Choi Ho Dol, Joo Won Suk, Episodes 11-20 Times in Love With flaws

Ep10 15:25 Choi Ho Dol is at Joo Won Suk’s house as a tutor. Dol tells Suk that he won’t tell assuming that Suk is in the closet with his family. This is a very real episode. Closet cases live in a different reality than those not in the closet and see everything in terms of their closeted reality. It is a life of fear. They have trouble conceptualizing the non-closeted life. I remember when first coming out discussing some of the bizarre behaviors of closeted gays and my 1st boyfriend, a psychologist joked, “That is why we call them closet cases,” they are psychological cases. But that is another story.

Ep 11

Ep 12 12:42 Choi Ho Dol is at Joo Won Suk’s house as the tutor. Suk asks questions of Dol about when they ran into each other to get Dol to acknowledge that they did meet. Dol thinks Suk fears that he will expose him. Again Dol projects his closeted reality onto Suk. However, Dol does make it clear that he was going to the bar as part of coming out and not some curiousity.

Ep13 Nothing.

Ep 14 00:04 Dol shows up and is trying to avoid seeing Suk afraid that Suk is closeted and will fire Dol to protect being in the closet. Dol earnestly assure Suk that he will keep his secret. This episode shows again how closeted people look at the world. Dol hasn’t figured out that Suk isn’t closeted since Dol can conceptualize it.

Ep 14 8:01 Joo Won Suk meets up with Choi Ho Dol at the campus to tell him not to be late to tutoring and further explains that he is out with his family and stop going on about it being a secret. This greatly impresses Dol and he asks Suk how he did it. While they are meeting, evil gay sees them and assumes that Dol is a rival.

Now this is a BL type story line. From viewing from a distance evil gay jumps to conclusions and loses his mind in an insane episode of jealously. In the real gay world

Ep15,16,17 Nothing.

Ep18 2:40 Two important scenes here. Cho Ho Dol is working as tutor at Suk’s house and the youngest brother starts trying to get Dol a girl friend. Younger brother is not picking up that Dol doesn’t want his help and isn’t interested. Suk throws an object to get him to stop.

Then Dol wants to tell Suk that he has a friend. Suk is a jerk here. Newly coming out gay people need the advice of gay people who have been out longer. Vital information is missed.

Ep18 27:07 Evil gay person shows up at Suk’s bar and assures him that he is there only as a customer.

Ep19 2:22 Choi Ho Dol enters the bar for pre-arranged meeting with evil gay person. Evil gay person pretends like he is really interested in Dol in regards to dating.

Ep19 18:40 Evil gay person lures Choi Ho Dol to a place to trick him in thinking he is interested in Dol and then to expose him as gay on video to the world.

This simply wouldn’t be done in real life. Also there are some unrealistic elements.

First thing it is the rule you don’t expose another gay person. It isn’t done. Each person manages when and where and how much he is out. If it became known that you did this, univesally no gay person who associate with you, and certainly not the closeted ones. Further no gay establishment would allow you on their premises for the security of their clientel. Also, you would not be invited to any social function. Even if you might want to invite such a person who exposes others, other people would not attend your social function if they knew that such a person would be there, and they wouldn’t attend future social functions based on a risk that an exposer might be there.

In short you would be a pariah.

The unrealistic thing is that a closeted person like the evil gay would never do such a thing out of a fear that his straight friends might think he is gay. Questions would arise how does he know that Dol is gay, or how you might pretend to be a gay person is interested. Closeted gays like evil gay would be afraid of the discussion of the topic itself.

Ep20 1:04 The picture of the Canadian rockies is shown and the oldest brother slams it down. This is the beginning of the explanation of the suicide attempt. However, the significance isn’t made clear in this story.