Woah, your comment is from one week ago, not seven years. And I did not scroll back to find it, it came up when an MDL friend directed me via link to a nearby earlier comment of his.
hahaha. Fabulous review. I don't know which line is more accurate or more hilarious than the others. I have been pushing for a BL in which a confirmed top, out of love and a desire to pleasure his otherwise bottom lover, deliberately gives up his ass as a tool of ecstasy to his partner. A sex scene including how they work through that would be insanely hot, but also tender and love-affirming. How can no Manga/novel BL author have thought of this. The old, rigid boundaries are so boring in their repetition.
I just want to share one more rating detail I’ve read. Apparently, ratings from “verified” accounts are…
hmmm...don't recall having done that with my account. Well, it's obvious lots of people here have multiple accounts, so whatever MDL is supposedly doing to prevent that isn't working.
On edit: I just checked, and you are correct as to the phone number thing. So how is it that on occasion, when in the midst of a throw-down with some sex-phobic LG here, I have been swarmed by other commenters who, upon investigation, had just MOMENTS before established their account to argue with me?
I just want to share one more rating detail I’ve read. Apparently, ratings from “verified” accounts are…
I think "verified" means they have sent a link to whatever email you use to establish the account and you respond to "verify" it. As it is easy-peasy to set up new email accounts by which to set up your new MDL accounts, that is pretty meaningless.
btw, only around 20 members have rated each of the individual episodes of this series. Compare that to the 2,078 members who have rated the overall show four episodes short of its airing. The tell is that MDL makes it 1) possible to give an overall rating before completion, and 2) tucks away the individual ep rating option behind four clicks to get to it.
Lord, I just took a first, real look at Matsuda Ryo's headshot above. What a stunner! It's amazing how a pair of glasses can disguise good looks. Tazuru Shogo is a looker too, especially his natural, dark hair. To me, few Asians look their best with blonde dye jobs. However, I think this is the first time I've seen the eyebrows bleached to match the hair. Interesting.
"I SAW IT. IT WAS QUITE THE SIGHT..." lololololololol...love it.
What an interesting, unexpected little flick.
Lots of people here using the words "cute," "sweet," and "adorable," but the word that kept coming to my mind throughout the watch was..."tender."
There was far too much angst and subtle stress going on for me to feel the story was cute, sweet, or adorable. Of course, THEY, the characters and their shy, bumbling interactions were "cute"...I suppose. But the level of suppressed feels, hesitancy, second-guessing, worry, and speculation underlying the way they interacted kept me tied up in knots most of the time...in a good, angsty movie-watch kind of way. I'm a masochist that way: I love gut-wrenching stress in my romances. :D
When it culminates in this kind of release/resolution, it feels so great to breathe again. :)
Both characters were characters I hadn't seen in gay film OR BL before. Both felt like real people, not "types." It always works better for me when the guys are interestingly handsome but not super-model-idol pretty. The little guy surprised me with that hot little body. :P I fell in love with him when he wore the plaid pants.
Something about the look/feel/vibe of the movie had me checking the year of release. It has a 2000s feel to me.
OK, so great, little surprise! Thank you to my dear MDL friend who rec'd this to me today. I had not heard of it. I hope to see more of both actors.
8.5/10
On edit: One thing that rang false to me was the little guy as a smoker. What did that add to the character or the story? And although the mechanics of his smoking (which are so often poorly done, making it obvious the actor does not smoke IRL) were fine, he simply didn't seem to me like someone who smokes. Plus, he smoked inside the building at work, and I don't think that's a thing among office workers anywhere in the industrialized world at this point. Maybe a minor thing, but I kept wondering what the cigs added to the character? Yeah, we got the "I like you just as you are...cig stink and all" line toward the end, but that could have been accomplished with any one of many other types of personal habits.
RUN, do not walk, AWAY from this abomination and go re-watch the original Love Sick! This is one of those "who the hell thought this was necessary and why?" kind of remakes. The original has heart, charm, innocence, heat, everything you could want. The first episode of this thing is terrible, and has all the usual Thai quirks that have made almost everything out of that country in the last three years unwatchable for me:
Artificial, looooooooooooooong pauses between lines of character dialogue. Stiff, unnatural, Junior High level acting. Horrible direction. Overly melodramatic music cues and goofy noises to cue every feeling we're supposed to have and underline each lame joke so we'll know it's supposed to be funny. Horribly stereotypical, stock Trans women, in this case a pair of twin housemaids or...something. Their characterizations are shameful, mocking, and wildly overplayed. Thai Trans women are not just average Trans women, they are caricatures of male drag queens, complete with idiot-level, supposedly "feminine" behavior that not only degrades Trans women as clowns, but cis women too. Why can't a Trans female Thai character just be a...female? The leads are awkward, amateur, and sloooooow. Phun is especially not believable as who we're to think he is. When Phun was first shown in the opening scene on the beach ramp, I thought it was Noh's mom or some other woman...wtf? One episode is more than enough to know this is yet another tragedy falling off the Thai BL Assembly Line...only more a disaster than most in comparison to the classic original.
