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That's a great idea - this wouldn't be the first BL I've enjoyed solely because of her comments. Thanks!

True - one thing you can't complain about here is slow pacing. And I'll admit it, I'm shallow - just Din on my screen doing... anything. Anything at all... is enough to keep me hooked.

I'm totally getting what you're saying - it's just that every time I get past something problemmatic something new takes it's place.

I'm about a third of the way into ep 10, which I've been skimming for shirtless scenes. I think my sweet spot is that the guys are so, so hot in this. There has been some decent humor, too.

The dad tried to beat someone to death, and all he had to say was "sorry for being a bit harsh" and that's it, all is forgiven. Plus, now Ruk is treating IG like sh#$ because the evil girl's plan worked and he's not even bothering to discuss the situation with his boyfriend, who he made a commitment to. That's too frustrating and full of cliches and tropes for me to deal with.

Should I give it one more shot?

I've never known WorldofBL to be wrong, so yay!

It's really no different than your comment, where you explained why everyone else is wrong. The only difference is that I know that when someone is giving an opinion, it's their opinion, whereas you think it's some sort of attack.

Think about your sentence: "Also, as for what a lot of people are complaining about - I think what we have seen so far or at least for a long time now literally IS them being in a relationship."

That could easily be seen as condescending, as if we don't know what a relationship is or can't see one when it's there. But I found your opinion on it interesting, which is why I responded. I'll be sure not to bother next time.

I'm going to have to duck quickly after saying this, but I'm really glad Din ditched the ponytail. I didn't like it.







Ok, if it's safe to come out, this whole show is a disaster, but the boys are too hot to give it up.

Be Loved In House, which I like but is getting really frustrating, Light On Me, which has been growing on me, but this last ep was tiresome, and Golden Blood, which I'm not taking too seriously, but this last ep was dull and frustrating. And then there's Why Love Why, which was great in S1, but the second season is a catastrophe.

I'm feeling like we're in a bit of a BL rut at the moment. But I really liked Call It What You Want S2 Ep 1, and The Yearbook has potential.

Oh, I apologize. I think I was confusing you with the other person. I agree with everything you said.

I think eventually everyone gets so frustrated that we are tempted to view things illegally that we could get legally with extra effort. Like when the VPN just isn't working.

I think there's a bit of a distinction between mainline BLs and DYI productions, but even the latter could ask for volunteers to subtitle their work and they are almost certain to get it. I would happily review one and fix up the English.

You are right. However, in this case, as the period of work is limited, they could wait until after the production is over - and it has the added complication that James is the director and is in an authority relationship over Ait. James is being foolish - if the relationship ends badly, Ait can accuse him of coersion, and that's especially bad in this case, where it will appear there is a pattern, given Tee's sins. It's hard to control yourself when you're in love, but James is old enough to know better.

I don't understand what you're saying.

My plans were not to watch it at all to avoid the inevitable disappointment, but now that there's an Ep 13, there's may be enough time to resolve everything in a satisfying way, so my hopes are renewed.

They are definitely not in a relationship. And they are not cuddling every night - they moved to separate rooms. If they were a couple, they wouldn't avoid each other and they would make out and have sex.

Everyone's favorite part of the series is the getting together, and everyone thinks it's more satisfying the longer you wait - but they need to work up to it and overcome obstacles together, and I mean obstacles with each other. That's the frustration - the series was doing that, which is why we liked it.

Then, the ex dropped out of the sky way too late in the plot and threw the whole story off the rails, and way too much time has been devoted to it. Getting together isn't satisfying if it happens suddenly in the last 10 seconds and the couple high-fives.

Relationships in series need to have setbacks, but it needs to be two steps forward, one step back, two steps forward, etc. Here's their relationship did that until the ex showed up, then they took 10 steps back and are barely past where they were in ep 3, and have to build all the way back in too little time, and we're no longer seeing the cute moments between them.

