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That's too difficult a definition of true love - nobody is unconditional and selfless. Daon is afraid, and in his situation he has every reason to be.

Are you sure? Shin Woo was horrible to TK because he liked him but to drive him away because he didn't want anyone to think he was gay. I think when it comes to the crisis point, he will handle it differently than Da on, but so far he hasn't - he really hasn't been much differerent than Da On - except Da On needs to please everyone and Shin Woo is the opposite extreme.

Oh sorry - I didn't correct the number of eps - I've watched all 10 that have subtitles. I did mention that in the bottom part of the review, but I'll fix it.

But in any case, this is a review. If something is bad, it gets a bad review. I gave specific reasons for my dislike, and that is perfectly legitimate. Do you think a work has an inherent right to be praised? And if people are looking for opinions of other people to determine if they want to watch something, do they want honest opinions, or only inflated ones? A lot of people have wasted their time watching shows because the reviews were so stellar.

I can turn around your statement - if you get so upset at reviews that you launch a personal attack on someone, maybe you should really give up reading BL reviews. Attacking a story is not the same as attacking an actual person, which is much worse, but I imagine that's lost on you.

Either that or the actor needed work.

That was pretty bad. Nothing made any sense. Zhao Gang's reasons for the phone being off were nonsensical - #2 Someone doesn't want him to be disturbed. Why would that even occur to anyone? And is that more likely than a problem with the network? And why would he have all the places Shi Lei might be typed up and ready to send? How did Y Zhen not smell a rat?

They inserted the creepy ex too late into the drama (whose role turned out to make absolutely no sense at all) and then in this rushed finale, did they really have enough time to load it with flashbacks to insipid ballads?

And I love Hao Ting from MODC, but what a ridiculous thing to say to a random stranger! Come on!

And the lack of communication between the guys is beyond absurd. The two had virtually nothing to do with each other for the last four episodes, so there was no buildup to the finale.

The only thing that made sense was Yu Zhen's reason for falling for Shi Lei, which was entirely correct, as that would happen to literally everyone in that situation.

Also, Hank Wang took his shirt off, so I'm good. I never said I wasn't shallow.

That's the main character from Make Our Days Count - it's in the same universe.

He needs a sugar DADDY, and that's me, so hands off! :)

Same! I was thinking of him as a cute boy until the tank top, when my thoughts took a turn in a very different direction. He's 22, so it's allowed. Anyway, he definitely has "it".

Unfortunately, no - it's one that is statistically likely to have made your phone.

At A Certain Company, they all have the same haircut even here in their US offices. And there's a spa with super-cheap stylists, so they're asking skilled professionals to give them that cut. And they all wear their blue company jackets whenever they go out, even it's really hot outside.

I'll tell you where I've never felt more like a schlub: Hong Kong. In the business district, everyone looks like a model. It's really intimidating.

Oh, duh - I watched that when you sent it - for some reason I didn't make the mental connection when you mentioned it again. Both of them look a lot better, but especially the one you don't love.

I think it says enough for the level of creativity and passion that went into this that it's adapted from a video game. Not even a manga or novel, but a simple game, and all the characters except Shin Woo are played by a boyband singers made with a standard template.

But the mainstream Thai BL industry isn't really much better - is there anything on right now you're really excited about? The only two for me are Given, which is Japanese, and Call It What You Want 2, which is most certainly not mainstream. All the others I watch solely for hot guys and end up ff through half of it.

With all BL everywhere, you'll occassionally get something new and interesting (except Japan where almost everything is), but these tend not to be copied. Instead we get endless high school and engineering school stories. Some of that is inevitable because the genre is Boy Love, not Man Love, but how about a reform school? Technical high school? Sports camp? Classical piano competition? Even juvenile prison - anything but rich kids.

Thanks - I'll look for it.

I worked at a Korean company - it's the same there, except polished in a very, very bland way. Well, I guess this series is polished and bland, but at least there are attractive men in it.

Is it a studio recording with snippets of the show interspersed? I that's it, then yes (just now) - I didn't know who any of those singers are.

Ugh. That episode started out so well, with not one, but two unexpected relationship developments, then devolved into one endless repetivitve mess of flashbacks, sulking, and poorly acted anger accompanied by that cloying ballade that's exactly the same in every BL.

I'm sorry, but I think it's headed out of my opinion toward objective truth that Gun is a limited actor. He's good at comedy and should stick to it. I wouldn't say the main couple have no chemistry, but it really feels one-sided.

Boat is a natural, but Tenon (Bank) dominated this episode. And that tank top. Yikes. His eyes are so huge you can fall into them, but his body is killer, too.

I was not exactly in the closet, but so terrified I might as well have been - I was probably 30 before I had a "normal" out life. The 80s were not a good time to deal with it given AIDS in full force.

What was with the fake tan on Sef? It's not like his looks need any augmentation! He looked like Donald Trump in that scene where he's eavesdropping on Andrei. Both of them were way too orange - in the last scene it looked more like caked-on makeup than fake tan.

The editing was particularly awful this episode, with scenes that were choppy with sudden shifts of camera angle. Film 101 - don't move the camera if you plan to splice together different takes. The sound was a better, though.

The dinner scene was nauseating. As least don't pet the cat between handfuls of food! And were the actors in a fight or something? Andrei refused to respond to or look at his father, when in the previous scene we had to listen to him rant on for several hours about boring things on to his dad on the phone.

There was a smidgen of progress this ep, but the series is two-thirds done and it's moving too slowly. Sef & Andre's interaction is very repetitive, although at least a degree of playfulness has crept into Andrei's hostility.

I like him too - but he needs to commit to a course of action or I'll slap him.

It's not really a close contest for me. Except Teacher Seo, but he's a safe distance away in second place.