Nolan Peale

Finally. I guess the question is, would I want a season 2? I liked Shin and Asuka. The adult characters, less so. My fear would be that BL never does good sequels. They just come up with reasons to rehash the issues of season 1. So if the sequel was “Minato gets cold feet when he remembers another love from his pass” and it takes 12 episodes for them to kiss at the end, I wouldn’t bother to start watching. I might watch Asuka find someone else to date.

The fortune teller said so.

Because Jian's response to the kiss wasn't what he wanted. "I'll take your offer under consideration and get back to you next week" after that kiss was a bit of a let down. I think Ray doesn't want to make this a negotiation this time. Last time he did that, he ended up doing things to change himself for his ex and it still didn't work out. I think he just wanted someone to like him right away.

Yeah. Those conversations were especially difficult to watch, but then we have more information than they did about just how controlling Ye Guang's parents are. And its not like Mother Xu is going to advise a 16 year old she barely knows to run away from home and come live with her. And it is usually considered bad in most cultures, my own included, for an adult to overtly interfere with someone else's parenting. She can offer an ear, but no real solution. She gave the advice that's acceptable for her to give.

Unfortunately, there's no cause to rally around until Ye Guang comes up with something he wants. And due to his upbringing, he doesn't want anything except to be able to relax a little bit and a chance to find a hobby he can be passionate for. (And Qi Zhang, too. Qi Zhang is like a hobby.) If he didn't have Qi Zhang, though, his story wouldn't be remarkable.

Peach's band took the rejection well. "Well, sure we've been working together for years, but go ahead and ditch us when we finally get an audition so you can snuggle up with your honey. We'll think of something. Don't mind us. We totally don't need a lead guitar or lead singer 3 days before our potential big break. Why don't you take the songs, too!"

Ye Guang's parents combine the worst part of Chinese parenting (your most important grade is how obedient or disobedient we interpret your actions at any time!) with the worst aspects of American upper middle class parenting (we need to consult an expert! I'm surprised they didn't hand him a jar of Ritalin at the end of that discussion).

Yeah, Ray Ray was a little bit much this episode, but I think he's responding to his past. I don't think with others it works out well when they say "I have to think about it." That doesn't go well for him. He let his ex think about it for months and that ex in the end preferred to go back to his girlfriend. I think he's also looking for someone who wants to be seen with him, and this came after a scene where it was a struggle for Jian to have his picture taken with him.

I don't know how they are going to end this next week. We still have a head boy election, a declaration of true feelings, a first kiss (let's hope!), and Ye Guang discovering what he really wants to get through. Plus at least 3 musical interludes. I'm having a tough time thinking all his issues with his mom and dad are going to get resolved.

What's interesting about the series thus far for me is the perspective this series has on shipping. Its at once giving a lot of the hard-core BL shippers exactly what they've always fantasized about: that the couples are real. They are indeed having sex and dating - just saying things like "he's my brother" to throw us off, but when you go deep behind the scenes, they are truly real and worth investing emotional time on. At the same time, all of the real couples are, TBH quite lousy. Like if we were allowed to go deep behind the scenes to watch these "real couples", and really knew the actors in the ships, we wouldn't like what we found.

Fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine applies to this new couple. Even if Gus eventually truly falls for Bew, I can't be happy for the couple. I can't see how trust could ever be restored once Bew finds out the truth.

Episode 1 was fine. It would have been helpful if Sherbert's one night stand didn't look so much like Fah so I wouldn't have been confused thinking it was a flash forward. I guess Sher has a type.

I agree with the comments below. From certain angles Sher could pass for Prem. Prince also looks a lot like Phu from Brothers, to the point where I was excited to see him again. Lost the baby fat and grew slim. LOL. Nope. Same ears, different actor.

The cast is good looking, although I call dibbs on Tle. I think he has the best body and hope to see more of it to be proven right.

I hope they keep it light. Everyone is dating the wrong person at the moment and this could be a slightly raunchy sex comedy/rom-com. Tle and Fah's relationship is a mess, but nothing that a little break up would solve. No need to go high drama.

Watching this one mainly for JC, who I thought was very good as Henry in Hookup. And Kaleb has been around. But sheesh. If they had dropped the gender swap and just made this a story about a gay teen and a transman in love with the men who are dating their sisters, it would have been a better starting point. Although casting JC as a transman would have been problematic.

Its like they're trying to make a BL Gender Swap without having bothered to read the comments of BL fans as to why they don't like gender swaps, though.

