The friends were shit - outing someones relationship is not a game - gay or not :/
No need to get pissy. They manipulated them to get them together as a couple, not to "get them to admit publicly to a relationship." Jin did just that of his own accord by posting to social media at the end of the finale. I don't think the stupid things they did had much of an effect, one way or the other. So no, I can't get worked up about what the group of friends did. It seems like you're looking for things to be grumpy about.
The friends were shit - outing someones relationship is not a game - gay or not :/
I don't get at all how doing those things is "outing" them as gay. And they didn't "force" Jin or Bbomb to do anything they didn't want to do. No one put a gun to anyone's head that I recall. To me, their biggest crime is that their "plan" was convoluted, contradicted itself, overly-complicated and very stupid. The writing was awful. But I don't see any "outing" at all in the ridiculous stuff they did. "Outing" them would be posting social media announcements that they were a couple when they were not. And no one did that.
Lighten up. It was a BL fictional series. LOTS of shows, straight and gay, feature this sort of conspiracy to…
It was downright silly in the finale when they actually met in a classroom sitting in a semi-circle around Aim as though she were the teacher. I could buy some college kids working together to get a couple together, but actually holding physical group meetings? No.
This show has been way too straight for too long, as indicated by your list of relationships above. The Gay is…
We are soulmates: I can't stand SOTUS or its sequel. I don't get why so many people worship them. I suspect a lot or most of them are straight girls and women, Magical Chaste Fujoshis, who for whatever reason love and adore the idea of two cute guys together as a couple. They get off on the romantic/emotional feels but are freaked out if there's much in the way of actual, human, realistic sexual attraction, let alone real action. lol So SOTUS and its even more annoying sequel are perfect for them: The leads go through a lot of the pursuer/pursued, flirting, falling in love, backing off, then jumping in stuff four endless hours and it's only at the ends that we get anything in the way of physical/romantic action, and it comes in the form of lame "mannequin kisses" (I love that term) during which the camera swirls and flies around the couple to make sure we don't see lips actually touch.
SOTUS was one of my very first BLs, and when that happened I was like "oh, no way, you have got to be kidding me." I laughed at the comical amateurishness of it and was pissed off the gay-phobic implications of it. For god's sake, I kissed a girl for real on the stage of my high school musical in front of hundreds of kids. And here we had a supposedly professional production going through these tortured machinations to prevent us from seeing two guys kiss. Annoying as hell.
Those two are reunited for that special episode BL called "My Skyy," I think, which features several BL couples from different popular series. They are MUCH better in their acting and actually make out a couple of times like real humans who are passionately in love.
"The Effect": Whether or not anyone's dead or not at the end, I don't call it suicide because Shin doesn't LOOK either way crossing the street as though he is deliberately intending to get hit by a car, he just steps out without looking. In my mind I decided that Teng really was on the other side of the street and came toward Shin, a car swerved and hit its brakes to avoid them and no one was hit or killed. :) That's my story and I'm sticking to it. They really ought to do a sequel. There's a big audience out here who would eat it up.
I guess I'm a horrible person: Even in "The Effect," I was shipping TengShin to the very end. The rape in that series was very clear in that it was unquestionably a deliberate, forced, act of physical sexual assault/penetration, no doubt about it, so I was horrified by that. And I even thought Teng was a bit psycho to get up afterward and go to the john, expecting Shin to be laying there waiting for him with open arms when he came back to bed.
I totally get the horror and emotional/psychic/physical damage an act like that would inflict on the victim, TOTALLY get it. I was actually hoping Teng's parents would press charges regardless of publicity but I suppose they did the least-bad thing; it's not as though there were any GOOD options. Unfortunately, this being a BL set in an Asian country, they decided the best thing was to let Shin lay alone in a darkened room 24/7, totally isolated, for weeks on end. ummm...NO. He should have been in a trauma center or at the very least in an intense outpatient program of treatment to get him through that. I thought their choice to let him lay there replaying the incident over and over again in his mind, was abusive; they didn't do their jobs as parents because THEY too were ashamed of what had happened.
