nonametwo

If you have no frustration or disapproval, then what is the view you were trying to express?

Even though you consider this a 'stereotype', tomboys are literally underrepresented in media. It's more common to see fem/fem wlw romances than masc/fem let alone masc/masc romances. So I don't understand where your frustration is coming from?

I'm not trying to break your heart, but some lesbians simply are tomboys and enjoy being tomboys and they deserve to see themselves in films too. Just because straight people misunderstand or are unwilling to understand us doesn't mean it's wasteful to show tomboy characters, in the realm of GL tomboys are a stark minority as is.

I cried all throughout episode 35. It's not so much the plot as the characterisation that does it for me. These characters are so rich and I am so deeply attached to every one of them... just wow

What appears to be good acting, I think is just a will for detailed performances by the director. Yuki's character is extremely unlikeable in his unwillingness to connect with others despite not actually appearing that nervous or shy. I really hope that evolves. Also I don't understand how we had Todome no Kiss in 2018 but now dead fish mannequin kisses are back in vogue., if the actors aren't prepared to kiss they shouldn't be kissing at all so don't give me that.

Also I'm really tired of gay bars being portrayed negatively or as unsafe spaces because of the people within it. This isn't to say predatory behaviour within these spaces never happens, but they are intended as safe spaces and a bit more as cruising/community spaces than straight bars. Now I go to lesbian bars so I can't fully vouch for the bar culture of my masculine counterparts, but the way it plays out in this first episode is much more reminiscent of how it feels like to be a woman in a straight bar faced with a pushy guy, than a queer person in a queer bar, telling another queer person present that they're there for the first time.

I feel pretty betrayed by this rating. I am now watching this series a year after it came out because, in spite of my love of high femmes, beauty pageants in general kind of scare me off. How could I a short and chubby tomboy, in any way relate to this kind of media, right? On top of that the rating is low, even for a GL. It was only after seeing Engfa in so many suits as well as clips of Englot's chemistry that I decided to finally give it a go. After all, it's only ever 9 short episodes, right? OH MY GOODNESS I don't if it is because the characters are basically fictionalised verisons of Englot or because the writer is just that good, but I think I have never seen a light-hearted GL that feels as real and earnest and cringe-free as this. Once you get past the fumbles of the first episode, you realise the acting and chemistry is amazing. The characters are believable and the way they interact is believable. Every character (aside from the villains) are likeable, and in under 3 episodes you get the sense that you know them and become attached to them. As for the actual romance part, it felt incredibly organic, maybe it's a bit subtle at first compared to what we expect from romances, but the somewhat 'girls braiding each other's hair' friendship didn't even feel superficial or overly chaste, it felt like a genuine friendship dynamic with growing underlying tension. Probably that the screenwriter chose realism over cinematographic/dramatic outbursts and it is a quality I really appreciate. Truly this beats GAP the series in every field, it has budget, a talented cast and crew and an enticing story that doesn't make you want to throw cushions at the TV. I highly encourage GL enthusiasts who, like me, were reluctant to give a shot, to actually watch it. As close to heart as the Yes or No trilogy is to me, I think I finally found a new favourite Thai GL.

Edit: I've just realised that after the initial release of this series in February they released what appears to be a reedited version which must be of far superior quality. I hereby highly recommend everyone to rewatch it!

In GAP the series both characters are adults in an adult environment. The clips I've seen of Blank feature Anueng as a highschooler, and even if she's older than most highschoolers, there's just a big gap between someone who's lived life beyond highschool and those who haven't, so I was wondering if that may be something that might make me uncomfortable or if it's misleading to think it's badly handled.

Hiya, I really want to watch this but I'm kinda scared off by the age gap. How old is Anueng exactly? Is it handled well?

