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Repeatedly threatening to kill his family, however, requires a bit more than an apology.

I didn't like the final episode because it was too neat and fast, andtotally conventional with none of the cheesy campiness that made the series bearable. It's hard to have any respect for Par or Run - nothing is going to change.

There seems to be another ep, so I assume that's BTS.

Sorry, I misunderstood you - I agree completely.

I think a problem with the concept is that because the correspondence between Theo and Enchante was not fleshed out, we didn't care nor understand why Theo wanted to find out who Enchante was - but if they had done that, we would think Theo was a total psycho when it was revealed who Enchante was.

Men don't care about those things in a partner, and if they do, it comes offas creepy and disingenuous.

I've spoken to a BL actor whose friends are all BL actors and he never watches their series because it feels weird.

I want to like them - I really do. But I can't. Does Force have anemia or something? You'd expect a man built like that to have some energy.

This episode killed it for me. 7 minutes in, and we've had no less than THREE contrived mishap/catch/stare bits that are telegraphed so you can see them coming and roll your eyes in advance. Lazy, stupid, and poorly written and directed. A pity, because the actors are both doing a great job, very attractive, and fit well together. But nothing is worth sitting through this dreck.

Mark does nothing for me, but he doesn't bother me either - but Poon is one of my favorites so I can deal with him being paired with a void space just to get to stare at him on my screen.

ForceBook doesn't work. I wish they'd try something else. I just feel zero. Well, except for when Force takes his shirt off. But just the 30 seconds of screen time Mark & Poon got engaged me a lot more than the main story. I guess I can ff to Perth.

This series is a disaster - it's a hot mess. Nothing about it is good, although the fight choreography was pretty good. But ruined by the incompetent lighting.

That's a good strategy. The couple appeared in a subsequent drama so it 's easy to view it as a bad dream.

I might be totally wrong, but the director also did Secret Crush on You, which has a much broader range of gay representation than any other BL I can think of, so I trust him.

They'd have a conniption if they saw who I was dating. :o

It didn't go anywhere is my issue, not that it was there. It was just thrown in to be thrown in - that's tokenism and not representation. You really are an unpleasant person - you need to work on your social skills.

I totally agree with you - and in the case of BL, it would make me angry if it had a sad ending because we watch them for the happy endings - it's an escape. I don't know if you saw Make Our Days Count, but that pissed everyone off, and rightly so. The title telegraphed what would happen, but it was so random & sudden.

Speaking only for myself as a man, having a kind older man at that time in your life is wonderful. When I was 19-ish, I dated a grad student who was 26 and that was the first time I enjoyed sex and felt good about myself. It's not what he wanted due to our being in much different places in our lives, but it is an early happy memory.

With regard to this show, I think the OP is getting too hung up on one factor - the teacher isn't only attracted to the boy because he reminds him of his brother, it's just one factor. Attraction and love are complex and mutli-layered.

It's interesting, but nobody, and I mean NOBODY objects to the BL trope of the childhood connection. If you're still in love with somoene from when you were 9, then your only mental image of them is when they were 9, so you're a pedophile. Tan Yin is a fully adult man, not a child and nobody is doing anything wrong. So what if TY reminds him of his brother? Unless they show a flashback of him f@#$ing his brother, then I don't care.

Well, in an audience that's 99% straight women and gay men, the interest is bound to be in seing m/m romance. It's not homophobic to not appreciate f/f or m/f couples taking up time in one of the only genres that centrally features m/m romance. If the f/f storyline added something important to the story, then it's fine, but it's just thrown in to throw it in, which isn't meaningful or true representation.

I don't see how my interest in homoxexual fiction being centered on m/m couples is misogynist - I also have no sexual interest in women, so is that misogynist? Of course not. You're viliying inherent preferences, so aren't you the one being homophobic? You're essentially saying that you have to like everything equally, and that's absolutely not true.

You have to respect everyone's rights equaly, but you absolutely do not have to appreciate lesbian storylines in a gay series. If someone says "Eww, that's disgusting", then yes, that's misogynist. But nobody is saying that.

That's too strong an accusation to make. I don't see anything homophobic in the OP - we're here to watch BL, and it's perfectly fine to not love non m/m storylines. People complain about too much time being chewed up by straight couples in BL and nobody accuses them of being heterophobic. In one of the only genres that features m/m romance, f/f isn't expected or necessary unless it has something to say that amplifies the themes of the story, and in this case it doesn't. Aim's story arc is about being overmanaged by her narcissistic mother and her lesbianism isn't relevant and is frankly tokenism, which is another way to victimize LGBTQ+ subgroups - "here, we threw in a lesbian. You have representation and can be quiet now."

She didn't say it's shameful to have f/f couples, she said it's a shame that everyone feels the need to shoehorn a f/f couple into everything, which is tokenism. Representation isn't meaningful unless it's important to the plot. In this case, it does have a role, but it's simply to remove the dramatic tension of the original series and replace it with a much fluffier storyline, which is a shame.

Fortunately the acting is like thirty times better than the original so it's still a pleasure to watch.