Not Me Episode 06 Recap | Boys Love Boys Love
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- sniffs wine glass i'm getting notes of bitterant
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You have to sit through the slow burn to enjoy the romance they bring out
You guys made it through the hardest stretch -- episode 7 is the turning point!! The beginning is I think intentionally tense & disorienting, ep 6 is a wake-up call, and the next few episodes are the payoff. They def took their time (arguably too much lol) building a political/thematic scaffolding for more intimate (and more traditionally BL) moments to be built upon. It's when the macro goes micro that I think Not Me really shines 🥹
Eps 7 & 8 have some really iconic moments that I look forward to hearing your (always earnest and compelling) takes on!
You're not in the minority. I think most bl fans preferred the Unar and Yok storyline. First has chemistry with everyone! I don't think at this point the viewers are supposed to be "shipping" Sean and White but obviously, as OffGunn are a ship and that we know it's a bl, that's very hard to do. Very curious to see if your opinion of Sean and White changes as the show goes! I think they do a pretty good job of selling the why behind the romance between them.
re: Sean/White, I'll just say that their relationship is only slow burn for now, once they get together it moves VERY fast and the payoff for sticking with them all this while is just that much sweeter.
I know a lot of people liked Yok/Unar but I didn't care for their plotline at all lol
same. not me was my first bl, so i had no ship prejudices as such but white/sean was an instant sell whereas yor/unar never grew on me and plotwise their scenes were the most boring for me, except the final parts of the arc.
Super get your point via Sean/White. I think to me there's like Bridgerton sexual tension slow burn and then this is more that Sean and White are starting to slowly care about each other but don't know why yet. White saving him from the tear gas, saying "your life is more important than you think." I feel like they have to value each other first and once they figure out why it RAMPS up.
24:27 i think that moment more so aligns with the Sean and White/ Black scene when Tachit catches them. Sean could have left White/Black like Black left him in the past but chose to help him.
Oh I fully considered allergies. Like the FDA has to pull back products all the time that have mislabeled ingredients. That bitterent legit could have killed someone.
didn't think of that!
Omg I just noticed that you guys were watching this! Not Me is in my top 3 fave BLs of all times, I love it so much!
ik it’s slow rn but it starts picking up next week get hype!!!!
I really want them to recap thamepo...it's slow burn and they will love it..while watching it I can imagine their reactions😂😂
its pretty common for people to prefer yok and unar, me personally I ended up not liking yok and unar together for reasons but I did think first and gawins acting was amazing and yok is such a standout role for first. I can see where you're coming from, though I'm a slow burn girlie, and with how serious the show is I think that I found sean and whites story very fitting for that meanwhile yok and unar were a bit too... hmm romance-ey (falling in love at first sight and all) for me. I think I really like it when bl shows characters falling for each other after building trust and empathy through shared experiences, rather than starting off with attraction, maybe thats just the demisexual within me lmao. Though at the point of this episode I also had no idea where seanwhite was going and how it would even develop, so I definitely get your thoughts. Its quite interesting how quick they get you later, or got me at least
their slowburn was EVERYTHING to me
I’ll be honest, I think Off and Gun have fantastic chemistry as friends but not a single couple they have played has had chemistry to me.
no one gets sean/white like i do (please wait for the next few episodes i beg)
I could see how it doesn’t make sense yet that they would get together. It just clicked for me out of nowhere and then I was all in.
Also I don’t know when the next BL poll is but I need your reactions to See Your Love 😭 It’s the perfect mix of ridiculousness and heartwarming fluff. You would have a great time.
Personally I preferred yok and unar romance. I don't know how much of it was because of yok's attractiveness. And unar and yok's storyline despite short screen time was very eventful.They are still one of those couple people still have strong reaction to.
Seanwhite was a good slowburn though and they later turn into a really healthy relationship and i think you would enjoy it
I still don't see where this show is going.
Masterminds ....journaling their crimes? 😂😂😂
I do love Seanwhite but they do start slowly
Francois Truffaut famously argued you cannot make an anti-war film, and I sometimes wonder about that saying with these types of shows. Both corruption and violence in the name of anti-corruption are difficult to portray so negatively when there is also an element of glamor involved. I think Dead Friend Forever is even worse in this regard on both the treatment of ethical issues and a kind of glorification of bullying in the guise of anti-bullying. I am not sure there is a good way to show such things without having a significant portion of the audience thinking, "Yeah, that is kind of bad, but wasn't the (violence / money / whatever) kind of great?" Perhaps such things can be thrown in there with the 'death of media literacy' discussions, yet it is something that worries me nonetheless. That said, I do appreciate how Not Me is willing to center other narrative elements and engage with some internal dialogue (and therefore dialogue with the viewers) on what is the best way to handle such issues. It is still quite idealized in many ways. Perhaps recent events have heightened my cynicism, but I wonder if the main result of this kind of sabotage would be a law increasing the prison sentence for trespassing on business property with 60% public approval. Nonetheless I think I still appreciate the attempts made here despite the clumsiness of many plot points.
