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Do you see this as a BL?

Are you talking to me?

How was I to know it was embarrassing gay-bait without watching at least part of one episode?
Why would you assume I "knew going in" that it stars low-tier idols from some K-Pop group I never heard of? I don't research most BLs, I just, you know, start watching.
Why disrespect them them now? Because I watched and it sucks. What would be a better time to disrespect them? Before I watch?

Let me know if you have any more questions.

Slow and uninteresting.
The usual cardboard-cutout BL characters.
This even managed to make cross-dressing boring.

Dropped

1/10

I don't care about "scandals." I care about quality live action, storytelling, and this thing is embarrassingly bad.

My god.

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