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Maybe I'm wrong, but it sounded like the last bit was spoken by Gene - but maybe it was just an issue with the sound. There was a clear break and then the voice sounded higher and more like Kao's.

It made sense when Kao stepped into the room shirtless, but if it's a parody, they made their point a long time ago and they can stop it now. At least they didn't do that in the last scene.

It's amazing how many healthy teens and 20-somethings get cancer in drama.

I'm confused. What is the timeline here? Was the scene in the park the last chronologically and did the scene where Shi De was trying to text Shu Yi actually occur before that? I really can't tell what's going on. Is it supposed to mean that Shu Yi is imagining that's what Shi De is doing?

Or did Shu Yi go to the USA unannounced and only brought a weird attaché case for for some reason and wandered into a random park that has all Taiwanese trees where Shi De just happened to be? I'm lost.

She was also extremely not American, if that's what she was supposed to be.

Maybe I'm wrong, though - it sounded to me that it switched to Sib for the last couple of lines, but it could just be an interruption in the recording. I guess it doesn't really matter since Gene is writing the character.

They're supposed to be annoying, because they're parodying BL, but they went overboard with it and it's hard to even pay attention.

He's being that way on purpose - he's supposed to be creepy and artificial - that's more or less hammered home in the voice over at the end when he says he fears falling out of character.

Things that can't be expressed with words should be expressed with acting, not sounds effects. I think the effects are supposed to be a parody of BL by exaggerating it, but they went so far as to be incredibly annoying and distracting.

I think it worked well how it was done. It's not supposed to be romantic, it's supposed to scare you. The voiceover was only half Gene's - when it shifter to Sib, it got dark with the "I'm afraid of falling out of character."

Is he into Gene? His voiceover at the end says he fears falling out of character - he sounds a bit like a mildly malignant narcissist.

OK, I have to admit they delivered in that last scene - when it started it looked like your typical BL lips barely touching thing, but then it turned into something else entirely. And the tenderness overlaid with the darkness the voiceover was a step above everything we've gotten so far. That was intense.

But overall I'm only semi-feeling this series. I think it's the sound effects, which are so f#$%ing annoying and distracting that I can't feel anything - it's like being told how you're supposed to react rather than letting us respond to the acting. know the effects are exaggerated as a parody, but they got carried away.If that last scene weren't in there, I would probably have dropped the series - but it gave me hope.

The kissing is fine - do you want formulaic BL? I'm getting sick of BLs where I know the entire plot halfway through the first episode. The kiss doesn't "count" anyway because they're "acting".

But the sound effects make me want to light something on fire. Did nobody watch this before airing it? How could anyone not notice how f#$%ing annoying the sound effects are?

I honestly had a hard time getting through it because of that. If they'd had silly sound effects in that last scene I would have dropped the series.

I think we need to petition the BL production companies for period dramas! I remember seeing Maurice way back when - if you haven't seen it, it's an Edwardian gay drama and a beautiful production.

You could very well set any BL, and I mean ANY BL in the Victorian era and it would not be out of place in the slightest, except instead of texting, people would have to have their valets carry messages back & forth.

Thailand is very, very humid and hot, so by the time you get home after a long day at engineering school, you're gross, so I get the showering thing - I guess they have to moisturize a lot.

At this very moment, it's 4:20 am in Bangkok, 80 degrees F (27 C) with 92% humidity. Yuck.

I think you can have fuzzy recollection, and probably forget a lot of what happened, but not forget having sex! If you're too drunk to remember sex, then you were too drunk to have sex at all, because, well, male anatomy.

Agree about position in story for hook up - it's too late now.

Even more confusing than the temperature is how any Thai that gets wet with 100% certainty immediately develops a severe fever and has to receive an erotic sponge bath. It's like somebody's mother is writing this. Maybe not the erotic sponge-bath thing, but the getting sick if wet thing.

OMG, that cracked me up. I'm just imagining Cupid showing up to help - "OK, now that we've installed Grindr, notice how it shows you how close by your future hookups are. Follow me - see this? It's called a glory hole."

I don't think Tae had sex with that guy, but if he did, it would be more realistic than the "no sex ever, remain a virgin until one-true-love then never touch or look at another man, period" that is BL "standard".

When you're really depressed and heartbroken, sometimes you just find consolation somewhere.

Anyway, it's funny how in every BL, any character who wakes up in a bed wearing less than usual assumes they had sex. Being drunk doesn't mean your mind was erased. Speaking of which, for such a warm country, Thais sure wear an enormous load of clothing to bed (according to BLs).

Yes - the production is actually pretty good, except for sound, which is probably the hardest to do on a low budget. Attention to detail like that is a sign of passion for the project, which is enough to hold my interest. Along with the eye candy.