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bubblegeon · 1 year

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All we can do is try.

🏄🏻‍♂️ THE EIGHTH SENSE (2023)

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lunaylin · 1 year

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hyung. do you think we’ll be okay? we should at least try. are you scared? a little bit. even if it’s scary, we have to try to find out. let’s try it together, even if we’re afraid.

#changed the translation a little bit bc it felt off from what was said lmao #the eighth sense #lim ji sub #oh jun taek #kdrama #asianlgbtqdramas #lgbtsource #jaewon x jihyun #jihyun x jaewon #*gifs #*the eighth sense #LOVED this scene i ascended to another plain

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ppeonppeonhan · 5 months

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2023 BL Breakout Actors

I really hope to see more of these actors next year.

Louis Chiang | Kiseki: Dear to Me

He played a tiny lovesick tyrant who pined for his childhood bff and fellow gang member. I could've watched an entire drama just about him and his journey from impulsive orphan thug to feisty romantic. He was simply electric.

Suggested Role: There's a sports trend in BL right now, and he's so good at the physicality of acting that I'd love to see him play a competitive professional tennis player who's conflicted when he's forced to partner with his nemesis.

Lim Ji Sub | The Eighth Sense

He had to play such a heavy character -- a college student and surfer suffering from depression and survivor's guilt -- and his heartbreaking performance made you want to reach through the screen and give him a hug.

Suggested Role: South Korea does slice of life SO well that I'd really love to see him switch it up and pine for someone in a quasi comedic role. He could play a young real estate agent who starts to fall for one of his picky clients, and they learn together that the perfect home is one you make and not one you find.

Film Thanapat Kawila | Laws of Attraction

I honestly did not enjoy this drama, but I did enjoy his performance. He is so captivating as Charn -- this scenery-chewing, maniacal, traumatized, good-boy-turned-bad lawyer -- that his romantic love interest could not manage to keep up.

Suggested Role: I dunno. I feel like I'd happily watch him play this role again, and take down another corrupt politician.

An Jeong Gyun | Love Class 2

It's so easy to get lost in an anthology when there's three couples and when you're not traditionally attractive, but his character stole the whole damn series. He was so bold and upfront about his emotions in a mature and refreshing way that it made you ignore the beige flags of playful manipulation that comes with courtship, and root for him to win his crush's heart.

Suggested Role: He's actually older (30), and I appreciate that South Korea is exploring more love stories between older men as Thailand conquers the under 25 demo. So for him, I'd say a divorced storyline. Maybe explore the story of how two ex-husbands rebuild their lives apart and rediscover their friendship while they fall for other people.

"Silvy" Pavida | The Warp Effect

Speaking of bloated casts, this series had like a million people in it playing characters of a variety of genders and sexualities, because it was intended to be -- in part -- a modern sex guide that pushed against traditional constructs. But in the midst of all that was a brief performance by Silvy, who was only tasked with playing an aspiring "plus size" actress, but managed to leave a lasting impression, making you want more.

Suggested Role: She's a singer and she's half-Italian. There's gotta be something we can do with that. Maybe the story of a shy singer, who is often hired to record tracks for rising tone-deaf artists, and is encouraged by one to make her debut as her opening act and help her write a romantic duet in Italian for her international audience.

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Now...most of us agree that Step by Step was...not great. But it did have a lot of Thai actors that I hope to see again soon -- in an entirely different storyline far away from whatever the hell that was.

"Saint" Paramee Matthanadul | Step by Step

Was his character a whiny little shit? Yes. Is he so gorgeous you almost forgot how hot his big brother was? Also, yes. The fandom was pissed his romantic subplot did not get a resolution, because there was so much he could've done with this character if given the opportunity.

Suggested Role: I think he has baby girl potential, so I really want to see him either play a spoiled mafia kid who falls for his mentor OR a rich kid pretending to be a working class waiter at the restaurant he owns, marinated in gay panic every time the head chef scolds him.

