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Not as bad as Hitler.

Darn. The quality of the upload is so terrible that I can't tell anyone apart unless it's in closeup. And there are bad subtitles, and then there's So Much In Love-quality subtitles. What does "Hungry mosquitos will be cured first" mean? Somebody was wishing someone else a happy birthday, but that seems like a strange thing to say. Why not "Despondent penguins emmigrate last"?

I couldn't get through ep 1 - it's so much effort to understand the subtitles that my mind wandrs because it's not interesting enough to hold my attention. Also, this is giving me serious deja vu - I feel like I've watched this before.

If you took my comment seriously, I'm not sure what to tell you. Did you think I was also serious that he ate enough to resupply the city of Mariupol?

Not only that, but he was guilted and manipulated into doing the measurement. Maybe he's a masochist and very easily falls for guys who are abusive to him. And, one must say, looks extremely good with his shirt off.

Haha - I hadn't noticed the recommendations. Too true!

When I as a kid, there was a show everyone wathed called "Mr Roger's Neighborhood", which, although a children's show, could also be quite dark, and dealt with issues like death, illness, and even racism. But now everything is sanitized so that people don't face anything challenging or that could distress them. I don't mind the fluffy fantasy of BL - it's a nice escape - but it's also nice to watch a series that has something to say.

It's ironic that a series about the power of love and understanding has generated s much hate and misunderstanding.

Wow, you are really bitter. I'm sorry you are so unhappy.

You're clearly correct as the below demonstrates. I also understand why people don't want to understand the series, and it might have been a mistake to market it as a BL, because that creates an expectation that it will follow the same old formula.

But people giving it a one and urging people not to watch it is really disappointing - and almost all of these people don't give any real reason why that hated it, other than it not giving them what they wanted, even though it was pretty clear by ep 3 or so that this wasn't going to happen.

There are some good critiques and I appreciate those - I agree with the criticism that the last couple of episodes were too rushed, and it would have been better if we could see the consequences to Jan and Saen of what happened, and shown more of the regrowth of the ending relationship, but it never lost the power of it's message.

But it's a positive message, not an attempt to tear something down. It's totally different.

Thank you for saying this. I will say the last two eps were a bit rushed and it would have been better if it had been 18 eps as intended - Tofu's death also led to the destruction of Jan and San, which might have satisfied people more if that were clearer.

Tofu was the manifestation of Tarn's love an Nut's pain - the latter at least was clear from the first ep, as Tofu was awakened by Nut's tear.

The series is about coping with loss and trauma, and Tofu represented the love and treatment Nut needed. Once he had helped Nut overcome his mental illness, his role as an active participant was over, and he reverted to being a teddy bear that could still provide passive help to Nut by being there for him to hug. It's sort of like he moved from being the psychologist to being the anti-depressant medication.

Tofu was never human - he had no aspirations for himself other than Nut's happiness, not even an desire to stay alive if it wasn't the path to the greatest happiness for Nut.

The ending was emotional and bittersweet, but it wasn't sad - it was an affirmation of how there is nothing that love can't overcome. How people can miss how beautiful this story was is almost painful and makes me feel sad for them.

Well, he was with Tarn for a year, and Tarn was his first love (not first crush, which was Nueng). It wasn't really a triangle, because Tofu was the manifestation of Tarn's love and Nut's need.

It was a farewell kiss. Giving him a romantic one would be cheating on Tarn. It was more powerful to me as the goodbye it was.

You may have noticed that many monuments are built at the sites of the events they're memorializing. like the powerful 9-11 memorial at the site of the twin towers. Taking a poisonous place like Jan's house and turning it into something full of love and beauty is a wonderful thing, and a tribute to Tofu, not some attempt to dis him.

I can't believe so many people didn't understand what they were watching. If you thought this was a light-hearted romance, I don't know what to tell you - it was completely clear that's not what this was by Ep 2.

This is a story about coping with loss and trauma - Tofu could never have been the endgame for Nut, he was the treatment Nut needed to get over his PTSD and depression.

Tofu was never a human - he was always a teddy bear in human form. Did nobody notice that he had no thoughts or aspirations other than about Nut's happiness? What did he want to do for a living? What were his hobbies and interests? Nil. His sole purpose was to help Nut overcome his problems. Once he did that, there was no role for him. And he didn't die, he became a teddy bear again. Did nobody notice that? The ending was bittersweet, but the series was so affirming and positive that I don't get how everyone has this reaction.

I'm getting worried, because all Western LGBTQ+ content is starting to be marketed solely to female teens looking for cute boys being cute to each other, like Heartstopper, rather than having something to say like Miracle of Teddy Bear or how LGBTQ+ media used to be.

Wow, I can see a series not being for everyone, but you completly misunderstood what you were watching.

I don't understand what you mean - why would I feel betrayed by what they were building up between ep 1-15? It was the perfect ending to one of the best written series ever. If you want fluff, you have 99% of the rest of BL just for you.

Which one?

It's one of those series that I dropped after the first ep because it was almost suprenaturally annoying and silly, tried again, and now I'm obsessed with it - I thought it would be an endless string of gay-baiting, but the romance really does move.

But I think it probably would not be for you, and there's nothing wrong with that - you do have better taste than I do because I'm shallow.

That's a good strategy. I think that the mutliple angle thing actually subtracts from the impact of the moment, though - I'd rather it go slow than have 50 different shots of a single hug. It makes me giggle sometimes.

But especially in eps that aren't split into parts, some of the length of a moment is because in the original broadcast, there's a commercial break, so you're actually watching two separate scenes bumped together - that happens a lot on Rak Diao/One Love, but those two are so on fire that I don't mind even though that series is the absolute worst offender at endless staring scenes.

Imagine that all those eating scenes probably had 5-6 takes each, so he must have eaten enough food to resuppky Mariupiol while filming this - it's a miracle he didn't develop Type 2 diabetes.