Love how this special episode showed us that Lhong is also damaged, no more so than Type and Tar, although his trauma was more emotional than physical, and he was not just being a creep for creeping out the audience.
Well, finaly it came to an end. As expected quite a bit rushed towards the end. How and why did Fah get out of…
Spoiler tag! That out of the way it wasn't the usual teen bop GMM production which was good. It has some of the most amazing acting from this group as well at the older GMM crop. It took the War of High School theme and improved on it. It was an improvement on The Gifted also. We could have got a little more background on Jinmanee to really understand her a little better, but the plot twists were actually quite well done. Having flawed heroes is also always a good thing. Wanpadej came out with some good character development. I still maintain that Tuck needs the Villain of the Year Award!
I really didn't mind a Grey Rainbow ending. What i totally, wholeheartedly disliked was not getting to see the death or the aftermath. Comeon! Your going to do that to one of the most beloved characters in a franchise, nah, Asian dramadom, and all we get is one sentence from a far secondary character? All we get is hearing about it? No memorial, no afterward? Nah. This really took a pie and slammed it into the face of the fandom!
Can someone just please give Tuck the Best Villain Award for 2019! Great acting all round from the cast! Some of the best acting from Chimon also. Finally Drake and Kanaphan can show that they are good actors too!
Can't believe this was in 2016 and still my favourite series from Thailand and tied for first with Goblin, Good Thief Bad Thief and Descendants of the Sun!
This is a genuine coming of age story! While not perfect, the innocence and development of the characters was breathtaking to see! They all grew and were changed! Cant wait for ep.19 and 20!
How much is the romance in this? Not in the mood for romance. Friendship/bromance is a yes.
More sport comrade than even bromance. Nice, refreshing series even if it's trope filled and cliche. The story is simple and easy to follow. The characters are likable.
Thanks for an interesting review. I wasn't sure about which drama to choose for my lazy saturday - but your…
Sorry for responding 2 years+ later. Yes. One of the good thing about SOTUS is that it's not cliche filled and trope heavy. Nor is it overly sweet and romantic. Hormones presented real situations that the characters had to deal with too. It was quite enjoyable. Not really a drama, but stand alone episodes Thirteen Terrors was epic too for quite a scare.
How embarrassing! I’ve had to come back to explain that the symbol ??????! actually stands for... LOL.:-)))))
Lol. Np. I must say this is the first time in all my years someone is basically calling me the anti-gay ????. In fact many friends I've made via MDL think I'm gay from the reviews and comments to Thai BL dramas. Please read my response to your post and try to understand the angle the review came from.
“I mean another BL... Nothing wrong with a good BL story, but it's getting kinda long in the tooth,” says…
Sorry if you think it's some type of animosity about a BL story being against my likes or anything like that. I simply meant cliche and trope filled stories, BL or not. Meaning one meets another, falls in love, some situation, change, everybody accepts, story done. I enjoy Thai BL and all the other Thai dramas. In fact, no one does a good BL story like the Thais and GMM in particular. SOTUS actually has a story. It was a situation. Arthit and Kongpob have an amazing character chemistry played by two of the best Thai actors I've seen. It also has a realness that many other dramas (BL or not, Thai or not) do not possess. The "nothing wrong with" was just referring to another trope and cliche filled show with that many of the younger demographic seem to like. SOTUS did have its fair share of cliches, but, placed in such a realistic situation and with actors who can portray proper emotion it had a realistic realness, for want of a better phraseology. Take Arthit's dramatics of doing the rounds around the field. That scene was so perfectly acted by both actors. Singto, in particular, with his amazing facial emotional range, pulled off his concern with offering the umbrella so magnificently! (Matched, somewhat, a few years later by the umbrella scene in 2 Moons.) It is my no.2 Thai drama just after Part Time which had a feeling of realness that even the Club Friday stories can't seem to match. In it's genre, though, it's just slightly short of Hormones which is a classic in its own right. Another example of trop filled no real fun is Love at First Hate. Could never finish that one. If LFH had the main characters as a BL it still won't make it any better (and it can't really be any worse). I really don't like the stringing of a story just to fulfil some quota for a target demographic and SOTUS did not feel like that. Waterboyy and You are my Boy both felt like this fake grab at trying to get a demographic. Both stories could have been done so much better IMHO. Stories, not characters, and certainly not better of it was boy girl rather than boy boy. I am in no way a homophobe nor do I inherently find BL stories "bad" or anything like that. I do enjoy most of GMMs BL and non BL productions as you can tell if you looked at my watchlist. Right now I am throughly enjoying TharnType for it not being, again, classically cliche and trope filled, but actually something different. Looking at a character's background and what could have created the personality in the first place and an examination of a character is more fun than watching tropes strung together. I think SOTUS somewhat had this, seeing the characters grow and change as the series went on. A growth and change that can actually be seen and totally carried into SOTUS S. Also, not really watching the previews and spoilers, I wasn't even expecting this to be a romance, BL or not. I went into it thinking it was something like Part Time: more focused on characters and situations than romance being the main storyline. I do hope you understand what I'm trying to say. I do think I'm more open minded than being into thousands of years of hetro literature seeing that I've introduced many people to BL and Thai drama/ culture in general.
