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Where I live that would be enough to rent an uncovered parking space in a bad neighborhood.

I don't know if you've seen The Omen, but nobody saw any red flags with the creepy nanny named Mrs Baylock. I'm really enjoying this series, though.

This is soooo guud. Are you sure you want to wait? You don't want to push that big, shiny play button and see all the cute boys and their great chemistry and the good writing?

Actually, it was this series that led to the ban.

Miggy was very convincing playing a drunk person, but that scene was soooo long - I had a hard time paying attention.

The highlight for me was Enzo and Kaleb improvising at the end - so cute.

Technically the episode was poor, especially the sound, but again, Jodi gets excellent performances out of his actors - everyone was good, even the bit players.

I agree - Ep 6 was fun. Pran was much better at vicious flirting than Pat. It would have been nice to have a buildup of more than just one episode.

Aw, shucks. I'm blushing. Anyway, I try

I'm finding that a lot of people feel this way, and I'm surprised. I think that almost all of us would rate Ep 5 as the best ep - it had a very skillful buildup of tension (with fantastic acting by all three boys) with a very satisfying resolution - I think I watched that from the Wai scene to the ending on the roof 100 times. But then all the conflicts were just abandoned!

LOL , I had the same reaction to HCTM. "I'm sorry I committed 1st degree murder for petty greed and condemned you to roam the earth alone as a sad amnesiac ghost for decades." "Well, OK, as long as you're sorry."

It's really a different moral system - in Siew Sum Noi there's something similar: "I'm sorry I tried to beat your son to death." "It's OK, he lived."

Anyway, I came out at 22 because I was away for college so it didn't really come up. Parents will almost always come around so long as their child is happy. The resistance is largely based on fear that life will be hard for him, or in this case fear that the BFs father will sabotage him. But they can't get over it unless you tell them. This show cheated by not ever doing it, and just leaving it to the parents to gradually figure it out and grudgingly accept it, which is spectacularly bad writing for a show that's purportedly based on Romeo & Juliet. We certainly didn't want the feud ended by Pat & Pran's tragic death, but if that was the central conflict of the entire drama, I'm sorry, but a dramatic resolution is required, period.

These are all good points - I guess I just feel that it should be one or the other. If it's serious, then the writing needs to make sense. If it's a madcap adventure with soap opera elements, then it should go that way. When it's in between, nothing lands quite like it should and it gets distracting.

For example, in this ep, I was bored by the mission because it was stupid and you know that nobody will get killed no matter how stupid they are, so there are no stakes, plus its a BL, so the couples are going to get together by the end no matter how many times they betray each other, so no stakes there, either. So I had it on 2x or even skipped parts to get to the character stuff that I actually care about, and there was hardly any of it, which is why I'm irritated. 10 seconds of Dan/Yok or Gram hinting he's in love with Black is worth an hour of the "adventure" stuff. Or White & Sean frolicking in bed - I liked that too.

There are American sitcoms that used them, but most were filmed in front of live audiences. That way the director could adjust what was going on based on the reaction. More modern shows have no laugh track even if there's no live audience.

Now only children's programs use laugh tracks and sound effects, which is why to my ear is sounds so stupid in a BL.

He at least has a police ID - last ep Yok pickpocketed his wallet. It could be a fake ID. But if he's a cop, I don't see what the point is - why pose as a secretive graffiti artist? Shouldn't he be trying to infiltrate a criminal enterprise? Or, he could be an officer that's upset over corruption in the police and is a lone-wolf rebel.

There are four other people that could have objected. That's why airliners have 2 pilots - in case one is about to make a mistake, the other one corrects him.

Yes, exactly. Plus White took off his mask, which could be caught on security tape. Next ep Sean publicly confronts Tawi, who is going to be able to tell he's one of the invaders.

If they'd been captured by Tawi and pressured for info, they would have been killed anyway, PLUS their friends would die, so White giving up like that was weakness, or maybe he's just really naive, but either way he's a serious problem.

As for their activities, Sean knocked out 4 people, at least one of whom he'd strangled - that's extremely dangerous and could cause any of them brunt force or brain damage. Not to mention how incredibly dangerous and unpredictable arson is.

Not only that, but the plan itself was incredibly stupid. Consumers will all sympathize with Tawi, not the gang - they are the ones inconvenienced, and Tawi will just tell everyone what happened, apologize, and promise to increase security, and he'll have law enforcement on his side to gelp him. People do not react well food being tampered with.

And if Tawi retaliates, it puts everyone around the gang in danger - all their family and friends, so doing something where they're recognizable on camera is so stupid that it's almost hard to believe.

Yes, but if you're starting a revolutionary terrorist gang, wouldn't you do a basic background check? When I'm applying for a job, an exhaustive check is done, and that's just for me to sit in a cubicle somewhere.

TBH, I would stop watching. A bit of light entertainment isn't worth revisiting past trauma. At the least I'd skip the first segment of next week's episode, because by the second White will be totally fine.

Guys, that was really dumb - this is getting too silly. What was the point of testing Black if they were just going to give him the most important job after he failed?

And making a drink bitter? That's the kind of thing you do in primary school. Nobody would care about this - why on earth would anyone risk their lives for something that ridiculous? If Sean's hatred for Tawi is that visceral, then he should have a plan that can do him real harm, not make fizzy drinks unpleasant.

Remember the Russian Revolution, when Lenin and Trotsky snuck into the wine cellar of the Winter Palace and replaced some of the bottles with slightly inferior vintages? Come on.

And who has philosophical discussions while conducting a terrorist attack? Did you know that air crews on airliners are forbidden by law from discussing anything not related to safe flying of the plane during takeoff and landing? Because a lack of concentration can and has been fatal. And isn't White supposed to be intelligent? Why is he so relentlessly stupid?

I think the discussions of the moral issues are relevant and on point, but there's a time and place. Also, hitting someone with a motorcycle helmet when feeling pissed off and betrayed is an understandable human reaction, but trying to strangle someone to death is a teeny bit more psycho. And incidentally, he should strangle him at home, not right outside an enemy stronghold.

I like the themes of this series and that it's different than the usual BL formula, but there are already so many whacky elements to this that it's starting to become an unintentional comedy.

I've read that the line crossed by this series wasn't the gay stuff, although that was certainly an element - it was the corrupt use of state power which was unacceptable. Gu Hai used his connections for the advantage of his friends and to escape consequences for his violent behavior. I think there's probably some truth to that.

I get what you're saying. They should definitely not be doing that. All I can say in their defense is they probably identify as straight and don't understand what it is they're feeling for each other.

For me, and I think for many other people, at that age I just didn't understand the feelings I had for boys was romantic love and not just really-good-friend love and simple aesthetic admiration for their hot bodies.

On the other hand, that was decades ago and I got past that when I was 18. Fortunately I didn't have any sisters. :)