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I'm glad I irritate you. It means you are the type of BL commenter I can't stand and most definitely wish to annoy. Thank you for the compliment.

As for Anson's drunk acting...everyone metabolizes alcohol differently and some people have a very high tolerance. I know from experience. I've known people who drank all day and you could scarcely tell.

You're simply accustomed to the BL cliche drunk: one drink and they go from completely coherent to falling-down smashed out of their minds. Just like with sexual activity and everything else in life, there are infinite shades of gray when it comes to drunkenness. Anson performed that reality beautifully. Too bad for you you're unable to appreciate it.

Major props to Anson Chen for playing a realistic, believable drunk and hungover character. He didn't over-do it, he didn't rely on cliche acting choices, he just played it subtle and low-key and it was perfect.

Major props to Anson Chen for playing a realistic, believable drunk and hungover character. He didn't over-do it, he didn't rely on cliche acting choices, he just played it subtle and low-key and it was perfect.

You are correct. Lots of commenters replace actual situations in dramas with their own fantasies of what happened.

"ableist" "misogynistic..." lol You are a classic SJW using all the cliche terms associated with that type.

I'm confused. I paused the vid on the shot of that couple toward the end. I don't recognize them from MODC. Who are they? Thanks.

Thank you for this intelligent and thoughtful post. I agree with you whole-heartedly.

What a great episode, even if it was heavy on the tropes/cliches. Is it just me or does this episode look as though it were shot straight to video? It has that American afternoon soap-opera look. Did they run low on money this far into the shoot? Anyone know what I'm talking about?

I'm here for both couples. I love both relationships and all the gray area. It's interesting and dramatic.

Licking would be "problematic" and "inappropriate" and possibly rape. Please be sure to get your new BF to sign all the appropriate legal consent forms with each stage of your potential love-making, or you'll be in big trouble with the SJWs here. :D ;)

That's what comes of knowing too much about these actors off-screen. lol I had no idea Tong was as old as he is and he seems perfectly convincing to me as a high-schooler, which is, I think, a tribute to his fine acting. ALL of the actors in this show are doing a really impressive job with the acting. So much subtlety and understatement in the performances. Nice.

WTF? Someone tell me I didn't see what I think I just saw...

I have to say, there is some really fine, subtle acting going on among these young men. Interactions that are so understated but that clearly convey the characters' emotions and motivations. No obnoxious over or just plain bad acting we see in many BLs. Impressed. First couple of episodes had me debating whether or not to keep watching. Glad I did. But if the end of ep 4 indicates what I think it indicates, maybe I won't be so glad.

Wow. That kiss at the end of ep. 3 was epic. Sweet/romantic/sexy and very little hesitation. No mannequin-kissing in this show! It was heartbreaking to watch them slowly come back to reality and to see the instant awkwardness/panic between them The entire scene, including the dancing part, was very well-acted by both actors. I give them great credit for throwing themselves into that smooch and making it so real.

Just one episode in. Gave it a 7. Cute actors. Doesn't seem terrible, but not bowled over either. I like the actor playing student council president. It feels like maybe this is one of those BLs in which pretty much every guy on campus is gay, which takes a lot of reality and opportunity for conflict out of the story for me. We'll see how it goes.

You're welcome. For me at least, the video quality was crystal-clear.

I love that you're the one throwing "rape" and "assault" and "consent" and "medical help" and "fetishized" and "should be" and "actually LGBT" and "forced" and "fujoshi girls" and "yaoi tropes" and all other kinds of judgey bullshit around here but I'M the "judgemental" one. Yeah, right. lol

I'm sure you're a real thrill in the sack, taking frequent time-outs to make sure you and your partner(s?) sign all of each others' legal consent forms with every additional flick of the tongue or wiggle of a finger in a new spot. hahaha

Why wouldn't asexuals or demisexuals want to enjoy a good BL romance/drama with plenty of steamy, questionable sex and wild character behaviors? I watch murder mysteries and sci fi even though I'm neither a murderer or an alien. You seem to struggle with the difference between real life and what you see on a screen. Just because someone in a series gets tied down and has candle wax dripped on them against their will doesn't mean that actually happened in, you know, the actual world.

Just finished watching this for a second time. I was surprisingly bored by much of it, particularly the straight segments, lol, and ended up fast-forwarding to the Korn/Knock scenes and those related to them, such as the parents and the odious PETE. ewww....I felt I was catching social diseases from him just by watching him on my screen.

This time I just wanted to focus on Korn/Knock so that's what I did, even though I love Yiwha and Cho too. Those two kept me watching through a few of their scenes, despite myself. The actress who plays Yiwha is extremely talented, with a great range, able to play heavy drama as convincingly as slapstick comedy. I love her.

In particular, I wanted to say how impressed I was with Max's acting, especially from the pivotal Pete incident and forward...his devastation at his own behavior was palpable; I felt sick at heart and stomach FOR him, just as he did in the story. To see big, confident, sweet, smart Korn so utterly wrecked; pale, sickly, weeping and begging from his very soul was really emotionally powerful and moving for me. I felt his misery at having totally fucked up and there being no way to go back in time and un-do what he had done. ugh. So excellent. Max is a very talented actor, and to me Korn is the overall, all-things-considered hottest, sweetest, kindest, most loving lead in all of BL-dom.

Major props to MaxTul again for totally immersing themselves in the physical/sexual aspects of their roles. No mannequin kissing or awkward high-fives. Especially from Max, but also from Tul, I feel throughout that these two young men truly love and care for each other. Very moving.

I admire this series for GOING THERE in regards to actual, physical, full-on sexual cheating outside of a good relationship and the devastating emotional, mental and even physical suffering that usually comes as a result. I saw characters on screen who were sick in body as well as at heart over what they had done. These characters were real, flawed humans. Sometimes even very good people do really bad things.

BRAVO.

BRAVO!

I guess I won't be watching this series, as I had completely forgotten about it until I got the notification of your reply to me. I don't know...just didn't interest me. If you don't mind saying, in a nutshell, why are comments about this one so "virulent?" Worse even then the WBL thread?! :D

I don't go looking at people's watch lists, for god's sake. Sounds like you do, though. lol

I'm pretty freaking gay and fairly "actually" homo, so get over yourself with assuming you're in a position to tell people what to like and how to feel about it. Lots of us here don't believe there WAS a rape in H4CTY, so we're not struggling with all the outrage and moral superiority issues on your plate.

I think straight girls who are fascinated by gay male relationships are perfectly fine, entitled to enjoy what they enjoy without being shamed for it, as well as being the only reason there are BLs for you to pretend to be outraged about in the first place. Fujoshis ARE BLs, God love 'em. I love and adore the Fujoshi in H4CTY. She's sweet, kind, friendly and genuinely cares about the gay guys she gets such a kick out of. I wish I had a friend like her.

Lots of straight men LOVE fantasizing about or seeing vids of two women together. Are they morally depraved perverts as well? People like what they like and Fujoshis aren't hurting anyone, except in your mind.

"Fetishized." lol Another tell-tale term used by the prudish SJW, PC crowd, right along with "problematic" and RAPE!!!!! Human sexuality is wildly diverse and millions of people who will admit it have "fetishes" of all kinds and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it.

People like you are just a newer version of what I call "Church Ladies." Uptight, sexually repressed, prudish, Puritanical busy-bodies who are desperately afraid that at any given moment someone, somewhere, might actually be having a good time. And they are deathly afraid of SEX! They think they know what' "healthy" and "moral" for everyone else when they really ought to just keep their focus on what's going on between their OWN legs.