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Thank you! Tae, Nite II, and the tall guy who looks European are all in upcoming BLs, so hopefully they'll all be better productions.

I think it might be a description of every BL ever written except this and ITSAY.

It is cute - I had to do research to find out what it meant.

Have you seen the interview with him about this series? With him being serious, dressed like a rock star, and speaking English like a native, I nearly exploded. His voice would get me pregnant if I weren't a guy.

I don't mean "worse" as in "lower quality", I mean what happens is worse for our main pair than I thought from the preview. Although now that I've seen it I think you're right, although I'm sure 99% of the audience will think you were extremely wrong.

I had to take several breaks while watching this to decompress, having a feeling where it was going - and I have to say it was unnecessary because it was so well done that I'm smiling afterwards.

I know a lot of people will have a problem with what happened, but I was really impressed with the complexity of emotion and realism.

I'm not sure if Jai is monomaniacal, narcissistic, or a sociopath (or all three), but I'm not getting a "I'm a good guy" vibe from him. He's hot, though...

I hate Oh's hair. There, I said it. It's just too much.

The episode should be downrated because it wasn't about cute boys being cute boys to each other. People who are in love have very simple relationships with no drama or conflict, so if a show depicts a relationship in any other way, it's by definition bad, and . Also, NOT ONE person accidentally kissed in this ep, nobody tripped and was caught by someone for a long mutual stare, and I didn't see a single engineer. Where are all the engineering students? Are we supposed to believe that everyone in sight is an actor or marketing student? It's ridiculous. Nobody even patted anyone else down with a damp towel. How can we take Oh's pain seriously if nobody patted him down with a damp towel?

That's a good plan. These episodes are really short, and while I've enjoyed it, I'm getting bored now - too many tropes. I'm still trying to understand why BL characters think a sponge bath can cure cancer.

It wouldn't be BL without a sponge bath and truly awful music.

I laughed out loud at that scene.

I've been enjoying this series so far, but this episode started to feel like a checklist of BL tropes. Enough with the sponge baths already!

Also, do you know how hard it is to carry someone bridal style? A normal person would throw him over the shoulder - you can make five times the speed and distance like that, and much more safely.

Also, I wish I looked that good when I'm sick. I wish I looked that good when well-rested and healthy.

And that's not even getting started on trans representation in BL...

Just as food for throught, though I agree with your point, BL is also hugely reinforcing gender roles with the inviolable uke/seme dynamic, which is not at all true to life, and relegates the more "feminine" character to being the "bottom". I haven't seen one single BL, ever, where the seme was anything but 100% straight-acting. Top & bottom have nothing to do with that, and most couples switch it around at least some. Not only that, but the seme explicitly "takes care of" the uke, as if he's some helpless Victorian maiden with consumption. Besides the poor representation, it's fundamentally misogynist as well as homophobic.

I don't understand what formula you mean. If there's a formula, it's a total lack of physical intimacy, or intimacy that's so wooden that it takes me out of the story. There are maybe what, four BLs where there's sex? Half of them are indistinguishable from bromances.

It is completely ridiculous for people in a relationship to wear trunks in the bath. I'm fine with not showing anything, but that's just silly. The part covered by trunks is the part that most needs washing, right?

I don't understand what you're saying. BLs contain almost zero sexual intimacy, almost to the point of ridiculousness, except in a handful of cases like TharnType, which aren't really serious dramas.

The issue I think people are seeing here is that we never really saw them togther, so it's jarring to skip ahead to where they're not intimate anymore, and perhaps makes it hard to see why they're even together at all.

Oh?!? Teh has been one endless stream of stupid throughout both eps so far. He's horrible - I'm betting on him doing something stupid.

You want to watch a story where nothing happens? I don't know - that sounds tiresome. Real relationships have ups and downs and crises that can make it stronger (or kill it). There are lot of fluffy rainbows and unicorns BLs out there, but does anyone really remember them? Nobdoy will forget ITSAY and probably not this either. But I get the stress - I'll watch it, but I've have to psych myself up to do it.

Yes. I like this and think it's one of the best BLs ever, but I liked the first season much better. This doesn't have the same heart or atmosphere - it's much darker and more of a standard drama rather than the quirky coming of age story we had before. Also, Teh is more of the villain of the story than the protagonist and I hope he gets run over by a truck.

OhAew knos exactly what he wants in terms of love and relationships - that he wasn't clear on what he wanted to study doesn't really have any bearing on his suitability as a bf. But I agree with you completely about Teh. He's a dick. The way he treated OhAew at dinner was unforgivable.

I found it worse every time than the previews made it seem.