Its his role is just meh... he was fantastic in The Double. Its 8.1 rating and probably thats about where this…
ive seen the double, it was indeed his best. his best.
i sincerely think he is one of the least vibrant and compelling popular active male leads. so even tho he can sometimes approach the realm of a good performance, its still not up to par with many active leading men who bring more to the table than good looks and “good enough” acting.
I think it’s a conscious character choice? Since for me he was oozing oomf in The Double and AASOL
i actually dont think he is bad, per se, i just think for how good looking he is he is surprisingly dull and disappointing. when he shone the most was indeed in the double
but compared to others currently active actors… thats where the comparison becomes unflattering
ive seen the male lead in much by now and while he is clearly good looking, he has no spark, no oomf. he is dull. he is only “good enough” as an actor to boot. even bai lu cant carry the chemistry here.
the chemistry is good, the actings are good too. but i wish happiness for zefang and ri qing... i cried with themmm
the actor chemistry is good yea, thats why i really wanted to get over the premise. but its too yucky for me. they have to infantalize a 60yo to make this remotely kinda be tolerable, and to make him an unrealistically innocent and naive person to boot. all so we swallow the idea, but i couldnt. the least innocent person in that friend group is the 60yo in his grandson’s body and no amount of promiscuity shown by the young ones will convince me otherwise.
this entire series is overhyped. not by the rating here but by online discourse
it set itself up for an uphill battle.
if minato wasn’t so reluctant it would be a hard premise to digest
because minato is so reluctant even after choosing to be with shin it gets increasingly annoying. yet if he showed eagerness i think id be a bit like those men who wait until female celebs turn 18.
this premise is hard to do well. feelings cant be helped but choices can. i wish shin went to tokyo for university and we had a timeskip to after his graduation. that would’ve made it significantly better in many ways.
its hard to root for this, because 18 & 28 year olds arent realistically as they are portrayed here, in fact i find these characters to absolutely not be representative of their ages, or the dynamic between those ages.
am i supposed to take this as an exeptioal case? only shin and minato could make this kinda work, because they deviate from the norm for their ages? but the show isnt adressing that. if anything its trying to make you sympathetic to such relationships but make no mistake, such relationships should not happen as a rule. if minato were truly an adult, he wouldve been been more absolute in the original rejection. but the show is constantly putting them on the same level. i feel this show wants the fantasy that there truly are 18yo who know exactly what they want and have little hesitation in shooting straight for it. the irony of being so young is that you do shoot straight for what you want but it almost always gets revealed to be the folly of that age.
also i read some comments about minato’s immaturity but i dont read it as immaturity, i read it as a severe case of denial because he genuinely doesnt want his feelings go there… and honestly thats the only thing making this watchable for me.
ahhh…. couldnt he have been at least 18? god japan and its japan-isms. theres no reason to make this as uphill of an uphill battle as it is by making him a minor! wasnt the big age gap enough of a taboo?! seriously japan why do you love playing this particular game over and over and over again
haha it was fun reading your crash outs! I guess I won't start this series yet. xd
if you are a forgiving viewer, it might work for you. but you gotta be exceptionally forgiving.
glad my crashouts had some entertainment value lol. the way this started i thought would make it an all time fave, i love yinwar, they are good actors and i find that rare in thaibl. but even they cant save something so badly written.
AHHH gotta say!! im the first to complain that how they unfold the mystery is too obvious BUT the thematic work…
also, to me it seems they are saying that the two musician ladies were in a relationship. they wanted to be together forever, they saught each other’s glances even when the prince was also there. it seems a censored implied gay love to me. do you all agree?
his best.
i sincerely think he is one of the least vibrant and compelling popular active male leads. so even tho he can sometimes approach the realm of a good performance, its still not up to par with many active leading men who bring more to the table than good looks and “good enough” acting.
but compared to others currently active actors… thats where the comparison becomes unflattering
i respect your opinion
i read somewhere in a tiktok comment section that this show wasnt supposed to have any romance but fans made a fuss so they added some.
but before it came out i googled if the original text had the leads together romantically and it said yes.
can someone tell me how all of this played out, which parts are true?
if minato wasn’t so reluctant it would be a hard premise to digest
because minato is so reluctant even after choosing to be with shin it gets increasingly annoying. yet if he showed eagerness i think id be a bit like those men who wait until female celebs turn 18.
this premise is hard to do well. feelings cant be helped but choices can. i wish shin went to tokyo for university and we had a timeskip to after his graduation. that would’ve made it significantly better in many ways.
its hard to root for this, because 18 & 28 year olds arent realistically as they are portrayed here, in fact i find these characters to absolutely not be representative of their ages, or the dynamic between those ages.
am i supposed to take this as an exeptioal case? only shin and minato could make this kinda work, because they deviate from the norm for their ages? but the show isnt adressing that. if anything its trying to make you sympathetic to such relationships but make no mistake, such relationships should not happen as a rule. if minato were truly an adult, he wouldve been been more absolute in the original rejection. but the show is constantly putting them on the same level. i feel this show wants the fantasy that there truly are 18yo who know exactly what they want and have little hesitation in shooting straight for it. the irony of being so young is that you do shoot straight for what you want but it almost always gets revealed to be the folly of that age.
idk. i have mixed feelings.
glad my crashouts had some entertainment value lol. the way this started i thought would make it an all time fave, i love yinwar, they are good actors and i find that rare in thaibl. but even they cant save something so badly written.