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They're both doing a heroic job trying to keep this afloat - alas, even their abs aren't enough anymore.

This series has begun to become a little bit of a mess - there's a point where there can be too many characters and too many questions raised to cover in a short series - each ep has at most 10 minutes of content, so the total runtime is only 2 hours. We have no idea why Charlie is so resentful of his sister, and to deal with that in addition to figuring out who Charlie will end up with, whether or not he'll end up back in his original form, etc, there isn't a lot of time.

Kaleb was first rate as usual, but the situation was a little implausible. Fear of the dark is definitely a thing - I have a cousin who tried to jump out a fourth floor window when the lights went out she was so terrified of the dark - but it was broad daylight in the bathroom and someone like Kajo can't kick down that flimsy door? Even I could get out of there. The windows were easily in reach to escape from. I don't think it would have been hard to find a better setting. That scene also underlined an editing problem - way too much time was spent on the cafe boss abusing the employee, and we don't have time for that. She could have just hung the sign and left - the audience can figure out it's the lighting that isn't working because we're not completely stupid.

Charlie's conversation with his sister at the beach was drowned out by sea noise - that's a basic technical error that could easily have been fixed. And that background music is going to make me stab myself in the ears if I hav to listen to that same 10 seconds over and over again.

All of the problems can be fixed with editing - editing is the difference between mediocrity and quality.

Anyway, there's a lot to like about this - the cast is wonderful, a lot of the scenery is beautiful, and the premise has potential, but so far it hasn't been explored - I'm not sure what the point of the sex change is, and I'm hoping light is shed on this.

And I do like the title's homage to the famous 1980s film.

I've though about this type of thing a lot. I have a friend who's a commercial real estate broker who was worried if he was evil because his success depended on taking business from other people. I replied that evil people don't wonder if they're evil, but more importantly, he wouldn't be able to take business from anyone if they were providing satisfactory service. Losing business might make his competitors stop taking things for granted and make them improve their performance.

Likewise if a series is as awful as this one and the reviews reflect that, someone involved in the production who reads them may learn from the outcome and perform better in the future. But if we artificially inflate the reviews, then we're telling people the inferior work they've produced is good and they'll just stay on a failed track.

I do agree with your implied point that when commenting we should also try to point out what's good - if there is anything. Like in this I do like that the characters are relatively complex by BL standards, and nobody is cartoonishly awful or saintly, not even Nine's ex.

I hope Earth is evil in War of Y - I would enjoy that so much. I would be fun if he was playing himself but was the type of person to destroy anyone that got in his way or displeased him.

He's a Lone Wolf. But he's also an uke, so I'm confused.

There is a certain internal logic missing for sure.

Tharn definitely counts - I'm not sure He's Coming To Me ever got far enough sexually to figure out if Tun was the seme or uke - he's taller, so by BL law he has to be the seme, and since he was with a ghost who was dependent on him for everything (except standing around a graveyard), that reinforces the impression. But it was also very strongly implied that the ghost was gay too, so either way it works. In any case that might have been one of the first That series where any character at all explicitly identified as gay.

Was Sun the seme in Dark Blue Kiss? I thought he was the uke. But it's a good thing if it's not immediately obvious.

In Cupid Coach the main character (the same actor as in 21 Day Theory) identified as gay, but there wasn't really a seme and uke.

Me too - I was super-excited. I love the whole cast, so this is a real disappointment.

I'm with you. I'm trying to understand why they made the protesters flamboyantly and stereoypically gay for any reason that isn't offensive, but I'm drawing a blank.

He responded the minimum possible and afterwards the friend asked Cake why Eiw disliked him based on that interaction - of course it's possible, maybe even likely, that the friend misunderstood, but that's how he saw it. I thought Eiw was just not feeding a conversation with someone he wasn't interested in talking to, while the friend was putting in effort to be friendly. But I can admit my reaction to just about everything Eiw does is becoming negative because I so strongly dislike him.

You might be right, and I'm definitely sticking around until after the time jump. I'm not optimistic much will change, but I hope it does and I'll be the first to celebrate. I would love to see Earth play a strong and confident character for once.

Also, why was Nine dressed as an assassin at an amusement park?

The product placement seemed almost non-existent compared to this week's Vice Versa. But I also enjoyed talking to everyone here - so my thanks!

Nine has a perfect scuplted body and tall, dark & handsome looks, but Tee is way sexier. That kiss with Ice was so much hotter than anything Nine & Daonuea did. Partly because Best always behaves like he's being tickled in love scenes and Chahub always positions himself so the maximum number of his muscles are flexed, but mostly because M & Beam really committed.

That was actually a decent episode. 12 episodes too late, but more than I was expecting. It's benefiting from my watching it after Vice Versa, which was so bad it made this look like a work of art. At least there was stuff in it other than fried chicken ads.

But if the first half of all your answers are wrong, the changes of the second half being all wrong are very, very high. Plus, there's something at stake with an exam, and there's nothing at stake here.

The hate train isn't based on Nine's characterization, it's based on the boring and glacial pace of the plot.

I'm not sure I'd use the word "much" but at least those two series were BL stories and not an endless string of commercials.

Worse. I love the cast, but I'm not watching an hour-long commercial for inhalers and fried chicken.

You have to decant orange or dark green alcoholic beverages to letthem breath and open up.

After dousing yourself with men's cologne.

A plot, other than anything that sells products none of us want?