AN INCREDIBLY stupid script in nearly every of its plot moves.
But the actors save it, as well as overall production values besides the scriptwriting. Also, it is not boring, which is a major plus. it is much better to have silly stuff happening than nothing happening at all as in many other series.
So all in all it is worth to watch because the BL genre is not about scripts that make sense, it is about the lads, and those are great here. And Pond has played well after being wooden in his first due with Phu (Fish Upon The Sky, 2021).
But I do wish the series would not contain any tragic events at all. Because it all is so silly that the series would look much better as a self aware farce.
The first episode is discouraging. So much is cliche, and the writing is really silly.
However, if you like the lads, you can survive it by “suspending disbelief” trick, which you would need to do, it seems, a lot while watching the series.
If only the scriptwriters cared to not be lazy and rewrite, replace the stupid parts with something more believable. Then it would have been much easier to watch even for those of us who can not switch their brains off and enjoy it as effortlessly as some others can.
Pond is playing much better than in the first series where he, being wooden, and Phu were a couple.
It is good they started with a couple of lads having fun. But if we take it as cliche done by other series, it would mean that for the rest of the series the lads would all of the sudden pretend that they are some prude eunuchs that do not want intimacy and afraid of it until the very end of the series. Let’s see if I will be wrong about this nonsensical story path or not.
Another plot point that makes no sense is that Mix’ character is heavily intoxicated but all of the sudden wants to have intimate fun. Which is not believable at all because there is a very narrow effect window when it enables this behaviour, rather than suppresses it. Alcohol is not a stimulator, but a depressant, so nothing can really happen after you step out of that window.
It is not believable that a family of the lad who is in a dispute over the damage would agree to hire a lad who is the other participant the dispute.
Even though abortions are relatively way less popular in Thailand versus e.g. the USA, still about a couple of hundred of those are carried yearly, and the story shown in the series is one of the prime candidates for the procedure, so the story is not quite believable.
And old area closing for renovation is not a drama, just a hassle. Lots of small businesses are closed and reopened in other places yearly even without demolitions simply because of the market changes or convenience.
They again at it with the silly “love knows no gender” mantra, even though it is most radically does. For overwhelming majority of people, it only ever possible to live the opposite gender because this is how their brains wired, and for a small minority, it is the same sex, and for even smaller minority, it could be both sexes.
Not sure what could possible the issue between Earth and Mix characters in regards to this, becuase Mix’ is not the one deciding anything about the demolition project.
Fourth’ character wanting to be a bartender is not believable because it is not a job you do until you are old. Even if you really like it, then it still goes until you are circa forty max, so people plan for other job to do from the very beginning.
The horrible trend of Thai BL advertising alcoholism among youth continues.
3000 baht, circa $100, a day abroad? If by that they mean some “first world” country, then those money will almost entirely go to rent, communal payments, and social security/medical insurance payments. Nearly nothing is left to actually “earn”.
Some of the writing is ridiculous. Namely, when Mix’ character says that him and Earth’s character having fun first before love is step 10, which in reality is almost always step 1 because before you can decide with your want a relationship you need to understand if you are physically compatible. Becoming lovers is purely optional after having fun, not before it.
Smearing sticky cakes onto friends’ faces is one of the worst harmless things you can do, never do that.
It is not believable that the main couple just all of the sudden stopped having fun after the first time if they did not find each other repulsive in some way.
It is not up to a bank clerk, even a manager, to decide if someone would get a lone without a collateral, or not. It is simply impossible, and it is by regulations.
Lots of cheap and good enough hotels in Bangkok, so if a friend does not allow a sleepover, no issue to rent a room for a night.
Love is by definition is irrational, and it is biologically proven to be that as it comes from deeper, way more ancient layers of the brain that are tied to emotions and can not process anything logical.
So all the talks like “What does he have that I do not have” are fundamentally ignorant and useless. Any attempt to answer that are contradicts where people are trying to rationalise the irrational.
Not only do Thai series promote alcoholism, but also tobacco smoking addiction; disgusting.
Indeed, it if fully legal for deaf people to drive in Thailand, and it makes no sense that the mother did not know this. And it is not believable that the mother did not know the sign language.
Turns out the deaf lad has only been deaf for the last three years, and normally this time is more than enough to recover speech. Though in this case the details are not known so maybe there was brain damage to the speech part, too.
The Mix’ character’s former boyfriend earns enough to hire a helper to aid him with his temporarily disability, so there no need at all for them to be together, so this move does not make much sense.
Another alcoholism propaganda plot point, calling the youth to drink beer, which is horrible for your health.
This series has the most detailed depiction of classic Thai funeral procession I have seen in any series, which is culturally important for viewers of other cultures.
It is good that Gemini was trained to speak a couple of words he does say in the series in a believable way because deaf people can not hear themselves, so it very hard to speak without this audio feedback loop.
2023 was a year of two prominent BL series that have shown disability: this one and Last Twilight, with the former being much better developed in terms of scenario and believability, though the latter also having its strong points in some other aspects.
EARTH PLAYING a character that is meant to be like 40 is not believable. Not because of the performance, it is…
It is good they started with a couple of lads having fun. But if we take it as cliche done by other series, it would mean that for the rest of the series the lads would all of the sudden pretend that they are some prude eunuchs that do not want intimacy and afraid of it until the very end of the series. Let’s see if I will be wrong about this nonsensical story path or not.
Another plot point that makes no sense is that Mix’ character is heavily intoxicated but all of the sudden wants to have intimate fun. Which is not believable at all because there is a very narrow effect window when it enables this behaviour, rather than suppresses it. Alcohol is not a stimulator, but a depressant, so nothing can really happen after you step out of that window.
It is not believable that a family of the lad who is in a dispute over the damage would agree to hire a lad who is the other participant the dispute.
Even though abortions are relatively way less popular in Thailand versus e.g. the USA, still about a couple of hundred of those are carried yearly, and the story shown in the series is one of the prime candidates for the procedure, so the story is not quite believable.
And old area closing for renovation is not a drama, just a hassle. Lots of small businesses are closed and reopened in other places yearly even without demolitions simply because of the market changes or convenience.
They again at it with the silly “love knows no gender” mantra, even though it is most radically does. For overwhelming majority of people, it only ever possible to live the opposite gender because this is how their brains wired, and for a small minority, it is the same sex, and for even smaller minority, it could be both sexes.
Not sure what could possible the issue between Earth and Mix characters in regards to this, becuase Mix’ is not the one deciding anything about the demolition project.
Fourth’ character wanting to be a bartender is not believable because it is not a job you do until you are old. Even if you really like it, then it still goes until you are circa forty max, so people plan for other job to do from the very beginning.
The horrible trend of Thai BL advertising alcoholism among youth continues.
3000 baht, circa $100, a day abroad? If by that they mean some “first world” country, then those money will almost entirely go to rent, communal payments, and social security/medical insurance payments. Nearly nothing is left to actually “earn”.
Some of the writing is ridiculous. Namely, when Mix’ character says that him and Earth’s character having fun first before love is step 10, which in reality is almost always step 1 because before you can decide with your want a relationship you need to understand if you are physically compatible. Becoming lovers is purely optional after having fun, not before it.
Smearing sticky cakes onto friends’ faces is one of the worst harmless things you can do, never do that.
It is not believable that the main couple just all of the sudden stopped having fun after the first time if they did not find each other repulsive in some way.
It is not up to a bank clerk, even a manager, to decide if someone would get a lone without a collateral, or not. It is simply impossible, and it is by regulations.
Lots of cheap and good enough hotels in Bangkok, so if a friend does not allow a sleepover, no issue to rent a room for a night.
Love is by definition is irrational, and it is biologically proven to be that as it comes from deeper, way more ancient layers of the brain that are tied to emotions and can not process anything logical.
So all the talks like “What does he have that I do not have” are fundamentally ignorant and useless. Any attempt to answer that are contradicts where people are trying to rationalise the irrational.
Not only do Thai series promote alcoholism, but also tobacco smoking addiction; disgusting.
Indeed, it if fully legal for deaf people to drive in Thailand, and it makes no sense that the mother did not know this. And it is not believable that the mother did not know the sign language.
Turns out the deaf lad has only been deaf for the last three years, and normally this time is more than enough to recover speech. Though in this case the details are not known so maybe there was brain damage to the speech part, too.
The Mix’ character’s former boyfriend earns enough to hire a helper to aid him with his temporarily disability, so there no need at all for them to be together, so this move does not make much sense.
Another alcoholism propaganda plot point, calling the youth to drink beer, which is horrible for your health.
This series has the most detailed depiction of classic Thai funeral procession I have seen in any series, which is culturally important for viewers of other cultures.
It is good that Gemini was trained to speak a couple of words he does say in the series in a believable way because deaf people can not hear themselves, so it very hard to speak without this audio feedback loop.
2023 was a year of two prominent BL series that have shown disability: this one and Last Twilight, with the former being much better developed in terms of scenario and believability, though the latter also having its strong points in some other aspects.
EARTH PLAYING a character that is meant to be like 40 is not believable. Not because of the performance, it is a 100% believable, but simply because he is way too young.
Any BL series that is not about high school or university already gets bonus points. Even when one of the characters is still in a high school, it is not shown, but his life outside school is depicted, which is great.
