I agree so many stories throw in past connections for no real reason, but here it's their past relationship that…
I agree his feelings are understandable - but his behavior makes no sense to me. If Eddy were angry and seeking to hurt Ian back, that would make sense, but that's not the case, so it doesn't really work. This entire series so far has been more or less pointless - Eddy just needed to say "It really hurt me that you ghosted me because I love you too." Maybe not quite that direct, but you know what I mean. But instead he's playing games and it just feels like the author doesn't know what they're doing.
This is unwatchable garbage. Run and Tiger are attractive guys, but the writing on this is absolutely atrocious. I don't understand why Park doesn't beat Tin, and I don't see how Tin bothers with an asshole like Park. There's no chemistry, there's no story, and Tin behaves like he's 4. Why does he need toask Park for bubble tea? He's a grown man! Just buy it! Way, way too much whining. If the author believes that's normal behavior she must be excruciating.
What a disappointment. I do Like Pao & Kana, but they're hardly in it.
He actually said "wife", but translators now tend to censor this word to avoid international backlash haha
At least in the case of "wife" the writer is merely failing to imagine a non-cis relationship and just assigning one boy to the "female" role. That it's invaraibly the smaller and weaker one, who is frequently useless and unable to function without the guidance of a Real Man is misogynist and offensive, but that's a notch above reducing him to a sexual position. Ugh.
OK, so overall this was terrible, but there are some positives:
- The main couple is cute, especially Fuse, who is silly but in a sexy way. - Ana's friend Guy is hot.
That's about it. Problems:
- Enough with loud screechy ridiculous trans characters and annoying fujoshis. Paula is excruciating. - "You have to be my bottom". WTFF?!? Enough with this assignment of identity based on a sexual position Being a bottom doens't make you submissive,, weak, and need to be taken care of. It is totally unrelated. Being a bottom means you prefer to be fucked than to fuck. It's partly psychology, Huge muscular guys can be and are bottoms. The only top I've dated was a violinist 10 years younger than me, about 10 cm shorter and was terrified of moths. I dated a bottom who was 10 cm taller than me and a PE major who could snap me in half. It's irrelevant to dynamic between you as people. It's really bizarre and offensive how much some female writers are obsessed with top and bottom. It just isn't that important. - Watching people text each other is not riveting. Neither is it veryt interesting to watch someone sitting at a table having a conversation with some people, then having them get up and replaced by some people that he has the exact same conversation with. - The production quality isn't very good, with dull direction and the background music drowning out the conversation. - It's boring.
I'll probably watch another episode of this hoping Guy gets a boyfriend. Ana and Fuse are cute, but there's zero dramatic tension - I don't really see how this story can be drawn out over 5 eps unless there' s a ton of contrived external drama shoehorned into the story. I'm expecting an ex-girfriend to fall out of the sky at the end of Ep 4.
He actually said "wife", but translators now tend to censor this word to avoid international backlash haha
"Bottom" is 1,000 times worse than "wife"! I'm astonished that female writers, who presumably have lots of experience being objectified, assign an entire identity to someone based on a sexual position. It's revolting.
"Then if I successfully hit on you, you'll have to be my bottom."
What?!? Who would say something like that? Ana should have slapped him and told him to get out. Who writes this absolute shit? Do BL authors actually know any gay men? Good God. Why not ask him his dick size while he's at it?
This is so boring that I've tried five times to watch it then got distracted by the grain of the wood in the door of the room I'm in which is is much more interesting. I love my Tee Khunakorn, but I'm not sure I can get through this even for him. I'll try again, but I need to find a room with no wood in it.
I couldn't even make it through the trailer, which is not a good omen. The sound quality was terrible, which is not a good combination with screeching female and trans characters. I think there has been only one single Filipino BL with a serious trans character - the 1950s is getting old.
I generally try every BL, but I don't think I've liked a single Oxin production. I like Mike Gallardo a lot, though - I hope he's in something good someday. I was looking foward to the sequel to Boy's Lockdown, but it doesn't look like that's happening.
I thought I would never find something worse than Fahlanruk, but that was a masterpiece compared to this steaming pile of sh#$. I can't think of a single redeeming thing about this except Lee Long Shi with his shirt off, which is admittedly a pretty big plus.
