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I don't see Ai forcing Nhai - he's getting affectionate with his boyfriend and tries until Nhai makes his boundary clear and Ai backs off. I can't stand it when they make things progress by tripping and falling on each other, which is weak and lame writing because it's external to the characters - but it's part of the reluctance to have a male character who seeks and enjoys bottoming, much like in patriarchal cultures women should not be seen seeking or enjoying sex - that is often carried in both cases to rape, which is somehow less morally objectionable than being the recipient of consensual penetrative sex, which is revolting.

But being aggressive is not the same thing as forcing - and it was really Nhai who initiated their relationship in a fairly aggressive way. But I think some people don't see it that way because Nhai bottomed - but isn't that buying into the moral system above? It should make no difference.

Kind of, but they've been friends for a while, so I'm OK with it. I'm just concerned at the lack of any apparent plot.

I'll reserve judgment until the finale, because this is competing with Physical Therapy, Check Out, and Amore. But it's certainly a contender.

If I were Kim I'd be all over Payoo - can you imagine how fixated you'd get on a hot guy like that if you had no contact with or memories of anyone else?

You don't think this has been carelessly written up to now?

Questions for the week:

- Why do people keep jumping into pools with their clothes on? OK, maybe shorts and a t-shirt, but wearing jeans? Payoo took off his shirt, which is less necessary (but still necessary, always and every day), but not his jeans. And does nobody has anything that can be ruined by water in their pockets, like phones, Nivea products, or delicious snacks?

- Newton would love to get his hands on that apple since it exists outside the laws of momentum.

- Just how many shares of that company are there? It's 101% just between evil doctor and the family, so there are already antimatter shares out there, and now a bunch more are being dumped on the market. If normal shares and antimatter shares collide, it could destroy the planet. But I suppose if the laws of physics don't apply (see above), it's less of a stretch that accounting principles are also suspended.

- Is it really the best idea to let someone whose brain is bleeding go horseback riding?

- It would be funny if Kim thought Sun was a threat and strangled him. That's not a question, but it's something I enjoyed thinking about. Because how self-absorbed can someone be, making everything about him when he knows Kim's whole family died horribly and he's been stuck in the middle of nowhere for months? What a narcissistic twat.

- If you can trust no one, should you invite 20 loud and bickering people with phones and social media who are known to associate with Kim and Rain to a hideout? Even if none of them is a traitor, woudn't Evil Doctor Lady have thought to have them followed to see if they would lead her to Kim and/or Rain? Maybe all her manpower is busy randomly wandering around forests to see if they run into anyone and aren't available for actual investigative activities.

- If someone is trying to kill the brothers, shouldn't you hide them in separate places? I'm just guessing Rain is in the stables, but if he's not, that would be unpredictable, which this series is not.

- Is it possible to have an entire episode where nothing happened and has absolutely no purpose other than to deliberately waste our time (except for Payoo taking off his shirt)? Hint: Yes.

I'm usually not very good at headlines, so I must have had a moment of inspiration or something.

That's what someone who read the novel said. But I wouldn't worry about it - there's no chance that will happen here.

If he said "Eww, no more BL, I hate kissing a guy", that would be one thing. But he clearly doesn't have a problem with the idea of BL since he's directing them.

Plus, he said he didn't want a MAIN role, not NO role. Mains have to go to tons of fanmeets, he can probably get out of it as a side character. Plus, he was clearly joking - "I'll consider it when I'm old" has a logical problem that nobody's thought about - you can't star in a BL if you're old, hence the humor.

Yes, exactly. This better not be like that.

Oh, now I get it! I thought everyone had gone daft thinking Mean's hair was a wig. I didn't watch the intro, but now I see what everyone means.

It was one of the bigger BL disappointments of the year. Sigh. I hope Jimmy and Sea get another chance in a better production.

What wig is everyone talking about? You don't mean Mean, surely? That was just a lot of gel. The fake acne is what we should be talking about - that looked awful.

Anyway, that was boring, and everyone is overacting. The kids were good, though.

Wait, what whigs?

What? Twincest is hot. :)

He also directed The Yearbook.

OK, true, ITSAY is quite a bit above average, but I didn't have any trouble understanding character motivations in 1000 Stars, Bad Buddy, or even TharnType, which is not the pinnacle of good writing. It can easily be done.

There's probably an element of personal taste at play - I dropped Cutie Pie - it was totally uninteresting to me, and I'm a Zee fan.

But do you see the problem there? If you have to read the novel to understand the character, then then the series is a failure. I didn't need to read a novel to understand either character in ITSAY, and it was only 5 episodes. A series needs to stand on its own, or it's just fan service for people who have read the novel.

Sorry, maybe I phrased it vaguely - I mean that I don't see why Fah would be into Sher because Sher has treated Fah poorly. Fah has treated Sher very well, which makes Sher unlikable, because he's rude to Fah for no reason.

The problem for me is that this isn't a novel, so we have to be shown people's feelings, not told they're there. If Sher confesses his feelings next week it will feel hollow because we haven't seen any change in his attitude toward Fah for 5 episodes, so if he comes around, I need to know why. We haven't been told why he's resisting Fah to the point of being rude, so if we don't know that and don't know why he changed his mind, then it happened just... because.

And it also doesn't matter what's in the novel - I'm not going to read a novel to understand a live-action series - the series needs to explain everything to me, and it needs to be felt, i.e. shown, not told. This is a frequent problem in BL series adapted from novels. Whenever a charater's behavior makes no sense, somone says "in the novel X did Y to Z so hat's why." OK, great, so now I know that, but how does that make me care about the characters in the series where X didn't do Z to Y?

If you're feeling it, you're feeling it - there's nothing wrong with that. I just don't, and I'm not sure how that can be fixed this late in the story.

That's what @Nauriya said - I haven't read it.