TianQi

Yikes. I hope I wasn't coming off as an asshole to you or maybe you were just referring to people in general. I'm more in the camp of "I know this is trash and but it's my kind of trash".

Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself that it's OK to just enjoy BL for the chemistry and romance.

I totally agree with you. I'm just quoting some of the things people say when others have said what you did. haha

"Everyone has the right to comment"
"If you don't like it, keep scrolling"
"Not everyone's going to like a show that you like"
"It's valid criticism"
LMAO

I won't address the "genocidal" thing directly, but rather only suggest you really, really research the actual evidence/proof of that and look at that along with the source it came from with a reasonable degree of scrutiny.
I'd like to know how/why you think it's the opposite of what's going to happen given the history, culture, and politics of the situation.

I think the unification will happen though sooner or later.

How do you conduct a weeks-long lie then get mad when your bf doesn’t tell you something that’s not his business to tell in the first place? 😑
Honestly, I’m not mad at Theo. Awful people exist. They’re allowed to. Whatever. I just feel bad for Akk going through ALL that did someone as terrible as Theo.

His character in Royal Feast, for better or worse, makes me curious about BDSM.

I don’t think China would do that. The government stands its ground, but “invasion” isn’t the CCP’s style. Not yet anyway. haha

Yeah, I doubt they’d be together again too. I’d be surprised to catch Force in another BL any time soon really. Book might show up again though.

早晚的事吧

That must be it. I saw quite a bit of the BTS and they seem to be great friends and that translates well on screen for other BL couples, but not them. At least not yet. I'd like to see them in more roles in future and I'm looking forward to seeing Book improve with some guidance. Force, I know, will get better and better.

They're all technically together from the beginning, but I guess this last ep (ep. 6) is when they start to really get closer.

I don't get it. I felt the chemistry between them more when they were best friends. What happened?

Toned down for sure. I don’t know how the actor actually cried over the egg thing. lmao

Lian-Kuea give me Akihiko-Misaki (Junjou Romantica) vibes, but things that can work in anime don't work in live action show. Actually, this whole show kinda seems...cartoonish.

It seems like he's low key manipulating Lian at this point too.

I think I've seen this happen for almost every BL in the past two years except Bad Buddy, Cherry Magic, and ITSAY. More people are more critical here, for sure. I feel like the fans on MDL, at least the BL fans, are older, have seen a lot (maybe too many?) BLs to forgive bad plots or bad elements to those plots and instead pay more attention to the other things like romantic moments and chemistry.

I feel like if this were before casting started and somebody said this, I'd be inclined to agree. Actually, even when the trailer came out I kinda had this view, but tbh, I wasn't as unconvinced by Gun as Black as I thought I'd be.
I won't take away from Off and Gun as I thought they did great here, but I can agree that Max and Tul would have done well too. Speaking of, Max and Tul as Kinn and Porsche would have been lit. The series hasn't even aired yet and I know they would have done great with it.

This gave everything I needed. I choose not to bother elaborating on anything critical because every criticism I have is dwarfed by everything else I absolutely adored about this series. It was a much needed breath of fresh air.