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I'll probably watch the next ep for Jimmy and see if it energizes the series - hopefully it will.

That's right - I knew that from a previous discussion.

This is why people don't date anymore. Men are afraid to approach women because to people like the poster your referring to, everything other than an engraved and notarized consent to coffee a coffee date under parental (mother-only or preferably grandmother-only) supervision is SA.

Nobody in their right mind could possibly view that scene as SA. At no point did Jun object or even imply objection - to the contrary he was horny as he$$ and aggressively into what was happening. How is anyone ever supposed to get sex if nobody is allowed to initiate it? Have you ever seen Edvard Munsch's "The Scream"? That expression is permanently on my face when on this site.

Yup, 100% agree. I would probably have been freaked out in his place because it was a public place (at that age - now nothing is too shameless for me), but I would have been in seventh heaven to have all those muscles wrapped around me, not to mention where his hand was.

100% agree. Straight men don't get hard watching men masturbate. Repressed gay men who think they're straight do, but that's different.

I think maybe there is some disconnect due to definitions. I think that BL often has totally straight guys suddenly turn gay because they caught another guy who tripped and they stared at each other with their faces too close together, which is not at all true to reality - as opposed to someone who was gay or bi all along but repressed, and then something like the opening scene of Ep 1 made it impossible for him to deny his nature any longer.

I think the issue in BL isn't the "gay awakening" it's that characters are portrayed as straight and then suddenly go gay, when the reality is that you always were but were in denial until you manage to break through it. The catalyst could very well be a man you're so hot for that there's just no denial strong enough to shunt your feelings into like "we're just extremely close friends, and my fantasizing about him is my feelings of inferiority manifesting in what must be masochistic tendencies" (it can be that convoluted), but BL "awakenings" lack any nuance. It's often just that a guy trips, another catches him, and they stare at each other for 45 minutes until they turn gay, but only for each other and no other man, past or present, forever and ever, Amen.

A brief introduction to the past would have sufficed for the point to me made, then we could go into showing. Because what was happening was so uninteresting, having everything "broadcast" just before it happened made it beyond uninteresting. I get that it's intentional, but that doesn't mean it's not lazy writing.

Where are you geographically? I'm in the US and it isn't on YT here - only Qiyi.

That was surprisingly entertaining, and i'm really happy to finally see Oat get a lead role - his love scene in So Much In Love was quite memorable, and the heat hasn't turned down any here!

That was the most intense chemistry between a couple I've seen in a long time - maybe ever. This series is not going to win any awards, but i think it's going to be very entertaining. And hot. That opening scene... holy cow.

Unforgotten Night has that "so-bad-it's-good" vibe - this is not exactly the best series we're going to see, but it has fantastic chemistry between the leads and it's higher quality in general than UN.

Do you always need to be so negative? If you relax and stop judging people you'll be a lot happier. Remember - critical comments about a series are a critique of a form of light entertainment, but what you're doing is attacking actual live human beings. There's a huge difference in severity.

By the way, the cinematography and editing of this series could use some work. (That's actually not true - it's quite good. The opening scene is masterful and hilarious.)

Pretty much all of them are. What type of story do you like? Does it need to be fluffy, or can it have a bit of edge?

Right? I'm watching it because I want to watch it - that doesn't mean I have to like everything about it! Why is the internet so tribal?

Season 2 is better - the first couple of episodes are a bit rocky, but if you can get past that it's not bad. If you like KBL, maybe try Semantic Error - I really enjoyed it. The movie version is much better than the series version. They're about the same length, but the movie is much better edited and has better subtitles.

Did you register this account just to make that comment? At least I don't hide behind fake IDs.

I believe at the time I thought there was one too many "days" - the one where he kills off his friend just made him a horrible person, even if he did know the day would be "reset" - I didn't think it added anything. And the political day would have been more potent if it had led to leftist tyrrany instead of fascist, but it was amazing writing and acting. I was more about Atom than Jet, but I can totally see it - Jet is dreamy.

The writing is so awful I couldn't get through more than 5 minutes. The voiceover exposition is inexcusable. This is live action - we need to be shown, not told, and because they WERE also showing, it was totally unnecesssary, distracting, and insulting, as if we can't understand what we're watching. If anything interesting were going on, that would help too, but this is a 2017 story and I can already predict the entire series based on what we've seen so far. No thanks.

Call Me By Your Name would be memorable just for the father's monologue - but even though it's only been about a week since I watched the finale, I can remember absolutely nothing about this series. I can't even remember how it ended.

This is really not very good. Their entire relationship is driven by accidentally staring at each other for increadibly awkwardly long periods of time. But the leads are cute, the kissing is surprisingly good, and Andy Ko really seems like he's really into his partner rather than how I usually feel, that I'm watching a straight guy struggling as hard as possible to avoid doing anything he finds icky.

That episode was painfully slow and pointless until the last ten minutes, which it developed some life - Jay's takedown of Sant was so out-of-nowhere and petty that it made his character insteresting, finally, and the sinister presence of Jimmy (who looks incredibly hot in glasses) at the end was a breath of fresh air.

The story needs to move forward and stop running (or rather strolling very slowly) in circles. The only thin disguise for this is the overreliance on flashbacks in order to maintain... suspense, I guess? Dramatic tension? As much tension as an overstretched rubber band that you end up having to tie around whatever you want it to fasten.

Mark continues to be stunning, and his acting is good, but there's no chemistry for the main pair, except that kiss scene - I just don't feel any energy. I think it might be because Ohm is playing Sant with too little subtlety - we know what he's feeling because we're told by other characters, not because it's being portrayed in the acting. He's not a bad actor, but more depth is needed.