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He does have good comic timing - Neo (his brother) is also really good a comedy, so it helps to be playing off him.

I think the theme will be inner beauty, and Mork will bring it out in Pi - but I think the writing made him a little too unpleasant so that there's not any particular reason for Mork to like him, unless it's purely physical, which wouldn't fit the theme, or because he feels sorry for him, which is not the best basis for a relationship. Or he likes dorks, but if he's going to be de-dorked next episode, that doen't really work as a motivation either.

It's a negative quality to hate someone because they're friends with your crush, even though he's really nice to you, to accuse your brother of tricking you when he's trying to help - I just don't see any balancing redeeming qualities.

I totally get his thinking Mork set him up for ridicule (I thought that was well-written), but Mork gave him an extremely sincere apology - if someone like him looked at me like that at that age I'd probably collapse into a puddle and have to be mopped off the floor.

I think we needed to see something more than a 2D self-loathing jerk - self-loathing is necessary to the story and the character, but I needed something to connect with other than his obvious looks and the fact that he's the protagonist.

Also, the piano tuner was here while I was watching it, and the relentless pinging and our traumatized dog howling all the way through the process probably made Pi irritate me more than he would have.

I was really looking forward to this show, and I'm pretty sure from this episode that I will enjoy it quite a bit - but I wish writers would be more subtle and stop with the extremes.

Mix also had that club outfit going for him. Yikes.

They were discussing an approaching heat wave from that direction. Weather fronts are gigantic - thousands of miles long.

OMG, I've almost not been paying attention to the story, wondering why his parent hate him so much to do that to him.

Yes. The bunk beds and having the same parents were the clues for me.

KIND of annoying is like saying getting cancer is kind of inconvenient. I actually hate him. I think maybe we're supposed to, and the message of the story is that if you're ugly on the inside, nobody will be attracted to youn on the outside.

Notice that nobody has criticized his actual physical looks, just hs styling and personality characteristics.

Yes, I spit my coffee all over my screen right there.

Thai humor is broad, to put it kindly. Dark or dry humor can work well in a drama, but the slapstick in the Thai shows is jarring, and feels to me like it's for children. Vietnamese humor is more accessible to me, but I like it dark & dry.

Is anyone not already in love with Mork? And can we talk about Neo's legs? I don't remember that from Tonhon Chonlatee, and he was the only thing watchable in that for me.

I like the actor a lot, but I really find Pi to be loathesome and self-absorbed. He hasn't shown any redeeming qualities. He hates Mork, who has been unfailingly kind to him just because he's friends with Mix and Pi has made himself misunderstand the situation, he's really not pleasant to anyone, ungrateful to my precious Neo... I just don't see what there is to like about him.

Pond is just a prince - he has an aristocratic grace and serenity that would be totally believable as an actual prince. Wow, where has this guy been? Grade A+ leading man material.

It doesn't really matter if they give the shadow buddy the google robot voice - everyone who's ever seen a BL would still know who it is.

Isn't it garden boy's mother? She was a little disturbed at the teacher being so close to her son. But that doesn't really make sense, although she works at the mall.

The forbidden quality certainly has an illicit appeal. I wonder if some of the strong reactions are because they feel it and don't think they should. I'm sure it's different for everyone. For me, if someone tried to make me have sex with my brother, I'd become physically ill. Watching fictional brothers do it is a different thing.

I think that the best images are one where people disagree over what it means. If something is art, then people should see different things in it, and nobody's really wrong. We can probably agree that scene was art.

Whoh, Pi's English is perfect - he even has a Californian accent. And Mix looks so much more handsome to me than he did in 1,000 Stars, but here he doesn't have to stand next to Earth all the time.

Anyway, for people commenting on the "changing yourself" issue, I think maybe the message is Pi should stop being a total asshole. He's awful, rude, and has no manners. I actually hate him. Mork is so kind and such a gentleman - way too good for that awful little worm.

It doesn't matter what you look like on the outside if you're ugly on the inside. And before anyone says he's just insecure, no. Sorry, that's not an excuse to be horrible to other people. I was insecure when I was that age, probably almost all of you have been too - but did you ever treat people like he does?

But you're also right, because Prab seems to be referring to him as a literal younger brother - it's just a touch more ambiguous than it is in English.

She's someone's mother - I'm drawing a blank as to whose, but she's not random.

Nothing inappropriate is happening in those.

They would probably call each other that even if they were just friends - the term is broader in the context of Thai manners.

I know. :(

I do it all the time - people are probably getting tired of telling me.