Bad start but good ending
The second instalment of En of Love franchise. My main complaint for this one is that it was too short to really give the story a chance to fully develop and for us to really understand the characters.Vee & Mark: Their start was messy. I am not a fan of the whole one night stand idea where one of the individuals is too drunk to function. That doesn’t sit well with me in general. Vee two-timing Ploy and Mark while not really being able to make up his mind wasn’t really showing him in a good light either. I can understand his struggle, especially seeing that he has been with Ploy for a while, but cheating is never the answer. I do think that Yin and War had amazing chemistry, and they really showed that with their characters.
I did think this one was much better than the first series. Maybe I was simply too creeped out by Gun to fully enjoy it. Either way, I really like how the plot continues from where TOSSARA ended.
P.s. I think a lot of my original issues have been dealt with in the longer version of the series
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Could Barely Get Through This One
Holy crap this series was slowwww and its only 4 episodes which is really bad. First of all the 2 main actors I didn't buy at all. There was zero chemistry between them, unless I missed something? The story was boring as hell, nothing is really happening besides cheating, drunk cheating and passive aggressive conversations. This mini series needed something, ANYTHING to spice it up and it just never got there. I know its only 4 episodes but I would say watch any other series besides this one. It's rare that I ever get so uninterested in a drama to the point where I pretty much drop it completely. The only positive thing I can say about it is I appreciate that we didn't have to sit through another "but I'm not gay!" plot point.Esta resenha foi útil para você?
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el cast le hace un gran favor al libro
Es mi primera reseña y, de hecho, solamente me he registrado para darla jajajaja
Me topé con This Is Love Story y en los comentarios leí que esto era una saga y que tenías que verla al menos si querías entender las parejas. Empecé por TOSSARA pero no fui capaz de acabarla por mis propios motivos (que incluyen un poco de cringe y que el cast principal no me gusta pero eso es para otra reseña), así que me pasé automáticamente a Love Mechanics.
Antes de verla decidí leerme un poco libro y la verdad es que la relación me parecía muy tóxica, incluída con escenas muy tw que la verdad una no espera leer. No esperaba mucho de la serie por eso y porque en cuatro capítulos resumir TODA la historia me parece muy difícil. La vi sin expectativas y la verdad es que me deslumbró. Es una de mis series favoritas bl tailandesas de todas las que he visto, incluso me atrevería a ponerla por encima 2gether (pero son gustos, i guess!). Si me ha enamorado tanto esta historia creo que es principalmente por la química que hay entre los personajes y por la habilidad del actor de Mark para hacerte sentir muchísimo solo con una mirada. Este actor es buenísimo, de los mejores que he visto. Su actuación es muy ligera y natural, me encanta su personalidad además. El actor que hace de Vee también lo borda, sobre todo en la escena en la que se le llenan los ojos de lágrimas gradualmente mientras lee el teléfono (esa escena para mí es la mejor de él en toda la serie). Creo que sin el cast esta historia no habría quedado tan bien. De hecho, este cast le hace un gran favor al libro del que proviene la historia, porque sin esta serie y la interpretación de los personajes, el libro se hubiese quedado simplemente como un libro con una historia tóxica que te hace odiar a uno de ellos (Vee) y desear que nunca acaben juntos.
Le doy esta valoración a pesar de mi fascinación porque me he quedado con ganas de más - que se me han resuelto cuando me he enterado que vamos a tener full serie (yay). La verdad es que para mí esta historia es una unión de cosas que unas sin otras no hubiesen funcionado. Los escenarios, los fondos, el soundtrack y los diálogos me parecen todos buenísimos. De verdad espero ver la serie entera y que sepan sacarle buen partido a un libro tan tóxico, espero que haya escenas que no se incluyan por lo obvio y que por fin podamos entender mejor la línea del tiempo.
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Cerita En of Love yang paling Bagus
Nah ini ni cerita En of Love yang paling terkenal. Menurutku juga Love Mechanic yang paling bagus. Kalau ini ceritanya sama-sama anak teknik, tapi beda tingkat. Nontonnya bikin emosi si emang, tapi lebih mending dibanding bikin ngantuk. Ini cerita bikin emosi soalnya karakternya ada yang selingkuh, ingatnya aja ini aku pengen ngutuk Vee rasanya.Love Mechanic ini terjadi setelah TOSSARA. Mark yang suka sama Bar sakit hati liat Bar pacaran sama Gun. Mark dalam keadaan sakit hati malah jadi tidur bareng sama seniornya, Vee. Tapi ni Vee sudah punya pacar, hubungan Mark dan Vee yang awalnya junior-senior jadi rumit. Bener ni ya tapi karakter Vee tu brengsek banget. Dia gak bisa milih mau pacarnya atau sama Mark. Bener dah bakal sebel banget sama dia. Ep 1 dan 2 tu pasti sumpah serapah semua tertuju pada Vee. Ep 3 mulai kasihan sama Vee, Ep 4 cuma setengah ini gimanaa, pengen nyumpahin yang buat cerita rasanya. Iya bener Ep 4 tu cuma setengah ceritanya cuma sampe part 2 setelah itu interview tokoh En of Love.
