I think I've figured out my issue with the first couple. If the plot is recapped by only using the basic storyline and excluding all the forcefulness, it sounds pretty promising.
The story starts off with Kuea confessing his love to Hia, but Hia rejecting him due to not wanting Kuea to think he likes the version of him who tries to conceal his real personality and interests. Kuea obviously becomes upset because he likes Hia, but doesn't want to force the marriage if the feelings aren't mutual while Hia tries to think of a way to make Kuea open up to him before he confirms feeling the same. He can't just tell Kuea that he knows about all the personal things he's keeping a secret from him (though he should've found these out from other people telling him rather than stalking Kuea's moves) and Kuea thinks Hia likes the fake version of him because that's how everyone in his family and that environment is expecting him to act. So Kuea goes through his inner conflict of wanting to break off the one-sided marriage while still hoping Hia will come to like him back and being unwilling to give upon the years of love. Meanwhile Hia is trying to construct a plan to make Kuea naturally open up to him and prevent him from leaving before that happens. Now, the house moving situation could've been constructed better since it was simply the product of Hia's plan. He wanted to become closer to Kuea while simultaneously getting him out of the environment where he was expected to act proper and was being frequently controlled and watched. The issue is, Hia ended up creating the same environment. This part should've been done in a way that Kuea actually wanted to leave his house (maybe because he had a fight with his parents who'd found out about him sneaking out, studying something different than they'd thought, ...) and having no choice but to go with Hia despite being hesitant. At that point Hia should've started allowing Kuea to do whatever decisions he wanted, mainly letting him freely leave and return without questions. In this way they would've naturally become closer and maybe finally learned some communication.
The issue I see is in the way this relationship was portrayed. It's unfortunately a wasted premise where the characters were supposed to learn some things about communication and opening up to each other about expectations and feelings, but instead most of this got lost in the context and unnecessary non-consensual scenarios. I have no idea where it went wrong though, whether the novel has included this issue or if the drama has misunderstood what the story was trying to tell.
It's a real shame the past 4 episodes didn't have the energy of episode 6, otherwise I personally would've enjoyed this drama a lot more :/ Suddenly all the forcefulness has disappeared as if the two Hias had never tried to control Kuea and Diao without ever asking them for consent or an opinion. If everything had simply been about misunderstandings and secrets the drama could've been a decent story about the four being worried whether the other could accept the truth or how he should tell him, with the high status actually having a meaning in the plot besides them being rich.
I am going to wait for how it plays out and might end up liking it more if the second part goes better. Also SynNuea has not disappointed yet, they have a great enemies to lovers potential.
Me too but he said something like "We are living like husband and wife " which i took like he referencing to a…
You're right, they did change it! That's making me feel slightly better about this series, at least we know they're trying to avoid some of the worst BL tropes instead of resurrecting them :)
Me too but he said something like "We are living like husband and wife " which i took like he referencing to a…
Did he? I don't speak Thai so I only had the subs to rely on. In that case it's the issue of the subtitler forcing the heteronormalcy :/ Thank you for letting me know!
How I understood it is that the two grandfathers were married so that's why them and the rest of the family were…
It was never officially confirmed, I just saw that there were no grandmothers in the background during the family gatherings and kind of pieced it together after seeing the two grandfathers doing everything together. No problem though!
Me too but he said something like "We are living like husband and wife " which i took like he referencing to a…
He could've just said "we're living like husbands" or "like a married couple" if they wanted to avoid the labels altogether. Seeing a gay couple be compared to a relationship between a man and a woman is an instant sign that the writers aren't being considerate of the actual lgbtq+ community and are instead only feeding into the fanservice. It's very disappointing to me when it's already been proven that it's possible to do the fanservice part while avoiding the harmful tropes :/
I've been trying to wrap my head around this arranged marriage part of the storyline??? Now, arranged marriages…
How I understood it is that the two grandfathers were married so that's why them and the rest of the family were accepting of same-sex relationships. And to be fair, it's not really an arranged marriage since Kuea and Hia did get an opinion to cancel it later on, but they just like each other so there was no reason to.
