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Everyone knows people like that. I've had a boyfriend on the spectrum.

He says "Thank you" when appropriate, etc. That's understanding the rules, and he seems to understand people's motivations fairly well. I don't think his character is consistent.

And in any case, whether or not he's neurodivergent doesn't change that this is a boring rehash of a tired formula.

I think maybe I was looking at the poster, which has her in the same uniform - thanks for the clarification.

He doesn't seem neurodivergent, either. Other than shyness, he shows no other signs of this. I don't think his character is written very well - his behavior appears to be governed by whatever the plot needs.

Writing and acting a character on the spectrum is very difficult, especially in a romance. I hope they surprise me.

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I agree - this is really dull and unimaginitive. Everyone's suddenly throwing around the word "neurodivergent" as if that explains inconsistent writing of a character. This a particularly flat excution of a tired formula. It's too bad - I was really looking forward to a longer Korean series.

Maybe it will surpise me.

Yes, we have. His acting is fine, the writing isn't. One minute he's behaving as if he's on the sepctrum, the next he's not. If they want an autistic character, then have one. Don't go in and out to suit the plot. He understands social rules just fine. All his responses are socially appropriate, they're just flat or awkward.

It's writing & directing. Perth (the dead one) was quite good in My Engineer where he had to communicate only with acting because his character didn't speak. The live BF was great in YYY where he had to be alluring in the middle of complete chaos & insanity.

I've never thought Talay was very inspiring as an actor, but he's always been at least competent.

The writing has been terrible in this series - the one with the ghost was well-written except the ending, but the rest, including (I would say especially, but I'm in a minority) Puth & Kaeng. But at least they had a plot. How many fires can you have in a single story? It would have been too much in a full-length series. The theater alone had two! If you're going to make it that ridiculous, then make it an absurdist comedy or something.

I was in love with River Phoenix when I was a kid, all the way from Stand By Me to the end.

Why is the entire cast of My Engineer in this? Why don't they just do My Engineer 3 and set it after they graduate? I'm not really complaining because I like the cast, although Cooper & Poy were kind of on-note, but that's probably the writing.

Cooper has one of the best non-malicious smirks in the business.

This is not sarcasm - I'm really asking: What do you view as groundbreaking? Is it that it's an actual series instead of a movie cut into 8 parts? I suppose that's something, but I'd rather have a short Where Your Eyes Linger than 16 hours of this.

One thing I've appreciated about kbl is the attempt to try new things - this is just copying a tired formula. I could take it if at least if they did it well - but this is really dull. When the only excitement is someone accidentally getting a dildo shoved up their a$$, you know you're in trouble.

IDK, maybe they'll surprise me. I'll give it one more ep. See? You swayed me. :)

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According to the synopsis she will be jealous of two boys' relationship and try to drive them apart. BL writers excel at original thinking. Actually that's not fair. I'm pretty sure there's only one BL writer and she's being held prisoner and being forced to add pathetical comical screeching ladyboys, toxic females, accidental kisses, and the thing where someone trips, is caught by someone else, and they stare at each other until they turn gay. You can never have enough trip/catch/stare/turn gay.

Yes, it's incredibly common for people to trip while carrying a dildo and accidentally shove it up someone's ass. The angles are just right for something like that to happen every single time. In fact I would venture to say that it's almost impossible NOT to accidentally shove a dildo up someone's ass, just as it's impossible to chop vegetables without cutting your finger, shave without nicking yourself, or cross a street without being run over by a white van (or rescued at the last moment by someone you don't like. Or didn't, until he pulled you out of the way in such manner that your faces end up close together and you stare awkwardly at each other until you turn gay).

I couldn't get through it - too boring , unoriginal, and poorly written. First, an introvert is not someone who has gotten to HS and doesn't know how to make friends. Second, and introvert isn't someone who is incapable of emotional expression. There is not one single thing that is unique or original in this, and even worse, It's all "tell, don't show:." If you need one character to explain to another what the personalities of the other characters are like, you've already failed Writing 101. If he's supposed to be on the autism spectrum, then the writing is even worse.

So, it's an all-boys school with only one girl attending just so she can be the villain of the story? Does the school have a toxic female scholarship? On the other hand, it's well-known that all men would be gay if there weren't an evil female breaking everyone up, so they serve an essential role in preserving the human race.

It's irritating, isn't it? I'm guessing whoever wrote this is an extrovert. Or at least whoever directed it. Or maybe the actor had a stroke and is incapable of facial expression. Or had lots and lots of botox.

This was so much better than I was expecting - I thought there would be no way they can match the original, but I actually prefer this version. By quite a bit.

First, the boss is so funny that it added a whole new level to the show - if you remember, the Japanese boss was just sad - old and lonely. The HK boss is deliciously, confidently creepy. Tin is still a useless man-boy, but he's more appealing than Haruta, who was so awful that you weren't sure you really wanted to ship him with Maki.

Tin's hair is a character in itself - and I actually think Edan Lui is better at crazed facial expresions and screaming than Tanaka Kei, and I think the chemistry between the leads is better.

I wish they hadn't de-aged all the characters 10 years, but I know they need to appeal to the BL audience.

To be honest, the HK version is considerably better. The boss is hysterical, the main character is funnier, and the editing and pretty much every other aspect of the production is superior. I thought it would be a sad shadow of the Japanese version, but I was pleasantly surprised.

The actor made himself not attractive at all with his acting. He did look very cute when he was sleeping, but most of the time you want to slap him.

I said I know it's time to drop it, not that I actually do! :) It has to be really, really bad for me to give up. This is not nearly there for me, so I'm in to the end!

What social issues and identities are you seeing? What specifically is preachy? I'm not seeing that at all.

I agree - the second trailer made me excited again.

Got it. I'm certainly not going to criticize someone for not liking tropes. For me, it's non-specific - I get increasingly annoyed as the quantity of tropes in a serioes rises to a point that my eyes are permanently rolled into the back of my head, when I know it's time to drop it.