Unheard of in BL that they show a former couple, and unique thst they even shown verbal fights between them, as well as cover some other real life circumstances.
It is also important that the series raises human rights issues, which is rare for such a vapid format as BL.
All in all, this is more like a real drama, instead, which is commendable. Especially for GMMTV, which almost never does things like this.
The same goes for some other projects, even the biggest Chinese series ever, The Untamed. Those are now not as easy to avoid because the BL industry is so big. But lots of censored works, so unsuspecting viewers might not even notice.
MASSIVELY inaccurate on many historical setting details and plot events, and yet surely deserves to be watched…
GREAT that the series shows the danger of alcoholism, including a rape attempt and death from drunk driving.
However, the series also spreads a dangerous superstition that death is not the end, that there is something else, a new life is awaiting you after this. In reality, there is no evidence of that at all, so you better hold on to your current and the only life as tight as you can here and right now.
Back in the day black stripes on white meant a prisoner uniform, so the lad would have been perceived as a sort of fugitive.
If it was a real time travel, the lad would have died of infections and diseases quite quickly because the immunity people have nowadays is dramatically weaker than what people had in the past.
Frogs are just a more tender chicken in taste, but brains and rotten meat are not great.
WHAT? Joe has jumped into a river fully clothed? It makes no sense.
Employer always apologises for his employees in case of trouble, so it is not believable that Jom’s future lover did not do it.
Master couple do not arguing between each other in front of their servants.
Of course, the very premise is fantasy in the first place, but mass reuse of actors in both timelines somehow still tampers with believability more than necessary.
Jom has said the truth about the affair he has witnessed, which was a just thing to do, but his motivation was shallow and petty, unjust: he was bitter that the lovers were clones of his contemporary time former boyfriend and his lover.
Jom wandering around at nights is not believable. Servants and the poor were so exploited at the time that they had no strength left to do this. They also did not have insomnia issues due to being dead tired from physical labour. And there is no chance Jom would not want to eat as working people were feeling hunger very sharply, regardless of any drama that was happening around.
It makes no sense for Jom to hide that he knows English and is an architect. He would have started living much better than taking care of pigs.
The poor in Thailand at the time (which was almost everybody) did not have money for razors or go to barbers, so they were not clean shaved as seen in be series, but rather had their beard/moustache are plucked with tweezers, what would result either with the looks of contemporary Thai star actors or singer who use lase/wax epilation on their, or with short thin hair growing out until their next plucking.
Their teeth were not that great and plentiful on average.
The hair was also different. Both males and females wore short hair (for the rich it was longer hair for females, but it was tucked up to look short), and the forehead was clear. Most of the time the hair was combed/prepped up, if possible.
It is not clear why the evil man’s second wife was feisty about having sex with her husband. It is a mundane obligation for a woman in her status. It is the part of the deal for which she has sacrificed her true love. In reality, she would be a willing partner just fine to keep the money flowing to her and her family. It is ahistorical to bring the psychology of a 21st century woman a hundred years back.
The average age of marrying for females at the time was about 18, but Ming’s love interest Mei is played by an actress who was 27 at the time of the filming, and it is too visible, does not work too well. By that age it would have been scandalous that she was still unmarried, but this is not shown in the series.
No one collects fallen leafs with a broom, there are racks for that.
After a punishment execution at that time, you would not look just as if a make up artist has smeared a bit of lipstick onto your face. And it would not be carried out with a tiny reed as shown. And you would not be running or even walking for weeks after this. So this aspect is not believable at all.
A poor woman’s mother dying at the time is not a cause to wildly break the rules to flee and see her. And no mother would risk her daughter’s wellbeing just to see her for the last time because she understands what it actually means, she would have been vehemently against and angry at her daughter as she is ruining the hard work that the mother has put into her during her life. It is nothing like what happens today. So this plot move is not believable.
The Christmas party attires have a major mistake since the main lad and some others have appeared there with unbuttoned collar, which is absolute nonsense both for masters and servants no matter if it is a mandarin or western style of attire.
Also, major-domos are meant to wear a formal uniform of the house, not some random clothes his master had bought to him. And they would never sit on the same table at a party as equals even if they were crazy lovers secretly. The scenario is not believable at all.
Fake Santa Claus beats were not made of plastic back then, so they were greyish or yellowish.
The main lad is accepting water from a common person to drink is not believable at all because he knows that people were not boiling it still at the time. As mentioned above, he would have quickly died in that time anyway, but even sooner with such water.
The plot move that the main lad is the one more meek and hesitant to confess his love is dubious becuase he is noticeably older and have rich love life experience in an open society, unlike his his love prospect from the past. So it would have made more sense, if the direction was opposite.
The second prospect, James, is so cute that I almost wish the main lad would not be so monogamous and would pleasure both love pursuers. But, of course, BL scenarists are too cowardly to do that because the goal is always to create marketable fixes BL pairs.
Even if for the monogamous story the main lad is written as a lass because in reality those two lads would have started to have fun with each other much sooner due to the crazy drive for it that males have.
So is quite annoying that the main lad is pretending to be hard to get virgin. In reality, as a male, he wants intimacy about as much as his lover. Zero chance they would be just hugging during nights.
That is rare that they the viewers also a GL pair, and that there are no like three BL pair, only one.
The brothel story does not make much sense because pumps are very protective of their property, prostitutes, so they are not allowing clients to hurt them. It was the same back in the day. What would have been more probably is that someone would just abuse her this way when she was not a brother property but rather a street prostitute.
It makes no sense that maid entering the room of her lady is somehow a scandal. They did at any time of day and night, if necessary.
The BL couple relationship is ridiculous. Even after they have confessed to each other and become lovers, still nothing is happening between them and the main lad is pretending to be shocked when his lover asked him to rub oil into his skin.
The only explanation is that he has become castrated one way or another. Otherwise, his behaviour is completely beyond anything similar to how males work.
This might have been understandable if the could was thirteen or something, even though still barely.
Instead of the story being super slow, it might have been better if the couple would return together to the future to explore all the fun things there.
The jealousy scene at the ball party does not make much sense because both in the BL couple know that the lad from the past has to marry, it is incentive at the time and its society, so they both would have been prepared for that and just ignore it, continuing their secret love. And especially they would allow themselves a public scene at the party.
People are not just collapsing really at any place after been in the rain and getting ill. They start feel unwell gradually, so they get to stool or to bed before they can become too weak to walks. So the series has sloppily shown a different, much more severe illness.
The usual route for the situation in question to develop back in the day was just to marry a woman of prestige and make several babies with her, it is a must, all while keeping your true gay love on the side for as many years as possible in secret. The father would prefer that the latter would stop altogether, but it uncontainable and unavoidable, then so be it, unlike the marriage and children, which are absolutely obligatory.
So it is not believable that the lad from the past would have been surprised and even thought about the arranged marriage. Even more so: it was drilled into his mind since childhood that he has to have a wife and children, so he himself would not even question that regardless of his gayness. He would understand how crucial it is for everything in life of the time.
The lad from the future also could only ever expect this, so him being surprised in not believable, either. So the event in the series is way more dramatic than it could have been realistically.
GREAT that the series shows the danger of alcoholism, including a rape attempt and death from drunk driving.
However, the series also spreads a dangerous superstition that death is not the end, that there is something else, a new life is awaiting you after this. In reality, there is no evidence of that at all, so you better hold on to your current and the only life as tight as you can here and right now.
Back in the day black stripes on white meant a prisoner uniform, so the lad would have been perceived as a sort of fugitive.
If it was a real time travel, the lad would have died of infections and diseases quite quickly because the immunity people have nowadays is dramatically weaker than what people had in the past.
Frogs are just a more tender chicken in taste, but brains and rotten meat are not great.
WHAT? Joe has jumped into a river fully clothed? It makes no sense.
Employer always apologises for his employees in case of trouble, so it is not believable that Jom’s future lover did not do it.
Master couple do not arguing between each other in front of their servants.
Of course, the very premise is fantasy in the first place, but mass reuse of actors in both timelines somehow still tampers with believability more than necessary.
Jom has said the truth about the affair he has witnessed, which was a just thing to do, but his motivation was shallow and petty, unjust: he was bitter that the lovers were clones of his contemporary time former boyfriend and his lover.
Jom wandering around at nights is not believable. Servants and the poor were so exploited at the time that they had no strength left to do this. They also did not have insomnia issues due to being dead tired from physical labour. And there is no chance Jom would not want to eat as working people were feeling hunger very sharply, regardless of any drama that was happening around.
It makes no sense for Jom to hide that he knows English and is an architect. He would have started living much better than taking care of pigs.
The poor in Thailand at the time (which was almost everybody) did not have money for razors or go to barbers, so they were not clean shaved as seen in be series, but rather had their beard/moustache are plucked with tweezers, what would result either with the looks of contemporary Thai star actors or singer who use lase/wax epilation on their, or with short thin hair growing out until their next plucking.
Their teeth were not that great and plentiful on average.
The hair was also different. Both males and females wore short hair (for the rich it was longer hair for females, but it was tucked up to look short), and the forehead was clear. Most of the time the hair was combed/prepped up, if possible.