At this point I'm just waiting whether the two main couples will learn some healthy communication and Kuea with Daio gain some independent thinking after realising how they're being controlled and pushed around or if this will go down the disappointing route of the Hias confessing their real feelings and everyone just forgetting all their wrongdoings. I'm currently inclined to believe it's the latter, but I won't be making early assumptions until I've seen the whole thing.
So Dan wasn't a total traitor. He did betray them and gave out their location, but it was a price for having them be arrested instead of killed on the spot. He didn't dare to go against the entire police and had no other way of saving them. He basically gave up on his and Yok's relationship in order to save Yok's life :(
Did that really happen? Kind of funny in a peculiar way.
I'm pretty sure it used to be at 8.3 if my memory is correct. Definitely higher since I remember wanting to watch it because of the high rating until I'd read the reviews.
I'm personally really liking the slow burn romance between Sean and White with proper development and forming of emotional bond as friends before they fall for each other romantically :)
You wouldn't believe how happy it made me to see a pride parade and legal LGBTQ+ issues being depicted in a BL drama, I can already tell this is going to be getting a high rating from me.
im not saying this would be really cute as a GL but this would be really really cute as a GL
I was wondering if anyone had the same opinion! I'm only on episode 9, but so far the relationship between the two Min Jaes has had the best chemistry and romantic potential lol.
K-Drama 
If the plot is recapped by only using the basic storyline and excluding all the forcefulness, it sounds pretty promising.
The story starts off with Kuea confessing his love to Hia, but Hia rejecting him due to not wanting Kuea to think he likes the version of him who tries to conceal his real personality and interests. Kuea obviously becomes upset because he likes Hia, but doesn't want to force the marriage if the feelings aren't mutual while Hia tries to think of a way to make Kuea open up to him before he confirms feeling the same. He can't just tell Kuea that he knows about all the personal things he's keeping a secret from him (though he should've found these out from other people telling him rather than stalking Kuea's moves) and Kuea thinks Hia likes the fake version of him because that's how everyone in his family and that environment is expecting him to act.
So Kuea goes through his inner conflict of wanting to break off the one-sided marriage while still hoping Hia will come to like him back and being unwilling to give upon the years of love. Meanwhile Hia is trying to construct a plan to make Kuea naturally open up to him and prevent him from leaving before that happens.
Now, the house moving situation could've been constructed better since it was simply the product of Hia's plan. He wanted to become closer to Kuea while simultaneously getting him out of the environment where he was expected to act proper and was being frequently controlled and watched. The issue is, Hia ended up creating the same environment. This part should've been done in a way that Kuea actually wanted to leave his house (maybe because he had a fight with his parents who'd found out about him sneaking out, studying something different than they'd thought, ...) and having no choice but to go with Hia despite being hesitant. At that point Hia should've started allowing Kuea to do whatever decisions he wanted, mainly letting him freely leave and return without questions. In this way they would've naturally become closer and maybe finally learned some communication.
The issue I see is in the way this relationship was portrayed. It's unfortunately a wasted premise where the characters were supposed to learn some things about communication and opening up to each other about expectations and feelings, but instead most of this got lost in the context and unnecessary non-consensual scenarios.
I have no idea where it went wrong though, whether the novel has included this issue or if the drama has misunderstood what the story was trying to tell.
Suddenly all the forcefulness has disappeared as if the two Hias had never tried to control Kuea and Diao without ever asking them for consent or an opinion. If everything had simply been about misunderstandings and secrets the drama could've been a decent story about the four being worried whether the other could accept the truth or how he should tell him, with the high status actually having a meaning in the plot besides them being rich.
I am going to wait for how it plays out and might end up liking it more if the second part goes better.
Also SynNuea has not disappointed yet, they have a great enemies to lovers potential.
That's making me feel slightly better about this series, at least we know they're trying to avoid some of the worst BL tropes instead of resurrecting them :)
Thank you for letting me know!
No problem though!
Seeing a gay couple be compared to a relationship between a man and a woman is an instant sign that the writers aren't being considerate of the actual lgbtq+ community and are instead only feeding into the fanservice. It's very disappointing to me when it's already been proven that it's possible to do the fanservice part while avoiding the harmful tropes :/
I'm currently inclined to believe it's the latter, but I won't be making early assumptions until I've seen the whole thing.
He basically gave up on his and Yok's relationship in order to save Yok's life :(