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Thanks - the subtitles were a bit iffy at times and I missed that.

Is that your assumption, or did they say that? Also, a cosmetic aging isn't the same thing as aging - aging sucks. And Ever 9 is a conscious intelligence, so shutting him down and destroying him is murder.

I didn't notice the hair color changes, or maybe my brain subconsciously attributed it to sunlight hitting them, but I'll certainly notice now!

Has Frank always had that Greek God body? He's a match for Meen. Also, it's nice to see him with his own hair for once.

I like this. The directing is middling - it feels like someone very talented with limited experience, which has an impact on pacing. I don't mean the overall slowness of the pacing, which is fine, but there are way, way too many scenes of people walking and doing mundane things that have no impact on the story, and this drags on the enegy of the production. For example, when Kohei gets up the morning his mother is hungover, we see him do everything from waking up, making his way (slowly) downstairs, etc., when it should have just begun when his mother rushes into the kitchen.

I found myself hitting +10 seconds, which I normally don't do in a series as good as this one.

Anyway, the acting is wonderful, with Nakazawa doing an excellent job of portrying Kohei's sadness and isolation in a subtle but powerful way, with excellent visual storytelling from the directing to underscore this. Kobayashi manages to instill Taichi with boyishness right up to the border of silliness without crossing over and still giving him a sexy energy (I'm a bit in love with him). I'm getting a little tired of the gay waterfight cliche, especially since this never seems to result in their clothing clinging to their chisled physiques, but I guess you can't hav everything.

The highlight of my BL week so far.

Taichi is so hot - I can't get enough.

I've never heard that word before. You learn new things every day on MDL.

Haha, yes, indeed. But at least in Thailand they're mostly indoors! Perth Nakhun made a video about that - he said it was absolute hell wearing all those layers in 45 degrees and 1,000% humidity. I don't know how they kept from sweating puddles everywhere.

Ep 1 was a shirtless Meen goldmine. I don't know if this is good, but between Meen, Nammon, the gangster, and the coach, I'm fully fluffed. Yowza.

Mos is made of sex. Even just that voice.

This is a tad slow, but it's beautifully filmed.

The fashion is great, but a black leather jacket in Hong Kong? Not to mention a sweater that would be too heavy in Sweden in the winter.

Anyway, I would have made this 8 episodes and cut out the third of it that doesn't need to be there.

You could say that about almost any Thai BL, though - they are all more padded than a sumo wrestler bulking up.

I'm watching the uncut version because I have iQIYI, but I'm wondering what they could possibly be leaving in that would add to the story.

I was obsessed with Tenon in Golden Blood. He's got as nice a body as Mos, so I hope we get to see it.

That cast is amazing - I hope this happens.

It maths better than wearing a black leather jacket in Hong Kong.

Metiches?

A balanced person needs some red flags or they're boring. (I mean a character, not a real person, but even then I want some red flags in bed.). These two could absolulely set the world on fire if they had a better script.

I don't know why this always happens - main characters get stale, but secondary couples are usually better-realized. Cher and Oye are way more complex and layered ecen with the tiny amount of screentime they're given.

And the thing is, there is enough baked into the premise to keep interesting - just the counselling with Kao could makes this level up, but it's just not written by someone who has the ability to handle it, so it's just skipped over.

Anyway, there's enough for me to emjoy the series, but I am finding myself ff through a lot of it in the last couple of episodes.

Hmm. For me this is carried by the secondary couple, and in this ep, Sasaki, who felt like a breath of fresh air - that was cringey in a good way.

I think there's an issue of a lack of a plot - there is sort of one, or two, maybe three, but without much in the way of dramatic stakes or logical progression. It looks like that will improve next ep, but I've been saying that for three eps now.

I was struck this ep with how neutered Yak is - it felt almost like an active effort by Dee, like with the elephant pants. I would have liked Yak to just take them back rather than begging for them. Yak has no leverage in this relationship - everything has to be what he begs for and Dee deigns to hand out, droplet by droplet. Dee doesn't want to kiss, is indifferent to sex, as if anyone with a heartbeat could keep their hands off Yak, and he can manipulate Yak into doing anything he wants, which he then almost instantly doesn't want anymore, like the wooing with flowers. Why did you make him do that if you just want him to be himself? And anyway, Isn't hisself pretty much like that now?

The idea that Yak has to woo Dee in Episode 9 of 12 kind of says it all about how static this has become. But I can see a lot of people like cute boys being cute to each other, and if that's what everyone wants, that's what the producers will make.

I was hot for Great in Manner of Death, and I loved Inn in Teddy Bear, which is why I was unduly excited for this series.

I agree, there's not a lot of rhyme or reason to why people might like things. Sometimes an actor is just your "type", or there's just something about the way a pair interacts, or maybe the production values are really high and you like looking at pretty shots.

I completely agree about the second couple, and I do think Inn and Great have chemistry, it's just the story has gotten so stale that it doesn't do much for me. The kiss was great - but it didn't have the dramatic impact it could have if better placed and in a more believable circumstance (although I did like that Yak lost, which gave it a few points more impact.)

The problem with this series for me isn't the actors, all of whom I like, even Pod, who I think has done a great job playing an awful person without being cartoonish - it's the way it's filmed and directed, which drains a lot of the life out of it.

But I'm not bitter, I'm just mildly disappointed - this is just a piece of light entertainment. But that's the thing - this is committing the sin of being boring. I'd prefer it be so bad it's good than to just be "meh."

I was probably too excited when I saw that Great and Inn would be in a BL together, and I usually just take a wait-and-see approach. There are still things I like about it, namely Great's... everthing and the secondary couple.

You have terrible taste. j/k. I have my guilty pleasures, too. I really enjoyed Unforgotten Night because it was so bad it was good, ditto So Much In Love, which featured not one but two totally unrelated ghost plotlines, and yet also had a couple of the most beautifully-filmed scenes I've ever scene.

Sometimes you connect with a story (or especially characters), and sometimes you don't. If we all liked exactly the same things, the world would be boring and we'd never learn anything, not to mention that a forum like this would be pointless.