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That was sort of strange, but the writing & acting are so good. They set up Toh & Nuea to be standard-issue uke & seme (with a very weird uke) but it didn't really turn out that way - Nuea isn't a cocksure patronizing alpha like most semes - he just thinks he's normal and is just as insecure about not being good enough for Toh as Toh is about him. That was potentially an embarassing scene, but Billy seriously delivered it.

Also, I thought Jao & Sky would just be the cute fluffy couple, but that was one of the more steamy scenes I've ever seen in a BL.

Surprise is in a category of his own, but Billy and Heng are so committed and fearless in their roles that they deserve special round of applause.

That was a very strange episode. Everything Pond was great, except I don't understand why he put on a basketball uniform.

The Soh misfires were funny, too, but the resolution was too quick and the writing gave Soh a handwave as if comedy was enough for him to be forgiven for being an unspeakable dick. He should at least have given Mon a handjob, not some useless chaste kiss.

Anyway, I'm not sure how I feel about this episode. There were things in it that were funny, but the incredibly slow line delivery and endless pauses between each phrase really drain a lot of the energy out of this. What is with this trend in Thai BL? It seemed to start with Bite Me and has infected everything. Except maybe Secret Crush On You.

I agree. Team Saint! Fighting!

He is a tad self-absorbed, one must concede.

The actors are good - I blame the writers and maybe the director. Kluen is being played a little too dispassionately - there's a point where you start not to care what he feels - if he's like that Nuea will never be happy.

I agree, definitely not the actors' fault. I'm happy to see Dunk in a leading role - he's really good.

Kluen seems to be saying he's just an emotional idiot, but they're straying pretty far into just plain idiot - I hope there's a good explanation for his behavior. I might buy that he doesn't think he's good enough.

I like Nuea, but the way Kluen is written and acted (as directed) makes him hard to like. I really don't like stories like this that depend on ridiculous miscommunication. Especially if you clearly know someone is in love with you, how hard is it to express reciprocation? If they were high school freshmen, fine, but isn't Kluea 20 or so?

Here's their conversation, distilled:

"I'm in love with you, but because you don't reciprocate and have a girlfriend, I want to get over you."

"Date Typhoon."

Why not "I broke up with my gf 4 years ago because I love you." How do people keep secret for four years that they've broken up? Didn't Nuea take a glance at Kluen's social media? Or the ex-gfs? When miscommunication is this implausible it just makes you throw up your hands.

I don't really want them together. I can tell I feel that way when I find myself thinking "just date your brother. He's hot, he loves you, and he's a doctor." Or Typhoon. Or poor JJ, who never gets lucky.

I feel like I've seen this exact story 100 times now. Dunk is really cute and engaging, but it's not much fun to see him sulking for 5 eps - they should at least make use of his good comic timing.

Wll, kissing is actually a very efficient way of communicating, but if you're sending mixed signals, vrything is confusing. Think about exchanging that for a direct statement. "I like you. But date someone esle."

The one single thing that was missing was the lyrics to the song Rak sang while looking into Diao's eyes.

I know! I edited the subtitles for 2 30-min eps of a show and it's really hard and takes quite a while. Most of it is just normal editing of non-native writing, but there are a critical sentences that are ambiguous and take quite a while to get right.

Do you just want friends to lovers, or for it to have a similar vibe to this?

OMG that was the pefect description. What if he really is a vampire? Have we ever seen him standing in sunlight?

Well, THAT was unexpected. Although it's the same director, so it's not crazy that this is set in the same world as Be Loved In House. And I'm still in love with Hank Wang, so I'm happy to see him.

Max Lin - THAT is a nice body. Geez.

I'd bet money on your bet being on the right outcome. They have to stay together or the director is nullifying is own previous series.

Well, they're lawyers and they have to have clients. Their last case was resolved this ep, right? But the reason for it being the couple from Be Loved In House is that they already have some built-in fans, and the reason for having a gay couple (who obviously still love each other) is so Ze Shou realizes who he loves (clearly Li Gong is already there).

But it is. For sure. It's the same driector.

That was definitely them.

Possibly, but that's a sudden large decline, and it happened on another show that had a lot more voters. There could be something off in the way scores are calculated.

It's hard to imagine why people would suddenly downvote the series - the last 3 eps have been incredible.

It's actually funny how perfect Shinomiya is - maybe even to the point of dullness. But that face...

It's funny - you can't help but think about how liberating it is for Fukuhara to be with him, but relentless good luck is a burden too, and so Shinomiya benefits too (remember when Fukuhara saved him from the girls?). You can't ever learn from mistakes (luck protects him from the consequences), you never overcome obstacles, you probably don't even know what it's like to build any kind of relationship with anyone because everyone loves you to start with - you don't really experience life.

Shadow gives meaning to light. It's no wonder he fell in love with Fukuhara - it's probably the first real thing he's ever had. Well, that plus he's adorable.

I think the opposite - when he's with Fukuhara he can be a normal person. You don't really experience life if 100% goes your way. Or think about happiness - if you're totally sheltered from unhappiness, would you even be able to apprciate happiness?

Shinomiya can't learn from mistakes, because if he makes one his luck will shield him from the consequences - remember how Fukuhara observed that S was treating their date like a primary school field trip? That's probably because he's suffering from arrested development due to never having to overcome obstacles. Or how happy F was when S "saved" him from the swarming girls? Too much of a good thing can be bad.