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Yes - that would have been OK if Mayam had a different endgame than Teng, because he didn't know Mayam had a partner, so it's hard to assign much blame to him, although he could have spared us all and given up. Or maybe because Teng & his bf's relationship was basically over, if there had been on-fire chemistry between Mayam & Teng it might have sold it, but none of that was the case. And in the end he was eventually pursuing someone who was taken. He could have said "I'll wait for you" and backed off. Or maybe gone after the hot evil chef.

As the series wears on, everything about the main couple becomes kind of dark and awful, so whatever the series had about it that was good, you've seen.

That's why I thought Lee trying to seduce Park was hotter than their actual love scene. I don't know who has the power to resist Daniel Cheng no matter how tired, but when he turns it on, you notice.

And second place for me went to the full-body cuddle between Tim and Mai. I like Mai a lot more than I do Tim, but there's something to be said for having a pile of muscle wrapped around you.

To be fair, it's likely not all his artistic choice - the director and acting coach are probably more responsible, and the writer.

I wonder if they'll ever let Earth play an adult. Hopefully before he's 30. In nice clothes & glasses and no schoolboy bangs, I'll be he can pass.

Soooo cute. That couch cuddle was the best moment of the ep.

The sudden shift to uber-soft filter with totally different color grading was pretty funny, too.

People like that arent going to bitch out in front of a client and her boss like that though, and she would get absolutely fried for critizing Kim's work in a client meeting. You never do that, and if she had any critiques, it was her job to review his work before the meeting, not during. I'm not saying there atent bitches in the workplace, but not suicidal stupid bitches. Plus, we should remain conscious of how ambition in women is viewed much more negatively than it is for men.

Park has always been my #1. Bomb is #2, especially when he has his shirt off, but his pouty lips work for me too. I also really like Lee, Bomb, and Mai. There seems to be a pattern here.

I forgot the sudden and jarring change to an extreme soft-filter. I did actually LOL.

The professionally jealous bitch is a beyond-tired trope and is downright dangerous in the way it perpetuates negative stereotypes of working women. In the real world people like that ge fired.

Kim's boss is hot.

I feel bad for the actors - what a mess.

First, they have to stop with the planking in the love scenes. They're already not doing anything but kissing - the can touch their bodies together. Mai & Tim were he only couple that looked like they were into each other, except when Lee wanted sex and Park didn't, which was the most erotic scene in the ep.

But come on. Kim didn't know who his client was? That was so We Best Love 2, except it made even less sense. How did Mek get so successful making videos about gardening that he can afford an marketing agency - and why would he need one if he was able to get rich essentially, well, marketing?

I'm not a huge fan of Earth's acting, but he's screwed by the terrible writing. It was hard to care about Mek's return because it was so implausible it just made me sigh wearily. None of the friends knew what he's been up to, that he was coming back, or that he was magically successful now? And the ridiculous workplace - it's funny that the only series that had anything like a real workplace was Rak Diao, which was an episodic sitcom. And his horrible treatment of his mother makes him a bad person. She should tell him that if he's going to be a dick that he can pay rent of move out. While I don't think he even blinks authentically, I don't see how Earth or any other actor would be able to successfully portray a character that's so all-over-the-place like Kim and stuck in so many unrealistic situations.

Park & Lee were cute, but it was too rushed, and it repeated the suspicion of cheating plot device which spoiled it a little - it makes you think about the 'what if' the series were about them instead.

For me, I just don't feel any authenticity from Earth, i.e. it's very obvious he's acting. That's distancing and it doesn't make his connection to anyone else easy to invest in. He's not helped by the terrible writing which constantly requires him to behave in a way that real people don't behave or put him in situations that are more or less impossible in real life, like a chancellor forcing him to be in a gay couple or an evil intern at work persecuting him, or being broken up with for his own good. Not to mention getting a job without his mother knowing it when they live together. Since we've never been given a hint that he has problems with her, he seems like a bad person for the way he's treating her.

The side couples are all amazing - sometimes it feels like authors just use the main couple as a coat hangar (and make them about as interesting) to hang the couples they care about on, which makes me wonder why this series wasn't about Park & Lee or Bomb and Bear. Even Tim & Mai - that couch cuddle felt real.

I might have been in a slightly sour mood that day. :)

I thought the coin machine with toy prizes including the bubble thing, which stopped being produced in the 1980s was a strong indicator this was in the past. Somehing like a calendar is an easy production error to make, but it could be as you said that it's related to the time jump. But if they're in tht late 80s early 90s, a time jump to 2022 will be problemmatic - I doubt Santa will be very convincing as a man in his 30s.

I do basically agree with that to a extent - much of it is the writer and director - but still, someone like Cake would annoy me in real life, but Santa makes the character charming. Earth didn't. If anything, since Seeiw is the "perspective" character, it should be Cake who is the irritating person, not Seeiw. It's still not his fault because he didn't cast himself, but it doesn't mean he's good at what he's doing.

This is a comments section, not a self-esteem building session. We're here to discuss the series we're watching, positive and negative. If you're that put off by reading a criticism, maybe this isn't the place for you and you might prefer Earth's fan club.

What does that have to do with anything anyway? He didn't write this and he's not directing it, so it's not like it's his fault.

None of what you're discussing above bothers me at all. It was Seeiw's incessant whiny nagging that I found rage-inducing. If it had been a few times it might even have been cute, but non-stop all the way through the episode was just too much. It didn't feel like a teenage boy. Even if you could buy it, if they've known each other since infancy and Seeiw is still scandalized by Cake's fast eating or untucked shirt despite seeing it every day for 17 years, then he's psychotic. It's bad writing.

I did know someone like you describe above - I've looked him in the face in the mirror every day in what has become an increasingly reliable disappointment.

Rules followers are more about following rules themselves, not trying to force everyone else to follow them, much like someone with an obsessive-compulsive disorder won't make you turn the light switch on and off 19 times so your family doesn't die.

BTW, the balloon thing is a prize you could get out of a coin machine or buy in a toy store in the 1970s & 1980s. There's a tube with goo in it that you put on the end of a straw and blow into a bubble. If you leave it thick you can shape it, or if you blow it really big it becomes a shimmery balloon. That to me was an indicator that this takes place fairly far in the past because they stopped producing it because it was full of toxic fumes. It did smell strong. But it was a lot of fun.

In the USA it was marketed as Super Elastic Bubble Plastic.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/261631059576505122/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Elastic_Bubble_Plastic

I'm surprised a bit. Usually the acting coaches tell the actors to tone it down.

Interesting. I thought that must be the secondary couple, but if it was just a throwaway making fun of the lip-wiping trope, then bravo, because it's a silly trope.

I would almost certainly just be Earth nagging Santa with an intensely irritating whine, as that's all there was in the IQ version.

I think i's a typo - IQ says 14, whichis typical.

If you are right, then I would agree, that would work well. But I feel second-hand embarrassment when I watch Kaotung trying to be a bad boy, so hopefully you're threory is corrcet soon.

If Neo does a good job with this role, I hope somone makes him a lead. I hink he's really talented - he seems to commit stongly to every role.

I really like half the ship. The other half never stops whining. Earth's age is irrelevant - but his inability to play a convincing high school kid is relevant. He's made the odd artistic choice of playing a high school kid as an irritating 70-year old woman, like the kind that's always at the bus stop in cold places yelling at you for not wearing a scarf, except those old ladies are cute and kind, and I don't have a stong urge to punch them in the neck like Earth is provoking.