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Offroad did catch me by surprise there - he's shorter than Daou, but I'll bet he weighs more with all that muscle on him now.

It's on GagaOOLala.

Pond wasn't in Laws of Attraction - did you mean 180 Degree Longitude?

The age of consent in China is 14. Not every country has the same age of consent as ours. Japan and Korea are both 16, which is the most common age of consent in E and SE Asia.

I feel like there' might be something dead inside of anyone who doesn't cry while watching this episode - that's how it made me feel. In a good way. It's something sad, but in the past.

That was incredible - one of the best episodes I've seen of any BL. The acting was spectacular, especially Taichi - that scene with his grandfather. I'm so in love.

I forgot about the dreaded basketball hit as a source of fever. I got hit in the head once with a baseball, which hurt like h#$$ and left a huge lump, but somehow I managed not to faint. I guess I'm a bad uke.

I can see analytics - here's a link:

https://kisskh.at/759431-my-stand-in/statistics

It looks like the rating is pretty close to the voting - I would guess it would reach 8.6 rather than 8.5 if not for the algorithm.

His... size must be disappointing if Lin didn't notice it.

They said it was exhaustion - if it was the vision, I wouldn't think it would hit him the next day. He didn't seem to have any problem when he actually had the vision. But who knows? If sunlight, water, or trying to climb stairs can hospitalize an uke, why not supernatural visions?

The friend are annoying, and I need them to tell Juladis that they would never have released the video and delete it - they may yet do that. Blackmailing him like that was low, but if they wouldn't really have done it it's not unforgivable - they only filmed it because they thought the secretary was cheating on Lin.

Their antics are so repetitive and ridiculous - Lin is a grown man, not a toddler.

Their expressions at the end were really funny, though.

I agree with you - Bank isn't doing it for me. Some of that might be the bad writing, but the writing is bad for everyone and the other actors are pulling it off.

Tenon was the highlight of Golden Blood, although he was criminally underused.

I've been defending this series, but come on. I'm 56 and I went 3 days without sleep last week and I didn't faint. Do they always need to write ukes to be so frail? That would barely phase me when I was his age - we've probably all done it during college. Add that to more than a few minutes' exposure to sunlight and being touched by water.

The car scene was done about right, although Lin has to be really naive and overly innocent if he didn't feel what was in there. The episode's pacing was too slow, but the ending was genuinely funny.

I didn't. I couldn't actually make it all the way through. I thought I would like it because I like the cast, but it just didn't grab me at all. But I recognize that sometimnes you're just not in the mood and I'll try again later.

I couldn't get through Ep 1. I'm not sure why - I like Pon and love Michael Kiettisak. I think maybe the main characters aren't very likeable and the series is too predictable.

The cast is really good, but something's not there. Maybe I was also put off by the unncessary ex-girlfriend trope.

The rating is off-puttingly low, although I see that 55 & older viewers gave it extremely high marks, so I suppose I should try it out.

I agree with all that, but at least it was well-executed from an acting & directing standpoint.

The writing in this series is quite bad and shallow, with way too much attention on irritatingly minor isssues then suddenly dumping resolution of things barely hinted at into one episode.

Someday, a script will come - it will be well-written and thought out, with consistent characterization and logic, and it will be wonderful and transformative. And most likely 40 years after my death, if even then. More likely, AI will write the scripts, spitting them out based on the same 10 cliches that all these series revolve around. But it will still be an improvement.

Maybe she forgot she had it. When was the last time you thought about an old video recording? There are boxes full of really old-school reel-to-reel film of me and my parents when I was a child, and I completely forgot about it until just now when you mentioned it.

But then my father is now a ruin with advanced Parkinsons and I'm not sure I could watch him in his 30s so I might have a mental block, not to mention all the relatives that have died since then.

Anyway, I agree with you, because grandma knows about Dee's issuesand it seems implausible that she's never even mentioned any of this.

I said the same thing but took so long to type it that you posted first. Yes, that is bad writing.

I'll say it again: it's always good to include older experienced actors to elevate a show, and this episode might not have worked without the parents & grandmother. Experienced actors can help draw the best out of less experienced actors. I normally can't stand episodes like this, but it was well-done and moving.

But I do wish more work had been done to make the resolutions in this episode feel more earned. They seem to have stuffed an enormous about of themes that moved really fast when we've had 9 episodes consumed with very minor issues between Dee and Yak that could have been spent laying the groundwork for this ep - the end result was a good watch, but it was shallow and lacked what could have been 11/10. But you can't expect too much from BL.

One not-minor criticism: so Yak fough Luke twice and his arm wasn't an issue and now all of a sudden it is? That's bad writing, and totally unnecessary. Yak already has his PTSD to contend with, which has largely been ignored (which irritates me because it means less Drake) - we don't need the arm. That served its purpose to get Yak & Dee together.

For some reason GMMTV can't live without unnecessary manufactured drama.