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Fair enough about the langauge and age. It's more about the sentiment though. Still stand on my point.

Make sure to check out the tags first. It's classic chinese BL.

That I get. I just don't get the it's the best show i've ever seen vibe from these two episodes. It's a bit ridiculous.
Edit: leaves me wanting to compare it to love is more than a word (2016). twelve episodes better executed and better acted.

HOW is this being called a masterpiece and so good? The episodes were basicilly info dump. The affect leaves much to be desired. Y'all can roast me for this. I will die on this hill.

Ah.

Singapore

read them all but found this episode highly disturbing. showing r as sexy times (hua's pov) is a blatant disregard for the physical and psychological harm to victims and this character is a repeat offendar at the level of the psychological violation.

i'm used to abo, but this is on a whole other level of ick particularly in this medium where so many eyes are on the material before the final cut.

i get that it's where china's at in terms of it's own bl content evolution, but wow. this is a hard no.

he's kind of stupid tbh and he's the character i anted to root for in the beginning. not the r part but him staying around for dregs not even crumbs.

okay. this show is super disturbing. i'm okay with psychologically dark content, but this beyond the pale. the 2 ML's I would stay away from in rl...and in fiction. there is nothing romantic about the two relationships and to market them as such is what is highly disturbing.

Okay. Me thinking ah I miss pre BL takeover lakorns let me check out one with epic pining. Finally decided on Buang Banjathorn 2017. Me being like, why does this unimpressive guy (that was what I remembered from my first watch a few years ago) seem familiar? Then. me being like what!!?? APO!!! 👀

Anywho.

This week's episode was lovely. No notes.✅

i was shooked. always found him beautiful.

And where did I comment about high school innocent romance. If you want to make a comment about my intellect first understand what I wrote and don't make assumptions about what you think I mean.

I didn't suggest it a queer story specifically and I never called BL frivolous. I also didn't like L in the C so never had that convo. In any case, I'm not interested in the broader conversation. I'm just saying I don't see it fit into the genre. It isn't that deep on my end.

I am not sure why you assume that l think of bls as a negative or immature genre. When I mentioned age, I meant the subjects of bl stories.

I actively watch and read bl content and except for some thai pulp have seen most series.

If you want to give it that broad meaning then go ahead (I know some fans extend the term yaoi); however, I will contend that it's a specific genre with specific tropes and specific visual language that doesn't cover all gay/queer romance and in that sense this drama is not a BL,

I consume BL media and this doesn't read 'boys love' to me. There is no shade invovled merely an observation of the visual language and the tropes. I don't have all the technical knowledge to explain the ins and outs but I know a BL when I see one and I know other queer/gay romance that don't fall into the genre when I see one.

the age of the protagonists. the camera language. the themes, the women, etc.

Is this a bl though? it doesn't scream bl to me.

Why is it that I need to watch the episodes multiple times to take it all in. It's crazy good storytelling. The visual language (ending scene opening door looked like the turn of a book page), the lighting, the camera mirroring the character pov; the poetic language; the muscal language. Then there are the characters moving in and out of each other's space and the glimpse into their internal space. This show seriously. It's unraveling me.

Sorry. I don't think I intended to respond to your comment.

This show made me lose my ish. I had to rewatch and dissect it a few times. As a musician, I am so down with the ost and the sound design. Well done BOC.