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To be fair, it doesn't take much for people to get it on in porn stories. That's why pizza delivery boys have such great sex lives.

Hmm. That was actually not bad - but it continues to be a really good production and a bad one shuffled together. Example: the brilliant mirror shot near the end vs the terrible rain shot, where the lighting was bad and the rain laughably obviously a hose.

The dialog is spotty, like Mangkorn's was excellent in their last confrontation but Yai's last line made no sense - but I still give them credit for actually discussing things. Or why did Yai give that totally unnecessary speech before singing? Just sing. The song is about what you're saying aand a thousand times more effective at it.

There are times when we dwell way, way too long on irrelevancies, like who the architecture prize was going to (these are all examples of recurring issues, not one-offs).

The acting was quite good. I wish we could see more of them being playful, which is where their chemistry shines. I always give credit when an actor sings, but that guitarist was just running his fingers up and down the strings until I needed to turn off the volume to give my teeth a rest. Also, how did he know what song to play?

Poor Big seems doomed to be the Love Loser for his entire career. What a waste of a potenial huge size difference. He's so charming.

Also, does anyone know what the sponsor was in this episode? I couldn't spot any product placement.

To be fair, the first episode was the worst. But it only went downhill from there.

Part of the problem with BLs is that they're all the same so I forget which ones I've decided to drop and watch them. They really need to consider hiring people who can act - Putter is just a guy standing around reading script lines - zero emotion. Everything he does is with the same flat expression. Shouldn't a superstar have something going for him other than being tall?

I will say that the dialog in this is decent and has a logical flow, although it often flows too long - like what was the point of the long discussion about going kayaking? The director and editor don't have a sense of comedy.

Anyway, this is not good.

This cast is gorgeous. I love all the couples - and I especially liked how aggressive RJ was.

This is one of my top 2 BLs airing.

Even I wasn't bothered by the face wipe. He's a dentist, and he'd notice somehing on his mouth and need to make sure he wasn't bleeding or something, plus it was quick enough to be familiar but not ridiculously long and dramatized like in a Thai series.

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It would have been better balanced if Hom had slapped Peak for his astoundingly insensitive timing.

In the opera Don Giovanni, after the heroine's father is avenged, her betrothed asks her to get married, and she's like "Dude. We JUST buried my father. Ask again in a year." It was espcially nervy because he was such a wuss that her father had to rise from the dead and avenge himself.

Anyway, the point being even in an OPERA about romance there was a smackdown for inappropriate timing.

Or in Physical Therapy where they were in a relationship and living together for five years and STILL hadn't had sex. There is no way I'm going to lay in bed with a guy with a smokin' body that I'm in love with for 5 years and not f@$%.

Heck, there's no way I'm going to lay in bed with a guy with a smokin' body that I HATE for 5 years and not f@$%.

I would have loved it if the line had been:

"Doctor, what caused it?"

"Most likely she had a child that didn't visit enough."

But seriously, that was the most spectacularly irresponsible thing I've heard a doctor say since 1,000 Stars. First of all, THS is still being studied and it's not clear what it's effects are - this felt like a clumsy setup for drama with Eiw's father, or between Eiw and Cake if Eiw's amnesia about Cake's smoking wears off.

And Peak, WTF. Are you serious with this? I expect he'll propose at the funeral.

I have to say that I'm not really affected by Earth's crying. It's not that he's bad at it, but he does it so much that it's lost meaning. His crying could mean a parent is terminally ill, he stubbed his toe, his favorite series got cancelled, or that it's Tuesday. And it didn't help to get the comparison with the two mothers scene, which got me.

I think Earth's best moments in this ep (and every ep) were non-crying scenes. And Santa was amazing - he had to subtly portray his fear and helplessness, and I felt it all, when I wasn't distracted by his insane eyelashes.

But in general, this has really degenerated into a melodramatic soap opera. What is the story? Is there a purpose? Cake's mom says he's matured, but has he? He still can't eat without smearing his face with food and he can't cook an egg without burning himself. He's just as infantilized as ever. Santa doesn't really have a character arc either, although his hair does.

