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Something being a dumb take doesn’t make it not real. Something having academic research doesn’t mean it’s being interpreted correctly in non academic situations (authentic thanks for the keywords to search. I intend to look up when I have the chance.) And something being unproductive does not make it invalid. BUT even then. People voicing dissatisfaction and spreading awareness is productive. I have zero clue if doing so on MDL is cuz I got zero clue how user base relates to overall viewer base. But if the reaction is consistent across platforms it could be very productive.

And I think the people in the comments being pro AI/pro overlooking the AI believe that it could be effective which is the point of their arguing back instead of letting the comment section being just a wall of AI hate. I mean fighting against something that will naturally lose without any intervention just seems like wasted energy to me.

hmm… Good point. Might as well talk to my toaster. Good thing MDL has a block button.

The condescending sarcasm. Throwing around “triggered” when someone doesn’t agree with you. You’re just a charicature of a person and AI must seem authentic. It all sounds terribly boring to me, but I wish you well with you robodramas. I hope they bring you joy.

Cleatly you don’t care about authenticity or quality so even in the event of that you’d probably be fine. You deserve everything looking like the uncanny valley lazy trash they already churning out.

Such a dumb take. We will continue to have conversations about AI because the more prevalent it becomes the more it will take. there are already shows made without actors. And just because you don’t care about authenticity, actually keeping creatives employed, or the environment doesn’t mean others won’t.

I was really really digging this. It was always just something shy from being amazing but was a nice action BL when there are so few. But the AI killed my interest.
Once AI is used for one aspect you can’t trust any part of it for being authentic anymore. Hell for all we know the reason it’s felt off this whole time is because someone just told AI to turn the novel into a script.

I thought Akina was a bit of a unique one. wasn’t that tied to some grand plans originating from TopForm that got nuked once the mc couple crashed due to legal/contract battles?

Even if not. I think a show called “Uke” would be even more of needing to gauge of interest in direction before investing effort

My understanding is that the shows get a lot of funding from sponsors (or at least they used to. I think the early trailer drops is part of raising money to take the show further

if any BL novel is what your open to, check out the GMMTV site. They got some English translation ebooks you can get.

The amount of time I stared at my screen and said out loud “No rational person would go to sleep right now” was frankly impressive.

I think in the first episode he might have mentioned an academy and the other guy mentioned dorms. So maybe he was still learning?

What openly gay BL actors switched to het romance because they couldn’t do BL anymore? That is a very specific chain of events.

the hero we need.

Think it might have been too ambitious for the length. Yeah the guys are hot and I don’t think they are bad actors. But all three have the negative dialed to the max that I didn’t like any of them enough to not want to fast forward. But without even so much as a flashback to happier times or a bit of a motive for the third, it was really just a mean brute, a heartless nag, and the cruel creep who messes with their life because he can.

Agree to disagree. The concept that the other couple got more screen time seems blatantly untrue to me, but until someone sits down with a stop watch there is nothing but competing viewpoints.

(I ain’t quite petty enough to start timing things since I just watched it earlier this year and don’t do rewatches in the same year. But who knows. Maybe on my first rewatch I will)

Also “straight couple with perceived more screen time and better storylines” making this homophobic while other dramas that are trauma porn and/or literally feature r*pe as part of the romance arc being praised is wild to me.

(not saying you praise those shows. I don’t know you. But they get enough praise to be top dramas regardless)

Okay? Sure? I’ll make a point to not watch that either I guess.

I don’t think that anyone is arguing that it’s not beautiful. There are just other beautiful things that people can watch. Personally I would rather spend my time watching something beautiful and queer or at the very least beautiful, hetero, and hadn’t teased being queer only to (from the reports of a whole lot of people) not deliver.

It’s very mid 2010s western media for me and I intentionally avoid that.

I think it would have gotten a lot of hate if it had the original cast. It started and was already fighting Bad Buddy comparisons. If Ohm was in it it would have been even worse. I can’t imagine the hate a certain group of people would have dealt to Leng if he had been staring opposite. it’s really sad

I do get that with the source material they could only have covered so much. But they did not need to introduce all the questions they brought with the seconds couple. they could have given us scenes at the ending. Something to give us a trajectory if there is no season 2.

They gambled and it might pay off but I’ve grown grown to expect better. But also I’ve not watched much Chinese or Hong Kong dramas so maybe this is the norm?

Look I had the book ending spoiled so I feared how this would end. But to not only give us an ending with no resolution, slew of open questions, and a combined what…5 minutes of new material with both leads in the same room together? For what? A secondary romance introduced halfway through the season involving a mystery never integrated into the main storyline? A finale should not feel like a backdoor pilot to something else.

Extremely disappointing.

Temper your expectations.

Phenomenal show. But an ending that made me wonder if I’m watching Netflix. potential to be great…if there’s a second season. Just anger and disappointment if not.

One of the reasons I moved away from Western shows was to avoid this…

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