Tapi gak papa, katanya tahun 2021 series lengkap khusus love mechanic bakal dibuat. Sepertinya karena love mechanic ini banyak yang minati jadi dibuat series khususnya. Beneran dah ni tapi kalau ini cerita en of love yang paling bagus, akting sama kemistri pemainnya kerasa banget. Yang main jadi Mark tu pinter banget dah, apalagi ekspresi sakit hatinya itu tu, hmm sungguh menyayat-yayat.
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Too disjointed and a big disappointment
I don't know what to say about this. It's four episodes of confusion and complete idiocy. I hear there is another series that goes further with this and maybe I will be able to dredge up enough emotion to care. Without spoilers I can tell you it was too short to really see any character development and too disjointed to make sense. The OST was decent, but nothing extraordinary. I haven't seen the actors in anything else, but honestly they were the only parts of this story that was worthwhile. I don't know how they were able to portray emotion so well despite the lack of actual love story. The actors for Mark and Vee were so good despite a disappointing story. Overall, not really worth the time it took to watch it.With spoilers: STOP here if you don't want to know what happens in the story! Mark and Vee hook up after Mark apparently realizes that his unrequited love is with someone else and he gets drunk. Vee holds out for about 3 seconds against Mark's drunk kissing and then gives in and takes advantage. Next morning you realize that Vee's got a long time girlfriend (Ploy) that he is supposedly in love with and she lives next door to Mark. Oh yes, he's a great boyfriend. Not really a big deal if he cheats though, since she is doing the same. Then begins a series of disjointed scenes in which we are made to understand that Ploy and Vee may or may not have broken up while Vee and Mark may or may not have begun a relationship. As a true selfish cheater, Vee goes right back to Ploy and breaks Mark's heart. Mark may or may not have moved on with someone else while Vee cried his heart out as all cheaters should. Then wonder of confusing wonders, they appear to get back together after Vee makes some vague excuses and promises he will love Mark only. Cue the happy ending. Except I don't really feel like Vee cares about Mark more than he cares about himself. Mark seems like a doormat who lets his boyfriend walk all over him and then pouts when his boyfriend continues to cheat but forgives because he has no self esteem. It's believable in that aspect, I've seen that often enough in real life, but I don't love those relationships, I hate them. So I can't support the couple and they are the entirety of the series. BIG disappointment. If there was more story or scenes of Mark and Vee or some kind of character development where we could believe that Vee changed, it might be worthwhile. But if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
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WATCH THIS. DON'T WATCH THE OTHER ONE.
This is okay. It's even cute. There's consent, if something is wrong they do the right thing and solve it, they communicate. It's SUPER healthy if you compare to the new 2022 series. It's short but it's way more worth it since the actors and characters are great and lovely. I mean of course there were things and behaviors that I didn't like but after seeing that they changed the whole story and personality of the characters to make a terrible drama with a toxic relationship with physical agression and assault I'm a big supporter of this past show. Of course this series has less rating than the new one. I guess it's a thing now... seems like the fans are loving to watch and romanticize sexual abuse and violence between couples. Please go to therapy this isn't cool.Esta resenha foi útil para você?
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Two Fucked Up Men End Up Together
Storyline:Vee cheats on Ploy ( his GF ) with Mark
Mark says that he's in love with Bar but quickly loses interest after sleeping with Vee.
Vee's GF cheats on him (not related to Vee's cheating) and they take a break.
Vee and Mark are "together" but Mark wants Vee to end things with his "ex?" so they can be official
Vee decides to remain friends with his ex-GF which irritates Mark.
At a party, Mark sees Vee kissing his ex-GF.
Vee is seen feeling miserable, as Mark quickly finds himself another man, Pack.
Vee and Mark talk, Vee tells Mark that he still loves him.
Mark eventually accepts Vee and his toxicity.
Final Verdict: JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL, AND LAWD HAVE MERCY ON THEM
Vee: a manipulative narcissistic character who doesn't take accountability for his actions.
