Thanks for the recommendation! I'll definitely look at it. I've been waiting for a BL that has real LGBTQ+ sensibility so I'm excited. I've recently seen a lot of Filipino BLs pop up lately so I'll have to give them a try soon.
That's why I said one of the first. Also, I don't understand how Where your eyes linger is the first BL show when Long Time No See came before it. Is it because Long Time No See is considered a "miniseries" instead of "drama"?
The BLs that I'm looking forward to are Tharntype 2 (because it is getting into a setting that isn't college), motor-cycle, A Tale of Thousand Stars, 2 moons 3 (I have always loved that story and hated how season 2 ended, like it was so incomplete!), and I'm hoping for a yyy season 2. YYY was pretty weird but hilarious at the same time and even though most of it was totally joking it still had it's serious parts where you could tell they were good actors.
I do agree with wanting challenges in a story, I agree with you and how a show can be extremely boring if there are just cute moments. However, Thai BLs usually stick to the challenges only being cheating or misunderstandings of cheating when there are so many other challenges that a couple can face that doesn't really even include a 3rd party. So yeah I totally agree with you especially regarding your explanations on the challenges of BL couples from other shows. I liked 2gether at first but then it did kind of start sliding down, still was a fantastic show though. I haven't watched Gameboys or Hello Stranger yet but I've heard great things about it, right now I'm watching He's Coming To Me.
I'm not really sure that I wrote what I meant then, sorry. I didn't mean that their relationship was a real life scenario (but this kind of thing can happen btw, meeting at a coffee shop, it happens a lot) . And how they came together wasn't complicated nor boring, it was smooth, as it should be. Remember that their relationship isn't supposed to be the most realistic thing in the first place, it is a television show after all. Comparing it with a lot of other Thai dramas then it is more realistic (and by realistic I mean smoother and not as awkward or forced. Although, jealous Solo is kind of awkward to watch). I'm not talking about Solo's dad or saying that they are the ideal couple (they aren't), I'm simply talking about how they came together.
Oh yeah, Tharntype isn't my favorites but it's pretty high up. The only reason I don't like it is because of how dramatic it is, the view they put onto the lgbtq community, and the s*xual a**ault.
Oh I just mean how they came together like it wasn't complicated and there was a lot of mutual trust and understanding. Like yeah Gui did take a bit of time to completely open up to solo and explain his feelings for him but that's pretty normal, Ram and King from My Engineer was also a very healthy and realistic relationship. A lot of Thai dramas are kind of awkward in the main couples getting together and are pretty forced with a lot of drama that doesn't happen in real life. Plus the chemistry between the actors of Gui and Solo is amazing, it's just so natural.
That's how it was with me as well. To most people the thought of BL is really irking and weird but once you actually give it a shot it gets a lot better.