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Mindless Enjoyable Fluff
This is a classic, don't think about it BL fluff.
Teerak is an adorable little goof who still looks like his mother cuts his hair and gives out the sweets his mother makes, to everyone at his university. Classic oblivious lead who doesn't know how to say 'no', which leaves him with a persistent stalking problem from a senior who is determined to woo him.
He runs into the rumored Uni bad boy one morning spilling his coffee over his shirt and thus the plot begins.
It's clear from the get go that Fah is not as harsh as he appears to be and clearly, already, has a soft spot for Rak from the moment we see him.
Fah states that he has a temper and had gotten into fights before because of it but we only ever see it at surface level. This is never explored any further. He essentially begins to control this trait once Rak enters the picture.
Enter Oh, the 3 times we see this short fuse are in altercations with Rak's admirer/stalker, which to be honest, where pretty legitimate reasons to get mad.
Oh is a complete slimeball and again, I'm left with this feeling that he was just forgotten about. He never faced repercussions for what he did to Rak and his friends in ep.1, and irritatingly, when Rak finally shuts him down, it is Rak who is apologizing to him. The writers tried to create an absent mother plot but by that point, I didnt care. He was a tool within the plot to get the leads together and cause a little strife but he was never important and I'm a little annoyed by that. I actually wish he had been developed more in some way in order for me to feel the compassion for him that the writers seemed to have wanted. But he was just a spoiled jerk with mummy issues left to cry in the park, with a potential new victim trying to comfort him.
The rest of the cast served a similar purpose. There are two other couples but they had little screen time. I suspect that a season 2 may be in the future for both of these couples but in this one, they disappear into the back along with Oh for the most part.
I do respect in ep.11, that Rak's father was not accepting of his relationship with Fah but I don't like how they did it. We were never shown him to be strict like Rak had always described him. They just looked like a family out of the disney channel with everyone adoring Rak. If felt almost out of the blue and even triggering for me, as it was sudden and violent character change. If I had gotten a back story, like in the novel, I would be more understanding, as I could see it through the lens of trauma, but he just exploded out of nowhere, became emotionally abusive and controlling, and then when his wife and father finally spoke up in Rak's defense, did he apologise with the old 'I just care about him'. ......*le sigh*
This show is really just about Rak and Fah being cute boyfriends. That is 90% of the plot. Everyone else just filled in the time, which is a shame because I feel like this could have been a lot better if the plot was rounded out more. There was a consistent message of proper communication and consent between the characters, but it looked out of place among the rest of a terribly inconsistent script. e.g Rak is a child until there is a sex scene, then he's in control and knows what he's doing.
For newbies as their first show, this is was good start, and it cemented their chemistry, which I felt was good.
Overall, if it's just something cute to fill the time, this is perfect but other than that, it fell short in a lot of places.
Teerak is an adorable little goof who still looks like his mother cuts his hair and gives out the sweets his mother makes, to everyone at his university. Classic oblivious lead who doesn't know how to say 'no', which leaves him with a persistent stalking problem from a senior who is determined to woo him.
He runs into the rumored Uni bad boy one morning spilling his coffee over his shirt and thus the plot begins.
It's clear from the get go that Fah is not as harsh as he appears to be and clearly, already, has a soft spot for Rak from the moment we see him.
Fah states that he has a temper and had gotten into fights before because of it but we only ever see it at surface level. This is never explored any further. He essentially begins to control this trait once Rak enters the picture.
Enter Oh, the 3 times we see this short fuse are in altercations with Rak's admirer/stalker, which to be honest, where pretty legitimate reasons to get mad.
Oh is a complete slimeball and again, I'm left with this feeling that he was just forgotten about. He never faced repercussions for what he did to Rak and his friends in ep.1, and irritatingly, when Rak finally shuts him down, it is Rak who is apologizing to him. The writers tried to create an absent mother plot but by that point, I didnt care. He was a tool within the plot to get the leads together and cause a little strife but he was never important and I'm a little annoyed by that. I actually wish he had been developed more in some way in order for me to feel the compassion for him that the writers seemed to have wanted. But he was just a spoiled jerk with mummy issues left to cry in the park, with a potential new victim trying to comfort him.
The rest of the cast served a similar purpose. There are two other couples but they had little screen time. I suspect that a season 2 may be in the future for both of these couples but in this one, they disappear into the back along with Oh for the most part.
I do respect in ep.11, that Rak's father was not accepting of his relationship with Fah but I don't like how they did it. We were never shown him to be strict like Rak had always described him. They just looked like a family out of the disney channel with everyone adoring Rak. If felt almost out of the blue and even triggering for me, as it was sudden and violent character change. If I had gotten a back story, like in the novel, I would be more understanding, as I could see it through the lens of trauma, but he just exploded out of nowhere, became emotionally abusive and controlling, and then when his wife and father finally spoke up in Rak's defense, did he apologise with the old 'I just care about him'. ......*le sigh*
This show is really just about Rak and Fah being cute boyfriends. That is 90% of the plot. Everyone else just filled in the time, which is a shame because I feel like this could have been a lot better if the plot was rounded out more. There was a consistent message of proper communication and consent between the characters, but it looked out of place among the rest of a terribly inconsistent script. e.g Rak is a child until there is a sex scene, then he's in control and knows what he's doing.
For newbies as their first show, this is was good start, and it cemented their chemistry, which I felt was good.
Overall, if it's just something cute to fill the time, this is perfect but other than that, it fell short in a lot of places.
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