It's OK. The editing is terrible, but it's watchable if you skip a lot and set it on 2x. The actors are really, really hot, which is the saving grace. He's not listed above, but Chin is played by Lepagon Sirabhuvaphong, whose IG is here: https://www.instagram.com/lepagon.r/
BTW, if I were dating someone I gave a goodbye kiss to a ghost that's leaving for the afterlife and he reacted like that, I'd tell the selfish narcissist to go f@#$ himself. Althogh to be fair, he got over it quickly.
They should have paired Allen with LJ - they have way more chemistry. That might be LJ, though, and in all of Allen's scenes with Clark he's pissed off, which is not what he does best.
Also, have you noticed how boys never share anything physical unless it's accidental? That comes from homophobia, wherein it's not OK for men to seek out sex with men. It's a little less gay if they fall on top of each other, not that this has happened to me even once in my... long life. Nor an accidental kiss. Dental bills must be very high for BL characters if they're always mashing their faces together after tripping.
So Much In Love was a glorious disaster - it's one of my favorites. How often do you get a BL with not one, but…
Yes, her son is the nice ghost. When it originally aired the subtitles were so bad it was incomprehensible. With better subtitles it's semi-comprehensible.
Mario's rent for that place is $390 per mo. In California, without exaggeration I can tell you that's just enough for an uncovered parking space. Man, for what my place costs I could get a villa or a giant penthouse in Manila.
Does Arnold get to keep the hair he had at the party, or is he going to snap back to that awful bleached mullet?
They should not have had 3 years pass - that's way too long. No grown adult takes that long to get over someone they barely dated. I could buy one year. It's also too long for Arnold to keep a terrible hair style.
I didn't think anything of the cap in the facetime because it was snowing outside, but when he was still wearing the same cap in the Philippines, either a) he's radically changed his hair for another role (like maybe a solider with a buzz) or b) the other thing, which is unforunately not communicable so he can't take Mario with him.
I also questioned the hat but 3 years later? I thought limited edition was the Jojo shoes
I don't think the sponsor is going to want their product in a parallel drawn with cancer. But the writing is so bad it wouldn't surprise me at this point.
Although I do have a caveat - if the writer was trying to make us loathe the main character, then he or she is a genius. A super-genius.
So Much In Love was a glorious disaster - it's one of my favorites. How often do you get a BL with not one, but…
Well, one of the two ghost stories is scary, but the other one is a sweet romance. The nice ghost is afraid of the vengeful ghost, but I don't recall them ever being in contact. There are a few really delightful scenes, and the sex scenes are steamy. But the plot is all over the place and a huge mess. It's a "so bad it's good" series.
The main thread is the evil principal (who is the nice ghost's mother) is hell-bent on destroying the school's volleyball team for no apparent reason.
we need vampires, werewolves, historical and fantasy BL's. I am so sick of school themed BLs but the problem is...…
It's not for everyone - but it's a darkly comedic supernatural BL horror. The production quality is OK for what it is, but it has witch-nun hate sex. It's very campy with a perfect ending. You have to be able to take people being horrible to enjoy it, but as it doesn't take itself too seriously it wasn't a problem for me.
There appears to be a cast, but I'm not always the most observant person.
I figured, I was just being a smart-ass. I'd be curious to look up the labor laws in Korea - it might just be too expensive to have lots of extras. In Thailand you can do it for free, but in the US you'd have to pay every one of the extras. But you have to ask why they chose such a large estate for the setting when it's clear one prince and one warrior have no chance of maintaining it on their own. There should have been at least one servant to create an illusion.
This is a tough one. Everything about this is fantastic - like first rate - except the story, which is cynically unoriginal (what if we took SOTUS and ITSAY and thew it in a blender?), and the acting is mediocre. It didn't help that the child actors for Tupfah and Thorn were better than the adult actors.
The cinematography, editing, directing, and art design in this are spectacular - seriously ITSAY level, and giving it an odd timeless quality - could you tell what year it was set in? Although part of that was the total absence of phones.
But the plot is so dull and uninteresting that I had to take breaks every few minutes. I have no interest in this - maybe if the actors were more dynamic, or I could feel chemistry. I'll watch next ep for sure, and I'm hoping it will be character focused and not be all about sports.
You can almost feel that the casting call read "no queers need apply" - this feels very 2016 in sensibility to me.
