Kate

yeah, it had great start but lost its way in the second half 🙃

oh fuck this shit. thank god i did not watch the show 🤣🤣🤣🤣

well, glad i dropped after episode 1. had the feeling it will have a "everything is magically healed and fix" shit going on lol

by the time everyone started dying, I did not care enough hahaha

Oh I think she totally would. I think the ending matched it pretty well. She reached her goal and was left alone tbh. it made sense she basically went on an "off myself" mission 🤡

I am 100% sure ma man started to have feelings for the Princess, tho she needs some time to move on from baby boi. But she does in my delulu mind 🤣🤣🤣

Omg yes! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

I totally agree how the story was so refreshing. While I didn't like the ending that much, i liked how unconventional it was.

And i totally agree that it was more than romance. All the elements were as interesting as the bromance itself 🔥

I tried with the novel but i did not vibe with the characters 🤣 i actually prefer my characters toned down 🤡

Okay now tell the twist and the ending of the novel so i can pretend in happened in the drama coz i really disliked the twist in the drama 😂😂😂🤡

Omg yes. The actor who played lin jiushi was able to hide his lack of skill for most of the drama, but the closer to the end we've got and the story become more emotionally heavy, he failed 🥲

omg yes. like him not having any relationship for 15 years coz of his like one year high school crush i wild 🤡

same... like i am unable to describe the plot in a way that would make sense for it to have 1 episodes 🤣 i can easily describe that plot for a movie length tho.

Like her smile was often "hyped happy" not "in love happy"... don't know how to explain that hahaha

they won't stop producing, but it will slow down the improvement of the production quality. And none of the Korean BLs are mainstream productions - that's my point. For me the goal would be producing gay romance driven stories as mainstream productions like any other romance dramas. But big companies will not invest, big names will not risk getting cast if they can avoid potential backlash and have a safe alternative - self censored bromance based on bl stories.

Risking backlash from the still quite homophobic society for maybe some profit by producing BLs or risking backlash from a still small fanbase of BLs (compared to overall consumers of dramas) for larger profit with censoring bls and making it bromance - one is obviously better option for production companies than the other.

That's what I said - self censoring for profit. With his gross 👍🏻
no one brought up hatred again there < and it will be EXACTLY the same for this drama. 3 years after this one finishes airing there will be just people who watched it and liked it, and little backlash.

Backstreet Rookie had a huge backlash for black face and the fact the drama is an adaptation of borderline pedofile story and now years after it aired, ain't no backlash in comment section. That's just how mdl is. A lot of reaction when the show airs, little to none years later.

Again, there was no romance between leads in ADSG. The main romance in the drama does not happen instead of gay romance. There is no romance between leads in the webtoon.

The bigger issue here is the fact if this becomes popular, we can say goodbye to founding for BLs in Korea for some time and getting bigger production. Ain't no one gonna risk investing in gay stories, when they can just "turn it into bromance" and get a lot of 💲💲. This having positive reactions will mean slowing down the progress in BL genre. We gonna have China 2.0. But while in China it's literally illegal to produce BL dramas and companies do their best to present as much of a romance in bromance as they can with censorship, Korea will censor itself to get more money 🙃

yeah cool story.
The way to fix BLs and the heteronormative lens they are often written and film with is NOT by REMOVING HOMOSEXUAL ASPECT OF EXISTING STORIES 👍🏻

but that one received no backlash... < it's did. Not as much as this, but it did and people were loud about it in comment section too. It was less severe simply because the romance was never prominent in the webtoon in the portion of the story that was adapted (since not the whole webtoon was) and the romance did not happen between the main characters in in the webtoon.

At the end of the day, it's gross that Korea self-censors simply because gay romance is less profitable and not easy to market. Just don't do adaptation of stories with gay romances if you then remove them from the story. It's that easy.

I mean of course if they re wrote like 70% of the show they could easily make it interesting 16 episodes, the potential is there. But with what they had show and how detailed they were thinking a out the plot, making it 12 episodes would be easier to make the pacing and quality better 🤡

I could not stop laughing when it happened 😂😂😂

Btw can i ask you to hide the comment under spoiler? I don't want someone who have not seen the who to be spoiler if they check the comment under my review 😅

I liked it a lot, i watched all the episodes every week right after they aired 🤣
but when i look at the show as a whole it's more of a pretty box with little inside. Like, small things that make you happy, but that's kind of it...

She for sure knew what's up. But that just annoyed me more tbh. Coz again, they hinted something and explained nothing. And I feel like the whole plot of the show was hinted but not explained hahah