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OK, I'm looking forward to this. I usually have muted expectations, but this I want to see.

"in this" is unnecessary in your first sentence. :)

Why? 19 is perfectly adult. Saint was 19 when Love By Chance was filmed and it was his first role. If everyone demands high school and college stories, then the actors are going to be young.

OK, I surrender. But there does need to be progress soon - Pi's attitude hasn't really softened for 5 eps - if it's a sudden turnaround it won't feel convincing.

There were a thousand stars shining in the sky, and the moon accompanied them, reflected by the sea, so that there were 2. Bas frowned at Marco. "But there's still the your manner of death to consider."

Marco backed away, but it was too late "Why r u..." He was cut off as Bas seized him by the throat.

Bas shook his head. "With our history, I felt close to you. Maybe I'm crossing the line, but now I'm trapped - addicted - and I'm not a good loser. I can't be in your friend zone."

Bas leaned in to kiss his victim. With his oxygen cut off, Marco's face changed color in a rush, and so it was a dark blue kiss - a kiss to remember.

I was actually more bothered with the sound issues in the car than they awful green screen. The amount of crinkling noise the hamburger wrapper made was inexcusable. I'm pretty forgiving of sound issues outdoors because the right equipment can be expensive, but not in a scene like that.

I hope S2 is more technically competent, because the acting and writing were first rate.

It would be better if he didn't go to jail - this show is more about how people get away with abuse. He SHOULD be in jail, and molestors generally don't do well there...

I couldn't agree more - that was one of the best performances ever in a BL. He didn't have much screen time, but he dominated every second he was in.

I've noticed the director is controversial with a segment of BL fandom - but I'm genuinely interested to hear what @crib means.

Daniel's acting was phenomenal too - more subtle, but if he hadn't held up his end those scenes wouldn't have been as powerful.

I agree with all this. I loved Marco's outfit in the finale, and I generally can't stand 80's fashion trends lately.

Where did you hear that about Michael? I'm sure he's just getting absorbed into the role like a good actor. Hopefully not as absorbed as Heath Ledger... :(

I hope so - they're both incredibly good actors. It's not often you can get that moved by two people who are hardly in something. Also, Marco's not hard to look at. Bas too, and although I hate to be shallow and buy into his oppression, it's largely his hot body.

Mork has explicitly told him several times that he doesn't like Nan and that rather he likes Pi, and his behavior overwhelmingly demonstrates that that is the case. Mork hasn't ever ruined Pi's plans for Nan - Pi always does that himself (I'm not blaming him for that - sh#$ happens).

I also get that Pi will have trust issues due to his past experiences, but that doesn't give him the right to be rude to people - and not just a little bit rude. Extremely rude. There are people I have to be around that I absolutlely loathe, but they'll never know it because I have manners.

I agree, it isn't a crime to not like someone back - but it isn't OK to be rude to them, and continue to treat them as if they're a rival when they've definitively told you they don't have those feelings and have demonstrated it in action.

I'm a little surprised to hear you say "It makes sense why he would be rude to Mork" - there is zero reason for him to be rude to Mork. There is zero reason to be rude to anyone, ever. It's never necessary. There are ways of defending yourself that don't involve being horrible.

Are you ever rude? It doesn't seem like it - I'm an anonymous stranger who strongly disagrees with you but your response was very polite. Would you be rude if we were talking in person? You'd probably be even nicer.

Oh, I see. I wasn't thinking about Pi's crush on Nan - I almost forgot about that. True, that is more long-distance and actually seems a lot more realistic to me than Mork's crush on Pi, so I agree with you completely on that score.

The reason I think Pi is awful is not because of his confusion so much as his horrendous rudeness, and not just to Mork, although that's to the point of being unforgivable - Mork has never done anything but be extremely kind to him. Mork even gave him his lab coat, and Pi knows that Mork will have the same problems in class that he would for not having it - and not even a thanks - he acted as if making a sacrifice was a hostile act.

I'm kind of a hard-liner for politeness. I once broke up with a guy for being rude to a waiter (which is worse than being rude to a peer, I'll admit, due to the power imbalance). I can get over impatience and snapping, but you have to apologize afterwards - and if you don't even realize you were rude, then you're probably not a good person. I can't give someone a free pass just because they're the protagonist. I'll get over it, but if he continues to be this bad to Mork it will start to get hard to get past - we're nearly halfway through the series now!

I think for domestic-aimed content it's less common now - but a lot of American media is aimed at foreigh, especially Chinese markets, so all the gay is scrubbed from everything. That's why there's much less mainstream LGBTQ+ representation than there used to be, although in material aimed at Americans there's much more.

That's why you will never, ever, ever see a gay Star Wars character - they want to sell to China.

I'm very calm - I think maybe you're projecting.

That was really good - I needed a palate cleaner after the vapid FUTS.

Although there were some inexplicable technical problems. The bad car effects were distracting - I don't think they needed to be perfect, but I felt like I was in the 1990s. Even that I don't have a huge issue with because the budget is obbiously incredibly low.

But the sound issues were not OK. Didn't anyone notice the incredibly loud plastic crinkling sounds when people were eating? That intruded on the car scene, which already had its issues.

Anyway, the writing and acting were superb. Michael - wow , that guys needs to be in a lot more - he is fantastic. And Daniel, too. I thought Marco was cute, but in this ep he is gorgeous. And that outfit was amazing. I want it.

This is the first time in a BL we've seen any sort of realistic fallout from someone being abused - especially the kind of trauma someone so young and innocent would experience with such a bad violation of trust from an authority figure. Powerful stuff.

A second season isn't really needed, but it will definitely be interesting to get an insider's view of the publicity circus. I don't think we get that at all from the also-vapid Lovely Writer, where somehow even BL actors are mega-rich and loaded with 1st-world problems.

What was bad about it?

I don't understand what you mean - it was the opposite of that.

Pond is just now growing on you? I'm in tears every time he's on screen he's so beautiful in and out.