I think "anti-war" movies are much different than movies about social justice. Media drives society and it has been through media that shows progressive ideas that society changes. "Anti-war" movies don't do that. It think comparing the two is pretty drastic. Also, without getting too deep into the conversation, violence in the name of anti-corruption is how the world works and changes. Is it good? Not really. But is it what usually make change? Definitely, in all of history.
I'm kinda curious on why you think Dead Friend Forever glorified bullying. I honestly don't think I've seen a show that made you hate almost every character like DFF did. It was absolutely terrible bullying and there was no redemption or positive spin on it at all. I mean *spoiler* you see the kid who was bullied die. There was no "it gets better eventually" or "bullies apologize and it fixes everything" moment. There was definitely not a moment I thought, "that was bad, but wasn't the gang violence plot or romantic was kind of great?" Also graphic doesn't always mean glorified. DFF was very graphic, but realistic in a lot of ways. The bullies looked terrible and you felt for the person bullied and his loved ones.
@@ipurpleu1668 I think we have some differences in perspective that might be too great to discuss in depth in a TH-cam comment section. My thoughts were more along the lines of how even media that includes moral messages of anti-corruption, anti-violence, and the like often (always?) contain a seed of glorification. The corrupt enjoy wealth, power, and respect. Sometimes they keep it, sometimes they do not. Sometimes violence helps reduce violence in the long run, sometimes violence only leads to cycles of violence. Attempting to 'preach' anti-corruption and anti-killing messages are not always adequate to the task of avoiding large portions of the audience being mesmerized by the very thing being messaged against.
As for Dead Friend Forever, *spoiler* I consider the killer to be the worst bully by far in the present time. The ending struck me as an apologia for a bullied student going on a killing spree at school. That is certainly not the _intended_ take away, but it is the one that seems most reasonable to me regardless. To my eyes, the _real_ underlying message of shows like DFF, The Glory, Weak Hero, etc. is actually that the biggest, baddest bully wins, people who "deserve" it _should_ be bullied, and bullying can be highly desirable. While I would consider DFF and shows like it far more melodramatic than realistic, DFF's empathy was quite inconsistent in its usage and often deployed more for emotional manipulation rather than developing characters or exploring how the world shapes people and vice versa. At the end of the day, I felt bad for all of the characters. The best way I can find to label the show is a modern Greek tragedy of people fated to hurt each other and themselves due to their circumstances.
@@sillypseudonym4705 I agree with the differing opinions that is too great to discuss in a comment section.
For DFF, I would have agreed if it was the bullied kid (Non) who was the killer. It would have been reminiscent of 13 Reasons Why is that had been the case. But it wasn’t. Non never gets “revenge” or a “happy ending”, he ends up dead in a random room and his body probably dumped somewhere not even the audience knows. Also the killer is seen as doing wrong as well. I definitely wouldn’t say it was an apologia for a bullied student going on a killing spree, since the bullied student is dead for years before any of the killing starts.
@@ipurpleu1668 We could extend the analogy then to a bullied kid accidently being killed and the kid's older brother killing, but I think that gets into the weeds. My more narrow point is not everything is happy for bully(ies), but more along the lines of anti-bullying or anti-corruption revenge fantasies can easily be taken as promoting that which they are nominally against. In DFF's case, I know many people in the audience cheered the deaths as justice or at least proper retribution. From my perspective, this is cheering a type bullying far worse than what the earlier bullies ever did, which is supposedly what we are intended to hate earlier in the series. Of course not all people have such views. I do not, but my point, and Truffaut's related argument, is that these works of fiction often contain some aspects for the audience to latch onto and use against even the intended moral messages of the creator.
I love this show and your reactions! Please, please, I'm beggin, react to Lykn feat Pond , Joong - Charm and Lego's solo - Fire + Dhoom Dhoom, especially in this order. Thank you
Idk if its on the poll to watch next, but if not please add my stand in to the to watch poll!