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Earth should do like Santa and leave this studio.

I don't usually write reviews and it's a very bad sign when I do...

The pretty ridiculously high score of this show is due to the second couple who, although very normal and predictable, at least has good chemistry and a storyline that made sense. Also the characters are normal (in a very cliché thaï university BL way).

As for the first couple, they're the reason why I'm writing this.
Don't watch the first 7 episodes of this serie, I'm serious, maybe the first one and then skip directly to n°7 because it's not worth it.
Pond is barely there, he underacts like crazy (funny because he overacted quite a bit in Reset), he's always staring in the middle distance and looking at Earth's character not so much like he's in love but like he's stoned fort the first time in his life and trying to convince himself that it feels really good. There's not much to say about him and his character because both the writing and acting are BARELY there.

Earth's role actually disguted me a little. Hear me out, he's the reason why I wanted to see this, I usually like his acting a lot (he was the best part of Until We Meet Again as a STARRING role, and reaaally good and endearing in My Only Twelve Percent). But Wabi Sabi seems to have decided to force him to play adult character who are mentally 8 years old for the rest of his life and it's getting embarassing and scary.
First of all, WHY? Second of all, this is romance, adult romance, is someone with a child mentality supposed to be attractive ? Are we supposed to root for the partner that's attracted to that ? Do you get why this is insane and creepy ?
He's not childish, his roomate friend is childish and we can see the difference.
He's always pouty, and ditzy and quite frankly dowright stupid, it's aggravating. He triggers the same gag reflex in me as most of Esther Yu's roles and their ditzy baby voice, people who find this attractive explain it to me without sounding like pedophiles, PLEASE.

I though that at least when the second couple started I would be free of his presence but NO, he's still there, somehow shipping (and God I hate this bullshit) the second couple like it's obvious they should be together (even at the very beginning when there was NO sign that either ot them wanted it, CREEPY AF) despite the fact that he was the most clueless person on earth when it came to his own love story "He's in love with my baby sister" REALLY ?! How is that supposed to be endearing when I'm here wondering how he could possibly get into vet med school with no brain to speak of ?

He needs to leave this studio before they completly sink his career and he becomes a laughing stock, at 32 playing in 18 years old with a silly backpack, a toy watch and a whiny baby voice. I'm already dying of cringe as it is...

To be honest I think all this is motivated by mysoginy, Earth as an actor has a more feminine energy, especially in his public persona outside of his roles, but because BL is very mysogynistic and hostile to more feminine presenting men, they turn him into a baby instead, they almost did the same to Newnew and it pisses me off.

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