I agree with your order for the most part! There would be a few that I would’ve switched around, but not very drastically. 8. (6)Star In my Mind I enjoyed it as a light fluff that is mostly forgettable. Much like the series, it was enjoyable to watch but largely forgettable. I enjoy these two actors, and I’m currently watching them in “Hidden Agenda”! I believe both of them really do have better acting skills than they have been given plot. This would be higher on my watch list. 7. (5)Boss & Babe: As much as I totally love the main actors, this is not a favorite series of mine. This really seem to be more of the same if the original. I actually enjoyed Enchanté more. However I’m always happy to see them on my screen. Force/Book are natural chemistry to me. I believe it’s their long lasting friendship that comes across as genuine. 6. (4)Never Let Me Go:I totally agree with your thoughts on this! I didn’t like the series BUT I really DID like what they did with their two episodes. 5. (8)Eclipse: It would in terms of rewatch actual be in 8th place for me. They both are very talented actors, so I would watch them in anything. However this original series and extension was simply okay for me. 4 (7) My School President: I felt it was a totally wasted opportunity to further their storyline. I would have loved to see a fun filled summer or the first year of University. However they are fun to watch. 3. (3)Vice Versa: I thought it was a fun premise that was cute. I enjoyed it! I do think it would’ve been nice to have actually done a little bit more time travel to correspond with the original story, but the original story didn’t do a whole lot what time travel either in retrospect. I have always thought vice versa could’ve actually been a series that didn’t depend on the time travel trope, and it would’ve still been OK. 2. (2)Bad Buddies: I agree with laughing along with watching Pat and Pran. I really enjoyed seeing then again. It was a nice hurrah because sadly I think that will be the last time we see them in a couple ship. However, they are great independent actors, and I enjoy seeing them light up my screen. 1. (1)Tale of A Thousand Stars I totally agree with your thoughts. Some of it was contrived to be sure but wow what showing stopping ending! I cried! Yes, truly cried at the ring 💍 and the proposal! All in all it was a fun watch, and I look forward to an Our Sky 3 someday.
Snarky rejoinder: possibly, the first time I have witnessed "enjoyed" and "Enchanté" in the same sentence! OK, that was harsh. Also, not precisely true. I am aware many liked it. But this is the only series featured in Our Skyy 2 that I skipped entirely. That abstention owes not to holding in low regard the lead actors or their chemistry, but to a growing disdain for any series that celebrates the perpetuation of coercive behavior inherent to boss-intern dramas. I intend mostly to boycott them from here on, just as I did BATB. That said, this actor pairing in the ongoing Only Friends adds nothing to that story for me, so it's fair to say I don't share your enthusiasm for the actors or their ship. (Which, if we adhere to the three series rule, should never sail again!) [Side note: Step by Step inoculated itself against the boss-intern criticism because those characters felt blowback from colleagues due to their dating, and the boss was extremely conscientious about the power dynamic. Thus, that series addressed and defused the issue I object to. Jun and Jun gets a pass. Since I pride myself on logical consistency, I will justify this exception on the grounds K-BLs are so short and underdeveloped that the series had neither time for exploitative behavior to occur (none does!) nor for a colleague resentment subplot (none appears). If that excuse is too contrived for anyone reading this far, I shall resort immediately to the irrefutable "I made an exception the storyline didn't deserve because I wanted to watch the series."]
@@johnmaster3748 I will agree with you that I believe that Force/Book has run their course. I will still be sad to see them lit up in flames. I do need to make a clarification, that I enjoyed Enchanté more than I did a Boss and a babe. I didn’t mean that to be a recommendation! Lol. Neither series has been my favorite and I just resort back to it’s a personal preference I have of the two actors. To be honest, I can’t even say for sure it’s because of ability but simply because I enjoy watching them on my screen.