We have flashbacks to conversations about exes that we don't know or care about, Day being a dick, Itt looking like he wants to fake-cry all episode, and worst of all, this is boring as f@#$, expect for bathing scenes, which are not boring,
The subtitles are worse than if you just ran Thai through google, and WHAT IS WITH THE WIG. What possible reason is there to staple a dead animal to Frank's head? Does he have a buzz-cut from military service? So what? He looks sexy like that, and even if it were a problem, then cast someone else! They certainly pick him for his acting, although the direction is so terrible I'm not sure anyone else could do a better job.
I hate when people try to justify their enjoyment of content made to fetishize horrible acts. Saying "Just dont…
OK, but you're comflating something that's morally unjust with something that's morally unjust in a work of fiction. I enjoyed Game of Thrones (up to season 4), but that deosn't mean I enjoy or condone mass murder, rape, and couintless other horrible things.
There is absolutely nothing whatosever wrong with consuming media that involves people doing horrible things so long as nothing horrible is done to produce it (e.g. actually torturing someone for a torture scene).
The idea that watching something where something bad happens is mocking someone else's trauma is narcissistic and childish. So if someone has Parkinson's in a drama that's mocking me because I'm dealing with it in my life? Everyone on the planet has suffered trauma, and to avoid thgat you'd have to reduce drama to people shooting rainbows and unicorns out their asses.
Nobody watches a BL and says "Oh, rape is really romantic. I think I'll do that," any more than children run around inflicting violence on people because cartoons don't die when you hit them over the head with a sledgehammer.
And you're being a bit condescending if you think that people don't know that someone selling their body for their grandmother's medical bills is something that happens and is bad, and that people are so morally weak that they'll sympathize with and support rape because they watched it in a drama - TBH, it pisses me off that you would even say something like this. What do you think the purpose of drama or entertainment is? Who wants to watch nothing but perfect people being perfect to each other?
How do you think I feel when people squeal over a BL where cute boys are cute to each other and nobody does anything wrong and they face no real problems in a magical world with no homophobia and if you puruse a straight boy with enough fervor he'll turn gay for you and only you forever and ever, Amen? Aren't people who love that the ones who are fetishizing? I grew up in fear of being discovered, fear of myself and my "deviant" desires, was beaten regularly, had to fight for years for my basic human rights, and to endure the pain of being in love with people who could never return that love and would hate me if they even suspected I felt that way - so aren't fluffy BLs makling a mockery of the suffering of almost all LGBTQ+ people?
Think about what you're saying and doing yourself before you condemn people's choices for light entertainment. BL is fantasty - nobody thinks it's real any more than we think there are real superheroes with powers after watching Marvel movies.
It's OK, but it relies too heavily on Eddy playing games (figuratively). How about "I'm in love with you and it really hurt me when you disappeared." Instead we have all this bullying, harassment, manipulation, and passive-aggression. If he was always like this it's no wonder Ian ran away.
This would actually work better if they didn't know each other, but it's an immutable law of BL that there has to be a past connection
So while I like the acting and production, I'm a bit distracted by the shallow pointlessness of the story.
You forgot the fever wipe down and let me dry your hair!
Does it need to be a fever? I think it works on cancer, too.
Unless you're a mother, in which case your survival rate from just about anything approaches zero %, even if you're under 40 (which is the age of mandatory euthanasia in BL).
The synopsis sounds better than the trailer made it seem - I thought the trailer was marketed at people whose rooms are full of pink unicorns and it gave me diabetes. I'm torn - I like the cast, but the story has zero interest for me. I hope it's good.
I'm enjoying this, largely due to the acting & attractiveness of the cast, but this, like most BLs, leans extremely heavily on mutual attraction that neither will talk about. It works better in high school situations, but with grown men in their late 20s or 30s who apparently identify as gay, it can get tiresome quickly. I've reached my limit in this and need them to move to the next step. The problem with these series is that if them getting together is delayed to the last 30 seconds, the story is shallow.
I'm not seeing how Tae Hyun is pretending he's not interested - he's been quite straightforward that he's interested,…
He's clearly a bit narcissistic. Archery isn't important to him, so he assumed it isn't important to Da Yeol. He was sorry when he learned how upsetting it was to DY. He's kind of a jerk, but not a malicious one like his friend.
I'm not seeing how Tae Hyun is pretending he's not interested - he's been quite straightforward that he's interested,…
He's repeatedly said he thinks Da Yeol is cute, and that he teases him because he thinks he's cute. Do people not tease each other anymore? It feels a little like people in this forum equate teasing with brutal bullying. or attempted murder. Not that you're doing that, but other people have commented so negatively on Tae Hyun that it feels like I'm watching something else.
What a disappointment. I do Like Pao & Kana, but they're hardly in it.
