ashesinthewind

After watching live and on Viu, I'd recommend to wait for Viu, it's a lot better to experience the episode when there are no long commercial breaks every 10 minutes. The quality on Viu is way better, too.

I enjoyed the episode, it's so relaxing to watch something like it after all the frustration from Twins and the high emotions from The Sign. Finally our sweet Achi has caught up and reciprocates Karan's feelings. The "love triangle vibe" line was the best, so funny. I loved how Achi went directly for the bag Karan gave him. :) I also have to say how much I'm enjoying Mark as Min, he's very cute. I wasn't convinced of him in Sky in Your Heart, but here I'm enjoying his character very much.

The rewatch on Viu was a lot better! From next week on, I'll just wait the two extra hours, it's worth it. The feel and the vibe are completely different when you don't have long annoying commercials every 10 minutes and when you can see the faces of the characters on screen clearly.

If they do that for a third time I'm suing them.

I watched it on live tv - the quality was bad, at least on my computer, and there were too many tv-commercials, it was hard to follow and enjoy it, because it interrupted every 10 minutes for 5 minutes commercials. I'll watch it again on Viu without the commercials in order to gather my thoughts.

The most significant thing that happened was that Achi has definitely caught feelings for Karan. That and it was cute, cute, cute. :)

Um, I thought there are 12 episodes. We had episode 10 today, so there should be 2 episodes left.

First has to find out in the next episode, in order to get to be at least a little bit mad about being deceived and treated like that. Mind you, he is really deeply in love with Sprite (look what he puts up with and how he is unable to resist Sprite every time he comes near him and kisses him) and I expect him to forgive more easily than most people.

Please, writers. Don't drag the revelation until the last episode, unless you plan an open ending.

I'm rewatching the scene on the rooftop and it's heartbreaking. The actors are doing a great job, btw, but First is literally killing me with his: "Be honest with me, Zee" and "You're messing with my head like I'm an idiot". It can't be clearer than that, yet Sprite feels like he has to continue to lie. Why? There's no explanation that would make sense at this point, especially considering what happened after that conversation.

First told him and asked him several times about what's going on, first during their date and again in this episode. Seriously, if First punches both twins in the face after finding out, I wouldn't blame him one bit, they deserve it.

At this point the best I can hope for would be Sprite telling First at all and not First finding out by himself another way.

WTF, the poor guy doesn't know who he slept with. This is as messed up as it can get.

And most of all: why won't Sprite tell him? What is the reason to treat him like that? He knows very well his brother doesn't like him and yet he lets him suffer and First told him he feels like an idiot and doesn't understand what's wrong. First repeatedly begged him to tell him if there is something he should know. What's the reason behind all that? Saving Zee's face is not good enough.

Sprite is indeed hopelessly stupid.

Lol... I personally would want to know the name of the person who got into a river to save me from drowning, but I guess that's just me.

The first episode was indeed bad, I remember being really disappointed.

Now, it's one of my favourite BL series airing, despite some obvious weak points. I think it's mostly because of the main couple, but I also want to know when and how the twins' swap will be revealed, because they sure are taking their sweet time with it.

Happy new year, fellow BL lovers!

After my rewatch of the first three episodes, two important things I hadn't noticed (or at least thought about before):

1. It makes no sense Phaya and Tharn didn't recognize each other after Tharn saved Phaya's life , even if many years have passed and obviously they have grown from children into men. Yes, I understand that they might not recognize each other from sight, but didn't they exchange names that day? They spent quite a lot of time in that temple with their grandmothers. I can't believe they didn't introduce themselves, children and adults. Saving someone's life (or having someone save you) is a moment in both parties' life that it's impossible to forget. There's no way that would happen. You cannot forget the name of the person who's saved you. You also cannot forget the name of the person who you have saved. I need an explanation why they wouldn't recognize each other, if not by sight, but by names.
2. I can understand Tharn's reactions to Phaya in episode 6 better. The thing is, it seems he still doesn't trust him enough, for whatever reason. There was the conversation on the beach in episode 2, when Tharn told Phaya that now they've passed the exam he would do everything he always wanted to do, but he didn't want to tell Phaya what he meant. Later we find out through Yai he meant his parents' death. There was also that moment in Tharn's grandmother house when Tharn refused to tell Phaya why he didn't live with her, but in the temple. Right now, Yai is the only one who has Tharn's absolute trust and knows seemingly pivotal things about him Phaya doesn't know.

