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Jesus Christ Minoru is beautiful. So much that I get teary eyed everytime the camera is on him. The sadness in his eyes just makes it worse. Even with nerd glasses on it hurts to look at him.

And that is one good child actor - he's better than most adult BL actors.

Anyway, this is how to do a BL - not loaded with cliches, an original and gripping story, a slow burn that is compelling, and a hauntingly beautiful man.

The acting was still a bit clunky at times, but I thought both leads were strong this episode. I liked the way the writing didn't make the day Eli planned perfect and that some things went wrong or didn't land as well as he'd hoped.

I'm glad Nikko talked to Justin, although it's hard to believe he was that blind to how Justin felt or that Justin could possibly entertain illusions that anything would happen, but I guess when you're young and stupid situations like that are a thing.

I'm really astonished that there were so many Justin/Eli shippers - Justin is such a negative person and has the charm of a damp cardboard box.

I think we can see from the scenes from next episode that that's not the case. Also, it's easy to be positive when you have a smoking hot guy hanging all over you.

I live in the US, and grew up in California, but when I was a kid, it wasn't much better than what you're dealing with - not quite that bad, because my parents aren't religious, and my father was in the air force when he was younger, so he was surrounded by gay people all day and really didn't have an issue with it. My mother, on the other hand didn't take it too well, but she got over it.

Anyway, there are just people it serves no purpose to come out to - I never did to my grandparents, or really most of my family. There are no rules about coming out - the most important person to come out to is yourself, and that's the hardest. For the rest, it's up to you - but I guess I would ask myself if coming out to a particular person will have any positive effect.

What changes everything is leaving home. Not just the actual house, but really leave. It's amazing how liberating it is to be away from the imprisoning expectations of other people and just being free to be you. It's only then that you realize how much of you is hidden even from yourself, and how much of who you are is just what you've unconsciously trained yourself to be in response to who everyone else thinks you are.

You will be happy someday - the path there may be difficult, but it will happen. But sometines if you're facing people that can't change the way they feel about who you are, even if you love them you may have to leave them behind and surround yourself with people who do accept you.

I scanned down for quite some way and the most negative thing I could find about Force and Book was the Force was better than Book, which is a fairly reasonable judgment. The forum is harsh on the plot, as it should be, because not one plot point in the entire series was resolved other than Cher & Gun getting together, which doesn't really count.

Maybe Force and someone else.

I'm not sure what you mean by no drama for drama's sake. All the drama in the series was for drama's sake - not one single plot point was resolved - they were all skipped over. Force is so smoking hot that it was enough for me, but the story was almost non-existent and I would rather have just watched Force take a shower for 9 hours, or however long this was.

They less than mediocre at kissing. If Force weren't so hot, I would have dropped it. Fortunately I'm shallow.

That was totally pointless. None of the plot was resolved at all. Thoop, Gun's friend, the Tian thing - all just skipped over and forgotten, and they were all the interesting things about the series.

There was cuteness in the episode, but no heat. They have good friend & hug chemistry, but zero romantic chemistry. It's hard to believe in it when Cher is always leaning away from Gun and subtly resisting him. Contrast that with how Gemini & Fourth look so in love.

There's some heat generated by the sheer hotness of Force, as least, and I never got tired of him being on my screen with his eyelashes and sexy voice, and that body...

I didn't hate it or anything, but it's starting to feel like all BLs are just fanfic written by pre-teens.

They could compensate him financially, though.

For many people, it's nice to feel needed - I wouldn't be upset if he asked me to do that, and I'd be excited to go to Tokyo.

This is the first Korean BL where I really felt the guys were into each other. Their interaction and body language really communicate it.

I got bored and went away.

Hey, I think Cooper will still look good at 40. :)

It does not get better at the end of the ep, although there are some tears, if that's your thing.

Ugh. That's about all one can say at this point.

Maybe he goes back, saves his mother and Bamee's father, then drops back into the future. Either that, or it turns out Bamee is into older guys.

Yes, that was a good couple. I liked PhuKao from Oxygen - Kao was not super masculine and definitely an uke, but a tall muscular guy who was able and could take care of himself. Or Pitch & Bank from Golden Blood.

There's a pattern - main couples are almost always the stereotypical uke-seme pair, and are often bottled in by some schtick, like in Oxygen it was "the boy who lost his smile", which looks like a serial killer in live action. But secondary couples are free to "breathe" and don't have to follow the formula, which I'km guessing is the formula because producers think it's a requirement or something. And judging by audience reactions, a viewer expectation as well, e.g. the obsession with top & bottom.

In Eclipse, there was a lot of argument over who was the seme and who was the uke. It just wasn't relevant to the story and never defined.

WeTV is the only place I've seen it.

Yup.

There's nothing I love more in a BL than when a straight couple gets together and gets eight times more screentime than the main couple, who has gotten absolutely nowhere.

That was like watching paint dry. With Michaelangelo doing the painting whenever Jeng was onscreen, but still. If he weren't in this, I would drop it out of boredom, but that eight-pack we could see through the tank top was enough to bring me back.