Feardorcha

Typical GMMTV presentation, nothing more, nothing less. At least they're mapping the formula to a story with an actual plot, so hopefully we won't be spending excessive time meandering.

I am so pleased to see Na. I dropped "We Are" so I'm thrilled I'll get to ogle him in this series, at least. I am definitely hot for teacher.

That milk to cereal ratio was nonsense and it was all I could think about during the food porn scene.

Not that I expect anything in this series to make sense but I hope it revisits that whole "Patrick fended off a vampire chick" from a few episodes back. The series might've forgotten about it but I certainly haven't. I realize there are endless shenanigans from the Dumbest Scooby Gang Ever to cover but, still. I would like some closure.

Just doing my usual rewatch at the 50% mark of a Thai BL series, checking for improved subtitles and, subsequently, additional insight.

Tong gives off big "I murdered a chick in University and hid the body" energy, doesn't he?

There is a difference between being powerless and being weak, and I fully admit I find the former more deserving of sympathy than the latter. If Joe is choosing to once again be Ming's doormat, despite having valid alternatives, then he deserves to once again be walked all over. So keep wiping those shoes, Ming, you delightful little sociopath, until that weak boy is crushed completely under your heel.

Grandmother's Glasses are my second favourite character in this series. They aren't my style but they have such personality and flair, and look like someone actually bothered with principles of form rather than just raw functionality. Usually in Thai shows eyeglasses (alongside wigs and jeans) are deeply unflattering and/or ugly as sin. I am half-convinced those glasses may actually belong to the actor rather than the production.

This Taemrak thing is very tiresome. Not merely because we know where it's all headed but because it just looks so assinine in-universe. They're publicly going about as boyfriends, spending most of their free time together, posting affectionately intimate updates on their socials, everyone seems aware they're screwing one another's brains out, and all those soft longing looks aren't happening entirely behind closed doors. Wandee is wearing Yak's necklace, for fuck's sake, and Yak is voluntelling his friends to actively support Wandee's scholarship efforts. How does any of that help the "Make Taemrak Fall for Yak" plan? If Taemrak actually DID fall for Yak, it would ruin her character, because she'll come off looking either bizarrely stupid or jarringly self-centered, neither of which she is. And not one single person in the viewing audience is convinced Yak has meaningful feelings for her anymore so...why are we doing this dance? It's lazily contrived even for a Thai BL.

Leave sweet Taemrak out of it and just give us more Dr. Plakao and his enthusiastic costumed sexplay research—for science!

An aside: did the OyeCher stuff make anyone else feel like they missed some scenes? I think I was more bewildered than Oye when Cher popped off in the gym. There's been some friction regarding their business finances, sure, but shite really escalated into a whole other thing this episode.

The clarification on Uncle's corporate position is everything I needed. Thank you, special episode. Also interesting to see four grown men, including the wildly advanced android with a massively juiced AI system, are absolutely baffled by the violently antagonistic concept of intentional low-speed collisions.

Whatever. Just bring back Yamase Kazuma's glistening naked torso and let me stare at that for the final episodes. I'm just so over the MLs and their bland, predictable nonsense.

A slow slide into utter mediocrity, and a pathetic "kiss" so insulting it makes me want to vomit. What a waste of time.

Perhaps you should read my comments again.

I would believe that was the intention save for the overall presentation of the conflict, which focused heavily on responses from Wandee that had little to nothing to do with the scholarship, particularly Wandee's juvenile "make him jealous" shenanigans. Indeed, so much of Wandee's subsequent behaviour following his unsuccessful confession has been about his anger at the rejection that I still can't take the scholarship contest seriously as an actual bone of contention rather than just Wandee's cover for dealing with his heartbreak by lashing out.

This series is wildly stupid. It is so very dumb. It's badly plotted, weirdly acted, and awkwardly shot. And yet, I can't look away.

On a serious note, and I swear I ask this every time, what exactly does the Thai BL industry have against Long? Did he run over someone's dog, seduce and then dump someone's kid, forget to respond to a text, what? The man is handsome, sexy, and a versatile actor; why does he keep getting relegated to such awful projects? Either someone has a vendetta or Long is being punished for some misdeed in a past life.

Nice of the series to show character behaviours from Dr. Ter that suggest he's a conflicted but perhaps narcissistic asshole with a power-control complex. Seems the series is aware enough to know it's ridiculous to villainize a character simply because they knocked back someone crushing on them. Yes, rejection is painful and humiliating, but no one is obligated to return anyone's romantic feelings, and it has been bugging the hell out of me that the series was treating Dr. Ter like a jerkass simply for declining to date Wandee.

In the same vein, we might be headed too far in the other direction, accompanied by some dullness about Dr. Ter emerging from the closet...

Frustrating. This series is just immensely frustrating.

I have watched this series, I think on average, every three nights since the last episode aired. At my most recent re-watch, I believe I finally understand why I adore this series so much: I love one-act plays; I love short stories; I love haikus & Gregorian chants; I love chamber operas & Kabuki; I love the silence between things. So this series rings rather loud.

Drake has been an absolute delight in every scene he's had from the very first episode. He's given his character such supportive warmth and calm humour, while still feeling like an individual rather than just an extension of a main character (which happens a lot with GMMTV's side characters). We should all be so lucky to have a friend like Dr. Plakao.

That...was a journey. While this series is definitely the best of MaxNat's projects to-date, it had its share of issues (the editing choices are flat-out baffling). However, I enjoyed visiting this tale each week, and there was a kind of magic in the asynchronous quality of the production from episode to episode. iQIYI, as ever, has the absolute worst translations, which also undermines the series, but with enough familiarity with Thai and/or checking out fan translations, there is certainly poetry to be found in the script, from time to time.

Worth at least one watch, despite its many flaws.

Oookaaaay. This series was uneven, while being engaging. I neither liked nor disliked the lead couple but their story felt rather silly and immature, particularly when contrasted with the second couple. I thoroughly appreciate that the second couple didn't have a perfectly happy ending, and their story instead took a more realistic direction that rang true to their characters and their conflicts. I'd love to see a spin-off for the two of them; them finding their way toward one another was the most interesting journey of this series, even if they didn't quite get there in the end.

Definitely worth at least one watch.

Ming is deplorable and Joe is pathetic. It'll be interesting to see if/how the series manages to make me care about either one, or their romance.

This series is just atrocious from the first episode to the last. One star for the dog.