Mashiro was giving me anxiety when he was mixing the hamburger steak, germs flying every which way. I like the…
Mashiro is SUPPOSED to be too much for you. Sometimes he's too much for Kanade Kanade is afraid of dating and sex, because he has experienced neither. You're not SUPPOSED to like his mama.
yesss omg and the amount of actors these days being found dead in the apartments/cars is heartbreaking 💔
I don't know the specifics of the last three or four months. Has there been a cluster of entertainer suicides again? God...
I keep an In Memoriam list of Korean entertainers who have been driven to suicide by so-called "scandals." If you want, please forward names of recent suicides, so I can add them to the list.
The tell here is that Lily Alice makes no mention of the horrifically sadistic entertainment press (her!), that reports every lie, rumor, and innuendo flung around on the Internet with zero skepticism or vetting. Lily Alice contributes to the very "scandals" she pretends to be surprised by in this article. Apparently, it's news to Lily that the "scandals" she hypes for clicks destroy careers and lives, often ending in suicides.
But then, suicides are just one more fabulous opportunity for Lily to act surprised and sad in another lame article.
If you're talking about Sungri, who most people who don't know what they're talking about, consider the "main…
You are an excellent example of a self-righteous MDLer/Knetz, much more interested in your moralistic pose than in facts.
You: "Suengri was charged with prostitution mediation, embezzlement, habitual gambling, and violating foreign currency exchange laws. He was also accused of instigating violence and sharing illicit photos."
Me: "Sungri was never charged, tried, or convicted for any form of sexual assault/rape, despite the Knetz liars endlessly claiming otherwise." It does not matter what Seungri or anyone was CHARGED with. What matters is what they were CONVICTED of. Yet you completely ignore my statement about sexual assault/rape, of which he was never charged, though that doesn't prevent you from pretending that he was. There are many thousands of Knetz who believe to this day that Sengri was guilty of sexual assault/rape. He is not.
You: "You support and promote him as if he somehow got in the crossfire and did nothing wrong. As if he had no clue what his business partners, who were jailed for sexual crimes, were doing in his place of business... that he didn't try to mislead the government about the type of business he was running in order to avoid taxes that everyday business folks pay and safety regulations that keep the customers that go into the business safe."
No one cares what you imagine me to be "supporting and promoting AS IF...blah blah blah. The SUPPORTING AND PROMOTING and AS IF stuff is all in your head and is irrelevant to anyone who exists outside your cranium. Consider reading what other commenters write and not what you want to pretend they did, so that you can react with performative, self-righteous outrage. You're so eager to display your imagined moral superiority that you don't pause to READ.
I got a good chuckle from your "...everyday business folks pay..." schtick, as if every f**king company is SK isn't doing whatever they can to maximize profits in much the same way. The prosecution slapped on the tax and business charges as insult to injury and because they could. Your fantasy of righteous, flawless police and prosecutors in SK is laughable. They trump up and falsify charges all the time, for PR purposes and because they're douche bags. Consider the long list of celebrities they've helped drive to suicide.
Finally, you have no way of knowing what Seungri did or did not know about what his business partners were doing with and in "his" place of business. He was not there 24/7, overseeing every detail of every transaction or activity. That is pure conjecture on your part. People like you love conjecture, rumor, innuendo, assumptions, and lies, when they feed your preconceived narrative that Seungri Bad! Prosecutors Good!
Hey, don't you find it curious that prostitution is illegal in SK, but the actual, you know, PROSTITUTES are rarely charged or tried? Why is that? I'll tell you why: The government wants us to see them as innocent, young maidens forced, FORCED I tell you, into subjecting themselves to the whims of mean, piggish men. You and yours are afraid of the idea that a prostitute can CHOOSE her career as a sex worker as a means of making money, like any other business. Your morality has no relevance to that matter.
Before you respond with blind, spittle-spewing rage, note that I am separating professional prostitutes from any unsuspecting female clients of the club who were drugged, or otherwise deceived/abused into submitting to sex with anyone, anywhere.
Also, it's entertaining that people like you refuse to acknowledge that lots of young women want, desire, and seek out the social and physical attentions of wealthy and/or famous men, be it for status, a thrill, or hoped-for career advancement. To take a mature view of such matters would hamper your condescending attitude toward women, that they are dumb, delicate flowers in need of your protection from making their own decisions and acting on their own agency as adult human beings.
You: "Act like he's some sort of victim in this situation???"
Try concerning yourself with what people write here, rather than your fevered theories on what they "act like." You'd have very little to say if you didn't make up s**t to respond to.
Episode 7: Unless this gets screwed up somehow in the final five episodes, SBMSATR is for sure going on my best BLs list.
