Also from the comments you've left around I get the impression that you're some middle age woman from Alabama?…
Please name ONE BL that features "endless smut." lol If you think what you have seen in ANY BL is "endless smut," you are one very sheltered and prudish person. Come on, I want to see this list of smutty BLs.
"and not addressing it in the RIGHT way..." and let me guess? That right way would be YOUR way, correct? Again: artists have the right and obligation to push boundaries and test assumptions. It is not their job to make you comfortable. The fact that H4CTY has you so worked up is a great thing from the perspective of the team and actors who made this show.
Finally, the show is only about 1/3 of the way through. How can you possibly even begin to judge where it's going, plot-wise?
if it were as popular as 2gether.. it will automatically get reruns..I don't know how much of a craze it became…
Was 2gether actually successful, ratings and popularity-wise? By the end i was so sick of the whole thing...the guitar player who never actually played the guitar, his acting got worse and worse as the show went on. Awful. Dark haired guy was good though.
Amazing show, was a little underwhelmed at the end, but I am tired too. Also what is with the controlling parents…
Hi there. In what way were you "underwhelmed?" I'm pretty demanding and I felt emotionally full to the brim by the end of this episode. Totally agree about BL controlling parents. It's a cliche now and writers need to get more creative, and also have BL children, who are actually young adults, tell these parents where to stuff it.
This is a great set-up should GMMTV decide to do a second season. Tian/Chief and their life in the village together. Teaching school and foiling smugglers. A beautiful village wedding near the end with Tian's parents and the entire village population in attendance.
Random thoughts on TOATS1 final episode: 8.5 stars
I have failed throughout this series to praise the acting of the village school children. They and the director did a great job. Not a false note among them. When Tian was saying goodbye and I could see the kids in the background crying even when they weren't up front made it all so real and cracked my icy heart wide open.
Hated Tian's cliche Asian mom. Even though she agreed, after much begging, to let Tian study education, naturally she HAD to have the last word by sending him off to the USA to study at a school he didn't want to go to. And naturally the dad backed her. Just once I'd love to see a BL character say "no, I am NOT going off to study abroad," (which is always the answer to everything in BL World) "I am going to study in the best education program Thailand has to offer and that will be more than good enough. And if that means you won't pay for it and I have to try for scholarships and get a job, so be it, bitch."
The 2 year separation made for great drama and reunification but it was totally unnecessary as a plot device. Tian studies in Bangkok and sees the Chief once or twice a month at the village. Problem solved. More of these horrible, rich, nasty, selfish Asian BL parents need to be told to stuff it.
Love how supportive Chief's buddies and the village are of the Chief/Tian thing. Beautiful in their very simple and full embracing of the couple.
Loved Tian's dad's acceptance of Tian/Chief. He got more than he bargained for in asking the Chief to watch over his son. :D
Mix's acting improved greatly this episode. I saw him being Tian and feeling Tian's feelings instead of acting them. What he conveyed with his eyes and face was the main reason I went through half a roll of paper towels.
Earth did a great job portraying Chief as the grumpy Green Giant whose heart, in this final episode, was broken wide open by his love for Tian.
Loved how Tian, beginning at the airport, demanded direct statements from the Chief as to what his emotions and intentions were. No more silence. Communication! And he kept it up right up to the cuteness overload near the end in making Chief beg and plead to join him on the soft bed. Surely they will get a bigger bed!
Loved that we got a final shot of the Chief's hot torso and cool tattoo as he proceeded to pull the blanket up and roll over on top of Tian at the end. Let the house-shaking banging begin! :D
What else?...the reunion scene on the mountain top was lovely and I sobbed through it, but the bit with telling Chief it was an emergency and him going up there aiming a loaded rifle at Tian was a bit much. I was just sure he was going to accidentally shoot Tian and that would be the end! wtf?
Earth portrays stifled emotion extremely well.
I want to see Tian bring Chief home to meet the parents.
I want to see that horrid Asian mother go visit Tian in the village and have to take a dump in the woods.
I want to see Chief's two ranger side-kicks end up as a couple. :D
Mix has a great butt and it was not featured nearly well or often enough in this series.
I am so thankful for a happy ending. We deserve all we can get.
The village elder broke my heart when he was telling Tian goodbye and said that usually it was only the children who cried when a teacher left...I'm bawling...
I wish Tian would have kept Torfun's beautiful diary. I understand that symbolism of the burial, but if it were me I would keep and treasure that diary for the rest of my life.
