I FORGOT, SPOILERS!!!!!
I think you missed the part wherein Glen admitted that he used producing porn as an escape for his guilt...something connected to Ryan. So in the end, his passion for producing pork is more like guilty-pleasure to appease himself. Ed called him out on that. Hence why we have a scene where Glen apologised to Ryan.
I just think this had ended pretty well.
I think you missed the part wherein Glen admitted that he used producing porn as an escape for his guilt...something connected to Ryan. So in the end, his passion for producing porn is more like guilty-pleasure to appease himself. Ed called him out on that. Hence why we have a scene where Glen apologised to Ryan.
I just think this had ended pretty well.
Right, Glen should have rightly apologised for that. Now that you’ve mentioned it, I can also see that Glen is using porn to market himself as an aspiring script writer, to get his other works produced and recognised. That also explains Ed’s outburst during their breakup, because Ed probably felt “used” when Glen released their porn film.
Yes that's another thing Glen should apologise for. Ed had his shortcomings too. I think these characters here have really realistic flaws and im glad they realized it, owed it and learned from it. And they also made a fresh start. For me, I'm quite surprised that Glen quit producing porn because I didn't expect he would make a big decision like that, but when he did, I knew he was making the right choice and finally had moved on from his selfishness.
There are lot of risky moves here from an author side of things because most of these are not the typical route for a yaoi/BL comics/manhwa - it is more realistic and flawed which tugs more to the reader's heart because human big choices are meant to be unpredictable and sometimes surprising for other people. It gives the bitter taste. But man I liked that.
I think this has a really mature storyline.
I don’t know if I’m reading too much into this, but I get this sense that this series is disapproving of the porn industry, which is pretty ironic because it’s about porn. Why did Glen have to quit? Wasn’t filming porn a creative outlet for him to express his feelings, especially after those years he repressed them? Also, I expected Ed to disapprove of Glen’s decision to quit. I kept waiting for Ed to say, “Hey, it’s okay to film porn. I love you for it.” Nope, all I got was that Ed regretted doing porn so much, because porn was the one that brought his downfall. And that he kinda blamed Glen for it which honestly, was really unfair for him to do that. I don’t know, I wasn’t very satisfied with how it ended. Ed said how it was ironic that porn made him miserable but porn also saved him, but it didn’t look to me like that at all. I guess he met Glen, got the money which gave him a chance to start over but throughout the entire series, it didn’t seem like he was ever grateful to porn hahaha. Because all we got were depressing monologues of him feeling conflicted about everything. I mean, it’s a sorta realistic series given that porn has a negative stigma and that porn stars are also affected by this. But was expecting a series about porn industry to embrace porn. I like this series, but expected a different outcome.
Random rant: I really didn’t like how Glen apologised first. I mean, Glen was also hurt badly. I felt so bad for him. But I’m glad Ed apologised later and realised he made mistakes too.