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Agreed. I couldn't last two episodes, it's so boring. And yes, I'm pissed that Yoo was cut out. Put those two factors together and this gets a 1/10 from me and posting that rating will give me great pleasure.

My god, this is terrible. As in dull...lifeless...meandering. As boring as boring can be. Almost every scene feels like filler.

An asteroid is about to obliterate the Korean peninsula and much of the world around it, but this army officer wants to investigate the murder of a low-life, scum bag, sex trafficker...? For real? Who gives a shit? The cops came out and took crime-scene photos. Why? Nothing else to do with the end of the country a few months away?

Scene after monotonous, meaningless scene. Supposedly, law and order has broken down but somehow, electricity and tap water are readily available. On the other hand, the Internet is down...? Why? Who knows?

I'm dropping this POS halfway through the second episode. Maybe it would have been a POS even WITH Yoo in all the scenes the idiot director cut, there's no way to know.

Maybe someday a bootleg copy of the unedited version will leak to the web and proliferate. Then we can see if Yoo's presence can save this boring mess. But then, I found NF/YAI's "Alive" to be tedious and dropped that one too, and it was a big hit.

Don't waste your time.

No.

With all due respect, which is none, you are a buffoon.
I'm in the U.S., where we have a patchwork of drug laws by state, but none as draconian and insane as Korea's.
Do you actually believe that editing YAI out of what so far is a terrible series for his absence, is going to solve drug problems anywhere? If he's an addict, then he needs treatment, not this endless, silly charade of an investigation.

Meanwhile, Korea has one of the highest rates of alcoholism and alcohol abuse (SOJU for everybody!) in the developed world. BILLIONS and BILLIONS of dollars in health care costs, lost productivity, early death and disease, and social/family/drunk driving/you name it are lost each year to BOOZE. Where is Korea's awesome anti-booze law crusade?

The dumbest and lamest are the laws that equate marijuana with heroin and cocaine. Good god.

This isn't about forcing "Western" ways on Asia. It's about Asia needing to get its shit together in some areas, primarily cultural, and these moralistic, punitive and wasteful drug laws are part of that. The U.S. has LOTS of problems but driving its best artists to suicide with bullshit like this is not one of them. Korea has the market cornered on that claim to fame.

I worry a little every day that Yoo might take LSK's route to peace of mind.

First episode is boring af.
Started out with strong, end-of-the-world visuals and vibe, but then became a low-budget, murder mystery type thing.
Yoo was onscreen near the beginning for about five minutes, which was of course the best part of the 50-minute bore-fest.
I'll try one more episode, then drop unless things turn around.

Still in shock that NF has shot themselves in the foot this way. The director is a wuss too.

MDL is the WORST about this type of thing. Of course, they've been only too happy to run photos of Yoo when it pertains to his "scandal." Also, should this all prove too much for him and Yoo were to take LSK's route out of town, you can bet MDL would eagerly publish his photo then. "Losers" is correct.

Three-quarter of the way through the first episode. Yoo got five minutes so far, and of course they were the best five minutes, acting-wise, of the entire thing. The thing feels choppy, and if I weren't foolishly hoping maybe not nearly as much of Yoo was edited out as I feared, I wouldn't be watching this thing at all.

I just am in shock that NF would leave the success of a show they've spent gazillions of $$$ making up to the piss-ant, wuss director and a few hundred thousand panty-sniffers in Korea. From a business perspective, it doesn't make sense. Surely the director didn't have complete and final say as to what was the final cut, and even if he did, NF could have leaned on him HARD to back off.

I'm disgusted with this whole thing, and uber-pissed at NF. Anyone here who feels as I do, please take a couple minutes to let NF know they fucked up. Yoo Ah In has a huge international fan base; they're not going to ignore a few hundred thousand nasty emails from people like me and you.

I'm guessing I'll be dropping this at some point soon. I'm curious to see the viewership numbers when they become available.

I don't get why Netflix, a U.S.-based country with a huge international market of which Korea is but a tiny speck, didn't tell the director "don't edit one goddam second of YAI out of the show. We're running it as it was with your final edit."

This caving to a few hundred thousand hysterical Koreans, ruining a show you've invested millions of $$$ in, and pissing off millions of Yoo fans the world over, just doesn't make any sense to me.

I'm 3/4 of the way through the first episode and having trouble hanging in there. Two women just stood on a parade ground in the dark and talked about a tangential child trafficking plot for almost 15 minutes and it was boring as shit. Yoo brought more feels in the five minutes onscreen they gave him than everyone else put together.

OK.

