I'm excited for this series - it's one of the few that explored new ground in BL - in fact, it was so free of silly tropes and formulas that I'm not sure it even counts as BL. Which is a good thing.
I can sketch out the entire plot based on that trailer. That's how predictable BL has become. I know nothing about the story other than what the trailer showed, and I've never read the book or seen any spoilers, but I'll bet money Sib is behind everything. Yawn.
I thought it was totally unoriginal and had nothing to say and was a waste of my time, other than that the tall lead was so incredibly good-looking that it's hard to believe he was a real person and not figmment of my imagination projected by my subconscious to represent my ultimate fantasy man.
I still think there's really only one BL writer and that we need to free her from the basement she's chained in, being forced to write accidental kisses, trip/fall/catch, loud ladyboys, wide-open eyed rubber lips-barely touching kisses, and engineers. Slight progress has been made lately because now medical students are allowed, but lately they've become the new engineers.
The kiss in this was terrible. Stop trying to recreate a manga!
It's getting to the point that I'm not really excited about any BL anymore, because I've already seen it all.
The trailer is not great. It looks like the same old story yet again. It contributes to my theory that there's actually only one BL writer and they have her chained in a basement somewhere forcing her at gunpoint to add accidental kisses and making the seme more tsundere.
It's disturbing that I even know how to write a sentence like that and know what it means. I blame COVID.
Anyway, the seme is such a total dick in the trailer that it looks like it would be unpleasant to watch, so I probably won't, but I'll do the normal check here to see if everyone loves it and then give it a try if they do.
I was hoping for some technical improvement over Stranger's Kiss, but there isn't. Sound is particularly bad - I can forgive the ambient sound issues trying to film on a low budget in a busy urban area, but the editing is harder to excuse, with the music so loud at times that the all the dialog is drowned out.
This was also really slow, with almost nothing happening except for a theft so predictable that I didn't need to watch it. Also, illogical - like anyone would rob a hovel with the occupant in it, who is known to be fierce. There was too much "tell" and not enough "show", and I still don't have any sense of who Nico is. If I had to describe him in a word, it would be "uke", which is all we really get, whereas Prince is a fully realized character - he's generous, protective, short-tempered, etc.
Anyway, this still has the passion behind it that made Stranger's Kiss appealing, and LJ Russell still has "it". One thing I appreciate about Filipino BL is that the actors are natural and not the usual Thai chiseled mannequins. Prince is not muscle-bound and 100% fat-free but is a lot sexier than 99% of BL actors.
I'm hoping this picks up the pace a little moving forward.
I asked a neighbour about it, a Filipina nurse working at a nearby hospital, and she said that cockfighting (and…
OMG, that's right, I remember that. I thought it was comic too - hunh. I'll have to go back and rewatch that ep.
At first I thought it was soft porn, but then it surprised me by being deep and insightful. And soft porn. Best of both worlds. The second season of that is coming up.
Why is this rated so low? These are so cute!!! I would love to see a full-length A Diamond Lee series, but I'm happy with all these shorts. The highlight for me was the stepbrothers, but the couple at the beach was adorable too.
We don't know Mork is the online friend. The friend is played by Pond because that's who Pi is imagining it is.…
We're going all over the place here - my main point is that Mork was taking full responsibility for everything and telling Pi to blame him and not the fujoshis. I think that shows he's a good person who made a mistake, whereas you have a more negative spin on everything he does, and that's perfectly fine, but if you're that intolerant of human failings, I'm afraid that everyone can only disappoint you.
Your last point was almost a dealkiller for me, but it wasn't as bad as usual, i.e. she didn't actually physically…
The trans rep isn't as bad as it usually is, but the trans character was being incredibly inappropriate, fawning all over the boys. In BL male characters are either "straight-acting", which is a requirement for all serious characters, or they're effeminate or trans, in which case they're pathetic comic-relief characters who are predatory and screech and squeal whenever a half-attractive man walks by and they usually touch them constantly and inappropriately.
This is starting to become a big mess. I think they got stuck on the 14-day quarantine thing and stretched it out. It's too bad they hadn't reduced it to 10 days before this was filmed.
This episode really didn't go anywhere, and I really, really wanted them to change Win's shirt. I couldn't watch that scene - too gross.
I liked them playing around with the whole silly uke-seme thing - that made me laugh.
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I still think there's really only one BL writer and that we need to free her from the basement she's chained in, being forced to write accidental kisses, trip/fall/catch, loud ladyboys, wide-open eyed rubber lips-barely touching kisses, and engineers. Slight progress has been made lately because now medical students are allowed, but lately they've become the new engineers.
The kiss in this was terrible. Stop trying to recreate a manga!
It's getting to the point that I'm not really excited about any BL anymore, because I've already seen it all.
It's disturbing that I even know how to write a sentence like that and know what it means. I blame COVID.
Anyway, the seme is such a total dick in the trailer that it looks like it would be unpleasant to watch, so I probably won't, but I'll do the normal check here to see if everyone loves it and then give it a try if they do.
This was also really slow, with almost nothing happening except for a theft so predictable that I didn't need to watch it. Also, illogical - like anyone would rob a hovel with the occupant in it, who is known to be fierce. There was too much "tell" and not enough "show", and I still don't have any sense of who Nico is. If I had to describe him in a word, it would be "uke", which is all we really get, whereas Prince is a fully realized character - he's generous, protective, short-tempered, etc.
Anyway, this still has the passion behind it that made Stranger's Kiss appealing, and LJ Russell still has "it". One thing I appreciate about Filipino BL is that the actors are natural and not the usual Thai chiseled mannequins. Prince is not muscle-bound and 100% fat-free but is a lot sexier than 99% of BL actors.
I'm hoping this picks up the pace a little moving forward.
At first I thought it was soft porn, but then it surprised me by being deep and insightful. And soft porn. Best of both worlds. The second season of that is coming up.
Hopefully next ep will start to move things along, because we're running out of eps!
This episode really didn't go anywhere, and I really, really wanted them to change Win's shirt. I couldn't watch that scene - too gross.
I liked them playing around with the whole silly uke-seme thing - that made me laugh.
Also, if you haven't seen this, Peter (Kim) is so f#$%ing hot when he's not being Kim.
https://tv.line.me/embed/19147687
The equipment was still too modern, but at least 10 years ago there were iPhones.