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Same - Leon was perfect, but I thought James' grief was so real that it made me cry, even though I'm glad the cat is dead, because they're all evil.

I agree - Leon seemed to understand what he could do for Pob, but Leo is so controlling that he doesn't seem to understand Fiat needs professional help to get past his trauma.

I had to start skipping things because I was feeling so much secondary embarassment. Fiat is a grown man, but they write him like a small child. It's OK to be tormented by childhood issues - who isn't? But he's still a grown man. First does scared/surprised reactions very well. I almost thought they deliberately scared him to make it look real. They need to give Ja something to do. Actually, they also need to give First something to do other than whining and crying. He's proved he's mastered that - now on to something else.

That was the first time we got to see James act, and he didn't disappoint - that was some of the most real grief I've seen in a BL - not OTT, but visceral. That level of grief is generally for when one's mother dies instead of an evil little creature, but still, it was great acting. And Leon is good at comforting - also not OTT, and no "it will be alrright", which is the last thing a grieving person wants to hear. Leon is often childish, but he's the only character in this who really acts his age.

I just realized 20 minutes ago (that's about how long Ep 8 is) that I forgot to watch the last episode of the Yearbook. I wish I hadn't remembered.

Again, the entire episode is flashbacks. Even when someone is singing, there's a flashback to someone else singing the same song. There's a scene where there are TWO, I'm not joking, flashbacks within what is already a flashback. Well, there is a (very long) scene were Nut laboriously writes a letter, and then just calls Phob instead. And then it ended. I was about to get upset, but then the post-credit scene came on, which I thought might wrap it up nicely, but it was even worse. No interaction between Nut and Phob, then something randomly bad happens to someone else, which we hear about on the phone, and then it ends.

This series was a big disappointment - it had so many excellent ingredients, but the chef threw it all into a pot and boiled it until it was tasteless.

Title has to be one of the cutest guys on the planet. Almost enough to hold my interest during the endless scenes of him sitting places and writing or flashing back.

Hmm. 3 & 4 weren't as good as 1 & 2 for me. I was getting bored, which shouldn't happen in such short episodes. The actors need a coach for their smiling, because it's not reaching the eyes, although that might just be because they're so plastered with white makeup that they can't move their faces.

I think maybe the pace is too slow - it's half over and very little has happened. All they're interaction is accidental - opening the door & staring, drunk going to the wrong room, etc. That's kind of typical of BL, as if it's not OK for two guys to just be into each other and date.

But it's cute and watchable, and with two shows airing where people never cut themselves while holding sharp objects maybe I can get over my sharp-object-in-BL PTSD. As a bonus, they did something related to sports without anyone getting injured - a minor miracle.

I was totally thinking the same thing! It ended up having absolutely no importance to the plot. It makes you wonder if a longer version was written where it mattered and someone forgot to take it out. It wasn't even comedic or involve shirtlessness - just a time-eater. They could have had TWO gratuitous shower scenes in place of the barrier. Maybe even three.

I laughed at Grand Wizard even though I shouldn't. It's kind of like that famous text autocorrect "I love you and dream about the Fuhrer."

That was so cute and funny - I loved it.

I was getting frustrated with this series when the girl entered the story, but thankfully they didn't belabor that.

Hmm. For me Jae Hyun had a limited bag of tricks, and didn't have a very consistently drawn character, although the latter would not really be the actor's fault. His stares all looked placid yet vaguely hostile to me.

I really liked He's Coming to Me, but the ending was ludicrous and went against the "rules" they had set up. Plus, Singto would stay in his 20s while Ohm grew old, which might be awkward. And Bring it On Ghost cheated because she was only mostly dead. We new definitively that Yoon Oh was deceased. I would add The Shipper, where a happy ending was perfectly possible given the setup but they f@%#$ing ruined the whole thing.

I agree - I think it doesn't matter what the rules are, they can even be silly, but they only need to be there and be followed. It would have made zero difference if Peach had brought the box with the bracelets from his room - and would have made sense. Instead, we're thinking "his mother is going to have a heart attack when she sees a box floating through the air". And if he can carry a box, why doesn't he just correspond with his mother via email or texts? He is always playing with his tablet.

I can generally let it go, but when it's outrageous and unnecessary like the go-carts, it takes me out of the story. There are lot of fun date things they could do instead, like have sex or something.

Reading the comments below, I feel like I was watching a different show. That was one of the best BLs I've seen. There were a few minor execution problems, like mismatched lip-synching and, shall we say, generous amounts of impossible manipulation of objects, but I really liked that it didn't discount our intelligence, and the acting was very good. Jimmy isn't the best actor in the world, but he was more than adequate for this. I wasn't any more blown away by Jae Hyun, who only had to stand around and look sulky and pretty. The imbalance came from Ae Eun (the mother), who had a complex role and gave a powerhouse performance.

This is a 9.5/10 for me.

Do you mean the last few seconds in the cafe? If so, there's no explanation. It was probably hedging bets in case somehow there's a sequel, which would be ridiculous, IMO.

I think it was on purpose in the conversation with mother at the end, but elsewhere I didn't think so - there would have been no purpose to doing that. They may have run out of time, or not had the footage ready when he was singing in the studio or something.

It was very distracting to me and one of the biggest problems because it was the climax. I wasn't too fond of having to wonder how Yoon Oh was driving a cart and carrying objects around either, but other than that I loved it.

I'm with you on this. I had to split it into two tranches though because it was too intense for a single binge for me.

I'm OK with the clothes changing - it's just appearance. The driving and carrying objects around, on the other hand, could and should have been avoided.

Hmm. It depends on how you define sad. I think I would say for most people, it isn't sad. But you know that it's not going to be fluffy when one of the pair is dead.

Holy sh#$ you weren't kidding.