TianQi

I've compiled a little 'BL Series' playlist on Spotify and I listen to this song all the time. I really like it.

Not yet, actually. haha I still have like three more episodes left. I've been busy, plus I'm watching other shows too rn. I'll let you know when I finish though.

Well, what's "bad" BL that you've seen that, although it was kinda bad, you still liked it? lol

I pretty much agree, but with ITSAY2. I'm somewhat convinced that because ITSAY was as good as it was, the sequel can't match it. Not that sequels ever really do, but if just one small thing is even remotely subpar about ITSAY2, I feel like everyone's going to notice and everyone's going to complain (excessively) about it.

Word of Honor

Whatever is, I'm definitely looking forward to them working through it. While I do find Aoey's character to be the best-acted so far, I'm not very invested in his part of the storyline.

Sorry. I started to answer, but my friends surprised me at a restaurant and I started to give hugs while just holding my phone and got distracted. lol But yeah, I'll check out Reminders as well.

I've re-read this comment three times and I'm still cackling. lol I'm with you on the letter-writing campaign though.

I feel guilty about not feeling guilty that Nite #1 is gone. I REALLY like Nite #2. He's just so charming to me. Also, my favorite part of this series: the way everyone says 'Nite?!' when Nite #2 introduces himself. hahahaha

I really want Aoey to just shut up, accept Mork and go. lol

To answer that second question: yes. I think it got resurrected mostly in South Korea first, but has now trickled down to Thailand.

As I said...the cinematography excelled more than everything else...That's not denying the effective acting..it was great, but the fact that each scene that was filmed in such a way that the actual scenes themselves were able to speak the words of the actors as they said them and even display the emotions the actors felt was really quite remarkable and well-polished. I haven't seen that well-done a lot in Thai gay/BL productions and that's what stood out for me.

Sorry, when I said "we", I meant "we", the people in China. Back then, this was the quality of BLs we had. We've come along way since then. So to write our whole country's attempt (despite being from different producers, directors etc.) as garbage and even worse to reduce China's attempts at (albeit censored) BL to THIS BL of all of them is...disingenuous, but yeah. This one was bad. No arguments there.

He had me at "sushi na muyaaaaaaang" <3

I found my special person and it does it happen, it just came off as weird that for the whole series, they show the issues 99% of us go through in our teenage years then end it with how like less that 1% end our teenage years. lol I mean, I'm glad anyone gets to be happy, but it just seemed out of place.

There's no faction of MDL users that grind my gears more than the "It IsN't TeChNiCalLy BL" people when they attempt to take down series like The Untamed.

China, theoretically, has the largest population of gay men in one country in the world. With the success of series like Guardian and The Untamed, I say we keep going until we see more progress. Giving up is stupid.

Well, this was four years ago and was a very low budget attempt, but since we only have the option to turn BL novels into bromance, I think we've been doing a pretty damned good job of conveying BL love despite not being able to show physical affection since Addicted. See: Men With Sword, Love Is More Than a Word, Till Death Tear Us Apart, Guardian, The Untamed, Winter Begonia, and Word of Honor. We do what we can with what we have.

In short: gay people still exist in China. That's why we still try to make BLs.

Agreed about everything until the end. That ending was not relatable. Consciously gay people, like me and Ou, don't end up with our childhood/school crush/first experience/boyfriend. We end up rejected and going through university/life with the trauma of that. It's nice that they had a happy ending, but that was honestly the least believable part of the whole thing.

I agree with you. First of all, the whole drama is very reminiscent of early 2000s angsty, indie gay movies. Second, Ou was indeed treated as a doormat and as you mentioned, coupled with Teh's inexcusable behaviour (aside from the college entrance thing), it took me out of it. Also, I wasn't totally satisfied with the end. Everything seemed very realistic up until that point.