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I feel like the second couple has gotten about as much attention as second couples usually get and they've steadily progressed. The main couple I agree is going a bit slow, but the episodes are short, and they started out enemies, so they can't make the change too abrupt or it isn't believable. They're going to opposite extremes, though, and after the end of this ep, there's no excuse for not getting it moving.

I don't know who that is, but I looked him up and I think you're right.

Hank Wang is so cute it hurts.

For me, Aaron Lai's looks are too severe and I like Hank Wang a lot more, but this ep, without his hair done up and looking all vulnerable and lonely Aaron was seriously doing it for me. And that scene at the end...

His ex has a stacked body.

Where are you seeing that?

It's funny, I'm usually the one who doesn't like fluffy BLs like this, but this time it's working for me. Aaron Lai's expressions are subtle, but they are there - he's playing an extremely repressed character. I really felt his vulnerability and loneliness in this ep, and that hug scene was cute as f#$%. Are you in a bad mood? I don't like anything about BL when I'm in a bad mood. I get overly irritated by tropes and formulaic scenes, and this BL has a good share of them. I thought for sure the director would trip on something when he was tired and get caught by Shi Lei and they would stare at each other for 45 minutes. I was pleasantly surprised when that didn't happen.

That makes sense. ITSAY is so far beyond all other Thai BLs that I'm not sure it should even be classified as a BL. It's not adapted from a bad novel and fully exploits the visual medium, packed with visual metaphor and symbolism like GSP, and tries the rare experiment of hiring actors for acting ability rather than their abs. If you haven't seen it, you might like Hello Stranger which is also fairly tightly written and uses the visual medium effectively. The first ep is mediocre, though.

I'm really bad at this kind of thing - maybe the dramacool link above will work for you, or hopefully someone more capable will help out.

I usually like a story with slow burn. This had slow and burn, but only separately and literally.

I still don't understand why anyone would go see a film in that theater. I mean, at least bring a fire extinguisher with you.

Actually Puth (in Y-Destiny) is awful - he was dating Wayu and sleeping with Kaeng - sorry, but I would never trust someone like that. I give them 3 months max before they break up.

ITSAY & Gaya Sa Pelikula both had excellent screenplays with complex and nuanced stories - did you enjoy them?

It was adorable when Sky threw a rock at Sun's head and ordered him not to dodge it and never apologized?

I was amazed they managed to do the trip/catch/stare until gay thing FIVE times. Although one was boy/girl, so nobody turned gay for that one. Yet.

This is awful, but Boat is so hot I'll deal.

You can either get a VPN and watch it on WeTV, or wait for it to be on youtube next Wed, or try DailyMotion, although that's pirated.

So I agree about Sat/Choke - I loved the first ep, and then it just competely deflated in the second. This is another case where if feels like the crew, director, and writer of the first ep all died in a plane crash along with the only copy of the script and were replaced by whoever they could drag off the street.

What happend? Choke's character had depth and a hint of darkness, Sat had flashes of memories he wouldn't have if he were 11, suggesting he has amnesia, and then poof! It all collapsed into dreck.

What I can't agree about is Nuea. That is not courting, that's the pizza guy in a gay porn. "Oh, you ordered that with sausage? I've got a bit sausage right here!" He came on so strong it was sexual harassment bordering on assault. And it was certainly not non-sexual - it was so hyper sexual that I had a hard time even watching it it was so squicky.

That's not demonstrating his feelings for Sun, it was saying he wanted to throw his legs over Sun's shoulders and get pounded for days.

If Sun had been a girl, 99% of viewers would have found Nuea's behavior disturbing. So why any different if it's a man?

Kaeng was no better, but at least he and Puth had an understanding that their relationship was purely sexual.

Ah, sorry, yes, that dinner. I was thinking of the wrong one and I thought maybe you were a psychopath or something for a minute there.

I don't think any characters at all need to be physically perfect. They just need to know how to act.

They did the fall so faces are close together and stare forever thing not once, not twice, but FIVE times - four in the first half. Also, the whole all the male characters are straight, but they'll go gay for just one special guy thing is so tiresome I almost gave up. Fortunately Sun said he's not interested in women - maybe not at all?

I liked Gun as Techno, but this role is underscoring his limitations as an actor - he has almost no presence as a protagonist. I really loathe that he's constantly TELLING us what he's feeling instead of acting it.

Boat, on the other hand, is a rare find - not only is he almost unbelievably beautiful, he did a great acting job too - I can feel his loneliness and alienation, and his attempt to dance was hilarious. I can SEE what he's feeling because he's acting it, not telling us.

When Sky said he provoked the (not) villain guy because he knew Sun would defend him, it was played as a positive by both characters, when it was morally the worst thing that anyone did in the episode. Trying to provoke a violent response for someone else to deal with is repugnant, and he added groteque hypocrisy by getting upset with Sun for using too much force. And he never apologized to Sun for throwing a rock at his HEAD after ordering him to stand still. I actually hate Sky at this point. Can Sun get matched up with Bank instead? Or even Peach?

All-in-all it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but it was not good either. I'm hoping it either goes more OTT or it focuses on interesting side characters, because the main pair has no chemistry. So far at least. Although Boat has chemistry with anything he's in the same room with just by existing.

I forgot about Bright/Farm. Actually I can barely remember anything about all the TWM series except that it was the same thing over and over and over and Max should have murdered Tul and moved on to someone who wouldn't leave him for his ex every other day.