I wish you could rate episode by episode. Then, once entire episode has aired it would unlock entire series rating…
Agreed! However, I discovered just today that there already IS a way to rate episode by episode: At top of the page, just under the title, click on "Episode Guide." That takes you to a page where each ep that has aired is listed next to a thumbnail photo. Click on the photo. Next page gives you the option to rate the individual episode.
All of which means there is NO rational explanation for why the OVERALL rating option is available before the show has completed airing. But be warned, the ratings per episode, which are used by VERY few members, are even more insane than the normally inflated overall rating.
Here we have 9.7, 9.8, 9.9, etc. lol I'm surprised there isn't an option to rate them 11+/10.
MDL is in some ways a creepy place. Why is the per-episode rating hidden away, but the overall rating option is available at the top of the page from the first episode onward? It would be easy as pie to place the per-episode option there too, but MDL chooses to hide it behind several clicks. Why?
Why does MDL refuse to publish any front-page articles regarding gay or BL content? I can't get an answer from the mods, so they're perfectly aware and are doing it on purpose. Why?
Why does MDL provide the overall rating option from episode 1 forward, but claims it uses other factors such as number of viewers, number of drops, and other ephemeral BS to arrive at the final rating. Why not simply the average of members' ratings? Weird and...creepy.
"So many people below had the same opinion as me that I must conclude that this show would not have an 8.5 rating…
LOL This I/you, myself/yourself/, me/you thing is killing me with chortles.
Sorry...I was taught to hate myself(yourself)/think poorly of myself/yourself from the age of around 3 onward, so it's ingrained. I do it FAR less than I used to. But, given that I(you) am now 400 times that age, I(you)have accepted my(your) self-esteem will always need conscious shoring up. But that's OK; I(you) have methods of doing that on a daily basis.
Truly though, that comparison was much more intended as a compliment to you(me) than a put-down to me (you).
"So many people below had the same opinion as me that I must conclude that this show would not have an 8.5 rating…
Wow, beautifully written. Anyone who compares your far more erudite style to my lame ranting and concludes we're the same person is clearly not intelligent. Or is doing so only out of desperation. lol
"So many people below had the same opinion as me that I must conclude that this show would not have an 8.5 rating…
"...ur trying to push this agenda where u want all shows and movies to be full of sex scenes and show men kissing all the time..."
This is hilariously stupid in three ways: 1.The percentage of BLs that contain true, extended "sex scenes" are few and far between, and a lot of those are Thai, in which teenagers pretend to be grown men and act out poorly choreographed, unconvincing acts of sex. I don't watch Thai BLs for the most part. There goes your delusion that all I want are "sex scenes." Give me a break. I have real actual humans in my life and lots of online porn for when I want to see or engage in sexual activities.
2. If all men did was "kiss all the time..." any show would be extremely boring. Why do you dislike male-male kissing though? Your comments here reveal your sad but real, internalized homophobia. Work on that with a therapist, not on the pages of MDL please.
3. I love that you believe br85 and I are the same person. It is unfailingly entertaining to read your nonsensical rants about that. I think that at this point, you know we're not the same person, but are unwilling to acknowledge it because you've invested so much energy in pushing that silliness.
You are a shining example of one of the absurdly childish mindsets which infest this site : More than one person disagrees with you,therefore you choose to believe they are the same entity so as to denigrate and cut your opposition in half.
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On edit: I just checked, and you are correct as to the phone number thing. So how is it that on occasion, when in the midst of a throw-down with some sex-phobic LG here, I have been swarmed by other commenters who, upon investigation, had just MOMENTS before established their account to argue with me?
Only that would explain things...
btw, only around 20 members have rated each of the individual episodes of this series. Compare that to the 2,078 members who have rated the overall show four episodes short of its airing. The tell is that MDL makes it 1) possible to give an overall rating before completion, and 2) tucks away the individual ep rating option behind four clicks to get to it.
What an interesting, unexpected little flick.
Lots of people here using the words "cute," "sweet," and "adorable," but the word that kept coming to my mind throughout the watch was..."tender."
There was far too much angst and subtle stress going on for me to feel the story was cute, sweet, or adorable. Of course, THEY, the characters and their shy, bumbling interactions were "cute"...I suppose. But the level of suppressed feels, hesitancy, second-guessing, worry, and speculation underlying the way they interacted kept me tied up in knots most of the time...in a good, angsty movie-watch kind of way. I'm a masochist that way: I love gut-wrenching stress in my romances. :D
When it culminates in this kind of release/resolution, it feels so great to breathe again. :)
Both characters were characters I hadn't seen in gay film OR BL before. Both felt like real people, not "types." It always works better for me when the guys are interestingly handsome but not super-model-idol pretty. The little guy surprised me with that hot little body. :P I fell in love with him when he wore the plaid pants.
Something about the look/feel/vibe of the movie had me checking the year of release. It has a 2000s feel to me.
