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This show is so frustrating it has me wanting to pull out my hair by the handfuls. And I don’t mean that in any kind of good way where I’m complimenting the slow burn, it has more to do with having watched 7 episodes of a show and not feeling like I’ve seen anything. The same storyline has been told from the beginning to end of every episode. We’re just going in circles, and getting nowhere, and watching the characters do and say the same things over and over and over again. Where is the story? Where is the content? For how long are we expected to believe the miscommunication can continue? I’ll watch the last episode, but not necessarily because I want to. After watching 7 episodes of nothing, might as well see how that nothing ends.

Just because I’m in a mood I want to add that KBL’s have been disillusioning me a lot lately. Between this and Business As Usual, I want to set something on fire because I’m so frustrated by characters that are seemingly not able to, or not willing to communicate with each other. Secret Relationships was a good enough show, but I didn’t quite enjoy it as much as some others may have. And don’t get me started on Heesu in Class 2 and that utter disappointment. I’ll stop ranting now, this is all just because I was so excited by all of the KBL’s coming out, and just feeling let down, but that’s on me. Hoping for more but getting less is an expectation I should be more than familiar with by now.

The problem I think was that we saw him choose his own greed over people time and again. It always seemed like everyone around him was expendable and if they didn’t serve an immediate purpose they had no worth. We’ll be left wondering why he turned out that way. Even Si Eun asked him why he chose greed when he had intelligence that could most likely already get him what he would want. He was such a question mark of a character.

lol!! I’m right there with you.

It’s not often that a second season or sequel can outdo the original, but I’ll be damned if Weak Hero Class 2 wasn’t a phenomenal follow up and continuation of the story. I’m so in for a season 3.

Admittedly, I was hesitant about the second season, and that had everything to do with Su Ho. He was my favorite character from season 1 and I was left devastated by his unknown fate at the end. I was worried that he would be swept under the rug or killed off; left as an afterthought in the second season. Luckily, that wasn’t at all the case. So much of Si Eun’s journey had centered around his friendship with Su Ho. He was that person for Si Eun that allowed him to open up to the world and the driving force for him to find his smile. The ending of season 2 couldn’t have been better and I couldn’t have asked for anything more. (I’m still coping with the curveball that was Baek Jin’s fate, it’ll probably be some time before I come to terms with that).

I liked the cast of characters so much in season 2. There was just something about this group that grabbed me and kept me held on and invested. They were far less ambiguous in terms of who could be trusted or not. Sure, there was still the old switcheroo with Seong Je, but I was never foolish enough to believe he’d ever be anything other than selfish and all for himself.

If the story were to continue my only hope would be that we could get more than just male characters. I understand that the story is set within all male school systems, but still, it’s just a lot of dudes.

The acting is great, the story is cool, the fight sequences will make you want to rewind and watch those awesome kicks at least once again. Plus, Su Ho!!! I sincerely enjoyed this so very much and I’m just on cloud nine. Chingus, fighting!

I’m right there with you, I so badly wanted to be able to say that all that complaining early was baseless and the show would prove them all wrong, but alas, I haven’t a leg to stand on.

Maybe not too recent but some of my favorite KBL’s are Cherry Blossoms After Winter, Unintentional Love Story, Love for Love’s Sake, Love Class Season 2, Semantic Error, The Eighth Sense, To My Star, Mr. Heart, Let Free the Curse of Taekwando.
A recent favorite of mine from the past year or so is the Taiwan BL Unknown.

The unsatisfactory level of this show is really up there. It shouldn’t go so far as to make me angry, but that’s how I’m feeling anyway.

You just said it perfectly! Although there were some moments that gave me those heart fluttering feels, it was never substantial enough to have any kind of impact. It was all very very stale.
I have to blame the show and show writers for this though, because South Korea has made some very endearing and memorable bls. This just definitely isn’t one of them.

