It's too simple to "blame" the brother for everything. I know from experience that my perception of a very hurtful…
OK, believe as you will. I'll stick with my interpretation.
One question though: What good does it do Yutaka, or anybody, to hold onto resentment, as you feel he has some right to resent the parents? Resentment eats away at us from the inside-out.
Ohm is only 23 years old, how is that old for you? 🤡 their characters are literally university student, what…
I didn't say he is "too old for me." He's too old and too good to be having to take roles in THIS type of juvenile BL shit. Which doesn't mean he couldn't play a college student in a worthy Korean or Japanese film or drama. Thailand has virtually no feature film industry to speak of. There's nowhere for the BL boys who are better than this tripe to go.
Hell, wouldn't matter if I was 90, I'd never be too old for Ohm if he'd have me. :)
Having just finished watching this, I now know the only thing more tragic than this wonderful film is the knee-jerk stupidity of the commenters below shrieking about pedophilia. First, they have no understanding of the word. Second, they haven't watched the movie. Or, if they have, they are truly embiciles.
This is a stunning drama. Watch it. It is beautiful and just as with life, it is both joyful and sad.
All of you saying "why so much fuss over sex scenes" and "stop freaking out about the sex scenes" need to get…
lol YOU are the one with the problem, Dr. I understand your comment is more about feeding your self-righteous self-regard, but it would do you well to at least Google "pedophilia" before you start tossing the term around to make yourself feel morally superior to informed people who aren't as sexually hung-up and judgmental as you. Pedophilia necessarily involves a PRE-PUBESCENT young person, which this HIGH SCHOOL girl most certainly is not. Furthermore, a diagnosis of pedophilia requires a life-long, exclusive sexual attraction to pre-pubescent children, a description which does not include the professor in this movie.
I'll leave it to you and your tiny mind to look up "pre-pubescent" on your own, but think "pubes."
A LOT of people are like Yutaka and apparently Minoru too: When something comes along that feels so good and right…
It would be a lovely, novel way to wrap up a BL: Having them both sign up with qualified talk therapists to work through their issues and then celebrate by slinking back to Yutaka's place for some hardcore banging. 😍😍😍
Bad Buddy is #5 on my list of all-time worst BLs, so naturally I had to check out its episodes of Our Skyy 2. My expectation that it would be juvenile af, nothing but cutesy-pie fan-service BS, was not unmet. The worst. This show, like its predecessor, is for the 13 year-old Fujoshi-Fangirl set and those with that frame of mind. Seeing as I'm a Fudanshi and far older than 13, I'm outa here.
Ohm and his effortless, charismatic hotness is the only good thing about BB or OS2. He needs to hightail it out of Thailand for Korea and try to break into their film industry. He's too old and too good for this shit.
Bruh tf? They haven't even started spending some cute moments together and we r thinking of breakup? The writers…
A LOT of people are like Yutaka and apparently Minoru too: When something comes along that feels so good and right and wonderful, we immediately begin to fear that someday it will be taken away from us. What's really sad is that often that fear and insecurity itself can be what causes the very breakup we fear. Vicious cycle. This is what therapists are for. :)
I will never forgive Yutaka's family for what they made him go through. So his brother wants to say Yutaka is…
It's too simple to "blame" the brother for everything. I know from experience that my perception of a very hurtful event or period of time has been almost 180 degrees from the perceptions of other parties directly involved. The brother admitted to being cold at first, and then by the time he was ready to reach out to Yutaka, Yutaka had already shut down and was cold in return to the brother's overtures. It's too neat and tidy to blame it all on the brother.
I also have never felt, in the scenes we were shown, that the parents were not warm and welcoming to Yutaka. They seemed to care for him very much. I think Yutaka's grief and loneliness made it difficult for him to accept anyone's love...we've seen this already with Minoru. As for sitting down and having warm, open, heart-to-heart conversations to clear the air and clarify things goes...get real: THESE PEOPLE ARE JAPANESE! They don't DO warm, open, easy heart-to-hearts. Exchanges of "eh?," "huh?," "hmmm...," "is that so?," "I see," and "ahhh..." are major forms of emotional communication among these people. lol Seriously, they rarely if ever touch each other, even when greeting family members after long separations. Have you not noticed this? "Have you had something to eat?" and "would you like some tea?" are big hugs in Japan.
