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I'm almost tempted to watch I Am Your King 2.

1,000 Stars did a good job of addressing poverty and how rich people that do what they want mess things up for them. I liked 1,000 Stars, I just didn't like the drama at the end which I thought was artificial and made everyone behave out of character (and teleport all over the place) - I wish they had stuck to the story between Tian and Chief, which had enough drama built into it.

I almost fell into a coma in the first half, but the second half was cute - Pao is so adorable. That first half - there was so much extraneous stuff in there - the second seance and that really long discussion about a bracelet were totally irrelevant. The pool scene didn't have any real purpose either.

I wish Mon would just go away - his overacting drains all the life out of everything, and he's so icky with what's-his-name that he's dating.

Anyway, this is easily the best story so far. For me, Thu, Tue, Sun Mon. I didn't get why everyone liked Sun - it was just some entitled brat sexually harassing someone for two hours. The Tue story was awful, but I liked looking at Tue.

Maybe not "filthy rich", but Gene owns two dwellings in his mid-20, so at least "normal rich". Having dreams of being a writer is great. Losing a gig with one publisher and having to choose which home to sulk in is not exacty "stakes". That's sort of the definition of '1st world problems', when a majority of Thais are considerably less comfortable. He really only has the luxury of pursuing a writing career because his family is rich.

Even disowned Aoey surely has resources, and none of this is his fault, so he can likely get another acting gig, and in any case, he's the villain of the story (even though I'm at a loss to think of a single villainous thing he's done) so we're not supposed to feel sorry for him. Or so I'm told by the overwhelming mass of people on this site.

So we're back to Gene and Sib, who created this mess with their own carelessness and selfishness, and they just don't have anything serious at risk - if they're decent human beings they won't abandon the project and hurt a lot of people. Gene wanted to take the "decent person" route, Sib, as usual, is a monomaniacal looney-tunes who would burn down the entire planet if it would get him with Gene.

So what's my investment? Why did they need to break up? They can just reach into their giant bags of money and hire a contractor to install a door between their adjacent apartments. They broke up to create artificial drama, which by now I should have learned to expect in every ep 11 of every BL that will ever air.

In any case, it's bad writing. An element of fantasy is fine. I'm OK with ghosts, reincarnation, body-swapping, horrible little trolls like Pi getting hot guys, etc., but not people behvaving in an incomprehensible way just to create penultimate-epsode drama. Even 1,000 Stars did this, although at least the stakes were life or death.

I love that better or worse than Amore is our scale.

Anyway, worse than Amore, hovering just above getting cancer.

I might have to hide your gun. Could they at least have Tum go back to the mall and try on another shirt? Or maybe several? They could just do that for the entire last episode and it will be way more enjoyable than what we're likely to get.

Anyway, Gene is just the writer inserting herself into the story as a self-indulgent fantasy. That's why Gene isn't a real character, and why Sib isn't really either - he just really, really wants the writer, and he's really, really attractive.

I think Up has done as good a job as anyone could with this material, but his character is static and childish, and as you mentioned, joins more or less everyone else except the producer woman (whose side I'm totally on. She should slap Tum again. Then send him to the mall to try on shirts. [Sorry, I havea a one-track mind]) in making decisions that are so batsh#$ ridiculous that I'm past being irritated. Now I just sigh wearily with great frequency.

I was watching a Vietnamese series and the sponsor was marketing skin-whitening cream. They ACTUALLY had a character show up in blackface (really brownface), then the next day was all white and sparkly. He literally sparkled, with special effects.

At least they could point out that all the production staff will lose their jobs if the show is canceled. Also, maybe Sib is too young to have the perspective, but four months is not really that much time. And couldn't they just install a door between their apartments, which are adjacent?

I forgot this series is really long - you're right, there's plenty of time for development.

I'm satisfied with naked sweaty Kim tied to a chair scenes, but that's about all that pairing has going for it at the moment - it's too bad, they were cute at the beginning of the series.

Wit & Win are my favorites too. But I don't think anyone is going to beat Kim in nearly-naked sweat-sheened tied to a chair category. Although I agree - Kim/Tha is so boring I forget it exists. It was kind of cute in the first episode, but it hasn't gone anywhere.

The writing makes no sense. Just tell everyone Sib & Gene are childhood friends. It's easily verifiable and everyone will believe it and think it's cute. All this drama is completely artifictial. There are so many ways they could have demonstrated the problems with BL fan culture, and they went with this.

The problem is that BL is always about rich people so there are no stakes. All three actors and Gene are filthy rich. If they were dependent on the money there would be motivation, or if they highlighted the loss of jobs for normal people on the production. But here all we have is that two gazillionaires are being asked to hide their relationship for a measly four months. Don't all Thai men have mandatory military service? 20% men go into the military, so a large number of m/m couples have a one-year separation to deal with (or 6 mo if they volunteer). I suppose rich Thais can get out of it, and since all BL characters are rich... but nobody cares about poor (or even normal) people in BL world.

Even if they don't use the childhood friend solution, they could just rent a place in Nepal or somewhere for Gene and Sib could commute to BL promotional events. There are a million solutions. I doubt every BL actor is giving up having girlfriends, so what are they doing? Probably just being discreet.

From what I can tell, people hate the director because he works with the actor Art Pakpoom, who Mew Suppasit fans hate because the two had some past falling-out. It's all inexplicable to me - I've never been able to invest in actors that heavily, not even when I was a teenager, so I have a hard time putting myself in the shoes of someone who can get that worked up over light entertainment.

Thank you for that excellent demonstration of what "toxic fandom" means. I couldn't have done it better.

His English is 100% perfect - even his accent is pefect.

Just answer: have I raped and been raped hundreds of times because I've had sex while drunk? How about all the billions of other adults who have?

It doesn't make any sense.

BTW, I didn't mean I have no problem at all with the situation - Yong Jie did something very wrong - I just don't think it's anywhere near what the VP did, and I don't think "sex while drunk is aways wrong" makes any sense.

He was not incapacitated, He had a discussion with Yong Jie and was the one who initiated what they did - an incapacitated person can't have a coherent conversation or grab someone around the neck and pull them down for a kiss. He was definitely inebriated, but not even that badly - normally you're loud and saying ridiculous things that make no sense, not "if the love is painful, why don't you stop loving them?" And you most certainly can't have sex - Yong Jie gave him a bj.

Intoxication is characterized by slurred speech, weaving or stumbling while walking, and exaggerated emotions.

Incapacitation is inability to speak coherently, confusion about basic facts, and unconsciousness.

Xing Si probably would have been weaving & stumbling, but it's hard to tell because Yong Jie immediately picked him up. His speech was not slurred, nor did he have exaggerated emotions.

He was able to speak coherently, Yong Jie made a point of making sure he wasn't confused about who he was with, and he was not unconscious.

What he did was manipulative and very wrong, but it is nowhere near what the VP did.

There's a difference between someone voluntarily getting drunk and slipping an illegal drug to somoene without their knowledge - a huge moral difference.

I like everyone elese's outfits (especially Young Jie's plad slacks & white jacket outfit a few eps ago), but Mu Ren's are a bit carried away. Sometimes he looks like a 60-year old woman in a caftan. The sweater was kind of silly, but not the worst thing I've seen on him.

This ep both Mu Ren and XIng Si wore the same clothes as in earlier eps - I guess they finally ran out of closet space and had to start recycling.

Those two actors are amazing, especially the father. Whenever he's in a scene, whoever he's with is more compelling too.