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Well, that was terrible. That has to be one of the best-looking casts of all time, but the writing... I think from a Western perspective, people have to be held accountable for bad actions, regardless of subsequent atonement. If you, for example, frame someone for wrongdoing in a hotel job, you should be fired or even prosecuted. But in many Thai dramas, all that's needed is repentence and all is forgiven - in fact horrible people are often rewarded just for apologizing. Remember He's Coming to Me? "Sorry for the first degree murder." "Well, if you're sorry, it's OK." Likewise, the two most horrible people in this drama walk away with everything, and the best person suffers the most.

The BL couple is there. And very there in ep 11, which was one of the better fulfillments we've gotten in BL, but it's not really worth slogging through this mess. Pleum Nachkhun is someone I would really like to see again.

Tae was excellent in Ep 10 with powerhouse performances from him and his mother. if you're not in tears in the ep, there may be something wrong with you. He's always stood out for me in otherwise insipid dramas like 2moons, and I love him in Paint With Love, but here he's in the top acting tier.

They're exactly the same, and Gen Y was explicitly written as 2 moons fanfic. Don't you think it's incredibly conincidental that they cast the same actors in more or less the same roles and barely even changed the names? Wayu is a mopey super-rich kid with a guy who studies medicine named Pha as his first love, Kit is grumpy, etc. They even all have the same majors.

Ron doesn't look better than Andrew on this show with that awful hair, but he's usually quite hot. IMO Asians have the most beautiful hair and I don't know why they don't just leave it alone. Although I guess if you live somewhere where 95% of people have straight black hair you might want to change it up sometimes.

Thank you. I felt much better after ranting and raving and even better after reading your reply.

So are Wayu, Pha, Kit and "Mark". Why not include Beam and Forth too?

There's not enough room to accommodate both Mark-Kit and Wayu's moping. Wayu's moping must always take precedence. This is so important that flashbacks of Wayu moping must also take precedence over things we actually care about.

This is so incompetently written that it's difficult to believe anyone would sink any money into this disaster. What is the plot? Wayu mopes about absolutely nothing, then he finally gets over it, then an ant attack (on someone else that he doesnt like) makes him relapse into moping. Over what? Having a hot guy 1,000% committed to him? If his mopey hesitation was due to lingering feelings for Pha, then I could buy it, but he's jealous of an underaged child who has absolutely no interest in getting between him an Thanu.

But beyond this nonsensical storyline that just makes the lead character look like an idiotic child, most of this episodes was flashbacks! Flashbacks to scenes between him an Thanu that could just have been, well, scenes between him and Thanu. There are flashbacks to people staring at each other (mopingly, naturally). And Kit and Mark LIVE TOGETHER but still Kit acts like a 19th c virgin whenever Mark tries to get affectionate with him. And the lines that are supposed to sound romantic or meaningful are just stupid and vapid.

And the staggring lack of creativity - engineers and moons? Seriously? Is there a cliche or trope we're missing here? Would anyone like to place bets that there will be a piggy-back ride, hair-drying scene, damp towel wipedown, and gross yellow q-tip lip-corner-dab? Fear of ghosts, check phone when alarm goes off and yell "shit, I'm late!" even though he had set the alarm for that time, accidental kiss, patronizing head-pat, and contracting a fever by being touched by rain? Tripping over his own feet (that sort of happened this ep), being unable to be in the same room with a sharp object without cutting himself, and vomiting after an implausibly small amount of alcohol comsumption that also totally erases his memory?

I wish this were so bad that it's good like So Much In Love, but it's just dull and slow. Also, what's with all the bad hair? The only bright spot to this ep is that Thanu got a haircut.

And why didn't they cast Big as Pha in the first place? He's 10 times more appealing than either of the other Pha's. And what happened to Beam and Forth? This show really needs a Tae.

I agree, but sometimes they get carried away. Pat and Pran were enemies-ish, but that was due to circumstances, in Manner of Death, Tul mistakenly thinks Max is a murderer, in ITSAY is was jealousy and misunderstanding, in GSP it was oddballs thrown together, but here it was one of them being a giant asshole. If a character displays too many qualities of a bad person, it can be hard to ever view them positively, especially id the actor isn't very charming.

