Omg I wanna continue watching so bad. But I feel as though the weekly wait would be worse!!! *Cries* the wait…
Shows aren't actually made to be binge-watched. They're made to be taken in, episode by episode, so that you can reflect on them and anticipate the next episode. I'm old enough to remember having no choice but to watch and wait. No recording devices, no on demand streaming, no Internet. I feel that binge-watching actually takes away from the impact of the individual episodes. Binging is bad, kids, don't do it: lol!
I agree that this is definitely top-tier when it comes to BL of any form. They have chosen to move away from the…
I just had to chime in because a couple of my favourite series have been mentioned. For me, 1000 Stars is my favourite. That's followed by Manner of Death. I liked ITSAY but i wasn't as keen as most. People have commented that this shows last episode was too melodramatic: I found that to be the case with ITSAY. My own emotions kept getting short-circuited because I was agog at how overplayed I found the characters' reactions: Yes, I mean the ugly crying. That's not meant as a slight to anyone who loves the show, though.
ATOTS tops the list for me as I view this series not just as a fine BL, but also as a special gift from P'Aof to the gay community for providing us with our first gay fairytale romance. I've never seen anything so touching and tender involving two men.
The characters are kind, and petty, and wounded, and naive, and sad, and hopeful, and searching, and lost, and found.. it's where we've been, what we long for and what we hope to never become. It's true to life in all it's aspects for gay men. A wonderful series.
I've joked with another person that I know from 'round the board by referring to the issue of the 5 year gap as…
Ultimately, I don't feel it's my place to criticise real people for what they did or did not do in these kinds of instances but I don't need accept it in a piece of fiction as a poorly executed plot device.
I haven't seen the main couple's previous works, but they definitely do seem comfortable working together and…
It had its flaws and lucky conveniences but I appreciated what they were trying to do. It's not easy to break from the standard BL mold, because the core demographic wants certain things and is unhappy when they don't get them.
This is an interesting series. Yes, it's loaded with cliches, but it's striking a balance between humour and sentiment that I'm enjoying. I love how Li Cheng breaks the Fourth Wall on occasion!
It seems a lot of people are troubled by the step sibling relationship between Xing Shi and Yong Jie. I get why that feels uncomfortable but I don't wholly share the sentiment. I'm not enthused by it, but I can't see my way to outright condemning it. I also feel that they've portrayed Yong Jie as being troubled and I hope we'll get more exposition on why that is, as the series progresses. Yong Jie's love for Xing Shi is evident, and that elevates him from being just a crazy stalker. Again, though, I'll be looking to see more background as to why Yong Jie is as he is. (Something to do with his biological father, maybe?)
As cliche as it is, I'm kind of enjoying Li Cheng's and Mu Ren's 'fauxmance.' The two actors work really well with one another and I think they'll be able to deliver some very moving moments once Li Cheng and Mu Ren realise that the faux isn't so faux, after all.
Mei Fang and Sister Wang may be fujoshi's but they're among the least annoying fujoshis I've seen portrayed. Hopefully, that aspect doesn't escalate as the series continues.
As it stands, the story has an overall blend of comedic, sentimental, and more serious aspects that works, for me, and I'll continue watching...
so I'm seeing mixed reviews about the show ...should I watch it or not bc when it comes to BLS I do have high…
The last episode drew a variety of responses but what they all have in common is that people love this series, it just that things came to a head of sorts and people are divided on how that felt. . As a gay man, I qualify this as a fairytale love story between two men. I mean that in the best sense. I'd really encourage you to give it a go!
EDIT: I took at a peek at your watchlist. I'm confident in recommending this to you!
The second episode has me confused. I thought that they had dispatched all the undead form the Hill incident, so what's up with all of them standing out in a field? There is the one undead woman who's inside the gates. (looked like she's in the Concubine's house.) Why aren't they doing more to look for her?
