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It's good, but also...
Perth and Santa are one of my fave bl pairings. When I saw the trailer for this series I was a little apprehensive since it looked a bit too slapstick for my taste. Fortunately, the slapstick was minimal. But that doesn't mean there aren't any other problems.
The plot is clear. Teacher who loves his job has a boyfriend who's only a teacher to follow his boyfie. Then the first mentioned gets into an accident and as a consequence, regresses to his childhood every other day. This snowballs into his boyfriend needing to deal with a child in man-form and trying to find out how to repair the situation.
So far, so good. This makes for a quite humorous premise and could have been cute and nice. However, we also het hit with the childhood trauma of Sun, and the reason the regression happened is unraveled slowly. The episodes get heavier and towards the final episode we are so pained by Sun's traumatic past , that I started dreading the next episode in fear for even more painful revelations. And sure enough, until the forelast episode this is maintained. I was sobbing for poor Sun. And wondering why we get such an overload on horrible events. The connection between the regression and the child could have been made with less. This was really too much. The lighter notes, set by Sammy in the role of the interim headmistress among others, fall totally flat against the horrible oredeals that Sun has to deal with.
Some side characters who should have been more important throughout the story are introduced without any foreshadowing and we get so many flashbacks to fill in these blanks that I was getting confused at times.
What's good is that the acting and cinematography are very well done. The PerrhSanta chemistry is certainly there. Santa is fantastic in switching between child Sun and adult Solar. The arc of Perth's character (i forgot his name already) from child fearing to child caring is natural and endearing.
Here's another that bothered me: everybody is too soft-spoken. People tend to get irritated at certain things. Not these people. Nothing but respect and niceness. Boring.
I think the way the story is told is not very suitable for a drama. In a book this works, but not really on a screen.
The plot is clear. Teacher who loves his job has a boyfriend who's only a teacher to follow his boyfie. Then the first mentioned gets into an accident and as a consequence, regresses to his childhood every other day. This snowballs into his boyfriend needing to deal with a child in man-form and trying to find out how to repair the situation.
So far, so good. This makes for a quite humorous premise and could have been cute and nice. However, we also het hit with the childhood trauma of Sun, and the reason the regression happened is unraveled slowly. The episodes get heavier and towards the final episode we are so pained by Sun's traumatic past , that I started dreading the next episode in fear for even more painful revelations. And sure enough, until the forelast episode this is maintained. I was sobbing for poor Sun. And wondering why we get such an overload on horrible events. The connection between the regression and the child could have been made with less. This was really too much. The lighter notes, set by Sammy in the role of the interim headmistress among others, fall totally flat against the horrible oredeals that Sun has to deal with.
Some side characters who should have been more important throughout the story are introduced without any foreshadowing and we get so many flashbacks to fill in these blanks that I was getting confused at times.
What's good is that the acting and cinematography are very well done. The PerrhSanta chemistry is certainly there. Santa is fantastic in switching between child Sun and adult Solar. The arc of Perth's character (i forgot his name already) from child fearing to child caring is natural and endearing.
Here's another that bothered me: everybody is too soft-spoken. People tend to get irritated at certain things. Not these people. Nothing but respect and niceness. Boring.
I think the way the story is told is not very suitable for a drama. In a book this works, but not really on a screen.
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