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How about Something In My Room?

I groaned at the accidental kiss, but then it was saved by the principal calling it "so cliche". Still, every promo for this makes it look more generic. But you never know, so I'll give it a try.

Is Daniel Cheng not in this? That was the strongest selling point for me.

It's never a good sign. But maybe allowances can be made for COVID.

I worked for the company here in the USA, so the Koreans were forced to interact with foreigners. The company's thinking was that high-performers are assigned aboad to they can learn to be global leaders. In practice, they come here, think we're insane and try to Koreanize everything - eventually they realize that won't happen and start to appreciate some aspects of the American management culture just in time to be shipped back home and the cycle begins anew. It's really impossible for gay workers because while some really don't care, you're eventually going to run into the boss-of-the-month that does.

For some reason, the company is unusually Christian, which doesn't help, and the excutives all go to the same church and drink a lot together, so rumors fly fast and hard.

It's not great for women, either. One of my people was Korean-American and fluent in Korean - I asked her why she didn't use it as I thought it would be an advantage. She replied "If I speak Korean they'll treat me like a Korean woman."

I actually bumped up my score for the series for having the character simply attracted to the love interest rather than by being caught and stared at. I have a bit of a crush on Ji Woo - I like small guys and I'm a sucker for size difference in couples.

Oh. got it. I think it's reasonable for Ji Woo to see it that way, but an audience member should not. She views him as a friend, she has done nothing to lead him on, and she HAS A STALKER and can only trust Ji Woo and needs to be accompanied and is terrified. She didn't know the stalker went after him - if she had, she would have behaved much differently.

Yes, I agree with you completely.

It has nothing to do with the budget - I don't care about that at all. I care about the writing and acting - everthing else is nice-to-have but unimportant. And it pisses me off when people downvote something just because it's not long. You know how long it is before you start watching, and something short isn't necessarily inferior to something long. I'd rather watch Semantic Error with eight 20-min eps than Love Sick 2 with 36 45-min eps.

The problem is there are six 15-minute episodes and there's too much going on to fit in that time. The pacing would be great for a longer series, but they have to make some decisions. For example, did we really need the dick roommate? He doesn't serve any plot purpose to justify the time spent on him.

As a result, the stalker plotline has consumed the majority of the run time of the series, and the only inkling we've gottn that the boys like each othr is Noa clearly wants to be with Ji Woo all the time, and Ji Woo obviously liked how Noa looks with his shirt off. There isn't time to resolve the stalker plot tie up all the other minor threads, and still develop the romance - it's going to be rushed.

The main pair are great characters, the acting is pretty good, everything is pretty good - the pacing of Ep 4 was perfect, but not for something that only has 30 minutes runtime left. I wrote this after Ep 4, BTW.

Again, with Ep 4, this is an excellent serires that feels like it just completed ep 2 of 12. It's too short for how much they're putting in it. We have stalker vs girl, stalker vs Ji Woo, Roa vs his dick roommate, Dick roomate vs Ji Woo, Ji Woo vs societal rejection and ridicule, and I'm guessing 10 seconds at the end of the last ep for BL.

And whatever the professor is. I thought he was gay - he's wearing a silk scarf around his neck - and I thought he was offering to listen to Ji Woo if he needed it. If he's the stalker, who cares? It doesn't really matter who the stalker is. And TBH, it would be silly and not be respecting an important problem.

Short doesn't =/= bad. One of my favorite BLs is Country Boy, which is one hour long. Something can be 2.5 hours long like Semantic Error and be vastly superior to something 27 hours long like Love Sick 2, which felt more like punishment than entertainment. But if it's short,then it needs to be written and paced to be short. If it's based on source material, choices have to be made - for example, does the dick roommate serve any purpose? Could he have been cut out? That's a few valuable minutes that could be spent on the main pair.

I don't think the plot is messy at all - I think there's too much in it to resolve in just two 17 minute episodes. The stalker plot has taken over and not left a lot of room for BL.