People are ragging on Mashiro's psycho mother showing up in Tokyo as being a negative development. Still, taking the longer view, her arrival is exactly what he needs to push him to the point where he HAS to break free or remain under her twisted thumb until she croaks. He could take her out early, of course, but that would risk prison and potentially upset Kanade.
BL plots have taught me to hope for the best and expect the worst, but at the end of ep 7, Mashiro appears to be doing exactly what he needs to do to begin escaping her soul-crushing effect on his life. He can't change what went before, but he can change what happens from here forward. When he slowly put his fist to his chest to do his defensive/power-gathering little ritual, and slowly spoke his truth, I felt immensely proud of him.
An aspect of the way this mother character is written that I like a lot is that she clearly KNOWS what she is doing and how it hurts and stifles his nature. The look of barely-contained rage and indignation on her face as he slowly spoke his truth at her was both scary and delicious to see. Also, it was heartbreaking to see how, even as he took this huge step to assert himself, he still was not able to look her in the eye. Such is the extent of the damage she has done him.
He can't look her in the eye YET, that is. Mashiro, FIGHTING!
These two are def going to end up one of my all-time fave BL couples. Love them both, but I've a special place in my heart for Mashiro. His combination of bravado, vulnerability, goofiness, sexiness, and handsome/goofy looks is endearing af.
Mashiro's situation is why I avoid giving trivial advice to people who are having family issues. "They're…
This. The "family is always best" thing we get so much of is SO not true. A great deal of the worst trauma people ever experience involves family members. This is nothing new either.
I can't be sure from his bio pic, but they appear to have plucked the hell out of his eyebrows for this role, perhaps to emphasize the wonderful things he does with his eyes and face as Mashiro. However, the brows are so clearly plucked that I find it distracting. I keep thinking, "why would Mashiro pluck his eyebrows? He doesn't seem like the type." Thoughts?
Also, I'm looking forward to hunting down any videos of him with his Jpop dance troupe on YT. Any one have links?
I find Hori Natsuki especially endearing. He's cute but has that tiny overbite. He has a tall, rockin' bod, but often seems like a tall, rockin' little kid. :)
this is one thing not likeable about South Korea... it's hard to imagine how a comparably 'minor' thing like low…
If you're talking about Sungri, who most people who don't know what they're talking about, consider the "main perp," he did 18 months in jail, paid huge fines lost all his endorsements, was fired by his agency, exiled from Big Bang, and is a pariah in South Korea. I'd say he was punished sufficiently according to law.
Sungri was never charged, tried, or convicted for any form of sexual assault/rape, despite the Knetz liars endlessly claiming otherwise. Nor did he share any of the sexual assault videos on the chat group. Most Burning Sun hysterics are allergic to facts, because facts make the story so much more boring than it is.
The actual "main perp," whose name I don't recall, did or is doing four or five years in jail plus all I listed above related to Seungri. What do you want, execution?
I often wonder, if prostitution is illegal, why aren't the prostitutes charged and tried?
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Sometimes he's too much for Kanade
Kanade is afraid of dating and sex, because he has experienced neither.
You're not SUPPOSED to like his mama.
What show are you watching?
The lead looks like he's as old as his dad.
Dropped 20 minutes in.
2/10
I keep an In Memoriam list of Korean entertainers who have been driven to suicide by so-called "scandals." If you want, please forward names of recent suicides, so I can add them to the list.
But then, suicides are just one more fabulous opportunity for Lily to act surprised and sad in another lame article.
Christ.
You:
"Suengri was charged with prostitution mediation, embezzlement, habitual gambling, and violating foreign currency exchange laws. He was also accused of instigating violence and sharing illicit photos."
Me:
"Sungri was never charged, tried, or convicted for any form of sexual assault/rape, despite the Knetz liars endlessly claiming otherwise." It does not matter what Seungri or anyone was CHARGED with. What matters is what they were CONVICTED of. Yet you completely ignore my statement about sexual assault/rape, of which he was never charged, though that doesn't prevent you from pretending that he was. There are many thousands of Knetz who believe to this day that Sengri was guilty of sexual assault/rape. He is not.
You:
"You support and promote him as if he somehow got in the crossfire and did nothing wrong. As if he had no clue what his business partners, who were jailed for sexual crimes, were doing in his place of business... that he didn't try to mislead the government about the type of business he was running in order to avoid taxes that everyday business folks pay and safety regulations that keep the customers that go into the business safe."
No one cares what you imagine me to be "supporting and promoting AS IF...blah blah blah. The SUPPORTING AND PROMOTING and AS IF stuff is all in your head and is irrelevant to anyone who exists outside your cranium. Consider reading what other commenters write and not what you want to pretend they did, so that you can react with performative, self-righteous outrage. You're so eager to display your imagined moral superiority that you don't pause to READ.
