VixenByNight72

"Recommended only if you're in the mood for something easy and don't mind characters who behave like toddlers."

Thank you for the laugh 😃 😀 😄!!

"i understand the grumpy-sunshine trope and i'm into it. i like it, i do! but it's when they infantalized the sunshine character where i just... don't get it. they always do this in BLs (sigh). i feel like they did this to middleman's love as well (that's even worse because they're adults). no one acts this way or no characters are reacting properly in certain situations. it's just too much."

I agree with you, and it's interesting that this type of "sunshine character" is always the one that is categorized as the "bottom" in 98% of these BLs. The only BL that I have seen with this sort of "role reversal" is in PITBABE THE SERIES with Charlie.

I really hope that the writers for this particular segment of Theory Of Love don't expect that viewers would understand Pie's actions and thinking. She is constantly, and continually using the horrible situation that Boss AND Euro are in for her own advantage. It's not cute, watching Pie put Boss in more harm's way (physically and emotionally), by exposing that he's still hanging out with Euro to his equally abusive and homophopic father.

She's not being a good "friend" at all to Boss, and her "hopes" of getting him to fall in love with her with this 21 Day Theory is sad, ridiculous, and pathetic.

Euro's not giving up on Boss, and with her own behavior, Pie could possibly lose the one person she currently has on her side helping her out.

How long did it take you to compile the Thai BL Dictionary, because it's so hysterical and true.

"In its core, it's still the same plotless plot though, with all of the dub-connish scenes in the beginning; you can't really un-MAME a MAME story."

Thank you. I just saw this post and I agree with it completely. Mame also had a huge role with this Japanese adaption of her Thai BL, so it's not like the Executive Producer, Director, and screenwriters just went offscript. I think the horrible viewer reactions/receptions was due to people being annoyed that when the initial news about this adaption being in production, the early predictions was that the Japanese production would be "better than the original", which quite frankly pissed a ton of fans off. So, they were already in the negative feels about the adaption.

Choi Sang Min is 33 years of age and Petch Ratana Aiamsaart is 22, so that would explain the 11 years apart in the ages.

What you are sadly doing isn't at all under the definition of "justice" for these two actors. You are attempting to make nothing into something to give yourself some unnecessary, and unneeded sense of importance. Aou and Boom were cast as secondary characters in this seriales, to facilitate the story of the main couple, which is Yotha and Gun.
I have no skin in these ridiculous fandom comparing "fan wars", because at the beginning of the morning/end of night, these actors are all associates working for GMMTV.

".....the foundation for accepting our children's identities needs to be laid long before those identities emerge."

Exactly. I keep fixating on how "disappointed" both Rak's parents felt about knowing that their son now has a boyfriend. Have his grades gone down, due to him becoming a freshman in college? Has he suddenly turned into a child that they do not recognize, because now he's found someone that makes him happy, and that person is a man?! Rak is still their sweet, quiet, family pleasing son, but now he has someone, another young man that truly cares for him, and also wants to become a part of his boyfriend's family.

Fah understands the importance of family in Rak's mind and soul.

The reason why Fah started to cry, when he was home alone after the horrible reaction from Rak's father was due to his own unspoken fears that Rak, the dutiful son, would listen to his father and break up with him. Fah's relief in hearing Rak tell him that 1) he isn't tired, 2) he still cares for him, and 3) that he's willing to fight for himself, Fah, and their love.

How strong Rak has become into turning into a growing young adult that has to speak up for himself, for who he is becoming, and who he wants to have in his life is something that should make his parents happy, elated, and give them a sense of pride that they both raised their son to be able to thrive as an adult.

"To watch something for entertainment but still hold prejudice against the community that they are finding entertaining?"

I don't think that those viewers actually want to be questioned/confronted on their views, because they do just see it as "entertainment" and nothing that has any real truth in their world. These cute characters can entertain us, and have their fictional HEA, but they know that's not the reality for everyone.

"But that’s the reality many people around the world face when they come out. This is why I appreciate the realistic portrayal in this series. I hope you can understand what I’m trying to say. I also hope that one day, everyone around the world will be able to accept it as easily as you’re saying. But for now, the reality is still far from that ideal."

