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Agree 100% with Mouse. Everybody seemed to love the arbitrary twists but it just means there's no point in keeping to with the plot, they'll just throw some nonsense in for no reason.

I will say, though, that while the plot is stupid and annoying, each individual scene is well written, the cast are great and the cinematography is effective.

Queen of Tears I disagree with. I'm a big manly man with huge muscles and a beard and I liked it. But I wouldn't watch it now, for obvious reasons.

Which idols have been cancelled by, as you say, "woke" fans? Who specifically has it been "Game Over" for?

You don't like the cosmic bridge!? How!?

I have had a student refer to the 90s as "the late 1900s". I felt my soul turn to dry sand and blow away in the breeze...

My students were born after 9/11. They have no memory of the 2007/8 financial crisis and they've never heard of The Da Vinci Code.

Your pullups look great. Really controlled and comfortable. Much better than mine. But I'd echo what others have said that big compound movements like pullups should go at the start and by the end you shouldn't really be able to do any pullups. Usually, you'd finish with something that isolates smaller muscles like bicep curls.

Don't get me started on what BMP stands for.

Although I agree he should have helped, I don't think it's always that simple. I think after a lot of breakups, exes have to resist the temptation to comfort someone they still love. Often part of what makes a breakup painful is knowing that someone you care about is in distress but that you can no longer be there for them the way you once were. From his perspective, as far as he knows, she doesn't want his help.

What I would say is that he takes that too far. He's so concerned with figuring out the boundaries and making sure he doesn't cross them that he doesn't intervene when he should. So I think we mostly agree.

There are other times in the show where what are usually positive qualities in Junho end up hurting WYW, like in Jeju where he's so caught up in how great he thinks WYW is that he doesn't anticipate how his family might treat her and puts her in a really horrible situation.

Edit: Now that I'm thinking about it again, I'm really torn about whether or not he actually should have helped. Argh!

I think one of the things that makes Junho such a green flag and a good partner for Youngwoo is that he respects her boundaries. When they're temporarily broken up, one of the things that upsets him is that he wants to help and support her, but to him, it no longer seems appropriate to do so. It could be overstepping, especially when he no longer has any idea how she actually feels. From his perspective, intervening too much could even feel selfish, like he's helping her because he wants to, even though she (as far as he knows) doesn't want him to. Maybe he should have intervened, but it makes sense, given his priorities, sensitivities etc. that he would feel unable to.

I really like it because it gives us such a rich sense of how Junho feels, and it's consistent with his struggle throughout the show with wanting to support Youngwoo, to be romantic, and affectionate, while figuring out and navigating her discomfort with certain things, of working out how to make their relationship work.

"Gotten" is a Scottish thing.

I say gotten because I'm Scottish.

Wait, does MHJ actually stand for Min Heejin? I thought it meant My Huge Johnson.

Mozart. Fight me.

Man, Wendy's styling for the GOT The Beat videos really was something else.

Lower the bar so it sits on her traps and not on her neck. She could really hurt herself with it up there.

Thank you for saying that. I'm also in my 30s, actually the same age as Wendy and Seulgi, and I think that's part of why I've been thinking/feeling this way.

As a k-pop fan, I've always tried to maintain in my head a very firm distinction between idols as people and idols as stage personae (the difference between Park Sooyoung and Joy), and remember that I don't know the real person. I consume a product and a performance that they have made (albeit one that often draws heavily from the person behind it). Wendy is my bias. I really like what I'm shown of her, but I don't really know much about her as a person. I try to think of it a little bit like having a favourite character in a TV show or book, but with the awareness that there is a real person behind them. I think that's healthy.

Now that it looks like we'll, at best, be seeing a lot less of RV as idols, as the characters we normally see and engage with, maybe it's best for a while to think of them purely as the real people behind the personae, with lives that are in constant flux, with complex priorities, interests and feelings about things that I'm not privy to. I think that right now we should be happy for the real people behind the idol personae, especially Wendy and Yeri, for making a decision about their lives. I'm going to put aside how I feel about idol Wendy and idol Yeri, to show grace to the two women behind then.

As I said earlier. "Perfectly align with" here means not actively and enthusiastically participating in a genocide. It's not a high bar. As I've also already said anyway, I'd have held my nose and voted for Harris if I were American. It's interesting that you seem to think the people who couldn't stomach that have agency, but not the Democratic party or pro-genocide voters, though.

Perhaps if instead of actively promoting what Israel were doing and publicly making every excuse possible for it, Democrats had summoned the bare minimum of human decency to make a case against the genocide, when they had the power to stop it, they could have shifted public opinion enough on it to cobble together enough votes to win. Democrats chose to spend that energy trying to convince people the genocide was fine and good.

But if you think participating in a genocide and still losing was a better course of action, who am I to tell you you're wrong. That's your opinion, and people's opinions are obviously immutable and unchangeable.

But you don't understand! Voters are simply born with all of their opinions fixed at birth and political parties are powerless to change them. So, you see, we have no choice but to send Israel all the bombs they could ever want so they can blow up schools and hospitals, and go on TV telling everybody how good and important it is to keep doing that. Failing to do so will result in Donald Trump winning the 2024 presidential election.

Lots of things are unpopular until you campaign for them. Sitting on your hands and going along with a genocide because you can't even be bothered trying to shift public opinion is, frankly, disgusting. Democrats do actually have agency, despite centrists' breathless attempts to claim otherwise.

Keep doing nothing, though, by all means. It certainly kept Trump out.

Politicians and activists can actively shape public opinion. They don't have to triangulate on every issue, especially not something as abhorrent as a genocide. This is exactly the learned helplessness that has rendered Democrat governments (and the Labour government in my country) completely ineffective. You can do things, and you can promote the things you do, instead of sitting on your hands and pretending to be powerless and blaming the people you've chastised and alienated when you lose anyway.

Have you just not come across that expression before?

Very poorly. If I were American, I'd have held my nose and voted for Harris. But to pretend that expecting an ostensibly liberal government to not participate in a genocide is some kind of unreasonable purity test is grotesque.

Wanting to get rid of a system is entirely consistent with not liking when that system is even worse than normal.

"Liberal politicians have to be perfect" = not do genocide.