I absolutely agree with your ranking of the bottom two series. Both iterations of Star/Sky were bad. I ranked the original Boss and Babe much lower than your 8/10 score, and this portion of Our Skyy isn't very good. I ranked NLMG much higher than you originally, at 8/10. I thought Our Skyy did a great job with the storyline in this portion. It may be my favorite part of Our Skyy. I really enjoyed it and thought that Pond and Phuwin's acting has improved. I also rated the Eclipse fairly high, but didn't love this portion of Our Skyy. I was not a fan of MSP, since I'm not a fan of musicals and I'm SO over high school series. The Our Skyy for MSP was disappointing. I think it would be just above Star/Sky for me. I hated the original Vice Versa, as I thought it was a waste of a good premise. However, I really liked the Our Skyy version! It's an improvement on the original. Bad Buddy is one of my all-time favorite BLs and I loved the callbacks to the original series. Very cute. I also loved the original 1000 Stars. While I liked the premise and the chemistry with Earth/Mix, I didn't love the time the characters spent meandering in the forest. I think it could have been tightened up quite a bit. For my rankings, I think I'd put Vice Versa at 1, NLMG at 2 and Bad Buddy/1000 Stars at 3.
For the sin of wasting a solid sci-fi premise, I skipped these two VV episodes. Your strong comments suggest some redemption may have been earned. I will catch up to them sometime. For the Valor of upholding a solid sci-fi (here, maybe fantasy?) premise, I agree NLMG may have been better than the original. For the sheer joy of quibbling over inane, irrelevant semantics, I'd like to observe that MSP fails to qualify as a musical (noun). The characters do not burst into song to express their inner thoughts or to provide information or action that advances the plot. Rather, it is at best a musical series (adjective). Yes, there's a damn lot of music, but that singing occurs in story context--mostly as band performances or rehearsals. Gmmtv earns ancillary revenue from music sales, but that does not make it a musical! Of course, this distinction has nothing whatsoever to do with your reasons for disliking the series, and I shall not attempt to dissuade you from that view. Cf. Glee has attributes of both "a musical" and "a musical series" and so thoroughly blurs the line between the categories. Meanwhile, "Subspace Rhapsody,"the recent ep 9 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S2, which absolutely is a one-off musical, attempts to define what features distinguish "a musical" from other entertainments. As implicit above, I am not the one who will disrespect a well-executed sci-fi premise, so I yield to the bridge crew of the Starship Enterprise. Even if they didn't understand why they were singing. SEE, the opening number "Status Report" available on RUclips.
I feel like BB and ATOTS often come back in favorites, though I did see a bit of complain about BB. I think that their own story are so strong in the first place that it's hard to make something bad with the two episodes since people will be happy to see them again together in the setting of their original work^^
@@johnmaster3748 As far as I'm concerned, MSP is at least musical adjacent. Close enough to a musical for me to actively dislike it. Honestly, though, I wouldn't have loved it even without the music. It was not my thing. Ah, the SNW musical. It set my teeth on edge. I love SNW, but I'm trying and failing to forget that episode ever existed. I did like the episode that had characters from the animated series, the name of which escapes me. /sidebar
I only bothered to watch four of the entries here in the first place: NLMG, MSP, BB, TOTS. By a long measure, MSP was the least interesting spin on the original. Can't really label it a continuation. It also had the widest gap in enjoyment between the original and the two episode add-on. (That gap exists, however, only because the original was so good.) NLMG surprised me. In some ways, it was superior to the original. Hustorical settings can be problematic, but I thought they handled the past setting competently. [Side note: jump *I Feel You Linger in the Air* near the top of your priority list. It is an excellent series set in the distant past. It's got a ways to go before it finishes (and thereby reaches your binge zone), but i prognosticate it's going to deserve that priority when the time comes.] Like you, I see little reason to discuss BB and TOTS separately. I really appreciated the crossover. Having the characters mix and match pairings in the middle episodes worked well. I think the TOTS episodes were stronger for two reasons. First, in the Bad Buddy timeline, these episodes occur during the three year time jump between ep 11 and ep 12. Thus, in a way Our Skyy does not continue the story of Pat and Pran. Rather, their story here fills in a blank from the missing three years. Nothing could occur in Pat and Pran's relationship in the Our Skyy episodes that would disturb the continuity of the finale. So, their scenes felt more like nostalgia for the original than a new layer to the character arcs. Yet, what gloriously fun nostalgia that was! Second, among the episodes I did watch, TOTS was the only one that amounted to an actual addendum to the existing story. New information if you will. After two+ years living and working on that mountain, Phupa's and Tian's relationship has become bit stale. The arrival of a determined Pran and a whirlwind Pat jolted some energy into their daily routine. Obviously the denouement left those characters in a fabulous place, the very epitome of fluffy BL closure--for the characters, the fans, and (hopefully) that particular ship.* I skipped the rest because I just could evince no desire to revisit those characters. *--nothing against the Earth-Mix pairing. I just think actors need fresh challenges for professional growth.