What a frustrating journey of a show this was. Don’t get me wrong, I understand a slow burn is meant to have its own level of frustration, but this wasn’t that. The main characters were given the storyline of a side couple and the side characters the opposite. From the beginning I wasn’t expecting a kiss, this was always giving off “A Shoulder to Cry On” vibes, so I had already lowered my expectations. My issue is that the story that should have centered around the character that is the literal namesake of the show title was never given the proper amount of screen time and was instead always pushed aside almost as an afterthought. I guess yay they confessed and found they shared the same feelings, but why did we have to wait until the last 10 minutes of the entire series to see them have a “cute” ending that really wasn’t fulfilling at all. I lowered my rating another half point because they also just had to throw a poop joke in at the end, just why. I’m left wishing I would have enjoyed this as much as I had hoped for.

What an enjoyable watch this was. It made me feel all the feels. The pacing is slow, but the story is deep and makes up for any other faults. I really liked how when they were first starting to feel out their relationship, the scenes during those moments together were shot with the camera far away. As they grew closer, the camera also shortened the distance. And when they were finally in the same space, confessing the same feelings, and on the same page, we were right there up close with them. It would be remiss of me not to mention and consider the fact this drama is now 11 years old and is still completely relevant. I’m just left with a good feeling, having enjoyed getting to watch something that was done so well.

This really has gotten good. I didn’t think it would. I had my doubts. I even thought about dropping it early on, but right now I’m glad I didn’t. The last two episodes were a lot of fun and I’m looking forward to seeing what will happen next. There’s a sweet charm to this show that has officially got me hooked.

This is far too underrated. One of my absolute favorite KBL’s of all time.

It was all for nothing? But why?

I’m loving this so much. It’s become that one show I look forward to watching the most each week.

Every time Dongju flashes that devil-may-care smile in the face of those that dare think they can oppress him or get the upper hand, it just tickles me. I literally can’t help the evil and sinister laugh that comes out of me when he pokes the bear and shows that his teeth are more fearful. Which leads me to the thought, who would win in a fight between a bear and a shark? It would of course depend on the territory. Right now, Dongju controls both the battle and where it’s being fought, and he’s definitely got the bigger bite.
Dongju, fighting!!

I’m a week behind, so I’m only now seeing Mark’s house in episode 3, but that has to be the same house from both the BL series “Between Us” and “Love In The Air”, right? I think I’ve seen it in another series as well, I just can’t remember which.

This show stresses me out. And mostly it’s because my brain just instant braining. I’m piecing things together much slower than I probably should be, which leaves me in a constant state of confusion and frustration while watching.

I’ve sort of just lost caring about wherever the story is headed. Finding out that the relationship between Dongju and Eunnam hadn’t been incestuous - that being the only storyline that I found at all intriguing - doesn’t say much for where I imagine this show to be going. Those couple episodes of wondering whether or not Dongju had slept with his half sister felt like an unnecessary stress.

The one thing that I had sort of pieced together was that Dongju could have possibly been Ildo’s son. And then we got the whole Darth Vader reveal moment. So I’ll keep watching because I’m curious where that’ll go.

It just feels like the villains keep adding up, and there’s no redemption really yet to be found, it’s just, a lot

You’re very welcome! 💜

It’s a happy enough ending. Do Ha and U Hyeon end up together. But just to add my two cents, there was a forced separation near the end that felt unnecessary before their mutual confessions, and then one of them leaves to keep studying abroad, so we’re left with knowing when they at last get together they have to do the whole long distance relationship thing. Sort of bittersweet honestly, but I did enjoy watching this.

I can’t help this feeling of being underwhelmed. This started out so good, there was a vibrancy and excitement that instantly had me hooked, but the back half of the series just didn’t hold up. The show peaked at Hae Seong getting the bully kicked out of school. Once the story switched from the fun of figuring out the school’s urban legends in search for the gold to battling the evil school director, it just wasn’t as much fun. Far too much time was spent on the corrupt director. I could barely watch her scenes due to my detest of the character, but then her demise felt too rushed and really not that great of a vindication by the end.

I’m probably feeling this way mostly because the “romance” tag doesn’t really fit this series. Or maybe it’s because the shiny appeal of the story slowly wore off. Not to mention adding in another Quizno’s commercial within the last 10 minutes of the final episode just pissed me off.

I just wanted more from this. It served so well early on, but then gave scraps by the end. And that’s on me, my expectations were probably set too high. I wouldn’t say I disliked this, not at all, I just wanted to like it so much more.