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Oh I watched this right after my cat had passed away from cancer and I cried so much. That little speech he gave just hits you, especially if you are an animal lover.

Hello! I am a huge fan of Love Sick The Series. I have a blog in which I talk about the OG, the cast, the influence of LS on Thai BL, the history of Thai BL, etc. I just wrote a new blog in which I analyze the trailer. Here is the blog post:

https://boyloveperusal.com/2023/12/27/love-sick-2024-trailer/?fbclid=IwAR1dHlNYDmmhYX97QMllCbRUnCbeiRqUdMVMtB49xXBfgjgKYtEsPNtXYTE

Anyone know why GMMTV deleted the episodes on YouTube?

Just quick correction here. Corneal transplants are only done using dead donor's tissue. There are some newer, experimental techniques for certain eye transplants that use only partial tissue and so, one can use live donors. However, Day needs an entire cornea, so his will always have to be a dead donor.

Thai BL is directly derived from the Yaoi manga tradition. Yaoi is an acronym in Japanese for Yama nashi, Ochi nashi, Imi nashi ("no climax, no point, no meaning"). I believe it was something that either started as a self-deprecating joke or something non-yaoi readers used to call the stories. The entire point of a story was to get two guys together. You can see the roots of Yaoi in some BL novels, like Love Sick or anything in the mame-verse (TharnType, LITA, Love by Chance), or novels from the Cutie Pie-verse. Some Thai-BL authors are more Yaoi than others. I do like my stories less Yaoi-ish, actually, so I am not a huge fan of Mame or Cutie-pie (I did like TharnType and parts of LBC).

I would say most Thai BL writers are Japanese Yaoi fans and they take a lot of things from Yaoi, including the concepts of seme and uke and associated tropes and archetypes.

This series was adapted from a YAOI manga. The characters don't need much motivation to get together other than the fact that the writer wants them to end up together. That's just the nature of Yaoi.

There are definitely better adapted series and series that break from the yaoi mold, such as Stay With Me, or Only Friends, though they may really stray from the BL mold. Others thread the line between queer and BL narratives, such as Gameboys or Bad Buddy.

But I digress. As I said, the joke is that someone is complaining about BL not having plot, especially one that we know is adapted from a Yaoi novel. Just the fact that it is Yaoi should be a hint that your expectations can't be too high :) And I don't mean that as an insult to this series, which I am enjoying. I just think it is funny someone would complain about that.

I can see that. I usually associate soap operas with high drama. Like, the lover gets run over by a car and ends up in a comma while his lover's uncle owns the hospital and now he wants to secretly have him murdered by the nurse who is secretly dating his uncles lover.

Like complicated, highly dramatic, and highly unrealistic plots ;) That's soap opera to me. But yes, its also shallow :)

I hope you know that was a joke because of what the term Yaoi means :)

If its adapted from a real Yaoi, our expectations have to be low. After all, Yaoi is known for not having much plot LOL :)

Two episodes in but at this point I wouldn't call this soap opera.

I think a lot of ppl dropped it. I am very close to dropping it. I am on episode 4 or 5 and it is just boring. I love Title and his character's relationship with his brother is interesting. I am sorry to say that Phat is a very boring character. He is like Mr. Perfect. Just nothing interesting. He is a doctor, he is sweet, he is smart. Blah blah. Saengtai is a bit more interesting, but pretty vanilla overall. Saengthian is more interesting and his relationship with Lom has more going on for now than Tai and Phat.

It may get better later, and maybe the ratings don't reflect that because too many people dropped it before the story gets to the point. :O

Same thing happened to me. They did a really bad job conveying that to the audience.

Probably. I think it does require the parents to sign off on it but Thailands age of conscent is much lower than the USA. However, Thai censors also come into play.

I am starting to think that this adaptation will be very different from the book. No sex, maybe some quick smooches. Nothing too intense.

You are applying western concepts and ideas into Southeast Asian culture. Its great that you want to advocate for Thai people of color, but the issue is more complicated than representation. And I say that as someone who also gets annoyed at the blatant colorism in BL. I hate when they make the actors look more white, bleach them with makeup or by using lights or in post-production.

There is not much the actors can do. A full time actor in Thailand has to grab every opportunity they have. Its not like they have many channels and studios to choose from. I would definitely not put any blame on the actor.

It is really about the culture. People in South East Asia, even people with dark skin, believe that dark skin is ugly and unhealthy. They think light skin is healthy and beautiful. That's just how they see it. And who am I to argue? Sun exposure does increase skin cancer risk. They may have a point.

What we can do is support the few actors who are dark skinned and make sure the studios know the international fan love them and don't have a problem with them being dark.... :)

https://boyloveperusal.com/2021/04/06/looking-back-six-years-of-love-sick/

You will have a kick out of this blog I wrote in which I detail the ways in which Love Sick has influenced Thai BLs. Check it out!!!

Well, only one actor will be 14, the one who plays Mick. I assume he will be a wall flower just like in the original. No kisses, and very little if amy romance.

The rest of the cast will be older, 15 to 17.

We will see. This may go either way. I agree that Nohs character is not easy to get right. He is pretty complex. I am not worried about Mick or August, those are flat characters, but Noh, Earn, and Phun are more fleshed out. We will see!

You clearly have forgotten the original and, like many others, you are not thinking about the way Thai series are made.

We have now a "trailer" of the series. Unlike in the West, this trailer is shot by itself. The series was not fully casted until recently. I don't think principal photography has started. The series will most likely be shot next year. By this time, the actor that plays Noh will be 15, which is EXACTLY how old Captain was when he started filming the series. In fact, I remember reading an article where Captain said he turned 15 in the set of Love Sick.

The actor who plays Phun is also about the same age as White was when he filmed Love Sick. The youngest actor is the guy who plays Mick. This actor is 13 now and will turn 14 next year. This actually mirrors the original casting of the actor who played MIck in S2 of Love Sick. He was 14 when the series was filmed.

So all in all, I say most of these critiques about the age of the actors are not taking into consideration the production cycle of Thai series and are conveniently forgetting the age of the original cast.

Your comment is coming off as transphobic. Transwomen are WOMEN. As shown in the series, Yai is heterosexual. I say as shown because of course, we don't know much about him at this point. There are people who are exclusively attracted to pre-surgery trans women, others are not and would only date a post-surgery transwoman. So where in the heterosexual spectrum he falls, we don't know. Only thing we know is that at the moment, he is shown as being heterosexual, that is a man who is attracted to woman.

Yes! A little. He is a cross of Singto and Peak (From Make It Right). I think he looks a lot more like Peak, but I have also thought he looks like Singto. Glad, I am not the only one!

BTW He is gorgeous and sexy and cute is what he is! :)

Hey! Hands Off! LOL

JK

I am glad to find someone that has great taste in men like I do :) LMAO

73rd generation CU cheerleader? WTH? Thats impossible! The school is not that old! Lol