Silver_Sylphy

Ep.11 had so much potential . . .

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.

???? Was a smiley face emoticon

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.

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.

Spoiker alert!
Good commentary on the end:
https://youtu.be/ezBFGKnaYbs

Hope it's not another Waterboyy!

Say it ain't so. But it seems that way :(

I think this is the first time we see Yatch actually angry!

Handled well enough. Almost like a Project S SOS conclusion.
But what was that noise at the end?

It's a rehash of a used trope in many dramas, Asian and others. This, though, is with a Thai twist.

Nothing, but at one time she seems to have been in everything!

Toni invents another character! My gosh! He can change his looks and acting to be anything!

So much in EP.9 but Pluggy really stole the show. He carried that sad scene to almost Singo ability.

LGBT rights are one thing. They were forcing Type to take pics. He did say no, but they insist. Is the LGBT rights to take pics and pose with someone who said no?

From the preview for ep.3 at least they are not romanticising it. lets hop the darkness has a point...

Wow. Certainly not you cotton-candy, fluffy, boy meets boy falls for boy everybody's happy with it. Dam...

Not really for the ships, but at least the characters do grow and change as the series goes along. None reamain the Same. For the very least that should be appreciated.

Pretty actress who can come into her own. Hope to see her in more productions!

But there are still some elements that can make a low budget production better. The awkward silences at end of scenes for instance. Dramatic effect if used correctly. Creepy and slow if done wrongly, and that's true here in the first few episodes.