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Unforgotten Night had higher ratings than KinnPorsche in Thailand? I'd be REALLY interested to see the data on that. lol

and be denied giving help to his mother who had just been shot. I couldn't imagine watching my mom in that much physical pain (no matter how it was inflicted) and being forced to go somewhere else.

I really do appreciate it when BLs feature unambiguously gay guys. It's actually not surprising how seldom it happens, but I think it's starting to change and I love that.

Many of the criticisms of this show so far are 100% valid and I don't personally disagree with them, but did I still entirely enjoy that first episode? Yes. Yes, I did. 😋

Seriously. Zee really goes for it every time.

They CARRIED uwma? Please....lol

I didn't think that Dean and Pharm would be featured as much as they are in this show, so that was a pleasant surprise. I also like that we get pretty much all cute moments and almost none of the trauma from UWMA.

Not unless you're particularly curious about Dean and Pharm's background...which is really intense, let me just say. 😅

I can't imagine what someone who hasn't watched the show who comes here and reads the comments is thinking. The opinions are so fantastically split rn. lol

Funny you mention that. I'm usually not on the side of the unpopular opinion, but views are views.

I see where you're coming from about strong people not always being strong, but still...getting into a full-blown relationship is one hell of a way to cave.

I feel like Aun would be satisfied if Dew were just out of Mint's life period and Aun isn't someone that Dew's unfamiliar with and there's also Joey as their quasi-mediator. Even though he wants Dew to be with Mint to, he ultimately wants all his friends to get along. There were just so many other ways that this Mint situation could have been dealt with and I just feel Dew's actions were more ill-thought than a reaction to pressure.

I see what you’re saying, but I don’t feel the show really played the version of Dew thay you’re presenting up, if he even exists at all. Dew isn’t defeated. He has his head on his shoulders well and I’m spite of all the shit he takes, he often fights back when opposed. I really just feel like this decision in so far as his character is concerned is out of place. We don’t really see Dew being confused about his feelings with Mint. We see him saying to hisself and others that he doesn’t like her, but then at the last minute, he dates her…it’s just…off.

“Are you living under a rock” is an unnecessarily rude way to start a conversation. Whatever you feel about how I reacted to that statement is of little concern to me at this point. and intersectionality and ethnic struggles exist in many places and we do know about that here too, thanks.

Dew could have and should have avoided dating Mint and he had every implication that he should be firm and double down on that.

“ and I like how you sum up threatening to murder someone and other literal emotional abuse as making excuses. And painting the perpetrator as a victim who literally couldn't take no for an answer and tries to murder for the rejection...”

I didn’t do this. I referenced how you described Dew as a person, not what’s been done to him.

Do I think he deserves to be shot and killed as implied by tsuliwaensis? Maybe not, but I can say that I sympathized with Dew much more until this episode.

We don’t even know he’s gay as he’s never said that, first of all. What we do know, however, is that he doesn’t like Mint. He’s expressed it internally and externally and “trying” out dating someone you know is obsessed with you (as if they’d be ok if after a month you’d be like “No, it’s not for me”) isn’t a very sound decision and it seems (to me at least) as someone who’s known Mint for years, he’s realize that.

Cool. Thanks. That makes things make much more sense.

My dear, where I live is a country and continent where societal and family pressure far outpaces yours, I'm sure. Dating your best friend because she and some other friends or other people you know want you to isn't as unavoidable as you're making it. Dew is an adult, not a student. Gay or not, he doesn't like Mint and HE knows that better than anyone else. His parents seem to want him to do well in the company more than anything else. To that end, he'd be much better off without a partner until the company's doing well, especially one like Mint. With the way you describe him (read: make excuses for him), one would think he had no agency over anything in his life at all.

Pressures of life notwithstanding, I'm having a really hard time believing that a normal person would force themselves into a relationship with someone they know they don't like. If it were his parents arranging a marriage for him or something, I'd understand, but it's literally just Mint herself and Aun.

Did they directly express this in the show at some point or just drop clues?

Sadly, I agree with you. Dew is unsure about a lot of things: how to do his job well, who Mum is, what he feels about Mum etc., but what is sure of is that he doesn't romantically love Mint. The minute he even got into the relationship with her, my somewhat decent opinion of him went out the window.

I'm gonna start My School President soon.^_^