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I do agree that the chasing arc is woefully short, but in a different sense I don’t this encounter is a bad move chronologically speaking. Danny is in his darkest hour- he’s becoming increasingly withdrawn, dependent on alcohol and despondent- it’s reached a point as we’ve seen that subconsciously he’s looking for ANY way out. Depending on how Jaekyung responds to the clear emotional and psychological trauma that is 100% mask off- it’ll make this worthwhile or completely hollow. The author- god bless them for their art- is kinda bad at actually giving characters any sort of meaningful depth. I mean the entire first season was sexual Stockholm syndrome - I’m hoping that she flexes a bit of growth here and Jaekyung is forced into the Caretaker role. Someone deeply numb and exhausted to the point of subconscious suicide will NOT respond well to yelling or threatening. Jaekyung can’t drag Danny out of this using old methods- Danny doesn’t even matter to himself right now he doesn’t have the capacity to give a shit about Jae’s toxic bitch ass.
Anyway I’m excited to see how this is spun- lol who knows maybe it’s all a dream and Jae-kyung ain’t even there yet. Also we don’t have a clear time line of how long Jae-kyung has actually been looking for him.
Hope we at least get a deliciously righteous suffering arc for Jae-kyung- because it’s what he deserves.
I am very much agree to this. And you're right,we don't have a clear time line of how long jk has been looking for Dan. And how months have passed after Dan's resignation.
I am also excited for the next chapter. Everyone's talking if the last panel was just a dream including me,but if we look closely we can see jk's arm sling and the water droplets on his face. And their shirts are the same shirts in the ss2 cover.
you absolutely cooked op I agree
with a lot of what you said. i mean we’ll have to see, like you said, this could be spun in such a way where yeah jaekyung is forced to confront his own behaviors and will actually finally change them but…man, lol. i feel like they’re both just going to exact the exact same? i just can’t help but think it would’ve been more satisfying for dan to have been allowed to hit rock bottom on his own and gain a strong support network and grow that way, outside of jaekyung…while, conversely, jaekyung continues to lose the tenuous connections he had with other people to begin with, now that one of the few things that made him tolerable/worth being around (his success as an athlete) has crumbled…
anyway yeah in thinking about this story overall and with this recent development in particular i’ve been sort of thinking of this author as a hedonist or like someone who writes and publishes fanfic on the fly. some people will plot out and write their whole fic beginning to end, or at least have most of it planned before publishing, but then there are a lot of people who plot, write, and publish as they go. both are valid ways of going about it with their own strengths and weaknesses, but what i see in people that publish in that very serial way is a) they hit a wall with whatever their initial little idea was and b) they end up chasing plot-bunnies that keep forming throughout (and then there’s obviously plot holes because of both).
jinx feels often like the latter thing keeps happening, like…the author sometimes sacrifices a steadier/more meaningful plot and character development for the sake of something new and exciting happening. like we could’ve had a longer chasing arc (frankly it didn’t need to all be chasing, either—again there could’ve been time spared for each of these characters to develop on their own) but why wait when we can just shove the two together more immediately! <— hedonism LMDSJHDGD. which, like, more power to her but also i can’t say it makes for a strong plot, you know?
The direction the plot is going.
PLEASE go touch some grass. Just because you don’t understand subtext, implicative narratives or refuse to think critically about character motivations and actions… does not mean others don’t. If you like something awesome, if you ain’t viewing it through a critical lense that’s also fine (people enjoy what they want how they want) -don’t be an insufferable moron in the comments though. People are allowed to enjoy and open discourse about topics- if you don’t understand someone’s point of view that’s no reason for you to constantly harp about your own inability to comprehend it- if you don’t get it then move on. Your arguments are all “if you don’t like it why complain, just don’t read it” but lmao you realize you are doing the exact same thing right? The only difference is you don’t even have a valid thing to criticize you’re just whining about how people have a different opinion… which, well- makes you look like a 13 yr old. If you cannot interact meaningfully with a dialogue and take others perspectives into account in good faith, then don’t. Not everyone thinks the same as you, your inability to even defend your position beside the straw house of “don’t like don’t read” speaks for itself on the lack of interaction you are actually doing with the text/plot. -look just go outside and touch some grass please.
another pussy crybaby is here lmao, this is none of ur business and don't act like saint here.
What do you call an opinion huh? Show me pls
their opinions is just cursing the ML here
And they talk about literacy, pls
bro im so sorry you have these two brain dead neanderthals bothering you over the most MILD and logical outlook on media. your take was meaningful and had points they couldn’t refute which is why they went right for shitty weird insults ?
they’re actually sick in the head lmao, watching this unfold in real time has been the funniest and saddest thing ever
Pfff
It’s fine lmao, let em chirp- they’re just proving my point.
They might actually be prepubescent, I get Sephora kid vibes =))))
From what I've have seen no one said anything remotely offensive about their precious Jk but they just started throwing hands in the comms so...just ignore and report them people
LITERALLY NO ONE DID!!! they’re just schizo and looking for some rage bait again
u cooked op