Episode 8 thoughts -Not sure of Bew's motive for working with Yo. We'll find out next week. My hypotheses are a) Bew really doesn't have a plan. His feelings for Gus are so conflicted after the betrayal that he sometimes acts to destroy Gus and sometimes acts to keep Gus around. He just isn't thinking that far ahead. b) Bew did have a plan, and that was to make Gus his boyfriend. He needed to get rid of the managers because when they were around, Gus would always be fed the idea that it was all just an act and they were going to pull them apart with their squabbling. He released the video and took the hit to become the victim, but he has another video where Gus' face is visible. The goal has been to come out publicly with the relationship which will make it difficult for Gus to break up with him in the future. Who knows. -O.K. the managers have no idea what "chemistry" is. Peak looks very uncomfortable around Kla. There's a history there and I look forward to finding out about it. If he didn't need the money, he'd probably ask for a different partner, if he'd join at all. -Yeah, dear campus fujoshi with your cute boy shipping pages. LOL. All you're doing is helping swindling managers locate innocent young men to recruit into the atrocious BL mill of oppression. I hope you're happy now. :-) -Who was the new manager? Was that Cheewin?
I’m wondering if he started everything before or after he found out he was betrayed. He’s the one who leaked…
I think we'll have to wait to find out what Bew's true motives are. I think it will probably turn out to be that he's more obsessed with Gus than anything. If he really wanted to get revenge on Gus, he could have ended the ship when he ended it with the managers. I think he wanted Gus to have no choice but to really love him, and if that didn't work, make Gus dependent on him.
Does anyone have the link to segment 3 on youtube? AIS Play seems to have neglected to post that. I have 1, 2 from the membership page. 4 from my alerts. But no 3.
its was a private time between Gus and Bew. i believe it was Gus who shot it but was leaked by Bew's manager,…
Thankfully I'm too old to have lived in a world where videoing myself having sex in my youth was an easy option, so I have no "TMI Bombs" waiting to explode. But not too old that if I did do that, I wouldn't remember to put a strong password on the video so my manager couldn't find it.
The main couple were charming and Nhai is super cute, but i was a little dull and pointless - I feel like I've…
Yeah. I want to be positive, as I try to be after ep 1. But outside of the gay kid raised by gay parents, I feel like I've watched this series twice this week already. (Oh, the campus fujoshi cute boys page is going to spy on them! I haven't seen that since Saturday!) Its not going to be bad. And at least both the leads are chatty and flirty (no sullen, uncommunicative boys with guitars, please). I won't be hatewatching this one, at least.
Episode 1 notes: Good to see the familiar faces, even if they are now in supporting roles. I had a tough time recognizing Jom under all that hair. I couldn't quite place him, even though I knew I knew the face. Looks like there will be more familiar faces dropping by.
I have to admit that I wasn't looking forward to this story. I was not enamored with this couple in Tonhon Chonlatee. Great that they were dating for 4 years, but I could never understand why they kept their friendship for Tonhon when he was a homophobe and they constantly needed to dance around his temper tantrums. They kept saying "because he's a good guy" but I thought it was very weak of them to move in together so they had to be closeted in their own home and weird that they didn't seem bothered by it. They went way beyond what normal people would put up with to scheme to keep their relationship a secret from a "friend" that I didn't find it funny, but sad. Since they didn't seem to want to change their situation until the end, I lost interest in them.
I had heard that the GMM series overplayed Tonhon's homophobia and violent temper, and that he was different in the novel. So I'll just erase that series from memory and treat this like it has its own continuity. A reboot rather than an origin story. I'm going to doubt that a kid with two fathers who is open about his sexuality with them is going to end up agreeing to hide out from Ton. At the very least, the fathers are going to have a word with him about the consequences of doing that, I'd hope.
Anyway, its not that I'm doubting that Nhai is actually straight. But ummm. He's so close to being out to himself that a simple clunk on the head should do the trick. Someone needs to sit him down and have him put two and two together about why he's gushing about how handsome other boys are and looking away from the faces of the girls he claims to adore to focus on one aspect of them that's masculine. LOL. Unfortunately, this guy is a bit dense to do that kind of math. This will take awhile.
I'm glad they at least had a board with a public company. When they were dickering around in the hospital room…
I think Khim's share is 24%. But still, yeah. None of this works. That's not what boards of public companies do! Besides, if Rain really is dead, Khim will end up with 75% of the shares. They don't just disappear. If Dad's will reads "Rain gets my share" all those shares will default to Khim anyway. And no, the board isn't indefinitely bound by the Dad's will. (This came up in another series where the grandfather's will was that the company went to the eldest grandson if he married and had a kid by 30, otherwise it went to the second grandson, who also needed to be married with a kid, etc. No, the board is not obligated to follow his instructions.)