Zorzo Nathanan Akkharakitwattanakul | Step by Step

I have yet to watch a proper GL series, but if she was starring in it, I'd clear my TV schedule. There's something so femme fatale about her and her features. She had no business stealing scenes from the nearly full cast of dudes, but she did. Every time.

Suggested Role: I really want to see her in a mystery produced by whoever is doing The Sign right now. Maybe she could play an undercover cop trying to solve a missing person's case in a small town, and her love interest is married to her prime suspect.

"Ben" Bunyapol Likhitamnuayporn | Step by Step

Last, but not least, is the adorable Ben. Who, in spite of wasting our time with the most anticlimactic drama ending, played a character that was an inspiration to every office employee who has been dying to tell their ungrateful and abusive boss to step back and let a bitch cook. He played him with such naiveté and earnestness that it made you want more for his character than a lustful boss who struggled not to abuse his power.

Suggested Role: It's so easy for him to get sucked into passive roles opposite the zaddys of BL, so I'd like to see how he fairs against an equal. Maybe another workplace ensemble comedy where he plays a reporter posing as an intern at a new social media company run by an unhinged mogul spreading fake news, and falls for another intern who helps him take the company down.

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7698 · 11 months

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blmpff · 1 month

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LIM JI SUB igs (2s) 02.04.24

#lim ji sub #lim jisub #korean actors #the eighth sense #cast #video #blmpff

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blunaggregator · 1 month

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BLA Awards 2023

Rising BL Star of the Year Nominees

Cha Seo Won (Unintentional Love Story)

Gongchan (Unintentional Love Story)

Ki Hyun Woo (Jun and Jun)

Kim Jae Han (A Shoulder to Cry On)

Lee Seung Gyu (Our Dating Sim)

Lim Ji Sub (The Eighth Sense)

Nonkul Chanon Santinatornkul (I Feel You Linger in the Air)

Oh Jun Taek (The Eighth Sense)

Son Hyun Woo (Sing My Crush)

Xu Bin (Stay With Me)

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essentiallykpopandbl · 1 year

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The Eighth Sense was special, and it was something that I really needed in my life right now. These two characters showed us it is ok to be scared. Even if you are broken, it is ok to fight for what you want. It is ok to be in love, in whatever form that comes in. That life hurts, and is unfair, and might not seem like it is worth it anymore. But there will always be people there for you and there is always a brighter side. Jihyun and Jae Won might be two of the strongest characters. And I think that is important to show how strong they are with everything they have gone through. Thank you to Oh Jun Taek and Lim Ji Sub for the grace in which you played these characters. This is one of those shows I wish I had when I was younger and was just really lost. Back in the days of me searching the internet for any queer media I could find.... yeah, this would have changed my life.

#the eighth sense #jae won and ji hyun #oh jun taek #lim ji sub #this would have affected me greatly #i feel the same about this that i did about dna says love you #just floored me #korean bl

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dekaydk · 1 year

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perfect moment and these men have beautiful hands

#the eighth sense #lim ji sub #oh jun taek

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theultimategoodgirl · 1 year

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The Eighth Sense x Sanober Khan

#currently surfing through emotions and drowing in feelings #i finally get the hype #the eighth sense #ji hyun x jae won #im jisub #oh juntaek #lim ji sub #text post #kdrama #korean bl #jae won x ji hyun #sanober khan #holding hands #asian bl drama #bl series #trauma #depression

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awidevastdominion · 1 year

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i hope you’re watching The Eighth Sense

#Lim Ji Sub #Oh Jun Taek #The Eighth Sense #Lim Ji-sub #Jun-Taek Oh

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lunaylin · 11 months

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i’m sorry. i won’t make you sad again.

