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That was better than their previous series - it was insane, but entertaining. I'm not quite sure if it's supposed to be a comedy, or if it just ended up that way. I think it's a light-hearted horror/supernatural BL?

They've really got to improve the editing. Considering the scenes were static, there shouldn't be obvious shifts to a different take. Also, if a guy is walking down a hill, you can just show if for a few seconds - you don't have to show him walking ALL the way down, although if that was supposed to be comical with the intense evil-sounding music playing in the background, it worked. In general the shots are too long, and it robs the action of its momentum.

For example, it's film "vocabulary" to have people under enchantment walk slowly. Usually in very old movies - nowadays even zombies are really fast. Another way that is often shown is by making the character's eyes turn red. But you don't have to do both. There is a LOT of people with red eyes walking slowly in this (and the contacts were making the poor short hot guy cry - that must have been painful). Why not have their eyes turn red and just walk normally?

The fairy using magic scene was way too long - we get it. about 5 seconds suffices to make the point.

Anyway, I did have fun watching it, but it won't be for everyone.

I thought it was actually good. I went into it thinking "Sigh. Another one of these." But I was surprised. The actors were natural, they had a cute relationship, although we got a few hints of clouds on the horizon, which is interesting, and they didn't have all the endemic technical issues of amateur productions. I enjoyed it. But I hope it doesn't get too preachy.

Up's peformance when he was Aunty's house was masterful. It was totally real, subtle, and powerful.

Regarding Bruce, Aey is in the formulaic BL villain role - the other person after the seme, and so I think people are perhaps wanting to dislike him because of that. There are two options: either he IS the villain and he's being manipulative, or he isn't the villain (like if doesn't know Gene likes Sib - he has to know Sib likes Gene, but Gene shows no sign of liking him back, and in fact explicitly says he doesn't) and yet Bruce has made most people feel sorry for Aey and yet uncomfortable about something about him.

Either way he's done an excellent job of presenting that ambiguity - it's not easy to pull off.

Have you considered that maybe you're just really nice and forgiving to a level that almost nobody else is? Lying to get the role means someone else who deserved it didn't get it, and hiding the fact that he is someone very important from Gene's past while worming his way into Gene's life and home is a serious betrayal of trust. And incredibly stupid because Gene would have found out before long - Sib's last chance to confess was when Gene told him where he was going. He must have known Gene would pay his respects to Sib's mother. Or at some point his parents would have asked if he knew Sib had become a famous actor in a BL, which would also have put the pieces together for Gene. Also, I get that Sib looks really different than he did as a child, but if Sib has the same personal name, he would at least think of Sib and start to see a resemblance.

Actually, now that I think of it, isn't a pretty serious flaw in the writing that Gene's parents didn't connect that the son of family friends is working on a BL, and so is their own son? OR IS IT. Maybe one or both of Gene's parents are part of this. Mom might know but wants to conceal it from her very mean-looking husband.

You realize you're being very kind, right? :) I don't think they'll manage to make what happened make real sense, but everything you wrote does. I have a feeling whatever happened in the past is connected to the looks dad was giving.

Gene's conflicts we can see because they are conveyed to us by Up, who is not acting like a carboard cutout that can somehow talk, like Kao is. I'm hoping next episode I'm proven wrong and he's been that flat because he was hiding something, which is what I've believed up to now. If you're right about your last point, then I would have liked to have seen that struggle on Kao's face. Up was emotionless when he was at Aunty's house, but conveyed everything Gene was feeling very powerfully.

Ah. That's what I'm missing. I was wondering why the bedroom was different but I assumed it was a rich people thing, and I didn't remember him having another place. I still don't remember even though you just told me, but it does make Gene's behavior slightly less bizarre - he still upended his plans for no apparent reason, but maybe it will make more sense next ep.

It's not fair to make this comparison, but Earth is also playing a reserved and unexpressive character, and he conveys an enormous amount of emotion in a masterclass of understated and subtle acting. If Kao were doing a quarter of that we'd probably be saying "wow, he's great." I think the award for that in this series goes to Bruce (Aey), who manages to be sympathetic and vaguely evil at the same time. I felt so bad for him last ep, but the look he gave his sister at the table was a little frightening.