Eager to wade into comments and see what the rest of you thought of this. I bet there wasn't a dry eye in the thread. :D
OK, fine...I cried the entire first third of the episode, got about a third of a break in the middle to hate on the cliche Asian mom, then cried the entire last third of the episode except for the last ten minutes, which I spent wide-smiling like a crazy person until my face ached from happiness. I've had a lot of misgivings about this series but kept watching for the full and good heart I sensed was at its center. This episode made up for pretty much everything that bugged me off and on through the first nine episodes. BRAVO
Just finished watching ep. 5. A few comments before letting it sink in:
This episode was better by itself than the rest of the season all together so far, except for the couch scene and the initial re-meeting at the office with the awesome face-slap. Couch scene/face-slap should have had their own special one-hour episode. :) The Aspergers dude and future BF story line is beautiful and engaging. That flashback scene of when they first met was incredibly powerful and well-acted. When Aspergers bit into the other guy's arm and he gently said "you must be in a lot of pain" I got goosebumps and teared up. Lovely. Great acting. Even the makeup in that scene was great. Usually when a BL character is injured they just smear a little rouge in the corner of their mouth and call it good. Aspergers wounds and bruises looked real. Details like that are SO important. The give and take between She Di and Shu Yi's dad is awesome. Great negative-chemistry and I love the way Shi De toys with the dad. I wish I didn't still have to pretend all that went before that is ridiculous and impossible, but oh well... We wait five episodes and we get ten seconds of Shi De in the shower, though a bunch of steam, from the back, waist-up? WTF? They could have redeemed the entire season with one extended butt shot. Does Shu Yi actually DO anything at the office? He seems to sit cross-legged on the couch a lot and wait for other people to do things. lol The leads' inter-chemistry is off the charts. So sad so much of it was wasted by the script for most of the season. This show has so much potential and when it's good it's great. Why is it only six half-hour episodes long? When we get series like 2gether with 400 episodes that are absolute crap? How does that work? Aspergers guy is so hot/cute it slays me. When bartender guy walked in to get him at the police station and Aspergers just looked up at him with those puppy eyes I about wet my pants with adorableness. Shu Yi's dad, the actor, is hilarious and really good in that part. His frustrated anger is well-portrayed and a joy to behold. But I also feel him ever so slowly falling for Shi De as a potential son in law. He seems like the type who later on will be claiming that getting SD and SY together was all HIS doing. :D
Let us all moderate our criticism and clashes shall we? To all of us, no matter what our opinion is/which side…
Do you not know that MEN have children too? Even gay men who were married for ten years while in the closet? That would be me. And I have a 35 year-old son who ended up marrying his step-sister by my ex-wife's second marriage. She is four years younger than him and they've been together 12 years or so. Is your head exploding yet? My point, as you know if you actually read the comment to which you are referring, is that step-siblings are NOT blood related and cannot engage in incest of any kind. I also have two daughters, 32 and 30. Deal with it.
Also from the comments you've left around I get the impression that you're some middle age woman from Alabama?…
lol. You shouldn't make hysterically funny assumptions about other commenters based on your own ignorance. I am a gay as hell man and I'm middle-aged. I love BLs, the good ones, because through them I've been able to experience an adolescence that IRL I spent in the closet. I cry regularly during BLs and not during the hot sex scenes, as much as I love those. Often it's as simple as two young men holding hands and looking into each others' eyes that sets me off. I never had that when I was that age. I came out in my 30s and I've seen it all over the years. Most gay young men don't look to movies and series for their moral guidance. Do you?
"and not addressing it in the RIGHT way..." and let me guess? That right way would be YOUR way, correct? Again: artists have the right and obligation to push boundaries and test assumptions. It is not their job to make you comfortable. The fact that H4CTY has you so worked up is a great thing from the perspective of the team and actors who made this show.
Finally, the show is only about 1/3 of the way through. How can you possibly even begin to judge where it's going, plot-wise?
Random thoughts on TOATS1 final episode: 8.5 stars
I have failed throughout this series to praise the acting of the village school children. They and the director did a great job. Not a false note among them. When Tian was saying goodbye and I could see the kids in the background crying even when they weren't up front made it all so real and cracked my icy heart wide open.
Hated Tian's cliche Asian mom. Even though she agreed, after much begging, to let Tian study education, naturally she HAD to have the last word by sending him off to the USA to study at a school he didn't want to go to. And naturally the dad backed her. Just once I'd love to see a BL character say "no, I am NOT going off to study abroad," (which is always the answer to everything in BL World) "I am going to study in the best education program Thailand has to offer and that will be more than good enough. And if that means you won't pay for it and I have to try for scholarships and get a job, so be it, bitch."