Anyway, to my real point and the reason I suspect I am at heart a bad person, when Teng fell at Shin's feet, BEGGING for forgiveness, nearly hysterical with grief and horror at what he had done, I felt a little tinge of pity and empathy for him in my overly-soft BL heart. I cried. If ever there was a moment when one person had the power to allow another to begin to rebuild their life-and make no mistake, the damage was different of course, but I believe Teng's life was every bit as destroyed by that rape as Shin's-it was then, with Teng prostrate and groveling for just a sign, a hope, of forgiveness.
It would have been too soon, but I so badly wanted Shin to at least kneel down and put his hand on Teng's head...maybe even say nothing, just take that action. When he did not, that's when I thought "Teng is going to be the one to kill himself in the end. I see no coming out of this despair without compassion/forgiveness from Shin." Oh was that scene ever so hard to watch.
Regarding IPYTM, I never stopped shipping TehOh-aew for one second, even when Teh was being a complete ass. I was horrified at his actions, more so the episode with him staring at the director across the room while singing a duet with Oh, than the passionate smooch in the rehearsal room. I knew through it all that the one he loved was Oh. He just needed time to fuck up and be a moron to help him re-discover that for himself.
This show has been way too straight for too long, as indicated by your list of relationships above. The Gay is…
I just don't see a lot of what you get from this show, and that's fine. To me, it is much more a comedy, or it started out as one, a very funny slapstick, uproariously hilarious one, and then it began to fade about ep. 8 for me for a host of reasons.
BTW...don't hate me, but I'm not entirely sure there was a suicide at the end of "The Effect." Regarding IPYTM, LOTS of people take back a lover after a cheating incident, for better or for worse. I thought Oh-aew showed a great deal of compassion, forgiveness and maturity in doing so with Teh.
Anyone else have a burning need to bitch slap bbomb and jin's so-called 'friends'??? Treating them like fucking…
Lighten up. It was a BL fictional series. LOTS of shows, straight and gay, feature this sort of conspiracy to encourage a particular couple of people to fall in love. It can be a fun plot device, but this one was written so badly I can't believe it. I mean, Bbomb was already super-into Jin, why did they need Mark to flirt with Jin to make Bbomb jealous? WTF was that? He ALREADY liked him.
The biggest loophole for the series the whole gang acted as a cupid for Bombs request to let Jin be with him.…
How in the world is it "not acceptable" to attract someone to you until they fall in love? You can't "make" people fall in love. Bbomb didn't put a gun to Jin's head. If he was 100 per cent straight he never would have fallen in love with him anyway. You can't "make" that happen. lol
NEW NOMINEE FOR WORST BL OF ALL TIME. Almost nothing happened. Tons of bizarre scenes that stretched out and literally nothing was happening. Early in ep.. 10 the five guys sat back down in their classroom seats after the test and nobody said anything for about 40 seconds or so...then they went to eat somewhere. That was the scene. Weird acting and directing choices. Cliche/trope city, and not in a creative way. Bad acting all over the place. Over-arching plot device: yawn.
For some reason I kept watching, although by episode 6 it was just to see how REALLY bad it would continue to be. Why in the world did stud Bbomb like Jin? We never got an answer to that. Oh hell, I could go on and on but why? Just really bad.
I did like the last little touch where even Sister had a new man sniffing around...that hot Mark! I mean, I didn't really buy it as a plausible thing, but hey, why not? Oh and why would cute Jack go for that strange-looking Som-Som?
NEW NOMINEE FOR WORST BL OF ALL TIME. Almost nothing happened. Tons of bizarre scenes that stretched out and literally nothing was happening. Early in ep.. 10 the five guys sat back down in their classroom seats after the test and nobody said anything for about 40 seconds or so...then they went to eat somewhere. That was the scene. Weird acting and directing choices. Cliche/trope city, and not in a creative way. Bad acting all over the place. Over-arching plot device: yawn.
For some reason I kept watching, although by episode 6 it was just to see how REALLY bad it would continue to be. Why in the world did stud Bbomb like Jin? We never got an answer to that. Oh hell, I could go on and on but why? Just really bad.
I did like the last little touch where even Sister had a new man sniffing around...that hot Mark! I mean, I didn't really buy it as a plausible thing, but hey, why not? Oh and why would cute Jack go for that strange-looking Som-Som?