However, we thought it was ending with Ep 12, and it looks like there's actually an Ep 13, so it may not be as bad as we initially thought,.

This is terrible beyond belief. I can't even tell what genre this is. Everything about this episode was awful - even the acting wasn't good, but it's hard to blame any of the actors - they probably did about as good as anyone could with the material.

Rating: Better than cancer, worse than Amore. If Johnny hadn't taken his shirt off, it would have drawn about even with cancer.

"Entitled" feels like too weak a word in this case. Here's someone who's spending hours of his time translating works that nobody else is ever going to translate, and instead of being shown gratitude, he's being compared to pirates. It makes me a little sick, frankly. I can't help but imagine forcing my maid to clean my house without pay.

I don't believe in corporal punishment, but things like this make me wonder if I'm wrong and that parents should start spanking their children a little.

That's fine, but that doesn't mean you should expect everything for free. If a maidn cleans my house, I expect to pay her. If someone spends days translating a BL for me, I expect to compensate him.

It takes a huge amount of time for one person to subtitle an episode - why shouldn't he be compensated? And any translations he does are his work. You seem to think having subtitled foreign shows is a basic human right. So many people around here expect everything for free - do you watch the ads? How many services are you subscribed to? Have you ever contributed funds to any of the struggling DYI productions?

261 x $5 = $1,300 per month, which is $7.50 an hour - that's hardly "decent money".

OK, so a friend from here said I should give this a chance, with the convincing argument that although the genre itself can be homophobic, the characters in this one are not. Except the people that are villains or obstacles, and I'm ok with that. The mains are very patient and polite with all the LGBTQ+ characters, so that's progress.

Anyway, the main couple are pretty damned cute - I have to give it to them. Evil lawyer boy is really hot, too. I'm struggling a little to understand what's going on - like why does everyone think IG's truly horrendous song is good? Is this a Thai version of The Producers and the song about Mom selling chicken rice in the market the analogue of Springtime for Hitler?

Also, I just can't take the evil female routine again. I really want to like this - I really tried. And while I'm OK with a homophobic parent, it can be carried away, and I presume there will be no consequences.

There are a few cute moments, but if there's to be relationship drama, it needs to be organic to the couple themselves, and not be them repeatedly falling for the manipulations of evil people around them. It's just tiresome and incredibly unpleasant to watch.

Sorry, but this is a really low score for me.

Saving your first kiss for true love isn't weird if you're 13, or even 18 - but if you're in your mid-20s and having a Grindr hookup in the middle of a pandemic, it's very, very weird. There really are guys that find kissing more intimate than the butt sex, but it doesn't seem very consistent with Reb's character for him to be one of them - and to find kissing more intimate than the butt sex, you have to do both before you can make that comparison, right? And if you've never had a kiss and are saving it, is it very likely you'd give up your virginity that casually?

It's not any one thing about it that's weird, it's the full context. In any case, my issue was not so much the weirdness of the situation as the weirdness of the actual kiss.

OK, nobody can do BL like the Japanese. When was the last time you watched a Japanese BL and thought, "I've seen this already"? There's a creativity that's missing elsewhere, and a passion. And an ability to economically communicate emotion without tropes, formulas and a checklist of cliches.

Anyway, this is fantastic. I loved everything about it.

I'm not sure how I feel about this. I've felt this series as starting to drift into BL cliche the last couple of eps, and there were a few in here too, but it was better than last ep.

I feel like the last scene, which was very well acted, scripted, and directed, was marred by a truly weird kiss. Somehow JM missed Reb's lips and is kissing his nostrils. I don't understand that decision and it took me out of the scene. There's a fine line between optimistic idealism and immaturity - the whole "saving my first kiss for true love" thing is a little bit ridiculous in a story about adults in their 20s.

But BL is fantasy, so I can accept it. But if you have built up the idea like this, then the big kiss can't be lips to nostrils.