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You are really a font of knowledge! Thanks for the info!

If holding hands is a breakthrough for 20-year olds who have been together for a year, you're setting the bar a little low for "breakthrough." I think maybe the problem is that they should have set this show in high school where their behavior doesn't come across as immature.

Oh, no! I didn't want to ruin it for you. I'm sorry, lol! I probably need to learn that this is the way Thai BLs are, and they are aimed at younger audiences and so they need to be a little tame.

That's a good point actually about it only being 2 weeks. It occurred to me at the time, but I got distracted by the reunion issues. Two weeks can seem like a long time for young people in a new relationship, but COME ON, you're a grown man now! Especially if you're really busy, time flies! I wonder if this was originally written for a much longer time apart. Or maybe they were going for some sort of constrast with Man & Type - but if so it fails because the latter are way more mature about separation. Although maybe TOO mature, like they way 50-year olds would act in this situation.

Thank you! I didn't understand that at all.

I would have to run to the bathroom and uh, you know.

I believe you, but I couldn't find a hug anywhere. I mean a proper hug, not a shoulder hug.

The tossing the drink across the street was really over the top. It took me completely out of the story. In My Day there's an excellent product placement where Sky puts on sunglasses which was much less intrusive - it was still cheesy, but we at least got to watch him shirtless and flexing in the mirror.

Hello Stranger 8 had the worst offender of all time - Mico is devastated and depressed and he brushes his teeth and shines a fake smile into the camera - it was laugh-out loud bad.

I apologize, I didn't mean to sound so negative - I was being bitchy and half-serious.

I disagree to an extent, but probably not as much as you might expect. I get that their "love-language" is understated, and that's fine. But the specific narrative of these two episodes has been how torn up and sad Tine is without Sarawat and how much he misses him - to the point of crying uncontrollably and talking all day to his Wat doll.

To just sit and chat after all that doesn't work within the context of what we were given. You don't miss someone that much and then not at least hug each other.

I agree, and I was the same - it's not easy to come to terms with your sexuality in a conservative society. It was fine in the first season, but now it doesn't feel right - I don't think a public make-out session would have been appropriate for the characters, but there should have been at least a hug.

Yes - you're exactly right, it's the 1-year skip that makes it ridiculous. I was totally OK with it in the first series (although the high-5 was silly) - we know this is Tine's first relationship with a guy, and it would be alarming if they jumped straight into PDAs. But these aren't 12-year-olds, they're 20 or so and they live together. I too love the journey to the start of a relationship - for example I'm glad there was no kiss in Hello Stranger - it wouldn't have made sense for the characters. But there was an epic hug, and that's what was needed here.

If they want it to be this innocent and non-physical, then the characters need to be younger - maybe not 12, but 16. Then I would believe it.

I understand what you're saying about mature relationships (I assume you mean sex), but a hug is not particularly sexual - it's just an expression of love. I rarely even greet a friend without a hug - well, at least pre-COVID. I haven't touched another human being since February :(

Or, they need to have been in their relationship much longer, like 10 years, where you have that longer perspective and more comfortable love.

I enjoy reading your thoughts and I hope you continue!

I do like the main couple - that's why I'm still here. I can just fast-forward through the offensive stuff. It's just disappointing that it's there.

I agree, but I have higher hopes for a show with lgbtq+ content, and end up being more disappointed when it lets me down.

Agree! I really like it so far and am looking forward to the rest. For anything, it's not about budget, it's all about the writing! (And acting. Beautiful boys doesn't hurt either.) But if the budget is high, I'm less tolerant of a trainwreck than flaws in a passion project run on a shoestring.

I think Tine's sadness was just fine - it's a new relationship and he's never been apart from Wat before. My problem is that if he missed him THAT much, then perhaps he would want to do more than just sit next to him and chat upon reuniting. It didn't ring true, and it has nothing to do with my "narrow perspective", it has to do with the narrative of this specific story, which was inconsistent and didn't work. And, incidentally, my "narrow perspective" is 52 years and several long-term relationships.

I agree about PDAs - but the whole point of the story is was the separation, and not only did Wat inexplicably and ridiculously drive all the way back home and then stay hidden, which was stupid and purely to avoid the actors having to kiss, but then they didn't even hug after 2 weeks apart. There is no chance I will ever believe them as a romantic couple after this. I get the lack of overt affection last season - this was all new to Tine, but they've been living together for an entire year now. Straight dramas in the same conservative culture (and time slot) have way, way more physical love, and even most BL dramas do. There is no excuse for this and I can only attribute it to the refusal of the actors to do anything gay.

Although he's hot so I'll forgive him because I'm shallow.

If they're going to do product placement like that, I'm all in.

That's what I do too. Except it's more like 80%.

You're going to watch the most cringeworthy BL as reacted to by the most cringeworthy reactor? Yikes! I would need something heavier than alcohol for that.