#yes another jihyunjaewon good enough gfx set #there will be more #the eighth sense #lim ji sub #oh jun taek #kdrama #asianlgbtqdramas #boyslovesource #mlmsource #lgbtsource #jaewon x jihyun #jihyun x jaewon #*gifs #*the eighth sense

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7698 · 11 months

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theaccidentaldramaqween · 2 years

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[Drama of the Week] Doctor Lawyer

So Ji Sub is back after his last project, My Secret Terrius in 2018. He also got married and has been living under the radar. Even before this, he seems to be an elusive superstar, he doesn’t use social media and he doesn’t put his life in the limelight at all. This only makes him more endearing to the fans. I have been a long time So Ji Sub fan since watching the Phantom in 2012 where he acted…

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#drama of the week #drama review #k drama #k drama review #korean drama #lim soo hyang #shin sung-rok #sjs #so ji sub #soganji

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taikanyohou · 1 year

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THE EIGHTH SENSE (2023). Episode 6. LIM JI SUB as SEO JAE WON.

#the eighth sense #asianlgbtqdramas #asiandramasource #kdramadaily #kdramasource #boyslovesource #*#faiza gifs #BC HE DESERVES BIG GIFS BC THIS MOMENT DESERVES BIG GIFS WHAT A MAN WHAT A MAN WHAT A MAN MY BABY GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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bl-bam-beyond · 1 year

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THE EIGHTH SENSE (2023, SOUTH KOREA)

Episode 9

Jae Won (LIM JI SUB) has accepted his feelings for Ji Hyun (OH JUN TAEK)and he showed him I'm grand fashion.

Best kiss in a KBL (yes, even OUR DATING SIM) but they are a close second...very close. Hell they're both NUMBER 1

What do you think @pose4photoml? And @lutawolf?

#POST: BOYS' LOVE #THE EIGHTH SENSE #My GIFS #THE KISS OF REUNITING #HIS EX GIRLFRIEND IS NOT ONLY A BITCH BUT A CHEATER #MYGIFSET #MyGIFedit #THAT'S A GOOD KISS #TIED WITH OUR DATING SIM...YET THIS ONE IS LONGER

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dekaydk · 1 year

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The Eighth Sense

Episodes 9 and 10

SPOILERS AHEAD

If you haven't seen the whole thing: what are you doing here go watch it and come back later I beg of you.

STORY AND CHARACTER

First of all, I was relieved that Ep 9 didn't start out with Ji Hyun in despair. (Or, as so many other BLs do, spending time on the character Having The Bigtime Sads Because His True Love Maybe Isn't Who He Thought, Even Though He Really Ought to Know Otherwise If He Had Even Three Brain Cells to His Name.) Ji Hyun believes that the truth is that Jae Won does care, does want him, and is beginning to understand just how much Jae Won's rejection isn't about him. Ae Ri first ridicules him for buying into Eun Ji's line, because obviously anything that Eun Ji says is going to be self-serving if not an outright lie. Then Ae Ri gets him to examine the problem, and, because Ji Hyun is bright and not suffering from trope-driven stupidity, the light goes on pretty quickly.

Ji Hyun having awakened to the realization that he wasn't seeing the whole problem (thanks to Ae Ri) and then THINKING about what to do and how to do it in such a way as to say "I see you, I want you to have what you want in life, and I want to send this message in such a way as to make it entirely about you and your needs while underscoring the fact that I fucking care about you." That simple gift of a basic camera did exactly that, and then he walked away! Others might have gone on to "now that I've shown you how nice I am, you owe me, so start talking." He left because he knows that the right thing to do is to make the gesture and, because the other person needs the space, let the other person be able to reflect and not add pressure. There's no way Jae Won can interpret this as anything other than "no pressure; take your time." Take note, people: this is how relationships are built and SUSTAINED.

The therapist calling Jae Won on his selfishness was, I would argue, necessary. While it's true that generally speaking therapists are trying to get you to come to your own realizations, sometimes the bullshit needs a knife, not a spatula. Then you have Ji Hyun's boss who took a spoon to Jae Won's head bullshit, blowing open the realization door that the therapist unlatched. (The reader is invited to improve this overdone metaphor.)

After Ji Hyun leaves the surf club room, the cut to suddenly seeing Yoon Won break down made me wonder if this was later and she was alone, but then Jae Won snaps into being present, of showing who he is and caring for his friend. This is clearly a moment where being sunk in depression and denial will not do and he rises to the occasion. This felt like one of the elements of breaking his walls down, along with the therapist and Ji Hyun's boss.

