the help of three good friends (who had no idea about our relationship) who I hung out with a lot, I had gotten to a place of contempt and mild hatred, which as negative as that sounds, was, I think, a necessary stage to go through.
I had a great Summer and by the time I returned in the Fall (he was still on campus), I felt only mild contempt for him and a healthy feeling that he was irrelevant to my life and glad he was out of it.

After that, he quickly fell off my map.
The three friends I hung with continued to be my salvation, though they still don't know it (unless they do and kept that knowledge to themselves).
I had loads of fun with them that year.
With the butt crack guy, I had codependently placed myself in a prison where I wasn't really myself, anyway.

BTW, thanks for the sentiment, but he is far too uptight to ever have given up the booty to anyone. :)

I dropped it a couple of episodes In.
I guess I couldn't go Deep.

The melodramatic overacting of Chinese dubbing voice actors drives me nuts, which makes it nigh impossible for me to keep going unless something about the story or actors themselves sucks me in.
In Double Helix, Ayden Sng is the reason I stuck with and finished it.
He was great, but it also makes me crazy that I don't get to hear the voices of the actors recorded in real time with the visual.
I'm sure that frustrates the hell out of the actors, too.

I was joking. :)
As in, "where did you come from and pop into this conversation?"

Popping in is totally cool, though. :)

I feel you.
I wondered if it was an inside joke when Lu Qing and his friend told Xiao Fan to "Grow a spine." lol

I agree that I don't necessarily mind a fem bottom character.
The problem is that they ALL seem to be this way in Cbls, and that the characterizations are built on tired stereotypes and cliches.
XF even speaks with a weak, breathy whisper...I wanted to smack him a few times and yell, "Snap out of it, bitch! :D

I'm still waiting for a BL from any country to switch things up and have a couple establish a bottom/top relationship, but then have the top generously offer to give up the booty just for the sake of giving his little man the pleasure...and discover that he LIKES it. :)
This would be insanely hot

It's just old that you can tell on first sight who will be schtupping who...absolutely no creativity/imagination in that regard.

Are the last two names from third and fourth shows?
Thanks for the recs.
I will check them out.

Where'd you come from? :D

Episodes 1-3:
"Lu Fan, grow a spine, will you?"
THANK YOU.
I've been thinking those very words since ten minutes into episode 1.

What is it with these willowy, breathless, uber-feminine Chinese bottoms?
This is like watching Double Helix all over again.
Can anyone recommend Chinese BLs with masculine bottoms, or are they all this way.

bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro

Changes, large and small, are often made to adaptations.

It is written in the 10 Commandments of BL that when you want to protect your beloved from harm by leaving, you MUST inflict the maximum trauma by not telling them what's going on and simply vanish.

If it hasn't been shown yet, how do you know?

Episode 2:
No, no, no, boys...it's much too early for that.
Driving in neutral for a whole year, then lurching to 100 miles per hour overnight is a recipe for disaster.