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Team Mizuki Forever

It's not that the acting is bad, that the plot isn't entertaining, or that the set looks cheap, yet I have a really hard time getting attached to the characters for some reason. It's not as if they're completely flat or unfeeling themselves, and yet... A lot of time passes and a lot of things happen, yet I don't feel moved by what's happening. I remember sobbing when watching Until We Meet Again's pilot, meanwhile right now I'm on episode 4 and all it's gotten out of me is occasional gushing over how cute Nat is and maybe there was one scene where I felt like Kram and Phupha were actually in love. The charactersation just feels lacking, we've had so much exposition and yet it feels like we're sprinting after the plot without really sitting down with the characters. They keep skipping months at a time as if people and their relationships to others don't change or grow overtime. Does anyone know what I mean? Am I going crazy?

I appreciate the budget and quality of this series fr, but they really said ✨let's make the ⬆️ characters weird and socially inadept and the ⬇️ characters perfection incarnate✨

No hate, but how is it that when you make a series about doctors you ask a medical professional for advice on realistic sounding illnesses and drugs but when you write a series about a classical pianist turned jazz fan you make him play Sasquatch and Clair de Lune 😭
Please, the boy is in highschool, there are more interesting (and harder to execute) pieces out there that would better reflect the interests/inventory of such a character. Just ask any piano student for a playlist lol.

It's better to do something simple well, rather than something complex badly.

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At the risk of repeating myself, I'm not saying the world building doesn't make sense or that I don't understand the reasoning behind the added conflicts, I don't need you all to explainthe world-building to me. My criticism doesn't lie in what the story says but in how it is told. I'm saying such a radical tone shift is media is unpleasant from a viewer's perspective. Plotholes is not the only possible writing flaw there is. One has to take into consideration what feels harmonious, even when writing something that takes on comedic and tragic conventions. Now this series may have made an attempt to seed in tragic elements at the beginning (though they were not seeds for what was to come as we did not receive many prehemtive clues for theerrors, the stalker or the MC's control over life and death), but it did not contain ANY of comedic elements that defined the first half, in its latter half. If it were just one climatic scene without comedic elements that would be one thing, but spending the first 5 episodes making your audience smile and then stacking pure angst throughout the last three episodes? It's tonally imbalanced, it feels like two different stories, not because you don't recognise the characters or because the world-building becomes incoherent but because they tried to incorporate too radical of a genre shift for the final three episodes.

Honestly no, I don't think the errors (no matter how the world-building explains it) are narratively justified. I don't think the story would've been too plain without the additional obstacles they randomly threw in.

I don't have a problem with series that want to tackle heavy themes, but it has to match the tone anf narrative of the series. You don't just start off with one thing and then randomly add four additional conflicts to heighten the angst from 20% to 90%, if you want a big shift like that it needs to be built up progressively.

I would have been perfectly fine with an 8 ep series that simply resolved this intial conflict (radically changing the course of someone's life by being transported as a character in a video game, like why would that not generate enough conflict for 8 eps, it definitely wasn't resolved by ep 5) and maintained a light comedic romantic tone that serves to soothe the suffering of the male lead.

Why the errors? Why the social media subplot? Why the stalker?? As if there wasn't enough conflict as is wtf... ep7 feels like psychological horror.

The radical shift in Yeonwoo's feelings already felt a bit extreme in ep5, I would've much rather seen them slowly progress to falling in love with each other, working through their family issues. Making someone happy is a difficult enough mission as is...

Yo, I was just hanging out, having a good time, watching characters be goofy and charming under interesting circumstances WHY DID IT SPONTANEOUSLY GET SUPER SAD OUT OF NOWHERE, THIS ISN'T WHAT I SIGNED UP FOR.Is this the legacy of the Eighth Sense? After years of the 11th episode curse are we now getting a much worse, much darker 7th episode curse? Why? As if we we don't experience enough sad things as is 😭

It's the way I'm still rooting for Mizuki even though he himself also has some issues to work through, I find them more compatible, more healthy, more believable than whatever result came from the sudden gay awakening Soga had...