ok i watched. it's one brief scene and the characters involved are not in a relationship with one another (which…
or maybe … get this, i thought the plot sounded interesting and felt prepared enough for the subject matter at hand when i watched. pathologising MDL comments is such strange behaviour. log off.
ok i watched. it's one brief scene and the characters involved are not in a relationship with one another (which…
what on earth would possess you to ask that? especially as a reply to a 3 year old comment i completely forgot about. and why would that be your first conclusion? some of us prefer not to watch those sorts of scenes because they can be disturbing or triggering. much like the way your mind seems to work.
this series has the best intro in BL history. argue with the wall. i feel like i'm about to watch the JUICIEST telenovela whenever the violins start up and i am SAT.
last update i could find is from 7 months ago, when the production company replied to a comment on the pilot teaser saying they were still seeking the funding for production. so i guess it's not off the table completely? but that they're still seriously struggling for funds.
the big controversy was him making homophobic rape jokes live on camera during Safe House in 2022. his excuse in his apology for this was simply that he "wasn't being careful" when he said those things.
he also posted in 2023 (see: https://x.com/combeferret/status/1654853735095435264) on his Instagram story about how schools "shouldn't be pushing this radical LGBT grooming agenda" to their pupils, so ... yikes.
He admitted, live on air on Baddy Friends that in highschool he looked through an peephole of a KINDERGARTEN at…
i'm 2 years late sorry, but i know White had a big controversy a few years back where he made homophobic rape jokes live on camera during filming of Safe House. Foei was also involved in making those jokes and Chimon also laughed at them. the apology that White and Foei gave afterwards amounted to White saying "sorry for making people uncomfortable" and Foei saying "we weren't being careful enough" with no real accountability or remorse.
idk of any controversies with Sing and Mond, though.
Why people hate this? Its one of my first Bls and from what i remember It was not that bad
this was one of my first BLs too, back in the days of yore when it was still airing and we had to watch Lazy Subber's fansubs on Dailymotion because BL hadn't yet made it to any legit streaming services 😭 and i loved it back then as a 14 year old, cause my frame of reference for what constitutes a "good" BL was so narrow. but if i was to watch it again now i'm in my 20s? i doubt i'd enjoy it nearly as much. if at all.
this series is a product of its time. it has some very questionable moments and harmful clichés which are unfortunately typical of older BLs. there's a recurring issue with the writers and characters trivialising/glamourising overt sexual harassment, plus the unhealthy relationship trope of one male lead who's just way too pushy vs the other male lead who clearly is uncomfortable with it and only gives in once he's been worn down over time, and the infamous "i'm not gay bro, i just like you" trope. and that's just the major stuff i can remember. now that BL has evolved past these tropes, audiences are much less likely to just accept this sorta stuff as "par for the course" with BL as we did back then.
i'm only 7 episodes in but this is so shallow, predictable and bland that it prompted me to make a bingo card to cross off all the tropes i thought they'd inevitably shove into it. sigh.
i swear most recent gmmtv stuff is the unseasoned boiled chicken of the BL world. and clowns like me still keep falling for it cause we're starved of anything else 🤡 they're so formulaic i can by now predict with 99.9% accuracy exactly when the first kiss is going to be in a gmmtv BL. should i put that on my résumé?
the main couple here are adorable, but i wish they'd communicate properly like the grown adults they're meant to be more often. i want to love the side couple too but it feels so forced and i have to 2x speed all their scenes just to get thru them and stay sane. i thought a historical setting might finally get gmmtv to stray from their scripted BL magic formula, but i shouldn't have got my hopes up.
with as few spoilers as possible, how toxic is the main relationship in this? and is it portrayed in a realistic way, or is the toxicity glorified? i love my historical BLs but i despise the 'rape to lovers' trope and the reviews i've seen on this page make me think that could be a thing here :/
honestly, once i got past ep 6, i just started to watch everything in 2x speed cause that's the only way i could…
i feel you. the second half of the series had me beyond bored cause it was so predictable. the storyline was hella messy and when you think about it critically for a fraction of a second, the entire premise of the show falls apart. also agree that the acting leaves a lot to be desired. i found myself questioning at times if they even had an acting coach on set. if they did, someone needed to get fired...
