I think that this stereotype is ingrained deeply in the culture. I get why - if person is poor, they usually have…
To be honest - I see it the most in Chinese novels (constant comparison to jade 🙄). You are right about the skin colour - you cannot get much whiter (we are excluding sickness) than what you were born with and judging people by their skin colour or appearance is simply dumb/elitist.
Dear Asian shows, fair skin is not the only skin complexion type that is considered beautiful. Hope this helps!
I think that this stereotype is ingrained deeply in the culture. I get why - if person is poor, they usually have to work outside and hence they get darker skin tone. Only wealthy/privileged could not work, stay at home and avoid the sun. Wealthy set the beauty standards, ergo...
To be fair people usually have 2 grandmas, so it is possible that she was talking about the other one... Then again it's Vie and she is just so manipulative (honestly I really don't like her "love" 🤢 storyline but she is quite good as a friend). Some languages have different word for family members depending from which "branch" they come, so perhaps she used world meaning grandma-from-mother's-side or something?
So afterwards KDS changed his name, became debt collector and when he was done with it (so he wanted to quit) he met the dancer, right? 🥰 That's the timeline I can support 🤭
Wow! It's trending on No. 1 on MDL (at the moment) and that's not all: 5 out of 1st 10 trending dramas are BL 😍 This month has really great selection 🎉
if anyone knows if it comes out where can I see it? also I have high hopes for this!!
I think Viu is distributing it (previously their other series were on iQIYI, so perhaps this time they might have it as well...). As the company doesn't upload to YouTube, then that might be the only source for international fans ☹️ And there is already trailer with release date (26.07.2024): https://youtu.be/NSTNRO9uvGc?si=SIKcgSV-BUpFSSw0
Wandee Goodday (also GMM): isn't the doctor friend (he is psychiatrist, or something similar, I think) an ACE? 🤔 I have been stockpiling EPs, so I don't know if anything more was said about it than at the beginning when he was complaining about his prospective partners.
I'm on EP20 hand just 🤦♀️ so hard. LR - how many times they guy has to tell you (and show you!) that he loves you for it to register? She acts like it's the 1st time she is hearing about it. She is supposedly so smart but just cannot add 1+1: the guy being obviously jealous, doing everything for her, always patient with her antics, knows what she likes (SRQ was living with her for years and got at least the flowers wrong 😔), knows who she is + accepts that... and he even confessed (during downpour). And yet she still wonder if he likes her? Yeah, because guys (and girls) do all that when they are NOT interested, sure 😒 PWX - is a simp, no doubt, but doesn't annoy me as most of simps do. I am honestly waiting to see if his patience snaps... then again he was simping for like 20 years of their marriage, so he has a lot of practice 😶🌫️
I'm on EP08 and have some thought about Qin family. I think that older bro (QL) is much older (so more than 6 years) than sister (QZZ) and is similar age to his manservant/best friend (CYZ). Only the 3 of them were living in seclusion, so the 2 guys were basically rising her. When she returned after giving sword to he Prince they were teasing her and behaving like parents would (not to mention how close they were standing and the way they were communicating with just eyes). Suspicious! Are we sure that "shady abode" has rooms for each of them or do the guys have to "brave it"/"QL needs manservant's assistance during night, as any young master would"/insert-any-other-"valid"-excuse and hence they have no other choice but to BL? 😏🤭
I am quite enjoying this adaptation (perhaps because I really liked JP one as well... when it comes to Cherry Magic JP I wasn't really invested in it, so TH couldn't make a giant difference...) EP05 was fun but there was 1 thing that was bothering me - Mudmee's hair. Honestly (since EP01) I thought that she might be wearing a wig to look like her JP version but in this EP my doubt was resolved, as she has shorter hair at the end of the camp. This however leads to another question: who (and by whom) cuts their hair at camp? I really liked her hair to be a bit shorter, as longer hair were to heavy and stuck to her face (since they cannot "bounce").
Have you seen "Zettai BL (...)" ("Man who defies world of BL")? 🤭 There the plot point/trope was that only background characters of fuzzy girls we "safe" from BLing... or so Mob thought! 🤣 "We are" is one current example with at the moment 3 established couples. In "KinnPorshe" 2 or 3 bros + at least one cousin were is relationship with guys (AO3 authors often make Macao like a 3rd with Kim and Porchay...). Similarly in "S.C.I." we got 2 bothers (in the tv series they changed older bro to sister 😒) and their cousin that were BLing. Same is "Because of you" - all 3 step-bros ended up with BFs. "2Moons", "A boss and a babe", "My engineer", "Cutie pie" (+spin-off), "Moonlight Chicken", "Only Friends", "Wedding Plan" (including "Love in the air") - all had multiple BL couples (if I remember correctly: 3 each). Let's not forget about "Love Syndrome"/"Unforgotten Night" - author of the novels wrote multiple spin-offs, so basically any (not already married and with kids) guy mentioned in any of her 20+ novels gets his own BL novel (or shares with another couple) + basically if any guy talks to MC/ML = wants to hit on him (friends usually excluded). If you are interested in that mess there is actually a chart made by Gwen: https://mygwenchan.tumblr.com/post/716067696095248384/heres-a-little-update-for-my-love.
