anon · 4mo
Thank u for the response! Obvi like u said it’s fine if we disagree or I just don’t like the show but someday I’ll def rewatch the show w your response in mind….maybe I’ll like the show better and maybe I won’t! I really appreciate u giving me all your thoughts either way,,, like (again) it’s obvi fine if I just don’t like a show but I would Love to know sometimes why other ppl do? Which is why I reached out to you
I never really noticed that P’Golf enjoys telling stories that way? (Never finished the eclipse or watched oh my sunshine night), but I am watching the rebound rn and now that u say that, the kind of non-explicit story telling is present in that too? And I’m currently really enjoying the story telling in the rebound rn so….yeah sometimes a story just works for a person and sometimes it doesn’t.
My main thing with WDG isn’t that I don’t like how Dee handles things, like I got superrrrrr frustrated with Kluen from SIMM but I was (relatively) okay with the story telling in that show because I felt like I could see what was going on there? Like observing his behavior and seeing what was happening kinda thing, whereas w Dee I was clearly struggling with that…like personally I don’t like to try to judge stories on relatability or how much I like what a character does, so I got frustrated at feeling like Dee was a huge blind spot for me 🫠 like I wasn’t seeing what u were seeing which like. I don’t have to, I want to stress that I know we don’t have to agree but sometimes I would like to know what other people are seeing?
I totally understand anon, don’t worry haha. There are other reasons I really liked the show, namely that they are adults with careers that are important to them and that they have ambitions for, and they are fully capable of achieving them alone but are able to do it better with each other’s support which was so nice.
There’s a joke about how most tops in bls have no personality or desires other than “want hole” which was something this show really didn’t do also! It felt novel to me to have a show that genuinely gave equal weight to the characters in the main pairing haha.
I’ve only watched a couple of episodes of The Rebound so far but that doesn’t surprise me re: how it’s being told. Golf works mostly with the same writers and other production crew so that would track. It’s funny though that you mention SIMM Kluen—I love SIMM more than is reasonable tbh! But Kluen is in a lot of ways a character archetype we’re kind of familiar with, namely the stoic BL top who isn’t great with expressing emotion. Dee is an interesting character bc he’s both very friendly and personable while also being very reserved when it comes to his deeper feelings and I feel like that’s less common, especially in the character who is for all intents and purposes the “main” character. I was saying earlier that I think more scenes with Kao especially in the second half might have been good, but I’m wondering if they might have had scheduling issues or something since Drake isn’t with GMMTV anymore.
And in all fairness I tend to like characters like Dee anyway haha. I love a person who simultaneously acts very affectionately but then tries to deny it or does something silly to undercut it. Me like PUT HIM IN A SITUATION!!!! MAKE HIM DEAL WITH SOMEONE LOVING HIM!!!
