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It wasn't - he did it on purpose as part of a masterplan.

You mean that would have prevented his being raped with magic by a witch and also by her psychopathic brother? (Except it wasn't rape but part of an even more evil plot by a half-demon boy pretending to be an innocent.) I don't want to jump to conclusions, but it feels a little like you were watching a different series than I was.

I'm put off by JM pining over a woman. Why can't he be pining after a guy? Why do they always need to insert things like this into BLs? It's like writers feel a compulsion to place a woman between the two boys in every story. Even 1.000 Stars did it, even though she was dead.

Anyway, I love Iyo Canlas - I've rarely falling in love with someone so quickly. What he looked like in the towel certainly didn't hurt, but that was just a bonus to his adorable personality.

It was funny how JM's bad karma made him slip in the bathroom.

As usual, Filipino BL is totally superior when it comes to music. Production quality was good, cinematography good, with a few misteps.

Take a look at the composition of the shot when Reb wakes up at 15:00 - it's very artful. More of that please. Also, more showers for Reb.

Well, it was -1, 0 +1, 0, -1, 0 +1, 0, etc. so it moved, but it was always close to zero, so I have to agree.

I think what was wrong is that it was too radical a shift for the penultimate episode. Pi's insecurity and caring too much about what other people think is relatable, but not how they did it. First, his insecurities evaporated when he got his makeover and have never been touched on since until just now, and second, what exactly does Mork present that someone who cares about what other people think would be afraid of?

This could easily have been made palatable with a few minor changes. First, the whole school was ranting and raving about Pi and Mork as the perfect couple, so his sudden deflation because one or two people moved on to Bam and Mork because Pi so thoroughly shot down the Pi/Mork ship is not really believable. If people had said on social media that Pi isn't good enough for Mork from the beginning, then it would make sense for him to feel this way now.

And while I'm glad we're not dealing with internalized homophobia, that would have made a lot more sense than this does. If he's so concerned about what people think, isn't having the hottest and most popular guy in school Best Case Scenario? Either that, or they should have cast someone less godlike for Mork's role - maybe even someone conventionally physically unattractive. That would have been much better for the theme of the story.

I'm not sure I would have liked Bam as the main conflict, but it would have made more sense than the way they did it for sure. I'm fine with Pi having these insecurities, but they needed to be there throughout the story, not just in the first two eps until he got his makeover and then suddenly in ep 11.

I thought Pi's predicament was somewhat relatable - but it was out of nowhere. This entire series his resistance to Mork was as a rival and because he liked someone else. The insecurity was touched on in the beginning, then totally pushed aside once he got a makeover, and now all the sudden it's back. You can't just shift gears in ep 11 (although it's GMMTV, and without a nonsensical gear-shift in ep 11 I'd probably be confused) like this. Hello Stranger had one, but when you look back on everything that had happened, your reaction is "Oh. OH. OMG!!! YES!!! [explosion of tears of joy]" Here it's an exhausted sigh.

It's GMMTV. That's all you need in order to explain this. You know that feeling when someone has become so tiresome you can only exhale loudly? That's where I am with this.

Yes, but Mork likes him. I was like Pi too, but it feels awfully good when a Mork wants you. He's only a side character because he refuses to allow Mork to be public with their relationship.

I agree with you about the Pi storyline, but not Duean - Duean is supposed to be frustrating, and I like that he's gradually transformed over the course of the series. He f#$%s up, Meen calls him on it, he improves himself, just like he will after what he did this ep.

The problem with it is there's only one ep left and I don't see how it can be tied up in that time. I have a feeling it will be a usual GMMTV ending, with everyone giving high fives and roll end-credits.

I didn't feel the same way because they've just introduced this instead of it being part of his characterization throughout the series. It doesn't feel sincere to me. I am very appreciative that that they're giving a character a realistic and universal motivation, but it still needed to have been well-written.

If he'd unbuttoned one more button I would have needed hospitalization.

I think it's done terribly. It's come out of nowhere the last couple of eps instead of a theme running through the story since the beginning. I'm glad too that it's not internalized homophobia, but it still needs to be well-written. Meen & Duean are well-written, but their story's pacing is obviously off if there's only one more episode because I don't see how on earth they're going to resolve it that fast.

I've lost patience with this series. It's just going in circles.

First, the voiceovers need to stop. If you don't trust your actors to convey their feelings, then get better actors. If you don't trust your audience, then f#$% you. When Pi was hit by what Yok said, we should see it in his face, not hear him saying it in his head.

Meen & Duean had some movement, but not really - Meen has no idea what's going on and there's only one more ep - Duean is going to tell him he likes him and Meen will process it all in one ep? The Meen & Duean storyline is much better-written than the main one, but I don't see how they can resolve everything with so little time.

As for the main storyline, I don't really find Pi relatable. His issues are, but they haven't been portrayed convincingly. His refusal to accept Mork was solidly couched in terms of him wanting someone else and viewing Mork as a rival. Now they're changing it to insecurity, which they've never given us a sense of since the first ep. There was no organic flow, just a sudden change in gears.

Is GMMTV every going to get an ending right?

Never underestimate Jennie. People have died because they did. (3 Will B Free reference)

It has nothing to do with whether or not there was sex or kissing - in fact it's getting tiresome that people keeping bringing that up. If we needed sex & kissing we wouldn't watch BL, because there's virtually none in it.

ITSAY felt like two gay men in a romance. 2 gether doesn't, it feels like 2 straight guys barely pretending. It's about writing and acting (and directing), not sex. Although a total lack of physical affection is a bit much - the famous high-five. Although there doesn't need to be sex, there does need to be attraction, and we don't really see it. It's in the way people lean in to each other, stand too close, hands brush unnecessarily. Tine and Sarawat have a bromance, not a romance. That's a deliberate choice, likely due to marketing to conservative or repressive societies (like China) and a lack of courage to push boundaries.

LGBTQ+ representation is all over American series aimed at domestic audiences, but has virtually disappeared in mainstream cinema because they want Chinese sales. That seems to be happening to BL as well - early BL actually had quite a bit of sex, and that has been trending down. Sometimes it works (ITSAY), sometimes it doesn't (2Gether).

Whether or not an actor is a nice person is irrelevant - what matters is their ability to convincingly portray a character, and the willingness of the production to let them. Maybe Bright and Win could if allowed, or maybe not - we'll never know. As for the acting, it's not great, but it's not worse than the average BL actor. Bright did a solid job, and Bright was, well, there - the seme just has to stand around and look manly. The uke does all the heavy lifting when it comes to acting.

The teaser makes it look like a trope checklist. At least could we petition the Thai government to change the university uniform? I'm not sure I can take another see of white shirt/black slacks.

Well, he still had to audition. Also, almost all BL actors are students, so this wouldn't be too out of the blue, and I believe the summer break is coming up. As far as not taking the job, then he'll resent Oh for the rest of his life. And he'd be an idiot, because there's no way Oh is ready to forgive him yet.

If he did that, I will groan and demote this show in my standing. If he's showing up after the show has filmed, then I can deal with it.

I think the screenwriter and director must have recently gotten dumped. :)

I enjoyed them. The acting here has matured, and speaking of matured, Mon... does things to me now. What a transformation - at first I was thinking "where's the other guy from My Friendship?"