That out of the way it wasn't the usual teen bop GMM production which was good. It has some of the most amazing acting from this group as well at the older GMM crop.
It took the War of High School theme and improved on it. It was an improvement on The Gifted also.
We could have got a little more background on Jinmanee to really understand her a little better, but the plot twists were actually quite well done.
Having flawed heroes is also always a good thing. Wanpadej came out with some good character development.
I still maintain that Tuck needs the Villain of the Year Award!
What i totally, wholeheartedly disliked was not getting to see the death or the aftermath. Comeon! Your going to do that to one of the most beloved characters in a franchise, nah, Asian dramadom, and all we get is one sentence from a far secondary character?
All we get is hearing about it?
No memorial, no afterward? Nah. This really took a pie and slammed it into the face of the fandom!
Great acting all round from the cast!
Some of the best acting from Chimon also.
Finally Drake and Kanaphan can show that they are good actors too!
While not perfect, the innocence and development of the characters was breathtaking to see! They all grew and were changed!
Cant wait for ep.19 and 20!
The story is simple and easy to follow. The characters are likable.
Yes. One of the good thing about SOTUS is that it's not cliche filled and trope heavy. Nor is it overly sweet and romantic.
Hormones presented real situations that the characters had to deal with too. It was quite enjoyable.
Not really a drama, but stand alone episodes Thirteen Terrors was epic too for quite a scare.
I must say this is the first time in all my years someone is basically calling me the anti-gay ????. In fact many friends I've made via MDL think I'm gay from the reviews and comments to Thai BL dramas.
Please read my response to your post and try to understand the angle the review came from.
I simply meant cliche and trope filled stories, BL or not. Meaning one meets another, falls in love, some situation, change, everybody accepts, story done. I enjoy Thai BL and all the other Thai dramas. In fact, no one does a good BL story like the Thais and GMM in particular.
SOTUS actually has a story. It was a situation. Arthit and Kongpob have an amazing character chemistry played by two of the best Thai actors I've seen. It also has a realness that many other dramas (BL or not, Thai or not) do not possess.
The "nothing wrong with" was just referring to another trope and cliche filled show with that many of the younger demographic seem to like.
SOTUS did have its fair share of cliches, but, placed in such a realistic situation and with actors who can portray proper emotion it had a realistic realness, for want of a better phraseology. Take Arthit's dramatics of doing the rounds around the field. That scene was so perfectly acted by both actors. Singto, in particular, with his amazing facial emotional range, pulled off his concern with offering the umbrella so magnificently! (Matched, somewhat, a few years later by the umbrella scene in 2 Moons.)
It is my no.2 Thai drama just after Part Time which had a feeling of realness that even the Club Friday stories can't seem to match. In it's genre, though, it's just slightly short of Hormones which is a classic in its own right.
Another example of trop filled no real fun is Love at First Hate. Could never finish that one. If LFH had the main characters as a BL it still won't make it any better (and it can't really be any worse).
I really don't like the stringing of a story just to fulfil some quota for a target demographic and SOTUS did not feel like that. Waterboyy and You are my Boy both felt like this fake grab at trying to get a demographic. Both stories could have been done so much better IMHO. Stories, not characters, and certainly not better of it was boy girl rather than boy boy.
I am in no way a homophobe nor do I inherently find BL stories "bad" or anything like that. I do enjoy most of GMMs BL and non BL productions as you can tell if you looked at my watchlist. Right now I am throughly enjoying TharnType for it not being, again, classically cliche and trope filled, but actually something different. Looking at a character's background and what could have created the personality in the first place and an examination of a character is more fun than watching tropes strung together. I think SOTUS somewhat had this, seeing the characters grow and change as the series went on. A growth and change that can actually be seen and totally carried into SOTUS S.
Also, not really watching the previews and spoilers, I wasn't even expecting this to be a romance, BL or not. I went into it thinking it was something like Part Time: more focused on characters and situations than romance being the main storyline.
I do hope you understand what I'm trying to say. I do think I'm more open minded than being into thousands of years of hetro literature seeing that I've introduced many people to BL and Thai drama/ culture in general.
Good commentary on the end:
https://youtu.be/ezBFGKnaYbs