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Shall we start over again?
Lee Seung Gyu as SHIN KI TAE & Lee Jong Hyuk as LEE WAN OUR DATING SIM (2023)
While drawing every night on a blog no one even reads, the reason I continued to draw, erase, and draw again, was because I wanted to show it to someone. I drew them, hoping that person would eventually see them. If that person isn’t there, my drawings hold no meaning. Why I started drawing… The reason was… him… Shin Ki Tae.
OUR DATING SIM (2023) dir. Lim Hyun Hee
OUR DATING SIM (2023) // Gi Tae & Lee Wan ↳ casual act of kindness...?
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— ©jyuubin
so, will it always be happily ever after? i don’t really know. i’m happy now. but the game could be over someday. however, one thing is for sure. life is a long game of simulations that will continue, and i chose love instead of running away. ✩ our dating sim ep7-8
OUR DATING SIM (2023) // Gi Tae & Lee Wan ↳ confessing in the place where it ended
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— ©jyuubin
Yes, I'm jealous. How could I not be when my boyfriend went on a blind date?
Our Dating Sim Episode 6
You just summarised all my problems with step by step. Every meeting was a torture and they were in every episode (that I remember). I wish they would’ve told us more about those cafe dates they probably had and if they kept given food to the homeless or they stopped because that was not important to the plot anymore (?)
The problem with *some BL office dramas is they seem to think that I care about their business success.
Like let me give some examples:
We Best Love: Fighting Mr. 2nd knew how much I as an audience member cared about both the company our boys worked for and the project they were working on. How much? Not much. Except when it relates to their romance. Zhou Shu Yi having to work with Gao Shi De again because he works for his dad's company and they're doing a merger. Classic forced proximity. Love it.
This is the shit I wanna see. Their romance. The company could crash and burn for all I care. All I know about their work is that they are in an office and making some kind of software. That's it.
Here's another example. Cherry Magic! They work somewhere that make pens and stationary. Sometimes they have to do lots of unexplained paperwork. Do I care about the details surrounding the pen company paperwork? No. I don't. They know this and respect my time by not having a character spend an episode walking me through the pen company audit paperwork.
When a character has a big project, it is brief and has a clear connection to the romance arc. In season 1 and 2, work project moments just create big "reasons we cannot be together" crisis moments to be overcome.
*Step By Step, on the other hand, forced me to sit through employee training sessions and about one full length boardroom meetings per episode about products and marketing campaigns. I felt as bored watching those scenes as I would have if I was actually a member of a marketing team sitting in on a meeting that could have been an email.
Apart from the meeting where they first decide to use Put, there's no clear romantic drama or stakes in many of those scenes. It's literally just business. I do not care about Forge, they were just a client, and yet that client's name is now burned into my brain. I do not care about Olive and Pearl (?) or how their karaoke night marketing is gonna be amazing because look we got Put in it again. In fact, get that guy out of my face! All I care about is our main characters and their romance. And yet I must sit through board meeting after board meeting after...