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Unless they got daring and had SD and SY's relationship seriously threatened by some incident, revelation or unforeseen development. Oh, sorry...that would require imaginative writing so that won't be happening.

I feel like the plot just kept getting more and more boring and uneventful as the episodes progressed. Yeah, if S2 was this bad, we can only imagine what a nightmare an S3 could be.

Because this episode was so bad?

Wow. Just stunning how awful this season was, and the last episode ended just as awfully as the rest of it. Highlight of this ep. was the acting of Chih Tian Shih as Asprergers in the scene where he brought the bartender guy's belongings to him, speaking as he walked up the stairs so slowly. Beautifully performed.

Wait a minute...all of a sudden Shou Yi also has an affective disorder, this one preventing him from feeling anything emotional? That would be news to his cousin who he was in love with last season. Then somehow the affective disorder disappeared after Asperger's moving speech on the steps.

Writers made SY and SD downright boring. A blissfully happy, sexless, wealthy, successful and totally uninteresting pair of young executives who were handed their professional positions by their father/mother but seem to think they earned their way to the top by hard work. lol And SY's going to present a speech at the graduation? Please. How far we fell from that initial powerful slapping scene at the office early on and the couch scene later. All drama and anything gripping was drained from the plot as the season progressed.

Swimming pool scene was entirely predictable from the moment they walked into the building. How is SY going to give his big speech at the graduation now that he's soaking wet?

So boring. Such a waste of acting talent from the leads. Terribly disappointing.

"toxic..." "hurtful..." "couldn't believe my eyes..." "hurtful..." Going through a day must be very painful for you what with all the unkind, insensitive, cruel things people say and do that wound your delicate fee-fees.

"insensitive..." lol Yes, and as a result of those two words in one comment on an obscure BL chat thread on the Intertrons, the entire world came crashing down.

Is it just me, or is the Tee/Fuse/Jean plot just kind of bizarre and totally unbelievable? Tee clearly loves Fuse and would do anything for him and Fuse knows this. Fuse clearly loves Tee and they both know this. They have been in love for at least a year. They have butt-sex regularly and enthusiastically. They stare into each others eye with tenderness and affection while unicorns and butterflies circle the sky above them. Yet we're to believe that Fuse still hasn't dumped Jean. He doesn't need any other reason other than that he loves Tee. That's the only reason he needs.

And then we have Tee giving him love advice on how and why he should perhaps talk things out with Jean and stay in a "relationship" with her. What? While he continues to sleep with and bang Tee on the side? None of this seems plausible to me, given the basic decency at the heart of Tee and Fuse's characters.

The scene where Tee and Fuse see Jean in the parking lot with some other guy and Fuse goes all macho and Tee holds him back is ridiculous. Fuse is with the man he loves and obviously prefers to Jean. He hardly spends any time with Jean unless she initiates it. To me, the guys are at the point where Jean cheating on Fuse should come as welcome news, giving Fuse the perfect out. Instead, he's ready to beat up the guy Jean is with ? Nah, don't buy it.

If this is supposed to be Fuse's continued fear of coming out of the closet, or fear of his parents or Tee's parents' reactions or something, the show is doing a very poor job of showing that to the audience. I especially don't buy Tee's continued willingness to be a bit on the side to Fuse, given how much he loves him. And Fuse loves Tee with such adoration that it doesn't make sense that he'd continue to disrespect Tee by being with Jean. It's absurd.

On the plus side, I love Mo's new-found crush on Yot or whatever his name is. :D

I WILL NEVER FORGIVE THAT HORRID PRAEW FOR TRAUMATIZING MO NEAR THE END.

The sad tears rolling down his face in that scene wrecked me.

For some reason, I kind of like Yok. I think he comes off as kind of aggressive and bitter because he IS. His homophobic mother is a nut case who knows he's gay but keeps throwing girls at him and humiliating him in a million other ways. Imagine having a mom like that. Yikes. I also like that he's kind to Christina, whom I could never have been friends with in high school. Yok is a confident/proud/angry gay. With good reason.