It is not clear why the evil man’s second wife was feisty about having sex with her husband. It is a mundane obligation for a woman in her status. It is the part of the deal for which she has sacrificed her true love. In reality, she would be a willing partner just fine to keep the money flowing to her and her family. It is ahistorical to bring the psychology of a 21st century woman a hundred years back.
The average age of marrying for females at the time was about 18, but Ming’s love interest Mei is played by an actress who was 27 at the time of the filming, and it is too visible, does not work too well. By that age it would have been scandalous that she was still unmarried, but this is not shown in the series.
No one collects fallen leafs with a broom, there are racks for that.
After a punishment execution at that time, you would not look just as if a make up artist has smeared a bit of lipstick onto your face. And it would not be carried out with a tiny reed as shown. And you would not be running or even walking for weeks after this. So this aspect is not believable at all.
A poor woman’s mother dying at the time is not a cause to wildly break the rules to flee and see her. And no mother would risk her daughter’s wellbeing just to see her for the last time because she understands what it actually means, she would have been vehemently against and angry at her daughter as she is ruining the hard work that the mother has put into her during her life. It is nothing like what happens today. So this plot move is not believable.
The Christmas party attires have a major mistake since the main lad and some others have appeared there with unbuttoned collar, which is absolute nonsense both for masters and servants no matter if it is a mandarin or western style of attire.
Also, major-domos are meant to wear a formal uniform of the house, not some random clothes his master had bought to him. And they would never sit on the same table at a party as equals even if they were crazy lovers secretly. The scenario is not believable at all.
Fake Santa Claus beats were not made of plastic back then, so they were greyish or yellowish.
The main lad is accepting water from a common person to drink is not believable at all because he knows that people were not boiling it still at the time. As mentioned above, he would have quickly died in that time anyway, but even sooner with such water.
The plot move that the main lad is the one more meek and hesitant to confess his love is dubious becuase he is noticeably older and have rich love life experience in an open society, unlike his his love prospect from the past. So it would have made more sense, if the direction was opposite.
The second prospect, James, is so cute that I almost wish the main lad would not be so monogamous and would pleasure both love pursuers. But, of course, BL scenarists are too cowardly to do that because the goal is always to create marketable fixes BL pairs.
Even if for the monogamous story the main lad is written as a lass because in reality those two lads would have started to have fun with each other much sooner due to the crazy drive for it that males have.
So is quite annoying that the main lad is pretending to be hard to get virgin. In reality, as a male, he wants intimacy about as much as his lover. Zero chance they would be just hugging during nights.
That is rare that they the viewers also a GL pair, and that there are no like three BL pair, only one.
The brothel story does not make much sense because pumps are very protective of their property, prostitutes, so they are not allowing clients to hurt them. It was the same back in the day. What would have been more probably is that someone would just abuse her this way when she was not a brother property but rather a street prostitute.
It makes no sense that maid entering the room of her lady is somehow a scandal. They did at any time of day and night, if necessary.
The BL couple relationship is ridiculous. Even after they have confessed to each other and become lovers, still nothing is happening between them and the main lad is pretending to be shocked when his lover asked him to rub oil into his skin.
The only explanation is that he has become castrated one way or another. Otherwise, his behaviour is completely beyond anything similar to how males work.
This might have been understandable if the could was thirteen or something, even though still barely.
Instead of the story being super slow, it might have been better if the couple would return together to the future to explore all the fun things there.
The jealousy scene at the ball party does not make much sense because both in the BL couple know that the lad from the past has to marry, it is incentive at the time and its society, so they both would have been prepared for that and just ignore it, continuing their secret love. And especially they would allow themselves a public scene at the party.
People are not just collapsing really at any place after been in the rain and getting ill. They start feel unwell gradually, so they get to stool or to bed before they can become too weak to walks. So the series has sloppily shown a different, much more severe illness.
The usual route for the situation in question to develop back in the day was just to marry a woman of prestige and make several babies with her, it is a must, all while keeping your true gay love on the side for as many years as possible in secret. The father would prefer that the latter would stop altogether, but it uncontainable and unavoidable, then so be it, unlike the marriage and children, which are absolutely obligatory.
So it is not believable that the lad from the past would have been surprised and even thought about the arranged marriage. Even more so: it was drilled into his mind since childhood that he has to have a wife and children, so he himself would not even question that regardless of his gayness. He would understand how crucial it is for everything in life of the time.
The lad from the future also could only ever expect this, so him being surprised in not believable, either. So the event in the series is way more dramatic than it could have been realistically.
MASSIVELY inaccurate on many historical setting details and plot events, and yet surely deserves to be watched because it is a rare setting for a BL, indeed.
However, not the uncut, but regular version where the storytelling is tighter, not dragged. I normally would suggest the opposite for series where its uncut version adds lots of fanservice with more play between the characters, but here it is not that at all.
TURNS out that every time the BL genre is trying to go with organised crime or even intricate plot lines in general,…
There are novels where authors care to do research before writing on the topic. This one, however, is fully detached from reality in nearly every aspect of the setting. But I do praise it for the BL aspect, so I rated it highly.
Thank you for this comment. Now I can skip this series
I am so wrong but you could not point to even a single thing I am wrong about.
Also, I did not discourage people from watching the series. As I mentioned, it is great in the key aspect of BL, unlike some others. My point was to just warn inexperienced viewers to not think that this series is even remotely describing anything similar to how real life organised crime or security services work.
It always funny when wimpy twinks are made to fight each other.
People unalive themselves not because their mothers have died prematurely, but because of how their brains got wired up by maturity, which leads them having periods of deep depression, insecurity, self-esteem pitfalls, strikes of utter despair that are most dangerous. Even with the happiest surrounding family they would still do it.
Too bad that all kinds of series can never grasp just how bad and hopeless the situation is most of the time and trivialise it by ascribing this condition to random events in life, which are fundamentally irrelevant to it and can only become triggers, though even that is unnecessary.
THE FIRST thing blind people are given is a white cane so people around would see that the person is blind, so here it did not happen. Does the family want him die in a car accident or something?
Also, why the producers are so clueless about the severe cornea damage they claim the lad is suffers from? In such cases it visibly becomes whitish/opaque, but the lad has clear corneas.
And, of course, cornea can not suddenly become opaque during a badminton match, this is nonsense.
Also, expensive models of BMW cars have excellent seatbelts, so they never stuck. The scriptwriters idea was that most viewers only ever get to use cheap cars where this can happen, though still extremely rarely, so they would not notice.
The key under the pot is not what unlocks mansions.
They show Mhok trying to be blind in the crowds as id Thai have never seen blind people. It is not happening like that at all, it is dramatisation.
You do not need libraries to borrow books. They are available online for some money or even free of charge. And you can get audiobooks there just fine.
Even better, you can get any book printed for you in Braille font for the blind and sent to you. And you can even buy Braille decides that would “print” sentences for you to feel and read them this way, so no need to wait for any special prints, if you choose so.
WHAT? The blind lad still does not have a white cane? Not believable. Also, blind people are not three years old olds, so they can keep their position easily, even if they are pushed away for a second. And there is no way a blind person would get go of his phone. And, again, Thais would help the blind right away. The scenarists have come up with drama out of thin air.
The fights in BL series are almost always laughable. They fought for a while but almost no visible damage.
The feeling Day has about Mhok supposedly not treating him as disabled contradicts to what is happening, the babysitting, so it makes no sense.
WHAT? The lass wants to keep the fetus from a horrible father, even though it is just a couple of months old, so it is safe to remove it? Not quite believable. If she wants a baby regardless of love or family, there are countless better variants to get pregnant.
WAIT, Day is shown to practice all night? The scriptwriters did not care to check how sports work. It makes no sense to practice during nights because your accuracy and overall performance drastically falls due to fatigue, you make way more mistakes than usual, and you learn and improve nothing positive during this period. So not believable at all.
Day’s former badminton partner only coming to their meeting many hours later without ever writing that he is going to be late or responding to calls makes zero sense. A sprain does not make you forget your phone, either, so there is no believable excuse.
Day is shown to be in love with his badminton partner, but then, only like five seconds later, he is returning the kiss that Mhok is giving him while being devastated with his heartbreak. This is not how things work in real life.
Blind people are perfectly able to buckle their seatbelts and tie their shoelaces. The scriptwriters do not know even basic facts about the condition.
The idea of Day refusing to have intimate fun with Mhok is not believable because males are not about keeping chastity but about satisfying their natural needs that are crazy-strong and basically imperative.
And it has nothing to do with love or the lack of it, it is simply a physiological process.
WOW, Day’s brother is flirting with pregnant Mhok’s former girlfriend? That is very rare behaviour because evolutionary males are not attracted to visibly pregnant women because it means they are already bearing a fetus, so she is not available for procreation. But it does happen, so it is interesting.
As nearly always with BL series, they show lads becoming boyfriends first, and then engaging intimately. But it is the opposite order versus how it happens in reality, so not believable.
This series has two couples with one partner being blind. In real life, those cases are incredibly rare. It would have been way more believable if both couples were all blind.
Cornea opacity of this kind does not jump to worse and back as the series show, it can only freeze its state or degrade to worse.
Besides, there is no substantial difference between how the lad sees and what will happen three months from now. The eyes will not all of the sudden go dark, unlike how the series claims. It is just the silhouettes will become even more blurry until the eyes would only see light and dark gradients at best.
