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I get what you're saying - but there are different kinds of shy. I'm not shy at all socially, e.g. I can work a room very well - but I'm very shy about more direct things like that.

A group date isn't some sort of commitment. Are you saying that if you're at a dance, dancing with someone you're not romanically interested in is leading them on? Daon hasn't done anything remotely fliritatious with anyone (except maybe Tae) except be nice to them. If Sohee hasn't figured out he's not into her, that's really her problem. It's frankly weird to keep coming to someone's school and stalking them. If she has business, she can text him, or tell him why she wants to meet him. If she is romantially interested, she can tell him that, not lurk in the hopes that he'll fall for her.

How do you know he didn't shoot her a text message to apologize? Also you could just as well say she's being rude by putting obviously unwelcome pressure on him. If someone shows no interest in you, why is it his fault? You need to back off if that's the case. Why does Daon need to feel concerned? I would agree with you more if hervisit were a unique event - but she's outright stalking him.

Sohee should tell Daon what she wants and give him the opportunity to tell her yes or no. If she does and he equivocates, then I would think you're totally right. But that hasn't happened.

I'd like to see a character bite someone for trying that move one of these days.

Well, this was better than last episode. Also, COVID is better than polio.

I'm starting to buy into J100s theory that BLs are generated by AI algorythms that follow a checklist and spit out a random scattering of tropes.

The first scene was exactly the same wake-up-after-being-drunk scene that has ever aired in a BL, which bears almost 0% similarity to reality. The only variation here is that there was commentary about a hard-on, which I will grant is unusual - BLs like to pretend men are all neutered and have no sexual desire other than holding hands or, if absolutely necessary, hugging.

I've been watching this show mostly for Aof (Phob), but he's hardly in it. I like Lukmo & Simai, but they're hardly in it too, at least by the standards of main characters. I can't stomach Nampu's gross smarminess, and I still have no idea why the basketball couple are even in this. They have absolutely nothing to do with anything. And Both and Newyear make me want to break things.

I'm really disappointed in this show - it started out with some nice qualities, like not being set in high school or engineering school, but of course they had to throw in a high school couple and a college couple for no reason whatsoever except to check BL boxes. All they do is chew up time that should be spent on the main characters. Phob gets a maximum of 30 seconds per week. SImai & Lukmo get more, but it's the same thing over and over. When it started it was one of the shows I anticipated most every week, and now it's something I might as well do while I'm trying to wake up on Fridays.

Is anything ever going to happen? The only progress this ep was that what we all knew was going to happen happened.

About Lukmo - Mix has a strange face, which needs a smile to balance it out, at which times he is really cute. All four main characters are really cute. A shame they're not in this more.

I would have left 30 minutes into that party, if I could even last that long. Have you ever been to a really bad office party? The worst office party I've ever been to was still more fun than that.

I loved your comparison to BL love with a cult. "Love knows no gender" means that it doesn't matter which gender you love, all love is equal. It does not mean that the gender of the other person doesn't matter, because it most certainly does. I am totally incapable of loving a woman - it doesn't matter how perfect and compatible with me as a person she is.

If gay kids tried to pursue straight boys hoping committed persistance would make them turn gay (if only just for them), a lot of gay kids would end up beaten to death. It's not a healthy message to be endlessly repeating. Yes, I know, there are bisexual and genderfluid people. Less than 5% of people, not 100% of all men.

I think it's OK to use plotlines like that sparingly, but it's 95% of all BL plotlines, and it's just old and tired.

I know that you're right, but Hank Wang is so my type that I can't look away.

I feel transgressive when I reply to you with that ID, although I do love it.

Oh - I'll have to go watch that.

If you can't tell the difference between someone being nice and someone showing romantic interest in you, who's problem is that, right? If you're not sure, you can ask him, or ask one of his friends. And he's not "flirty nice", he's just nice.

I do think he's led on Tae a little, but it's not clear yet whether or not he has a crush on Tae, although it's hard to imagine anyone having a crush on a muppet caked with white makeup when Shin Woo is like right there as a 1,000% better option. Or wait a few months to graduate and then snag that hot teacher.

I think "shitty" might be a little strong - it's very, very common to exchange numbers - and I don't see how it's his fault that people misunterpret his kindness. He never said he had any interest in anyone after the group date, either - if anyone is deeply hurt, that's their problem. Did he deliberately lie to Sohee, or did he just forget? If somoene asked him if he was interested in them, and he said "yes" to avoid conflict, then that would be shitty. And is it better to be a total asshole like Shin Woo? Or a boring robot with a terrible haircut like Tae (sorry, I should resist urges like that).

