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Yes, definitelty, if you like people being good to each other.

This has almost nothing dark in it, and where it does, it's treated as a serious issue. While the characters are young, and do immature things, for the most part people are unusually considerate of other people's feelings, and when there are conflicts, they discuss them.

Example: the boys need to go to the hospital for a visit - the guy the older step-bro is dating wants to come. Normally, the younger bro would get upset, sulk, they'd have a fight, cue montage of good times spent together, and two episodes would be burned while they mope. Here, Older bro asks younger bro if bf can come, gets an ambivalent response, and gently disinvites bf. Crisis averted. I couldn't believe it. And it was sweet as f@#$ - you'll find yourself smiling all the time with how cute all this is.

Or in another case, a guy feels insecure in a relationship, gets set off by something, gets angry and storms off, cools down during class, then goes and apologizes for overreacting. Unbelievable! No montage of good times spend together... And it's not boring - it shows that good drama doesn't have to be based on implausible lack of communication.

The actors take a couple of eps to get into their grooves, but then it's pretty good.

Also, the entire student body and all the staff & alumni of the school are gay, which is kind of interesting. I'm still waiting for someone to come out as straight and be bullied for being a breeder.

Actually, it's much different than anything else. There are none of the usual artificial drama tropes - whenever there's any sort of conflict, people discuss and resolve them, and people are considerate of each other's feelings in ways that you never see. The acting also gets progressively better.

BL is by nature exploitative - the promos are just cute. It's a lot less exploitative than the gratuitous slo-mo shower scenes that all other shows have. This is easily the most non-exploitative BL that has ever been made.

But there's a lot to watch these days, and if this isn't for you, it isn't for you. I think it's one of the more special shows on and is worth the time. It's actually the show I most look forward to.

I like everything with Duean, the Kitty Gang was funny, and Mork is a deam man, but Pi is too unlikeable, although Phuwin does a great job playing him. He's so awful to Mork for no reason that I really don't like him or thing he's worthy of Mork.

It would be nice if he gets rejected hard by Mix for being ugly on the inside and comes to a realization that he needs to be a better person.

All in all, this is so silly and predicatable that it's hard to enjoy too much - I'm hoping there are some twists to the formulaic story. Maybe the secret friend isn't Mork - it feels too obvious now. But then who? The only characters are Duean, Mix, and Mork.

Anyway, it's good for what it is, it just isn't much,

Maybe, but it's Thursday, so anything we get seems OK to me. :)

I love Se Jin and I'm looking forward to seeing Jang Eui Soo again - hopefully the rest of the series will be better. It does feel like it needed about 5 minutes more setup - the beginning was really sudden.

So was Xing Si's, but because he's part of a ship that people don't approve of, everything Yong Jie does is evil. There's a double standard in BL - when people stick to the formula, they're forgiven everything. If they don't, they're satan. Or in this case, Aey is plugged into the formula villain role, so even if he were seen to spend all his spare time rescuing puppies, everyone would still hate him, because that's what the formula says we're supposed to do.

No means no. Gene said no, so it's no. I'm not bothered by it - human interaction is complicated. But people's double-standards are annoying.

I have no idea why I wrote this - maybe it was pre-coffee? I'm of the same opinion as you.

That's because you're rude and immature.

LOL, they are all very cute - so we at least have that!

To My Star starred a k-pop idol. Se Jin is a stronger actor than In Soo, but all IS has to do is play the "straight man" (the comedy term, not sexuality), which means he just has to be confused a lot. This is a light-hearted romcom, so if you go in expecting that, it's OK. Not crazy about the whole plot dominated by the evil sister, though.

For me it was so-so. I don't mind the pacing, but if it's going to bog down into the evil sister's scheming rather than the BL, I'll rapidly lose interest.

Korean BLs are all films. I don't know why the release them in segments - I guess to get more views. If you go into it as if it's a movie, you'll probably like it more than if you're expecting a full series. They work well as films, but leave you wanting more if you're in the mindset of a 10-hour story.

Yikes! Paragraphs are are friends! I wasn't upset, I just thought it was funny that you listed several symptoms of serious personality disorders and phrased it in a way that minimized them. If we say Aey is a manipulative liar that's extremely clingy and possessive, then that's terrible, even though so far he hasn't done any one of those four things, but if it's Sib it's romantic. Lying is wrong, period. People who lie don't do it about one thing, they do it all the time, because what they want is more important to them than being good person.

