It's a slow paced kind of relationship, that's what makes sotus so great and why is the best for many people.…
By "chasing", I meant how Kongpop purposely goes out of his way a lot to interact with Arthit personally. They're at the same school, but they're social circles and academic levels are different, so they aren't actually afforded that much time to meet. The times when they are alone together, it's because Kongpop went out of his way to make it that way.
It's a slow paced kind of relationship, that's what makes sotus so great and why is the best for many people.…
He's still pretty rude, whether he means to be or not. I don't find it hard to understand the characters. I like their chemistry when they're actually getting along with each other. They're great, but Arthit's confusion and denial for the first 11 episodes (literally over half the season lol) wasn't entertaining to me, it was just annoying. Up until now, I've found Arthit to be one of the coldest leads I've ever seen in a BL and I've seen quite a few. He really doesn't deserve Kongpop n my opinion. ha
I think our opinions come down to personal experience. If you feel you're similar to Arthit, then I can see why you can appreciate him.
It's a slow paced kind of relationship, that's what makes sotus so great and why is the best for many people.…
Maybe Kongpop doesn't know when it started, but it's clear in the ep 1 that Kongpop had already fell for Arthit...maybe it happened off screen, but since that's the first that we see of Kongpop and Arthit, it comes off as "love at first sight" for me. Maybe just the notion of openly mistreating then liking someone doesn't come off as real or nice for me. Arthit's attitude and treatment of Kongpop is just too much for me. I really don't like his character at all. There's nothing cute about being rude because you're shy...it's just you being a jerk for no reason. haha
It's a slow paced kind of relationship, that's what makes sotus so great and why is the best for many people.…
Relationships are slow-paced and, sure, that's realistic, but if the show revolves around a couple and we barely see the couple interacting (they don't even really get that much screen time together outside the company of other students at this point), then the show kind of misses the premise in my opinion. If a guy ever treated me like how Arthit treats KongPop, I would never give him the time of day let alone continue to chase him and seriously don't know many others that would either. So, that aspect for me, seems unrealistic. Also, I definitely see an aspect of the "love-at-first-sight" BL theme on the part of Kongpop. Kongpop from Ep. 1 is head over heels for Arthit and we're not actually given any inkling as to why and even Kongpop himself says he doesn't know why when confesses his love while they're in bed. Now that I mention it, That's a HUGE issue for me with Kongpop. How do you fall in love with someone you've never spent any time alone with or really getting to know that treats you like crap every day? I know it's all part of the hazing, but even outside that realm Arthit wasn't even sorta friendly...at all.
I dunno. Like I said, the show is well-produced and the actors are great, so I'm gonna keep going, but in spite of that, I don't really find this to be as realistic as others are suggesting...I don't know of people who go from being severely annoyed by someone to being in love with them nor do I know of people who actively pursue a romance with someone that shows that they're annoyed by them as much as Arthit does to Kongpop.
On another note, this series would be 3000 times better if it also followed a relationship between Wad and Prem more closely.
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.
If it is this sad, I sure as hell won't be watching it.
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.
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.
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I think our opinions come down to personal experience. If you feel you're similar to Arthit, then I can see why you can appreciate him.
I dunno. Like I said, the show is well-produced and the actors are great, so I'm gonna keep going, but in spite of that, I don't really find this to be as realistic as others are suggesting...I don't know of people who go from being severely annoyed by someone to being in love with them nor do I know of people who actively pursue a romance with someone that shows that they're annoyed by them as much as Arthit does to Kongpop.
On another note, this series would be 3000 times better if it also followed a relationship between Wad and Prem more closely.
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