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Like, even if he's an orphan who doesn't know his genetic lineage, the fact that alphas, betas and omegas exist in his world doesn't seem to be a big secret? They even offer walk-in testing for it at any hospital. Even his best friends have secondary genders, but somehow it was never once mentioned in the years they've known each other? It never came up in conversation? It was never mentioned in school, never on the news? Maybe if these "wolf-spirit descendants" lived in secrecy and seclusion from the rest of society, but...that definitely doesn't seem to be the case...

I wouldn't hold my breath.

They even said that alphas emit pheromones that can suppress others, and Nakhun being a "true alpha" should easily be able to suppress those lowlife thugs without having to fight, even if they were alphas (just like Sheng Shaoyou does in Desire). Why even put that into the worldbuilding if they're just going to ignore it later?

The lesson I learned from My Stubborn is that MFlow lucked out massively when they signed Boat and Oat. They're the only reason to watch anything coming out of that production company. The writing, the other actors, the direction, the camerawork, the editing...none of those are worth watching for.

I agree, it was awful writing. There's no reason why a smart, clever, educated person like Phatsa grew to adulthood without knowing about A/B/O when it's something that affects many people massively and can even be tested for easily in any hospital. Even his friends are tested and know their secondary gender, but somehow this never came up in conversation? It just doesn't make sense. Like you said, in such a world all teens would go through a standard test to show if they are pure humans (no differentiation) or alphas, betas or omegas. It's not like the latter are a small, close knit group living in seclusion from the rest of the world, which would be the only plausible reason for Phatsa being clueless. They're obviously everywhere.

And I agree, the exposition was incredibly clunky, like it was written by a middle-schooler. It could have been done so much better.

I admit that maybe my expectations on MFlow were too high. Boat and Oat deserve better.

Boat and Oat were the only redeeming factors of My Stubborn and the only reason I'm watching this.

I guess they just ran MTL for the subs because they are so bad it's even hard to make sense of them. It really drags it down. That's not what I pay an iQiyi subscription for.

Copy A Bangkok just decided to rerun this on their YT starting July 1 (but judging by the subs on the trailer, they didn't put any extra effort into it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH8pOWt4pqk

The title song even goes "You're a red flag but I'm colourblind" 😂 I guess some people are voluntarily colourblind 🤭

There's only one episode out so far and nothing like that happened in the episode.

I get what you mean, but the novel is several years old and came out long before they filmed RL... It just happens to play right into our fantasies about what might happen behind the scenes on a BL set

OMG thanks for letting me know, Viki just pushes you to the next episode before the end

I mentioned it because they are listed above as legal streaming platforms for the series.

THIS!!! Saying that strong male friendship is "queerbaiting" when it never pretended to be queer is just perpetuating toxic patriarchal masculinity. We need MORE media depicting strong, close male friendship. That does not in any way stand in opposition to gay media, if it's not a case of a censored adaptation of a same-sex romance.

Spare Me Your Mercy

I'm assuming it will be on Viki where it's not on Gaga... i. e. most of the world

Unfortunately not in the Americas, Europe, Oceania, the ME or India

That's standard procedure in C-dramas.

Even though Gaga calls this a BL in the synopsis on their site, this has not been marketed or publicised as such in Japan. It's an LGBTQ drama, not a BL. Depending on your preferences, this is not necessarily a bad thing, but if you are looking for a cute Japanese BL, look elsewhere or adjust your expectations.

Yeah, you may have a point. This is basically prostitution, and there's often a very blurred line between prostitution and coerced sex, since many sex workers probably wouldn't resort to it if they had any other choice. And romanticising either is very icky.
I think Thai BL was worse in the early days, on the whole, but there seems to be a resurgence of the toxic tropes recently.