The point is that the advice to “do things you always wanted to do” in the remaining three months is useless as the lad already does not see anything almost.
WHAT? Day is bland for a year and a half, but still can not write? Not believable at all. Blind people can write very well, and they use liners and other limiters to orient their writing correctly.
WAIT, Day blames a drunk person on the second row, his brother, of his car for his dangerous irresponsible driving that has lead to his blindness? This is so wrong and petty; Day is a bad person.
Cornea damage is rare in car crashes. The corneas would have to be stuck with lots of tiny degree particles or damaged by the gas from malfunctioned airbags or burned by fire. None of which is shown on the lad’s face.
Taiwan is not some lawless country so fathers have full visiting rights in regards to their children, unless the father is dangerous, so the plot move of the father disappearing for twenty years not becuase he did not care but because the mother did not allow him to contact his children makes no sense.
BTW, there are artificial corneas for those who can not wait for donor corneas. It has a major drawback because you will always have to use antibiotic drops, and it will be still risky.
Google Maps and Apple Maps work well in Thailand, so you do not need to confused about where to climb a mountain or find an accommodation, so this plot point is not believable.
Thai banking apps for smartphones support money transfers, so there is no real issue even if the accommodation has “Cash only” sign.
Thailand has big electronic book libraries, accessible (for a fee) via any smartphone, so even if a physical book is missing a page, it is not an issue.
ONLY ONCE? It is not believable that the lads’ first intimate night after half a year of waiting (which is nonsense, but let’s pretend it is so for a second) would only include one instance of fun, rather than, say, three times, which is typical for cases like this.
The chargers are usually plugged in, not just laying around somewhere, it is obligatory for blind users, so the repeated plot point of the charger getting lost is not believable.
WHAT? The mother has zero rights to Day’s phone (regardless if she was the person gifting it initially) she has committed robbery according to Thai law. This might happen in real life, but Day can file a complaint to police to get his phone back.
In the series, cornea transplant only popups like two years after the start of the illness, but this is not believable because in reality it is usually from a few weeks to a couple of months, with half a year for rare long wait cases.
The scenarists have chosen the wrong type of an eye illness to create the drama about.
WHAT? Day is breaking up for three years over some silly thing? They try to justify this by the necessity of personal growth, but both of them could have grown without breaking up just fine. There were lots of way to do it.
Episodes 9-12 are the hardest for scriptwriters because the main drama of lads coming together usually ends by episode 8, so they have to come up with random stupid things to happen in the last few episodes.
This type of a rich mother allowing her sons to be taken by a poor criminal and a poor divorced lass with a baby from another man is out of character, not quite believable.
WRONG in nearly everything (the details are in a reply comment with a spoilers tag), but the actor are great,…
It always funny when wimpy twinks are made to fight each other.
People unalive themselves not because their mothers have died prematurely, but because of how their brains got wired up by maturity, which leads them having periods of deep depression, insecurity, self-esteem pitfalls, strikes of utter despair that are most dangerous. Even with the happiest surrounding family they would still do it.
Too bad that all kinds of series can never grasp just how bad and hopeless the situation is most of the time and trivialise it by ascribing this condition to random events in life, which are fundamentally irrelevant to it and can only become triggers, though even that is unnecessary.
THE FIRST thing blind people are given is a white cane so people around would see that the person is blind, so here it did not happen. Does the family want him die in a car accident or something?
Also, why the producers are so clueless about the severe cornea damage they claim the lad is suffers from? In such cases it visibly becomes whitish/opaque, but the lad has clear corneas.
And, of course, cornea can not suddenly become opaque during a badminton match, this is nonsense.
Also, expensive models of BMW cars have excellent seatbelts, so they never stuck. The scriptwriters idea was that most viewers only ever get to use cheap cars where this can happen, though still extremely rarely, so they would not notice.
The key under the pot is not what unlocks mansions.
They show Mhok trying to be blind in the crowds as id Thai have never seen blind people. It is not happening like that at all, it is dramatisation.
You do not need libraries to borrow books. They are available online for some money or even free of charge. And you can get audiobooks there just fine.
Even better, you can get any book printed for you in Braille font for the blind and sent to you. And you can even buy Braille decides that would “print” sentences for you to feel and read them this way, so no need to wait for any special prints, if you choose so.
WHAT? The blind lad still does not have a white cane? Not believable. Also, blind people are not three years old olds, so they can keep their position easily, even if they are pushed away for a second. And there is no way a blind person would get go of his phone. And, again, Thais would help the blind right away. The scenarists have come up with drama out of thin air.
The fights in BL series are almost always laughable. They fought for a while but almost no visible damage.
The feeling Day has about Mhok supposedly not treating him as disabled contradicts to what is happening, the babysitting, so it makes no sense.
WHAT? The lass wants to keep the fetus from a horrible father, even though it is just a couple of months old, so it is safe to remove it? Not quite believable. If she wants a baby regardless of love or family, there are countless better variants to get pregnant.
WAIT, Day is shown to practice all night? The scriptwriters did not care to check how sports work. It makes no sense to practice during nights because your accuracy and overall performance drastically falls due to fatigue, you make way more mistakes than usual, and you learn and improve nothing positive during this period. So not believable at all.
Day’s former badminton partner only coming to their meeting many hours later without ever writing that he is going to be late or responding to calls makes zero sense. A sprain does not make you forget your phone, either, so there is no believable excuse.
Day is shown to be in love with his badminton partner, but then, only like five seconds later, he is returning the kiss that Mhok is giving him while being devastated with his heartbreak. This is not how things work in real life.
Blind people are perfectly able to buckle their seatbelts and tie their shoelaces. The scriptwriters do not know even basic facts about the condition.
The idea of Day refusing to have intimate fun with Mhok is not believable because males are not about keeping chastity but about satisfying their natural needs that are crazy-strong and basically imperative.
And it has nothing to do with love or the lack of it, it is simply a physiological process.
WOW, Day’s brother is flirting with pregnant Mhok’s former girlfriend? That is very rare behaviour because evolutionary males are not attracted to visibly pregnant women because it means they are already bearing a fetus, so she is not available for procreation. But it does happen, so it is interesting.
As nearly always with BL series, they show lads becoming boyfriends first, and then engaging intimately. But it is the opposite order versus how it happens in reality, so not believable.
This series has two couples with one partner being blind. In real life, those cases are incredibly rare. It would have been way more believable if both couples were all blind.
Cornea opacity of this kind does not jump to worse and back as the series show, it can only freeze its state or degrade to worse.
Besides, there is no substantial difference between how the lad sees and what will happen three months from now. The eyes will not all of the sudden go dark, unlike how the series claims. It is just the silhouettes will become even more blurry until the eyes would only see light and dark gradients at best.
The point is that the advice to “do things you always wanted to do” in the remaining three months is useless as the lad already does not see anything almost.
WHAT? Day is bland for a year and a half, but still can not write? Not believable at all. Blind people can write very well, and they use liners and other limiters to orient their writing correctly.
WAIT, Day blames a drunk person on the second row, his brother, of his car for his dangerous irresponsible driving that has lead to his blindness? This is so wrong and petty; Day is a bad person.
Cornea damage is rare in car crashes. The corneas would have to be stuck with lots of tiny degree particles or damaged by the gas from malfunctioned airbags or burned by fire. None of which is shown on the lad’s face.
Taiwan is not some lawless country so fathers have full visiting rights in regards to their children, unless the father is dangerous, so the plot move of the father disappearing for twenty years not becuase he did not care but because the mother did not allow him to contact his children makes no sense.
BTW, there are artificial corneas for those who can not wait for donor corneas. It has a major drawback because you will always have to use antibiotic drops, and it will be still risky.
Google Maps and Apple Maps work well in Thailand, so you do not need to confused about where to climb a mountain or find an accommodation, so this plot point is not believable.
Thai banking apps for smartphones support money transfers, so there is no real issue even if the accommodation has “Cash only” sign.
Thailand has big electronic book libraries, accessible (for a fee) via any smartphone, so even if a physical book is missing a page, it is not an issue.
ONLY ONCE? It is not believable that the lads’ first intimate night after half a year of waiting (which is nonsense, but let’s pretend it is so for a second) would only include one instance of fun, rather than, say, three times, which is typical for cases like this.
The chargers are usually plugged in, not just laying around somewhere, it is obligatory for blind users, so the repeated plot point of the charger getting lost is not believable.
WHAT? The mother has zero rights to Day’s phone (regardless if she was the person gifting it initially) she has committed robbery according to Thai law. This might happen in real life, but Day can file a complaint to police to get his phone back.
In the series, cornea transplant only popups like two years after the start of the illness, but this is not believable because in reality it is usually from a few weeks to a couple of months, with half a year for rare long wait cases.
The scenarists have chosen the wrong type of an eye illness to create the drama about.
WHAT? Day is breaking up for three years over some silly thing? They try to justify this by the necessity of personal growth, but both of them could have grown without breaking up just fine. There were lots of way to do it.
Episodes 9-12 are the hardest for scriptwriters because the main drama of lads coming together usually ends by episode 8, so they have to come up with random stupid things to happen in the last few episodes.