People say that birds of a feather flock together, so is it surprising that they have friends/colleagues who are homosexual/bisexual as well? If I remember correctly homosexually is observed in around 10% of population and with bisexuality the procentsge rises to around 20%, so if in the classroom are 30 students - 6 might be 🏳️🌈 and they (all or some) might form friendship/romantic relationship.
I all agree with you 😊 Even more the advertisement is too much 😅 i know they are popular but every 10 min…
This! I was like how many product placements can they fit? And the answer was: yes. Cat food, printer, toothpaste, drink (would you know it's GMM series without Oishi? 😋), contact lenses, soy milk... I am starting to think that they decided to do this remake just to get money from product placement (it reminds of The Promise and skin care) - in other series they are not so many, so perhaps they thought since original was very popular and GemminiFort are also their stairs, so there will be a lot of people watching, ergo advertisers would jump on the opportunity. I am not sure if GMM thought this trough because right now there are plenty of BLs (like My Stand In), so people can choose what to watch (it's not 2018 when we got almost nothing) and this might turn them off of this series.
What I like in this adaptation is that there is no student-teacher storyline. Even though in the original it was one-sided from student's side it was still a part I really disliked.
I'm on EP07 and I just cannot with his simp ways 🤦♀️ His GF was basically slapping him at every turn and he kept coming back for more. What all the women here look like such a control freaks? Even son's "GF" seems to keep him on tight leash...
well i thought the 2nd and 3rd episodes were very good and you clearly can't please the adaptation purists because…
To be honest - isn't like that with basically all remakes? If you were to go to "Stay with me" page you would find people not liking this version in comparison with "Addicted Heroin" (soon to have TH remake) but I really liked it (I haven't watched original but having read novel's author works I know what happened... that is why I haven't watched it). Why? Because it was taking a different approach to the basis (which is novel). IMO if it's basically identical and you only get different actors it is very hard to make it interesting. Let's take 2Moons: I liked some parts of "S2" (ForthBeam 🤭) a bit more as they were not just focused on main CP but I think most of us watched it mainly because the airways were not as saturated with BL and beggars could not be choosers 🤷♀️
I dropped "Cherry Magic" TH but it was more like I wasn't fan of JP version as well (2nd couple was the only part I kind of liked in JP), so why force myself? I already know the trajectory and how it ends...
I'm on beginning of EP05 and I am not surprised that mother-in-law knew about the "witch". That lady should have sued the hospital because they certainly haven't cut the umbilical cord 🤦♀️ From the beginning she was mean/hostile towards her daughter-in-law but towards her son: on the one hand he could do no wrong but on the other she just has to spy on him (the anniversary spying was just sick). Her asking about what would Dr No do if it was Dohyun - so far Dr No wasn't psychotic towards him (as Mrs Hong is towards her son), so I am hoping that she would have decided not to lie (by omission) on his behalf. This is also something I don't get about Mrs Hong - she was clearly unhappy when similar thing was happening to her but she cannot get an ounce of empathy to Dr No?
I feel that he actually means taxis or uber? like he can't call a cab like in bangkok. i throught it was subtitles…
I started reading novel and they mentioned as well that there are no cars on this island. It's not so surprising to me, as there are islands, like Helgoland in Germany, that doesn't allow any cars (I think no vehicles with motor are allowed there - only bicycles), Gili island in Indonesia also only allows bicycles and I think that Jeju island in South Korea was supposed to have ban on "fuel operated" engines (I think electric cars were supposed to be allowed). If the island is small, then what is the point of cars? Basically they would get the supplies on little trolley and push/pull it to the destination.
You are right about the skin colour - you cannot get much whiter (we are excluding sickness) than what you were born with and judging people by their skin colour or appearance is simply dumb/elitist.
Some languages have different word for family members depending from which "branch" they come, so perhaps she used world meaning grandma-from-mother's-side or something?
This month has really great selection 🎉
And there is already trailer with release date (26.07.2024): https://youtu.be/NSTNRO9uvGc?si=SIKcgSV-BUpFSSw0
I have been stockpiling EPs, so I don't know if anything more was said about it than at the beginning when he was complaining about his prospective partners.
PWX - is a simp, no doubt, but doesn't annoy me as most of simps do. I am honestly waiting to see if his patience snaps... then again he was simping for like 20 years of their marriage, so he has a lot of practice 😶🌫️
I think that older bro (QL) is much older (so more than 6 years) than sister (QZZ) and is similar age to his manservant/best friend (CYZ). Only the 3 of them were living in seclusion, so the 2 guys were basically rising her. When she returned after giving sword to he Prince they were teasing her and behaving like parents would (not to mention how close they were standing and the way they were communicating with just eyes). Suspicious!
