Rarely does a scene or a dialogue get stuck in my memory. I don’t know if it was Sammon who wrote it, but that rooftop cigarette dialogue is brilliant 'Keep the change'
Director Aof is one of the few who does something different today at GMMTV, in the good sense of the word. It already starts with the opening music — I found that chant, that choir, which sounds Gregorian, very beautiful.
If I were to analyze it with my Western perspective, I would give it a score of -1: these are dramas without social critique, no criticism of the government, the couple is so distant it hardly feels like romance, they don’t even kiss. Now, making an analysis that takes into account their limitations, I would give it an 8 for now. The problem is that most of these C-dramas drag on too much a lot could be cut out.
Shipping has always been part of fandom culture and there is nothing wrong with it. Whether it’s HP, supernatural,…
What you’re saying doesn’t make any sense. So if I ship a heterosexual couple, it’s queerbaiting? People are really stretching these terms just to act like activists while at the same time being fans of like ten actors who are homophobic or have other problematic histories I know their track records very well.
Shipping has always been part of fandom culture and there is nothing wrong with it. Whether it’s HP, supernatural,…
Now that you mentioned it, I remembered I used to ship Alina with the Darkling from Shadow and Bone(Leigh Bardugo). It’s not as popular as Twilight or Harry Potter, but it’s relatively well-known and even got a Netflix series.
Finally I see folks using queerbait correctly cause saying BL actors queerbait does not make sense but this does.
You’re wrong straight actors doing “fan service” is queerbaiting, yes. An academic professor from Thailand is going to defend their own culture, but this is clearly queerbaiting, unless the person makes it clear they are homosexual, which is not the case for most of them.
I found Sea’s performance in the series really good. It shows that it’s not just a matter of BL actors not knowing how to act, but rather the poor scripts they’re given.