#ok back to reading about education theory i guess T____T

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alrighty i told myself i was allowed to watch ep 2 during dinner so:

oh joke is proper-proper besotted. i honestly thought joke had just recently noticed zo, maybe had a tiny crush, but i'm beginning to think the timeline has to be longer. this boy is deep in the feels. now i'm really curious: what was with the whole freshman year animosity?

ohhh okok interesting, so at first i thought p'wave had a thing for zo and had clocked joke's interest, but now i'm wondering if its because there's something going on on the mentor level. is this like... romeo & juliet but with college department mentor-mentee pairs?? xD the almost insultingly obvious 'danger' music playing when the mentor is talking to joke is... well i guess they wanted to make it clear that there is a -gasp- hidden agenda going on.

(ngl i thought the hidden agenda was just going to be that joke likes zo. like i thought that was it. i guess its nice that the stakes will be slightly higher.)

like in some sense joke is being incredibly blatant and clear. like i know zo's going to get upset at some point about whatever joke's hiding, but in his defence he's laying some really obvious clues down about the genuineness of his feelings. is zo not picking up on any of the signals because he assumes that joke is straight because of his dating history?

okay let me just say, on some subconscious level zo must trust joke because if someone reached for my glasses without explanation or warning you better believe it i would slap their hand away so fast like you don't mess with the only thing giving me the ability to see. D:<

also omg lets just appreciate joong's little pout!!! *O* also also, the whole "you have a crush?? tell me who!" "no." "i promise not to tell!!" "no." convo was very cute. <3

so interesting choice of words here. "can't" not "won't". is that an accurate nuance i wonder?? also, you can't tell anyone? just how bad is this secret??

oh we are just flying through all the cheesy romantic tropes aren't we?? *U* listen i'm a simple girl at heart, yes this kind of thing does it for me and i won't apologise. <3 (please tell me at some point there's going to be a piggyback ride. its gotta happen.)

so far the show has teased:

some kind of backstory/fight/misunderstanding between jokezo in their freshman year

some kind of history (antagonistic) between their mentors

joke has a 'hidden agenda' (secret) which could be related to either or both of the above that he "can't" share with zo (yet)

this is a nice set of possibilities for a good amount of extremely low stakes angst and fluff so i'm very happy. ^w^

i am hoping for zo to get more depth soon because right now he's a bit of an unknown. i'm used to having a better handle on both leads by the end of ep 2. i guess we learn that he likes debating and has aspirations to win that award, but we haven't learned why. like for now i care about him solely because he's being played by dunk and joong is very good at looking at him like he hung the moon and stars in the night sky.