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As I feared, the incredibly stupid plot twist the writers came up with - having Fu Li Gong secretly love Shou for *20* years, then finally confess to him and at long last begin a true, loving gay relationship with him, only to, for no discernible reason (and it still isn't discernible, even after this joke of an episode 11) throw him away like a piece of chewing gum stuck to his shoe sole...well. What were they thinking? Or, more likely, the writers weren't thinking at all."I discovered I don't love you." That's not just a lie, it's a stupid lie. Are we expected to believe that after 20 years of loving Shou in secret, after doing everything in his power to bring about the relationship he's wanted his entire life, after a few days of sleeping with him he discovers that he not only doesn't love him, he never loved him?The "reason" we are offered in Ep 11 is so garbled and nonsensical I barely want to discuss it, but really...WTF?He's doing it to make Shou happy, when Shou has evinced no evidence of unhappiness whatsoever?Sorry to say, I very much doubt if Ep 12 is going to be able to do anything to paper over this gibberish, but this is like watching a train wreck in progress. I can't take my eyes off it, even though I know it's a wreck.
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How else to explain what must be the most inexplicable plot twist I've ever seen in a BL?No lead in, no foreshadowing, no nothing except the primary MC suddenly blowing himself - and the entire series - up for what will probably turn out to be the lamest of reasons by Ep 12.
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Can we all take a moment to laugh at that musty, dusty old trope: "Oops, sorry that we fell and I landed lips-first on your lips."
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So far I'm enjoying this one. It's actually something adults can watch without feeling as if they are watching some prepubescent girl's fantasy world.And ep 7 is pretty darned good. They're doing a lot of Godfather tropes, and doing them pretty well. Just one thing, though. Why did the prop director give Porsche a paintball pistol? If you know anything about guns, it kind of jerks you out of your suspension of disbelief.
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Every time I see this particular trope, I hate it.The villain, whether male or female, is revealed to have had some trauma in childhood, which must excuse all the human and other wreckage they have left in their wake ever after. Would that still be true if those three thugs had managed to kill Luk and Ram? It certainly wasn't for lack of trying on their part that they didn't quite manage it. And Namning didn't care - either way would have been okay with her, at least as far as Luk went. Nam is a criminal, just as much as the three thugs she hired. She should go to jail. But of course this is BL world, and all the little fujoshi would be upset if she was punished as she would be in the real world.Forgiveness is not a virtue if all it does it demonstrate to a violent miscreant that she can get away with any evil she does, as long as she can claim special privilege for having had a less than ideal childhood. And even that was pretty small potatoes compared to real childhood abuse.
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Star and Sky: Star in My Mind Episode 6
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On the whole, a good episode, but for the out-of-the-blue craziness of Phoon asking for a one day "trial boyfriend" scenario, and even more ridiculous, Dao agreeing to do it. Which, of course, led to the punch scene and Dao suddenly claiming to hate the guy he's loved for years because he punched the guy he doesn't love at all, even though Kluen did so for a perfectly good reason - Phoon sexually assaulted Dao.
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Cherry Blossoms After Winter Episode 1
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I didn't finish this episode. I just couldn't get past the gaping plot premise, that two 17 year old boys who have been living in the same house together for 10 years could possibly be this distant and disassociated from each other. And then just suddenly discover a romantic attachment with each other? But not during the hottest, steamiest years of puberty?
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I do get so tired of these controved misunderstandings when all the problems could be cleared up if the participants just had fifteen minutes of honest conversation. Of course if that were the case., half the BLs in existence would have no plot.
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