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From what I've heard, a lot or even most of the money come from the fan meets. But that still means you should try to hire compelling actors and give them compelling material. Although 2gether was somehow a giant hit, but maybe I'm blind to that because I don't find Bright hot.

But it's hard to image a stampede of 13-year olds coming to see a 20/40-something pair (even though Nike is only 34).

I agree with almost all of that. I guess my point is that mothers are like that. That it's close to home for you (and also me) seems to be an argument in favor of that theory. The only place I differ with you is that I think she's made him too much the center of her life and that whenever he tries to be independent she feels abandoned, which is of course not healthy.

It might have been - I just scanned through the first 2 eps and it was synched. That has happened to me before on Viki and YT.

Good God.

That was riveting - I usually have a hard time sitting though a BL ep and watch it with breaks, but that was over before I knew it. And it was two guys sitting in a room talking the entire episode.

The writing is so incredible - it's obviously by someone who has experienced life and love and not been locked all day in an aparment with her cats trying to write gangster BDSM.

The acting is excruciatingly good - Pond has been a standout, but Nike was incredible this episode, having to deliver 10-minute blocks of dialog and never once being boring or failing to grip me tight. It's not just chemistry between them - it's a convincing spiritual bond.

There were so many subtle touches to this that it would take hours to list, but even having Pond be "Siam" in the photos, with his face half hidden, reinforced Wang's realization that the father he's been looking for is in himself. Jesus Christ, what a powerful show.

I can't help but ask, do we need BL anymore? Would you rather have 10 mediocre stories about college students, or one series like this? How many series have you watched lately where you had a lot more fun here grousing about how bad it was than you did actually watching it?

Hmm. No, I haven't had that problem. Do you watch it the moment it become available, or do you wait a few hours? Maybe sometimes it's out of synch and they fix it, because it's never happened to me.

She's devoted her life to her son and everything she's done has been for him. I don't see what's wrong with that. Everyone sees things from their own perspective - she's more narcissistic than average, for sure, but it can be hard to distinguish between what you want for your children and what they want for themselves - it's also hard for children to make hat distinction from their parents.

It's one of those things that's universal - so it goes under my category "if there's no solution, there's no problem".

This would have been in the 1990s, so attitudes would be radically different - even in a liberal part of the USA it would have been nearly impossible in high school to be out and for most people there wasn't even a point of reference to understand what you were feeling.

I think it was mutual - it seems clear to me, but I might be projecting.

I'm thinking Top 1 at this point.

Inn said Siam didn't drink - either he started because of his bad marriage, or he committed suicide. Essentially the same thing either way.

Picked up on 'something'? He wouldn't hear it more clearly if Inn had a brass band. But that was some grade A+ acting - that episode zipped by.

I think we know that it wasn't one-sided, and marrying Sawimiwol destroyed Siam. This is a bit too close to my life now.

Oh Jeez - I need to rewatch that, I totally missed it! I was totally thinking they had continuity errors, LOL. I need to edit my post!

I'm a little taken aback by how much toxicity people are interpreting into this - Neither Sher nor Fahlan have any exclusive commitments to anyone, and if they want to play the field, what's wrong with that? Both of them are up front and honest about it, and people here are frankly coming off as sanctimonious prudes.

In Check Out, Nine had a girlfriend and was cheating on her and trying to seduce a guy who already had a boyfriend, who was Nine's own old friend, who himself claimed Daonuea on false pretenses. That's infinitely worse.

Also, nobody in Fahlanruk is a whiny little bitch like Daonuea. Ugh, I still want to slap him.

Maybe - but she didn't seem particularly hurt or even hurtable. I think if heeee annoyed her she'd kick his ass, and I'd be surprised if he didn't have a realistic assessment of that.

He made it sound like a bad thing that a girl is deliberately maintaining her crush on a gay man, especially since he's into her - I didn't feel at all that this strayed into hostility toward LGBTQ+ in general, just simple jealousy. As for conflating gay and bi, we'd have to see the original Thai - sometimes it's off. He never used the word "bi" - he just said "likes both men and women", which might be wrong - he might have said "men not women" - I rewatched it and I think I heard the word "gay", but his hand gestures were indicating same-sex.

His reaction at the beginning again was because he's into the fujoshi and looking for info to try to get her off Fahlan so he has a chance with her. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt for now - I think it's the same with the crowd - you could interpret them as a mass of homophobes, but I'm pretty sure they just don't want their beloved Shr with anyone else.

OK, hear me out. I thought it was decent. A few negatives - too much introduced too fast. Especially with everyone dressed the same, too much energy went into figuring out who was who and what they were to each other. It would have been better to let the story breathe instead of hurling the entire thing at us.

I'm guessing everyone will hate both the mains because they have sex without commitment because heaven forfend that college-age men act like college-age men instead of Vicorian-era archetypes. Nobody has promised anyone anything, and if everyone is fine with friends with benefits, why is that a problem? Is the BL formula so important to people that they can't enjoy anything else? Bad news: life isn't about falling in love for the first and only time with your destined soulmate and living happily ever after. It's about experiencing things and figuring yourself out, and hopefully finding someone (or a few someones) along the way.

Anyway, the camera work was good and supported the mood. The color scheme was interesting, although I haven't figured it out yet - note how the bar was blue - everyhing was blue. They did a good job including singing and then "muting" it so we could concentrate on the dialog.

The cast is really attractive - all of them. There were no tropes. It felt like a gust of cool air on and humid day. There doesn't even appear to be an uke and seme - maybe that's what's bothering people.

I think that was a 6 out of 10, but has room to rise - the problem with it for me was info overload, which didn't allow for much investment into the characters - that's a pity, because people probably won't give it a chance. For me a strength was the main characters appear to be complex and not just cookie-cutter stock BL characters. That really grabbed my interest.

Wow, judgy.

I don't see how this was remotely like Check Out. Not even slightly.

Some guys are like that, but I just liked having sex and didn't want to have a boyfriend. It was more a fear of missing out on somehing than it was a need for validation. I don't think we really know what kind of person Fah is yet.

He didn't insult her - that was just supposed to be exposition, of which there was a bit too much in this ep. What I got from that is that she used to be a he until recently. It's only insulting if you repeatedly use the wrong pronoun after corrected.