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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.

Episode 7/Finale:

Meh. Disappointing.

Cliched, rushed, unimaginative ending to what had been until episode 6 a fresh and fascinating new take on BL romance, with some intriguingly dark possibilities lurking in the shadows.
But guess what? In the end, as with 90% of BLs, it was all about some HUGE misunderstanding, neurotic/paranoid thinking that circles back in on itself, and a large helping of inexplicable/implausible choices.

I'm so accustomed to BLs out of Japan/Korea/Taiwan, my only hopes for good BL these days, starting strong and fizzling before the end, that I won't bother complaining much.

I wish Hagiwara and Fuji had hooked up before the end. Better actors, hotter, and much more interesting than Sei. Especially in these last two episodes, he descended into this robotic, extremely low-affect mode that was off-putting. Why would anyone want to be around that 24/7?

By the end, I wondered if the GF was the asexual here, but doesn't know it yet. Her description of her feelings toward Hagiwara and any future lovers in the episode 6 coffee shop breakup scene, struck me as ace-ish.

Oh well...another pretty good but ultimately disappointing BL out of Jap/Kor/Tai.
7/10
Mildly recommended.

lol :D

It's extra frustrating because some excellent BLs have come out of Taiwan. However, there seems to be a trend developing wherein we're getting more and more of these stupid, Thai-style, fluff-fests instead of the good stuff.

Incoherent...

I didn't say you "support the sexual assault."
I love when people who accuse others of "having nothing better to do" than reply to comments, come back and reply to comments because they have nothing better to do.

Good for you. A cougar!

Trash.
Taiwan has become BL Thailand 2.0

Dropped.
1/10