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I think it was the first ep - a teacher comes up to the gardening boy and wipes dirt from his face in a really creepy and transgressive way. That's shown in the credits, but you only see his arm and not his face. The teacher that's tutoring him has touched him too, but not in any overtly suggestive ways - clapping him on the shoulder when he did well on the test, grapsing he hand on the desk when he was agitated. But because you only see the hand of the creepy teacher in the credits, it's easy to misremember it being all the same person.

To be fair, it's not as obvious to a female viewer how nearly impossible it is to get it up when dead drunk, and most likely not a lot of guys are going to be super-willing to volunteer that information.

I get that we should be concerned about consent, especially when alcohol is concerned, but a statement like "consent can't be given when drunk" is too broad and doesn't really mean anything, not to mention almost every adult alive has had drunk sex. Are we not allowed to have sex when drunk?

How do we define the point where you've had too much to drink to give consent? How do we know that our partner is drunk? What if they are drunk, but not obviously so, and say they aren't? Is it your responsibility to make sure they're not, and if you don't, are you guilty of rape? What if you're drunk yourself? Can two drunk people have consensual sex, or are they raping each other? I don't think people are thinking this through. There doesn't need to be a line drawn in the sand, because we're rational beings that can evaluate every situation individually, because every situation is different.

Also, you can't lump every transgression into one category. If I lie to you and say "The attached file is clean" when it really contains a virus and I steal all your money, that is not the same level of wrong as if I lie and say "No, that outfit does not make you look fat."

Likewise manipulating XS and lowering his inhibitions to the point that he will have sex with YJ, which he knows XS wants to do but won't was extremely wrong and a terrible violation of XS's trust, but it's not the same as slipping him a rape drug and sodomizing him in his sleep. Motive also matters. Rapists don't give a sh#$ if their victim loves them or not. They dehumize their target and take what they want. That doesn't mean you can only rape someone if you're motives are bad, but it is a factor to consider.

There is a danger in calling things rape when they aren't - if that becomes commonplace it will cast doubt in many people's minds when the accusation is raised, and that's the absolute last thing we need. It's extremely important that everyone who believes they have been raped be listened to. It's extremely rate for people to falsely make rape accusations, so there isn't a problem today, but I'm a little scared that so many people here think that being drunk (as opposed to incapacitated) makes consent impossible.

I know! There is so much talent in this show, and obviously a healthy budget. It's only the writing that's an issue. I'm not sure I've ever seen better costume design than this, the acting, cinematography, directing, even in what is happening, the pieces of it are excellent, they just don't go together in a coherent way. I love the dialog, the characters, so much about it, but it's frustrating. Even the dad is a classic - I don't we've ever seen a dad character like that. I thought the scene between him and Shi De was perfect!

How is that a hate comment? I feel Shi De's side of the chemistry and not Shu Yi's. I've always felt the actor was weaker than the others - that doesn't mean he's a bad actor or that I hate him. I'm often amazed that people see magical chemistry where I don't. Sometimes I think people insert the chemistry where the BL formula tells them to, or maybe they have better imaginations than I do. In 1,000 Stars, Tian has probably hundreds of times more lines than Chief, but in that case I feel the chemistry stronger from Earth, although I feel it from both of them. It really isn't dependent on how many lines someone has.

I think 10 is a default when the number of eps isn't known, and then nobody changes it. I've actually tried to, but the administrators seem to reject almost all changes, even when you explain them. It appears that it was always 13 eps.

I don't watch programs written as BL and censored down to bromance. If we watch them, they'll continue to censor BL.

I thought hitting the steering wheel was too much - it doesn't seem like Gene. But his breakdown was absolutely reasonable. I guess a lot of viewers don't think lying to someone to worm their way into their life and HOME is a big deal?

It's kind of like the Aey hatred, even though he's done absolutely nothing wrong except commit the unforgivable crime of having a crush on a member of the main ship.

There's a formula, and it doesn't matter what a character says or does, all that matters is that the ship sails. Rape him to start the relationship? Sure, why not? Murder people? Fine, so long as it isn't his mother (unless she's trying to keep them apart, then it's fine). Completely invent a false persona and become an actor just to worm your way into someone's life? No problem, as long as they get together.

OF COURSE Gene is devastated! I would react exactly the same way (actually I would be cold and merciless and have a breakdown later). Ugh, sometimes I just want to give up.

If it's not clear, I agree with you.

On the other hand, what didn't make sense was for Sib to just state at Gene for 45 minutes, say "I have a reason" several times, and then stare more and not just tell him what the reason is. That was bad writing - or bad acting, if it was supposed to be Sib struggling to say something, but unable to.

Normally they're good enough, but this ep had mistakes which made critical points difficult to understand. Like I think Gene said "You knew I didn't recognize you", not "You know I can't remember you." Even as a native speaker it took a minute to get what he was saying, and a large number of people didn't ever get it.

I am obsessed with Tum, I find him 100 times more attractive than Sib. I actually don't really feel Gene & Sib all that much because Kao's acting is so 2D - he only has one expression and nothing he says has much emotion to it. It was perfect for the flirting stage, but the series is half over now - it's getting repetitive. Up is great, though. But that's just me.

I really want to see what happens with Aey & Mork.

Be cruel to push them away for their own good might have been more 1,000 Stars. Insert toxic female in ep 8 (or 10 if it's a 12-parter) refers to 99% of all BLs ever made - including 1,000 Stars, although instead of being toxic, she was dead. But still f@#$ed up everthing.

There are actually 13 episodes, not 10, so there's still plenty of time. I've tried to revise the episode total, but the site keeps rejecting hte changes. IT has progressed, though - they started with Chon disliking Prab, although I thing for Prab it was love at first sight - and a few episodes back, Chon wouldn't have confided his feelings to Prab and probably lumped him in with the problem. Athough I totally get your point if the series were 10 eps, in which case I'd be raising the same issue - but fortunately we're only two-thirds done, so Nick still has a lot of suffering ahead for him.

They have a point that he could just take the test and then not commit to med school, but they should have asked him to begin with, and not just change his paperwork without asking! He might have said yes if they'd treated him with some respect.

He's not very good at taking selfies - he makes himself look way less attractive than he is.

So Sam the photographer is apparently a Thai singer named Diamond Kanok Phrasosomethingorother. Google translate gives the wrong spelling - Ganok Phrasohphomphaanit, and Bing says the last name is "experienced commercial success" which I guess is the literal translation.

Thai must be a terrible language to speak for people that have speech impediments.

Anyway, the Thai is ไดม่อน - กนก ประสบผลพาณิชย์

I think ไดม่อน is just an approximate phonetic Thai spelling of the English word 'diamond'. He has an instagram but he's terrible at selfies.

And he's taken.

There are 13 episodes! That should be plenty of time.

4 episodes. There are 13.

There are 13.

I think he had his phone on silent.

I really only love Sam, and it's stating to not be enough.

It's always Sam's episode. I don't really feel it from YU to be honest, unless he's pretending to like Shi De as part of a revenge plot, in which case he's a genius. But I did, by far, enjoy the Shi De/Dad scene most this ep.