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Which series have you seen that are hidden gems that are better than this?

https://boyloveperusal.com/2020/06/07/lovesick-the-series-synopsis/


Love Sick is my favorite series, so I started a blog to talk about it. If you don't want to watch it, my blog offers an episode by episode summary and analysis of the series. I also have a Seven Years of Love Sick special blog where I discuss the impact of the series in Thai BL.

I also have other articles about Thai BL. I haven't done a new post in a long time... I need to get back to it. :) (I also have a podcast with a friend and the link is in the blog somewhere...)

OMG I looked it up! You are right! They are both minors! So King is younger but Burger is still 17!

Oh now that makes me feel awkward because I really thought King was 18. I feel bad LOL, I kept looking at him thinking he needs to go to the gym, but OK, he is just a teenager LMAO.

You know what is really weird? I was low-key shipping King with Shogun. :O

Really? I am gonna check because I was told the opposite!

BTW for me, I haven't watched 2Moons 1 because I think Bass looks like a prepubescent child. I also had a real hard time adjusting to seeing Phuwin now as a sex symbol because I first watch it as a kid in My Tee, so again I get it. It took me NLMG to really see sexy Phuwin because in FUTS I was like, what do you all see? He needs a bib, he is a child. LOL

I just don't agree with those specific instances you mention being bad. Maybe we just have different tolerance levels for different things.

And I am guessing you won't watch Love Sick either? Too bad. Love Sick and Make It Right, are two really good series. To me Love Sick is still the mother of all BLs and one of the best ever. We owe it all to Love Sick.

Anyway, I get your point. I don't agree with it, but I get it. Just for your information, while it is true that Ohm was playing a gigolo and in season 2 he was heavily sexualized, this is not true for season 1. I mean, yes he is shirtless a couple of times, but it is not really in a sexual way. He just is. Like a guy playing basketball. It is actually Boom who gets more sexualized IMO. He was 15 I think? IDK But its really only in episode 1, after that its just a regular BL...

For Love by Chance, the only reason I mention it is because if you did watch it, then you also got some pretty erotic scenes featuring a 17 year old Perth. Now, that is shocking. Perth is great in LBC, but I have to wash my eyes with soap if I even think about that one. Ugh. And BTW if you put up with 17 year old Perth then watching Ohm and Boom in MIR or Captain in Love Sick is nothing. That is PG compared to LBC.

Anyway, it is Thailand and for them its OK.

Yeah, I watched that scene again. I think you got confused. So, King (who is 18 I think?) takes his shirt off. That particular part of the scene takes maybe a few seconds at most. Then he goes to Burger, who refuses to takes his jacket off. King forces him and eventually succeeds. Burger quickly covers himself. I think that unless you pause the video, you barely get a peek at him shirtless. So, I am not sure what you are talking about. You are probably confusing the King scene with the Burger scene.

Or maybe I re-watched the wrong scene?

So no, for me it was fine. IDK I am a guy. I go to the gym. I don't really see anything sexual with that scene at all. It was done playfully. It was kind of cute and funny. Burger looked like a little kid. He was super embarrassed. For me, I didn't find it exploitative.

You can complain about the scene were he is in bed with King. I re-watched that scene too today. I will grant you that it was sexual. However, it took not even 1 second. I think that was on purpose. They probably didn't want to get in trouble. Having said that, a similar scene that takes place way longer in Make It Right, had a 15 year old actor playing the role of Tee... So, while it would have been controversial, it wouldn't be illegal or get censored in Thailand....

LOL

I agree. This is the worst editing I have seen in a BL since My Tee or Make It Right Season 2. This belongs to 2014. LOL

The scene with Burger taking his shirt off? Right? I can't remember that scene well, but if that's what it was, didn't he do it sort of in a weird, awkward way, and he went kind of slowly, then pause or something? I thought it was meant to be "sexy" for King but not the audience. I didn't get that it was perverted or anything but maybe I am recalling the wrong scene or I just didn't think that way.

I think the word you are looking for is exploitative. But no, I don't think that scene was exploitative. If anything, they have treated that actor with a lot of respect. He plays the cutest, most innocent character.

I understand this concern but on the other hand, I am a bit uncomfortable with the idea that when a minor dresses a certain way it means someone will think dirty thoughts and that somehow that someone's dirty thoughts is the fault of the minor dressing in a certain way. People with dirty minds will always have dirty thoughts, even if you wrap said minor in thick black bubble wrap and only let his eyes be visible. If you say "he/she is a minor", the pedo's eyes will still light up in delight. THEY ARE THE PROBLEM, not the minor.

I hope that made sense!

And BTW, yes they are portraying minors but to be clear, only the guy playing Burger is a minor IRL. Well, at least the other ones are 18+.

You must be new to BL. Have you ever watched Make it Right, Love Sick, Love by Chance?

Are you uncomfortable that they are portraying minors or that they are minors? Both?

I suspect that whenever you see lots of this, its due to a translator using software to do the translations.

I low-key ship Shogun and King hahaha But I know King likes Burger... :(

I cant answer for sure why the shorts are so short, but in most other series, the shorts are this short. Love Sick, MIR, and i think (not sure) in my gear and your gown they were also this short.

This is a private school so maybe its different, as all of the BLs i mentioned take place in private schools

I thought that it was a good episode. The pacing was good. Editing is still an issue, but the story did make sense and the twist at the end got me because I wasn't expecting that.
I still like Ken. But apparently, I am alone on this. I think he might be bisexual, but he hasn't come out as such and everyone assumes he is gay, so maybe he is. He definitely has issues, but I still like him better than Matteo. I think Matteo is not genuine.
The way they are treating all the female characters is terrible. While Love Sick had some good female characters, Make It Right had 0 positive depictions of females. This series is similar in that sense. No surprise that it is directed by a MIR alumni.
I don't know if Prim jumped or not, but that scene just before she jumped made me a bit uncomfortable. I don't think she is being treated fairly by Ken, but what is worst is how she is being treated by her current boyfriend (who didn't even try to defend her) and the writers of this show, who seem to be --literally-- willing to push her off a cliff (or the ith floor of the school) as long as she is out of the life of Hida and Saint so they can have their happy BL ending.
Ken's ex may be evil, but she is also apparently treated as a second-class citizen because she is a bit darker. Why introduce such critical social commentary on the next to last episode and treat it as a footnote? And also make us not really sympathize with the character?
They should have had one scene at least with Burger and King. It felt weird that they were not in this episode.

see my comment above

The whole point of that was to RAISE awareness, not to endorse it. We are supposed to feel bad for the character that gets rejected for it.

600k+ in 5 days. Not too bad.

I think Hook is just more catchy and that's why its more of a hit. Personally, I like Fourth voice better.

Thai directors love to play with color. Usually certain characters are associated with certain colors...