Given the shenanigans and buildup in Episode 13, if they don't bring Rain back from the dead it will be a severe case of audience abuse. Which as I think about it, I wouldn't put that past this crew hahahaha.
That corporation's board of directors are a bunch of chuckleheads.
Santi the butler is a boss, though!
With both Khim and Payu now at the villa, I predict that Rain will make his reappearance there, perhaps after he has been in the secret room for a few days recovering from his injuries. (But I question that the villa is the safest place for Khim to be. I'd think almost anywhere in Thailand would be better than where the evil doctor lady last sent the family off to their doom.)
I thought Sun's embrace of Khim as Khim wept could have been a little more heartfelt. He made it look like an obligation.
And speaking of heartfelt, I can't believe they wasted a side story on yet another one of Sun's heart flutters, or whatever it is. Poor Fluke, having to act out that nonsense.
So we finally see Mol's true colors. According to her, Wang is in love with In not because of In himself, but because Wang lacks love and attention and needs a father figure. Wang's duty is to stay with her.
When she asked In to help her make Wang "normal" again it was the last straw. What's normal about a mother not wanting her son to have his own life?
When Wang said "what about me?" there was never a truer statement.
I hope In won't repeat his mistake with Siam and try to steer Wang in a direction that Wang really doesn't want. That was Siam's undoing.
Of course, there's still that question of whether In feels the same way about Wang. If he does, I hope he won't wimp out again and let that horrible woman manipulate him into having her way.
The two leads are obnoxious and conceited. As I said after the first episode, it's good that they'll prey on each other instead of the rest of the student population. I don't give a rat's ass about their "relationship" and will keep watching only for the side couples.
Before I got into BL, I read a lot of British boarding school novels. In most of them the gay element is a subtext, where the most you could expect was something like one boy getting jealous of another for getting too friendly with his closest, most cherished friend, but there were daring exceptions.
The scene on the stairway where Ayan reassures Khan that he (Ayan) has no romantic feelings for Thua hit me so hard, because it was like a scene right out of one of those books. I just loved it. The dialog skirted artfully around the real topic, giving both guys plausible deniability, but the message that Ayan sent to Khan was received loud and clear, and it all ended with Khan feeling happily validated in addition to reassured.
Moments like that make me truly appreciate the writing and acting that this series delivers every week. And it's one reason I think the pacing is just right. It's giving everyone's emotions the time to deepen and become clear.
While I think the "kiss tease" was a disgrace, what I appreciate about this series is the ambivalence that the two guys -- especially Akk -- have toward one another as they figure out their feelings. In an environment like that, the pressure on someone like Akk would be almost overwhelming. He has so much at stake, including the very fact that he can attend the school.
I'm glad they don't have him just suddenly falling for Ayan, changing his ways to become a reborn activist. Depicting the transition believably is a challenge, but it will make his eventual conversion to the cause -- and his own acceptance of his love for Ayan -- all the more satisfying.
Yup, that NC scene was better than any I've seen in a BL or any other series for that matter. As I realize there was a whole crew of people in the room with them to capture everything, requiring multiple takes from different angles, I have to hand it to Boss and Neoul. Experienced actors would be lucky to be able to pull that off.
I was also thinking that Rain has certainly gotten past his homophobia from Episode One. It would be funny to see an edit that intercuts his statements in Episode One with the raw hunger he exhibits in this one. I loved his aggressiveness.
I wonder if the NC scenes between Prapai and Sky will have similar heat. Anything on the same level as this might have me trippin' even more. Holy shizzle.
Another reason that Rain must be alive is that we haven't seen the payoff from him discovering the secret room in the barn. Presumably he's the only one who knows about it, since Rain's attempt to bring it up with the housekeeper was cut off before he could say anything.
So, I wonder if that will be Rain's hiding place at some point -- perhaps when the evil doctor lady tries to send her team back to the villa to finish the job.
That was the laziest writing I've seen in a long time. Why on earth would Kim deliberately eat that? And again,…
In the "Sun not wanting to cuddle" scene, I think if Kim has succeeded in detaining Sun in that embrace we'd have some outrage on here over non-consensual hugging.
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That corporation's board of directors are a bunch of chuckleheads.
Santi the butler is a boss, though!
With both Khim and Payu now at the villa, I predict that Rain will make his reappearance there, perhaps after he has been in the secret room for a few days recovering from his injuries. (But I question that the villa is the safest place for Khim to be. I'd think almost anywhere in Thailand would be better than where the evil doctor lady last sent the family off to their doom.)
I thought Sun's embrace of Khim as Khim wept could have been a little more heartfelt. He made it look like an obligation.
And speaking of heartfelt, I can't believe they wasted a side story on yet another one of Sun's heart flutters, or whatever it is. Poor Fluke, having to act out that nonsense.
When she asked In to help her make Wang "normal" again it was the last straw. What's normal about a mother not wanting her son to have his own life?
When Wang said "what about me?" there was never a truer statement.
I hope In won't repeat his mistake with Siam and try to steer Wang in a direction that Wang really doesn't want. That was Siam's undoing.
Of course, there's still that question of whether In feels the same way about Wang. If he does, I hope he won't wimp out again and let that horrible woman manipulate him into having her way.
The scene on the stairway where Ayan reassures Khan that he (Ayan) has no romantic feelings for Thua hit me so hard, because it was like a scene right out of one of those books. I just loved it. The dialog skirted artfully around the real topic, giving both guys plausible deniability, but the message that Ayan sent to Khan was received loud and clear, and it all ended with Khan feeling happily validated in addition to reassured.
Moments like that make me truly appreciate the writing and acting that this series delivers every week. And it's one reason I think the pacing is just right. It's giving everyone's emotions the time to deepen and become clear.
I'm glad they don't have him just suddenly falling for Ayan, changing his ways to become a reborn activist. Depicting the transition believably is a challenge, but it will make his eventual conversion to the cause -- and his own acceptance of his love for Ayan -- all the more satisfying.
I was also thinking that Rain has certainly gotten past his homophobia from Episode One. It would be funny to see an edit that intercuts his statements in Episode One with the raw hunger he exhibits in this one. I loved his aggressiveness.
I wonder if the NC scenes between Prapai and Sky will have similar heat. Anything on the same level as this might have me trippin' even more. Holy shizzle.
So, I wonder if that will be Rain's hiding place at some point -- perhaps when the evil doctor lady tries to send her team back to the villa to finish the job.