jpny01

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.

The problem is that her mood swings from horrendous bitch to unbelievably horrendous bitch, and the way she spoke to Sky's mother was unforgivable, so I've lost all respect for Sky and I hope Ace finds a man who isn't too weak to stand up for his own mother, not this spineless loser.

it makes sense. It's kind of hard to tell who's trans, who's a drag-queen that we're supposed to regard as playing a woman (what exactly is Miss Becky?) and who's an effeminate man since all the non-heteronormative-behaving men are portrayed as fawning clowns. Contrast that with Jennie in Thai BLs who is never a joke character, and she's both central to the plot and terrifying in 3 Will Be Free.

USA. I know we're less touchy-feely in general than Filipinos, but still, in the workplace, you can't be all over someone you have power over like Jelai does to Jam. Plus, I think if someone in your family has been beaten, is unconscious, sick, & bruised, you might assign that a higher priority than grotesquely flirting with a total stranger who's trying to tend to your brother's injuries.

I keep getting ads for lesbian therapists, which seems to me to be a major failing in the ad personalization algorythm.

I find the potrayal of effeminate and trans characters so offensive that I need sedatives by the end of every ep because I'm so pissed off. Jelai and Sky's brother are just plain sexual predators, and the screeching every time Ace is in a scene with a trans character - it's all so cringy and revolting. Everything else I can forgive, but this is a major moral failing in the production, and is spreading incredibly negative lgbtq+ stereotypes to a mass audience.

I'm having a hard time with the misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia. I'm usually so angry by the end of an ep that I want to light things on fire, and I'm not sure that's what they were hoping for in an audience member, and it's not really the mood I'm looking for in my leisure activites.

It's a trainwreck, and it's full of incredibly offensive stereotypes. I don't mind if the story and acting get off to a rough start (the acting of the mains is good, so it's enough), but the disgusting homophobia diplayed in the predatory effeminate characters is truly revolting, not to mention the misogyny. I wish it were possible to give something a negative rating, Jelai openly sexually harasses Jam non-stop, Sky's brother is fawning all over Ace, who's trying to tend to his bruised and battered brother, and every trans character screams at the top of their lungs non-stop whenever Ace is nearby. Why can't characters both be effeminate (or trans) and non-ridiculous?

It's a shame, because they two leads are endearing and so cute together.

They saved the show from... the sin of same-sex love, by not having any? They saved it from offending asexuals? Saved it from being the worst BL on the air by making it 3rd worst?

When you see each other, do you you sit on steps and chat, or do you have your partner naked within 10 seconds of entering the room? I'm curious to hear your reaction to their reunion.

We mean a real kiss, not barely touching lips while eating a pretzel or sniffing each other.