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Almost every single BL character that has ever existed has been technically bi, although they usually identify as straight. That almost none of them ever identify as gay, and then only bottoms or fems, makes it a shamefully hidden group, which is especially disappointing under a pride flag.

ALL BL characters are bi-coded - it's not like there's underrepresentation. But virtually NO BL characters are gay.

This was a good episode, but they're trying to have it both ways. It's incongruous to have a strong statement about LGBTQ+ pride but still stick to a 1980s Yaoi formula that has straight men in love. It would have taken only the slightest tweak to have White and Sean as gay characters, but they just couldn't do it.

Pride is about being open, proud and seen - what BL does is the opposite.

It's out.

Whoever wrote this needs to take a writing class. 9 minutes in and all that's happened is a character asked another to fill out a questionnaire, then we watched the questionnaire being filled out, then the chracter went home and we watched him arrange himself on a couch to take a nap. He then gets a call from a character we don't know telling us another character we don't know has died, after which he sits motionless contemplating this news. This is so boring I had to take a break to come here and complain.

OK, so then his dog gets so bored that he pushes the main character off his skateboard so now he's laying unconscious in a hospital for 5 minutes of screentime while a doctor stares at him. Then we get a bunch of people we don't know standing around in a hallway discussing the organizational structure of a health clinic. This is followed by more doctor staring at patient (& out window), and we've hit the 20-minute mark with absolutely nothing of interest having happened. And now they've put the entire act of peeing on film. Like 30 seconds of peeing.

Scintilating.

It was never mentioned in S1 that Damon was ever raped, and if Angelo was responsible it would have affected how he behaved. All this murder and mayhem overshadows the themes of the series and reduces it to a melodramatic soap opera, not what it used to be, which was a moving and philosophpical story about facing death. Also, with every line screamed instead of spoken, the very poor sound quality is accentuated.

This is starting to get too messy and implausible, and it undermines the previous season. Also, very shouty and with bad sound.

Just for sh#$s & giggles, I ran your sentence through translate and got ขาของฉันได้รับบาดเจ็บระหว่างการฝึกซ้อมวิ่งช้า. "I'm coming" comes out ฉันมาแล้ว, or 46 key strokes vs. 9.

But he could have dictated a text which would only take 2-3 buttons.

I really did give up after 30 seconds of part 1, but I am not ashamed to say I clicked on part 4 because I'm shallow.

Because he was limping toward class and walking on a crutch and typing texts are not compatible. Before that he was probably in a lot of pain and in a clinic getting treated.

This is so beautiful to look at - the color composition of that last shot was just perfect. The director has an amazing eye.

I just wish the story was 1% as interesting as the visuals. I just don't care at ALL. Except Dome and Vee. I wish the series would center more around them. The main couple is so dull - I felt much more chemistry with the child actors portraying them.

The quality of this is objectively high. The cinematography, art design, color grading, lighting, everything - top rate, maybe the best ever. The story, however, is so uninteresting to me that it's hard to maintain interest. But it's still worth watching just for how beautifully it's filmed.

That's a good way of describing it. I guess I'd rate it "half-assed camp." I think it needed to be dialed up several notches - as it is now, it doesn't have anything in it that's good, nor anything in it that's so bad that it's good. The should get rid of all the female actors and replace them with drag queens, make all the fashion OTT, and the plot more outrageous.

You're right, I know - I only zeroed in on Adrian because he's the actor most obviously cast for looks. Eurwin is cute too, but not on quite the Pinoy Ken-doll scale as Adrian, and he's somewhat better as an actor. The bit players are so bad that it would have been better to have just pulled in strangers off the street and had them read lines off a script. Or just improvise their lines. Or quietly stare at their phones.

I couldn't get through 30 seconds of the first scene - Zeyn's acting is pure cringe - I wonder how bad all the other takes were if this is what they chose. Or maybe that's it - they only do one take per scene. It would be far better to get an actor who was a tenth as attractive as Zeyn but ten times better at acting.

I still say Thanu and Pha ought to just toss Wayu out the window and get it on with each other. There would be a whole lot of abs going on in their love scenes.

There seems to be an increasing tendency for BLs to completely disregard the importance of writing.

I forgot it was in Brothers - I always think "how many people live at Leo's house?"

I think it particularly stuck in my mind for Don't Say No because I was thinking it must be a lot of effort to decide which giant palace Leo should pick to sulk in at any given moment.

That's the problem, though - it wasn't "development" - it was just sudden and out of character.

That was an entire episode of almost nothing. They could easily have condensed that down to 5 minutes.

The writing is incomprehensible. Why would someone take a puppy like that without at least texting? There are so many characters that don't seem to have any purpose. Why is Ice in the story? The actor is only 14, so it's not like anything is going to happen. Who is June and how does... he? fit into the story? It's just taking up time - which I suppose is fine as there's no plot, so something might as well fill the time.

The phone scene was really cute and real - more so for high-school kids than adults, but Valen is supposed to be immature so I guess I can buy it.

What was the bizarre scene with Valen's sister? She's just leaving town for a month without even telling her brother, who is her dependent? Did the actress quit or something? I can't say I'd blame her.

This is a huge mess - it feels like the director's grandmother died and left him a chunk of money so he decided to make a BL but had no idea what the story should be so he's just winging it, and he's not very good at winging it.

Meanwhile, the cameraman, after too many sleepless nights listening to the directors argue, passes out during every scene, resulting in endless takes of people sitting and staring sadly at nothing in particular. I wrote an opera during the scene where Non is sitting on the stairs.

Speaking of which, what did Pan do to the producers that was so awful that they had to torture his character like that?