- The main couple is cute, especially Fuse, who is silly but in a sexy way.
- Ana's friend Guy is hot.
That's about it. Problems:
- Enough with loud screechy ridiculous trans characters and annoying fujoshis. Paula is excruciating.
- "You have to be my bottom". WTFF?!? Enough with this assignment of identity based on a sexual position Being a bottom doens't make you submissive,, weak, and need to be taken care of. It is totally unrelated. Being a bottom means you prefer to be fucked than to fuck. It's partly psychology, Huge muscular guys can be and are bottoms. The only top I've dated was a violinist 10 years younger than me, about 10 cm shorter and was terrified of moths. I dated a bottom who was 10 cm taller than me and a PE major who could snap me in half. It's irrelevant to dynamic between you as people. It's really bizarre and offensive how much some female writers are obsessed with top and bottom. It just isn't that important.
- Watching people text each other is not riveting. Neither is it veryt interesting to watch someone sitting at a table having a conversation with some people, then having them get up and replaced by some people that he has the exact same conversation with.
- The production quality isn't very good, with dull direction and the background music drowning out the conversation.
- It's boring.
I'll probably watch another episode of this hoping Guy gets a boyfriend. Ana and Fuse are cute, but there's zero dramatic tension - I don't really see how this story can be drawn out over 5 eps unless there' s a ton of contrived external drama shoehorned into the story. I'm expecting an ex-girfriend to fall out of the sky at the end of Ep 4.
What?!? Who would say something like that? Ana should have slapped him and told him to get out. Who writes this absolute shit? Do BL authors actually know any gay men? Good God. Why not ask him his dick size while he's at it?
I generally try every BL, but I don't think I've liked a single Oxin production. I like Mike Gallardo a lot, though - I hope he's in something good someday. I was looking foward to the sequel to Boy's Lockdown, but it doesn't look like that's happening.
We have flashbacks to conversations about exes that we don't know or care about, Day being a dick, Itt looking like he wants to fake-cry all episode, and worst of all, this is boring as f@#$, expect for bathing scenes, which are not boring,
The subtitles are worse than if you just ran Thai through google, and WHAT IS WITH THE WIG. What possible reason is there to staple a dead animal to Frank's head? Does he have a buzz-cut from military service? So what? He looks sexy like that, and even if it were a problem, then cast someone else! They certainly pick him for his acting, although the direction is so terrible I'm not sure anyone else could do a better job.
There is absolutely nothing whatosever wrong with consuming media that involves people doing horrible things so long as nothing horrible is done to produce it (e.g. actually torturing someone for a torture scene).
The idea that watching something where something bad happens is mocking someone else's trauma is narcissistic and childish. So if someone has Parkinson's in a drama that's mocking me because I'm dealing with it in my life? Everyone on the planet has suffered trauma, and to avoid thgat you'd have to reduce drama to people shooting rainbows and unicorns out their asses.
Nobody watches a BL and says "Oh, rape is really romantic. I think I'll do that," any more than children run around inflicting violence on people because cartoons don't die when you hit them over the head with a sledgehammer.
And you're being a bit condescending if you think that people don't know that someone selling their body for their grandmother's medical bills is something that happens and is bad, and that people are so morally weak that they'll sympathize with and support rape because they watched it in a drama - TBH, it pisses me off that you would even say something like this. What do you think the purpose of drama or entertainment is? Who wants to watch nothing but perfect people being perfect to each other?
How do you think I feel when people squeal over a BL where cute boys are cute to each other and nobody does anything wrong and they face no real problems in a magical world with no homophobia and if you puruse a straight boy with enough fervor he'll turn gay for you and only you forever and ever, Amen? Aren't people who love that the ones who are fetishizing? I grew up in fear of being discovered, fear of myself and my "deviant" desires, was beaten regularly, had to fight for years for my basic human rights, and to endure the pain of being in love with people who could never return that love and would hate me if they even suspected I felt that way - so aren't fluffy BLs makling a mockery of the suffering of almost all LGBTQ+ people?
Think about what you're saying and doing yourself before you condemn people's choices for light entertainment. BL is fantasty - nobody thinks it's real any more than we think there are real superheroes with powers after watching Marvel movies.
In short, lighten up.
This would actually work better if they didn't know each other, but it's an immutable law of BL that there has to be a past connection
So while I like the acting and production, I'm a bit distracted by the shallow pointlessness of the story.
Unless you're a mother, in which case your survival rate from just about anything approaches zero %, even if you're under 40 (which is the age of mandatory euthanasia in BL).