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They could save the situation by it all being from insecurity, but I feel like we've already been subjected to an entire episode of the cringe. I'm totally OK with a younger & smaller person being the more aggressive one, but if this were the other way around, the reaction here would likely be much, much more negative.

I think "sick" is a bit too strong. It's just a bunch of guys shirtless.

Oh - sorry, I misread your post. In any case, I agree, this is one of the best BLs this year.

My parents were very loving but not terribly forthcoming about "the sex stuff" because one comes from a blue-collar background and the other is Muslim. Also, the gay thing. I came out to them when I was 22 and my dad gave me "the talk". It's hard to imagine anything more mortifying than having your father give you a lecture on the proper way to have safe gay sex.

I think you may be benefitting from being Italian. The rest of us are seuxally repressed. Opinion on this board is about evenly split between people who think sex while drunk is by definition rape and those who don't - or if I'm wrong, I've raped and been raped (usually simulaneously) by a very large number of people. (I'm old.) So parents are doing something, I'm just not sure it's the right thing.

I forgot to mention - the acting does get better, especially from Prab. Being a smart-ass is not his strong-suit. He's better at being sweet and loving. Chon just has to be an awkward teen, which is apparently not difficult for him.

You guys are all psycho.

The marketing material had a different actor for that role, so the person they chose probably didn't work out for some reason - maybe they had to take what they could get. Another reason to pay actors better.

They hire a lot of people who are 17-18. For some people acting is their passion - for many others, it's pocket money for college. Nobody should have to give up their goals.

Mean quit BL after he was successful because he could - he's an established actor. Would he have when he was just starting out?

Oddly enough, I was also sexually harassed when I was 19, by of all things, an Italian musicologist who was a visiting lecturer at my college. It took a little work to disengage from the situation, but he didn't try to force me, and treated me no differently after that. This series reflects a situation in which a Thai actor was denied work for turning down a producer. That's much worse.

And in my case, it didn't occur to me that's what he wanted because I was young and naive, but in retrospect it did look a lot like we were on a date, and that's probably what he was hoping it was. In your case, you could quit to avoid a repitition, but by then he'd already attacked you. If you had been who you are today, I'm guessing there would have been a different outcome for him.

In other words, sometimes you can't get out of a situation if you don't know there IS a situation - until it's too late - and you're a lot less likely to identify a bad situation when you're 17 than when you're 30.

The internet tells me that an new actor makes 50,000 per hour for an event, which is about $1,600/hour, but I think that's for mainstream drama actors, so probably less for a BL newcomer, maybe more for one of the bigger stars. A list of highest-paid drama actors had the lowest at 70,000 Baht per ep, and that's for the super-popular lakorns. An entry-level BL actor probably makes a small fraction of that. The internet says the average actor salary equates to about 349 baht/hour, or $11, so I'm going to guestimate 30,000 for a series, or $800. That could be totally wrong, but it sounds like they make far more from events than they do for acting in the series.

Something like a GMMTV series probably attracts large crowds to events, but it's hard to imagine there were any Cupid Coach events, so for a lot of the amateur actors, getting cast in a low-end BL is likely the equivalent of working as a waiter in a diner for spending money when you're in college.

So in the CC example, Nite 1 probably just had other things going on when production resumed and couldn't be bothered. The pay he'd get for just a couple more episodes is so small it wouldn't be worth the hassle. Tae on the other hand, was cast in another production of the company, so that's probably the reason why he was the only actor who came back.

You obviously care, or you wouldn't have posted this.

I'd never heard ot BL Tea Cafe until all these people showed up to attack someone who posted one sentence that didn't even mention the site.

That anyone even thinks this has anything to do with me or anyone else being an Aam fan points to all this being way too important to you. This show is on the World of BL schedule, I watched it like I watch the first ep of everything, and I really liked it, so I'm going to watch the rest. That's all there is to it.

Read the posts above and below and tell me they don't sound unhinged.

Well, you just followed someone somewhere to scream at them, so I'm not sure how you define toxic, and I'm not sure how cowardly it is to post in a discussion forum, which is what you're doing. In fact we're all doing it. Are we supposed to post videos and give out our personal details or something?

His wife shouldn't let him anywhere near that school. He's the only heterosexual (allegedly) man left in town. I'm shipping him with Maping's teacher.

Sometimes Prab is so sweet and wonderful to Chon that I actually have an emotional reaction - that doesn't happen to me much except in the very best BLs.

I still can't believe the fight between the boring couple - nothing like that has ever happened in a BL before. Seriously - one hour of cooling down, an apology for overreacting, discussion, problem solved. I was really thinking "Oh great, now we waste 10 minutes on a flashback montage of all the good times they've had doing boring things followed by 2-3 eps of sulking."

I think the intro would be less objectionable without the teacher - but they're just shirtless and not doing anything remotely sexual, so I never really noticed it as something that might bother people.

Anyway, I think this show is unique. Cupid Coach was along similar lines about talking through conflict and solving problems, but it's not nearly as well-produced and coherent as this is.

A lot of people refuse to watch it because they're stepbrothers. It's not like they're going to have a two-headed baby or something. I don't even know if they'll end up together.

Yes, they've more than proved they can ruin anything. They even tried with 1,000 Stars, but they were foiled by acting.

That is good news. Prab is a senior, though, so he'll be at college, unless they advance the story by a year so they're both there.

I've notice a lot of people object to the shirtless thing - why is that disturbing? They should probably have not included the teacher, but it's just cute, not sexual. it's less sexual than when Prab came out of the shower glistening and Chon gave him the slo-mo lookover to the porn soundtrack.

The clinic scene was OK, but it would have been better if they'd condensed it. Also, that's not how getting your wisdom teeth out works. Or at least not since the 19th c.

I was in a good mood until you mentiojed TonChon. To get my mojo back I just need to think of Na and block out everything else.