Yeah I feel like there's no need to force yourself in watching all little stories if you don't feel like it^^ That's what's great with this format, you can pick and chose :D I like you analysis of why TOTS is first for you (like it is for me). I didn't really think of it this way but it makes a lot of sense. And honestly, if I'm a hundred percent honest with myself, I think I would have put MSP lower in my list if I was not a bit biased >< I Feel You Linger In The Air is in my list but I'll try to remember what you said about it :D So far it has a good rating as well (I don't have much 8 rated dramas left in my list) so I shall remember easily :D
@@dramawhale03 I will admit that you and Lynn have me second-guessing the choice to skip the Vice Versa episodes. Maybe one day, when I need a two-hour distraction...
@@j_scott and J's veridct on VV snuck in while I was writing. Cannot ignore a trifecta of trustworthy opinions saying the same thing. At some point, I will catch up to those two eps of OS2.
@@dramawhale03 you should react to each episode and upload it let's try with first episode and see audience reaction I will share it to hisman2 fans as well
@@ishijaki4 Unfortunately I can't do it like that, I don't have the space nor the set up to make reactions :( It's something I thought about doing before but it's currently not possible, I'm sorry to disappoint :(
You're like two hours early this week! Great for me, I can go to sleep early today! 😉
Omg it makes me feel bad ahah Actually I was up earlier than usual that's why it's earlier x)
I agree with your order for the most part! There would be a few that I would’ve switched around, but not very drastically.
8. (6)Star In my Mind I enjoyed it as a light fluff that is mostly forgettable. Much like the series, it was enjoyable to watch but largely forgettable. I enjoy these two actors, and I’m currently watching them in “Hidden Agenda”! I believe both of them really do have better acting skills than they have been given plot. This would be higher on my watch list.
7. (5)Boss & Babe: As much as I totally love the main actors, this is not a favorite series of mine. This really seem to be more of the same if the original. I actually enjoyed Enchanté more. However I’m always happy to see them on my screen. Force/Book are natural chemistry to me. I believe it’s their long lasting friendship that comes across as genuine.
6. (4)Never Let Me Go:I totally agree with your thoughts on this! I didn’t like the series BUT I really DID like what they did with their two episodes.
5. (8)Eclipse: It would in terms of rewatch actual be in 8th place for me. They both are very talented actors, so I would watch them in anything. However this original series and extension was simply okay for me.
4 (7) My School President: I felt it was a totally wasted opportunity to further their storyline. I would have loved to see a fun filled summer or the first year of University. However they are fun to watch.
3. (3)Vice Versa: I thought it was a fun premise that was cute. I enjoyed it! I do think it would’ve been nice to have actually done a little bit more time travel to correspond with the original story, but the original story didn’t do a whole lot what time travel either in retrospect. I have always thought vice versa could’ve actually been a series that didn’t depend on the time travel trope, and it would’ve still been OK.
2. (2)Bad Buddies: I agree with laughing along with watching Pat and Pran. I really enjoyed seeing then again. It was a nice hurrah because sadly I think that will be the last time we see them in a couple ship. However, they are great independent actors, and I enjoy seeing them light up my screen.
1. (1)Tale of A Thousand Stars I totally agree with your thoughts. Some of it was contrived to be sure but wow what showing stopping ending! I cried! Yes, truly cried at the ring 💍 and the proposal!
All in all it was a fun watch, and I look forward to an Our Sky 3 someday.
Snarky rejoinder: possibly, the first time I have witnessed "enjoyed" and "Enchanté" in the same sentence!