True, they have made Aey ambiguous, and the actor has done a fantastic job. They've also dropped hints that Sib is evil - the way he's only polite to Gene, is impatient and aggressive with other people, the way Tum is careful not to piss him off, etc. He may just be monomanical in his pursuit of Gene instead of evil, but there's something not right about him.

Although, it pains me to say it, I think maybe Kao is a weaker actor than Up to a degree that makes him seem plastic and Not Quite Right. I've been saying he's being stiff because he's hiding something and holding something in, but he was basically the same after his secret was revealed - I was expecting something more powerful. We'll see one way or the other next episode, I think.

I checked on the length of the other eps because yes, yes I do have that much time on my hands. You are absolutely correct. A pattern emerges, altough it could be coincidence - the odd numbered ones are an hour, the even number ones 50 minutes. The premier breaks the pattern by being the shortest.

I did finish it. You're right, nobody really qualifies as a tsundere - though I thought they tried to pull the thing where the weak one and the strong one are reversed through their both getting sick and needing to be taken care of, but that's probably too little to count.

To enjoy the next ep you probably have to pretend this one didn't happen. They weren't bad at the sweetness, it came on so abruptly and unprepared in the story that I'm not sure even better actors could have made it work.

Too bad because I really like the actor who plays Tuesday. Mostly for very shallow reasons, but hey, it happens.

Bad writing. I really think it's that simple.

I presume you edited that in reaction to the two posts below, so let me just say, "Then go watch something else!" I'm joking. That would be incredibly immature of me.

Sib lied about his age to get the part (he's 26, not 20), and he knew who Gene was, knew Gene didn't recognize him, and used all these lies to worm his way into Gene's life and home. That is horrendous. May I ask why you don't think that's not a big deal? I'm not angry, just curious - maybe you saw something in this that I didn't.

Can you please spoiler this? I've just unwillingly read what the ending is.

Auntie is definitely not his actual aunt. Either she was his father's sister, in which case he knows her maiden name, which would give Sib the same surname as Gene, or she's his mother's sister, in which case he would also know her maiden name, which Sib has. She's a family friend.

As for Gene, I would understand if he didn't want to talk to Gene or listen to his reason, but then why did he leave his parents a day early, drive two hours, stare at Gene for 10 minutes, then drive 2 hours to go back to his parents? That really makes no sense. Even if he lept into his car and started driving, 2 hours is too long to be irrational and confused. He clearly wasn't because he had the sense to pull over to have his meltdown.

But that doesn't explain all the lying. And in the flashback they were way pre-pubescent, so too young to be lovers. Your analysis makes sense to me, but then it makes Gene a huge hypocrite about being a virgin and not being in tune with his sexuality. I'm willing to here the explanation, but it was completely ridiculous for them to just stare at each other and not have Gene just tell him what his reason was in the very long pauses that were available.

Sib said he's 20 in the audition and he's 26 (his mother said he and Gene are the same age), which was a lie to get the part and thus get close to Gene. He knew who Gene was, and didn't tell Gene who he was, and barged his way into Gene's home and life. I think that's a pretty big deal, especially since he knows Gene's personality and how the truth would affect him. He created a whole false persona with the aim of dsceiving Gene and worming his way into his life to control him, and we've seem him try to isolate Gene from other people. That's sociopathic unless there's an extremely good reason, like Aey is planning to murder Gene and this was all to protect him (which would also give meaning to the incomprensible Mork scene).

Implausible failure of communication is fundamental to BL, apparently. But it's usually at least marginally possible, like someone storming off to their villa in the middle of nowhere, not standing and staring at each other, especially with one saying "let me explain" and then not explaining in the incredibly long pause that follows!

Does it make sense that Gene would drive two hours, stare at Sib for 10 minutes, then drive two hours to go back where he came from? Anything would have been better - Sib goes outside and gets beat up by a fan enraged he's cheating on Aey and is in the hospital when Gene gets back. A meteor hit Bangkok so Gene couldn't get home. That would have been better than what they did. Even the spaceship at the end of YYY made more sense, and that was deliberately written to make no sense.

"Eventually" get boring? You are a generous person.

It's a good analysis, but this was ep 6. We're getting to the point that it feels like we're reaching to defend a lack of acting ability. From the start I've thought Kao was playing it stiff like that because Sib is hiding something, but he was exactly the same once he was uncovered.