Ron Angeles has always been a side character and tends to steal scenes or be way more appealing than his romantic rival, particularly in BenXJim.He's just charming, has a sweetness to him, and he's sexy.

Romeo & Juliet has so much comedy all throughout that when it's staged a lot of it is cut out, especially as much of it is really raunchy. Bad Buddy is a classic forbidden love drama with some comedic elements. A story doesn't have to be self-importantly serious to qualify as a drama. In fact it's extremely common - maybe even required - for great dramas to be balanced by comedic elements. The Godfather has several really funny moments - even iconic funny moments - definitely not a comedy.

Not Me is about an upper-class college student who secretly replaces his twin brother in a motorcycle gang. The entire premise is completely ridiculous - it can't be taken seriously.

Maybe he lost a bet.

He's better now, but he was such an ass at first that I haven't been able to switch gears into liking him. Plus Ron Angeles seems like a huge upgrade to me, although that hair has to go.

LOL, I love that system.

Yes, it's hard to avoid. Partly we're probably a bit "been there done that" about OffGun, so it's not as fresh, plus they really haven't had much romantic interaction at this point, and we probably all know it will be a lot of Gun crying as usual. Our secondary couple, though, is something new that we didn't know we needed.

I don't think we're watching the same show. It's based on Romeo & Juliet, which is not known as a comedy. There can be funny things in a story without it being a comedy. BB is a drama - it's about "warring houses" and the impossibility of a romance due to long-standing circumstances - the central conflict with Wai was not funny, and the family drama that's about to happen will also not be funny, The key moment on the roof was also not funny, I honestly don't understand how it's possible to see it as a comedy.

I forgot how bad this is. The acting is terrible, the plot is almost nonexistent and what there is is boring and so cliche you almost have to wonder if it's a parody, and Wayu is the worst main character ever written - boring, insecure, indecisive, never has a thought in his head, and can't even ride a bus without becoming an invalid for the entire trip. He embodies everything that's wrong with the seme-uke dynamic - a totally useless person that everyone wants for no apparent reason.

And who would chose a mannequin that can somehow talk over the sexy and interesting Forth? I'm actually rewatching parts of this for Tae after watching Paint With Love, where he's really good.

For me this ep was much superior to the first two - the writing and character motivation were much better - TBH I wasn't loving it before, but this ep has really bumped it up the list for me.

Also, shirtless First. Can't go wrong with that.

For me the first ep was kind of meh, the second one was also meh (but a little less meh), and this one was really, really good. I found the exposition clumsy in previous episodes, but it was excellent and organic in this ep. Before I found White's behavior explicable and stupid, but here I felt his motivation and it really worked for me.

So I can see why the rating is only 8.1, but I would expect it to drift up if it continues in the quality of this ep. It still has some tired cliches, but at least it's putting a little spin on them.

The thing about SMIL is there are snippets in there that look like they're part of a much, much better series - like this one, which is maybe the most beautiful thing I've seen in a BL. Given the ghost story is semi-comedic, this is so out of place, but it gives me chills every time, from the beautifully executed shot to the out-of-tune piano music. And the love scenes...

https://tv.line.me/v/15355426_%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%81-so-much-in-love-ep2-4-5

How can this only have 7.8? Is it a North Korean plot or something? This series is really good so far - I love it! All three main characters are so beautiful.

In this "universe", nobody cares about sexuality, In a perfect world where that's the case, there's no such thing as outing, and all Wai did was reveal they were together. If you think back, not a single person has ever expressed the slightest disapproval of same-sex relations, even the parents. In your situation, and I've experienced it too (I even got fired from a job as a result), it's very serious with major consequences and the worst thing a "friend" can do to you. In Bad Buddy, it isn't. The writing surrounding this was still not very good, as it was resolved so quickly without discussion after being the central conflict of the story so far, but I don't think what Wai did is as bad as it would be if he did it in the real world instead of a fantasy BL world.