OK, that was harsh. Also, not precisely true. I am aware many liked it. But this is the only series featured in Our Skyy 2 that I skipped entirely. That abstention owes not to holding in low regard the lead actors or their chemistry, but to a growing disdain for any series that celebrates the perpetuation of coercive behavior inherent to boss-intern dramas. I intend mostly to boycott them from here on, just as I did BATB. That said, this actor pairing in the ongoing Only Friends adds nothing to that story for me, so it's fair to say I don't share your enthusiasm for the actors or their ship. (Which, if we adhere to the three series rule, should never sail again!)
[Side note: Step by Step inoculated itself against the boss-intern criticism because those characters felt blowback from colleagues due to their dating, and the boss was extremely conscientious about the power dynamic. Thus, that series addressed and defused the issue I object to. Jun and Jun gets a pass. Since I pride myself on logical consistency, I will justify this exception on the grounds K-BLs are so short and underdeveloped that the series had neither time for exploitative behavior to occur (none does!) nor for a colleague resentment subplot (none appears). If that excuse is too contrived for anyone reading this far, I shall resort immediately to the irrefutable "I made an exception the storyline didn't deserve because I wanted to watch the series."]
Was there time travel in Vice Versa? Or just parallel universes?
@@johnmaster3748 In the original, just parallel universes.
@@j_scott you are right it wasn’t a time jump. It was parallel universe. I still contend that it added nothing much to the story.
@@johnmaster3748 I will agree with you that I believe that Force/Book has run their course. I will still be sad to see them lit up in flames.
I do need to make a clarification, that I enjoyed Enchanté more than I did a Boss and a babe. I didn’t mean that to be a recommendation! Lol. Neither series has been my favorite and I just resort back to it’s a personal preference I have of the two actors. To be honest, I can’t even say for sure it’s because of ability but simply because I enjoy watching them on my screen.
I absolutely agree with your ranking of the bottom two series. Both iterations of Star/Sky were bad. I ranked the original Boss and Babe much lower than your 8/10 score, and this portion of Our Skyy isn't very good.
I ranked NLMG much higher than you originally, at 8/10. I thought Our Skyy did a great job with the storyline in this portion. It may be my favorite part of Our Skyy. I really enjoyed it and thought that Pond and Phuwin's acting has improved.
I also rated the Eclipse fairly high, but didn't love this portion of Our Skyy.
I was not a fan of MSP, since I'm not a fan of musicals and I'm SO over high school series. The Our Skyy for MSP was disappointing. I think it would be just above Star/Sky for me.
I hated the original Vice Versa, as I thought it was a waste of a good premise. However, I really liked the Our Skyy version! It's an improvement on the original.
Bad Buddy is one of my all-time favorite BLs and I loved the callbacks to the original series. Very cute.
I also loved the original 1000 Stars. While I liked the premise and the chemistry with Earth/Mix, I didn't love the time the characters spent meandering in the forest. I think it could have been tightened up quite a bit.
For my rankings, I think I'd put Vice Versa at 1, NLMG at 2 and Bad Buddy/1000 Stars at 3.
For the sin of wasting a solid sci-fi premise, I skipped these two VV episodes. Your strong comments suggest some redemption may have been earned. I will catch up to them sometime.
For the Valor of upholding a solid sci-fi (here, maybe fantasy?) premise, I agree NLMG may have been better than the original.
For the sheer joy of quibbling over inane, irrelevant semantics, I'd like to observe that MSP fails to qualify as a musical (noun). The characters do not burst into song to express their inner thoughts or to provide information or action that advances the plot. Rather, it is at best a musical series (adjective). Yes, there's a damn lot of music, but that singing occurs in story context--mostly as band performances or rehearsals. Gmmtv earns ancillary revenue from music sales, but that does not make it a musical! Of course, this distinction has nothing whatsoever to do with your reasons for disliking the series, and I shall not attempt to dissuade you from that view.
Cf. Glee has attributes of both "a musical" and "a musical series" and so thoroughly blurs the line between the categories. Meanwhile, "Subspace Rhapsody,"the recent ep 9 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S2, which absolutely is a one-off musical, attempts to define what features distinguish "a musical" from other entertainments. As implicit above, I am not the one who will disrespect a well-executed sci-fi premise, so I yield to the bridge crew of the Starship Enterprise. Even if they didn't understand why they were singing. SEE, the opening number "Status Report" available on RUclips.
