Reviews

Misunderstandings abound

GY has completely misunderstood who the baby daddy is and has a conversation with TQ and SCC and reveals the ob/gyn visit and that SCC is pregnant. SCC signals to TQ to play along and not say anything. When they are alone TQ has already figured out the situation and is disappointed that SCC did not tell GY the truth of the matter. Ultimately they both agree to stay out of it and let LY and GY sort it out for themselves because it is a delicate matter. GY takes the time to lecture TQ telling him to reflect on why she didn’t tell him she was pregnant. He later gets to reflect on his own words when LY reveals the truth. I think the questions he asks her are on point. They don’t put her on the spot or address the baby at all. He just wants her to take their relationship day by day and not overthink the future. He respects the conditions she put on their relationship but does share how well his single mother did with him. He doesn’t press but gives her another perspective to consider. Big sis overheard them when GY thought SCC expecting, and rather than checking with her sister to see how she’s doing, she runs and tattles to mom and dad.😝 TQ takes everything in stride but against SCC’s wishes tells the family the truth of the matter. Big sis saves a bit of face from prior childishness by stalling the parents so they can’t interrupt LY and GY’s conversation. SCC is still hesitant about wearing makeup after filter experience and TQ puts it in perspective for her so she’s more at ease with wearing it again. At work, colleagues are calling out what makes each other pretty. 😆 They have another board meeting where plans for their shop will include 3D tech for customers to virtually try on different looks to consider purchases. TQ is very proud of his lovely fiancée. 🥰

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Smoking, drinking, sleeping, crying

I won't contact you isn't the same as I can't. Hm. Did they actually change numbers? I asked that before a much later scene and still wonder. Argh. You're going to see your ex who had an abusive alcoholic dad and you get drunk? Off-putting is an understatement. Guess Jin's not used to drink. Missing the screening, too - insulting to his work. Shiba seems to have loosened up. Nemoto is much the same. Jin's changed but doesn't seem to be for the better. Haruki is calmer, quietly confident and, unlike Jin, sharing his creative work with others, albeit a bit reluctantly. Haruki has become strong without Jin. Jin has been alone so long that alone at university is not an opportunity for maturing. He needs to love and be loved to develop emotionally. The lighting from day to night, shadow to clarity is well done. Odd episode in a way - trying to fill in a 5 year gap.

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Thanks for being a friend - the power of film

'If I go to your house it will end up a big deal'..Avoiding intimacy, confessions, or something that would make one of them change their mind on next steps?Good university, good job - does THAT equal a good adult? Maybe no chaos, no trouble, but maybe no speaking the truth - to the heart or head. Being a bystander, allowing g bad things to happen and saying nothing. Can tell. Neither of them wants to be apart. But it looks like something they have to do as it'll make life better for them both. Neither articulates what they really mean to one another. As we discover later by letter. Looks as if Yin and his friends are more creative than imagined. Also Haruki is recognised as handsome by his circle, too. The DVD from early on is significant, as are screenings.

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Growing up (too) fast - What matters

'I'm telling the truth' Minase says. ',Focus on what's important' the teacher tells him. Sums up a lot about how justice is served. Jin COULD say he was walking by the shop, saw Majima and not Haruki running off. His friends knew he was headed there. Then again, he's probably a bit cross with his lover - if he'd said yes to moving in, if he',d come round for dinner earlier, the fight with Majima wouldn't have happened. Poor Haruki no longer wants to be hit,but doesn't want to hit back. Best reason to go back to school for him? Looking at Minase of course! Learning's pretty secondary. He's been labelled. It's a shame there's no art teacher fighting his corner. 'Art' isn,T thought well off, yet the boys often go to the bookstore or watch films. Of course, survivor is so much better than victim. Haruki is not the sum of all the bad that's happened to him . He needs to recognise this, too. There's a beautiful muted colour palette, red bridge aside. A brief sparkle comes from Jim's mother but it's not welcome. It's unexpected and unreliable. The hug on the bridge is lit quite differently from each young man's point of view. Cliffhanger? Well, partial school setting - test taking and results!

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The ways, the waves

Fantastic episode!The pair go to see Haruki's mum. She comments on her oldest child getting beat up and how his dad was the same, but strong. Minase is minded to say something but Haruki's there and he doesn't. He envies Haruki seeming close to his mother. But if they were that close, would he not confide? Does she really have no idea what's going on? The relationship intensifies sexually. The couple have a symbolic moment getting wet (baptism?) in the sea.The separation from holding hands when they return is painful. Yet Minase had suggested Haruki move in, Haruki declines - loyalty to his dad, fear he'll hit Minase. Majima is cross that Haruki isn,'t interested in meeting a girl ( having laughed at his friend's virginity) or causing trouble. Haruki's loyalty and inability to stand by goes too far. Why go round to chide the gang for shoplifting? Why take the blame for anything Majima does? Majima's words about the domestic violence show he knows and has no compassion. Jin is a 'witness' because Haruki was on a call to him at the time, and Jin was at the store. Will he dare to speak up? Will anyone want to listen or believe him? Haruki WAS getting stronger with Jin - he felt he could turn to study, escape his father. For Jin this turn of events is like an insult but also telling him to stay away from Haruki.

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lovely romance

interesting episode :The female lead is sassy with everyone trying to be impolite towards her or her man. And the ml protect her !!!(+ Lovely declaration of love !!) We can be sure that they'll be a powerfull duo whithin the palace.Fl is really thinking about her fate and is afraid of loosing him again because even if she tried to avoid the royal family, she ended up in the palace for yu qi.I hope that one day she'll tell him what happened in her "dream" or previous life.The ML's father is good !! finally a good father who is emperor, usually they're always bad towards the ML. Here he's supporting Yu QI.

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