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You: "I think yu xing forgot lu hui is still a child AND HIS STUDENT...Is literally anything illegal in Taiwan?"

You specifically described LH as a "child" and you specifically implied their relationship is "illegal." Dialogue has made it clear at least twice that LH is 18. You provided none of the additional context/nuances you added in this reply.

I reacted strongly because these kinds of moralistic, inaccurate pronouncements are routinely made by the folks I call MDL Church Ladies, who leap to their high horses in self-righteous indignation every time we encounter a plot like this.

Calling characters who date anyone below the age of 20 "pedophiles" or claiming things that are not illegal ARE illegal are two of the most common Church Lady tropes. Words mean things. Pedophilia is a specific mental illness manifesting as an attraction to pre-pubescent children.

I apologize if you are not one of the "dunces" who do this. Your comments threw me off. :D

As for the main couple's storyline, it has occurred to me that it would add some badly-needed drama to this "drama" for the teacher/student relationship to be found out and reported. I'm wondering if the judgemental, female, so-called "friend" will do just that.

XY has seemed oddly unconcerned about this possibility, except for a mild warning to LH now and then to back off on the public displays of affection. I think his entire class of students suspects the two of them have something going on already. It surprised me that XY did not make a bigger deal out of LH deliberately grabbing his wrist in class and acting like a goofy 12-year-old as he did so. I thought he would later warn LH to never do such a thing again, but he didn't.

Also, it's worth keeping in mind that XY is a graduate STUDENT-teacher, not a full-blown member of faculty with a teaching degree. To me, this makes a lot of difference as to the degree or impropriety of what is going on here. It remains something to be kept under wraps, but it happens a LOT, though more often between college students and THEIR graduate assistant teachers, not high school kids.

I enjoy transgressive, exciting, boundary-crossing plots because they provide "drama." I often say, and I'll say it again, that these shows would be boring af if every character was on their best behavior at all times.

Don't be sorry. Getting angry now and then is a normal thing.

I'd drop iqiyi and viki if I were you. But I'm not, so you should do as you like. :)

I have one at $1.99 per month. Works great.

Dunce.
It is perfectly legal in Taiwan for an 18-year-old to have sex with a 26-year-old. Do your research before posting Church Lady comments. Thanks.

He is 18. He is not a "child," though you'd like him to be so you can wave your "got here first with the pedo accusation" flag a while longer.

noun: child; plural noun: children
a young human being below the age of puberty or below the legal age of majority.
LuiHui is neither.

Can you point me to the incest and uncle-nephew shows I'm missing, please?
Thank you!

Can you recommend any current or upcoming BLs not out of Thailand or the Philippines? This one is the last remaining on my currently watching list.

Regardless of age?
I can see it being a professional offense and cause for discipline/termination, but "criminal" if the younger is of legal age? Seems extreme to me.

VPNs are your friends.

Standard, cliche, stupid, angry BL fag-hag without a clue, who acts out when what she has known all along finally gets thrown in her face. Lame.

Episode 7: Embarrassing

Currently, we have these varieties of BL:
Korean
Japanese
Pinoy
Vietnamese (MDL staff pretend they don't know about these)
Cambodian (ditto)
Thai
Taiwanese

I propose a new classification: Thai-wanese
Thai-wanese BLs contain all the fluffy stupidity/cliches/tropes/juvenile writing/bad direction/stiff acting/fish kissing/etc. we know so well coming off the TOOT (Turds Out Of Thailand) assembly line, but are produced on the island nation of Taiwan rather than in Thailand.
Impression of Youth is not the first of its kind by any means, but its airing has brought the number of such BLs to a point where they require their own classification. Anacronym: TOOTWs. (I wanted to go with TWOOTs as it has a much better ring to it, but couldn't find a way to make "Turd-Wan" work.)

However, I will be back again next week because from the preview it appears LuXi and YeBing are about to get jiggy with it, in a potentially steamy five minutes of worthy screen time. :)

Taiwan has put out a fair number of good shows on my top 30 BLs list, but of late it seems Taiwan BL has shut down and things are being produced in Thai-Wan instead.

This saddens me.

Not many people watching this show, with good reason. However, obviously there are folks massively up-rating this thing. Give me a break. It's a 6.5/10 at best.

So...humans are allowed to have physical preferences regarding who they date or f**k in real life, but they are not allowed to have physical preferences for which actors/idols/whatever appeal to them or "do it" for them in dramas or movies...correct?

And above all, said humans are not allowed to express those preferences on a public forum intended for people to express their opinions and preferences in all sorts of things...is that also correct?

So, only negative opinions of actors' looks are disallowed from comments; anything else goes? But, why then is it OK to say an actor is hot/handsome/sexy/whatever...or is that not OK either? Positive comments are OK...? Or are we supposed to pretend we don't notice actors' faces/bodies altogether...?

Nah...this is BS. You're full of s**t.

Good Lord, and then there was "2gether Again," which took the sexless weirdness to a whole other level. They were high-fiving instead of kissing by then. I couldn't finish that one, regardless of the beautiful leads.

Still obsessed with your imaginary rape, I see. Thanks for the laugh at how you continue to camouflage big-people words like RAPIST, SEX, etc.
Newsflash: We still know you're writing the word RAPE, so what have you accomplished?

Oh god, I take that back. Please do not reply.

That a horrifyingly lame final episode is over?

I found their ending exchange of dialogue underwhelming, leading up to a stiff Mannequin Kiss. By episode 6 Sei had become a total robot in expressing himself. I thought he would begin to show life, especially in Hagi's presence, as he came to realize he loved him. But oops, no. So yeah, I disagree.

How are misunderstanding and lack of communication "great story concepts" for BL. That's pretty much the plot summary for 80% of them.

YES! SKAM Norway, the original, whichever season was gay, is my fave, followed by SKAM France, just as they are for you. The original Norwegian leads are perfection, both alone and together, as characters and actors. The moment the tall one shows up at school and walks toward the entrance in slo-mo, briefly locking eyes with the short one who is watching from across the courtyard transfixed, is magic. Swoon.

Oh...except for that smug Muslim chick. I wanted to slap her a lot.

I'm feeling you on the idol thing, but Hagiwara is the idol and he was much more committed to the kisses than Sei, who met every touch of Hagi's handsome mouth with absolute stillness. In at least two other smooch scenes, I caught Hagi moving his mouth but getting zero response, so stopping. Sei is the one who goes rigid as a mannequin here.

I'll never get how once you've put your lips on another dude's lips on screen, it's a big deal to move them around a bit, as if the line of demarcation between "homo" and "no homo" is lip movement. God forbid a tongue should enter the picture...or the throat.

And when they go into a Mannequin Kiss it SO pulls me out of the scene, every time. In this final kiss scenes, Sei and Hagi should have been loving and tender, as were their words, but we lead up to it with these emotional warm words and then....BOOM! Mannequin Kiss! and I'm half-sighing, half-laughing at how stupid it is.

This took me back to the very first BL I watched, Sotus (I'm surprised I watched a second one after that thing. But I was young and stupid then.), and how the first time the leads went in for a kiss and then the camera cut away to a swirling, twirling drone shot, ever-moving in such a way as to guarantee we could not see that their lips were not touching. Except that we COULD see they weren't touching because their heads were unaligned and their shoulders oddly stiff/motionless. Having never seen a BL before, I was like "WTF is this...thing that is happening...?!!!" lol

Sei and a Hagi's lips were touching at the end of 7 but they were every bit as stiff and reluctant as the leads in Sotus.

Totally agree, but I know what to feel about it. :D Please see my comment above.