The think is, you've seen figures for where and by whom children run into trouble - it's a lot more perilous to be an altar boy than it is to walk to school alone.

That's completely different. My position is that I don't care what the setup is, but people have to act like people. So if a character turns out to be a ghost and his romantic interest just shrugs and says "We'll make it work", that's stupid. If he runs screaming into the night and needs a couple of episodes to process, like in Something In My Room, then that's all good.

The moon is fraught with symbolism, which is probably why it was chosen - then you can have gigantic moonscapes as it approaches - and although more or less impossible, that's fine as long as people's reactions to it are realisitic.

To me a realistic reaction might be a decision (after adequate freaking out and processing) to make the best of the time left punctuated by despair as all the works of mankind are about to disappear forever - all the art, technological and social development - not to mention the human race itself. Or a manic attempt to find a way to survive.

The other option is to make it an OTT bonkers YYY-like series. But not just a normal BL romance that just happens to have the planet being destroyed.

Boring is a deal-killer no matter what the setup. Maybe Michael couldn't memorize his lines so there are cue cards to the right of the frame.

I'm definitely not serious. I just think it's funny that people are nitpicking astrophysics and have no problem with a boy dating the ghost of his mother's ex. Or a 500-year old vampire attending high school. As long as it's cute and romantic, I guess.

It almost writes itself - before Sky made him clean the bathroom. so his next load of chores could have been worse and it would have been really funny.

My parents are on the maximum end of Boomers, so they're not quite there, but close - that used to be the normal parenting in the US. My mother's attitude when I was a kid was "Go outside. Don't come back till the sun goes down."

And I walked to school when I was 5. Now Child Protective Services would come take your child away if you let them do that.

I'll try to stay positive. If the moon's orbit decays, the earth's atmosphere will be heated by falling debris. Your eyes will be burned out by impact blasts, then you'll be baked from the inside out in searing firey pain, before a blast wave removes any trace that you ever existed.

But since matter can't go anywhere, eventually the atoms of your body will be part of some stellar nebula that may birth a star. That's a cheerful thought, right?

Also, everyone you hate will also die, so there's that consolation.

The position he saw it from wasn't great, but you can't really cheat in 5 minutes while fully dressed. It was worth a discussion, but not that huge overreaction. Or I could see him being pissed off for a day or two but then getting over it. Or better yet, only being mildly irritated but milking it for all it's worth.

It's also incredibly dismissive of how much effort and love Pai has put into this - all that and you go nuts over him being friendly with someone at a birthday party that he wanted you to attend with him? Come on. Besides the fact that this is the most overused plot trope achievable, it needed to be way earlier in the story to make any emotional sense.

As it is, I don't think Sky deserves Pai and Sky started out as my favorite character - by far. In fact I stuck with the series largely because of him.

I didn't like the "dump you cruelly so you can have a better life" trope, but I did appreciate that it didn't drag on, and I liked the threat - that was something new. And I agree, it was nic that they avoided the clash with Dad. And I kind of like how Jae Yoon's mom was all "Yeah, not my problem. You should leave and go earn a living now."

I already can't remember the early episodes clearly and while I don't regret watching this, I'll probably not remember it in a couple of months.

I liked it, and I love the wardrobe. It would have been better without the "cruelly dump someone so they can be happier with a normal life" trope. I really, really, really hate that trope. Fortunately it didn't drag on forever.

Anyway, they were cute - and the comic timing was good, especially Seo Jae Yoon's.

They didn't say it explicitly, but they told each other how they felt, and Jae Yoon gave him a morning kiss and held his hand, so they had clearly come to an understanding. I'm kind of glad we didn't have to listen to a stilted "will you be my boyfriend" scene. If you think about it, how many times have you ever asked to be someone's bf? You just start dating, and at some point there might be a discussion when it gets serious.