Ji Hyun sending the Conor Gray song was spot on both emotionally for the viewer and for Jae Won's crumbling walls. "Do you want to be these characters?" Also another perfect soundrack moment.

Watching Jae Won flip to happy made me wonder how much of it was deciding to discard the mask, to accept Ji Hyun's love, and whether he wasn't on the meds (whatever they were). I don't suppose it matters, but to the people saying it was too sudden, you have never been in that particular situation of depression/heavy medication/self-denial and had a breakthrough. Of course he is going to be happy and even a little giddy. For all we know, happy and giddy was his normal state before his brother's death.

Eun Ji did not once show any concern for Jae Won. It was all about what she wanted both in the moment (let's eat, let's go to a hotel for the night) and more tactically (let's fuck with Ji Hyun's head) in the larger context of Jae Won just being to her a trophy boyfriend and eventually a rich husband, not a real human. With a single exception she was selfish, mean, and manipulative.

Tae Hyung has his own selfishness problem. He envies Jae Won for lots of things: his looks, his money, the ease in which he moves in social situations, without apparently realizing he could be more successful socially if he tried operating from a position of being nice instead of aggressive, and that the money apparently comes at an appalling price in controlling/abusive behavior from (at least) Jae Won's father. I got more than a little sense that Tae Hyung's resentful behavior stems from a wish to be closer to Jae Won both emotionally and physically (yes I went there but him wanting Jae Won physically is not required to make this point stand), and Tae Hyung's inability to love himself and be good to others is exactly the most alienating thing about him.

Jae Won apologized for his single real offense against Tae Hyung (and sorta with Eun Ji) and in so doing let go of the hurt, let go of any resentment, and moved on. I've seen people call this simping: bullshit. It's fucking HEALTHY. He has removed their power, he has made it so he can be around them without their presence causing stress. He won't let them treat him badly again because if the depression isn't in control and he no longer needs the mask, it means they have no leverage. (And we know that Ji Hyun won't let that happen either!) Also, let's face it: there was a touch of shade in his approach to them. (Deservedly.)

Having gone through all this, Eun Ji and Tae Hyung might each become a better person over time but it's gonna be a serious uphill battle for both of them.

CINEMATOGRAPHY AND STAGING

Others will no doubt talk about this in much more detail and more knowledgeably (@respectthepetty and @wen-kexing-apologist especially) so I'm just going to hit on a few points.

In general the cinematography inn these episodes became more conventional because it no longer had to convey the difficulties Jae Won was in. Pretty obvious.

The camera giving scene had both actors made up (? maybe it's camera/editing) to look a little pale/wan.

Something I loved: as Jae Won approached Ji Hyun's dorm, the golden light on Jae Won was wonderful (and made Ji Sub even more gorgeous) and then to see Ji Hyun lit the same way…damn these men are so very nice to look at.

The cycling through the colors as they embraced was presumably intended to be evocative of the colors before, or even just a suggestion of color re-entering Jae Won's life, but I would have equally loved to see it shot just in that golden light still.

The other was of course the scene in Ji Hyun's bed where they're just cuddling. Delightful.

Extra touches

Did anyone notice the little "neon" rainbow on Ji Hyun's nightstand? It was just showing a tiny bit this time; this is how I figured out early in the series that he wasn't going to go through a "am I or am I not" phase. (Go back to early episodes and it's always been there.)

MUSIC

Once again the music DELIVERED. The Conan Grey song, of course, but the instrumentals are great (and I cannot identify some of them, especially the piano/cello piece used as the end credits a few times, driving me crazy; it could be that these were composed for the film so aren't in any Soundhound et. al. databases). Were it not for the licensing costs, an official soundtrack would probably make decent money.

#the eighth sense #korean series #inu baek #werner du plessis #oh jun-taek #oh juntaek #lim ji-sub #im jisub #decided to spell actor names as they're shown in the credits but the tags keep popping up in other spellings #the eighth sense ost

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