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Most bromances are censored BLs, so supporting them is supporting homophobia and gay-baiting. The only thing missing is not "kissing and humping", which is kind of a bizarre category - it's acknowledgment of a romantic relationship, which for adults (and usually younger people) jas a physical component. We don't need to see gratuitous sex scenes, but if you think kissing is icky maybe some self-examination is in order.

What makes this special is that dramatic plot points are not given excessive weight - Oak reacts negatively when his friend taunts him, but quickly realizes he's overreacted and behaves like a normal person. When he tells his mother, he's nervous, but it's clear he knows her because, well, she's his mother, and he wasn't scared he'd get an operatic reaction.

Likewise, his description of how he feels about Mon is so real, and doesn't deny the physical - while keeping it age-appropriate, which proves it can be done, and BL characters don't need to behave lik a kiss on the cheek is scandalous and you don't need an uke acting like his boyfriend is a disgusting pervert whenever he tries anything. The realism here brings me back and is easier to identify with, and doesn't have the ovewrought nighttime soap quality of the mainstream productions where characters live in giant palaces and yet there's never any evidence of anyone clearning or maintaining it, unless a gossipy maid is needed to f@#$ things up.

But at least Praew got a lot of screentime - nothing is more gripping than anyithng having to do with her.

It's hard to belive Tono is a teenaged boy if he doesn't want to see Boss with his shirt off. Teenaged boys spend 90% of their time trying to get a glimpse of skin. That's why locker rooms are so dangerous for young gay boys.

Pheeranut had just the right amount of irritation that Tono wasn't responding to him - that was impressive and felt real. He's also doing a great job of conveying that he's hiding something. He has some leading man potential.

The editing needs to be a bit tighter - sometimes the shift back and forth is off, but it's not bad enough to spoil my enjoyment. This was one of the things I was most looking forward to this weekend and it never disappoints.

I felt bad for the girl, too - I was hoping he'd go back to her when the coast was clear.

What I loved about the conversation with Vee & his brother is that nobody said or heard anything that led to a stupid and implausible misunderstanding - it was a miracle. It happened twice - in 99.9% of BLs, Mark would see Vee standing there, assume they're getting back together, and run off crying before he got to see Vee ignore her, then there would be a long montage of good times spent together to a Jeff Satur power ballad blasting in the background, and it would take 1.75 episodes to clear it up.

I think the first episosde is bad, but after that it's fantastic.

Actually, it's scary because there are so many episodes left, so there's bound to be a lot of drama.

LOL, those make me laugh, too. I think maybe the Thai is weaker than "asshole" and "fuck", so the translator tried those, not realizing they're from the 19th c.

There's apparently also no English word for what in Thai means "pursue romantically". We have "courting", but that's only used in, well, the 19th c. So sometimes it's translated "hit on", which is way more sexual than they're intending.

"I intend to hit on you." = "I intend to get you naked." I think they should just use "court". It sounds funny, but the meaning is fairly close.

It was scintillating viewing when they were arguing over paying the check.

Oh my God. OK, let's get it out of the way: can we talk about War's body? So perfect.

So many things happened in this that are like mini-revolutions. 1. Mark overhears Vee talking, and neither misunderstands anything, nor does Vee say anything like to suggest any ambivalence. 2. Vee is over by Ploy, and Mark doesn't miunderstand, nor does Vee even say "hi" to her. 3. Vee's romantic rival is a really nice guy, not kniving and evil, and we actually get a chance to feel sorry for him, rather than taking the usual easy path of making him awful.

Yin & Prom have really been working on their acting, because in En of Love the contrast between them and War was a little painful, and now they're nearly equal to him.

I really disliked the first episode of this series, but I guess they were stuck with the material of the original. The writing on this, including the dialog, is so smart and wonderful that I don't even mind the conventional 2017 plot, because this is much better done that it has ever been before.

Me too.

You know it!

Pedophilia is not normalized in the story - it's depicted as wrong.

I've noticed that BL writers are pretty good at setting up a scenario, then really, really bad at bringing it to a conclusion. Like really, really, really bad.

Maybe Korn had her frozen and they just thawed her out. How has he been feeding her with nobody noticing?

Namphueng is...

OK, you didn't like ...much too young to be Porche's mother.

How about Nanphueng is... unkind to keep her miraculous skincare regime secrt because she doesn't look at day over 36 yet has a son in his mid-20s.

There's actually probably nothing, or something will be made up later.

How about ... "is also Kinn's mother ." That would be hot.

The plot didn't make any sense at all - if Korn had just killed Gun, Chan wouldn't have had to die. Not to mention several hundred other people. Also, the first thing they need to start teaching in thug school is not to just stand around talking when meeting a mortal enemy. Target practice would be good, too. Also, if there are 20 of you, don't charge at someone one at a time. But target practice first.

The plot didn't make any sense at all, but whatever. It was entertaining. Namphung must have gone through puberty at an unusually young age.

Much too young to be Porsche's mother?

The two most common types of surgery, by far, in Japan (and all of Asia), are eyelid surgery to give people the Caucasian double-eyelid, and nose enlargment, to give them more prominent Caucasian noses. In Thailand & the Philippines, the order is reversed - nose then eyelid.Ironically, most nose jobs for Caucasians are to make them smaller.

It's a fashion right now to do that in Asia, and it's particularly obvious with these two. I hope it endspartly because I'm more attracted to East Asian features than Caucasian (I'm white), but most importantly, I like natural looks.

People should do whatever they want to if it makes them feel better about themselves - but when threre's such a strong trend for people of one race to look like another, espcially in the acting profession where there's a lot of pressure to look a certain way, its concerning. Espcially when it's something permanent.