It's very difficult for shy people to deal with situations like this. Daon has never done the slightest thing to lead on So Hee or anyone else - he's just nice to everyone, and it seems strange to criticize that. Well, OK, maybe he's led on Tae a little - but then every single time anyone's ever had anything on their lip in a BL, there's always someone right there to be sexually aggressive by suddenly touching their face to wipe it off, so is even that his fault? I think he was required to do that by BL law.

For the first time I watched the interview everyone is talking about, and I don't get the outrage. He was clearly joking. Is it really that bad? He obviously doesn't have a problem with BL if he's starred in several and is directing one. People are really turning on him for that one comment? That seems a but extreme.

As for the actual series, I like it. It's a little dull, but it mostly avoids tropes and it doesn't have that shiny everyone-is-rich thing going - I'd forgotten there even were trains in Thailand. It's competently directed and shot, but it does lack energy. The acting so far is pretty good, especially Nut (who has to be one of the most huggable actors I've seen).

One thing I've been noticing in Thai BL is the fairly intense red-shift of the color editing. I didn't even realize until recently that high school uniform shirts are light blue instead of pink. I guess they're going for a warmer look, but it it detracts from the beautiful golden tones of Asian complexions. Look at the sky when they're walking home on the tracks - it's pink (and overcast, a rarity in BL, although not rare in real life).

I'm a little surprised at the lukewarm reception to this - is it because this is more realistic and doesn't have that fantasy element that most BL has? Or are people really that upset with Mean? I don't understand, but I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts - this seems much better than series that get way more excited reactions.

Is anyone at all annoyed with him?

This ep wasn't as annoying as I expected, although the mutual frosting-wipe scene made me want to murder something. I think there must be at least one Asian, somewhere, who can eat a piece of cake without smearing a large glob of it on his lip, which he somehow can't detect, as if the lips weren't the most sensitive part of our bodies. And a normal human being would recoil and say "what are you doing?!?" if someone reached for their lips with their fingers like that.

Then Tae tripped in the most ridiculous and unrealistic way possible, and I thought I would have to murder something X2, but then something wonderful happened. Instead of staring at each other for several minutes, Shin Woo dropped him. I also liked how the "I love you" game didn't have the obvious predictable outcome - that was a good scene.

This series has been slowly growing on me, but it still suffers from having a cartoon as the main character. He's just not a real human being, and it makes the story inaccessible to me because I like Shin Woo and I don't him to waste his time on that creepy little robot boy. If they had written Tae as autistic or with Asberger's, I would love this show, but instead he's, well, a creepy little robot boy. I'm getting a little tired of uke's being useless parasitic infestations that can't even carry a picture without needing to be rescued. That couldn't weigh more than half a kilo.

Anyway, I do really like all the other characters. Shin Woo is so f@#ing cute when he smiles. And I want the teacher to have his way with me.

I'm a bit at a loss myself. I actually like most of the characters, but if WTK were to be crushed by a fallling piano, it would make me feel happy.

What FreshKicks said. Although cats suddenly act weird before they go off and die. My mother's awful dog has been having seizures lately, which is different. I keep telling it to walk into the light, but I don't think it speaks English.

Do you mean your blood pressure is high?

AAAUUGGHHH!!! I wrote this too soon - now they've both done it!

Wiped... frosting ... off... lip.... soo.... angry....! Can anyone ever eat anything without leaving gunk on their lip that for some reason they're unaware of even though they're grown men? And no man has ever wiped something off another man's lip with his fingers in the entire history of the human race unless they're actually having sex. AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!! Even my mother would have used a tissue.... until I was 8, and then she would just tell me to wipe my mouth.

I'm not sure who you're addressing - it looks like everyone is enjoying this. I wish it were more campy, because the serious scenes fall flat, but it's definitely better than What the Duck.

Well, even thought the entire male population of the school appears to be gay, there must a few straight guys around for the girls. But I like this new idea I'm hearing.

I interpreted it as peer pressure - so that if Sun refuses, then he's ruining it for two people instead of one. But your theory works, especially given the bathroom - I thought that was supposed to be funny, because she ain't gettin' none of those boys, but it actually makes more sense your way.