The drama will take 1 week of break to work on it after the historical controversy https://www.soompi.com/article/1460917wpp/joseon-exorcist-apologizes-for-controversy-over-historical-inaccuracies-to-take-1-week-break
I've joked with another person that I know from 'round the board by referring to the issue of the 5 year gap as…
Again, Good Sir, given your own personal experience I can only say that you are a bigger man than I. At 53, I've known many people who experienced rejection from their families for being LGBTQ. People I knew were rejected by their kin not just for cultural reasons but for religious and supposedly unaffiliated "moral" ones, too. I did not get rejected by my own family back when I came out back in 1983, at 16, but I had mentally prepared myself for that possibility as much as I could. I even made visits to Social Services to see, for example, if I could apply for any assistance if my parents threw me out. (At 19, a Muslim guy I had dated was thrown out and disowned by his family and he was a guest with my family for a number of months while he found his feet.)
It was rare for me to know people who bowed to those familial pressures , even though they suffered terribly emotionally and financially (at times) for it and I so respected their courage.
Given that I felt so strongly about those real struggles and feeling that their families were very much in the wrong, I just can't support fictional characters bowing to that pressure, in 2021. That this is the central reason why the leads fell out of contact for 5 years leaves me viewing GSD as a coward, with a distorted sense of entitlement that he can just come back into the picture after meeting the duration of separation and pick up with ZSY: especially since ZSY wasn't ever a party to it.
In the first episode, ZSY was not only shattered by things with GSD but he was also needlessly petty and vindictive toward the staff of GSD's company. Ultimately, both characters were rendered deeply dislikable to me. I feel that the gap was nothing but a cheap plot device to inject drama into the second series; one which I saw too many people overcome in real life to either find it plausible, here. It leaves too much of a bad taste in my mouth. The show failed, for me, because "The centre could not hold..." but that's just me.
Love,
Gen X
ATOTS tops the list for me as I view this series not just as a fine BL, but also as a special gift from P'Aof to the gay community for providing us with our first gay fairytale romance. I've never seen anything so touching and tender involving two men.
It seems a lot of people are troubled by the step sibling relationship between Xing Shi and Yong Jie. I get why that feels uncomfortable but I don't wholly share the sentiment. I'm not enthused by it, but I can't see my way to outright condemning it. I also feel that they've portrayed Yong Jie as being troubled and I hope we'll get more exposition on why that is, as the series progresses. Yong Jie's love for Xing Shi is evident, and that elevates him from being just a crazy stalker. Again, though, I'll be looking to see more background as to why Yong Jie is as he is. (Something to do with his biological father, maybe?)
As cliche as it is, I'm kind of enjoying Li Cheng's and Mu Ren's 'fauxmance.' The two actors work really well with one another and I think they'll be able to deliver some very moving moments once Li Cheng and Mu Ren realise that the faux isn't so faux, after all.
Mei Fang and Sister Wang may be fujoshi's but they're among the least annoying fujoshis I've seen portrayed. Hopefully, that aspect doesn't escalate as the series continues.
As it stands, the story has an overall blend of comedic, sentimental, and more serious aspects that works, for me, and I'll continue watching...
EDIT: I took at a peek at your watchlist. I'm confident in recommending this to you!
It was rare for me to know people who bowed to those familial pressures , even though they suffered terribly emotionally and financially (at times) for it and I so respected their courage.
Given that I felt so strongly about those real struggles and feeling that their families were very much in the wrong, I just can't support fictional characters bowing to that pressure, in 2021. That this is the central reason why the leads fell out of contact for 5 years leaves me viewing GSD as a coward, with a distorted sense of entitlement that he can just come back into the picture after meeting the duration of separation and pick up with ZSY: especially since ZSY wasn't ever a party to it.
In the first episode, ZSY was not only shattered by things with GSD but he was also needlessly petty and vindictive toward the staff of GSD's company. Ultimately, both characters were rendered deeply dislikable to me. I feel that the gap was nothing but a cheap plot device to inject drama into the second series; one which I saw too many people overcome in real life to either find it plausible, here. It leaves too much of a bad taste in my mouth. The show failed, for me, because "The centre could not hold..." but that's just me.