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If we need to read a book to understand a series, then the series is a failure and there's no point to making it. It needs to stand on its own.

There is too much craziness going on just for the sake of it. You can have a crazy Thakhun, but just saying "he was kidnapped as a child" doesn't really explain his outrageousness or why his family is enabling him. Some backstory is needed. You can have bodyguards partying, but not ALL of them - epecially after speculating there's an inside connection. And you can't just have the leads, who have never shown the slightest attraction for each other, suddenly do that.

Contrast that with the even more whacky RakDiao, where the buildup is so artful that just grabbing hands can make everyone cry. Other than the intense sexual harassment of Rak by all the female characters, nothing on the show is beyond belief - that's the key difference. There's too much here that doesn't work. Thakhun would be more interesting and compelling if there was something sinister or dangerous about him. As it is, it's just dumping on effeminacy again and treating it like a pathetic joke.

However, it would be impossible for me to get too much of shirtless glasses guy.

You disagree with his question? I don't think it's a very good idea for ALL the bodyguards to get blasted - some of them should stay alert, especially since it's been suggested there's a traitor who could have passed on where Kinn is.

That's how I was too - I watched the first ep and it was a hard no - the laugh track and sound effects made me want to burn things down. But now it's one of my favorite series of all time.

When Diao realized it all at the end... I don't like the accidental "you know what", but I'll forgive it since accidental was part of the fortune. This is moving a lot faster than I thought it would.

Yes, but the same setting over, and over, and over, and over is dull and unimaginative. I don't think there are rules about how old characters can be - Cherry Magic's original title is If You're Still a Virgin at 30, You Can Turn into a WIzard. That series is nearly formulaic in its BL-ness, but it has an original premise an adult setting. 30 is pushing it, but Mozart's Don Giovanni is a comedy even though it ends with a vengeful ghost dragging the protagonist to hell. Genres can push boundaries.

Yes, I should have put "nerd" in parentheses. Yowza.

I think we all need to start stockpliling tissues. Has everyone read The Happy Prince?

That was not bad. I'm not getting the fanatical love everyone else has, but it's enjoyable. I don't think they built up the romance very well, so I didn't really feel it - kind of out of nowhere.

I would like to see the nerd guy a lot more, and I'm mad at Porsche for not letting him do what he was going to do.

As I write this it's 8.0. That seems about right to me. I like it, but it makes no sense and the romance hasn't really ben built up to, so at the end of the ep I thought "Oh. That's kind of nice."

I'm on the fence. I really like that there's no "but we're both men!" crap, and Poon outright says what kind of man he wants. The love triangle is actuslly three men for once - funny that Jet is i it because he's been in pretty much every MMM triangle there has ever been.

But that shower scene was really stupid. What adult can't operat a shower? And Athip is what, 30, and he doesn't know what love feels like? You know what that feels like when you're 12 - it's almost impossible to avoid. And wayyyy too much time was spent on Amy. BL has got to stop with that sort of character. Enough already. And I want to fly over there and give Bank a haircut.

I guess I think it's OK and has some potential.

Saint hasn't been in it enough to judge, but he sure looks good. But I prefer Q, Pond, Jeab, and Little Bro over Mon & Soh by a mile. They're both idiots. with only one facial expression each (slight exaggeration in the case of Mon).

Maybe he's so deep that it's under my sonar. :)

I know! I was so excited for this pairing, and then there was that initial scene of Chap in the towel... but nothing could save this mess.

Thanks! I was more excited about this series than most others - an "adult" theme, one of my favorite actors, and one of my favorite actors to look at all in one. That makes it an outsized disappointment.

I don't understand the audience. This is that sweet fluffy BL that everyone wants with a perfect gentleman as the seme and everyone is accusing him of being a psychotic possessive drunkard. At the club he had good reason to feel out of sorts because Lukchub & co. didn't greet him and Phai was deliberately trying to make him jealous, and incidentally, if you aren't jealous then you aren't in love - it's perfectly natural for him to feel that, and it's not like he was inappropriate or violent.

I usually don't like fluffy series, but this one is so cute I can't help myself.

I don't think Ram was possessive - Phai was deliberately trying to make him jealous, and he had reason to be upset that Lukchub and his friends didn't say hello.

? When wa Ram drunk? If you mean at the club it was specifically mentioned that he had a driver.

So.... Q & Micky. The age of consent in Thailand is 15. Just sayin'.

Gap was good in Ep 9 - that was the first time I've felt him. But all the Mon/Soh scenes are so slow and draggy - I just don't care anymore. 2x is too fast to read the subtitles, but I managed it on 1.5x without falling into a coma.

Are you sure? It's almost impossible to tell the difference between someone interested in a kiss or not into it at all when it comes to BL. That was a joke, in case it wasn't clear.