This show has been way too straight for too long, as indicated by your list of relationships above. The Gay is…
lol...I'm confused. From your comment above I gathered you really like this series. You can't do much better than 10/10. :)
I'm really sorry to see that this version is going to track the same plot as the Japanese original. I really thought they might change things up. But the truth is that Tin and SM don't have much of a relationship that we've been shown any of, so I don't really ship them anymore anyway. Weird show. I don't know that I've ever liked a BL this much and then dropped my rating by so much. Disappointing.
I like this series but not as much as you. lol There were a number of plot devices that I just don't buy.
These two intelligent men have had three years to prepare and have NO plan for how to present themselves as Kai's parents when he goes to school. They've been together six years and married I don't know how many and Jerry's parents are clueless? Please. They have a grandchild Jerry and Damian are hiding from them! Have they been hiding their family pictures and running out of the house when mom shows up for three or more years? Oh, btw, Jerry, Damian has a teenage son that, over the last six years, he hasn't found five minutes to tell you about. Please. Why was Jerry so afraid to tell his parents about his sexuality, marriage and child when he already has a sister who has been OUT as Lesbian for quite a while? He just came off as cowardly to me. And then when the big moment came the mom freaked out as predicted and then the dad said "no biggie" and we went merrily forward. Jerry's silly cooking show. That would never cut it as a popular Internet show, at least I don't buy it. Why was all the potential, exciting drama around how Jerry came to accept Damian's plan to have a child, how they got married, who was the surrogate and how did that go, the baby's arrival, etc, etc, etc, all just ignored? Flash-backs could have been fun.
I think I like it for its overall healthy vibe, I like the believable affection and sexual attraction between the married couple, and its healthy depiction of this particular gay family's life. I do find some of the LGBTQ- cheerleading to be a bit much at times.
SOTUS was one of my very first BLs, and when that happened I was like "oh, no way, you have got to be kidding me." I laughed at the comical amateurishness of it and was pissed off the gay-phobic implications of it. For god's sake, I kissed a girl for real on the stage of my high school musical in front of hundreds of kids. And here we had a supposedly professional production going through these tortured machinations to prevent us from seeing two guys kiss. Annoying as hell.
Those two are reunited for that special episode BL called "My Skyy," I think, which features several BL couples from different popular series. They are MUCH better in their acting and actually make out a couple of times like real humans who are passionately in love.
"The Effect": Whether or not anyone's dead or not at the end, I don't call it suicide because Shin doesn't LOOK either way crossing the street as though he is deliberately intending to get hit by a car, he just steps out without looking. In my mind I decided that Teng really was on the other side of the street and came toward Shin, a car swerved and hit its brakes to avoid them and no one was hit or killed. :) That's my story and I'm sticking to it. They really ought to do a sequel. There's a big audience out here who would eat it up.
I guess I'm a horrible person: Even in "The Effect," I was shipping TengShin to the very end. The rape in that series was very clear in that it was unquestionably a deliberate, forced, act of physical sexual assault/penetration, no doubt about it, so I was horrified by that. And I even thought Teng was a bit psycho to get up afterward and go to the john, expecting Shin to be laying there waiting for him with open arms when he came back to bed.
I totally get the horror and emotional/psychic/physical damage an act like that would inflict on the victim, TOTALLY get it. I was actually hoping Teng's parents would press charges regardless of publicity but I suppose they did the least-bad thing; it's not as though there were any GOOD options. Unfortunately, this being a BL set in an Asian country, they decided the best thing was to let Shin lay alone in a darkened room 24/7, totally isolated, for weeks on end. ummm...NO. He should have been in a trauma center or at the very least in an intense outpatient program of treatment to get him through that. I thought their choice to let him lay there replaying the incident over and over again in his mind, was abusive; they didn't do their jobs as parents because THEY too were ashamed of what had happened.
Anyway, to my real point and the reason I suspect I am at heart a bad person, when Teng fell at Shin's feet, BEGGING for forgiveness, nearly hysterical with grief and horror at what he had done, I felt a little tinge of pity and empathy for him in my overly-soft BL heart. I cried. If ever there was a moment when one person had the power to allow another to begin to rebuild their life-and make no mistake, the damage was different of course, but I believe Teng's life was every bit as destroyed by that rape as Shin's-it was then, with Teng prostrate and groveling for just a sign, a hope, of forgiveness.