High-schoolers do all those things.

Man, was he handsome/beautiful or what?! That body too. Yikes.

Tee was pretty darn straight-forward and aggressive in letting it be known he was after Fuse. Remember the cafeteria scene where he made a big, loud spectacle of dragging his chair over to Fuse's table to sit right next to him. He pretty much said out loud "I'm going after Fuse," and let the place go crazy as a result. lol

Stopping back by after finishing episode 12. I watched this about a year ago, so second time thru. I had forgotten what a beautiful, silly, touching, adorable, moving BL this show is. I think of it as iconic in the BL catalog. So much cuteness and joy and awkwardness and uncertainty and courage and pain and fear all put together in an imperfect but nevertheless wonderful package.

I cried a number of times simply because the scene I was watching was so very tender and the connection between characters felt authentic and real despite the hilariously annoying mannequin-kisses. lol I loved the combination of laugh-out-loud slapstick comedy and juvenile fart-jokes with deeply moving and heartbreaking drama that brought me to tears. That is not an easy combo to pull off, but for the most part this series did just that.

If I were 16 again Tee would be the boyfriend I never had at that age. The actor often said so much with that tight smile and those hesitant, beautiful eyes.

Well, you're right about the SJW part, at least. :D

First of all, I am not the commenter who used the Holocaust survivor term as a descriptor to begin with. Keep your facts straight. I am reacting to your attempt to police other people's style of writing or choice of analogies.

My dad fought in WW II. His airplane/bomber was shot down over Germany. He parachuted to safety but was arrested by German troops and spent 18 months in a Nazi prison camp. As a result, I have always been fascinated with everything about that war. I know more about Germany, WW II and the Holocaust than you can even begin to imagine. I have studied the topic and soaked up everything about it that I can for many, many years. I continue to do so to this day.

I have images in my head of the extermination camps that will never leave me. Which is why the commenter's vivid descriptor leapt out at me. They may have exaggerated about MR's thin frame, but not by a whole lot. The man is extremely skinny. The metaphor made its point aptly. The difference between you and me is that I see the writer's choice of words as an effective means of communicating a strong visual comparison and you see it as an opportunity to go all SJW self-righteouos-how-dare-you-shut-up-see-how-socially-aware-I-am for the comment section.

Think about being a lot less super-sensitive about everything outside your very narrow perspective. You'll feel a lot more relaxed. It must be exhausting to monitor and evaluate and judge and condemn people's speech and thinking all around you every day.

It's amazing how riled up certain types get if one dares to challenge their thinking, which is usually along the line of outraged sexual prudery and the idea that what they believe is self-evident, thus their shock at being told otherwise. I was raised in a very religious atmosphere. Church/Sunday School and eight years of daily parochial school. It was ALL about being told what to think with the assumption that to question any of it was beyond the pale if not sinful itself. And of course the most passionate outrage was reserved for anything having to do with sex, especially gay sex. I am gay, I was gay then and 37 years in the closet didn't make me any less gay. It was horrible.

The SJWs on here ranting about you-know-what sound just like those people I heard when I was growing up and throughout my life. I know personally the kind of damage that sort of thinking can and does do to other people every day. I suppose all of this is where my passion for these comments comes from. I don't like people like this one bit.

Of COURSE you'll keep watching. lol

Oh honey, it's not complicated: If you really find the show offensive or objectionable, then stop watching it. Why would anyone do otherwise unless they just enjoy declaring their moral objections in comments? Or do you secretly get off on the parts you complain about? That's not a rare thing. Lots of moralizing blue-noses are eventually exposed as practicing those things against which they most strongly preach. Stop giving the show clicks and quit bothering people.

Smart ass. lol

I quote you: "go get your ass to therapy, you dummy! there's seriously no good reason to be /that/ unhappy."

XS moving back in is still a crazy-ass idea. What a nightmare of bad vibes that would be. Both step-sons need to get out of there permanently. They can go home for dinner as often as they like.