Don't shoot me for saying this, but to me it has an ITSAY vibe that I really like. I already get the sense that…
Hmm. It felt to me like they went to the ITSAY store to buy the cinematography, directing, editing, dialogue, art design, etc. but then ran out of money and bought the story from the Nitiman store. I was stuggling to keep interest and only the visuals held me. I don't get why they devoted that much money and love to a project to tell this story.
Apparently unpopular opinion: Pran's mother made the right decison (or at least "a" right decision if not "the") sending Pran to a different school. Pat's father sabotaged her, and she had every reason to believe he would sabotage Pran in favor of Pat.
He was 13. It was absolutely her responsibility. You can disagree with her choice, but I find it indefensible to call it abusive. As far as the music thing goes, it's not like she's the only parent who wanted their child concentrating on academics. To be honest, I wish my parents hadn't allowed me to major in music.
I disagree, I think it makes sense to be Pran crying. We very rarely in the show see the consequences of the feud…
I like this explanation and it does make a lot of sense - my only comment would be that if Pat cried I wouldn't see it as feeling responsibility for what his father did - I would see it as feeling a loss of his father as someone he could respect and look up to. Also, we saw in very stark terms in Ep 5 on the roof of what effect the feud has on Pat - that was a very emotional speech - "I felt relieved I didn't have to compete with you and it was so depressingly lonely for me."
My objection here is that the impact on Pran is not new - he has known for four years that he was sent to a different school to separate him from Pat. The only difference is that now he knows his mother's motivation was that Pat's father is evil, not a petty business issue.
On the other hand, Pat has been confronted with the knowledge that his father is a bad person and unworthy of his respect - and that's not a four-year old revelation, it happened that very day.
I wonder if there are social conditioning pressures that affect how we view this - it's actually kind of fascinating. I see the father-son dynamic and the dynastic issues, and you are attuned to the assumption/imposition of victimhood, which I can't see (not because it's not there, but because it's outside my experience).
The way I see Pran's mother is that because Pat's father sabotaged her, she felt she needed to send Pran away out of fear that he would sabotage Pran as well in favor of Pat, which is in my mind completely legitimate, and maybe even the best decision.
On the rooftop, the only emotional motivation I could find for Pran was feeling bad about what he said to his mother, which seemed insufficient. I feel bad for days when I get impatient with my mother.
Real conversation:
Mom: "My computer isn't working right."
"Ok, turn it off, then turn it back on."
"What do you mean?"
Buddha himself would lose his patience over that, but I still felt bad when I did. Not to the point of sobbing on the rooftop, though.
As someone (izzah) on twitter wrote: Pat having to be strong for the both of them because he is used to being…
Those are all reasonable explanations - if Pran & Pat were real people. But because they are characters in a drama, their emotional natures have to be set up through the writing and must be consistent. If we see them behave in a certain way for the whole series and then they suddenly behave in a different way, it doesn't have the right impact. You shouldn't have to scrounge for psychological motivations, you should just know what the character is like.
What you said about older children is often true, but in this case we actually saw a scene where Pat's sister was drowning, and he froze in panic - it was Pran that held it together and saved her.
I'm not defending violence, but it would also have worked better if his mother had really slapped him, instead of just tapping a couple of fingers to his cheek. I get why they did it that way, but it undermined the moment.
The scene on the roof had power because of the acting - but think about it for a minute. Imagine Pat crying and Pran embracing him - that would have been much more powerful, and it would have been a dynamic reinforced by everything that's gone before. Besides the lake rescue, Pat wasn't able to control himself in the confrontation with Wai - it was Pran who held it together and by force of will kept two much bigger and stronger hotheads apart.
Anyone here, who can enlighten me, when this is playing? I mean the time. It says "feudal past", which does not…
It's indeterminate because the Joseon period was long. I'd guess between 1400 and 1800, probably closer to the later date. It can't be much later than that or there would be signs of technology.
Also probably closer to the later date or the language would be too different, although I doubt anyone in the production is paying much attention to specifics beyond "JoseonEra".
I love this period drama. The Joseon style clothing and architecture are really beautiful and so different from…
Well, if you think about it, there's no explanation for why all the Thai BL characters aren't morbidly obese since they spend 90% of their time eating nutrition-free snacks and drinking refreshing bottles of sugary tea.
