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There are two different teachers - they're easy to confuse. One touched the boy inappropriately, the other(the main one) just appears to be trying to help him get higher scores. I suspect they will intersect, but we'll see. This show is relentlessly wholesome - they're not going to do anything that isn't appropriate for young teens.

The a/c was fixed, but they came up with a new excuse to share a room. I can't remember what it is, but the parents bought it.

I could find nothing on the cost of producting a BL - but an normal Thai drama costs 4-5M Baht, and they typically run 3 times per week for 3 months, so a BL is one third the episodes. If you take 5M/3 = 1.67M = USD $52K. That seems incredibly low to me.

The director in this show was offered 60,000 = $1,900, and that included a lot of other things too - I believe there was script editing and other editing, plus he has to do the workshops.

You may very well be able to do a BL that cheaply - if so, we need to move to Thailand and start a production company. My brother is a cinematographer and editor... I'd have to hold a gun to his head to get him to work on a BL, but I'm not adverse to doing that.

I had my first COVID shot today - it was drive through and I had to sit in my car for nearly 2 hours so I did some research on this topic - I think I'm caught up now.

That's probably one of the things that failed in th shower scene - you couldn't see his face. The shower scene in S1, however...

Raise your hand if you're surprised he hasn't called his friend in over month. No hands? Seriously, that character is so tiresome I couldn't watch it. You can make someone OTT without being that supernaturally annoying.

We're starting the slow to a crawl at this point - I'm hoping things pick up next ep. I'm not sure what happened, but it was at the end of the shower - maybe Curt felt Sid only kissed him for te vlog? That would jive with what he said later.

I wasn't botherd by the sex scene in History4 and this made me uncomfortable. Both watching the characters and feeling for the actors. At least if it were funny and cute - but it's just not. Well, Tue was cute, when he wasn't scared and screaming "no" with his body language.

This is horrible - and I thought the writing was bad for the last story. The first 8 minutes absolutely nothing happens, and in the bathroom memory, the moment it started I thought "he'll lean in for a kss than throw up on him." And I'll bet all of you thought that too. Every second of this is predictable.

Nat looks good, but he's so gross and creepy in this. I thought his acting was weak - this is not the type of role he excels at. There is no chemistry between these two - I could feel it between them in Why RU, but Nuea was so OTT and Sun so scared and screaming "no" with his body language that this was really embarassing to watch. Try to imagine this with a Sun as a girl.

The Tue story was better than this - it was bad but at least it made sense. I can't for the life of me see why any of you like this more - it's just trashy with no plot and not cute. Usually I can at least see why people like something that I don't, but I haven't a clue here. What am I missing?

In Tue, the turnaround from enemies to lovers was way too sudden, but it was equally sudden here - Tue hated Nuea and within 30 seconds was putting up with severe sexual harassment. Considering he punched him the night before (somehow not leaving a mark on him) for much less, it's a little hard to believe he'd subject himself to this.

This would have been great if Tue had turned the tables, and you know he could have - then it would at least be a stuggle for control. Or Nuea at one moment seemed vulnerable - we needed more of that, because at the moment he's a malignant narcissist, although he was polite to his staff.

I highly recommend the other two films - they're really wonderful.

In the "standard BL formula", Paper would have to be the seme and Sky the uke, but they aren't really following that here, so hopefully they'll just be two guys and not formulaic tropes.

COVID probably leaves me with too much time on my hands. But if someone took so much time to write to me, it seems rude not to respond. :)

I don't know - he does look familiar, but I can't place it.

Tino is probably right - either that, or people are clueless. I think maybe my confusion is because it's so rare that a character is openly gay in a BL that it's surprising when that's the case. When I was that young, sometimes girls would still try because they thought maybe I just hadn't met the right girl yet, but that was a long time ago and I would think now people would know it doesn't work that way.

Some people don't think you should make critical comments, but if you're evaluating something, there are usually positives or negatives. Discussing negatives brings our what's positive, whereas onky being positive eventually becomes meaningless, like if you eat chocolate all day it will get boring instead of being a treat.

Thank you for saying that, I really appreciate it!

Yes, I understood that - it was word-play on my part, taking slow-paced and using the typo to make it even more extreme. It's my burden in life that nobody understands my dry humor. :)

If it means anything, Andre had a quick turnaround once he saw how horrible and difficult everyone's lives were - not having grown up around poverty, he really didn't get it. He was actually quite upset when it hit him. Now he even helps with the farming.

I appreciate the ambition of this production, but there are only 10 episodes, and we don't have to cover every single social issue in the entire world. It's starting to feel ridiculous and amateurish. Besides, diluting focus on that many issues make none of it effective. If at least the episodes were compact and a lot was happening, that might be one thing, but most of this episode was flashbacks to events in previous episodes that served no purpose.

The acting from the lead pair is good - everyone else is uneven, but they're having to spout a lot of unnatural lines. What is this series about? 90% of the cast is trans, so you would think that's important, but not really. Is it about poverty? That seems to play prominently, but what is the show trying to tell us about it? To tackle these issues a degree of realism is needed, and that's difficult to take seriously when the entire population of the village is LGBTQ+. Sometimes it's a wonderful escape when that's the case in a BL, like Brothers, but here it jars.

There's a lot that's good about this series, and I'm sticking with it, but it's starting to try my patience a little. I've been anxious for this episode to air, and nothing really happened, except now we also have lookism thrown into the mix. I don't even know who that character was.

True. He is in college, though, so he's not a kid anymore - like I said, I don't blame him at all for thinking Mork set him up, but he's making a lot of very ungenerous assumptions about a really nice person. I'm not even bothered by that, but I think the show went a little overboard - we still have to believe Mork could like Pi, and it's hard to imagine why he wouldn't give up and go after someone less hateful to him. Often our crushes are on what we imagine the subject of the crush is like - it's not hard to that balloon to be popped when you discover what they're really like.

On the other hand, this is a BL, so I assume Mork has known Pi longer than it seems. That is apparently a requirement in situations like this.

I'm with you on that - he looks older than Sky's mom.

Well, it doesn't have a girlfriend who won't go away for 2 entire seasons, so that's a crucial difference.

He also had Call Me By Your Name and The Way He Looks (if you haven't see this, it's the sweetest movie)

Sky did grab Paper tightly by the neck, which I thought was just the right amount of aggression to maximize hotness. The way they were breathing too... needed to fan myself.

When it was best for Xing Si to move out, Yong Jie made it happen, despite the fact that it was the last thing he wanted for himself. This is not someone who does things for selfish reasons - I think he really believes he's the best choice for XS, which might be self-delusion to justify getting what he wants, but he believes it. And so does XS - he just hasn't reconciled it in his mind yet as something that's possible.

Yong Jie could also have easily arranged to be in the same room as Xing Si, but he could see that made him uncomfortable, so he decided to use the situation to help Li Cheng take Mu Ren out of the equation instead.

The original hotel scene was necessary in order for him to be the bad guy when confronting dad, who would otherwise entirely blame Xing Si. Just the journals wouldn't be enough - that could be interpreted as a very loving brother, and Dad would still feel Xing Si coerced him. There's no easy way around Yong Jie being 20 and Xing Si 30.