With Episodes 3 and 4, the series starts to show how it was constructed using familiar parts of many other BLs.…
Ye Guang is shy, so he's not as forward - he does look at Qi Zhang as if he's besotted. You are probably aware how I feel about cliches, but somehow the ones in this are a bit more organic, like they turn and stare with their faces too close, but they're flirting, not working on a school project, so it felt OK. The wound-dressing was a tad much, and could have used a bit more skin exposed, but I did like that Qi Zhang had to run off to control his stiffie.
You would think I would dislike this series, but I don't. There are a few things going for it, other than the beautiful and appealing cast. One is that the tropes, while present, aren't intrusive - there's the faces-too-close stare, but they're subtly flirting when it happens, so it feels more natural; there's the narcolepsy, but the boy had been through a lot that day, and they at least set it up with his yawning; the ubiquitous umbrella donation, but somehow it worked. It's the difference between a skilled production and an assembly line spitting out slickly-produced but low-artistry product.
When the secondary couple got to the motorcycle my eyes popped wide, thinking, "omg, who is that beautiful man in the amazing outfit?" Also, the villain boy is cute - he looks like Wilson Liu's younger brother.
QUESTIONHow does one burn their upper back while making soup? Answer: they don't. The show just wanted to get…
It was from when his uncle threw soup at him, but your point stands. A small amount of hot liquid hurled through the cool air and then landing on your shirt would feel mildly warm by the time it touched your skin, but BL soup can cause an application of a small amount of blush to your shoulder necessitating a partial stripping and cream rub-down.
I was thinking about why almost everyone is into Rain & Phayoo and very few people have much to say about Sun and Kim.
The easy answer is "because Rain isn't an escapee from a mannequin warehouse." But the more complicated explanation is that Sun and Kim are shoehorned so tightly into the seme-uke pattern that everything they do is predictable and formulaic. For example, the most agency Sun showed this episode was fishing for a comment from Kim. When he did that, I almost thought to myself "Just f@#$ing ask him how he feels about you! Jeez!" but I didn't bother.
Rain & Phayoo aren't constrained by that model - actually, one of the things that's interesting about them is they're struggling to escape it as it's built in with them due to the master-servant relationship. They're also portrayed by hot guys (helpful but not necessary) who can act (necessary).
I did groan slightly at the upside-down beach kiss which was awkward and forcing the moment into a shot the director had looked up in some book or saw done more competently elsewhere, but there was plenty of good stuff other than that, including that neither of them planked over each other and they actually pressed their bodies together like normal people.
It's interesting that they're deliberately minimizing the height diffrence between the actors - I noted their hug looked a little awkward, but they were pressed together and their feet were together instead of half a meter apart like is usually the case - but hugging makes the height difference hard to hide.
And I appreciated the reverse fake-out in the shower - especially after the really awful edit leading to Kim waking up, so I thought Phayoo was fantasizing again, too.
What I didn't care for in this episode was all of Wang's voiceover. I'm actually quite disappointed in the script for this - a little is OK, but a lot of that could have been acted or handled visually. I hope that doesn't become a thing, because it hasn't been so far. Pond is perfectly capable of showing us what he feels - we don't need him to tell us. On a Macro level, the production is cheating by casting such a young actor as In. He's only 33 - whereas Mam, who plays Wang's mother, is 49. They are doing this to make the thing between them more palatable to the audience, but I think that weakens the story a bit - and it kind of broadcasts that they will be getting physical, or they wouldn't have done that.
What I did like was pretty much everything else, especially we that we got to see how good Nike is this episode.
The acting, writing, and cinematography in this are all fantastic - occassionally a tad heavy-handed, like all the prison and line symbolism. The bridge accident wasn't super subtle, but it was effective. The intimacy the DP & director are creating in these scenes in such a cold house and broad vistas is incredibly skilled.
I dont think it's asian dramas really. It's based on reality. Yes, her getting punishment would've been ideal,…
But if the writers can molest the actors without consequence and we watch the series anyway, we're supporting a culure of exploitation and just accepting it because we don't want to give anything up. Is a desire to watch a bit of light entertainment so important that we're fine with actors being abused?
I just finished Ep 2, and this is a hard series to watch too much of, but it's so good.
Why are so many people saying things like "I'm here for [couple x] and I don't care about the rest"? That seems like a strange announcement and perhaps unintentionally giving extra weight to the theme of this series. I'm not criticizing, I just don't understand and wonder what I'm missing.
I dont think it's asian dramas really. It's based on reality. Yes, her getting punishment would've been ideal,…
In the case of this series, if Koon had paid for her actions, it would have undermined the theme of the story. It's a bit dark, but by design, not moral laziness on the part of the writer.
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Peterpan is the actor that plays Payoo.
When the secondary couple got to the motorcycle my eyes popped wide, thinking, "omg, who is that beautiful man in the amazing outfit?" Also, the villain boy is cute - he looks like Wilson Liu's younger brother.
The easy answer is "because Rain isn't an escapee from a mannequin warehouse." But the more complicated explanation is that Sun and Kim are shoehorned so tightly into the seme-uke pattern that everything they do is predictable and formulaic. For example, the most agency Sun showed this episode was fishing for a comment from Kim. When he did that, I almost thought to myself "Just f@#$ing ask him how he feels about you! Jeez!" but I didn't bother.
Rain & Phayoo aren't constrained by that model - actually, one of the things that's interesting about them is they're struggling to escape it as it's built in with them due to the master-servant relationship. They're also portrayed by hot guys (helpful but not necessary) who can act (necessary).
I did groan slightly at the upside-down beach kiss which was awkward and forcing the moment into a shot the director had looked up in some book or saw done more competently elsewhere, but there was plenty of good stuff other than that, including that neither of them planked over each other and they actually pressed their bodies together like normal people.
It's interesting that they're deliberately minimizing the height diffrence between the actors - I noted their hug looked a little awkward, but they were pressed together and their feet were together instead of half a meter apart like is usually the case - but hugging makes the height difference hard to hide.
And I appreciated the reverse fake-out in the shower - especially after the really awful edit leading to Kim waking up, so I thought Phayoo was fantasizing again, too.
What I did like was pretty much everything else, especially we that we got to see how good Nike is this episode.
The acting, writing, and cinematography in this are all fantastic - occassionally a tad heavy-handed, like all the prison and line symbolism. The bridge accident wasn't super subtle, but it was effective. The intimacy the DP & director are creating in these scenes in such a cold house and broad vistas is incredibly skilled.
Why are so many people saying things like "I'm here for [couple x] and I don't care about the rest"? That seems like a strange announcement and perhaps unintentionally giving extra weight to the theme of this series. I'm not criticizing, I just don't understand and wonder what I'm missing.