Synchonicity

Yes, I think Joer/Edward for sure. I'm less sure about Kim/Ants because of the age difference. Khali/Andrew: I'm more optimistic than you, but you make some really good points. And Khali may just be too jealous to sustain a relationship. I'd love to see Harold/Aaron still together.

And I hope Julian and especially Julio found someone... if not each other.

Gay guy here as well. The gay male audience for BL has grown so much that now the majority of BL online reactors are guys. Many of the actors are now out as gay... I'd guess about 20%.

So it looks like there might be a reunion episode next week?

Jimmy can be my boyfriend any time. (So can Dr. Thap.)

I'm not wild about the In character. I get that he has baggage, but it's just a little too much weeping for me to take it seriously.

You are right. I just did a search and AI came up with: "Sparks Camp Season 3 has 8 episodes, according to The Movie Database (TMDB) and Plex."

I'm glad Khali apologized. In the past two seasons there were one or two guys that I found really unlikeable, but I genuinely like everyone this season.

It's advertised as 10 episodes here.

I love his puppy dog eyes.

Thanks for the heads up, I'll check it out!

I was in Khali's corner at first, but now he's just creating unnecessary drama.

Harold is adorable and I still have the hots for Joer.

Thank you for your very thoughtful response! To answer your first question, I thought A Tale of a Thousand Stars was great. No questioning of sexuality, a compelling story, dramatic yet romantic. No negative stereotypes. I loved it.

To the second, I don't like transgender characters treated as comic relief. Filipino BLs are especially guilty of this.

To the third, I can handle morally questionable representations just fine (such as rape and assault), as they exist in hetero dramas as well. But... I believe they need to be portrayed as what they are... morally questionable, and not as some cute or sexy thing, when they are clearly not.

Me too, thank you.

You're right, BL started out as women writing for women (at least for the ones with that particular fetish). Most gay guys didn't even know about it. I didn't know anything about it until 2018, when I stumbled upon it by accident. I started watching, mainly because there were almost no other depictions of gay couples out there. I wasn't in agreement with many of those depictions, but I was happy that the representation existed at all.

But the dynamic and demographic has changed now. Like me, many gay men have become viewers, I'd say around 40%, at least. Gay men online BL reactors on YouTube outnumber women reactors.

So I'd like to see BL start evolving, as the audience evolves. Doesn't mean that has to cancel out the original concept, but the ideas should at least coexist.

Yeah, it's pretty crazy. Recently, in My Sweetheart Jom, the fangirlies were going crazy because Saint (27 and a bit bulky) was the bottom and Poom (21, slim and looks like he's in high school) was the top. They just couldn't handle it.

Exactly! I've often said "We both are." And then they just look confused, like we blew their whole trip, lol.

The only thing I can figure is that it's a sort of rape fantasy that some women get into... they don't actually want it for real, so they fetishize and get off on two good looking male characters (the whole "seme/uke" thing, which is also a little ridiculous) where the top bangs away mercilessly at the bottom.

I'm all for fantasies and fetishes, but not when they are put out there as some kind of "gay norm."

Fair enough.

Yes. I am a gay guy, and I did enjoy this series. I gave it an 8. However...

I, too, was bothered by that the gang rape scene in Ep 1 was just brushed off as a "character flaw" in CC. I can take watching a rape scene, as long as it's portrayed as the violent act that it really is.

The part that bothered me even more was WSW barely being able to walk the day after the first time he had sex with CC. I've been through all kinds of sexual acts -- even rough -- and I've never been so sore I could barely walk the next day. A guy (even into BDSM) would seriously have be so brutally raped for hours against his wlll for that to happen.

And many viewers' reactions were "Oh! Look how WSW can barely walk!" As if that was so cute and CC was such a hot sexy stud. A number of women BL writers go this way (MAME, anyone?), and there's nothing cute about it, it's gross. What if it were a woman that had been banged so hard she was limping around in pain the next day? Still cute? Still romantic?

If you want to write THAT story, make it a thriller/drama, not a love story.

I think 8.6 is good! I watched the whole series and really liked it, although I didn't think it was perfect or anything. I rated it 8.0.

Yep. I'm sorry they've sold out the way they have.