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Pavel was always lighter than average, but they definitely are plastering his face and turning up the soft-focus filter to maximum.

That's sarcasm, right?

It's kind of like cats can be cute, even though they're psychopaths who spend fully one-third of their time trying to kill things.

The first episode was the worst. It went downhill from there.

But the secondary couple isn't bad, if you can get past Thitnuea's hair being a completely different color in every scene.

It's so gloriously bad that I've started to enjoy it. From stoned tigers to vamping villains to the uke to the obsession with wasting as much water as possible to the random bodyguard shower orgy (which one must admit was a pleasant surprise).

Strangely, you changed my mind too, so now what do we do?

That's apparently a new trope - they did it in 21 Days Theory, too, and I expect to see it in most dramas for the next year. Showering someone with your pants on is the new piggy-back ride.

I think youre roght about Toh in SCOY. He didn't really pursue Nuea, even after Nuea was already targeting him.

Yes, but before that you get to see one of the most breathtaking shirtless scenes in BL history (Chap).

We have no idea who was the top or if there was one with Park & Lee.

Your 7 points are all good, but I'd counter a few.
1) The seatbelt is usually a patronizing thing that the uke misunderstands. Here Ayan is deliberately playing with Akk, so it's turning the trope around.
2) The seme is quite often reserved - e.g. Phu & Kao in Oxygen - which also covers 3-5.
6) The power dynamic wherein the seme invariably has he upper hand is physical. Pete was taller than Perth, but Perth could snap Saint in 2 with ease. Even when totally exausted, Akk can effortlessly beat Ayan and always ends up laying on top of him, which is bit conclusive. But the seme doesn't always hold all the rest of the power. The only cases where it was 100% seme power was Leo with Fiat. In 2moons and LBC, the ukes were so much wealthier it was a plot point. Part of the central conflict in LBC was the class difference - Tin couldn't accept Perth, if you recall. And in 2moons2 in their first encounter the seme ridicules the uke because he's just been dropped off by a troop of servants who bow to the waist and call him "master".
7) Semes are the deciders, not always the pursuers. In Secret Crush On You, the uke was an obsessive stalker, very much the persuer, for example.

Anyway, one of us is going to get to do an "I told you so" dance, so show mercy if that's you. :)

Who was the uke and seme in 21 Days Theory? X was the pursuer, but Q was much larger and more masculine. I don't think there was an uke and seme - there doesn't have to be - there rarely is in real life. People assuming top and bottom roles is more common, but that has nothing whatsoever to do with size, age, or power dynamic. for example I've usually been the top, but the bottom was always the boss. One was a PE major whose arms were thicker than my legs and he was 4 inches taller than me.

New's character doesn't have a name, but he's clearly God or a god. I just call him God because The Man With No Name is too long.

Tiew did recognize Mork (or Mon) when they ran into each other but pretended not to because heMork didn't address him in the respectful form he should have to an elder. He was just playing with him. That's why Mork said that he won when he made Tiew admit that he knew him.

Rossi is cute, but not just cute cute - beautiful cute, with a powerfully expressive face and those giant dark eyes. In about 5 years it will hurt to look at him.

I've been to Bangkok, but only on business, so even my exposure to the capital is skewed. My future priorities are definitely Chiang Mai and Ayutthaya.

That got me thinking about the butterflies - there are usually two, whereas with God there was only one, and only one "Mork" when he was working at God's cafe - but on the other hand God made that point about how you should avoid using two different types of bean together, which seems to have turned out to refer to the twin game Mork & Mon were using on Tiew. So I thought maybe the twin butterflies represent two aspects of Mork as opposed to the singular when in God's presence, but I really don't know and am going to have to wait and find out.

Yes, I think you're right, but indirectly - the main sponsor is a department store, so almost all the placements are things they sell. I will say that I appreciated that they were just placements and not lengthy commercials dropped into the story ala Vice Versa, which has become intolerable.

I think The Tuxedo topped 2moons with a trip and fall into a bathtub for an underwater accidental kiss. I'm not sure it's even possible to beat that.

They only had 4 episodes, so they had to do 21 days instead of 66.

Wow, that was unexpectedly amazing. It's very G-rated and aimed at a young audience, but it really had a lot of valuable things to say about communication - BLs lean so heavily on implausible miscommunication, but this had a plausible miscommunication and a very mature way of handling it - and not depending on kids to see it though, but guidance from older people and their experience. It was quite lovely.

I really hope the ending isn't stupid. From experience producers sometimes force tacking on a happy ending to something that really, really shouldn't, like He's Coming to Me.

In any case this is a high 8's show, not a 7.4. Tiew needs to aggressively buckle Mork's seatbelt or catch him when he trips over his own feet and people will like it better. That was a really bitchy comment, but I haven't had coffee yet.

I think we can tell when it's one or the other, but not which is which. Based on their conversation, I think Mon was in the store when they met, Mork met him in the park next, and Mork was in the store this episode. I can't remember how many separate times they met, but if you rewatch, whoever it is after the second meeting (in the park) is Mon, alternating until you get to the most recent time, which is definitely Mork.

Yes - they must really be trying to make headway into the Thai market. I wonder if anyone actually uses those - maybe it's a replacement for vaping which is steadily being heavily regulated.