This is so bad it's become good. Exactly how evil is this woman? There's cartoonishly evil, extremely cartoonishly…
Yeah. I get that everything is largely allegorical. The medical conditions aren't meant to be taken as real. Its not a medical drama, so they didn't bother to try to have their conditions be realistically handled in hospitals, and didn't bother to raise the stakes by introducing them. They will be each other's cure, for sure. And its not a business drama, so they didn't bother to try to be realistic when it comes to board room politics. Or even explain the scope of the business. How many employees does it have? What business is it in besides owning mansions and hotels? All we are told is that its very large and these are the wealthiest boys in Thailand. And it isn't a family drama so they didn't bother to make any of the family relationships realistic. And its not a arts drama so why bother making the orchestra work. And its not a romance, so why bother to...wait. I think it is a romance. But it starts to be unneverving when they don't bother to try to be realistic because its a romance and not an X.
I should care whether or not the evil doctor wins, but really, she's killed a bunch of characters who I really didn't like - hated actually. (I'm assuming that Rain is alive). And none of the heirs actually want to have the business. And the perspective of the writers seems to be that being concerned with the business is a moral failing. Only bad people want it. The doctor didn't really have to kill the entire family. Rain and Khim would have let her do and LBO. Dad is dead. They don't actually have to care if they don't want to. If the doctor wasn't such a murderous fiend, we'd be relieved right now.
The evil doctor saying "Look on the bright side, they now rest in peace. Family will be together forever" was…
I mean, it can't get much worse. "This will most likely be the worst day of your life. So chin up." might be a useful thing someone might say. Not very often. But someone might say it.
Could Sun & Kim be anymore awkward? In UWMA their chemistry was out of control & in this show they are just odd.…
LOL. Forgot about that. "Why do you care if you lose your memories" is a question asked by a doctor who has never had a patient before. At least she didn't respond "These are the specific memories you will lose. Because we brain surgeons always know what the effects of a stroke will be."
Episode 13. Oh, lordy. Hopefully when its revealed that she's murdered an entire family to get the CEO position, the board will oust her. Why no one put forward the idea of naming an interim CEO and doing a proper search is beyond me. The shareholders aren't going to be calmed.
I know there is some confusion as to why they chose that particular property to hide out in. Its very simple. They spent a big chunk of their production budget renting that place and couldn't afford to hide anywhere else.
Only the strong survives, she says, while cutting off a perfectly fine rose whose "weakness" is that roses haven't evolved defense against steel garden tools. What a bully. Hopefully she'll die when the albino plant pushes her into a bed of carnivorous roses. First they lull you with their scent, then they prick you with their thorns, then they suck you dry to give themselves a nice red glow. So I'm calling it. I'm 80% certain she'll be killed by a plant. 20% certain she'll be hit by one of the comets on April 14.
This is complete rubbish. You can't take a person with intracerebral hemorrhage on a helicopter flight to a remote…
LOL. If they faked their deaths, we're going to have to wonder who the poor corpses were. Something a show like this would never explain, until season 2 when it was revealed that Rain killed the staff at the house, which was o.k. because they were poor and no one would miss them.
Anyway as someone who has had relatives with both ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes, the idea of waiting to find out just how much functionality Khim will loose is gross malpractice. Maybe it'll just all go away, they say, showing a brain scan indicating that he's got hours left before he starts having regular seizures and has to teach himself how to chew.
That Doctor bitch is crazy and EVIL that's FS 😪And that board meeting made no sense. Is that how it works in…
I'm glad they at least had a board with a public company. When they were dickering around in the hospital room about what to do about the company and its share price, I was wondering "Why isn't there a board of directors appointing an interim CEO."
Has she nor Inn not learned anything from the past??? Only 5min in and its very obvious that Mol knows.. oh SHE…
Ugh. That really made me want to toss my remote at my TV. This middle aged woman has paraded her much younger lovers about for years and she just can't imagine two men doing the same thing?
