#My Extraordinary

[lgbtally4ever]

SPOILER:

MY EXTRAORDINARY

Oooooh! What a sad, but, really, decent bl from the Philippines, with a really excellent message for parents.

If you can’t have a straight child, would you rather have a gay (or whatever) child—or a DEAD child?

If you choose dead—you’re a really bad parent!

On You Tube

START HERE ⬆️

[gaymovies24]

Just finished watching “My Extraordinary” 🥺

[heretherebedork]

Asterick Entertainment is now 4-for-4 on the killing of their gay protaganists. Can't wait to see what else they're going to do in all the other shows they're making! How many gays can we kill?!

BLEGH.

Yeah, don't watch these shows, okay?

Seriously.

4-for-4 so far. Can't wait to see how they kill the stars of Diving Into Love.

[dryedmangoez]

Hindsight Review: Groundbreaking and Heartbreaking "My Extraordinary" a Noble Effort

Hindsight Review: Groundbreaking and Heartbreaking “My Extraordinary” a Noble Effort

TYPE OF REVIEW

: HINDSIGHT REVIEW SPOILERS AHEAD! For the non-spoilery First Impression Review, click here.

Asterisk Digital Entertainment’s My Extraordinaryis both groundbreaking and heartbreaking, as well as maybe a missed opportunity. For being the first BL series on Philippine broadcast television, it is a big step forward for more to come in the future. As a series, it is a heartbreaking,…

[glennethph]

One thing I love about the My Extraordinary finale is it seems like Heaven/Romeo is canon.

As they deserved.

[zeskiverse]

Warning: a rant™ full of spoilers below.

There was no point to My Extraordinary. They wanted to tell a generic love story and decided to use two boys to attract audience. In hindsight, I can see now why the studio lauded it as the “first BL on Filipino TV”: straight people can’t enjoy LGBTQ+ stories unless we’re fetishised or dead.

“Some stories are not happy ones!” Yeah, I’m aware of that? But tell me what “story” we really had there. Tragedy aside, there was no story. The boys never really had a chance at their love, and what we witnessed could very well be about two close friends, save for—literally—one or two moments.

I’m sorry, but it’s just... tasteless in my eyes. Gone should have been the days where we could only find gay characters on media as either corpses or comic relief. The fucking “bury your gays” trope should be the only thing dead these days. It’s not funny, nor revolutionary, nor imaginative.

I tried to look at My Extraordinary from the point of view of a writer with a story to tell. But even then, I don’t find any story there? What was the point, really? We have a reserved character with a harsh life, trying his best to get by in life, and the first time he finds happiness... he’s dead. And that’s it. Literally nothing else happened narrative-wise. 

We see the ones left behind mourning and grieving in many ways. The ones responsible for the characters’ deaths spend way too much time sobbing, attempting to make us feel sorry for them. Still, no story there. Nothing left to be told. 

The “twist” revealed near the end of the penultimate episode isn’t a twist at all. The story went out of its way to throw “hints” at us, instead of crafting it into the story for us to backtrack and find out what such things meant. Two entire episodes that could have been one, and even this one could have been cut to half that time.

It’s a no from me. There’s LGBTQ+ narratives that are for other LGBTQ+ people, and then there’s the same narratives curated for straight people. Because our stories are only palatable to them if we’re suffering for no reason. Or better yet, if the reason for said suffering are other straight people.

Imagine spending money and time to come up with “life is hard when you’re gay and then you die lol” kind of story. And a badly told one, on top of that. It’s like HIStory 3: MODC; only worse, because there’s no ounce of romance.

If anyone is reading this, don’t bother with that series. From both romance and narrative perspectives, it’s unfulfilling. There’s no message, just like there’s no point. Some characters are amazing (even the ones you must hate), but there’s no way just acting and talent can do so much for a story suffering on every other aspect.

