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What do you have against watching two attractive people make out?

I consider this one of the worst BLs of all time. Fluff, rainbows, unicorns shitting ice cream cones, bad acting, terrible writing, lame direction and more, wrapped up in a glittery, pink sequin bow for the Little Girls of MDL to slobber over. I come here once a year or so to read comments and sort of freak out at how many standard-free people there are on MDL.

Kang Dong is a gifted actor.
This is a quietly wrenching film that snuck up on me.

Murder is never OK, even if it's a government that's doing the killing. I think of all the good a rehabilitated, truly repentant, smart, personable, and loving prisoner like Yoon Soo could have brought to the world had he been allowed to do so. But the death penalty is never OK. It turns us, the people, into murderers too.

9/10

Don't care what you think.

So Ji Sub has it all: presence/charisma/star-quality/good looks/acting talent, but what he lacks in this movie is a good script. It became tedious about halfway through. I can watch an actor, even So Ji Sub, light cigarettes and act cool only so many times in one movie before it gets boring.

The weirdest part is the on-set rape that no one seems to think is any big deal. Made no sense at all.

Dropped.

How does Ohm keep getting lead roles? He is a terribly amateur, boring af actor with zero range. He always looks pissed off and drugged. Wonder if he has a BF among the Channel 8 suits.

The commenter above probably works for Ohm's agency, and it's their job to run around the Internet telling people who notice what a bad actor he is to STFU.

You are ridiculous. BL watchers like you are the reason Thailand puts out so many terrible, lazy BLs. The producers know people like you will watch absolutely anything put in front of them, no matter how lame, and be grateful for it.

And THEN go in comment sections and tell people who dare to criticize what needs criticizing to STFU.

Please keep your STFU comments to yourself next time.

I agree with a lot of what FrothyMix wrote below, but my rating is 7/10.

This film had a great many moments/scenes that were engaging and powerful, but as a whole, it felt meandering to me. No through-line to follow. Every main character became unlikable to me so I didn't much care what happened to them.

What you saw in the movie is what happened IN the movie, not in real life. The people who did nothing in reaction to bad actions did so within the context of the movie, not in real life. You've seen this movie. Do you now feel like going out and raping anyone because it seems "normal?" No, you don't. Do you think you're smarter or more perceptive than other people who saw this film and who are now running around raping people? I hope you don't think that because they're not.

The fact that you left your comment proves the point: You don't feel rape is normal, do you?

lol I bet that's true, judging from the lack of extras to make the exterior scenes look like an actual, real college. Did you notice how deserted the campus always looked?

Typical of Korean BLs starring an "idol." The guy playing Dong Wook is a low-level K-Popper, which means this is his management company riding the BL wave with a gay-bait, mostly tease version of a BL. That said, there WAS actual lip movement after the initial fish-kiss in both instances. But that stupid thing where we get three or four, repetitive shots of two actor's faces moving together from different angles, accompanied by that weird, "whooshing" sound, is a way of making a short, fairly passionless smooch look like more than it is.

lol

I interpreted that scene as Do Hyun overhearing "I only want to sleep with him" and thinking it meant "All I want from him is sex," which would upset him if he wanted MORE than that. But I'm not sure if that works either, because in the scene where Dong Wook is melodramatically withdrawing from school ahead of schedule, and doing it in the rain of course, Do Hyun chases after him and is obviously not upset about what he seemed to overhear and misunderstand.

So does that mean he wanted to "just have sex" with Dong Wook too, and was pissed that DW didn't follow through? Surely him overhearing that remark means he misinterpreted it to mean "I only want to bang him." Because the guy DW was talking to asked him "Do you like Do Hyun?" To which DW replied "I just want to sleep with him." Which equals, to someone overhearing this, "no, I don't like him, I just want to have sex with him"...yes?

Frankly, I doubt if the director knows what the exact reading of all the above is. The show overall felt messy, so why not that too? I can't believe I spend my time obsessing over the fine details of poorly made Korean BLs. lol But I do!

Best part of this series was the fan service episode, 8.5. That was probably required as part of the k-popper's contract.

Well, thank goodness that's over, though I had a couple of feels in the last two eps.
However, ep. 8 felt like a collection of alternate final scenes, strung together because the director couldn't decide which one to use. I thought it was over five times.
Best line of the series: "Would you check?" (After the ice cube went down Dong Wook's pants.) A shame we didn't get to see Dong's dong. I wonder how many takes it took to get thru that scene without laughing.
I find Woo Ji Han very appealing and he's the better of the two actors. But then, k-pop boy wasn't given much to do except look blank and depressed and arrogant.
Plot was absurdly, and weakly, built around dumb, manufactured misunderstandings, even for a BL.
Some of the scenes felt out of order.
THREE water fights? Really? But hey, no one got a fever.
I like the actress who played the coach, even though her character was somewhat annoying. I wish the plot had given her a girlfriend.
I wish Do Hyun had chosen the loyal, handsome Seung Joo over the dour, arrogant, blank vampire Dong Wook.

OK, well I liked it more than disliked it so that's something. 6.5/10

Good. Be creeped. Report me. Whatever.

Yes, I'm desperately obsessed. You, whoever you are, is all I think about.

Oh, you hadn't mentioned "inconsistencies" before either. You keep making up shit and acting like you already said it.

Now we're back to square one. Is "square one" a figure of speech in your language? There is no rule book requiring that an adaptation be, in part or in whole, consistent with its source material. And seeing as how one of the source's co-writers also wrote the screenplay, how dare you question her judgement? lol

Also, there's the simple fact that often, what works on in a book does not work so well onscreen.

How many times do we need to go round and round about this? I get it: You're a KP novel obsessive, fangirl. And that's OK.

End of ep. 6:
Finally, something interesting happened! I loved it when sleeping pill stood up the vampire and then threatened him on the basketball court. YEEEEEEEEEESSSS!
If you don't want to see someone, why would you play basketball with them?
Woo Ji Han is a pretty good actor. The k-popper mainly just looks blank most of the time.
If you truly slept only ten or 20 minutes a night, with many nights of no sleep at all, you would be unable to function, let alone attend school, which is why the sleeping pill's assumption that the vampire only wants to be around him to get some badly-needed shut-eye makes perfect sense.
Then we go back in time to the overheard remark in high school and it all makes sense...at least sort of...because if he was pissed in high school after what he overheard and misunderstood, why would he start warming back up to the vampire in college?
This thing is a mess, as are most Korean, gay-bait BLs.

I hope this doesn't get all wrapped up without some more intense conflict.

"... it very much points in the direction a MAJORITY of viewers feeling the same way." Your words.

You never said anything about "incoherence majorly," whatever that means. Quit making shit up. :D

Honest question, although I know you don't like answering questions: Is English your second or third language? Also, how old ARE you?

And no, I have absolutely nothing else in my life except you and this discussion.

I'm very happy. I don't have to assume anything about you. Everything I wrote is crystal clear from your comments.

You are ok with creators changing things...as long as the changes "make sense" to YOU and the imagined hive-mind you consider yourself a part of.

Are you arguing the makers of KP deliberately produced an adaptation they knew the hive-mind would dislike? Why would they do that? Didn't that psycho-liar-stalker chick help write the screenplay? Wouldn't that kind of negate your arguments here? Wouldn't she know better than the hive-mind what needed to be changed for the adaptation?

So...have you now changed your approach to one of arguing that a "majority" is the same as a totality? If a majority of fangirls agree the sky is kelly green on a clear day, does that mean they are "objectively" correct? lol

Please keep replying. This is entertaining.