I feel like BB and ATOTS often come back in favorites, though I did see a bit of complain about BB. I think that their own story are so strong in the first place that it's hard to make something bad with the two episodes since people will be happy to see them again together in the setting of their original work^^
@@johnmaster3748 As far as I'm concerned, MSP is at least musical adjacent. Close enough to a musical for me to actively dislike it. Honestly, though, I wouldn't have loved it even without the music. It was not my thing.
Ah, the SNW musical. It set my teeth on edge. I love SNW, but I'm trying and failing to forget that episode ever existed. I did like the episode that had characters from the animated series, the name of which escapes me. /sidebar
@@j_scott you can dislike MSP however we write definitions. S2 E7 was called "Those Old Scientists." [TOS....get it? The Original Series?..]
I only bothered to watch four of the entries here in the first place: NLMG, MSP, BB, TOTS. By a long measure, MSP was the least interesting spin on the original. Can't really label it a continuation. It also had the widest gap in enjoyment between the original and the two episode add-on. (That gap exists, however, only because the original was so good.) NLMG surprised me. In some ways, it was superior to the original. Hustorical settings can be problematic, but I thought they handled the past setting competently. [Side note: jump *I Feel You Linger in the Air* near the top of your priority list. It is an excellent series set in the distant past. It's got a ways to go before it finishes (and thereby reaches your binge zone), but i prognosticate it's going to deserve that priority when the time comes.]
Like you, I see little reason to discuss BB and TOTS separately. I really appreciated the crossover. Having the characters mix and match pairings in the middle episodes worked well. I think the TOTS episodes were stronger for two reasons. First, in the Bad Buddy timeline, these episodes occur during the three year time jump between ep 11 and ep 12. Thus, in a way Our Skyy does not continue the story of Pat and Pran. Rather, their story here fills in a blank from the missing three years. Nothing could occur in Pat and Pran's relationship in the Our Skyy episodes that would disturb the continuity of the finale. So, their scenes felt more like nostalgia for the original than a new layer to the character arcs. Yet, what gloriously fun nostalgia that was! Second, among the episodes I did watch, TOTS was the only one that amounted to an actual addendum to the existing story. New information if you will. After two+ years living and working on that mountain, Phupa's and Tian's relationship has become bit stale. The arrival of a determined Pran and a whirlwind Pat jolted some energy into their daily routine. Obviously the denouement left those characters in a fabulous place, the very epitome of fluffy BL closure--for the characters, the fans, and (hopefully) that particular ship.*
I skipped the rest because I just could evince no desire to revisit those characters.
*--nothing against the Earth-Mix pairing. I just think actors need fresh challenges for professional growth.
Yeah I feel like there's no need to force yourself in watching all little stories if you don't feel like it^^ That's what's great with this format, you can pick and chose :D
I like you analysis of why TOTS is first for you (like it is for me). I didn't really think of it this way but it makes a lot of sense. And honestly, if I'm a hundred percent honest with myself, I think I would have put MSP lower in my list if I was not a bit biased ><
I Feel You Linger In The Air is in my list but I'll try to remember what you said about it :D So far it has a good rating as well (I don't have much 8 rated dramas left in my list) so I shall remember easily :D
I second “I feel you lover in the air”! I am greatly enjoying it!
@@dramawhale03 I will admit that you and Lynn have me second-guessing the choice to skip the Vice Versa episodes. Maybe one day, when I need a two-hour distraction...
I Feel You Linger is one of my favorites at the moment. Fingers crossed that it manages to stick the landing.
@@j_scott and J's veridct on VV snuck in while I was writing. Cannot ignore a trifecta of trustworthy opinions saying the same thing. At some point, I will catch up to those two eps of OS2.
Please do review of hisman2 which suprassed all korean bl ❤
I will try to get to it :D
@@dramawhale03 you should react to each episode and upload it let's try with first episode and see audience reaction I will share it to hisman2 fans as well
@@ishijaki4 Unfortunately I can't do it like that, I don't have the space nor the set up to make reactions :( It's something I thought about doing before but it's currently not possible, I'm sorry to disappoint :(