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Wow, that was spectacularly dull. Is this a BL, or "The Adventures of Annoying Bestie and Lots of Unnecessarily Long and Slowly Delivered Monologues"?

The writing, directing, and editing is terrible. What happened this episode that we didn't already know? We know Josh likes Bryce and that Edward likes Bart, and Bestie likes Edward, who is so oblivious that it defies belief. The only thing that happened is that Bestie got crushed. And this is a BL, so I'm not sure that counts. Well, at least there's some eye-candy.

I ended up playing it on 2x just to get through it. Also, I've never met a model that eats that much junk food.

I got that. I meant that if someone jumped into a pool and kissed you, it's bizarre to interpret them following you around as an attempt to defeat you. But I'm glad I stuck around too. :) I like the slow burn of the story.

It was 100% a kiss. Both of them said so. If there was air transferring, a lot of air bubbles would have risen.

To me, Shi De is much more complex and interesting - but the story is more from his perspective than Shu Yi's, which may be part of that.

I think Win's problem is that the 2gether started out well-written with a funny script, and then fell off a cliff. He probably did about as anyone could with a script that made his character totally inconsistent.

I like this, but the beginning was a bit ridiculous. If someone jumps fully clothed into a pool to save you and kisses you, would your first thought be that he did it because he wants to defeat you? What? I almost stopped watching after that scene - and Shu Yi's hatred was growing tiresome. But I'm glad I stuck with it. The Shi De actor is quite a bit better than Shu Yi, but it still works. Shi De is so f#$%ing gorgeous.

OK, but what does the book have to do with anything? We aren't reading it, we're watching the series. Are you saying I should watch it and enjoy it by imagining it's more like the book?

This show is so bad that it's hard to believe it wasn't deliberately written that way to troll us. It has one thing that is original and refreshing, and that's Na. He was in about 10 seconds of this. Why can't BLs be about BL, instead of evil ex-GFs that spark jealousy like this? The only love scenes in this ep were hetero.

This ep was like torture to watch. When I realized Na was not really in it I ended up fast-forwarding through it as the only way I could get to the end.

And from the scenes from next week, more of the same. I don't think I can make myself watch it.

OMG, I didn't say anything because I thought I was the only one.

I couldn't get through the first segment of ep 1. I'm kind of over using overweight effeminate or trans people as comic relief. Ignoring that it's tragically unfunny, it's offensive and homophobic. Also, if absolutely nothing happens in the first 10 minutes of a series, it's hard to care if there's nothing else going for it.

The crime against Phai's hair is still worse than Wayu's wardrobe.

I'm trying to understand what the POINT of this series is. If Thanu likes Wayu, then he should just get together with him. He can call Pha and tell him. And if he has no feelings for Phai, what's the point of that storyline? It looks like Phai was set aflutter by Thanu checking out his eye, but that's the first time he really seemed to be into Thanu. Other than standing around staring at each other expressionless.

Also, that ep has one of the most awkward product placements in BL history - when everyone was sitting around after keeping Wayu away from Thanu. I think one of the actors was having trouble keeping a straight face.

I'd drop the series, but I might as well finish it now with only 2 eps to go. I'm with you on Pok and Tong - I have no idea what's going on there.

And I agree about the writing. This is why I'm starting to find Filipino BL more interesting - there are gay men involved and so at least some of the characters behave like actual gay men and not 12-year old Victorian-era virgins. Seriously, if Kim were your bf, are you seriously going to refuse to let him touch you? It would be six times a day for at least the first week or three.

THAT was Jay and Jennifer's plan? They suck at evil - they're lucky Vee is such an idiot.

I guess Vee was just thinking about jumping? I've been thinking there's something supernatural about him - maybe that was involved here. We don't know who his father is - or what his father is.

I really love this show. There's something special about it.

I agree with you, but I don't think Winston knows Jaime is not into Heart. Jaime only said that in his internal monologue and unless Winston is a telepath, he can only go by what he sees. However, from Winston's perspective, Jaime has been either seriously coming onto him or is toying with him - either way he should have stopped this a long time ago - when he went to pick Jaime up should have raised so many red flags that I think he's a bad friend by exposing Heart to him.

Probably more money than someone who wastes time commenting on someone eles's wasted time.

I agree that I wouldn't characterize it as "using", but Chon was totally insensitive to Na - and he should not so easily have excused Ton physically assaulting him. Ton should be in jail for that.

I've chugged along with the series because it's at least not formulaic and there are no dealing-with-homophobia or internalized-self-hatred elements to the "plot" - but I'm starting to run out of steam.

Reading the description, I thought maybe it would explore the societal impact of there being no homophobia. Like maybe some effeminate straight men who can distinguish the difference between turquoise and teal. (That sounds shallow, but I mean challenge stereotypes.)

I don't think the issue is that Chon wasn't into Na, it's how insensitive and selfish he was about it. Ton punched Na in the face, and Chon was angry, but not on behalf of Na, who he didn't pay any attention to nor apologize to, or say anything to at all. That's really shitty.

It isn't an opinion that Chon hasn't apologized to Na, it's a fact.

I thought about that, and then just assumed that they must have been unrelated photos taken by Amp when they were together. In any case, this doesn't even make the Top 10 of things that made no sense about this episode.

OK, so Manila is HUGE. Like 20 million people. The chances of Bestie and Bart running into each other are not too great. Also, am I alone in finding her almost... supernaturally annoying? I'm not a big fan of no filter, and she behaves like one of those rambunctious big dogs that pull you around with their leash. Although she was cute in the changing room scene.

Also, what is this show about? It just meanders with no theme. I don't really care about anyone, except maybe Bart a little.

Maybe he can pull Jose Manuel through a mirror or something. Or Wade can just look up Jose Manuel in 2020 and deal with the age difference. He can't be older than his mid-60s or so. But seriously, I agree - it's hard to see this having a happy ending.