Story telling doesn’t have to be linear like that though.
There would be no questions left for the readers then. Season 1 is a very good season personally since it left me questioning why Ian seems so important to the cardinal and the king, and that results me to follow the story until the recent chapter. Also, the author's sequencing made a lot of reader's read the unexpected. If we read the 2nd season first, and Brian dies, then we will expect that he'll be reincarnated which is kinda bland compared to finding out that he is the reincarnation of king's lover and answering the question of why the king is kinda protective of him. Letting the readers connect to the characters and the world in the story is good, but that's just it. It's the aesthetic of the world building but would not definitely show the story's plot twists and it's deeper connections to the plot. Personally, the author's sequencing is perfect. Nothing to change. However, we all have different perspectives and views. You're entitled to your own opinion.
*readers
This is something I’m genuinely curious about because I think the recent demand /need for immediate answers is a weakness in reading comprehension that’s either a failure in the education system or symptomatic of something. More of the stories within the Yaoi fandom or elsewhere so many readers are dogging on these perceived complex plots when it’s like, no babes, this is just how literature can be written. You can have progressive storylines that go A to B to C to the e ding or you can take some detours, have some flashbacks have some time skips. Sometimes there isn’t an answer for everything since writing can be finite.
Yes, i do see all your points. Very valid ones. Reading your replies did remind me of when i was reading at the beginning and why i added it to my reading list, it was because i was curious, as you mentioned, as to why the king is infatuated with the MC and wth is wrong with this weird blondie. Mabye when i was reading the story with only 1 chapter per fortnight or so, i started to lose the need for questioning and just wanted to get straight to the point of it. I still cant help but feel like i wasnt conected to the story as much as i had wanted when season 1 ended which lead to this dissatisfaction. Mabye i should leave it to marinate for some time and then pick it up again.
The story is good, and props to the author for writing it, and you are right it not everything has to be linear, it would becometo boring then. I just want to share that only after reading season 2 was i left hurt and sad and that i cared for these characters, which overshadowed any other feeling that season 1 had given. I feel like each season deserves and should have the chance to give the readers those feelings so that the authors hard work is more appreciated as it should be.
When i wrote that coment this is how i felt buttttt..... mabye im in need of a reread so that im more in touch with the development of the plot line ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ﾉ~
maybe i forgot something as it has been so long
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what? no, this story is perfect as it is. story that is so straight for what's the beginning and the end, and have no twist is the most boring story of all, and that's what you want?
honestly, I'm tired of people hating on past Ian (Brian) and season 2, just bc they can't understand the purpose of the plot that the author intended. the twist of their real relationship in the past is one of the plot that need to be discovered slowly, and I thank the author for delivering it so seamlessly.
this story, from season 1 till now, is perfect in my eyes.
Hahaha, im not really hating on it, i actually love it. I was just giving a diferent perspective. Mabye you missed my reply to the coments where i explained my reasoning?
I don't hate Brian, i really like his character and how he was build. Im looking forward to seeing Ian in the present gain his strength and allow himself to show the sides of him even he didn't know he had.
I like the replys my comment is getting, i can see how the readers would react and what their opinion is on stories that follow similar plot build.
oh, good. sorry, yeah, i don't see the other comments.
some people just can't stand slow burns, but personally, I don’t mind slow burns stories as long as it's good (this manhwa is one of it).
If the author started the manhua by showing their past first, how they meet, how they build the kingdom they have today, how they fell in love and how in the end Brian died. Seeing him die after having seen all their hard work and passion for life and eachother would have hit harder because we wouldn't know when they will meet again.
After Brian dies the season ends and the new one starts where a reincarnated Brian is shown and we see how many years have passed, we would already know everything and the feelings we have torwards the story would be greater, i didnt feel anything about it because i didn't have a reason to care about these characters i didn'tknow anything about them for a whole season, until i finally read season 2 where their past is shown.
I think alowing the readers to connect with the world and the characters first is better, because in this order when we see the emperor we will feel his pain of having waited for so many years for the person he loves, we would feel the frustration and sadness of having Brian be in such a weak and helpless state the complete opposite of who he was in the past, we would feel a greater and clearer feling of hate for the emperor's brother and how he made two people who love eachother deeply enemiesin this life, and we would conect more with the story over all in a deeper level.
This is just my opinion if i read season 2 first and then the 1st season after that it would have been a better flow of the story.
What do you guys think?? (=・ω・=)