I got a good chuckle from your "...everyday business folks pay..." schtick, as if every f**king company is SK isn't doing whatever they can to maximize profits in much the same way. The prosecution slapped on the tax and business charges as insult to injury and because they could. Your fantasy of righteous, flawless police and prosecutors in SK is laughable. They trump up and falsify charges all the time, for PR purposes and because they're douche bags. Consider the long list of celebrities they've helped drive to suicide.
Finally, you have no way of knowing what Seungri did or did not know about what his business partners were doing with and in "his" place of business. He was not there 24/7, overseeing every detail of every transaction or activity. That is pure conjecture on your part. People like you love conjecture, rumor, innuendo, assumptions, and lies, when they feed your preconceived narrative that Seungri Bad! Prosecutors Good!
Hey, don't you find it curious that prostitution is illegal in SK, but the actual, you know, PROSTITUTES are rarely charged or tried? Why is that? I'll tell you why: The government wants us to see them as innocent, young maidens forced, FORCED I tell you, into subjecting themselves to the whims of mean, piggish men. You and yours are afraid of the idea that a prostitute can CHOOSE her career as a sex worker as a means of making money, like any other business. Your morality has no relevance to that matter.
Before you respond with blind, spittle-spewing rage, note that I am separating professional prostitutes from any unsuspecting female clients of the club who were drugged, or otherwise deceived/abused into submitting to sex with anyone, anywhere.
Also, it's entertaining that people like you refuse to acknowledge that lots of young women want, desire, and seek out the social and physical attentions of wealthy and/or famous men, be it for status, a thrill, or hoped-for career advancement. To take a mature view of such matters would hamper your condescending attitude toward women, that they are dumb, delicate flowers in need of your protection from making their own decisions and acting on their own agency as adult human beings.
You:
"Act like he's some sort of victim in this situation???"
Try concerning yourself with what people write here, rather than your fevered theories on what they "act like." You'd have very little to say if you didn't make up s**t to respond to.
But, I guess that's you doing you boo...
It's the one who wrote one clueless line and called it a review.
That stairwell scene. When Yoonoh got honest and his voice went high-pitched with nerves and fear, wow. This is some rare work, guys. Bravo!
Naturally, this is getting zero attention on MDL.
Unless this gets screwed up somehow in the final five episodes, SBMSATR is for sure going on my best BLs list.
People are ragging on Mashiro's psycho mother showing up in Tokyo as being a negative development. Still, taking the longer view, her arrival is exactly what he needs to push him to the point where he HAS to break free or remain under her twisted thumb until she croaks. He could take her out early, of course, but that would risk prison and potentially upset Kanade.
BL plots have taught me to hope for the best and expect the worst, but at the end of ep 7, Mashiro appears to be doing exactly what he needs to do to begin escaping her soul-crushing effect on his life. He can't change what went before, but he can change what happens from here forward. When he slowly put his fist to his chest to do his defensive/power-gathering little ritual, and slowly spoke his truth, I felt immensely proud of him.
An aspect of the way this mother character is written that I like a lot is that she clearly KNOWS what she is doing and how it hurts and stifles his nature. The look of barely-contained rage and indignation on her face as he slowly spoke his truth at her was both scary and delicious to see. Also, it was heartbreaking to see how, even as he took this huge step to assert himself, he still was not able to look her in the eye. Such is the extent of the damage she has done him.
He can't look her in the eye YET, that is. Mashiro, FIGHTING!
These two are def going to end up one of my all-time fave BL couples. Love them both, but I've a special place in my heart for Mashiro. His combination of bravado, vulnerability, goofiness, sexiness, and handsome/goofy looks is endearing af.
A great deal of the worst trauma people ever experience involves family members. This is nothing new either.
I can't be sure from his bio pic, but they appear to have plucked the hell out of his eyebrows for this role, perhaps to emphasize the wonderful things he does with his eyes and face as Mashiro. However, the brows are so clearly plucked that I find it distracting. I keep thinking, "why would Mashiro pluck his eyebrows? He doesn't seem like the type." Thoughts?
Also, I'm looking forward to hunting down any videos of him with his Jpop dance troupe on YT. Any one have links?
The actors are great casting.
Sungri was never charged, tried, or convicted for any form of sexual assault/rape, despite the Knetz liars endlessly claiming otherwise. Nor did he share any of the sexual assault videos on the chat group. Most Burning Sun hysterics are allergic to facts, because facts make the story so much more boring than it is.
The actual "main perp," whose name I don't recall, did or is doing four or five years in jail plus all I listed above related to Seungri. What do you want, execution?
I often wonder, if prostitution is illegal, why aren't the prostitutes charged and tried?