yeah, I'm leaning towards it's a dramaland thing :)
It felt symbolic to me, as though he’s the rockstar of Likay. It felt like the director wants us to see that he outranks Jack. The negotiations with Ja, and Ja’s annoyance at Jack’s upstart behaviour built on that. I think it’s important to render Ja as the established star, and Jack as the rising star, right from the start for some reason.
please repost this with the spoiler tag so that people don't get unwanted spoilers 💗💗
Splitting hairs. I was really careful with discussing book stuff only under spoiler tags for Khemjira, and a good thing too, as everything I ended up talking about showed up in the show. Please add spoiler tags.
Zaleng is so pretty it’s distracting. I love that his brother is a Likay artist. I’m reserving judgement on the drama, but I like the likay context. It’s a lesson in Thai culture, which makes it worth watching for now.
I have a feeling about how this might play out. I’m really enjoying it, but I’m not sure if it’s on that basis, or for what I’m actually seeing. Either way, the writing and acting a more naturalistic than a lot of Japanese romances I’ve watched so far, and I’m loving that. There are fewer of the !!! moments where characters get all shouty and overreactive, which I’ve come to expect. Up until a few years ago I watched Japanese film, but not TV, and even then only their samurai and gangster films, so the cutesiness and stylised nature of TV romances is something I’ve had trouble with. This is more my speed. It feels more real, despite being in a SF/fantasy context.
So are you saying he is not a good actor for this role he is portraying.I just want to know because I have not…
Since this is not made in China I’m excepting it from my mainland boycott, and it’s a ride. you need to be able to take on board the humour, because it’s quite dark. For a debut it’s a stonkingly intense role, but he’s pretty fabulous in it. The character is a sociopathic one, as well as a very broken one, and he grasps it with both hands. He’s a walking red flag and drops triggers for the first few episodes at least, but check it out at some point. If you’re boycotting Chinese dramas in a blanket way, save it for another time. If you’re okay with Chinese series off the mainland, make it sooner. It’s like watching a very beautiful, slow motion demolition job.
1. to the people saying "he's adopted so its fine" BFFR THEY FUCKED WHEN THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE BLOOD…
Incest is a social convention set up to protect from genetic in-breeding. Cousins who aren’t reproducing are hardly in the same moral, genetic, or social red zone as a heterosexual pair that might do so. Do we even know if they think they’re first cousins, or something more distant? To me a cousin could be at a far greater remove than that and still be called a cousin. I guess it does depend on language though. If they’re cousins at a remove, or second or third cousins, incest doesn’t really arise, in the eyes of the law, or the Christian religions. Nothing I’ve seen, as someone who doesn’t speak Korean, would lead me to assume they’re first cousins, maybe you know more?
In video games giving your main/player character a character deficit works to put your audience behind their eyes. Romantic dramas need the lead to be their own entity. I not only had no clue of his motivations, likely behaviour, or personality, all my attention was drawn away from him to his three suitors. Each of them had a personality, a goal, and enough individuality to interest and attract me. They all annoyed, amused, softened, frustrated, and interested me in turn. The lead, was just a cute little object for them to contend over. Towards the end, I was honestly more invested in the relationship between Yeonsang and Gyeon, that any between Doha and anyone else. I think they’d have been a good match.
This is my current comfort watch. I’ll re-binge it in the future.