When I first discovered the world of BL and Asian cinema/drama I was freaked for quite a while at how uncomfortable the Japanese especially are with physical displays of affection (I'm American). For instance, during this episode, when Yutaka and Minoru met in the street running toward each other and stopped, I felt a physical frustration in my own body that they did not run into each other and hug, as I would have done. I have often wondered how Japan has continued to repopulate itself over the centuries, given that physical, sexual intercourse is a requirement of baby-making. But clearly, they figure it out. :D
The swing set scene was very moving and well-acted. Loved when they both almost giggled as they began to move in for you-know-what. A beautiful combination of awkwardness and giddiness at what was happening. "The word 'like' isn't even enough..." Sigh... I teared up and I don't care who knows it. 😭😭😭 A bit more exposition of the long-standing misunderstanding between Yutaka and his adoptive brother might have been nice, but it's a short episode. Perhaps not enough Tane this week but considering what went down otherwise, I will overlook that. Maybe we'll get to see that phenomenal little actor in his own BL series one day. Minoru's dad is a rock. His part has been so small, but nevertheless I've felt his presence as a core of stability and acceptance for his boys throughout the show and now for Yutaka too. Is it just me or has MInoru, despite the bad bleach job, gotten hotter with every episode? I feel like as I've gotten to know him better each week he has become more physically attractive to me as well. This is a common human phenomenon.
Excited to see how things are wrapped up next week.
The wide-shot SOTUS kiss tells me more than I wanted to know about the people involved in the production of this…
I almost agree with all you said. But how long is an audience expected to put up with these wide-angle, awkward camera shots which are for the sole purpose of masking a kiss the actors aren't actually enacting? It pulls everyone out of the scene and reminds us that even within the context of a show ABOUT a gay couple, gay kissing is a bridge too far for these people?
This never, ever happens in straight-themed dramas or movies. These weird kiss tactics are a slap in the face reserved specifically for BL fans, gay or straight or in-between. A heads-up that, at least to the makers of Star Struck, gay folks are second-class citizens. This is no different than if cameras went to wide-shot, weird-angle pull-aways when Black straight couples kiss in Hollywood movies, but not for white couples. I will continue watching, as I'm sufficiently invested in the relationship and its outcome, but my overall opinion of the show just dropped by 75%.
The core issue is reminding me of the Taiwanese movie Eternal Summer (sans the girl in the middle). Check it out…
lol, as a major fan of "Eternal Summer" (it's #4 on my top gay feature films list), I have to say I'm appalled you even compared the movie to this show. God help us.
One question though: What good does it do Yutaka, or anybody, to hold onto resentment, as you feel he has some right to resent the parents? Resentment eats away at us from the inside-out.
Hell, wouldn't matter if I was 90, I'd never be too old for Ohm if he'd have me. :)
This is a stunning drama. Watch it. It is beautiful and just as with life, it is both joyful and sad.
9.5/10
I'll leave it to you and your tiny mind to look up "pre-pubescent" on your own, but think "pubes."
Ohm and his effortless, charismatic hotness is the only good thing about BB or OS2. He needs to hightail it out of Thailand for Korea and try to break into their film industry. He's too old and too good for this shit.
You kids have fun!
I also have never felt, in the scenes we were shown, that the parents were not warm and welcoming to Yutaka. They seemed to care for him very much. I think Yutaka's grief and loneliness made it difficult for him to accept anyone's love...we've seen this already with Minoru. As for sitting down and having warm, open, heart-to-heart conversations to clear the air and clarify things goes...get real: THESE PEOPLE ARE JAPANESE! They don't DO warm, open, easy heart-to-hearts. Exchanges of "eh?," "huh?," "hmmm...," "is that so?," "I see," and "ahhh..." are major forms of emotional communication among these people. lol Seriously, they rarely if ever touch each other, even when greeting family members after long separations. Have you not noticed this? "Have you had something to eat?" and "would you like some tea?" are big hugs in Japan.
When I first discovered the world of BL and Asian cinema/drama I was freaked for quite a while at how uncomfortable the Japanese especially are with physical displays of affection (I'm American). For instance, during this episode, when Yutaka and Minoru met in the street running toward each other and stopped, I felt a physical frustration in my own body that they did not run into each other and hug, as I would have done. I have often wondered how Japan has continued to repopulate itself over the centuries, given that physical, sexual intercourse is a requirement of baby-making. But clearly, they figure it out. :D
A bit more exposition of the long-standing misunderstanding between Yutaka and his adoptive brother might have been nice, but it's a short episode.
Perhaps not enough Tane this week but considering what went down otherwise, I will overlook that. Maybe we'll get to see that phenomenal little actor in his own BL series one day.
Minoru's dad is a rock. His part has been so small, but nevertheless I've felt his presence as a core of stability and acceptance for his boys throughout the show and now for Yutaka too.
Is it just me or has MInoru, despite the bad bleach job, gotten hotter with every episode? I feel like as I've gotten to know him better each week he has become more physically attractive to me as well. This is a common human phenomenon.
Excited to see how things are wrapped up next week.
This never, ever happens in straight-themed dramas or movies. These weird kiss tactics are a slap in the face reserved specifically for BL fans, gay or straight or in-between. A heads-up that, at least to the makers of Star Struck, gay folks are second-class citizens. This is no different than if cameras went to wide-shot, weird-angle pull-aways when Black straight couples kiss in Hollywood movies, but not for white couples. I will continue watching, as I'm sufficiently invested in the relationship and its outcome, but my overall opinion of the show just dropped by 75%.