Also it would have been better make Robin a bit less straight and a bit less pathetic, because Charlie seems like a complete dunce pining after a suicidal drunkard because "he smells nice." I'm sure when Tuti isn't chopping onions he smells just fine. Just go kiss him and get it over with. Let the sister you hate date the guy who can't get over his ex.

Episode 9:
O.K. I'm failing to understand Thai dating culture in this series. I thought they were dating in ep 7, but they weren't. And again in ep 8. And they weren't. Now its ep 9 and are they a couple or not?

The birthday party scene reminds me that they should play up a bit more about how this universe is different more often. Like instead of a character wearing a "New York" T-Shirt like someone did this episode, they should replace it with, IDK, "Oconomowoc, WI" like that's the place in the States you'd go on an international holiday. Those candles were way too long for that tradition. You'd go blind. LOL.

Wow, that fight was intense and I'm really pissed at Talay's behavior. He's wanted Puen to open up about his past and when he tries to, instead Talay uses what he knows to escalate what could have been a good talk into an emotional knife fight. He just all around sucks in the ways he drives Puen away. Sorry, but Puen does not owe Talay an apology for having doubts about returning home. On the other hand, I'm thinking "Yeah, they aren't dating, but they're already having "But honey, we already settled this" fights like they've been together 7 years.

I wonder if Fuse/Aou is supposed to be a side couple in a spin off. It seems kind of late in the story to add them. Boom must have drawn the short straw when they went around looking for actors to remove their shirts because we haven't had much flesh shown since the mains had a bath scene in ep 3.

That may be the case. What we're never going to get from LoS is a sequel with them meeting ever again. The director said that LoS was a very personal film for him and that in real life, they never met up and rekindled what they started. This may follow the path of the movie where Cake gets sent abroad to stop them from going further (a la My Bromance) but has them reconcile for closure.

Sand has been very upfront about being poor, though. One of the reasons Seeiw is doing that is that he's being helpful. I'm not sure why Sand doesn't want the free meal at Seeiw's house, though.

He has a better flip phone than the other characters.

Yeah. That's just odd. I mean, I'm an 80s kid, and even when I was a kid, I thought his fans were "Old". Not "Old old" like my mom who was in her late 30s, but still pretty old. LOL.

Yeah. The posters in Cake's room make me think that he's living in an inherited room. Like they would be his older brother's. Cake would have been about 5 when Oasis was at its peak. And I can't see his mom letting him listen to Eminem at that age.

O.K. this was the best episode so far. I think we got a chance to see that Cake is also overbearing. Its not just Seiiw being "naggy."

I'm glad they had him finish Love of Siam. I thought his reaction was the correct one for the times he was living in. Love of Siam was probably be most humane of the gay themed media in Thailand he could have stumbled onto at that time, but it was still a weeper. But it was a movie where he could see himself and his story. There were quite a few lady boy comedies around that time, but that's not who he is. I do want to send a note to his sister to try to find a copy of Right By Me, so he could see himself and his story in a way that wouldn't make him feel so hopeless. Beyond those comedies, Right by Me, or LoS, everything else he could have watched would have been too depressing and tragic. I'd hate to see his reaction to Bangkok Love Story. As unrealistic as BL can be sometimes, it does end up with happy endings most of the time. Had he been exposed to media for the first time in 2022, he'd feel like there were more possibilities out there.

I'm having a tough time believing that that was his first time having ice cream or going to a park to swing on a swing set. Sheesh. This is some sheltered life he's led. I hope Sand turns out to be an o.k. friend. I don't think he's imaginary as someone posted below. Way too much detailed backstory for Eeiw to be wandering about talking to himself.

I think we did some sleuthing early on and decided it was 2006. But Love of Siam was released in 2007.

Some key things that are missing: No one has a smart phone. The IPhone was introduced in 2007 and these characters aren't wealthy enough to have them yet.

However, no one seems to have an iPod or Mp3 player. No one is watching videos on YouTube or on Facebook. Which would be 2004/2005ish.

Thua knows who did it, but he was in the class I think. I took stills of every group shot I could find, and I think I see Thua there, standing with his back to the camera. At least a kid who has Thua's haircut. I do hope its one of those and it isn't some new character who we don't know yet.

I think a victory milestone for this couple is Takara with a party hat on actually enjoying himself because he has a party hat on and not immediately jumping back into his shell. Amagi seems like the kind of kid who'd enjoy having that kind of party and shouldn't have to spend the rest of his life worrying whether Takara is happy in that situation simply because Takara refuses to show enjoyment.