I just assume on this series that they get their food and services from the nearby village, the inhabitants of which creep around whenever the camera is not on them and do their thing.
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BTW, if I were dating someone I gave a goodbye kiss to a ghost that's leaving for the afterlife and he reacted like that, I'd tell the selfish narcissist to go f@#$ himself. Althogh to be fair, he got over it quickly.
Also, have you noticed how boys never share anything physical unless it's accidental? That comes from homophobia, wherein it's not OK for men to seek out sex with men. It's a little less gay if they fall on top of each other, not that this has happened to me even once in my... long life. Nor an accidental kiss. Dental bills must be very high for BL characters if they're always mashing their faces together after tripping.
Does Arnold get to keep the hair he had at the party, or is he going to snap back to that awful bleached mullet?
They should not have had 3 years pass - that's way too long. No grown adult takes that long to get over someone they barely dated. I could buy one year. It's also too long for Arnold to keep a terrible hair style.
I didn't think anything of the cap in the facetime because it was snowing outside, but when he was still wearing the same cap in the Philippines, either a) he's radically changed his hair for another role (like maybe a solider with a buzz) or b) the other thing, which is unforunately not communicable so he can't take Mario with him.
Although I do have a caveat - if the writer was trying to make us loathe the main character, then he or she is a genius. A super-genius.
The main thread is the evil principal (who is the nice ghost's mother) is hell-bent on destroying the school's volleyball team for no apparent reason.
The cinematography, editing, directing, and art design in this are spectacular - seriously ITSAY level, and giving it an odd timeless quality - could you tell what year it was set in? Although part of that was the total absence of phones.
But the plot is so dull and uninteresting that I had to take breaks every few minutes. I have no interest in this - maybe if the actors were more dynamic, or I could feel chemistry. I'll watch next ep for sure, and I'm hoping it will be character focused and not be all about sports.
You can almost feel that the casting call read "no queers need apply" - this feels very 2016 in sensibility to me.
He was 13. It was absolutely her responsibility. You can disagree with her choice, but I find it indefensible to call it abusive. As far as the music thing goes, it's not like she's the only parent who wanted their child concentrating on academics. To be honest, I wish my parents hadn't allowed me to major in music.
My objection here is that the impact on Pran is not new - he has known for four years that he was sent to a different school to separate him from Pat. The only difference is that now he knows his mother's motivation was that Pat's father is evil, not a petty business issue.
On the other hand, Pat has been confronted with the knowledge that his father is a bad person and unworthy of his respect - and that's not a four-year old revelation, it happened that very day.
I wonder if there are social conditioning pressures that affect how we view this - it's actually kind of fascinating. I see the father-son dynamic and the dynastic issues, and you are attuned to the assumption/imposition of victimhood, which I can't see (not because it's not there, but because it's outside my experience).
The way I see Pran's mother is that because Pat's father sabotaged her, she felt she needed to send Pran away out of fear that he would sabotage Pran as well in favor of Pat, which is in my mind completely legitimate, and maybe even the best decision.
On the rooftop, the only emotional motivation I could find for Pran was feeling bad about what he said to his mother, which seemed insufficient. I feel bad for days when I get impatient with my mother.
Real conversation:
Mom: "My computer isn't working right."
"Ok, turn it off, then turn it back on."
"What do you mean?"
Buddha himself would lose his patience over that, but I still felt bad when I did. Not to the point of sobbing on the rooftop, though.
What you said about older children is often true, but in this case we actually saw a scene where Pat's sister was drowning, and he froze in panic - it was Pran that held it together and saved her.
I'm not defending violence, but it would also have worked better if his mother had really slapped him, instead of just tapping a couple of fingers to his cheek. I get why they did it that way, but it undermined the moment.
The scene on the roof had power because of the acting - but think about it for a minute. Imagine Pat crying and Pran embracing him - that would have been much more powerful, and it would have been a dynamic reinforced by everything that's gone before. Besides the lake rescue, Pat wasn't able to control himself in the confrontation with Wai - it was Pran who held it together and by force of will kept two much bigger and stronger hotheads apart.
Also probably closer to the later date or the language would be too different, although I doubt anyone in the production is paying much attention to specifics beyond "JoseonEra".
I just assume on this series that they get their food and services from the nearby village, the inhabitants of which creep around whenever the camera is not on them and do their thing.