Psychopaths are usually violent murderers in media, but the vast majority of them are around us in day-to-day life - you probably know many of them but aren't close enough to them to see it. They lack empathy for other people, they lie, and they pursue their own interests at the expense of others because they only care about themselves. They have no shame, they never take blame for anything, and they don't learn from their mistakes. They almost never directly harm people - that's a myth.

I doubt Sib is a psychopath, because he's too patient with Gene - he would push harder if he was. But there's something really wrong with him - his lack of caring for anyone except for Gene is telling. He doesn't even appear to like or love his own brother, and he's certainly awful to Tum, who doesn't deserve it.

A lot of the tolerance for Sib's behavior is because Gene is the protagonist and Sib is the romantic interest and together they're the ship everyone is expected to support, whereas Aey is plugged into the villain role, and anything that remotely stands in the way of the ship is resented and disliked.

However, Aey is also much more effeminate than a typical BL character, and I have a hard time believing that the negative feeling being heaped on him is not because of that - at least from some people.

BL productions deliberately hire straight actors - they've even put it in casting calls, and there is satirical attention to that in this series. They do that because they think audiences want masculine straight-acting characters - and they're correct. As long as that's the case, they will continue to sideline a large percentage of lgbtq+ actors - except for the pathetic, predatory, comic roles.

This has been taken to the point that people have even routinely said that Bruce is a bad actor - when if fact he's extremely talented and managed to make what could have been a 2D character layered and interesting, even sympathetic - but nobody has the slightest sympathy for him despite the really horrific treatment he's been exposed to - including by Sib.

Aey is interested in Sib, but he has not been aggressive about it or trangressive in the slightest - the absolute hatred for him is unearned and people should ask themselves why they hate him that much when he hasn't done anything beyond mildly annoying, and Sib has been extremely unprofessional. In real life they would have replaced him a long time ago.

Gene has shown the same lack on interest in Sib, but Sib has pushed hard - lying, manipulating him, even into kissing, worming his way into his house, and otherwise totally ignoring that Gene didn't want any of it. That is way worse than anything Aey has done.

You all realize that nobody is actually having sex, right? There are 20 people in the room when they're filiming these- what you do you think is going to happen? I'm so confused at how Victorian and puritanical everyone is getting these days. People are complaining that a teenager has his shirt off? What?

It sounds low. The average net monthly salary in Bangkok is $750, which is starvation by USA standards - a burger-flipper in CA makes 4 times that.

A 3-bed apartment is $900, and to buy a 1,000 sq ft condo is $230K. I'm guessing a middle-class salary is quite a bit higher than the average, but still.

There have to be marketing costs in addition - I can't believe $52K is enough.

That's one of the reasons I'm not sure about Sib - he's only nice to the object of his obsession and really rude to everyone else. Who could be mean to Tum? Apparently everyone judging by this latest episode.

He was fine - he said all the right things. I was sort of joking that he has a really hot body so if he'd been wearing a tight shirt she would have had no option but to say yes.

She didn't say "no" either - she just wasn't convinced he was serious. It did come out of nowhere from her perspective. Although she tripped and he caught her and they stared at each other, so that automatically makes them a OTP.

So he's a possessive, clingy, crazily jealous lying manipulator, but that's OK, because Aey was slightly rude to Gene in the men's room? What exactly qualifies as psycho? Remember when Gene handed Aey money to go get snacks in the gas station and Sib told him from now on he was only allowed to show generosity to Sib? They weren't in any relationship - that was crazy, and if any other character had said that to anyone, it would have lit up this comments section. This was snacks at a gas station, not a 3-star restaurant.

If Aey had done 25% of what Sib has you'd all be clamoring for the death penalty. Just because Gene and Sib are the protagonists doesn't mean they should be held to different standards of behavior. Next episode when Aey goes psycho, you can condemn it, but he hasn't done anything yet.

Yes, but that was fairly mild - people are treating it like he murdered Gene's mother. It's not as rude as Gene has been to Hin & Tum.

I understant it's a continuation of Stranger's Kiss, which didn't really end.