It would have been too soon, but I so badly wanted Shin to at least kneel down and put his hand on Teng's head...maybe even say nothing, just take that action. When he did not, that's when I thought "Teng is going to be the one to kill himself in the end. I see no coming out of this despair without compassion/forgiveness from Shin." Oh was that scene ever so hard to watch.
Regarding IPYTM, I never stopped shipping TehOh-aew for one second, even when Teh was being a complete ass. I was horrified at his actions, more so the episode with him staring at the director across the room while singing a duet with Oh, than the passionate smooch in the rehearsal room. I knew through it all that the one he loved was Oh. He just needed time to fuck up and be a moron to help him re-discover that for himself.
BTW...don't hate me, but I'm not entirely sure there was a suicide at the end of "The Effect."
Regarding IPYTM, LOTS of people take back a lover after a cheating incident, for better or for worse. I thought Oh-aew showed a great deal of compassion, forgiveness and maturity in doing so with Teh.
Almost nothing happened. Tons of bizarre scenes that stretched out and literally nothing was happening. Early in ep.. 10 the five guys sat back down in their classroom seats after the test and nobody said anything for about 40 seconds or so...then they went to eat somewhere. That was the scene. Weird acting and directing choices. Cliche/trope city, and not in a creative way. Bad acting all over the place. Over-arching plot device: yawn.
For some reason I kept watching, although by episode 6 it was just to see how REALLY bad it would continue to be. Why in the world did stud Bbomb like Jin? We never got an answer to that. Oh hell, I could go on and on but why? Just really bad.
I did like the last little touch where even Sister had a new man sniffing around...that hot Mark! I mean, I didn't really buy it as a plausible thing, but hey, why not? Oh and why would cute Jack go for that strange-looking Som-Som?
Almost nothing happened. Tons of bizarre scenes that stretched out and literally nothing was happening. Early in ep.. 10 the five guys sat back down in their classroom seats after the test and nobody said anything for about 40 seconds or so...then they went to eat somewhere. That was the scene. Weird acting and directing choices. Cliche/trope city, and not in a creative way. Bad acting all over the place. Over-arching plot device: yawn.
For some reason I kept watching, although by episode 6 it was just to see how REALLY bad it would continue to be. Why in the world did stud Bbomb like Jin? We never got an answer to that. Oh hell, I could go on and on but why? Just really bad.
I did like the last little touch where even Sister had a new man sniffing around...that hot Mark! I mean, I didn't really buy it as a plausible thing, but hey, why not? Oh and why would cute Jack go for that strange-looking Som-Som?
I'm really sorry to see that this version is going to track the same plot as the Japanese original. I really thought they might change things up. But the truth is that Tin and SM don't have much of a relationship that we've been shown any of, so I don't really ship them anymore anyway. Weird show. I don't know that I've ever liked a BL this much and then dropped my rating by so much. Disappointing.
These two intelligent men have had three years to prepare and have NO plan for how to present themselves as Kai's parents when he goes to school.
They've been together six years and married I don't know how many and Jerry's parents are clueless? Please. They have a grandchild Jerry and Damian are hiding from them! Have they been hiding their family pictures and running out of the house when mom shows up for three or more years?
Oh, btw, Jerry, Damian has a teenage son that, over the last six years, he hasn't found five minutes to tell you about. Please.
Why was Jerry so afraid to tell his parents about his sexuality, marriage and child when he already has a sister who has been OUT as Lesbian for quite a while? He just came off as cowardly to me. And then when the big moment came the mom freaked out as predicted and then the dad said "no biggie" and we went merrily forward.
Jerry's silly cooking show. That would never cut it as a popular Internet show, at least I don't buy it.
Why was all the potential, exciting drama around how Jerry came to accept Damian's plan to have a child, how they got married, who was the surrogate and how did that go, the baby's arrival, etc, etc, etc, all just ignored? Flash-backs could have been fun.
I think I like it for its overall healthy vibe, I like the believable affection and sexual attraction between the married couple, and its healthy depiction of this particular gay family's life. I do find some of the LGBTQ- cheerleading to be a bit much at times.