[kamwashere]

✨my extraordinary ep6 moodboard✨

[btsyoonglesx]

Well... I cried like a lot... Why do they do this to me. WHAT WAS THE REASONNNNN

And the mother is literally so selfish, your son just lost someone he really loved and your still feeling sorry for yourself because your son is gay? Get a grip

[levysds]

[loveisfuerza]

My Extraordinary | EP 2: PAPS [1/3] | [ENG SUB]

Episode 2 of My Extraordinary has premiered, go check it out!

[glennethph]

I just realized: we never got a real kiss between ShaKen. I’m shookt lol

[zeskiverse]

I had that little hope that refuses to die till the bitter end, but turned out they did what I was afraid they would. *sighs*

Like, it's not my place to tell anyone the stories they should tell. I know that. But I cannot pretend that one didn't leave one hell of a bad taste in my mouth. I want to believe gone are the days we had only two types of gay character: 2D comic relief and dead. You either had that or nothing at all. 

So, when I hear some gay romance reaches spaces that are reserved only for straight stories, I'm obviously happy. Ecstatic. Except for when it involves of either or both characters. Because it makes it seem that the only way gay romance is palatable to straight people is if it’s tragic. To see that still happen today... I can't tell if I'm angry more than I'm sad. 

It could have been something nice—there might be some way they can somehow fix it, who knows—but for now it feels like gay suffering for straight entertainment. And I’m honestly tired.

[shutt3r]

Yo, if anyone is from the Newcastle area who would like something to do on Sunday night, come down to see my band play a rock show! Tickets are £6, doors open at 6:00pm (advised to arrive for then), we're supporting a band called My Extraordinary who are absolutely great, check out their YouTube. It also so happens to be their last show EVER and Newcastle is their hometown so it is expected to sell out completely. So yeah, come on down or message me for tickets if you're interested :) Thanks for the time folks <3

[loveisfuerza]

My Extraordinary | EP 1: Keeper of Peace [1/4] | [ENG SUB]

Episode 1 of My Extraordinary is premiering right now! Check out the newest BL drama out of the Philippines. The bar is set pretty high with all of the great BL dramas coming out of the Philippines this year. I'm excited to see how My Extraordinary compares.

[heretherebedork]

So, I’ve been thinking about this a lot as I rewatch UWMA.

Why does the mourning homophobic parent idea work so well in UWMA and fail so completely in My Extraordinary?

(Disclaimer: My Extraordinary is a dumpster fire of a show, please do not watch it. Watch UWMA instead. Or Gaya Sa Pelikula. Or one of dozens of other shows that are not dumpster fires. Thank you.)

Until We Meet Again provides catharsis. UWMA shows the consequences of their actions are far-reaching and long-lasting. There is not instant forgiveness. Hell, for many of the characters, there is never forgiveness because they died or because forgiveness just wasn’t in the cards for their actions. There’s pain and they all experience it, yes. But the pain isn’t washed away by their tears.

In My Extraordinary, Ken’s mom is meant to be forgiven by her tears. She cries and she screams and it’s okay, it’s okay, she feels bad now and it’s over! Sandee doesn’t even have to really feel bad, she just has to be a bit sad and now it’s all good! I mean, yeah, the boys are still dead but... they feel baaaad. Isn’t that enough?!!?

... Ugh, writing that made me feel dirty.

The fathers in UWMA both feel bad, both experience loss of family respect as well as their lose of their sons. They instantly realize what they did and did their best to respect their wishes, including having the funeral together, tying the red strings and then staying in touch as families to some extent. There’s a real catharsis and consequence to their actions.Their families never totally recover.

In My Extraordinary? Even Lawrence forgives his mom because she’s crying! And SAD. And, hell, she pretty much doesn’t even acknowledge their relationship (what little there was) and takes months to claim Shake’s unclaimed ashes. She still tries to refuse any responsibility even months later. There’s no lasting consequences beyond the boys’ deaths, no one is still upset with her. Even Romeo and Heaven come to help her! 

In short... fuck My Extraordinary. That show is the WORST and trying to shoehorn in an anti-homophobia message doesn’t work if you don’t put in the effort, which the show didn’t.

[glennethph]

And they were urnmates.