The 2 year separation made for great drama and reunification but it was totally unnecessary as a plot device. Tian studies in Bangkok and sees the Chief once or twice a month at the village. Problem solved. More of these horrible, rich, nasty, selfish Asian BL parents need to be told to stuff it.
Love how supportive Chief's buddies and the village are of the Chief/Tian thing. Beautiful in their very simple and full embracing of the couple.
Loved Tian's dad's acceptance of Tian/Chief. He got more than he bargained for in asking the Chief to watch over his son. :D
Mix's acting improved greatly this episode. I saw him being Tian and feeling Tian's feelings instead of acting them. What he conveyed with his eyes and face was the main reason I went through half a roll of paper towels.
Earth did a great job portraying Chief as the grumpy Green Giant whose heart, in this final episode, was broken wide open by his love for Tian.
Loved how Tian, beginning at the airport, demanded direct statements from the Chief as to what his emotions and intentions were. No more silence. Communication! And he kept it up right up to the cuteness overload near the end in making Chief beg and plead to join him on the soft bed. Surely they will get a bigger bed!
Loved that we got a final shot of the Chief's hot torso and cool tattoo as he proceeded to pull the blanket up and roll over on top of Tian at the end. Let the house-shaking banging begin! :D
What else?...the reunion scene on the mountain top was lovely and I sobbed through it, but the bit with telling Chief it was an emergency and him going up there aiming a loaded rifle at Tian was a bit much. I was just sure he was going to accidentally shoot Tian and that would be the end! wtf?
Earth portrays stifled emotion extremely well.
I want to see Tian bring Chief home to meet the parents.
I want to see that horrid Asian mother go visit Tian in the village and have to take a dump in the woods.
I want to see Chief's two ranger side-kicks end up as a couple. :D
Mix has a great butt and it was not featured nearly well or often enough in this series.
I am so thankful for a happy ending. We deserve all we can get.
The village elder broke my heart when he was telling Tian goodbye and said that usually it was only the children who cried when a teacher left...I'm bawling...
I wish Tian would have kept Torfun's beautiful diary. I understand that symbolism of the burial, but if it were me I would keep and treasure that diary for the rest of my life.
Eager to wade into comments and see what the rest of you thought of this. I bet there wasn't a dry eye in the thread. :D
OK, fine...I cried the entire first third of the episode, got about a third of a break in the middle to hate on the cliche Asian mom, then cried the entire last third of the episode except for the last ten minutes, which I spent wide-smiling like a crazy person until my face ached from happiness. I've had a lot of misgivings about this series but kept watching for the full and good heart I sensed was at its center. This episode made up for pretty much everything that bugged me off and on through the first nine episodes. BRAVO
This episode was better by itself than the rest of the season all together so far, except for the couch scene and the initial re-meeting at the office with the awesome face-slap. Couch scene/face-slap should have had their own special one-hour episode. :)
The Aspergers dude and future BF story line is beautiful and engaging. That flashback scene of when they first met was incredibly powerful and well-acted. When Aspergers bit into the other guy's arm and he gently said "you must be in a lot of pain" I got goosebumps and teared up. Lovely. Great acting. Even the makeup in that scene was great. Usually when a BL character is injured they just smear a little rouge in the corner of their mouth and call it good. Aspergers wounds and bruises looked real. Details like that are SO important.
The give and take between She Di and Shu Yi's dad is awesome. Great negative-chemistry and I love the way Shi De toys with the dad. I wish I didn't still have to pretend all that went before that is ridiculous and impossible, but oh well...
We wait five episodes and we get ten seconds of Shi De in the shower, though a bunch of steam, from the back, waist-up? WTF? They could have redeemed the entire season with one extended butt shot.
Does Shu Yi actually DO anything at the office? He seems to sit cross-legged on the couch a lot and wait for other people to do things. lol
The leads' inter-chemistry is off the charts. So sad so much of it was wasted by the script for most of the season.
This show has so much potential and when it's good it's great. Why is it only six half-hour episodes long? When we get series like 2gether with 400 episodes that are absolute crap? How does that work?
Aspergers guy is so hot/cute it slays me. When bartender guy walked in to get him at the police station and Aspergers just looked up at him with those puppy eyes I about wet my pants with adorableness.
Shu Yi's dad, the actor, is hilarious and really good in that part. His frustrated anger is well-portrayed and a joy to behold. But I also feel him ever so slowly falling for Shi De as a potential son in law. He seems like the type who later on will be claiming that getting SD and SY together was all HIS doing. :D