BL Drama Lovers Club

 ourpeachscones:

@seojoons gf

I guess I just haven’t seen a show that “good” enough to compare it to 2gether. Specifically with Thai dramas, the writing or acting is either too terrible to me to continue watching, or if it has good writing and acting, there’s a ton of sexual intimacy. And I don’t care if that intimacy is there, I’d just sometimes like to watch something enjoyable that also doesn’t have it? I guess I’m looking for something that resembles a qpr (because that’s really the only thing I can connect to and understand romantically), but in places that no one else wants them. 

I’d have to give it another view to properly “see” this “lack of chemistry” because I don’t remember that being an issue for or point to me. I liked the leads together. 

Also, hello fellow aspec person <3. 

i completely agree with the thing about thai dramas. i think in general you have to hold thai dramas to a lower standard/not have high expectations because im sure peoples opinions on a lot of thai dramas would be very different if held to the standard of for example kdramas(and i think thats my problem lmfao i watch a lot more k/jdramas and can barely stand a lot of thai dramas). i also get what you mean about wanting smth similar to a qpr, and if i look at it from the pov of looking for a show w that 2gether would make sense, but for me though it did fill the fluff box it didnt make up for the writing, editing & acting. but i hope in the future there are a lot more and better representations of qprs or anything similar !

@seojoons gf 

Thank you for your response :)! I personally don’t like most Thai dramas either (you have no idea how many I’ve had to drop due to bad acting and storylines). I think I watched 2gether during a time when I was still figuring myself out, so it’s acted as a guide on my journey and made me feel happy. I definitely agree that the acting and story itself isn’t superior to a few other Thai BLs or other EA BLs, however, I liked it much much more than a lot of the shows that have been airing for the past while now.  It’s one of the few cases where the content and intent (or rather the impact that I received from it) of it outweigh the acting and storyline. But again— the acting was much better than much of what I’ve seen in the Thai industry. 

I hope to see more qpr representation in the media too! Thank you so much :).

I think a lot of this comes down to what your expectations are of a genre/show. Most people watch BL for just that a relationship between to "Boys" with some degree of "love/intimacy".  Now does a show have to have  KP/TharnType/Dont Say No levels of NC scenes.....absolutely not. But it is frustrating when shows tease or hype up  a more intimate relationship but then dont actually deliver that.

2gether for me is a perfect example of this. The very first thing Bright says is I will kiss you until you drop! The show is straight away setting expectations of a level of intimacy  that they do not deliver on. They play on the expectation time and time again. So it becomes frustrating that when they finally do become a couple it seems odd that they are not more physically intimate (again just a few kisses would have gone far).  if the show had set the viewers expectation at a more bromance/no intimacy level i think people would have liked it more. 

Tale of a thousand stars is another show that for me personally  played up the promise of a physical relationship but never delivered and then expected me to believe that these 2 people were willing to commit themselves  to wait for each other for an unspecified number of years without even a single kiss?  That is counter to the type of relationship story they had been telling the entire series. hence I found it a bit disappointing. 

On the flip side you have these 2 shows

Untamed is a great example of not needing any physical intimacy but still being a BL that people obsess over because of how good  the chemistry and relationship are.  Even if you didnt know it was a China Censored show, from the outset the show never leads you on to thinking there is going to be physical intimacy. Instead it shows the power of love in a relationship. 

Light on Me another series i really like that has one kiss in it and thats totally fine because the show never leads you to expect anything more than that.  It is about the emotional growth of the characters and i ate it up!

My only issue with 2gether was that after the 2 "get" each other the Chemistry as a pair was gone.
Not because they had no intimacity, just because they felt like best buddies or brothers or something like that.
Take for example Love Mechanics ( because i'm watching this right now ;-) ) Even if you let the Intimacity Scenes by side you can feel their desire ( not the sexual one, just the one to be close to the other) with every single Eyecontact.
Yes the Plot lacks at other parts but the acting is awesome.
In 2gether i missed any tension or closeness thats more than a good friendship. It was just gone after they became a couple.

Talking about "Love Mechanics".

I regret not watching it sooner because the chemistry between the leads is damn good.  If we patchify the plot here and there a bit it would have been better. As usual push & pull  relationship, 

 Raining Sunshine:

Talking about "Love Mechanics".

I regret not watching it sooner because the chemistry between the leads is damn good.  If we patchify the plot here and there a bit it would have been better. As usual push & pull  relationship, 

That show is so good? Like I love the real life messiness of it + the boys are doing a good job acting <3

@loubug

That’s true. It can be annoying to have expectations set for something and then not be delivered. Considering that I didn’t care about how much intimacy they had, even if they set that expectation, I didn’t care if they delivered it either I guess. Again it probably wasn’t their intent and just poor writing/commitment to acting, but I can understand saying things that one does not mean or regrets saying and does not want to follow through with. 

Also one thing I’d like to comment on is how some people were saying some of BrightWin’s scenes together were awkward— and that’s another thing that I probably didn’t notice/get bothered by. Love for me is awkward! And they made it seem normal. 

I’m definitely an odd case liking every “flaw” that everyone else hates.