I totally understand what you're saying, and for what very many individuals across the global deal with in their own individual lives. I just hope that in the future, millions of people from around the world will start to think about truly obtaining their own happiness, over continuing to appease others.

That's just my hope.

"Will there be cheating? We don't know yet. But one thing is clear: It's not "just" a story about cheating, it's a story about what some people need in a relationship and what might happen if their needs are not met."

Exactly and IF the possibility of these characters cheating is such a negative concept for someone as a viewer, you can just stop watching the episodes. Why do you want others to explain what we are seeing, especially when it seems like that's not something you ar willing contemplate.

Exactly. All the three couples will have their HEA.

The director and the screenwriters never even factored that some viewers would think that Arm was developing a bad habit in drinking to much. It's just "cute scenes" of ForceBook being shown.

Hopefully, and eventually we as the audience MIGHT get some BL and GL adaptions that won't have these characters putting their parents/families/societies demads/wishes/wants over their own need for happiness. That they'll find a way to make their own HEA without it needing to be placed under the BL facade of everyone finding a way to accept in the 11th episode.

But as long as characters like Johan are portrayed by good-looking, fit, and sexually appeasing actors, we as the audience are going to continue to get these portrayals. Especially if these producers continue to do these adaptions of popular BL novels that have these types of characters/plots in their novels.

They keep going to the same well, so we continue to get the same water.

Agreed, but then however would we get to see the HEA between Rak and Fah, if their families weren't united in celebrating their kids being happy and in love with each other.

"Since there went there with this part of the story I agree they should've had it where he had to suffer and iced out by everyone in his life for a couple of eps."

Sadly, I have never, ever seen a fictionalized story (BLs, GLs, nor lakorn), in which the horrible and manipulative parent is not silently supported, vilified, nor iced out by their spouse, friends, parents, nor their other children due to their behavior.

If there are some examples of spouses calling out their husbands/wives horrible behavior towards their children, whenever they find out that their kids aren't who they expect/demand/bully into being, please give me the names of those series.

"The whole over top perfect family was the big red flag I shrugged off as just thai humour and now I see that it was very deliberate.
Mum and Dad have created this perfect little bubble that has caused all of Rak's problems. Being babied, not being able to say no, and the consequences of that. Being stalked and assaulted and still can't say anything because of the fear of Mom and Dad's reactions because he was drunk."

Sadly, that Rak AND Babe both didn't want their parents to know about his stalker because they didn't want their parents to place blame on him for being at that club, nor on Babe for knowing that he went to that club in the first place. Their parents put a ton of pressure on both of their college aged children to abide/respect/honor them, but they both don't feel comfortable enough to be honest with them.

How he thought that Fah would somehow "hurt" Rak, but the idea that a woman couldn't possibly also "hurt" him in the same way?!

"It also sheds light on people who see same-sex relationships as mere fiction, like Teerak’s dad. He was shown watching BL dramas, yet he only perceived them as part of a fictional genre. This is why he struggled to accept his own son dating a man.
The scene where Teerak’s grandpa and mom explained things to his dad was absolutely AMAZING! OMG, I have no words 🥺
And those ending scenes where his dad finally accepted him, followed by that heartfelt family hug—it literally made me cry!"

I was actually amazed that the script had Teerak's father apologizing to him for his behavior when he was told that his son was dating another man. Both his Mom and his Dad admitted that they were "disappointed", in finding out the real relationship status of Rak and Fah, which brings up another issue regarding their "disappointment". Do they actually have any true understanding of their son, and who he is as a person, beyond being their child? They never admitted that they were wrong in putting their fantasy of who they wanted Rak to be over who Rak is.

How hard it was for the Dad to accept that Rak was happy in being with Fah, that he wept as if he was mourning the image of who he wanted his son to be, and not celebrate who his son actually is?

How he thought that Fah would somehow "hurt" Rak, but the idea that a woman couldn't possibly also "hurt" him in the same way?!

Do they have any idea that Teerak has had to deal with an older male college student, who had literally stalked him for months, in this delusional belief that Teerak had a romantic interest in him?!

That the ONLY reason Rak and Fah were able to discover that they liked one another was due to them pretending to be a couple in the hopes of trying to get Oh to leave him alone?

Also, that neither Rak nor Babe thought that they could go to their parents to tell them about the stalking stays in the back of my mind all the time.