This episode has me struggling to keep going. It's like the script really was written by a thirteen year old. It's actually kind of sad. Anyway, I liked the imagined scene of Sant popping up out of the box, I laughed at Jay's reactions.
Episode 5 was great. There's so many moving parts to this, every scene felt important. Sun's older brother is…
With regards to Sun's strength level, I think he's supposed to still be getting 'stronger' and still learning. In prison, he was scrapping with non-professional fighters, no technique needed, just fight back and try not to get kicked on the ground so often. And he was still getting beaten up a bit, in the end his objective was to get the former leader of the prison gang to side with him by fighting back, which as we saw, worked because the old guy got tired of the lack of submission and Sun was starting to gain ground on him.
Outside of prison, Sun's coming up against trained fighters (some being his friends) and weathered gangsters. In ep 5, when Joe said all of his sons are black belts, Sun's brother basically pointed out that Sun is not on that level, yet he's holding his own quite well in fights. The writers seem to be trying to make him partly trained and partly a street scrapper, so every fight won't be easy for him, he's gonna have to work to win and stay alive. That's how I see it anyway.
Sun's three biggest opponents (so far) are going to be Nap, Aim and Junho, and the story will likely build his struggle and skill leading up to those three fights.
Episode 5 was the best yet imo. A lot happened, and yet it didn't feel rushed or forced and it was lit! It also moved the plot and point: revenge, gangs, enemies, deception, all the moving pieces, along nicely. I like how complete every scene is, how they follow through on thoughts and problems and conversation in the scenarios and they're keeping the tone consistently SERIOUS, not slacking off on the topic to try and 'lighten' the show up, which is great. The drug world is ugly and what people will do for money is even uglier.
Glad they found Mei, but that is a Girl Interrupted (kudos to you if you know this reference). Something tells me she's not just gonna get her shit together easily.
And hell, I didn't trust it the moment Kawin suggested what they should go after. As for Sun's brother, called that too, he is a pos. I feel like even if he knew Joe is responsible for the hit on his father, if someone gave him enough money, he'd sit quietly and say 'yes, sir/no,sir'. Spineless.
I enjoyed the confrontation between Sun and Peace, I feel like Sun doesn't yet realize how messy things can get, but Peace knows and now that Sun is involved and he sees what his father is up to, he has to start deciding how much he hates his father and whose side he's gonna settle on. I also like that both Sun and Peace can throw down in a fight, no 'damsel in distress' shit here. They can stand up to, and against, each other. That could get interesting! Also, Tim and Tan are BROS FOR LIFE.
Pity about Aim, I wish he wasn't rapey because everything else about his sociopathic character is quite entertaining and I like him, BUT, like Ramsey from Game of Thrones, I liked him too even though he was rapey, SO I will just enjoy the other parts of his character, and in the end, just as with Ramsey, I'll be very pleased when Aim gets what he deserves >:D hehehe
Also, fuck the rating, whoever is responsible for it, you're drunk, go home.
It was huge, it also paid homage to a lot of former Marvel castings that got overlooked as the MCU developed AND Ryan gave us a decent Gambit (another fave Marvel character of mine) by casting long time Gambit fan actor Channing Tatum in the role, and he NAILED it. It's a great watch. I even made an FMV for it. Do you like FMVs?
You've gotta be careful with trusting the ratings and negative comments on MDL though. A lot of the ratings on here are often based on fan favourite actors and disregard whether the show is actually any good or total shit lol. *whispers* hence why so many GMMTV BLs have such undeserved high ratings. LOL
What an unexpected but fantastic second pairing! I did not see it coming but as someone who usually doesn't like additional pairings I am quite pleased with BOTH pairs so far. I also like the conversations and steady communication on all characters parts in this. I will say, I had imagined the first kiss between the main pair to be a little different considering the build up of tension between them, it seemed a little rushed? But it was still a good one. Nice episode.
This episode pacing and dialogues were once again, all great, it all felt right and necessary and was acted well. I also like that they showed how Hei overheard him without being found in the room, simple yet totally plausible. Bai is so fantastically stubborn and Hei is so fantastically loyal, their reunion felt quite effortless in many ways.
I loved the idea of Bai 'sneaking a boy' into his room, it just seems like peak 'eff you grandpa, you can't tell me what to do' behaviour LOL. And that hand of Hei's subtly shaking hand at 25.22 as he stroked Bai's side when Bai's injuries hurt after Hei flipped him was 👌👌👌👌 It's really the little things that can carry/make or break a scene. The haters gon' hate, but I'm loving this BL, even with it's silly farfetched plot, it's better than so many other BLs by far. Fight me.
Meee tooo. I haven't started this yet but your comment makes me look forward to it.
Isn't it funny how Western swimmers always look like they skip leg day, but never the Asian swimmers 🤣 but yeah, mature actors are rare and great, I'm officially here for Nankrai and TK, Victor is invalid.
Okay, so, I'm gonna need Victor to get the fuck back on that bus rn and be gone because I don't care about his general existence. This needs to be about Nankrai and TK or we're being robbed.
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Outside of prison, Sun's coming up against trained fighters (some being his friends) and weathered gangsters. In ep 5, when Joe said all of his sons are black belts, Sun's brother basically pointed out that Sun is not on that level, yet he's holding his own quite well in fights. The writers seem to be trying to make him partly trained and partly a street scrapper, so every fight won't be easy for him, he's gonna have to work to win and stay alive. That's how I see it anyway.
Sun's three biggest opponents (so far) are going to be Nap, Aim and Junho, and the story will likely build his struggle and skill leading up to those three fights.
Glad they found Mei, but that is a Girl Interrupted (kudos to you if you know this reference). Something tells me she's not just gonna get her shit together easily.
And hell, I didn't trust it the moment Kawin suggested what they should go after. As for Sun's brother, called that too, he is a pos. I feel like even if he knew Joe is responsible for the hit on his father, if someone gave him enough money, he'd sit quietly and say 'yes, sir/no,sir'. Spineless.
I enjoyed the confrontation between Sun and Peace, I feel like Sun doesn't yet realize how messy things can get, but Peace knows and now that Sun is involved and he sees what his father is up to, he has to start deciding how much he hates his father and whose side he's gonna settle on. I also like that both Sun and Peace can throw down in a fight, no 'damsel in distress' shit here. They can stand up to, and against, each other. That could get interesting!
Also, Tim and Tan are BROS FOR LIFE.
Pity about Aim, I wish he wasn't rapey because everything else about his sociopathic character is quite entertaining and I like him, BUT, like Ramsey from Game of Thrones, I liked him too even though he was rapey, SO I will just enjoy the other parts of his character, and in the end, just as with Ramsey, I'll be very pleased when Aim gets what he deserves >:D hehehe
Also, fuck the rating, whoever is responsible for it, you're drunk, go home.
You've gotta be careful with trusting the ratings and negative comments on MDL though. A lot of the ratings on here are often based on fan favourite actors and disregard whether the show is actually any good or total shit lol. *whispers* hence why so many GMMTV BLs have such undeserved high ratings. LOL
If you like het dramas, how'd you get into BL?
I loved the idea of Bai 'sneaking a boy' into his room, it just seems like peak 'eff you grandpa, you can't tell me what to do' behaviour LOL. And that hand of Hei's subtly shaking hand at 25.22 as he stroked Bai's side when Bai's injuries hurt after Hei flipped him was 👌👌👌👌 It's really the little things that can carry/make or break a scene. The haters gon' hate, but I'm loving this BL, even with it's silly farfetched plot, it's better than so many other BLs by far. Fight me.