Mark: a broken hopeless romantic who finds good in toxicity.
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Kisses....
This is the story of the guy who had a girlfriend but kissed a boy and he liked it... More precisely he kissed a very drunk boy, who was so drunk he thought he was kissing someone else... But that does not really matter as he quickly got over the first unattainable guy to fall for the guy with the girlfriend.And well that is how the story goes people kiss people they should not be kissing, they get caught in one way or another, regret kissing whom ever they should not have been kissing... people break, up people get back together and some vlogger reports more or less factual details about them...
The guy with the girlfriend is very possessive and self admittedly jealous, not of his girlfriend but of the guy he kissed. The guy who got kissed is sweet as a button.
There is not much substance or plot to this show and honestly it feels very oddly cut, and it feels like some parts went missing, However it was entertaining enough for me to be curious about "Love Mechanics"
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#veehateclub
this series is pretty entertaining, and the cast is amazing (yin and war absolutely killed it!! wonderful work.), but it has a lot of problems. honestly, the biggest problem is just vee as a character. before i say anything about him, hats off to our lovely yin for playing vee so well and making me hate him so much! — in vee's very first run in with mark, mark is very drunk and under the impression that vee is bar, basically meaning he took advantage of mark. and while doing that, he was also cheating on his girlfriend. infact, for just about the entirety of this series he was cheating on his girlfriend, and then he wants to be sad when ploy cheats & be possessive of mark? really?.. yiwaa was right when she said mark is too good for vee. speaking of mark.. that poor boy. he got his heart broken by bar in tossara, and then he got caught up in this mess with vee, just to get his heart broken again. i feel so bad for him. — i'm glad that mark left vee for a while to give vee time to reflect on and better himself. i liked the ending, even if i do still resent vee a little bit... it was pretty cute.Esta resenha foi útil para você?
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STRAIGHTFORWARD BUT ENJOYABLE
Not much to say about this one. This is a fairly standard story, although it does have some slight differences. I liked the boys sleeping together on the first night and then having to navigate from there. But the familiar, I've got a girlfriend, I'm gonna cheat on my girlfriend, yet be pissed when she cheats on me, then turn into a needy, possessive "husband" is a bit too cliche for me. Still, I enjoyed the journey of these two characters. You can see that they had to shorten a whole season into 4 episodes, so you only get the highlights of this relationship and I think that's a good thing. If I had to watch 13 episodes of him getting back with Ploy, breaking up, sleeping with Mark, getting back with Ploy... it would have been too frustrating. So this was just the right amount of cliche for 4 eps! Haha.I liked the two main characters and actors. There was an ease and naturalness to their portrayals. Mark had such expressive eyes. All those sidelong glances and I could tell just what he was thinking. If I had to say any actor played the gay vibe the best, it would be him. He reminded me of so many guys I know. But he spends so much time pouting. I wish they could have brought more levels to his character. All the supporting roles do a fine job as well.
I did enjoy that this was a real relationship. There was actual sex - at least talked about. I liked how all the friends knew what was going on and teased each other about it. It felt very contemporary in that regard.
All in all, a decent journey, expecially since it doesn't require much time or investment. It's a sweet story that should leave you satisfied.
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•good cast. main couple definitely had a good chemistry and they way they portrayed their characters seemed very accurate. this was Yin's 1st ever acting job and he did a good job just like War, who had some more experience beforehand; they both did their characters justice.
•characters design was good. i liked how Yin's character was tormented for his actions and didn't get a free pass immediately. War's character was cold and sarcastic which was something new to me; since we never really see main characters being bratty like that.
•set design - 10/10 amazing, especially the scenes in the club with strong red and purple lighting; so good.
•the PLOT... (insert: honey, you've got a bug storm comin' video). first of all, episode one started very badly. even though the details were not shown, we could see how one of the characters took advantage of his drunk friend. why is this sill a reoccurring issue in BL series? we will never know... but let's go back to the main topic. the plot was shortened as much as it was possible, only getting 3 AND A HALF EPISODE! this is another big issue. as i said before, this series got an unfair treatment. everything was so rushed and the plot was unrolling very fast to then slow down completely in some unneccessary parts... weird?
Overall, it's not great but it's not terrible. Definitely a wasted opportunity of a full length series; Studio Wabi Sabi messed it up. Hopefully they will learn on their mistakes and don't EVER experiment with their series like they did with En Of Love; just release a normal, full 13ep series, not 3 half-assed parts next time... :/ thank you!
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