I'm immesely enjoying the rewatch, btw.

Nope, the twins are not close. I think they were shown together in the same room just once in 9 episodes.

You're right, I just checked. The producton team made a mistake and probably meant to write 2019 and not 2009. After Khem and Thongthai fell into the pool, Khem was waiting for Thongthai in front of a board that clearly stated "Summer Camp '19". If it was 2019 and not 2009, the four of them except Yai would be in their middle twenties, which would make sense if Phaya and Tharn met again when they were 22, like @Dreamy-Nali wrote. They met again when they were 22, had their training as police officers, and should be about 25 years old right now.

I haven't read the novel, but I was wondering about their ages, too. In the yesterday's episode, Khem and Thongthai met in 2009 while they were in college. Sadly, I've no idea in which year the current story is happening. If it's current day, the characters should all be in their early thirties (or at least very late twenties) if Tharn, Phaya, Khem and Thongthai are the same age. Yai is, according to them calling him Pi, the oldest in the group. Quite an age for Tharn to remain a virgin, but ok, it can happen.

Any idea which year it's supposed to be when all of what we're watching is happening?

I agree, but IMO Sprite's chances of losing First are getting bigger and bigger with every day he continues to lie to him, because he has to know that he can't go on this way forever. Of course First will be angry if he tells him, but it will only be worse if he doesn't and First finds out another way (like Zee telling him, which probably won't happen, or he sees the twins together by accident, or Sam finds out through his future boyfriend and takes mercy on him and tells him, or ... there are countless possibilities). Sprite being honest will get him some credit from First. Him continuing to lie and and lie won't.

I mean, Sprite isn't very bright, but he has to know he can't continue pretending to be Zee forever in front of his boyfriend, right?

Maybe it's just me, but I think Zee is not that interested in volleyball. He is just clinging to it because he literally has nothing else. In 9 episodes, there's only one thing (person) that interests him - Salmon. He cares about no one and nothing else. Maybe they will end up together at the end and with her help he will finally find something on his own, although I'm not holding my breath, she seems to resemble his mother very much.

I agree it's possible but given that Tharn seems to be a very sensual person (remember episode 4 ;)), it doesn't seem very probable that he would want a relationship without having sex. It should either be that he was overcautious with his first love too, like he is with Phaya, and wanted to wait in order to protect them, or the love story was at a very early stage, and the lover died before they got intimate with each other. I hope we'll get a backstory, I'm really curious what happened. I saw some theories that Dr. Slowmotion could've killed Tharn's first love and I wouldn't be surprised if this turns out to be true.

The Sign and Twins are my favourite currently airing BLs and for some reason, at the end of the year they've decided to hurt me to the core. They've served me with lack of communication between the mains I adore, non-development and even regression of their relationships, one knowingly and even deliberately hurting the other (out of stupidity in Twins and out of mistaken nobility in The Sign), lying and pretending to be someone else and avoiding and ignoring your love interest.

I say, it can only get better and this is what I demand at the beginning of next year. Also, I hope First figures out by himself Sprite is not Zee, because after rewatching some important parts of the show, I've realised that Sprite is simply hopelessly stupid and probably won't tell him himself. We have to rely on First being the smart one in the relationship.

The Sign and Twins are my favourite currently airing BLs and for some reason, at the end of the year they've decided to hurt me to the core. They've served me with lack of communication between the mains I adore, non-development and even regression of their relationships, one knowingly and even deliberately hurting the other (out of stupidity in Twins and out of mistaken nobility in The Sign), lying and pretending to be someone else and avoiding and ignoring your love interest.

I say, it can only get better and this is what I demand at the beginning of next year. I'll go and rewatch all episodes of The Sign now.

One question though: didn't they say several times in the first episodes that Tharn was a virgin, and he never denied it? How is that possible if he'd had a lover before, or was that person killed before they could get as far?