This type of a rich mother allowing her sons to be taken by a poor criminal and a poor divorced lass with a baby from another man is out of character, not quite believable.
WRONG in nearly everything (the details are in a reply comment with a spoilers tag), but the actor are great, and it is not boring.
The good things are the issue of disability is covered, however faulty, and that the leads are not hardcore straights that all of the sudden become gay, it is better than that.
A PSA: if possible, avoid running both as a recreational/cardio exercise and a sport. The issue is that even if with the most advanced footwear this activity irreversibly destroys your spine and knees. Health scientists did not find any benefits of it in comparison to other activities that do not cause this much harm. The issue is that evolutionary humans are long distance walkers and, rarely, short distance runners, but never long distance runners, hence the body is not accommodated for the latter at all, so it always ends up being destructive.
ANOTHER PSA: never become a couple before trying intimate fun because it can completely and fundamentally destroy all prospects of your relationship no matter how much the purely platonic/romantic part goes. You absolutely need to establish that you are compatible first.
Thank you! I think maybe some viewers are more actor-centric, and others more plot-centric. I need a coherent…
To be fair ITSAY and its second season is a masterpiece on the worldwide level. Not sure that GMMTV has ever produced anything close to this. But I agree we need series that make more sense.
But the actors save it, as well as overall production values besides the scriptwriting. Also, it is not boring, which is a major plus. it is much better to have silly stuff happening than nothing happening at all as in many other series.
So all in all it is worth to watch because the BL genre is not about scripts that make sense, it is about the lads, and those are great here. And Pond has played well after being wooden in his first due with Phu (Fish Upon The Sky, 2021).
But I do wish the series would not contain any tragic events at all. Because it all is so silly that the series would look much better as a self aware farce.
However, if you like the lads, you can survive it by “suspending disbelief” trick, which you would need to do, it seems, a lot while watching the series.
If only the scriptwriters cared to not be lazy and rewrite, replace the stupid parts with something more believable. Then it would have been much easier to watch even for those of us who can not switch their brains off and enjoy it as effortlessly as some others can.
Pond is playing much better than in the first series where he, being wooden, and Phu were a couple.
Another plot point that makes no sense is that Mix’ character is heavily intoxicated but all of the sudden wants to have intimate fun. Which is not believable at all because there is a very narrow effect window when it enables this behaviour, rather than suppresses it. Alcohol is not a stimulator, but a depressant, so nothing can really happen after you step out of that window.
It is not believable that a family of the lad who is in a dispute over the damage would agree to hire a lad who is the other participant the dispute.
Even though abortions are relatively way less popular in Thailand versus e.g. the USA, still about a couple of hundred of those are carried yearly, and the story shown in the series is one of the prime candidates for the procedure, so the story is not quite believable.
And old area closing for renovation is not a drama, just a hassle. Lots of small businesses are closed and reopened in other places yearly even without demolitions simply because of the market changes or convenience.
They again at it with the silly “love knows no gender” mantra, even though it is most radically does. For overwhelming majority of people, it only ever possible to live the opposite gender because this is how their brains wired, and for a small minority, it is the same sex, and for even smaller minority, it could be both sexes.
Not sure what could possible the issue between Earth and Mix characters in regards to this, becuase Mix’ is not the one deciding anything about the demolition project.
Fourth’ character wanting to be a bartender is not believable because it is not a job you do until you are old. Even if you really like it, then it still goes until you are circa forty max, so people plan for other job to do from the very beginning.
The horrible trend of Thai BL advertising alcoholism among youth continues.
3000 baht, circa $100, a day abroad? If by that they mean some “first world” country, then those money will almost entirely go to rent, communal payments, and social security/medical insurance payments. Nearly nothing is left to actually “earn”.
Some of the writing is ridiculous. Namely, when Mix’ character says that him and Earth’s character having fun first before love is step 10, which in reality is almost always step 1 because before you can decide with your want a relationship you need to understand if you are physically compatible. Becoming lovers is purely optional after having fun, not before it.
Smearing sticky cakes onto friends’ faces is one of the worst harmless things you can do, never do that.
It is not believable that the main couple just all of the sudden stopped having fun after the first time if they did not find each other repulsive in some way.
It is not up to a bank clerk, even a manager, to decide if someone would get a lone without a collateral, or not. It is simply impossible, and it is by regulations.
Lots of cheap and good enough hotels in Bangkok, so if a friend does not allow a sleepover, no issue to rent a room for a night.
Love is by definition is irrational, and it is biologically proven to be that as it comes from deeper, way more ancient layers of the brain that are tied to emotions and can not process anything logical.
So all the talks like “What does he have that I do not have” are fundamentally ignorant and useless. Any attempt to answer that are contradicts where people are trying to rationalise the irrational.
Not only do Thai series promote alcoholism, but also tobacco smoking addiction; disgusting.
Indeed, it if fully legal for deaf people to drive in Thailand, and it makes no sense that the mother did not know this. And it is not believable that the mother did not know the sign language.
Turns out the deaf lad has only been deaf for the last three years, and normally this time is more than enough to recover speech. Though in this case the details are not known so maybe there was brain damage to the speech part, too.
The Mix’ character’s former boyfriend earns enough to hire a helper to aid him with his temporarily disability, so there no need at all for them to be together, so this move does not make much sense.
Another alcoholism propaganda plot point, calling the youth to drink beer, which is horrible for your health.
This series has the most detailed depiction of classic Thai funeral procession I have seen in any series, which is culturally important for viewers of other cultures.
It is good that Gemini was trained to speak a couple of words he does say in the series in a believable way because deaf people can not hear themselves, so it very hard to speak without this audio feedback loop.
2023 was a year of two prominent BL series that have shown disability: this one and Last Twilight, with the former being much better developed in terms of scenario and believability, though the latter also having its strong points in some other aspects.
Another plot point that makes no sense is that Mix’ character is heavily intoxicated but all of the sudden wants to have intimate fun. Which is not believable at all because there is a very narrow effect window when it enables this behaviour, rather than suppresses it. Alcohol is not a stimulator, but a depressant, so nothing can really happen after you step out of that window.
It is not believable that a family of the lad who is in a dispute over the damage would agree to hire a lad who is the other participant the dispute.
Even though abortions are relatively way less popular in Thailand versus e.g. the USA, still about a couple of hundred of those are carried yearly, and the story shown in the series is one of the prime candidates for the procedure, so the story is not quite believable.
And old area closing for renovation is not a drama, just a hassle. Lots of small businesses are closed and reopened in other places yearly even without demolitions simply because of the market changes or convenience.
They again at it with the silly “love knows no gender” mantra, even though it is most radically does. For overwhelming majority of people, it only ever possible to live the opposite gender because this is how their brains wired, and for a small minority, it is the same sex, and for even smaller minority, it could be both sexes.
Not sure what could possible the issue between Earth and Mix characters in regards to this, becuase Mix’ is not the one deciding anything about the demolition project.
Fourth’ character wanting to be a bartender is not believable because it is not a job you do until you are old. Even if you really like it, then it still goes until you are circa forty max, so people plan for other job to do from the very beginning.
The horrible trend of Thai BL advertising alcoholism among youth continues.
3000 baht, circa $100, a day abroad? If by that they mean some “first world” country, then those money will almost entirely go to rent, communal payments, and social security/medical insurance payments. Nearly nothing is left to actually “earn”.
Some of the writing is ridiculous. Namely, when Mix’ character says that him and Earth’s character having fun first before love is step 10, which in reality is almost always step 1 because before you can decide with your want a relationship you need to understand if you are physically compatible. Becoming lovers is purely optional after having fun, not before it.
Smearing sticky cakes onto friends’ faces is one of the worst harmless things you can do, never do that.
It is not believable that the main couple just all of the sudden stopped having fun after the first time if they did not find each other repulsive in some way.
It is not up to a bank clerk, even a manager, to decide if someone would get a lone without a collateral, or not. It is simply impossible, and it is by regulations.
Lots of cheap and good enough hotels in Bangkok, so if a friend does not allow a sleepover, no issue to rent a room for a night.
Love is by definition is irrational, and it is biologically proven to be that as it comes from deeper, way more ancient layers of the brain that are tied to emotions and can not process anything logical.
So all the talks like “What does he have that I do not have” are fundamentally ignorant and useless. Any attempt to answer that are contradicts where people are trying to rationalise the irrational.
Not only do Thai series promote alcoholism, but also tobacco smoking addiction; disgusting.
Indeed, it if fully legal for deaf people to drive in Thailand, and it makes no sense that the mother did not know this. And it is not believable that the mother did not know the sign language.
Turns out the deaf lad has only been deaf for the last three years, and normally this time is more than enough to recover speech. Though in this case the details are not known so maybe there was brain damage to the speech part, too.
The Mix’ character’s former boyfriend earns enough to hire a helper to aid him with his temporarily disability, so there no need at all for them to be together, so this move does not make much sense.
Another alcoholism propaganda plot point, calling the youth to drink beer, which is horrible for your health.
This series has the most detailed depiction of classic Thai funeral procession I have seen in any series, which is culturally important for viewers of other cultures.
It is good that Gemini was trained to speak a couple of words he does say in the series in a believable way because deaf people can not hear themselves, so it very hard to speak without this audio feedback loop.
