My apologies, I wrote it lacking in tone—in fairness it was really late when I wrote that lmao—but it was suppose to be a bit of negative feedback over the abruptness that I’ve been noticing when it comes to navigating character conflict. The devices they use is just soo on the nose to me; ML does something that’s destructive and harmful, and what usually follows after is a form of story bandaging that wraps over his past actions because even MC himself quickly moves past them. Idk, I found this chapter’s placement of that photographer scene to be sooo uninteresting and insane after everything that built up before then and then the lack luster after; the juxtaposition between chapter 21-22 is a bit jarring in its sense of urgency/tone because things get quickly pushed aside, so why should the audience care if even the characters move on from them? Idkkk, it just feels emotionally two-dimensional.

I have no think piece on Su-ah, but my main thing is the abrupt juxtaposition between scenes being a bit jarring when it comes to reading. From the last scene being the rebuttal of their CNC scene, to ML throwing fits, to then him having a panic attack caused by a traumatic trigger is quite… something, from a literary perspective at the very least. The placement of the situation of ML meeting his past photographer just seems a bit too on the nose to not notice—but at the end of the day, it’s whatever