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It's actually better fakery than I've seen in a lot of Cdramas.

The attempt to portray orchestra conducting looks similarly absurd. Even if they couldn't afford a music consultant to coach the actors you'd think they'd ask them to watch a few YouTube videos to get the gist.

In the movie version of "Call Me By Your Name", toward the end of the film Elio and Oliver hike toward a waterfall that represents the powerful, enduring love that they feel for one another. (This from a podcast interview of the producer of the film, although probably not his exact words. I was obsessed with CMBYN when it was first released.)

I'm all about a feisty Fluke as well. :)

I decided to try submitting corrected English subs to iQIYI for the Ashing-Mangkorn scenes in Episode 5. The last time I did that was for another series where the subs caused a crucial moment between two characters to come off completely wrong -- and iQIYI accepted them! So we'll have to see if they do that here, too.

If they do take them, I'll go back and work on the earlier scenes for those guys too. I don't know if I could tackle the Athit-Sun scenes. My brain might go numb.

I have been wondering if the performances here might be an ill omen for Between Us. That said, this script really is awful, and the badly translated subs make it worse.

Try a VPN into Taiwan.

Yes, Ton is on another level entirely. Next week they lighten his hair. I suppose it says something that I'm looking forward to the episode based on that alone.

Well, that and Kom-Baiboom.

I don't know. I think they're neck and neck. :)

From the way Baiboon was first introduced in that earlier episode I thought he'd be a naughty boy, but he's actually so cute and sweet.

Like the previous episode this one was less cringy. There were goofy bits like the ticking clocks that everybody believed were bombs, but I think as long as they stay away from attempting BDSM sex scenes or showing Kamol's back tattoo they might be able to pull this one off.

Any guess on how many tranquilizers were pumped into Whipped Cream before they filmed that scene? With those O_O eyes he put the "cat" in catatonic. :)

His evil laugh in LBC belongs in a hall of fame somewhere.

It’s the BL equivalent of comfort food. You don’t want it for every meal but sometimes you crave it. And in that regard it delivers.

It's getting to where it's critic-proof.

I agree on the Ohm/Nanon ratio. In that scene my reaction to the taxi driver was "Who's your eye doctor?"

I've never been on the Nanon bandwagon. The seemingly universal adoration for him has always been a little sus to me. I would say he's more handsome than cute, but not my type of handsome. Ohm, on the other hand ...

Frankly, I was surprised that Jimmy sang as well as he did, and I was glad we got to hear him sing at all. I think in a lot of series we would be told that a character is an idol but we'd never actually see him perform.

Ikr! I had to check how many episodes there are.

In this episode it was the only thing that made me laugh out loud. It was so nutty and unexpected. ^_^

True. And there's also Nuea's type of love: unrequited, with the "bonus" of having to watch one of your best friends win out over you.

Me too! Make him work for it.

I know that Episode 7 is another example of a problem that could be solved in a couple of minutes if people would simply communicate, but it's all done so well that I don't begrudge it. We get to see an unexpected side of Mark, and who would have thought that Vee's dad of all people would be the one who finally gets Vee to quit sulking and fight to get his man back.

Yiwaa is annoying af but for me what she said to Ploy was very satisfying .

The writers toyed with a couple of worn tropes and thankfully didn't follow through. When Vee got in the bike accident I expected it to become the reason for Mark to come rushing back to his side, but it didn't, and the scenes with Vee standing outside Mark's apartment all night (and getting soaked in the rain) passed by without much fanfare.

What really touched me was the scene with Mark and Nuea. "If you're hurt, why do I have to ignore it?" Finally we got a glimpse at the pain Nuea has been in, having to watch from afar as Mark gets swept away by a friend who seems not to appreciate what he has. Please, please give us a remake of Nuea's love story. Prom would bring us such a great performance as a lead in that.

If you watch him back in the Ugly Duckling series, damn he's a hottie in that!

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2y5ukVz3fo