2023 was a year of two prominent BL series that have shown disability: this one and Last Twilight, with the former being much better developed in terms of scenario and believability, though the latter also having its strong points in some other aspects.
Any BL series that is not about high school or university already gets bonus points. Even when one of the characters is still in a high school, it is not shown, but his life outside school is depicted, which is great.
Unheard of in BL that they show a former couple, and unique thst they even shown verbal fights between them, as well as cover some other real life circumstances.
It is also important that the series raises human rights issues, which is rare for such a vapid format as BL.
All in all, this is more like a real drama, instead, which is commendable. Especially for GMMTV, which almost never does things like this.
However, the series also spreads a dangerous superstition that death is not the end, that there is something else, a new life is awaiting you after this. In reality, there is no evidence of that at all, so you better hold on to your current and the only life as tight as you can here and right now.
Back in the day black stripes on white meant a prisoner uniform, so the lad would have been perceived as a sort of fugitive.
If it was a real time travel, the lad would have died of infections and diseases quite quickly because the immunity people have nowadays is dramatically weaker than what people had in the past.
Frogs are just a more tender chicken in taste, but brains and rotten meat are not great.
WHAT? Joe has jumped into a river fully clothed? It makes no sense.
Employer always apologises for his employees in case of trouble, so it is not believable that Jom’s future lover did not do it.
Master couple do not arguing between each other in front of their servants.
Of course, the very premise is fantasy in the first place, but mass reuse of actors in both timelines somehow still tampers with believability more than necessary.
Jom has said the truth about the affair he has witnessed, which was a just thing to do, but his motivation was shallow and petty, unjust: he was bitter that the lovers were clones of his contemporary time former boyfriend and his lover.
Jom wandering around at nights is not believable. Servants and the poor were so exploited at the time that they had no strength left to do this. They also did not have insomnia issues due to being dead tired from physical labour. And there is no chance Jom would not want to eat as working people were feeling hunger very sharply, regardless of any drama that was happening around.
It makes no sense for Jom to hide that he knows English and is an architect. He would have started living much better than taking care of pigs.
The poor in Thailand at the time (which was almost everybody) did not have money for razors or go to barbers, so they were not clean shaved as seen in be series, but rather had their beard/moustache are plucked with tweezers, what would result either with the looks of contemporary Thai star actors or singer who use lase/wax epilation on their, or with short thin hair growing out until their next plucking.
Their teeth were not that great and plentiful on average.
The hair was also different. Both males and females wore short hair (for the rich it was longer hair for females, but it was tucked up to look short), and the forehead was clear. Most of the time the hair was combed/prepped up, if possible.
It is not clear why the evil man’s second wife was feisty about having sex with her husband. It is a mundane obligation for a woman in her status. It is the part of the deal for which she has sacrificed her true love. In reality, she would be a willing partner just fine to keep the money flowing to her and her family. It is ahistorical to bring the psychology of a 21st century woman a hundred years back.
The average age of marrying for females at the time was about 18, but Ming’s love interest Mei is played by an actress who was 27 at the time of the filming, and it is too visible, does not work too well. By that age it would have been scandalous that she was still unmarried, but this is not shown in the series.
No one collects fallen leafs with a broom, there are racks for that.
After a punishment execution at that time, you would not look just as if a make up artist has smeared a bit of lipstick onto your face. And it would not be carried out with a tiny reed as shown. And you would not be running or even walking for weeks after this. So this aspect is not believable at all.
A poor woman’s mother dying at the time is not a cause to wildly break the rules to flee and see her. And no mother would risk her daughter’s wellbeing just to see her for the last time because she understands what it actually means, she would have been vehemently against and angry at her daughter as she is ruining the hard work that the mother has put into her during her life. It is nothing like what happens today. So this plot move is not believable.
The Christmas party attires have a major mistake since the main lad and some others have appeared there with unbuttoned collar, which is absolute nonsense both for masters and servants no matter if it is a mandarin or western style of attire.
Also, major-domos are meant to wear a formal uniform of the house, not some random clothes his master had bought to him. And they would never sit on the same table at a party as equals even if they were crazy lovers secretly. The scenario is not believable at all.
Fake Santa Claus beats were not made of plastic back then, so they were greyish or yellowish.
The main lad is accepting water from a common person to drink is not believable at all because he knows that people were not boiling it still at the time. As mentioned above, he would have quickly died in that time anyway, but even sooner with such water.
The plot move that the main lad is the one more meek and hesitant to confess his love is dubious becuase he is noticeably older and have rich love life experience in an open society, unlike his his love prospect from the past. So it would have made more sense, if the direction was opposite.
The second prospect, James, is so cute that I almost wish the main lad would not be so monogamous and would pleasure both love pursuers. But, of course, BL scenarists are too cowardly to do that because the goal is always to create marketable fixes BL pairs.
Even if for the monogamous story the main lad is written as a lass because in reality those two lads would have started to have fun with each other much sooner due to the crazy drive for it that males have.
So is quite annoying that the main lad is pretending to be hard to get virgin. In reality, as a male, he wants intimacy about as much as his lover. Zero chance they would be just hugging during nights.
That is rare that they the viewers also a GL pair, and that there are no like three BL pair, only one.
The brothel story does not make much sense because pumps are very protective of their property, prostitutes, so they are not allowing clients to hurt them. It was the same back in the day. What would have been more probably is that someone would just abuse her this way when she was not a brother property but rather a street prostitute.
It makes no sense that maid entering the room of her lady is somehow a scandal. They did at any time of day and night, if necessary.
The BL couple relationship is ridiculous. Even after they have confessed to each other and become lovers, still nothing is happening between them and the main lad is pretending to be shocked when his lover asked him to rub oil into his skin.
The only explanation is that he has become castrated one way or another. Otherwise, his behaviour is completely beyond anything similar to how males work.
This might have been understandable if the could was thirteen or something, even though still barely.
Instead of the story being super slow, it might have been better if the couple would return together to the future to explore all the fun things there.
The jealousy scene at the ball party does not make much sense because both in the BL couple know that the lad from the past has to marry, it is incentive at the time and its society, so they both would have been prepared for that and just ignore it, continuing their secret love. And especially they would allow themselves a public scene at the party.
People are not just collapsing really at any place after been in the rain and getting ill. They start feel unwell gradually, so they get to stool or to bed before they can become too weak to walks. So the series has sloppily shown a different, much more severe illness.
The usual route for the situation in question to develop back in the day was just to marry a woman of prestige and make several babies with her, it is a must, all while keeping your true gay love on the side for as many years as possible in secret. The father would prefer that the latter would stop altogether, but it uncontainable and unavoidable, then so be it, unlike the marriage and children, which are absolutely obligatory.
So it is not believable that the lad from the past would have been surprised and even thought about the arranged marriage. Even more so: it was drilled into his mind since childhood that he has to have a wife and children, so he himself would not even question that regardless of his gayness. He would understand how crucial it is for everything in life of the time.
The lad from the future also could only ever expect this, so him being surprised in not believable, either. So the event in the series is way more dramatic than it could have been realistically.
However, the series also spreads a dangerous superstition that death is not the end, that there is something else, a new life is awaiting you after this. In reality, there is no evidence of that at all, so you better hold on to your current and the only life as tight as you can here and right now.
Back in the day black stripes on white meant a prisoner uniform, so the lad would have been perceived as a sort of fugitive.
If it was a real time travel, the lad would have died of infections and diseases quite quickly because the immunity people have nowadays is dramatically weaker than what people had in the past.
Frogs are just a more tender chicken in taste, but brains and rotten meat are not great.
WHAT? Joe has jumped into a river fully clothed? It makes no sense.
Employer always apologises for his employees in case of trouble, so it is not believable that Jom’s future lover did not do it.
Master couple do not arguing between each other in front of their servants.
Of course, the very premise is fantasy in the first place, but mass reuse of actors in both timelines somehow still tampers with believability more than necessary.
Jom has said the truth about the affair he has witnessed, which was a just thing to do, but his motivation was shallow and petty, unjust: he was bitter that the lovers were clones of his contemporary time former boyfriend and his lover.
Jom wandering around at nights is not believable. Servants and the poor were so exploited at the time that they had no strength left to do this. They also did not have insomnia issues due to being dead tired from physical labour. And there is no chance Jom would not want to eat as working people were feeling hunger very sharply, regardless of any drama that was happening around.
It makes no sense for Jom to hide that he knows English and is an architect. He would have started living much better than taking care of pigs.
The poor in Thailand at the time (which was almost everybody) did not have money for razors or go to barbers, so they were not clean shaved as seen in be series, but rather had their beard/moustache are plucked with tweezers, what would result either with the looks of contemporary Thai star actors or singer who use lase/wax epilation on their, or with short thin hair growing out until their next plucking.
Their teeth were not that great and plentiful on average.
The hair was also different. Both males and females wore short hair (for the rich it was longer hair for females, but it was tucked up to look short), and the forehead was clear. Most of the time the hair was combed/prepped up, if possible.
It is not clear why the evil man’s second wife was feisty about having sex with her husband. It is a mundane obligation for a woman in her status. It is the part of the deal for which she has sacrificed her true love. In reality, she would be a willing partner just fine to keep the money flowing to her and her family. It is ahistorical to bring the psychology of a 21st century woman a hundred years back.
