Huh. Well. I was not expecting that. Or, rather, not
exactly that.
I didn't think they were gonna bang, so I wasn't surprised when that didn't happen. But I was not expecting this to so immediately veer into the (in the literal sense) mature: our MC sees a broken girl and is moved to protect her, clearly enraged by the treatment she's received on her hitchhiking trip AND that she would not see just how bad that treatment was.
The other side of this, of course, is that he's so obviously lonely. And there's no way he'd go along with letting her stay (rather than trying to let her parents or the cops know what was up) if he wasn't. He wants to protect her--absolutely. But that he's chosen to do it
this way is less altruistic than he might let on.
I mean, I know he's wondered to himself exactly what he's doing, but he hasn't tolds him
I don't know that this is going to be a keeper or not, but...I enjoyed this first episode. We'll see how it goes.
Y'know...for a dude who was hoping to get his big-time office crush to come home with him, he sure left his apartment in the worst possible state (short of having internet porn left running on his computer in the middle of the room).
I'm just sayin'.
"Don't consider me nice just because other people were worse"
Totally unexpected line and a great moment. And very much the
her side of why he's letting her stay. She needs help and seems not to realize it. And he can't, in good conscience, let her be taken advantage of again.
It's not the whole reason for the premise, but it's enough to very effectively set the tone.
I've seen enough to know I'm gonna really like this show.
I'm not quite there, but I'm hopeful.
I just...there's this light undercurrent of
Sing "Yesterday" for Me that's got me a little hesitant. Not that this seems quite as serious as that did, but this is a delicate(-ish?) topic this show has taken up, which means we're either going to deal with it or very much
not deal with it. It could go totally fluffy and forgettable, or it could go too serious and overshadow the character stuff. Threading that needle isn't impossible, but it's easy to miss.
As horrible as it is to think there are many men who would act upon this offer
I think it's worse that she didn't seem to think it was something to worry about, rather than that she could find guys willing to sleep with her.
I mean, it's not illegal, right? And what if the guys were all mostly 21 or younger? It's definitely, um, ickier if every guy got the backstory that she was sleeping her way across Japan, like the MC did, and
then went along with it. But if each guy was only working off of this cute, willing,
perfectly legal girl wondering if he'd like a little free company....
I'm not trying to downplay that what she's been up to is bad for her, but I think the heartbreaking part is that she seems to think it's not a big deal, rather than that there are men who don't feel the need to ask questions they probably should ask but are not obligated to ask.
That said, she didn't sound like she'd met a bunch of winners, so maybe it's more cut-and-dry after all, and only the scummy guys would be willing to take her up on her offer.
i get the impression the show doesn't want to get to hung up on that detail (just a guess).
Yeah, it doesn't feel like it wants you to think too deeply about what it means that she's been trading sex for a place to sleep probably every night for the last six months. But it also very much does want you to keep the broad strokes of it in mind so that you think the MC is a good guy for what he's doing. (Rather than how stupid he's probably being, considering she's a teen runaway.)
just because it legal doesnt make it ok
It sure makes it a lot harder for there to be devastating consequences, though. Which counts for a lot.