I thought he was gay and offering his support to Jui Woo. he would have had minor injuries if he were the stalker. It doesn't really matter who the stalker is unless it's one of the main characters, and that's more or less impossible.

He's not really stnading up for gay rights - he's trying to protect Ji Woo. Unless I missed something (I'm asking, not being sarcastic), thought his aim was take blame for confusing everyone.

He has a crush on Ji Woo and is jealous, and is displacing anger onto her because she is, through no fault of her own, the cause of Ji Woo's woes. The context might have been unclear, but I took it as she wanted him to walk her home. She did ask them not to report the stalker - but I would think a Korean would understand why, so he shouldn't be mad about that.

Ji Woo was clearly excited when he saw Roa with his shirt off - I think he likes him. Isn't the professor gay? I interpreted that scene to mean the prof was offering himself as someone to talk to. It doesn't rally matter to the plot who the stalker is, and the last thing we need is another character.

Yes, I worked at "Three Stars" and got fired for being gay. It's hopeless - all the rest of the world will have to come around before Korea does. You'd never know from looking at me, but I'm not married and I'm too old not to be married. My boss didn't care, but the moment he transfered back home I lasted less than a week. It's allowed if you're a single contributor, but not a leader - I was a boo jang (I love that title - it means something different in English) with 25 people under me, including Korean men - you can imagne how beloved that was. They themselves didn't care, but for the older VPs, it was just not OK.

I guess a person who is still in school might not have been exposed to it. After that I don't think you can completely escape it in adult life.

It did seem a little odd that the entire student body immediatly assumed the anonymous post was true. In my admittedly limited exposure to anything other than professioal Korean culture, most people would choose not to believe it or just not acknowlege it.

I agree with you , completely - but it takes time to build up audience acceptance and investment, and it's already half over. So far we've seen Roa being a creeper and possessive of someone he barely knows. I actually really liked the younger brother in History 4 and was happy they got together, so I'm definitely not one of those people who cancels someone for having flaws - Yong Jie was several thousand times more transgressive than Roa.

I don't think Roa should be crucified for one minor thing - he might not have even meant to slam Ji Woo like that. I'm saying that the way this is written has waited so long to introduce the BL element and given us a romantic lead that so far is cold, obsessive, and weird, that I don't think there's enough time left to invest in the character and couple, especially as so much time is being devoted to the stalker plot.

I think the main couple have the ingredients to be a really good pair - in a 12 episode series. Or, a 6 episode series where 50% of it is not devoted to a stalker storyline and the first two episodes were not about straight romance. Ji Woo seems to view himself as straight (although I liked that his first inkling of his attraction was driven by seeing Roa's body instead of tripping, being caught, and staring at him for 45 minutes), so we can expect a huge freakout which has to be dealt with, and we have to resolve the stalker story. That tells me we're getting a rushed and unearned ending.

Or they could have fallen into mud. But yes, fortunatly the writing and acting of the character interaction was so good that it didn't ruin it for me. That was much less true for me in the first three episodes where the tone was so schizophrenic - I didn't really like the series very much until Ep 4 when it really launched and has been consisteent since.

Not comedy - I like that. Impossible things like thta fall without any injury.

The comedy is fine - other than ep 2 it's been well-handled. Fallng 10 meters onto jagged rocks and not even getting your hair messed up is so unrealistic that it's stupid. It doesn't ruin the show, but it takes me out of it for a moment.

Oh. I dropped that series. I thought it was some other forum that discusses KP. For me this series is much better, with the couples contrasting and not being uber-uke and hyper-seme. I like how K and P are both just guys, not a patronizing knight in shining armor and a Victorian-era 12-year old virgin.

There are things to criticize in KP, but they're not the sort of things to produce visceral emotional reactions like in CP - here it's mostly ridiculous and impossible things, like that fall which somehow didn't even scratch anyone. It didn't even mess up their hair. Or tonal problems like how Ep 2 was too silly, etc.