The average age of marrying for females at the time was about 18, but Ming’s love interest Mei is played by an actress who was 27 at the time of the filming, and it is too visible, does not work too well. By that age it would have been scandalous that she was still unmarried, but this is not shown in the series.
No one collects fallen leafs with a broom, there are racks for that.
After a punishment execution at that time, you would not look just as if a make up artist has smeared a bit of lipstick onto your face. And it would not be carried out with a tiny reed as shown. And you would not be running or even walking for weeks after this. So this aspect is not believable at all.
A poor woman’s mother dying at the time is not a cause to wildly break the rules to flee and see her. And no mother would risk her daughter’s wellbeing just to see her for the last time because she understands what it actually means, she would have been vehemently against and angry at her daughter as she is ruining the hard work that the mother has put into her during her life. It is nothing like what happens today. So this plot move is not believable.
The Christmas party attires have a major mistake since the main lad and some others have appeared there with unbuttoned collar, which is absolute nonsense both for masters and servants no matter if it is a mandarin or western style of attire.
Also, major-domos are meant to wear a formal uniform of the house, not some random clothes his master had bought to him. And they would never sit on the same table at a party as equals even if they were crazy lovers secretly. The scenario is not believable at all.
Fake Santa Claus beats were not made of plastic back then, so they were greyish or yellowish.
The main lad is accepting water from a common person to drink is not believable at all because he knows that people were not boiling it still at the time. As mentioned above, he would have quickly died in that time anyway, but even sooner with such water.
The plot move that the main lad is the one more meek and hesitant to confess his love is dubious becuase he is noticeably older and have rich love life experience in an open society, unlike his his love prospect from the past. So it would have made more sense, if the direction was opposite.
The second prospect, James, is so cute that I almost wish the main lad would not be so monogamous and would pleasure both love pursuers. But, of course, BL scenarists are too cowardly to do that because the goal is always to create marketable fixes BL pairs.
Even if for the monogamous story the main lad is written as a lass because in reality those two lads would have started to have fun with each other much sooner due to the crazy drive for it that males have.
So is quite annoying that the main lad is pretending to be hard to get virgin. In reality, as a male, he wants intimacy about as much as his lover. Zero chance they would be just hugging during nights.
That is rare that they the viewers also a GL pair, and that there are no like three BL pair, only one.
The brothel story does not make much sense because pumps are very protective of their property, prostitutes, so they are not allowing clients to hurt them. It was the same back in the day. What would have been more probably is that someone would just abuse her this way when she was not a brother property but rather a street prostitute.
It makes no sense that maid entering the room of her lady is somehow a scandal. They did at any time of day and night, if necessary.
The BL couple relationship is ridiculous. Even after they have confessed to each other and become lovers, still nothing is happening between them and the main lad is pretending to be shocked when his lover asked him to rub oil into his skin.
The only explanation is that he has become castrated one way or another. Otherwise, his behaviour is completely beyond anything similar to how males work.
This might have been understandable if the could was thirteen or something, even though still barely.
Instead of the story being super slow, it might have been better if the couple would return together to the future to explore all the fun things there.
The jealousy scene at the ball party does not make much sense because both in the BL couple know that the lad from the past has to marry, it is incentive at the time and its society, so they both would have been prepared for that and just ignore it, continuing their secret love. And especially they would allow themselves a public scene at the party.
People are not just collapsing really at any place after been in the rain and getting ill. They start feel unwell gradually, so they get to stool or to bed before they can become too weak to walks. So the series has sloppily shown a different, much more severe illness.
The usual route for the situation in question to develop back in the day was just to marry a woman of prestige and make several babies with her, it is a must, all while keeping your true gay love on the side for as many years as possible in secret. The father would prefer that the latter would stop altogether, but it uncontainable and unavoidable, then so be it, unlike the marriage and children, which are absolutely obligatory.
So it is not believable that the lad from the past would have been surprised and even thought about the arranged marriage. Even more so: it was drilled into his mind since childhood that he has to have a wife and children, so he himself would not even question that regardless of his gayness. He would understand how crucial it is for everything in life of the time.
The lad from the future also could only ever expect this, so him being surprised in not believable, either. So the event in the series is way more dramatic than it could have been realistically.
However, not the uncut, but regular version where the storytelling is tighter, not dragged. I normally would suggest the opposite for series where its uncut version adds lots of fanservice with more play between the characters, but here it is not that at all.
Also, I did not discourage people from watching the series. As I mentioned, it is great in the key aspect of BL, unlike some others. My point was to just warn inexperienced viewers to not think that this series is even remotely describing anything similar to how real life organised crime or security services work.
People unalive themselves not because their mothers have died prematurely, but because of how their brains got wired up by maturity, which leads them having periods of deep depression, insecurity, self-esteem pitfalls, strikes of utter despair that are most dangerous. Even with the happiest surrounding family they would still do it.
Too bad that all kinds of series can never grasp just how bad and hopeless the situation is most of the time and trivialise it by ascribing this condition to random events in life, which are fundamentally irrelevant to it and can only become triggers, though even that is unnecessary.
THE FIRST thing blind people are given is a white cane so people around would see that the person is blind, so here it did not happen. Does the family want him die in a car accident or something?
Also, why the producers are so clueless about the severe cornea damage they claim the lad is suffers from? In such cases it visibly becomes whitish/opaque, but the lad has clear corneas.
And, of course, cornea can not suddenly become opaque during a badminton match, this is nonsense.
Also, expensive models of BMW cars have excellent seatbelts, so they never stuck. The scriptwriters idea was that most viewers only ever get to use cheap cars where this can happen, though still extremely rarely, so they would not notice.
The key under the pot is not what unlocks mansions.
They show Mhok trying to be blind in the crowds as id Thai have never seen blind people. It is not happening like that at all, it is dramatisation.
You do not need libraries to borrow books. They are available online for some money or even free of charge. And you can get audiobooks there just fine.
Even better, you can get any book printed for you in Braille font for the blind and sent to you. And you can even buy Braille decides that would “print” sentences for you to feel and read them this way, so no need to wait for any special prints, if you choose so.
WHAT? The blind lad still does not have a white cane? Not believable. Also, blind people are not three years old olds, so they can keep their position easily, even if they are pushed away for a second. And there is no way a blind person would get go of his phone. And, again, Thais would help the blind right away. The scenarists have come up with drama out of thin air.
The fights in BL series are almost always laughable. They fought for a while but almost no visible damage.
The feeling Day has about Mhok supposedly not treating him as disabled contradicts to what is happening, the babysitting, so it makes no sense.
WHAT? The lass wants to keep the fetus from a horrible father, even though it is just a couple of months old, so it is safe to remove it? Not quite believable. If she wants a baby regardless of love or family, there are countless better variants to get pregnant.
WAIT, Day is shown to practice all night? The scriptwriters did not care to check how sports work. It makes no sense to practice during nights because your accuracy and overall performance drastically falls due to fatigue, you make way more mistakes than usual, and you learn and improve nothing positive during this period. So not believable at all.
Day’s former badminton partner only coming to their meeting many hours later without ever writing that he is going to be late or responding to calls makes zero sense. A sprain does not make you forget your phone, either, so there is no believable excuse.
Day is shown to be in love with his badminton partner, but then, only like five seconds later, he is returning the kiss that Mhok is giving him while being devastated with his heartbreak. This is not how things work in real life.
Blind people are perfectly able to buckle their seatbelts and tie their shoelaces. The scriptwriters do not know even basic facts about the condition.
The idea of Day refusing to have intimate fun with Mhok is not believable because males are not about keeping chastity but about satisfying their natural needs that are crazy-strong and basically imperative.
And it has nothing to do with love or the lack of it, it is simply a physiological process.
WOW, Day’s brother is flirting with pregnant Mhok’s former girlfriend? That is very rare behaviour because evolutionary males are not attracted to visibly pregnant women because it means they are already bearing a fetus, so she is not available for procreation. But it does happen, so it is interesting.
As nearly always with BL series, they show lads becoming boyfriends first, and then engaging intimately. But it is the opposite order versus how it happens in reality, so not believable.
This series has two couples with one partner being blind. In real life, those cases are incredibly rare. It would have been way more believable if both couples were all blind.
Cornea opacity of this kind does not jump to worse and back as the series show, it can only freeze its state or degrade to worse.
Besides, there is no substantial difference between how the lad sees and what will happen three months from now. The eyes will not all of the sudden go dark, unlike how the series claims. It is just the silhouettes will become even more blurry until the eyes would only see light and dark gradients at best.
The point is that the advice to “do things you always wanted to do” in the remaining three months is useless as the lad already does not see anything almost.
WHAT? Day is bland for a year and a half, but still can not write? Not believable at all. Blind people can write very well, and they use liners and other limiters to orient their writing correctly.
WAIT, Day blames a drunk person on the second row, his brother, of his car for his dangerous irresponsible driving that has lead to his blindness? This is so wrong and petty; Day is a bad person.
Cornea damage is rare in car crashes. The corneas would have to be stuck with lots of tiny degree particles or damaged by the gas from malfunctioned airbags or burned by fire. None of which is shown on the lad’s face.