Episode 7 Reactions 1) First trivia. I wonder what the Thai idiom for "The elephant in the room" actually is. I'd find it weird if the idiom for ignoring something obvious was exactly the same. Anyway Wang decision to cut to the chase really let the 800 pound gorilla out of the bag here and now its kicking over hornets' nests in the China Shop. 2) Yeah, no big surprise that Sasi wasn't going to go along with this. I'm guessing that she has always imagined that Wang would marry the woman of her choosing. A woman incompatible with Wang, selected on purpose so that he would never fall in love with her, so she could continue to be the center of his life. 3) Still, if I was Wang's father, I'd probably forbid them from moving in together, too. They've only known each other 2 weeks. And if I'm In, I'm probably suggesting that he get a dorm nearby. There's a lot not to like about Wang. I'd want to get to know him a little more before I committed to seeing him 24/7. Dude has "issues" and a lot of baggage for a 20 year old. And while he's astute at point out everyone else's issues, he needs to spend time working on his own. 4) I'll be satisfied if they don't end up together. I'll be fine if they do. I'll be fine if its open ended. But I'll be very, very pissed if Wang is killed next week per the preview. I don't think that will happen because Wang is narrating the story to us. But still, if it does happen, I'm going to be angry.
Thoughts on 11 1) Seriously? Talay had a month sitting around waiting for the tide to go out and he didn't bother to pick up his cell and call Tun's cell (which was Pakorn's cell now) and ask him what had happened in his universe to his character in the past 2 years? Not curious at all what his lover returned to? Just wanted to go home blind. No, the writer wanted us to be surprised because no one would behave like that. Same with Puen. Not curious at all when he met Tess. Not even bothering to ask Tess how Talay's life was going and what he might be dealing with when he returned? Do these guys care about each other at all? 2) And then seriously, did they have to insert that "I saw him with a girl, so he must have forgotten about me. Oh well, he's better off straight anyway, so I'll back away" trope? It made absolutely no sense since Talay had just sat through a movie where Puen apparently used their time together as inspiration and made it clear as day that he wanted to continue seeing him in the real life. 3) At least I know that there's Tim Hortons in Thailand, so when I go there next year, my partner will be happy. He loves that place, even if I don't. So I'll surprise him one morning. I guess it wasn't all bad.
There is no pedophilic in this okay just because a girl likes a guy younger does not mean shes being a pedophile…
Yep. So far, nothing has happened. She likes a younger guy. He likes and older guy. But, um, there's really no crime to report. I'm thinking they aren't going to get together until he's older, if at all. They are going to have to decide what to do about it, because as she found out in the pharmacy today, the stigma against older women dating younger men doesn't really go away.
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-Not sure of Bew's motive for working with Yo. We'll find out next week. My hypotheses are
a) Bew really doesn't have a plan. His feelings for Gus are so conflicted after the betrayal that he sometimes acts to destroy Gus and sometimes acts to keep Gus around. He just isn't thinking that far ahead.
b) Bew did have a plan, and that was to make Gus his boyfriend. He needed to get rid of the managers because when they were around, Gus would always be fed the idea that it was all just an act and they were going to pull them apart with their squabbling. He released the video and took the hit to become the victim, but he has another video where Gus' face is visible. The goal has been to come out publicly with the relationship which will make it difficult for Gus to break up with him in the future.
Who knows.
-O.K. the managers have no idea what "chemistry" is. Peak looks very uncomfortable around Kla. There's a history there and I look forward to finding out about it. If he didn't need the money, he'd probably ask for a different partner, if he'd join at all.
-Yeah, dear campus fujoshi with your cute boy shipping pages. LOL. All you're doing is helping swindling managers locate innocent young men to recruit into the atrocious BL mill of oppression. I hope you're happy now. :-)
-Who was the new manager? Was that Cheewin?
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Good to see the familiar faces, even if they are now in supporting roles. I had a tough time recognizing Jom under all that hair. I couldn't quite place him, even though I knew I knew the face. Looks like there will be more familiar faces dropping by.
I have to admit that I wasn't looking forward to this story. I was not enamored with this couple in Tonhon Chonlatee. Great that they were dating for 4 years, but I could never understand why they kept their friendship for Tonhon when he was a homophobe and they constantly needed to dance around his temper tantrums. They kept saying "because he's a good guy" but I thought it was very weak of them to move in together so they had to be closeted in their own home and weird that they didn't seem bothered by it. They went way beyond what normal people would put up with to scheme to keep their relationship a secret from a "friend" that I didn't find it funny, but sad. Since they didn't seem to want to change their situation until the end, I lost interest in them.
