BL Drama Lovers Club

 lovelykao:

OMG HE DID IT HE SHARED IT AHH AHH AHHHH AHH

The way Great reacted to the video is insane and I love it, he said "Hmmm.. I don't remember," AHHH

Ok I went, I saw, and I am ready to report on 4 min ep. 6. I am happy to say that I suffered zero confusion, but that's only because the episode is confirming my entire theory on this show and what's going on.

SPOILERS:

It has long been my theory that we've been watching TWO separate/parallel, but also very much entwined timelines, shown to us happening simultaneously, which is why there's been so much confusion when our minds try to piece together the storyline. Simply put, one timeline is reality and the events that really happened and the second, is the same events as seen by Great's subconscious mind in the hospital after getting shot and fighting for his life. Basically, the false timeline is happening in order to allow his brain to change the course of these events into preferred and more acceptable outcomes, to prevent all the bad stuff and people's deaths etc., including his own, from happening.

Because of the whole brain can survive for 4 minutes stuff, in his mind while they are trying to save him in the real world, his brain is treating his "chest pains" as a trigger and a reset button for every bad event he's experienced thus far (my guess is these are times when he's experiencing the medical team shocking/paddling him and trying to bring him back to life). These resets are also counting down the time left to save him, which is why the clock keeps changing from 11:00, to 11:01, to 11:02, and recently, to 11:03, after every reset... leaving just one minute and one chance left before he dies for good.

So basically what we we're seeing in this epi, is how things really went down. He did NOT save the woman he hit, he did NOT save Dome from Tle, he did NOT save Nat from getting shot, the brother he idolizes was/is NOT innocent and happily gets his hands just as dirty as the rest of the family, and finally...he did NOT have a loving relationship with Doc and they were NOT a team fighting evil together. He even rewrote who shot him, in order to protect and preserve his mind's version of saving Dome from being killed in the first place, but the sad and simple reality is Tonkla killed them both for killing his brother.

 OnyxTheHedgehog:

Lol I'm probably that girl who has a death wish in every horror movie cuz I'd be the type of person to try and find the ghost and befriend it lol

ROFLOL! See this is why we are now friends. Clearly I need to protect you from yourself in these types of situations!

 GelfyFaeth222:

On ep 3 of Unknown. 

You're watching it! YAY! How are you liking it so far?

Commence my episode 6 live reaction to 4Minutes...

Back at the car?  Hmm. We about to see what happens if he hadn't flipped back in the timeline? Ironically, if he had hit her, she wouldn't have hired someone to go shoot his mom.
I'd totally forgotten about Nutcha whoever.
Not Tyme being heartless and just drinking the coffee LOL
Not Great eating dinner like he didn't totally just test dummy a woman to death.
Not Great's dad being super casual about it.
NOT MY ENTIRE IDEA OF GREAT GOING UP IN FLAMES. Great is not being Great.
Great's mom is at least consistently his dad's slave. BUT WTF GREAT. WHY YOU LAUGHING. Brooooo.
I have a feeling my brain is going to be very unhappy shortly as we go back through these events.
God dammit. I was eating freaking yogurt when the rock incident happened. Get better friends, Great. Get better friends. Psycho.
Is that the cars camera? Or is someone else recording them?
So now we see the other scene NC scene Great saw in the other universe/timeline? I think they should swap colors. Great should be in Black after his escapades.
Tyme being all smooth and shit. Making me blush. "Do you come here often" LOOOOOL NOOO.
OH MY GOD. IT FEELS SO WRONG AFTER THEIR CUTE LOVEY NC SCENE. BUT SO GOOD. JESUS.
ON THE POOL TABLE TOO. THE BUTT BITE. I AM BLUSHING SO HARD.
"Let me use the bathroom" ... in the middle of that? Nah. No way.
Durex product placement.
Great taking an age to use the bathroom.
Proper use of lube?
Okay not really. That was barely any use of lube but I'll give them showing it at least.
TYME WHAT THE HELL MAN. I don't know why I am more bothered by the video taking than the lady car hitting. I think I liked his revenge plot to steal information wayyyy better than revenge porn.
Also, this world has no cute cat stuffies :(
Great looking super confused when he is rejected... man, me too. I'm confused too.
Okay so now we have some minor overlap of the timeline where things still happened the same. I kinda wanna see if outfits changed though LOL.
I keep waiting for the coffee cup overlap where it said "I'm sorry, Great"
Oh no. Nan dies in this one doesn't she :(
Who the hell is smoking man? Nice scarf.
Definitely Tonkla shooting him for helping with the death of his brother. That's my thoughts for sure. AND I WAS RIGHT.
But... wait? is he dead? THE HELL.

