Lys

If you've been avoiding this show because you have a feeling it'll rub you the wrong way, but you're thinking about watching it because people have been so pushy and saying it's great: TRUST YOUR GUT. I had a feeling, based on what I'd heard, that the solution to the angst would not be enough for me, and I'd be frustrated by the end. I was wrong. I wasn't just frustrated. I HATED what they did here, and I hated Ji Woo. This show ruined the previous season for me.

Let me be clear: I wanted to like it. I wish the flaws hadn't been so egregious, but I spent the entire time feeling pissed off.

I recall someone saying to me that the only people who didn't like the second season were teenagers who didn't understand nuance. What a simplistic way of viewing things, and frankly, it would be easier for me to believe the opposite. The truth is, the people who like stuff like this tend to have a kink for horrible characters always being accepted and loved no matter what they do. To each their own and all (honestly, no judgment), but don't try to put down people who don't share your specific kink. There were so many issues with this show, and if you're not the type to forgive weak reasoning and contrived drama, you likely won't enjoy it. The person who said that to me compared people's dislike of To My Star 2 to the dislike for My Beautiful Man, which also had clunky execution in various ways (though not nearly as bad as this). People get very self-righteous about these shows. You're allowed to like what you like, but that doesn't make everyone else wrong. Just because other people aren't as forgiving of media as you are doesn't mean they just "didn't get it." I got it just fine. I just don't happen to find the logic in this story to be sound.

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Wow, really? The bridge scene pissed me off beyond belief. Ji Woo is so incredibly selfish and self-absorbed. You don't treat someone coldly and cruelly, then turn around and kiss them like you didn't do anything. I already hated him, and that part just made it so much worse for me. He never shows any sort of remorse for how he treated Seo Joon, except when it personally affects him. Like, "boohoo, I screwed everything up for myself." It made me really sad because normally I would have LOVED a scene like that, but the show makes no effort to make Ji Woo sympathetic at all. He's just playing mind games from the start, doing what he wants, taking what he wants. I wish Seo Joon would have suddenly realized how cold and selfish Ji Woo really is and shoved him away in that moment. Disappeared from his life and left Ji Woo with hurt feelings. He really deserves it.

And then he even has sex with him then still doesn't want to be with him, so he just used him. I guess I just don't get why they made Ji Woo so unlikable. He's just not a nice, loving person. He's selfish and cold, and I feel like the show made no effort to show another side to him. He spent so long only thinking about himself that the blip at the end still feels selfishly motivated. Human insecurity is a natural thing, but it's not like he made one little mistake. They could have had him run away and be avoidant, but they had him be cold and cruel. The fact that he sleeps with Seo Joon, then reverts to being horrible, was the nail in the coffin for me. By the time they got all cutesy, I didn't care. I wanted them to stay broken up. Ji Woo didn't do a single thing to prove he won't pull this crap again when things get tough in the future.

This left such a heavy feeling in my heart. It really is well done, and the message is so important, but a lot of comments on the video itself (youtube) were so tone-deaf and stupid. I put off watching it for a long time, because I knew it would hurt. Now I just want to watch a feature-length version where there's some justice here. Ugh, it's so painful.

Recent homophobic cash-grabbing from another Korean company is leaving me especially bitter. They had a chance to do something good, but all they saw was a lazy way to get money.

Looks like this one is still active after all: https://www.instagram.com/p/CqXtZPGszjJ/

Boun talking a bit about this project: https://www.instagram.com/p/CqX_7rGDMoE/

I'm guessing Homeschool, because that's finished. It'll probably take up both days again, since it's so long. x_x Not that I'm not interested in it, I'm just getting bored with all the aggressive het lately. I'm hoping they surprise us and start airing Be My Favorite, since it's in the editing stages. But it sounds like they expect the editing to take too long for that. If they want it completely finished before it airs, we probably won't get it until after A Boss and a Babe.

You know, the sheer irony that the inciting incident of this story is that a boy is getting bullied for being gay, so he commits suicide, and the adaptation decides to just TAKE OUT THE FACT THAT HE'S GAY is absolutely lost on this idiotic company. The whole story is about the horrible nature of homophobia and how it's wrong, and then a homophobic company is like, this is great, let's adapt it but take out the icky gay stuff!

Companies like this know that they can tease BL fans and still get their time and money. I really, really hope fans show them that they're wrong this time. We're very used to being second class citizens when it comes to viewerships, and we need to stop settling for being treated as an afterthought, even when we should be the target audience. Screw this show. I hope it crashes and burns. FULL OFFENSE.

I DO want it to flop. Stop baiting BL fans because you know we're used to not being catered to. They fully expect BL fans to still watch and just settle with the fact that we're not the audience they actually care about, despite this BEING A BL WORK. They don't respect us, but they need us. They'll happily take our money while giving us the finger. I'm sick of crap like this. You wouldn't take an explicit straight romance and take out all of the romance in the adaptation.

Please do not watch this guys. Don't give them publicity, don't give them money, don't give them views. Shows need to stop using us while making it very clear they don't care about us.

I went in knowing the show would be trash, and I'm cool with that, but those subs, man. They just get worse and worse. They don't remember who's who, they switch names, they drop out completely. They're barely in English half the time.

Like, sometimes it's fun to indulge in a dumpster fire or two, but I want to at least be able to understand what they're talking about.

Here's hoping!

Right? XD I'm seriously so confused. The fact that two separate ABO Chinese BLs have been announced suddenly is really bizarre. The other one at least looks put together, but this one, especially with the super long episode count, doesn't seem like something that could happen. Even the trailer is a concept trailer with no actors in it. I would love for it to be real, but I think we're all just a wee bit skeptical, lol.

Yeah, I feel like that's unlikely, but I mean, I guess stranger things have happened. XD

Seriously, I've been hoping more of the boys would do BL, but I didn't think they would due to the previous way BL was looked down upon by actors already comfortable in the mainstream. I'm so glad that seems to be changing bit by bit. Plus he's hot, so I'm pumped. XD

Oh really? I need to check those out. Watching the show over with my best friend to introduce her to TayNew, and I was already dreading all the fast forwarding and skipping.

If they're literally blood brothers, he has a WEIRD freaking relationship with his brother. If this had been a man and a woman, and it was revealed the woman was his sister, Sweet Home Alabama would have started playing.

I actually recommend you go through the full show yourself and fast forward through the (super toxic) het relationships instead. The cut removes relevant stuff and focuses only on their relationship. You need to see all of their scenes to get the full context, etc. But you don't need to watch anything with the het pairs to know what's going on with Pete and Kao. Their storyline is almost completely unrelated to everything else. Like it's very loosely connected.

Fluke is so pretty! I'm excited to see him not play a straight guy falling for a dude this time. XD I just hope this is good. Also, I thought it was a movie for some reason, but a horror BL series? I'm so excited for this, but trying not to get my hopes up.

That's okay, that's all part of learning and growing. Good on you for not doubling down instead. Sorry if I was harsh.

Yeah, so-called fans LOVE to get into a tizzy over this stuff. I mean look at these people freaking out because Chimon laughed at a joke. Like dear lord, people need to disconnect for a minute. You can be disappointed in a person's behavior without every damn thing being "problematic." In fact, people ruined that word by calling everything that offends them or any small mistake someone makes "problematic."