they had 4 screenwriters and this was the best they could do? yikes...currently 3/4 of my way thru ep 11 and STRUGGLING…
and somehow ep 12 was the most ridiculous of them all. icl the entire showdown scene just cracked me up. the way Uncle was lightly tapping at Palm's face and Nueng proceeded to act like he'd just shot him or smth had me laughing so hard 😭
i still don't get the point of Uncle's plot because unless Nueng's mother remarried and had another child (which seems unlikely at this point), Chopper would automatically inherit everything anyway given time. unless Nueng had his own child via surrogate or something or married Palm at some point in the future. idk the legality of spousal inheritance in Thailand, but whatever the case, Chopper inheriting by default as the closest living next of kin seems so likely that his dad's plan and thus the whole premise of the series is pointless and senseless. it's the way GMMTV writers seem to believe their audience is incapable of independent thought, for me.
also the scene where the "paralysed" leg is visibly bearing weight independently ... pure comedy. this moment comes very close in comedic value to the scene from the previous episode where Nueng is shouting "Doctor! she's waking up!" towards what is clearly a blank wall, with full feigned sincerity. my sides will never recover from that one.
y'all I was watching this and dropped it. I was so excited cuz of pondphuwin and like the whole aesthetic of the…
honestly, once i got past ep 6, i just started to watch everything in 2x speed cause that's the only way i could get thru it from that point onwards 😭 i beg GMMTV to hire some better screenwriters, though i doubt it'll ever happen.
he also posted in 2023 (see: https://x.com/combeferret/status/1654853735095435264) on his Instagram story about how schools "shouldn't be pushing this radical LGBT grooming agenda" to their pupils, so ... yikes.
idk of any controversies with Sing and Mond, though.
this series is a product of its time. it has some very questionable moments and harmful clichés which are unfortunately typical of older BLs. there's a recurring issue with the writers and characters trivialising/glamourising overt sexual harassment, plus the unhealthy relationship trope of one male lead who's just way too pushy vs the other male lead who clearly is uncomfortable with it and only gives in once he's been worn down over time, and the infamous "i'm not gay bro, i just like you" trope. and that's just the major stuff i can remember. now that BL has evolved past these tropes, audiences are much less likely to just accept this sorta stuff as "par for the course" with BL as we did back then.
i swear most recent gmmtv stuff is the unseasoned boiled chicken of the BL world. and clowns like me still keep falling for it cause we're starved of anything else 🤡 they're so formulaic i can by now predict with 99.9% accuracy exactly when the first kiss is going to be in a gmmtv BL. should i put that on my résumé?
the main couple here are adorable, but i wish they'd communicate properly like the grown adults they're meant to be more often. i want to love the side couple too but it feels so forced and i have to 2x speed all their scenes just to get thru them and stay sane. i thought a historical setting might finally get gmmtv to stray from their scripted BL magic formula, but i shouldn't have got my hopes up.
i still don't get the point of Uncle's plot because unless Nueng's mother remarried and had another child (which seems unlikely at this point), Chopper would automatically inherit everything anyway given time. unless Nueng had his own child via surrogate or something or married Palm at some point in the future. idk the legality of spousal inheritance in Thailand, but whatever the case, Chopper inheriting by default as the closest living next of kin seems so likely that his dad's plan and thus the whole premise of the series is pointless and senseless. it's the way GMMTV writers seem to believe their audience is incapable of independent thought, for me.
also the scene where the "paralysed" leg is visibly bearing weight independently ... pure comedy. this moment comes very close in comedic value to the scene from the previous episode where Nueng is shouting "Doctor! she's waking up!" towards what is clearly a blank wall, with full feigned sincerity. my sides will never recover from that one.