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They have the skip 10 seconds feature, which is useful in this series. Product placement? Hit it twice. And if you hit it after every phrase aek utters, it almost sounds like a person speaking instead of a broken robot.

What @solarsystem said. It's much better than most Thai BLs in quality, but it's bringing itself down with the endless blank staring. I would rate this as 100,000 times better than Don't Say No, but if you ff through all the Fiat/Leo, the Leon/Pob is more entertaining than this is to watch.

This has pretenses of being something more than a typical BL, so it's getting judged to a higher standard. I think that's fine - I expected more from IPYTM than I expected from Fish Upon the Sky, so IPYTM had a much, much greater capacity to disappoint me (not that it did). Same here. It's impossible for me to be disappointed by Don't Say No because I expected it to be terrible (and it is) - Bite Me had great potential, so it's failings are disappointing.

Does that make sense?

Between the actors it's 21 & 29 = 8 years. It's probably faily close to that for the characters. Maybe slightly more.

I know what a swastika is. The problem is not the swastika alone, it's the context, which is a Nazi eagle with the swastika's precise positioning with the "o" where the wreath is in the Nazi emblem. This is not a Thai or Indian shirt, it's produced by a British designer with deliberate intent to use Nazi symbolism. It's not OK to walk around with hate symbols plastered to your clothing. A sunburst is a common symbol in most cultures, but I wouldn't wear a Japanese war flag if I were walking around Seoul or anywhere else.

I've said before it's really hard to believe the same writers are doing both Fiat/Leo and Leon/Pob - they're totally different in quality. First is probably doing about as well as anyone could with that script. I hope he gets to do something better someday.

I wish we could avoid cliches more. Nobody would spoon-feed their boss and then wipe his lip with your fingers. That's so overtly sexual it's cause for immediate termination. It just makes me sigh wearily and come here to complain. I'm trying to motivate myself to go back and watch the rest.

OK, I went back and they did the thirty-seven hour lean in to a kiss which gets coveniently interrupted. I had set the speed on 1.25X to get through the texting scene and then forgot. I didn't notice until after the doorbell rang. Sigh.

I'm not sure what's wrong - Kaleb usually blows me away, but here he's acting like a vampire drained all his blood and he's just starting to recover. Axl usually has sexy charisma, but here he looks like a bratty schoolboy. I think the director needs some training - he's not getting good performances out of people and the camera work doesn't do anything to help.

This is starting to get hard to get through.

Definitely the extended shot of Leon's hot body in the chick boxers.

Now THAT would be a proper melodrama.

I don't think you need to watch it. The amount you're missing is miniscule if you've seen the special episode. You'd get slightly more context, but there are no substantial scenes that are not in the special.

I was too busy staring at his body to notice that this episode. That was unexpected.

It gets worse. Much worse. But Pob and Leon get better. Much better. And I'm shallow, so there's a thing halfway through ep 7 that I really, really liked. But their relationship is surprisingly well-written and wonderful.

I think it was a mental institution. That would explain the more residential look of the place. I don't know, I'm just guessing.

Pob is an interesting character - sometimes on these shows angelic figures like him are weak and victims - but in this he's stronger than all of them. Nobody else stands up to Leo's mother.

And, my goodness, the unexpected nearly-nude Leon. He's simply perfect. And then they repeated it after the break. Bonus Leon.

I love the Pob/Leon story - everything about it. Leon is just the right mix of aggressive and respectful
and it shows that with proper casting you can make a character like that work and be entertaining. I'm a little afraid it will plunge down the seme/uke rabbit hole, but so far it hasn't.

Speaking of things that have plunged down the seme/uke rabbit hole, I have to start skipping over Leo/Fiat - people keep saying it's the healthiest relationship in BL, but it's one of the least. Leo doesn't just have to "take care of" Fiat, he infantilizes him and treats him like a child - which is possibly approprate because Fiat acts like one. The captain of the basketball team can't open a snack bag by himself? Come on. They've made Fiat totally useless - the sulking because Leo didn't use a cheesey line? Really? Ugh! When will Leo start putting him in diapers?

They didn't say, but they wouldn't just talk about her and then suddenly in the next scene show some maid they used to have, right?

Wait, how was Call Me By Your Name about pedophilia? Elio was 17 and Oliver was 24. The age of consent in Italy is 14. 17 is at or above the age of consent of most of the world.

That makes more sense. I tried to watch S2 but I couldn't make it past the 4th ep. Whatever you want to say about S1, at least it wasn't boring. I gave up on TT2 when the episode was entirely about shoe shopping and reviewing the performance of Tharn's brother's secretary.

I didn't pass judgment - I asked a question. You do seem to like to pass judgment so please carry on.

How do you know TharnType is a toxic couple if you haven't watched it?

Peet left King because he needed to be treated for depression and didn't tell King because he knew he would drop his studies to be with him. While it wasn't translated, I believe the note was proof he was institutionalized.

It was a little confusing how much attention they gave to the junior he helped, but I don't think he's a love interest because he's not in the main cast and the actor playing him is 14.

I agree with all this - even the ratings. And I loved Solaris. Aue has the advantage of being easy to stare at while he's staring, for me at least. As long as they don't make that woman his ex and we don't gear "I'm not gay" from anyone, I can get over one slow episode. It's still beautifully shot, and the theme is very interesting to me, and Aue checks all my boxes.

If you put one more 'd' in your description of Aek's introversion I think you'd be right on target.