Are we sure that "shady abode" has rooms for each of them or do the guys have to "brave it"/"QL needs manservant's assistance during night, as any young master would"/insert-any-other-"valid"-excuse and hence they have no other choice but to BL? 😏🤭
EP05 was fun but there was 1 thing that was bothering me - Mudmee's hair. Honestly (since EP01) I thought that she might be wearing a wig to look like her JP version but in this EP my doubt was resolved, as she has shorter hair at the end of the camp. This however leads to another question: who (and by whom) cuts their hair at camp? I really liked her hair to be a bit shorter, as longer hair were to heavy and stuck to her face (since they cannot "bounce").
"We are" is one current example with at the moment 3 established couples.
In "KinnPorshe" 2 or 3 bros + at least one cousin were is relationship with guys (AO3 authors often make Macao like a 3rd with Kim and Porchay...).
Similarly in "S.C.I." we got 2 bothers (in the tv series they changed older bro to sister 😒) and their cousin that were BLing.
Same is "Because of you" - all 3 step-bros ended up with BFs.
"2Moons", "A boss and a babe", "My engineer", "Cutie pie" (+spin-off), "Moonlight Chicken", "Only Friends", "Wedding Plan" (including "Love in the air") - all had multiple BL couples (if I remember correctly: 3 each).
Let's not forget about "Love Syndrome"/"Unforgotten Night" - author of the novels wrote multiple spin-offs, so basically any (not already married and with kids) guy mentioned in any of her 20+ novels gets his own BL novel (or shares with another couple) + basically if any guy talks to MC/ML = wants to hit on him (friends usually excluded). If you are interested in that mess there is actually a chart made by Gwen: https://mygwenchan.tumblr.com/post/716067696095248384/heres-a-little-update-for-my-love.
People say that birds of a feather flock together, so is it surprising that they have friends/colleagues who are homosexual/bisexual as well? If I remember correctly homosexually is observed in around 10% of population and with bisexuality the procentsge rises to around 20%, so if in the classroom are 30 students - 6 might be 🏳️🌈 and they (all or some) might form friendship/romantic relationship.
Cat food, printer, toothpaste, drink (would you know it's GMM series without Oishi? 😋), contact lenses, soy milk...
I am starting to think that they decided to do this remake just to get money from product placement (it reminds of The Promise and skin care) - in other series they are not so many, so perhaps they thought since original was very popular and GemminiFort are also their stairs, so there will be a lot of people watching, ergo advertisers would jump on the opportunity.
I am not sure if GMM thought this trough because right now there are plenty of BLs (like My Stand In), so people can choose what to watch (it's not 2018 when we got almost nothing) and this might turn them off of this series.
What I like in this adaptation is that there is no student-teacher storyline. Even though in the original it was one-sided from student's side it was still a part I really disliked.
His GF was basically slapping him at every turn and he kept coming back for more.
What all the women here look like such a control freaks? Even son's "GF" seems to keep him on tight leash...
If you were to go to "Stay with me" page you would find people not liking this version in comparison with "Addicted Heroin" (soon to have TH remake) but I really liked it (I haven't watched original but having read novel's author works I know what happened... that is why I haven't watched it). Why? Because it was taking a different approach to the basis (which is novel).
IMO if it's basically identical and you only get different actors it is very hard to make it interesting. Let's take 2Moons: I liked some parts of "S2" (ForthBeam 🤭) a bit more as they were not just focused on main CP but I think most of us watched it mainly because the airways were not as saturated with BL and beggars could not be choosers 🤷♀️
I dropped "Cherry Magic" TH but it was more like I wasn't fan of JP version as well (2nd couple was the only part I kind of liked in JP), so why force myself? I already know the trajectory and how it ends...
From the beginning she was mean/hostile towards her daughter-in-law but towards her son: on the one hand he could do no wrong but on the other she just has to spy on him (the anniversary spying was just sick).
Her asking about what would Dr No do if it was Dohyun - so far Dr No wasn't psychotic towards him (as Mrs Hong is towards her son), so I am hoping that she would have decided not to lie (by omission) on his behalf.
This is also something I don't get about Mrs Hong - she was clearly unhappy when similar thing was happening to her but she cannot get an ounce of empathy to Dr No?
It's not so surprising to me, as there are islands, like Helgoland in Germany, that doesn't allow any cars (I think no vehicles with motor are allowed there - only bicycles), Gili island in Indonesia also only allows bicycles and I think that Jeju island in South Korea was supposed to have ban on "fuel operated" engines (I think electric cars were supposed to be allowed).
If the island is small, then what is the point of cars? Basically they would get the supplies on little trolley and push/pull it to the destination.