BL Drama Lovers Club

 dora:

there was an awful lot of fan screaming, which really wasn’t for me. i’m just not good with “too loud” in any situation.

It was interesting to hear your report, and sorry to hear about your food poisoning. The screaming fan scene is definitely not for me. However, some private time with Dunk would be quite nice.

The Bangkok Boy - finale

I am going to keep this short since I already did a very lengthy post on my thoughts for the last episode.

The ending hints at a second season. 

As I had pointed out in my last posts on this series my main point of contention is the characterisation of Sun's character. I really believe that for this type of plot it required a more grey character to fully develop the story-line; all the right ingredients were there: Sun's father being killed in cold blood, Sun going to prison and having to fight for survival, Sun's best friend stabbed to death, Sun's sister being broken mentally and sexually abused, etc. They played it too safe having Sun being a white knight. In my view Peace, as in his name, already served as the "good guy", Sun needed to be the grey contrast to that who would have contradicted his own vengeance, falling in love and saving Peace; not all saviours wear white capes. I think such a grey character falling for the enemy would have intensified the tension and chemistry. Sun's character needed to be playing chess with a mind set that the ends justify the means. 

Moving on, I am satisfied with how things ended for Jihun's character. As I had mentioned he is my favourite character because he knew the game and outplayed everyone else. If the series had not ended with him winning I would have been upset, and him losing would be playing it way too safe for the sake of the protagonists getting a happy ever after. I hope if there is a next season Jihun and Aim will have some romance. I feel something between them. Well played Jihun, well played.

As for Nap and Kawin, I need for them to have some romance in the possible season 2

I could argue that romance on a whole in this series was a bit neglected; however with my main point of contention outlined above standing, I do not think I would have appreciated any further romance. For me there needed to be that grey characterisation to explode the romance within this plot.

With all that being said, I did enjoy the series without feeling bored. The fight scenes were entertaining. Watching the plot unfold brought excitement weekly. I have not thought of a rating, so I am legit making a rating on the spot through my rating scheme right now:

Production - 2/2

Writing - 1/2

Intimacy - 1.5/2

Acting - 2/2

Music - 1/1

Special 10 scene - 0/1

Final rating score = 7.5/10 (well my rating is close to the overall MDL rating of 7.8, so I take that as an indication that I am fair in my rating lol)

It is currently after midnight and I have two more series releases to watch; The Next Prince: Uncut & Hermoso. I will back in a few with those episode review posts.

 RXinw:

I admittedly went into this one with apprehension, but with some hope because I have faith in Chinese writers. Thailand tried and failed to execute the BL Omegaverse idea, so I was not so ready to jump into this attempt by China. However, I must so they have done well so far in terms of world building for the Omegaverse. The concept is clear and easy to follow. They mostly stuck to the original concept and I believe that is where they found success where Thailand did not.

(re "ABO Desire") Interesting feedback, but also more or less what I expected to hear. I love Thailand and Thai BLs, warts and all (figuratively speaking, not genital warts!), but Chinese BLs can, at their best, be in a totally different league. I'll wait until a few more episodes, then give it a go. Although I'm not keen on the omegaverse theme, I'm open to anything that's really good.

did china get rid of the censorship or why are there so many new chinese bl (like REAL bl) coming?

I DONT THINK I`M READY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I`m still holding myself back for revenged love but I want to watch it sooooooooo bad and now abo desire which is mpreg HOLY SHIIIIIIT

Just impulsively decided to rewatch Bad Buddy (even though I am very much behind on my other currently watching dramas) and I forgot how much I loved this series 😭 

 BL4life:

I feared my biggest fear(well one of them) I woke up an hour ago or idk im still tired. to see that revenge love was postponed WTF.

anyways I'm watching episode 6 of Jun&Jun and oMG TUTORYIM WHAT ARE YALL DOING HERE?

I know, I'm here worried as hell too!! Also I'm very upset with Viki because they didn't even bother informing anybody about this, they just straight up removed the preview of the next episodes like it's suspended. I really appreciate GagaooLala instead for the way they engage with viewers, they did a bit of reassuring at least. 

I have the fanmeet goods (by the goods I mean videos!🤣) but I’m currently boarding the plane home, so I’ll come back tonight!

In short the event organization sucked but the show itself was great! I’m a huge fan a Dunk & Joong so I had a great time 🙌 

P.S. I like them even more now 🤣

 axdxex:

I have the fanmeet goods (by the goods I mean videos!🤣) but I’m currently boarding the plane home, so I’ll come back tonight!

In short the event organization sucked but the show itself was great! I’m a huge fan a Dunk & Joong so I had a great time 🙌 

P.S. I like them even more now 🤣

So lucky!! I’m jealous 🥲