Is it news to you that we all make the same type of expressions over and over again throughout our lives, depending on the shape of our faces, the underlying bone structure, and the soft tissue on top of that? Or do you vary the shape of your bones and soft tissue/skin at will when you feel like giving the rest of us a new look?

What a bizarre complaint. He holds his jaw/lip that way as his face's natural means of expressing emotion. If it upsets you, why did you keep watching?

So many weirdos on MDL. "oooooh...god damn, I don't like the way that fucker holds his MENTALIS when he's sad..."

Dear god...

No one would comment about the dead fish kisses if directors would stop putting them in their shows.

Nutjob.
No one watches BL for "porn," except you.
I am not a "people." I am only one individual, thus the proper term would be "person."
Some porn flicks include stories. Think on that for awhile.
It's hilarious that you see dead fish kisses as "borderline Porn!"
It's sad that you see real kisses as "borderline Porn!"
Using lots of exclamation marks doesn't bolster your statements. It just makes you look even more unhinged.
I'll go ahead and assume you to be male as your profile claims. Thus, I christen you with a new name more in keeping with your frustrated sexual desires and neuroses: "Blueballs."

Well, your profile claims you're male but I think you're lying. Either that or you've had your testes removed. Or maybe you're "aero" or "ace!" Those are very trendy things to be right now.

"GO WATCH PORN!" It's so perfect that you and your little brain just wrote that. Just a few minutes ago I mentioned to another commenter that if you call out dead-fish kissing on MDL, someone is sure to shriek "If that's what you want, go watch porn!" at you.

And just minutes later, here you are to make my point and an ass of yourself, all at the same time.

Have you ever actually SEEN porn? They go, ummmm...just a tad further than dead-fishes. in fact, they go WAY further than ever real-ass kisses. Go watch some. Your head will explode.

No, I'm not here for porn, dear; I'm here for the storytelling you seem to think you are here for too. Did you know that BLs are, by their nature, stories of romance between human beings? Did you know that human beings involved in romances often KISS each other? No, really! It's true!

Did you know those kisses look NOTHING like what we've seen here? Now if we were to watch a live-action story which involved a sword fight, wouldn't it be kind of weird if the swords never touched, or if the swords came in contact with each other and then just stayed there, motionless?

Well, that's the equivalent of dead-fish kissing in a romance, dear. It's kind of alarming in regard to your mental state that you think kissing, whether IRL or on screen, qualifies as a "weird fetish." Kissing is one hundred percent normal. You are the freak here.

Guesses as to your demographics:
Female
Upper teens/low 20s in age
White
American

How'd I do?

YES. That guy is a great example of a character whose sex appeal arose almost entirely from his personality, charisma, demeanor, and attitude, plus the undefinable "IT" factor that some people have but most people don't. He got hotter to me with every episode, which is just as it should be, given the story line. That jaw line of his is beyond chiseled.

The very skinny, brunette co-lead in "End of the World With You" achieved the same effect with his body, charisma and acting skills.

Yes it is.

ooooh...you said "fetishization..." Did you come up with that all on your own? Did you know that real-ass kissing is something that healthy human beings do? Did you know that normal humans don't kiss like the people in this show? Well, maybe YOU do, but that would explain your difficulty in getting laid.

Why are you so afraid of kissing and sex? The only thing that reeks here is your Puritanical obsession with bad kissing, and your apparent feeling that being interested in sex and accurate portrayals of same is "disgusting."

That look shows up with alarming frequency in Japanese bls. The biggest problem is the bad dye job. It's what I call "dishwater blond." Almost no depth or highlights and it appears slightly greasy. The actor must be extremely underweight, considering how scrawny he looks on camera.

People freak out when I say this because "LOOKSISM!," but he is just n ot handsome, even in a mildly attractive way. Actually I prefer men who are attractive in ways that are not conventional. The K-Pop Idol look is so boring. But this guy looks, as you said, unclean and unhealthy.

Then, J costumers compound the effect with huge, baggy tops and pants that appear to have been stolen from the closet of some dude ten sizes bigger than the actor wearing them. Women in BLs are usually dressed in several layers of their mother-in-law's living room drapes.

That said, I've seen actors in films/dramas who have that same look but somehow exude charisma, sexual energy, and can ACT. It's true! This actor is not one of those people, however.

Bravo! But on MDL, if you expect any lip movement, like when people kiss in the real world, you will get replies such as "go watch porn if that's what you're after!" "You're a pervert," and the like.

MDL is crawling with Puritanical, sex-phobic, American Little Girls who are deathly afraid of human, physical passion.

It's the dead fish kisses that are "weird and gross..."