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This was a crazy, messed up, thrill ride and I loved every second of it. You could probably argue about a lot of specifics, but the drama wasn't really interested in that, and honestly, neither was I. The kids fought for survival, and their future, and I'm really happy that they won. I'm gonna miss this family.

All right, this is getting pointless. I was talking about dramas, a balance is needed because clearly there's an audience for everything, but they're not even trying to strike a balance. Also, people are free to ship who they want to ship (also, a straight romance tag is not a thing iirc). Let the drama speak for itself, getting upset that people might ship the two leads together (in a drama that is literally about their bond in the first place) in a drama that hasn't even aired yet is just pointless.

You made 3 replies and 90% of what you said is about stuff I never said in the first place. Anyway, friendships between men & women do very much exist, and while you could say this is more normalized in real life, the same doesn't seem to apply to dramas, as that's mostly just romance.

We do need more BL's & GL's (and, no, I'm not saying it's this), but we also need more platonic friendships (and that needs to go both ways, not just between two people of the same sex). Generally, there needs to be some kind of balance, but that balance is sadly non-existent.

I don't think it's that simple honestly. People want to see GL & BL stories from Korea, except those barely exist. So people obviously flock to stories about "deep friendships" (and not related to this drama, but it wouldn't be the first time that "deep friendship" was just a cover for something else).

Platonic relationships do exist, and we certainly need more of it, but why does this argument always pop up when it's about two people of the same sex. When it's about a guy & a girl, people will very easily ship it, romantic or not, yet this argument will barely be used. But suddenly when you have 2 guys, or two women, the "they're just friends" argument will immediately pop up the second the drama is announced. Heck, even when it's very clear that what's happening is more than friendship, some people will still keep saying "they're just friends".

This argument is frustrating, because it's also used as a cover for something else (you know what). It's always used in one scenario, but when you put a guy and a girl together, suddenly this argument becomes very quiet. Why is that? Isn't that the problem?

At first thought, a survival game feels kind of out of left field, but thinking about it, it feels perfectly on track with Se-hui. This feels exactly like something she'd do just to prove a point in the most messed up way possible.

The last episode looks like pure chaos. I'm scared. Hopefully they manage to stick the landing.

Honestly? One of my favorite dramas this year. A slice-of-life drama about lawyers that gave me all the emotions.

Could've done without the whole Hong Kong part though. It's like somebody told the writer to add it in despite him never actually having any plans for it in the first place. It just ended up feeling so out of place, almost like it was from different drama.

I never said they were gonna love each other romantically though. Yes, there will be a love triangle, and yes, they will probably both be involved with the same guy, but that doesn't mean that the friendship between the two female leads can't have a certain kind of subtext to it (just look at 25-21 for example). People are free to ship who they want to ship, and dramas often invite this themselves to begin with.

I'm trying to prove that you're using assumptions and pretending that they're fact, when neither you nor I actually know the facts. We don't know if this is just a straight romance, nor do we know if this is just a friendship. All we have is the premise, and a premise rarely says everything. You're trying so hard to prove that there won't be any GL elements here, when you literally can't know that, and yet you're already painting everybody that may want to see those elements as the bad guys. And this is the last thing I'm saying about this, because this is getting us nowhere.

When are straight romances ever not respected in kdramas? Like, for crying out loud, it's literally the only thing they do. Why are you so threatened that people might ship the two female leads, when you haven't even seen a second of their dynamic, hence you can't realistically claim to know that what they have is just friendship? Romance is a broad genre, it doesn't automatically mean "straight", just as "friendship" isn't always just friendship. Dramas love subtext after all. And why wouldn't people want BL & GL ships in a romance (it's not like there's much alternative), and who's to say the dramas aren't actually playing into that themselves?

Isn't this just an extremely flawed argument? You're trying to push for equality in a situation that is completely inequal to begin with. That just doesn't work. You can't push a straight romance in something that doesn't even exist. There's literally a bigger chance to have GL/ BL elements in a straight drama than there is of actually having a GL/ BL kdrama in general.

The show hasn't even aired yet and you're already making assumptions of what the dynamic between the two female leads will be.

Trying to run away while being surrounded sounds like an incredibly risky idea that would just get more people killed, especially when they also have to protect two people who can't fight (and we literally say how well that went during the episode when they had to protect Si-woo). And their grief would probably effect how well they fight too. If the villains aren't directly shooting at them, maybe the best play is to stay quiet and let them think that they've won. Honestly, they probably stand a better chance at escaping the fire.

If he was going to shoot him in non-fatal points, he wouldn't have shot him twice lol.

Of course the shortest episode ends up being the most heartbreaking one. This one hurt.

Raise your hand if that scene from episode 5 made you sick (you know the one).

I mean, they'd just be on the run for the rest of their lives then, also forever having to live with the trauma of their pasts because they never properly faced it. Also, because running is boring and we'd literally have no drama that way.

Just Je-na wanting to convince Hye-in to work with her, and obviously not taking "no" for an answer. Realistically, I think there are only 2 things she could've written down: either the money Hye-in owns Je-na for getting her into Diamond 6, or the money Hye-in is about to earn while working with Je-na.

I think YeRi is at her best whenever she gets to be the badass that Je-na is supposed to be, but that didn't happen all that much this season.

I thought episode 9 was pretty refreshing. It was nice to see the ML & FL take a backseat for once while the others in the ensemble took more center stage. And I liked seeing Ju-hyeong give advice to them, while Hui-ji provided support.

Didn't really like the first episode. It seems like they wanted to go a comedic route, also with the constant silly comedy music, but honestly, I don't think I laughed even once.