Seriously, out of the whole series the best part were the behind-the-scenes bloopers at the end. Finally, a few minutes of pure entertainment with no gaping plot holes and all the silliness justified for once. I genuinely laughed though it ;)
That's a problem with adapting to live action - it's simply not credible that Sang Woo wouldn't remember Jae Young's…
The term for face blindess you couldn't recall is "prosopagnosia" :) and I agree that if the character indeed suffered form it he would have turned to some compensatory solutions.
Woah, all the pre-release teasing has really paid off. For several months now I felt I’ve been gradually conditioned by cute snippets from behind the scenes, so now it’s enough that Hia as much as touches his Cutie to induce a nuclear explosion of butterflies in my stomach. Frankly, I did not love the first episode plot-wise, but I’ve been so dumbstruck by the chemistry of main leads that I did not really care.
Although we are only midway through I am confident that it’s already one of the best series I’ve seen in a long time, and I’m thinking way beyond the BL label. It raises important issues, which are relevant and relatable in every corner of the world, unless there is an arcadian utopia somewhere, free from dirty politics, corruption, shady businesses, social inequalities, homophobia etc. All characters are elegantly shaded and nuanced. No marvel-style heroes saving the day and, if my intuition is correct, no black-hearted villains either – just flawed people who are living with the consequences of their life choices. I truly love how Sean’s development was handled - a clammed-up hardened guerilla slowly revealing his soft underbelly, learning that it’s okay to be vulnerable and finding the one he could trust and be tender with. The love subplots are wonderfully organic. There are no super annoying paint-by-numbers plot devices that are usually used to push the characters together, there is no “destiny” at play. It’s as close to life as it can get. I’m sure, that when the time comes it will also hurt as if it were real, I need to brace myself for it :)