I had a friend like Kaeng except when one of his f-buddies would start to date someone, the way he'd interfere was by trying to seduce the guy the f-buddy was interested in. Watching today's episode I was relieved that at least Kaeng didn't try that.
It's like they started with a BL Production Kit and BL Script-o-matic with the Cringe setting on "High", but it's a fun way to end the week and I can't hate it.
Both Mork and Bbomb from Nitiman are going from cute guys in love to crazy/psycho stalkers. They both acted wrong…
OMG yes! Is there any main character in this series who's still worth rooting for? They're all so unpleasant.
I'm going to finish the series out of sheer curiosity, but it's gotten to where I forget that it's even running until YouTube serves me the latest episode.
Agreed! That is a garbage reason and cop out. It reminds me of the people who will watch BL dramas but don’t…
It's the antique notion that same-sex relationships are only about sex, not love. So, I'm guessing you're right. They don't want to corrupt the children.
I'm a little bit confused as to why people are bring up BL/"Yaoi" topics to write about~ It might be just me...…
It's interesting that you seem to think of discussion of a BL series as a sexual topic. Sex might happen in a BL series, but BL is not 'about' sex any more than a series like 'What's Wrong With Secretary Kim' is.
Also, 'The Untamed' is a bromance, not a BL, and many of the objections here are in regard to the hypocrisy of this article breezily saying that you can write about anything, whereas the actual guidelines it links to clearly state that BL topics are not allowed because of the underage people using the site.
It's such a homophobic 1950's mindset that you'd think they'd hesitate to put it in writing, but in my experience the people in charge on here do tend to live in their own world, not caring about when they are inconsistent and often shrugging off members' concerns.
A fun thought experiment would be to imagine the reaction if m/f relationships like the one in 'Secretary Kim' couldn't be written about for fear of corrupting underage members. Given the nature of so much of Asian drama, such a rule would be pretty stupid, right? This place would be a ghost town with only the forum games like 'Count to 10,000'.
The first episode is an amazing introduction to the main characters and the story. So light-hearted and bright to begin with, then suddenly all those surprises to add shades of darkness and mystery.
Whoever submitted the recommendation for 'Go Ahead' was spot on. This already feels like a junior version of that series, which for me was epic -- one of the best I've ever seen.
The concern for protecting the kiddies from seeing two men in love is discriminatory at best and bigoted at worst.
Meanwhile it's okay to produce articles celebrating the m/f relationships in dramas -- some of which depict toxic relationships and/or have quite provocative or even violent sex scenes.
Unfortunately, as much as I love this site I have found that decisions like this are usually made arbitrarily and never reconsidered. So, just another day on MDL.
For me, the absolute best of these two-parters so far.
The writing is insightful and restrained and the performances are pitch-perfect. The sex is realistic without being over the top, and sorry folks but I think it's an essential element to the story. Sex is what Kaeng has come to substitute for real intimacy, and as such a person his performance in bed is one of his greatest sources of self-esteem. His dwindling ability to use it to keep Puth at his side will be a big factor in the emotional crisis that he's about to descend into.
By the end of Part 1 you can already sense how Puth's slow withdrawal from their 'arrangement' is knocking Kaeng off-balance. I felt so bad for Kaeng when he showed up wearing the eyeglasses, as though he really thought that such a superficial detail would be all it took to keep Puth from abandoning him.
It made me wonder: was the invitation to the movies real, or was it a test -- another sign of Kaeng's growing desperation? Looking at what Kaeng and Puth have in each other I tend to doubt they've ever really gone to see a movie together, or had a civilized sit-down dinner, or even engaged in a real conversation -- one that wasn't just a form of foreplay to get them back in bed again.
I'm pretty sure Ryan Ren has two tattoos in his neck region. In the series, one of them does seem to be covered with makeup while the other has the bandage on it.
I checked back with Chuang 2019 and saw that during a performance he had the bandage on the LEFT side of his neck. (In the series the bandage is on the right side.) In a pic that I found of him online where there's no bandage on the left side, you can see a tattoo of Chinese symbols in a horizontal line leading down from his ear.
That's the tattoo that actually did get covered with makeup during the series. Somewhere around Episode 11 there's a close-up side of the left side of his head and you can see the makeup in a line that is covering that tattoo.
Meanwhile, what we see in the series is a bandage on the RIGHT side of his neck, lower down and partially touching his shoulder. That one might have been too difficult to cover with makeup since the makeup would wear off as they did all the different takes of the scenes. Clothing would rub against it and eventually the tattoo would show.
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I'm going to finish the series out of sheer curiosity, but it's gotten to where I forget that it's even running until YouTube serves me the latest episode.
Also, 'The Untamed' is a bromance, not a BL, and many of the objections here are in regard to the hypocrisy of this article breezily saying that you can write about anything, whereas the actual guidelines it links to clearly state that BL topics are not allowed because of the underage people using the site.
It's such a homophobic 1950's mindset that you'd think they'd hesitate to put it in writing, but in my experience the people in charge on here do tend to live in their own world, not caring about when they are inconsistent and often shrugging off members' concerns.
A fun thought experiment would be to imagine the reaction if m/f relationships like the one in 'Secretary Kim' couldn't be written about for fear of corrupting underage members. Given the nature of so much of Asian drama, such a rule would be pretty stupid, right? This place would be a ghost town with only the forum games like 'Count to 10,000'.
Whoever submitted the recommendation for 'Go Ahead' was spot on. This already feels like a junior version of that series, which for me was epic -- one of the best I've ever seen.
Meanwhile it's okay to produce articles celebrating the m/f relationships in dramas -- some of which depict toxic relationships and/or have quite provocative or even violent sex scenes.
Unfortunately, as much as I love this site I have found that decisions like this are usually made arbitrarily and never reconsidered. So, just another day on MDL.
The writing is insightful and restrained and the performances are pitch-perfect. The sex is realistic without being over the top, and sorry folks but I think it's an essential element to the story. Sex is what Kaeng has come to substitute for real intimacy, and as such a person his performance in bed is one of his greatest sources of self-esteem. His dwindling ability to use it to keep Puth at his side will be a big factor in the emotional crisis that he's about to descend into.
By the end of Part 1 you can already sense how Puth's slow withdrawal from their 'arrangement' is knocking Kaeng off-balance. I felt so bad for Kaeng when he showed up wearing the eyeglasses, as though he really thought that such a superficial detail would be all it took to keep Puth from abandoning him.
It made me wonder: was the invitation to the movies real, or was it a test -- another sign of Kaeng's growing desperation? Looking at what Kaeng and Puth have in each other I tend to doubt they've ever really gone to see a movie together, or had a civilized sit-down dinner, or even engaged in a real conversation -- one that wasn't just a form of foreplay to get them back in bed again.
I checked back with Chuang 2019 and saw that during a performance he had the bandage on the LEFT side of his neck. (In the series the bandage is on the right side.) In a pic that I found of him online where there's no bandage on the left side, you can see a tattoo of Chinese symbols in a horizontal line leading down from his ear.
That's the tattoo that actually did get covered with makeup during the series. Somewhere around Episode 11 there's a close-up side of the left side of his head and you can see the makeup in a line that is covering that tattoo.
Meanwhile, what we see in the series is a bandage on the RIGHT side of his neck, lower down and partially touching his shoulder. That one might have been too difficult to cover with makeup since the makeup would wear off as they did all the different takes of the scenes. Clothing would rub against it and eventually the tattoo would show.