jpny01

I was bored and tried to watch this. It made me more bored. This is BL by the numbers - also, it's 95% about boys chasing girls. I ended up ff to K/T scenes, of which there were about 20 seconds. This isn't the worst BL I've ever seen, but it's definitely the most bland. All the characters only have one mood. Jin is always angry, Bbomb is always a cardboard cutout that can somehow talk, Keam is sad, Song is chipper, Jay is whatever the opposite of chipper is, and Ball is non-existent. I think he might have appeared for 2 seconds in a hallway.

So Much In Love was so much worse than this, but so much more enjoyable to watch.

Teh was even worse - you can tell it's not the same writer. They should have just made it about new characters. I didn't dislike it, because the quality of... well, everything was very high, and it's so nice to watch people that can actually act for once.

I don't think it was- Neo has underbite and projecting chin - look closely and see if you agree - I'm pretty sure but not 100%.

We don't know Mork is the online friend. The friend is played by Pond because that's who Pi is imagining it is. I doubt Mork puts on a full doctor outfit including a stethoscope just to text Pi.

Mork was wrong to do the interview, but he apologized. People in love behave irrationally. That's what being in love is.

Pi was rude in the way he addressed the fujoshis (the form of address), so it wasn't outrageous for Mork to comment on it. Pi was 100% justified - I wouldn't even condemn him for slapping that guy. If you compare that scene to the way he spoke to them the first time he told them to take down the page, which was firm and polite, you can tell the difference. If I were Mork I would have let it go instead of commenting, for sure.

To call him toxic is way, way over the line - he's just a young man in love who made a mistake and has been coming on too hard. Pi told him to stop, and he stopped.

That wasn't Deuan - for some reason they gave him the same hairstyle and cast an actor that looks similar. I had to watch it several times to be sure.

How did they ruin Mork's integrity? He was wrong to do the interview, but he took responsibility and apologized. Making a mistake is not giving up your integrity. He has every right to express that he loves Pi unless Pi tells him to stop. From the moment Pi told him to stop, he did - and remember Pi has never told him to stop until this ep.

He's in love - people act stupid when they're in love. The one thing he did that was not OK he took responsibility for and apologized, and when Pi definitively told him to leave him alone, he did.

But if everything is the same as in the novel, nothing will surprised you. Also, there are things that work in a novel that won't work on screen (like the entire series Oxygen. Although to be fair, in that case they added things NOT in the novel that didn't work onscreen). And there's only so many characters you can smoosh into a 12-ep series. Everyone is already totally confused by the ballon man.

...someone new - maybe it's the secret friend. In Pi's imagination it's Mork, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is Mork.

Finally, someone with a realistic perspective who doesn't expect perfection.

Pi was rude in the way he was addressing the fujoshis, which is why I think Mork commented on it to him. He shouldn't have been, but it's completely 110% understandable - he was perfectly polite the first time he asked them to take down the page, and now they put it back up.

I agree with everything you said except for your theory. That would be really sweet, but I think it's...

Finally, someone with a realistic perspective who doesn't expect perfection.

Pi was rude in the way he was addressing the fujoshis, which is why I think Mork commented on it to him. He shouldn't have been, but it's completely 110% understandable - he was perfectly polite the first time he asked them to take down the page, and now they put it back up.

I agree with everything you said except for your theory. That would be really sweet, but I think it's...

Or at all.

It did at least move the Duean/Meen story a decent amount.

Good Lord! There are so many people being ridiculously hard on Mork. The only thing he did that was unacceptable is to let those idiots interview him, and he took full responsibility for that and apologized to Pi. Now people aren't allowed to make mistakes?

And calling him obsessed or addicted Yes, that's wht BEING IN LOVE is like. Have none of you ever been in love? This is a 20 year old man in love for the first time - do you expect him to behave like a middle aged man with decades of romantic experience?

You don't just sit around and cyberstalk someone and expect something to come of it, you have to pursue your interest. Pi has NEVER told him to stop - and when he finally did, Mork stopped.

Pi has sent him a lot of mixed messages - enough to keep leading him on. If he's not interested, he should just shut it down completely.

And let's not forget that Mueang Nan DID definitively shoot down Pi, but Pi is still pursuing him.

We don't know Mork is the secret friend - remember, Pi is just imagining it's him. Mork is not sitting around dressed like a doctor (even wearing a stethoscope) when he's typing to Pi.

That was not Duean at the end - it was someone else I didn't recognize. If they didn't insist on giving everyone that f#$ing stupid 5-year old Korean schoolboy hairstyle it would be easier to distinguish people.

I think we lose something in the subtitles without the gradations of Thai politeness. I think Pi was quite rude to them, which is certainly understandable, but he could be firm and polite at the same time - like he was the first time he asked them to take down the page.

"...even now no one can stop them."

Until the revolution.

I would agree that it's certainly been worse in other shows, so maybe this is progress?

I'm coming from an American perspective, which is extremely, extremely zero tolerance for anything like that in the workplace. If I behaved like that and someone complained, I would receive a final written warning.

I guess it's less serious in this case because she doesn't appear to have a position of power over the boys.

IPYTM is definitely ominious - it means promising something too big and not delivering on it. In English it's not positive, it's negative. The Thai seems more innocuous, so I'm not sure why they chose that for the English title. It's a lovely and poetic phrase, though.

The Lays especially took me out of the drama. I'm still excited to see the rest of the series, but I think it has to be watched with slightly lower expectations.

I really enjoy this series - it's silly, fluffy, and predictable, but it works. I wish the main pair were the main character and the coffee guy, but they're both so cute I don't care too much who they're with.

I could do without the female character - she wasn't so bad in this ep, but she's too violent and OTT.

Shi Lei is beyond cute. The coffee guy isn't far behind. The director doesn't do much for me - too mannequin-like. Even his body is too perfect and muscular to be attractive.

I agree. This is art vs. light entertainment, which is what all other BL is. Even something like 1,000 Stars was just formulaic and mediocre writing elevated by a really, really good actor. Here ALL the actors are that good or better, and the writing is fantastic.