WHY DOES IT STOP LIKE THIS?!

 Simi_Tutu:

Hook Mountain State Park

I am not far from here now, since I just dropped off kid # 2 at college.

 segos:

I am still hoping it's a parallel universe, personally. I like the version we saw for the first 5 episodes. But I guess we have two more left to find out for sure.

Right?! Reality always gotta suck the fun outta everything. 

Tbf, I would have nada regrets with it being a parallel Universe myself, if it means they keep this one far away from me and bring back the one we all prefer. *nods lots* Either way it's gonna be a helluva challenge/ride tying up all those gazillion loose ends in either PU....and I'm here for it!

4 Minutes - episode 6

I was not confused as one of my theories was confirmed which is similar to @MeNotYou's theory. What I do wonder now is that is the timeline we have been seeing really Great fixing things or is it just a reality conjured up by his brain as it grapples with the loss of oxygen during the 4 minute gap it has to survive?

Anyway, I am mostly certain of story-line and mystery at this point. There would have to be a huge plot twist for me to have doubt, so for me, at this moment, the plot is understood and solved.

Now why am I at odds with this series? Well there are two things, one is me nitpicking and the other is serious to me. The first thing is that the production in terms of the substance used for blood irritated me in previous episodes because the colour and consistency in fluidity in caparison to real blood is way off. I am so used to excellent production from Be On Cloud that this slight thing stands out to me and messes with my perfectionist mind. 

On to the more serious thing. I believe that I am going to be the odd one out here with the following being an unpopular opinion. Chemistry is my issue. In the beginning the visuals, atmosphere of the series, and intriguing story-line made up for and boosted whatever chemistry is there. However for me the lack of chemistry between Jes and Bible was revealed during their NC scene. Notice how I did not give my usual NC scene reaction for their first NC scene nor for this episode. That is because of the reasons I gave previously and because it struck me that there is no damn chemistry. I did not say anything because I did not want to be premature in my thinking so I waited until this episode to give them some time but now it is too late for me as next week is the penultimate episode. I will be honest, coming into this series I was hesitant about whether they had enough chemistry to pull this series off because just before the series aired I watched their short film and I did not see no minuscule of chemistry. I purposefully waited until just before the series aired to watch the short film because I wanted it to be my introduction to this new couple. I am now wondering if fans really are seeing chemistry or is it the excitement surrounding Bible switching roles in the bedroom, the danger element of the series, the handsome visuals, the hot sex scenes between side characters overshadowing the sex scenes of Tyme and Great and the mysterious atmosphere of it all that has them blinded to the lack of chemistry.

Yes, of course their NC scenes are hot but that is simply because there are two visually pleasing guys having sex, and nothing deeper than that, "Beauty without depth is just decoration." 

mi nuh know bout ada people but fi mi.....deep breathes, a rant coming on, let me reign it in. As it pertains to action/crime/mafia series involving romantic relationships between morally grey characters there must be some deep passion, tension and chemistry to hold an audience to the romance when conflict ensues; I so believe. Here we have Great's family killing Tyme's parents, Tyme attacking Great's family and wounding his brother Korn, Tyme releasing a sex tape of Great, Great committing a hit and run, Great being an accessory to murder, etc. , with all of this how can there be such bland interactions between the leads, how can this romance be sold as potent enough for all these things to be sidelined by it, unbelievable. When the first NC scene occurred between the leads I had voiced my criticism with how it unfolded considering events that took place before which just made the scene seem disjointed from the rest of the series (must be taking notes from Sunset x Vibes). That scene needed raw emotion and passion. 

I am at a mature place where I am looking deeper than visuals when watching NC scenes. A couple years ago would I have ate their scenes up? Yes, but a couple years ago I was also excited about slight touches and air kisses now I would side eye the fuck out of that bitch.....deep breaths, I will not rant. 

Okay, I started writing this at 9 pm and it is now 11 pm. I got pulled into work matters now I have lost my train of thoughts lol soooooo:

All to say that they nailed the story-line and wrote it excellently with how the story is woven intricately, but for me the leads do not have the chemistry to pull off this type of morally grey romance. I do not think acting is the issue, I think there is just simply no chemistry and................let me not say that other part lol. Perhaps I will save it for my finale review (depending on how many fs I give at that moment lol). It is very unlikely I am rating this a 10 (exception being a veto) which would make it the first Be On Cloud series I have not given a 10.