Taiwan is not some lawless country so fathers have full visiting rights in regards to their children, unless the father is dangerous, so the plot move of the father disappearing for twenty years not becuase he did not care but because the mother did not allow him to contact his children makes no sense.
BTW, there are artificial corneas for those who can not wait for donor corneas. It has a major drawback because you will always have to use antibiotic drops, and it will be still risky.
Google Maps and Apple Maps work well in Thailand, so you do not need to confused about where to climb a mountain or find an accommodation, so this plot point is not believable.
Thai banking apps for smartphones support money transfers, so there is no real issue even if the accommodation has “Cash only” sign.
Thailand has big electronic book libraries, accessible (for a fee) via any smartphone, so even if a physical book is missing a page, it is not an issue.
ONLY ONCE? It is not believable that the lads’ first intimate night after half a year of waiting (which is nonsense, but let’s pretend it is so for a second) would only include one instance of fun, rather than, say, three times, which is typical for cases like this.
The chargers are usually plugged in, not just laying around somewhere, it is obligatory for blind users, so the repeated plot point of the charger getting lost is not believable.
WHAT? The mother has zero rights to Day’s phone (regardless if she was the person gifting it initially) she has committed robbery according to Thai law. This might happen in real life, but Day can file a complaint to police to get his phone back.
In the series, cornea transplant only popups like two years after the start of the illness, but this is not believable because in reality it is usually from a few weeks to a couple of months, with half a year for rare long wait cases.
The scenarists have chosen the wrong type of an eye illness to create the drama about.
WHAT? Day is breaking up for three years over some silly thing? They try to justify this by the necessity of personal growth, but both of them could have grown without breaking up just fine. There were lots of way to do it.
Episodes 9-12 are the hardest for scriptwriters because the main drama of lads coming together usually ends by episode 8, so they have to come up with random stupid things to happen in the last few episodes.
This type of a rich mother allowing her sons to be taken by a poor criminal and a poor divorced lass with a baby from another man is out of character, not quite believable.
People unalive themselves not because their mothers have died prematurely, but because of how their brains got wired up by maturity, which leads them having periods of deep depression, insecurity, self-esteem pitfalls, strikes of utter despair that are most dangerous. Even with the happiest surrounding family they would still do it.
Too bad that all kinds of series can never grasp just how bad and hopeless the situation is most of the time and trivialise it by ascribing this condition to random events in life, which are fundamentally irrelevant to it and can only become triggers, though even that is unnecessary.
THE FIRST thing blind people are given is a white cane so people around would see that the person is blind, so here it did not happen. Does the family want him die in a car accident or something?
Also, why the producers are so clueless about the severe cornea damage they claim the lad is suffers from? In such cases it visibly becomes whitish/opaque, but the lad has clear corneas.
And, of course, cornea can not suddenly become opaque during a badminton match, this is nonsense.
Also, expensive models of BMW cars have excellent seatbelts, so they never stuck. The scriptwriters idea was that most viewers only ever get to use cheap cars where this can happen, though still extremely rarely, so they would not notice.
The key under the pot is not what unlocks mansions.
They show Mhok trying to be blind in the crowds as id Thai have never seen blind people. It is not happening like that at all, it is dramatisation.
You do not need libraries to borrow books. They are available online for some money or even free of charge. And you can get audiobooks there just fine.
Even better, you can get any book printed for you in Braille font for the blind and sent to you. And you can even buy Braille decides that would “print” sentences for you to feel and read them this way, so no need to wait for any special prints, if you choose so.
WHAT? The blind lad still does not have a white cane? Not believable. Also, blind people are not three years old olds, so they can keep their position easily, even if they are pushed away for a second. And there is no way a blind person would get go of his phone. And, again, Thais would help the blind right away. The scenarists have come up with drama out of thin air.
The fights in BL series are almost always laughable. They fought for a while but almost no visible damage.
The feeling Day has about Mhok supposedly not treating him as disabled contradicts to what is happening, the babysitting, so it makes no sense.
WHAT? The lass wants to keep the fetus from a horrible father, even though it is just a couple of months old, so it is safe to remove it? Not quite believable. If she wants a baby regardless of love or family, there are countless better variants to get pregnant.
WAIT, Day is shown to practice all night? The scriptwriters did not care to check how sports work. It makes no sense to practice during nights because your accuracy and overall performance drastically falls due to fatigue, you make way more mistakes than usual, and you learn and improve nothing positive during this period. So not believable at all.
Day’s former badminton partner only coming to their meeting many hours later without ever writing that he is going to be late or responding to calls makes zero sense. A sprain does not make you forget your phone, either, so there is no believable excuse.
Day is shown to be in love with his badminton partner, but then, only like five seconds later, he is returning the kiss that Mhok is giving him while being devastated with his heartbreak. This is not how things work in real life.
Blind people are perfectly able to buckle their seatbelts and tie their shoelaces. The scriptwriters do not know even basic facts about the condition.
The idea of Day refusing to have intimate fun with Mhok is not believable because males are not about keeping chastity but about satisfying their natural needs that are crazy-strong and basically imperative.
And it has nothing to do with love or the lack of it, it is simply a physiological process.
WOW, Day’s brother is flirting with pregnant Mhok’s former girlfriend? That is very rare behaviour because evolutionary males are not attracted to visibly pregnant women because it means they are already bearing a fetus, so she is not available for procreation. But it does happen, so it is interesting.
As nearly always with BL series, they show lads becoming boyfriends first, and then engaging intimately. But it is the opposite order versus how it happens in reality, so not believable.
This series has two couples with one partner being blind. In real life, those cases are incredibly rare. It would have been way more believable if both couples were all blind.
Cornea opacity of this kind does not jump to worse and back as the series show, it can only freeze its state or degrade to worse.
Besides, there is no substantial difference between how the lad sees and what will happen three months from now. The eyes will not all of the sudden go dark, unlike how the series claims. It is just the silhouettes will become even more blurry until the eyes would only see light and dark gradients at best.
The point is that the advice to “do things you always wanted to do” in the remaining three months is useless as the lad already does not see anything almost.
WHAT? Day is bland for a year and a half, but still can not write? Not believable at all. Blind people can write very well, and they use liners and other limiters to orient their writing correctly.
WAIT, Day blames a drunk person on the second row, his brother, of his car for his dangerous irresponsible driving that has lead to his blindness? This is so wrong and petty; Day is a bad person.
Cornea damage is rare in car crashes. The corneas would have to be stuck with lots of tiny degree particles or damaged by the gas from malfunctioned airbags or burned by fire. None of which is shown on the lad’s face.
Taiwan is not some lawless country so fathers have full visiting rights in regards to their children, unless the father is dangerous, so the plot move of the father disappearing for twenty years not becuase he did not care but because the mother did not allow him to contact his children makes no sense.
BTW, there are artificial corneas for those who can not wait for donor corneas. It has a major drawback because you will always have to use antibiotic drops, and it will be still risky.
Google Maps and Apple Maps work well in Thailand, so you do not need to confused about where to climb a mountain or find an accommodation, so this plot point is not believable.
Thai banking apps for smartphones support money transfers, so there is no real issue even if the accommodation has “Cash only” sign.
Thailand has big electronic book libraries, accessible (for a fee) via any smartphone, so even if a physical book is missing a page, it is not an issue.
ONLY ONCE? It is not believable that the lads’ first intimate night after half a year of waiting (which is nonsense, but let’s pretend it is so for a second) would only include one instance of fun, rather than, say, three times, which is typical for cases like this.
The chargers are usually plugged in, not just laying around somewhere, it is obligatory for blind users, so the repeated plot point of the charger getting lost is not believable.
WHAT? The mother has zero rights to Day’s phone (regardless if she was the person gifting it initially) she has committed robbery according to Thai law. This might happen in real life, but Day can file a complaint to police to get his phone back.
In the series, cornea transplant only popups like two years after the start of the illness, but this is not believable because in reality it is usually from a few weeks to a couple of months, with half a year for rare long wait cases.
The scenarists have chosen the wrong type of an eye illness to create the drama about.
WHAT? Day is breaking up for three years over some silly thing? They try to justify this by the necessity of personal growth, but both of them could have grown without breaking up just fine. There were lots of way to do it.
Episodes 9-12 are the hardest for scriptwriters because the main drama of lads coming together usually ends by episode 8, so they have to come up with random stupid things to happen in the last few episodes.
This type of a rich mother allowing her sons to be taken by a poor criminal and a poor divorced lass with a baby from another man is out of character, not quite believable.
The good things are the issue of disability is covered, however faulty, and that the leads are not hardcore straights that all of the sudden become gay, it is better than that.
A PSA: if possible, avoid running both as a recreational/cardio exercise and a sport. The issue is that even if with the most advanced footwear this activity irreversibly destroys your spine and knees. Health scientists did not find any benefits of it in comparison to other activities that do not cause this much harm. The issue is that evolutionary humans are long distance walkers and, rarely, short distance runners, but never long distance runners, hence the body is not accommodated for the latter at all, so it always ends up being destructive.
ANOTHER PSA: never become a couple before trying intimate fun because it can completely and fundamentally destroy all prospects of your relationship no matter how much the purely platonic/romantic part goes. You absolutely need to establish that you are compatible first.