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Yes, and when they get promoted, it's their turn to scream. When they work in the US, the better of them learn not to do that, but some of them are sure Korean management style is better and keep doing it.

Someone did that to me in a meeting and I was shocked - I thought he was having a complete mental breakdown and wondered if I should call an ambulence. He wasn't even my boss, he was a coworker, but higher in the pecking order.

Got it, thanks. I wish they had written this so that the Por thing didn't drag on that much, but I will say that while WE have known Por is terrible, Tawan didn't know that until this ep - Mork didn't tell him what he saw, and Por has been leading him on - as far as he knew, it was a fixable problem between them. If he had known Por was cheating when we did, it would have been over episodes ago. He needs to get over it pretty quickly next ep or I'm going to get irritated, because the series is almost over!

I totally agree with all of that - in fact there was an episode of a BL where someone both password protected his phone AND locked the door before doing sex stuff.

But in the particular case of Tawan walking in on Por and his ex, the ex had specifically said he was leaving a key and even gave Tawan a specific time to come so he could be sure to be in a compromising position with Por. All the other times Tawan showed up didn't make much sense, though - it's mildly irritating to me, but not as bad as so many people not having passwords on their phones. Anyone that's ever had a mother knows better than that.

This show is a disastrous mess. What the hell was all that this episode?

I think the series actually makes more sense if you turn off the subtltles and make up your own dialogue. That conversation between Dr. Yang and the creepy guy (well, creepier even than Dr. Yang) sounded like secret agents testing each other with code phrases.

"The penguin is anxious."

"But the window is artificial."

"That may be, but squirrel."

Who was the depressed guy with beautiful legs at the beginning - is that someone we've seen before, or just something random thrown in? I think I've probably answered my own question because the entire series is random things thrown in.

The entire country of Thailand needs to move to southern Algeria so they all stop drowning all the time. What is it with Thai BL and water? One drop of rain touches someone and they get an instant fever. If they stray into more than a meter of water, they instantly drown.

You are confused, but there's no other option given how bizarre the subtitling is.

Also, does this ep mean that Nawee is the uke? If he can be knocked out by being tapped so lightly on the back with that glass thing that it didn't even break, he has to be an uke, right?

I don't understad - you mean why didn't Mork tell Tawan about Por?

Por can give access to anyone by leaving their name with recption - I live in a place like that - and if the other guy is in a LTR with Por, he has probably always had access - and he left a key at the desk for Tawan. I might be missing something, but I can't see the plot hole.

I doubt anyone I know has anything to do with the show - it's was a tech division. Bullying is also a part of the corporate culture - Korean managers will scream at employees, which in an American setting is something only crazy people do - we consider it a loss of self-control. "That particular company" is consciously modeled after the military, so it's probably worse than other places.

This isn't the type of show that has stock characters filling roles like "hero", "villain". seme, uke, etc. It's about real people. As far as I could tell there was absolutey nothing painting him the villain in this episode - it was meant to show us a real person with relatable anger and pain and how that made him behave. Your reaction seems to indicate you understand that, but you're somehow mad at the production, which I don't get - except maybe that we're all so used to formulaic BLs that it's hard to process one that is 100 times better written with fully realized characters, and that main characters can do bad things because that's what being human is like. In BL, the seme is a Disney prince and the uke is his dutifful princess - that's not happening here, and thank God for that.

Both interpretations are valid - I took it by his reaction, which was not to cover his eyes or look away, but to stare in shock - that that Tawan's tight abs stirred feelings in him he couldn't deal with. But it's probably also BL prudery. People lose their minds when someone gives a peck to someone sleeping without a notarized consent document, and where else but BL do people wear clothes in the shower?

Yes, I agree. Much of the fandom wants cute boys being cute to each other - they don't want any displays of male sexuality. As a result, you get men in their mid to late 20s acting like 12-year old Victorian-era virgin girls. It's like these authors have never met an actual boy - or an actual girl, because they're not all sitting around fantasizing about getting a chaste peck on the forehead, either.

So it's a little dull and can be difficult at times to sit through, but it is very sweet and Mick is adorable. All the men in this are attractive. I could do without the evil female trope, but as long as it doesn't take over the story it might be OK.

I like it enough to continue.

And Ice Dechapat's (Titan).
https://www.instagram.com/iice_dechapat/

It's hard to look better than a man in Ayutthaya attire.

It's a cultural construct, but it's different for men - you actually can't avoid drinking, at least if you want to have a career and social life. It's mandatory. I worked at the firm that may have made your phone and I only escaped because I was responsible for event management and I'm not Korean, and even then I was often commanded to drink. On the bright side, my group got all the leftover soju and food. Not that there was ever much leftover soju.

That company has a... certain culture, but it is is an entire third of the economy of Korea, so it's not like it's some outlier.

Wow, Mick is so alpha male jock - such a contrast to his character.

OMG - I didn't make this comment because I thought everyone would say "Hunh? What?" but that's exactly what my reaction was.

That's my issue too. I shouldn't be afraid I've developed glaucoma when I watch something, and it also smoothes out the subtleties of facial expressions and makes the actors seem less skilled than they are.

I was honestly not prepared for that - I knew he would look good, but not THAT good.

For everyone who's frustrated with Tawan, remember that WE have known Por was awful for a long time - Tawan didn't until this ep, because Por has been leading him on and he's inexperienced.

It's easy for us to say 'cut him loose and move on to the dimples and surprisingly big muscles', but it's not that easy when you're in love with someone. We have a stong ability to cling to hope and denial.