I had heard that the GMM series overplayed Tonhon's homophobia and violent temper, and that he was different in the novel. So I'll just erase that series from memory and treat this like it has its own continuity. A reboot rather than an origin story. I'm going to doubt that a kid with two fathers who is open about his sexuality with them is going to end up agreeing to hide out from Ton. At the very least, the fathers are going to have a word with him about the consequences of doing that, I'd hope.
Anyway, its not that I'm doubting that Nhai is actually straight. But ummm. He's so close to being out to himself that a simple clunk on the head should do the trick. Someone needs to sit him down and have him put two and two together about why he's gushing about how handsome other boys are and looking away from the faces of the girls he claims to adore to focus on one aspect of them that's masculine. LOL. Unfortunately, this guy is a bit dense to do that kind of math. This will take awhile.
I should care whether or not the evil doctor wins, but really, she's killed a bunch of characters who I really didn't like - hated actually. (I'm assuming that Rain is alive). And none of the heirs actually want to have the business. And the perspective of the writers seems to be that being concerned with the business is a moral failing. Only bad people want it. The doctor didn't really have to kill the entire family. Rain and Khim would have let her do and LBO. Dad is dead. They don't actually have to care if they don't want to. If the doctor wasn't such a murderous fiend, we'd be relieved right now.
Oh, lordy. Hopefully when its revealed that she's murdered an entire family to get the CEO position, the board will oust her. Why no one put forward the idea of naming an interim CEO and doing a proper search is beyond me. The shareholders aren't going to be calmed.
I know there is some confusion as to why they chose that particular property to hide out in. Its very simple. They spent a big chunk of their production budget renting that place and couldn't afford to hide anywhere else.
Only the strong survives, she says, while cutting off a perfectly fine rose whose "weakness" is that roses haven't evolved defense against steel garden tools. What a bully. Hopefully she'll die when the albino plant pushes her into a bed of carnivorous roses. First they lull you with their scent, then they prick you with their thorns, then they suck you dry to give themselves a nice red glow. So I'm calling it. I'm 80% certain she'll be killed by a plant. 20% certain she'll be hit by one of the comets on April 14.
Anyway as someone who has had relatives with both ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes, the idea of waiting to find out just how much functionality Khim will loose is gross malpractice. Maybe it'll just all go away, they say, showing a brain scan indicating that he's got hours left before he starts having regular seizures and has to teach himself how to chew.
1) First trivia. I wonder what the Thai idiom for "The elephant in the room" actually is. I'd find it weird if the idiom for ignoring something obvious was exactly the same. Anyway Wang decision to cut to the chase really let the 800 pound gorilla out of the bag here and now its kicking over hornets' nests in the China Shop.
2) Yeah, no big surprise that Sasi wasn't going to go along with this. I'm guessing that she has always imagined that Wang would marry the woman of her choosing. A woman incompatible with Wang, selected on purpose so that he would never fall in love with her, so she could continue to be the center of his life.
3) Still, if I was Wang's father, I'd probably forbid them from moving in together, too. They've only known each other 2 weeks. And if I'm In, I'm probably suggesting that he get a dorm nearby. There's a lot not to like about Wang. I'd want to get to know him a little more before I committed to seeing him 24/7. Dude has "issues" and a lot of baggage for a 20 year old. And while he's astute at point out everyone else's issues, he needs to spend time working on his own.
4) I'll be satisfied if they don't end up together. I'll be fine if they do. I'll be fine if its open ended. But I'll be very, very pissed if Wang is killed next week per the preview. I don't think that will happen because Wang is narrating the story to us. But still, if it does happen, I'm going to be angry.
1) Seriously? Talay had a month sitting around waiting for the tide to go out and he didn't bother to pick up his cell and call Tun's cell (which was Pakorn's cell now) and ask him what had happened in his universe to his character in the past 2 years? Not curious at all what his lover returned to? Just wanted to go home blind. No, the writer wanted us to be surprised because no one would behave like that. Same with Puen. Not curious at all when he met Tess. Not even bothering to ask Tess how Talay's life was going and what he might be dealing with when he returned? Do these guys care about each other at all?
2) And then seriously, did they have to insert that "I saw him with a girl, so he must have forgotten about me. Oh well, he's better off straight anyway, so I'll back away" trope? It made absolutely no sense since Talay had just sat through a movie where Puen apparently used their time together as inspiration and made it clear as day that he wanted to continue seeing him in the real life.
3) At least I know that there's Tim Hortons in Thailand, so when I go there next year, my partner will be happy. He loves that place, even if I don't. So I'll surprise him one morning. I guess it wasn't all bad.