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Salak is called 'snake fruit' in English because of the way the skin on the fruit looks. It's very good.

Ok, maybe I'm complaining a *BIT* too early (I'm on ep. 11), but aside from the: good production quality and solid acting skills of the main and secondary characters, I'm not enjoying the series and I feel let down by all the hype. A big part of it is because of Arthit's character. I don't like him. He goes from being comfortable, to overconfident, to awkward with Kongpop all within 5 minutes. It's somewhat realistic because some relationships do start off this way and I get how that appeals to people, but the season only has 15 episodes. It's ep. 11 and they're still not dating. I love the *IDEA* of Arthit and Kongpop being romantic and together, but it's not actually happening.

It's like this show is about the greatest romance that is about to happen, but actually doesn't.

I went into this after having watched MIR and 2 Moons thinking, "SOTUS has to be the best because this is the one that everyone loves so much." and that's true. Of the three, the production quality of SOTUS IS the best, the acting IS the best, but the pace of the storyline sucks and it ruins the whole thing. It just isn't as entertaining as I thought it'd be.

I'm not gonna drop it and I'll even watch the the next season because I do love the idea of Kongpop/Arthit being together and romantic, but I really hope they pick up the pace.

Lastly, they spend WAY too much time on the hazing stuff...like seriously. It's important that you take school seriously. Duh..but we didn't need to watch a whole episode of them trying to figure out what SOTUS stands for. lol

I was waiting for it to really "take off", but it never did. It's not the worst movie I've ever seen, but I was expecting better because the cinematography was good and so was the build-up. Poor writing and execution, unfortunately.

My thoughts exactly.

Well, the direct translation of the title is, "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" which is a very old, famous Chinese legend that is the equivalent to "Romeo and Juliet" in western countries...so, that maybe answers your question. However, I think there will be some BL in this, so maybe it will be different.

Where are we watching this, ladies and gentlemen?

Does anyone have any current links to this one?

Your response was my exact thought when I read the first comment. LOL I'm eagerly awaiting the day for a Korean BL with a happy, positive ending.

I like this movie because of the "real" factor. There were awkward times, there were tense times, there were dangerous times and there were high expectations with low results. Life is dramatic sometimes...then suddenly it's not...doesn't mean life isn't exciting.

This was much better than the first season imho. It's more exciting, dramatic, and fast-paced.

You're a gem.

Sorry to bug you again, but do you know the actor who plays Zi Yu?

Thank you! ^^

Does anyone know the actor's name who plays the (second) Nansu king? Not Lin Feng Song...

Really enjoying this season so far! (on ep. 11)

This series drags quite a bit imho (things don't really get exciting until after around episodes 15-17). However, after that, it's good. Also, due to the fact that it's low budget, there aren't really as many cool, military fight scenes as one may expect. Additionally, there's no proper BL, per se, but the bromances are real. Pretty excited for season two, but my main takeaway is: this season really didn't need to be 30 episodes long.

True. lol My point in saying that is: that same creep factor exists in virtually every popular historical drama coming out of Asia, but in most of them, they cast the actors to be closer in age, but that's rarely taken into consideration which is sad/creepier imho because we still live in a world where girls ages 8-12 are being openly married off to men two/three times their age whereas such relationships between men aren't so common. Nevertheless, being 'assigned' into a relationship (arranged marriage & forced servitude) is the bigger factor here imho.

As the king of a kingdom, everyone in the movie besides the king was technically his submissive (the queen included). I don't find it creepy that a grown adult (read: older teenager...appearing to be around 17/18) found romantic attraction to a pre-teen..particularly taking historical context into account. This was commonplace back then except more common among heterosexuals. If you take a look at the stories behind most all Asian historical royal drams that a involve a king/emperor and his queen or concubine, you'll very often see stark age differences. The difference between those love stories and this is that in the other dramas, the actors are cast to be around the same age. I'm not saying age isn't a creep factor, but it's wholly irrelevant because the king is the king. He can technically choose whomever he wanted and they'd be just as obliged to obey his command no matter what the age. History is hard to look at in the face sometimes, but I don't think that factor makes these stories ignoble. Also, he raised the guys, but he clearly didn't make a habit of sleeping with them seeing as how Rim gets called out by his brothers for sleeping with the king.

I agree, love is wanting the other person to be happy. The king loved the queen and realized he couldn't truly make her happy...which is why he initially assisted on her leaving to back to Yuan (China). The king loved Rim which is why he did virtually everything for him to make him happy. There is no indication in the film prior Rim's affair with the queen, of course, that Rim was either unwilling or unhappy to be with the king. It's a stretch for me to believe that Rim and the queen were truly in love considering they spent 95% of their very, very short time spent together only having sex. The pedo/control thing is a big factor for the king and Rim, but they've been around each other, getting to know each other for years by this point.

God, I can't wait!!

True, but the principle is still there. Meh...all's well that ends well, I guess.