The Boat Left The Island
Frankly, I am not sure how I sat through this miscue. It is an inferior story with pedestrian acting. There I said it and am glad I did. I just do not know when these sappy BLs, will end. This is yet another in a L-O-N-G line of them. What saved this series from being on my Bathos List is the cinematography. The water scenes are exceptional but there are not nearly enough of them. If you are going to have a story about mermen, how about showing more of them and their communion? This whole story is so cliché driven and full of tropey other side-characters that quickly you begin to realize that this will be no different than a whole bunch of other Thai BLs of the same ilk. Dull, lifeless characters with no personalities. Love scenes that are more rehearsed made to feel quite quaffed and polished but not concrete. Couples with little to no screen chemistry and lightweight sexual tension. In other words, a zero-believability factor. While the merman scenes were quite good, there were so few of them that they almost were secondary to the story. This series started out so promising but swam off into the deep end not because of the actions of the mermen but because of the poor script and lifeless characters.
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