Main takes from the first episode
I decided to watch today after seeing some people talking about it and here is my observation.
Keep in mind I love kdramas, cdramas and many american series, so I will have it in mind when commenting.
Story:
Nothing original honestly, I saw many similar plots being released in Thailand and even a GL version coming.
The only hype is because it's a popular novel for some years already, but other than that, I didn't get any wow factor to make it something different.
Thailand does tons of lakorns and movies with this kind of theme, jsut because it's a BL doesn't add anything much to me personally.
The first episode was the standard explanation of the story, nothing very exciting so far. The pace was dragging a bit in some moments and in others it was like throwing moments all at once.
Acting:
So far, I get that the MC is quite weak as a main actor here.
His facial expressions are quite bland and generic, I can't see a lot of emotion yet from him. Maybe he will get better but for now he is quite boring and a bit cringe with his reactions.
His best friend is okay, but very forced to be the kind of is preocupied and the comic relief apparently. Let's see how this one will go and if will be something more interesting.
The ML is the classic close faced character, nothing much so far about him. Let's see how the actor will do, I saw him with Jeff and he was decent. I wonder how well the MC and ML will go with the MC being the weak link here. Honestly, compared to jeff, it's very hard to imagine him doing much better to get the same chemistry.
Ghosts:
A mix of ghost and wanna be zombie, some of them have a poor make up that makes it with a 3rd rate quality customization.
Besides some classic jump scare in the beginning, I didn't see anything much scary during the whole episode.
As someone used to terror, horror and zombie movies and series, the quality is just your average. Since thailand does it a lot, it was a minimum expected but nothing note worthy.
Special Effects:
Some basic effects right now, many felt quite cheap honestly. Gave me a 2000's series vibe, which we should be above in terms of visual effects already.
The light effects specially were very bad, felt like whoever did it doesn't have much experience yet or the team decided to go to the cheap side. Let's see how the rest of the series go in this part, because I imagine that should be a key element.
Overall:
The hype appears to be manly from novel fans and pair fans. Plot wise, as well as acting and visual effects go, it's a pretty mainstream series with nothing different beyond being a BL version of something that is already done in thailand for years, and one that soon will get the GL version too.
MC is the weak link so far in terms of acting (face and emotions), ML I'm waiting to see if he will deliver close to what he did with the movie and I don't expect much from the main pair yet considering what I saw from the ML with Jeff.
I will wait the secondary characters to check more how well, or not, they will go too.
Keep in mind I love kdramas, cdramas and many american series, so I will have it in mind when commenting.
Story:
Nothing original honestly, I saw many similar plots being released in Thailand and even a GL version coming.
The only hype is because it's a popular novel for some years already, but other than that, I didn't get any wow factor to make it something different.
Thailand does tons of lakorns and movies with this kind of theme, jsut because it's a BL doesn't add anything much to me personally.
The first episode was the standard explanation of the story, nothing very exciting so far. The pace was dragging a bit in some moments and in others it was like throwing moments all at once.
Acting:
So far, I get that the MC is quite weak as a main actor here.
His facial expressions are quite bland and generic, I can't see a lot of emotion yet from him. Maybe he will get better but for now he is quite boring and a bit cringe with his reactions.
His best friend is okay, but very forced to be the kind of is preocupied and the comic relief apparently. Let's see how this one will go and if will be something more interesting.
The ML is the classic close faced character, nothing much so far about him. Let's see how the actor will do, I saw him with Jeff and he was decent. I wonder how well the MC and ML will go with the MC being the weak link here. Honestly, compared to jeff, it's very hard to imagine him doing much better to get the same chemistry.
Ghosts:
A mix of ghost and wanna be zombie, some of them have a poor make up that makes it with a 3rd rate quality customization.
Besides some classic jump scare in the beginning, I didn't see anything much scary during the whole episode.
As someone used to terror, horror and zombie movies and series, the quality is just your average. Since thailand does it a lot, it was a minimum expected but nothing note worthy.
Special Effects:
Some basic effects right now, many felt quite cheap honestly. Gave me a 2000's series vibe, which we should be above in terms of visual effects already.
The light effects specially were very bad, felt like whoever did it doesn't have much experience yet or the team decided to go to the cheap side. Let's see how the rest of the series go in this part, because I imagine that should be a key element.
Overall:
The hype appears to be manly from novel fans and pair fans. Plot wise, as well as acting and visual effects go, it's a pretty mainstream series with nothing different beyond being a BL version of something that is already done in thailand for years, and one that soon will get the GL version too.
MC is the weak link so far in terms of acting (face and emotions), ML I'm waiting to see if he will deliver close to what he did with the movie and I don't expect much from the main pair yet considering what I saw from the ML with Jeff.
I will wait the secondary characters to check more how well, or not, they will go too.
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