Jessica Brown

People's take on Gene is interesting. Some people like him and others don't. I get both.

That is interesting about your friend. I think that a bunch of BL is trash. I say that with love because I love BL, but I call trash when I see it.

You are right many shows have horrible camera and audio quality, but that is not what I'd call trash. That's just bad production quality and low budget. When I call this show trash, I am purely 100% talking about the writing, acting, etc. The rape thing, that can be included in my description.

And you're right, the show is funny. I laughed while watching. That is probably why your friend also enjoys. However, the entertainment value of this show when squared up to many other things is at best sub par. It's not unique and is pitching "satirical comedy" under the guise of another not-so-interesting BL story. I personally think shows like this are trash, and I watch many trash shows all the time. Like Gen Y, currently airing Cupid Coach, Oxygen. Endless trash that I will watch till the last episode.

Generally, this drama is fun for what it is. But if you ask me this show is a piece of trash. I mean, really. I know someone else has to agree with me. I enjoy the show, but would you show this show to one of your friends? Probably not unless they are as obsessed with BL as much as you. It takes cheap BL cliches and abuses the heck out of them!! Maybe it is supposed to be a sort of parody, but it does not feel new or fresh. It seems more like an excuse to abuse the cliches more than normal.

One thing I do like is how Nubsib's character is seemingly shy and assertive at the same time. Now, that's new.

You're right. Lol. Maybe it was supposed to show he is disoriented and pre-occupied mentally. I think he has a crush on Tiffy so maybe he made that mistake because he couldn't think straight. I don't think it had much meaning. I just laughed when I saw it thinking he is so absent-minded. I thought.. "How do you make that mistake?!" I didn't even know there was such a thing as unisex dressing rooms. Maybe like one room called a family dressing room, but a bunch of rooms like a regular dressing room like that? Never seen one of those before.

You dropped Sotus? ;-; I don't like how Kongpab uses that line either, but the rest of the series is gold. Whenever I hear people mention Sotus, it is always negative stuff. Where is someone who will say something positive about my baby Sotus?!

When they had an ad for that face mask for the series in the show while really it was an ad for this actual show.. That killed me. Lol.

I am on ch 46.. 52 and 53, I will be waiting for those... hahahahah.

Thanks for the recs.

Thanks for your thoughts and honesty about Priest!

I think what you said is true. Their love story is hard to believe, and Priest's writing style really does seem the way you describe.

Really, you convinced me to read the novel and I am enjoying it so far so cheers to that.

Well, I have read the first 3 chapters of Faraway Wanderers now, and it is much better than I thought.. The plot seems to have lots of humor and good points outside of the oncoming romance. In many books, this dies down and the plot becomes weaker later, but I will see.

I will admit that crime is like my least favorite genre, so I think Guardian is not really for me anyways. It was something I more started because of its sheer popularity hoping that because it was so popular than I'd enjoy it anyways.

I am aware of the translation issue. In general, I find the relationship between the two main characters in Guardian very weird.. It is very hard for me to point where their (romantic) attraction is for each other which makes me start to understand some of the commenters on here saying stuff like it feels like lust assuming the two characters in Faraway Wanderer have a similar dynamic. The way you have said it as well makes it feel like it's initial lust/attraction turned into love. I hope it doesn't turn me off.

I am not a big reader or talented at reading for fun. I am talented at reading textbooks for school though. Hahahahah. I have started a good amount of Chinese novels and have only finished like 2 or 3. One of those being The Untamed's novel.

Also at least for the translator of the first chapters of Faraway Wanderer.. this is the best translator I have ever read forreal.

It is very interesting to me he gets his own show.. Hahah.

Thanks for all the info. It seems this book tackles many psychological issues like you said. I hope what you said helps someone else decide if they want to read the book also, not just me. I will read a little bit to see if the story and characters are interesting to me like you said.

And I am at least a little familiar with Priest. I read the first 34 chapters of Guardian but stopped. If I was going on only the author, since that's all I read of her and do not have some super amazing opinion about her, I would not have any interest. I remember in the parts of Guardian I read that the book was really funny but it was also hard to keep up with the characters. I have a predisposition to the wuxia, fantasy, historical type novels anyways, so I'll give it a try.

I think it is best anyways to skip novels that are not translated. It is too much to wait sometimes 2 or 3 weeks for one chapter. Eventually you just forget about the book and stop reading.

Thanks for your opinion too. :)

And the translation is not finished, right?

Can you tell me why with minimal spoilers? Like just generally?

Has anyone here read the book? I am thinking about reading it. Is it any good? I have not watched any of the show btw.

Yeah. I think the only pure relationship is Tum and Tiffy and they are probably just gonna be sitting in the middle with a bunch of chaos happening around them. I know Aey has just got to be evil..

Yeah. The show has time to develop, and I definitely agree that he is getting something out of it too. But I feel like so far, what he is getting out of it is just a byproduct of other people manipulating him.

When he agreed to write the BL novel, let Nubsib stay at his house, or agree to kiss Nubsib, he was not thinking, "Oh! I will use this for ____." He was genuinely convinced and manipulated into doing things he doesn't want to do. It just so happened that he can get something out of it (therefore byproduct).

Probably later on he will start to somewhat enjoy his situation because he will realize all the possible benefit he can get out of it.. OR maybe later he will realize he is fortunate, well-known, and has lots of money.. but his dream was to write fantasy horror novels and he never got there.

So it is true not everything is black and white or all or nothing, but I definitely see Gene being taken advantage of more than not being taken advantage of.

Thanks so much for the update!!! I am glad it is better than the trailer, but I guess the relationship development is just slow? I don't know what to say about the step-brother one.. I will definitely be watching to find out.