OK, so great, little surprise! Thank you to my dear MDL friend who rec'd this to me today. I had not heard of it. I hope to see more of both actors.
8.5/10
On edit: One thing that rang false to me was the little guy as a smoker. What did that add to the character or the story? And although the mechanics of his smoking (which are so often poorly done, making it obvious the actor does not smoke IRL) were fine, he simply didn't seem to me like someone who smokes. Plus, he smoked inside the building at work, and I don't think that's a thing among office workers anywhere in the industrialized world at this point. Maybe a minor thing, but I kept wondering what the cigs added to the character? Yeah, we got the "I like you just as you are...cig stink and all" line toward the end, but that could have been accomplished with any one of many other types of personal habits.
This is one of those "who the hell thought this was necessary and why?" kind of remakes. The original has heart, charm, innocence, heat, everything you could want. The first episode of this thing is terrible, and has all the usual Thai quirks that have made almost everything out of that country in the last three years unwatchable for me:
Artificial, looooooooooooooong pauses between lines of character dialogue.
Stiff, unnatural, Junior High level acting.
Horrible direction.
Overly melodramatic music cues and goofy noises to cue every feeling we're supposed to have and underline each lame joke so we'll know it's supposed to be funny.
Horribly stereotypical, stock Trans women, in this case a pair of twin housemaids or...something. Their characterizations are shameful, mocking, and wildly overplayed. Thai Trans women are not just average Trans women, they are caricatures of male drag queens, complete with idiot-level, supposedly "feminine" behavior that not only degrades Trans women as clowns, but cis women too.
Why can't a Trans female Thai character just be a...female?
The leads are awkward, amateur, and sloooooow. Phun is especially not believable as who we're to think he is.
When Phun was first shown in the opening scene on the beach ramp, I thought it was Noh's mom or some other woman...wtf?
One episode is more than enough to know this is yet another tragedy falling off the Thai BL Assembly Line...only more a disaster than most in comparison to the classic original.
Original Love Sick, which is actually GOOD:
https://kisskh.at/10872-love-sick-the-series
Sequel, almost as good as the first:
https://kisskh.at/13253-love-sick-the-series-season-2
Go here to watch the BL-cut of the original, without all the straight nonsense that was part of it:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo4kRZu3J8kA4f2LO-MH9zPiel1H7un0v
This link includes ALL BL-cut eps of both seasons. Season 2 is cut into half-hour segments. I have no idea why.
As for Love Sick 2024: Dropped
1/10
At top of the page, just under the title, click on "Episode Guide."
That takes you to a page where each ep that has aired is listed next to a thumbnail photo.
Click on the photo.
Next page gives you the option to rate the individual episode.
All of which means there is NO rational explanation for why the OVERALL rating option is available before the show has completed airing. But be warned, the ratings per episode, which are used by VERY few members, are even more insane than the normally inflated overall rating.
Here we have 9.7, 9.8, 9.9, etc. lol I'm surprised there isn't an option to rate them 11+/10.
MDL is in some ways a creepy place. Why is the per-episode rating hidden away, but the overall rating option is available at the top of the page from the first episode onward? It would be easy as pie to place the per-episode option there too, but MDL chooses to hide it behind several clicks. Why?
Why does MDL refuse to publish any front-page articles regarding gay or BL content? I can't get an answer from the mods, so they're perfectly aware and are doing it on purpose. Why?
Why does MDL provide the overall rating option from episode 1 forward, but claims it uses other factors such as number of viewers, number of drops, and other ephemeral BS to arrive at the final rating. Why not simply the average of members' ratings? Weird and...creepy.
Sorry...I was taught to hate myself(yourself)/think poorly of myself/yourself from the age of around 3 onward, so it's ingrained. I do it FAR less than I used to. But, given that I(you) am now 400 times that age, I(you)have accepted my(your) self-esteem will always need conscious shoring up. But that's OK; I(you) have methods of doing that on a daily basis.
Truly though, that comparison was much more intended as a compliment to you(me) than a put-down to me (you).
This is hilariously stupid in three ways:
1.The percentage of BLs that contain true, extended "sex scenes" are few and far between, and a lot of those are Thai, in which teenagers pretend to be grown men and act out poorly choreographed, unconvincing acts of sex. I don't watch Thai BLs for the most part. There goes your delusion that all I want are "sex scenes." Give me a break. I have real actual humans in my life and lots of online porn for when I want to see or engage in sexual activities.
2. If all men did was "kiss all the time..." any show would be extremely boring. Why do you dislike male-male kissing though? Your comments here reveal your sad but real, internalized homophobia. Work on that with a therapist, not on the pages of MDL please.
3. I love that you believe br85 and I are the same person. It is unfailingly entertaining to read your nonsensical rants about that. I think that at this point, you know we're not the same person, but are unwilling to acknowledge it because you've invested so much energy in pushing that silliness.
You are a shining example of one of the absurdly childish mindsets which infest this site : More than one person disagrees with you,therefore you choose to believe they are the same entity so as to denigrate and cut your opposition in half.
You're 14, right?