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It is a nice change, but it's possible to go a little overboard. Although I guess it's better for the product placement to be for the tourism board rather than refreshing drinks or acne cream.

It helps to be beautiful and have a great body when it comes to how clothing looks on you, but yes, he does seem to put more effort into clothing than most guys.

Yes, but the god is absent and the guy at the bar was cute enough. I was realy surprised - that was a very non-typical BL development. Although I'm sure we'll see in flashback that it was the standard he-got-too-drunk-to-walk-and-nice-boy-took-him-to-his-room-to-sleep-it-off plot device.

I think it's possible you may be overthinking this a little - it seems unlikely to me that this show has that level of sophistication for a twist like that.

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I think BL fans will like the ending, even if it's a little abrupt. This series would have been better if it had been twice as long and let the relationship develop and a more digestible pace. The main couple are really appealing - especially in ep 4 - the smaller one is so hot in this.

I'm not sure what's going on. It feels like it should be Prince & Nico, but the Standard Plot Devices indicate it's Julius & Nico. I'm still waiting for a BL with no creepy trans characters. What was with the sniffing Nico thing? That was weird. Also, Nico's brother was MVP a couple of episodes ago, but now the actor can't figure out how to eat rice. And why does Nico keep going through the rape/murder tunnel? And is Prince posted their or something?

Anyway, this show is a mess, but it has some good acting and it's trying really hard, so I give it points for that.

Its a good thing Tae is so easy on the eyes, because this episode had nothing else going for it. I'm guessing this ep was paid for by the Office of National Buddhism or something.

There are four more episodes - what are they going to fill them with? More wandering around to memory montages?

At least we finally got to see Tae shirtless.

It really doesn't matter - nothing happened. The only thing relevant was that the Monk said Tae would meet Nite again when the time is right. Everything else was Tae wandering around temples making wishes to see Nite again.

I think you may be right - maybe he's just a very good person and doesn't harbor resentments.

I think there's secretly only one BL writer.

I don't think the actors are bad (just mediocre), it's the script. There's only so much you can do with material like that, flinging your character's development randomly in various directions.

Imagine Productions: "Hi Line TV, here are all four completed episodes!"

Line TV: "It was supposed to be 5 episodes."

Imagine: "Fuck."

Back in the Imagine offices: "OK, we can make the sister homophobic for no apparent reason and then show her crying alone in the dark for 6 entire minutes. That should fill an episode."

Production intern: "Or, we could show a lot more of Tokyo and Tam, which is all the audience cares about anyway."

Producer: "No, I like my plan better."

I would think if they had any good material they would have put it in the trailer. It looks like this is marketed at 12 year olds (frankly more like 8 year olds) fully of silliness, and determined to teach today's youth that it's OK to sexually assault people if you're attractive.

Worse - photographing a nonconsensual kiss. I try not to judge moral issues by the trailers, because we don't see the context - they could be BFs, but in this case the context looks really, really bad.

And that appeared to be only one of many non-consensual actions. This series frankly looks terrible. I'm hoping it's just incompetent marketing, but I'm not sure I even want to give it three episodes. I think I'll just let you all serve as the guinea pigs and see if you survive it before I venture in.

It actually looks like a recycled Thai BL with wedding planners substituting for engineering students. Prediction: somehow one or both of a couple (one if which has a gf who will turn out to be evil) will trip and fall (or turn around suddenly) so that their faces are too close together and they will stare at each other until they turn gay.

My dog will probably be barking non-stop through this with the fujoshi squealing like that all the time.

I have less than zero interest in this based on the teasers and trailers. This looks like they stuffed every cliche they could into it, threw in some non-consent, and if it has those annoying sound-effects, no thanks, because I'm not five years old. Also, the screeching fujoshi is a trope that's beyond irritating.

It's a shame, because HiStory has put out some really great BL - so many of them had innovative plots like Trapped. This looks like a recycled Thai BL. Except there are no engineering students, so there's at least that.

Because it strays into the forbidden so it's hot. but it's really not forbidden because they're not blood relations. It's almost always two people who just met or are thrown together because their parents suddenly marry. The incest taboo is to prevent genetic problems that occur - that can't happen for two men. I really like this trope, and I don't understand why it freaks so many people out.

You did tell me so. Roy walking the cow was one of the few things I liked about the episode. But Royce Cabrera does it for me no matter what he's doing. It was kind of fun to see the guy with the red hair do what I (abd probably most of the audience, too) have been wanting to do - throw Olan down on a bed and attack.

By production I mean cinematography, editing, sound, etc. The script sucked. I'm not sure what the point of it was - I think they were going for "homophobia kills", but they really ended up with "driving like a crazy person without your glasses on while talking on the phone kills". And I agree, way too dark and dramatic, which would be OK if it weren't marketed as a BL. BL ends in a hug, peck on the lips, or a high five (I know, I know, it's getting better lately), not lots of dead and depressed people.