anon · 4mo
Yeah everyone you said about Dee is why I wanted to like him 🥺 but we won’t rehash that again
It’s SUPER funny u mention the “top not having a personality/desires outside of hole” thing because I always joke that I’m such a tops right defender??? we need more tops with emotional vulnerability and desires out of hole representation ❤️
And it’s also something I def noted when watching the show and (despite my overall meh feelings) it’s something I still appreciate about it! I really love Yak so dearly because of that, I think. I love how vulnerable he’s allowed to get and how he’s allowed to have problems outside of struggling to get hole…
Altho I also like SIMM a lot too even tho it made me sooooo frustrated the first time around 😭 (I’ve rewatched it so many times for some reason? Maybe half of it is the JD brainrot…?) because even tho Kluen is very much a cliche archetype we tend to see a lot of in BL, I think it’s kinda funny that in SIMM’s case they took that to its logical extreme by making it part of the main conflict lmao
I also didn’t know Drake isn’t with GMMTV anymore?? Huh. I kinda assumed we didn’t get a lot of scenes with him since (afaik) Kao wasn’t that big of a character in the novel and sometimes gmmtv is a little……….odd? Sometimes when they stray so far away from the novel material, writing wise but I also think it would’ve been good if we got more scenes w him…whether it in scenes w Dee or like a little more sprinkled in scenes of Kao and his love life would’ve been nice? I never expected Kao to get like a full fledged out side plot or anything but I just think it would’ve been nice alsjeid
Having read a bit of the book I can tell you that in general it is WILDLY different lmao. The basic character set ups are more or less the same and they took inspiration from a lot of stuff in it but the number of differences are too many to even begin to get into. It was wild to see how much it was truly an ~inspired by~ situation.
But yes I love Yak😭 I’ve been a fan of Great in the other things I’ve seen him in, so it was really fun to see him do something a little different!!
SIMM……you’re right about it taking an archetype and actually working it into the story, it’s a cool thing to do. Idk I’m just weirdly into the dynamic in that show which I don’t think is entirely JoongDunk since I can’t get myself to feel the same way about Hidden Agenda fhdjkdfkgj.
