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And no need to ask any questions or request clarification. Especially not from Phupha, who we've never known to be interested in knowing the full truth?

Mix was the only one actually playing his character this episode, so I would agree, he wins. Poor Earth had to step out of Phupha and play whoever that was this ep. We got to see Phupha again in the very last scene, and once again, Earth was sublime.

Well, Nam would have been an even better friend if he didn't commit a crime by divulging confidential medical info to Phupha and just walked over and asked Tian for an explanation himself.

It's not dislike of the drama, it's dislike of the drama they inserted, because it was driven entirely by plot points rather than the nature of the characters, which was abandoned. They needed X to happen, so the character did Y, even if it made no sense. It needed to be dark, so Longtae took 12 hours to get the flashlight - they were at the waterfall in the morning, then it was pitch-dark. It was lazy and inauthentic.

Drama is fine, but it has to make sense. This didn't.

What I hated wasn't the drama, it was the artificiality of the drama and it's dependence on people acting out of character and with a total lack of logic. Phupha would never confront Tian in front of the whole village, and he would demand the full facts, Tian wouldn't so casually put Longtae in danger, or be such an idiot to leave his flash on. Why woudn't Nam ask Tian himself instead of calling Phupha and giving him incomplete information? Why does a 12-year old girl ( need to ask what death is? Why did it take Longtae 12 hours to get the flashlight? (They were at the waterfall in the morning, then it was suffendly night)

The villagers didn't exactly overreact, they just didn't react in a logical way. "Excuse me Mr Tian, what do you mean when you say you're responsible for her death?" No, not one person was interested in finding out what happened.

I was moved 0% by the episode because it made no sense. Well, not true. The last scene where Pha asks Tian to stay with him left me totally breathless because Earth was perfection - playing Phupha, rather than whatever character that was in the rest of the episode. The village chief's butterfly speech was good too.

But the dramatic effect was artificial and ruined it for me. This show has so artfully handled drama so far that I don't understand why it had to abandon that and become something different and much lesser. This episode made me suffer, and not in a good way.

It was completely out of character for him to confront Tian in front of the whole village, and out of character for him not to ask for a full explanation. And I don't think we saw any pain from him, just huffy anger - I doubt Earth had any idea what to do with this entirely different character confronting him in the script after wholly inhabiting Phupha with utter perfection. When you compare that to the scene at the end when he's asking Tian to stay with him, where every tiny gradation of expression and body language communicates novels-wroth of feeling, you can see what was wrong with the rest of the episode.

I think the episode was objectively bad, because it abandoned the character-driven nature of the story in favor of plot points which were inserted and driven by totally illogical and out-of-character behavior of pretty much everyone. Nothing made sense, not even the passage of time. Tian saw the village chief in the morning, went straight to the waterfall, talked to Longtae for five minutes, then it apparently took Longtae 12 hours to retrieve the flashlight, because it was suddenly night. And how much time does Pha have off that he can keep teleporting to Bangkok to go to Torfun's grave? The whole episode was a sloppily, lazily-written disaster.

If you go to 13:57 of part 4, THAT is 1,000 Stars. Earth is beyond perfect in this scene. That GMMTV doesn't trust what they have and have to throw in all this nonsense is downright tragic.

TBH I wasn't moved even slightly, except for the village chief's spiel about butterflies and the post-ending scene with Pha asking Tian to stay with him, which were from 1,000 Stars, and not from whatever mess the rest of this episode was from.

What happened? Why did this show take a dive off a cliff like this? The writing was terrible! This is a profound disappointment - I haven't been in this much love with a show in a long time and I'm crushed.

Do Doctor Nam has zero professional and personal ethics. Phupha is an asshole who had a character transplant. Does anyone really believe he would confront Tian in front of the whole village, especially while Tian's actually in the middle of explaining himself? Why would Nam tell Pha instead of just asking Tian himself?

The villagers' and everyone else's reactions were totally inauthentic. Nobody raised their hand to ask “what do you mean when you say you’re responsible for her death?” And when the girl came to class to ask what death is? The writing depends on totally implausible failures of communication.

And seriously, Tian takes a photo with the flash on? How did Longtae even find Tian, and what was everyone doing for 5 hours from the middle of the afternoon to it being suddenly pitch-dark? No logic! It needed to be dark, so it was. And Tian is also horrible for so casually putting Longtae in danger.

Even Earth's acting wasn't really on this week - no doubt because he couldn't emotionally connect to the nonsensical writing. I feel bad for him - it must be so difficult to so completely inhabit a character like he has, and then have that character behave like a completely different person.

I'm fine with drama, but not when it's ridiculous and artificial like this. This was all plot-driven. They needed x to happen, and the characters don’t matter – they just do y to get to x even if it makes no sense. Previously, everything was character-driven. It was the small things – Earth’s sublimely understated acting, with every expression conveying tons of meaning and feeling. All that is out the window now to sledgehammer square-shaped drama into round holes. Contrast this with the utter perfection of the scene after the ending where he asks Tian to stay with him. Why doesn’t GMMTV trust its actors?

I didn't know that, but I love it - thanks!

It would be torture for me to share a bed with someone I was that into and not act on it. The actors are 18 & 19, so if the story wants to go there, they can...

For Phu, the smile resemblance is there, but Phu has the shy awkward teen mastered, whereas New is a bit more manly and confident. Which Ohm do you mean?

I hope not! But I don't trust Nick either. Thanks, now you've made me nervous! :)

Is it poorly done, though? There aren't really any technical problems, the acting & writing are pretty good - it's not substandard at all by BL standards. And it has a charm that you don't often see. The magical gay school where everyone in the student body, faculty, and presumably the alumni and parent-teacher association are gay is a bit fantasy-like, but what BL doesn't have a fantasy element? At least we don't have any evil ex-gfs chewing up the run-time.

Every single male character is gay. The only possible exception is Chon's father, and until I have evidence to the contrary, I'm assuming Prab's mom is his beard.

Chon's smile is a killer - those dimples.

This show is so sweet and appealing, and all the conflict is character-driven, which I really appreciate. That's a sign of good writing. Even when there's an external issue, like Dad this ep, the writing is all about how the characters interact as a result driven by their personalities.

The way Prab handled it was so loving and touching, and I like that the way people behave is age-appropriate. Chon is an awkward and shy teenager, and his character is consistent and believable. Prab is a little older and more self-confident, but has so much love in him that he's almost desperate to give it. I suspect Prab is not going to react well to the photographer showing an interest in Chon. They seem to really be exploring age-inappropriate relations in this show - I'm ho[ping there's a moral to the story and not just a fetish on the part of the writer... Although the photographer is hot, so I probably wouldn't have said no to him at that age...

Anyway, this is a very underrated BL, although it looks from the statistics on World of BL that it has a healthy viewership.

Can someone tell me what's going on here, and why I wasn't invited? There appear to be body parts violating "no touch" zones, but I'm no expert.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CJtjS8AAWbU/

And with the dramatic music playing the entire time... they could have used waxed paper or something.

I don't even know who that other guy is - but he should have slapped dying guy for being a 19th c. opera heroine. I didn't realize expiring of grief was still a thing,