absolutebl: The Devil Judge = Korea cross breed Guardian with Judge Dredd and gave it Dexter for a n
absolutebl: The Devil Judge = Korea cross breed Guardian with Judge Dredd and gave it Dexter for a nanny who dressed it up in a pretty suit and flowing robes and pretended it wasn’t gay. BL tropes deployed in Devil Judge Drag baby aroundPublic claiming Face touchWall lean loom in the library (plus the autoerotic asphyxiation variant) The side eye Symmetrical stareWound tending Dress baby up (stealing from boyfriend’s closet) They not gay but the camera makes no case for this. Further evidence:Yaoi manga staging and framing techniques used explicitly to emphasize the semi/uke dynamic:Some serious come hither eyesAnd some gratuitous physical touch. These the whole dinner scene in Ep 11 where GaOn welcomes their visitor into their house, serves her dinner, keeps up the conversation, needles her on hubby’s behalf, takes care of the child (serving her and stopping her from drinking) and generally acts the part of a good wife and consummate hostess. There is also a lot of seme beats up people on baby’s behalf. Also set things on fire and a bit of torture. Because Devil Judge. Going in we all knew that this particular narrative would never allow these two characters to end up together as a couple, but it would allow one to become the other. And it certainly would have allowed either one to die trying. The cleverness of this drama is that, in the end, it did none of these things. YoHan was never hungry for a lover. I thought he was hungry for an heir apparent. He always knew the path he walked was doomed, what he needed was a messiah to carry on his message and devilish work. But that’s not what he wanted either. Knowing he was doomed to play the bad guy, what YoHan wanted was balance - the counter to his evil and the moral foundation that he willingly forwent. YoHan knew that nothing, not even love, would detour him from revenge. And in order to take that revenge, he must do so publicly and thus out himself for the devil (justified or not). He wanted GaOn to be, not his heir, but a better version of himself. He wanted GaOn to be the man he couldn’t, a man capable of rising above his own past. Honestly, this show ended in a much more cohesive manner than I was expecting. It also ended a lot more happily. I was convinced one or both of them would die. Instead they survive, but apart. The fact that the narrative even hinted at the possibility of a reunion was more than we had any right to expect. In that this drama reminded me of La Femme Nikita (the USA network series). If you’re thinking of this as a BL (and let’s be clear despite the rampant tropes and yaoi filming techniques it most certainly is not) then the ending that mirrors this one is that of The Untamed.So that’s what you’re in for. In conclusion:Watch The Devil Judge. It v good. Unless you want a romance, a BL, or hate queerbaiting in which case, skip it. More essays and discussion on The Devil Judge: Devil Judge… is it queerbaiting? BL fandom obsessed with Devil Judge, why?Devil judge meets the Korean wave, is bromance a trend in K-dramas? (source) -- source link