Nolan Peale

Yeah. I'm gushing over this series. Its still early and it could turn out to be very tropey. But it really is a pleasant surprise to have a series that isn't targeted to teenagers.

Yeah. The not so subtle incest subtext that's going on here has a certain retro-appeal. Freud is out of fashion for good reason and you don't find writers layering psychoanalysis into their characters' internal motivations much these days. I'm thankful that this series is on One, because I would rather much fear that these three might end up in a threesome if One network didn't have censors at the ready.

"So, young man, this dream you had where you've replaced your dead father and desire his ex-lover...and this thing where you're jealous of your mother's lovers and call her "honey". Interesting. Oh, you can't tell if she's your mom, your friend, your sister or a girlfriend. Vhy don't you tell me more." Freud would be salivating about the next book he could write about Wang's head.

I'm onboard, even though the cinematography is rather stagey. I think that's intentional as it puts us into the position of the audience and isn't pretending that we've been invited into the house as guests.

I love the arguments between mother and son. They actually behave like people do when they argue. They talk over each other. They aren't waiting for the other person to stop talking. They raise their voices. It reminds me a lot of "I killed my mother". It also reminds me an awful lot of an American gothic family stage drama more than a Lakorn.

Pond is...my god. He's a product of Nadao's acting development process. Where do they keep finding them! And he's just gorgeous.

I'm also fine that this isn't a BL. If it was, when Wang pulled In down to the bed, they would have locked eyes. LOL.

I desperately want to take them both to a barber. Amagi’s style looks worse than I did when I cut my own hair during Covid lockdown.

Japanese Adult Video (aka Japanese porn)

There's an entire genre of JAV devoted to sex in suits like that. So its someone's erotic imagination.

And to no one's surprise except maybe Kim, Baiboon made a full recovery from falling down and was able to walk again. Sheesh.

Please, pretty please, BL Gods, if you can hear my prayer. Stop giving us Uke characters who get sick after a rain storms and who collapse 5 feet into a 50 meter dash. Just stop with the Uke's are perpetually fragile flowers. We get it. Masculine Santa can handle a scratched knee, while feminine Earth needs to be hospitalized for stepping in a puddle. But gosh, its tiresome. Its amazing uke's live to adulthood.

Yeah. Thai politics is complicated and it doesn't surprise me that Ayan ends up both supporting uniforms one moment and protestors against uniforms the next. Or on the one hand, chiding the prefects for being authoritarians but trying to correct the teacher on her interpretation of a fascist dictator. (Marshall Phibunsongkhram was, no kidding, an actual fascist. Sometimes, you don't get to choose your examples of modernizing reformers of the past, especially when so few have managed to stay in power that long).

Thank you. I was going to write something similar. If the textbooks are heavily censored, then the internet where "anyone can write anything" might end up being a better source. The writers of textbooks may have authority, but they have that authority because they will only write certain things in an approved way.

Bl characters are notably fragile.

Tun’s place, although small, it’s kind of cool. I’d live there. Plus Tess’s brother drops in whenever he feels like it.

Overall, I liked it. But I did feel like the last 3 episodes were written and directed by someone different than the first 3 episodes. I still think Vee is a dumb ass and Mark would do better to date someone else, like me, for instance. I guess we'll be seeing them both again as I think the series was successful so those relationships that they teased us with in the final episode will get the go ahead to start filming.

Yeah. I didn't notice. I'm fine if it is. Its pretty standard these days to try to relate to the youth of the day by having kids live in their phones and insert a social influencer character. That they've opted not to have Seeiw and Cake send texts to each other all the time is commendable because as we know, subbers don't think texts are important and that while we need English subs when people talk , somehow we can read Thai fluently.

I mean, Jeff Satur is 27 and Barcode is 17, but from the moment the Earth Santa ship hit the airwaves (and I do think this is a manufactured ship), only one of the older actors got accused of "grooming" and "pedophilia". I just can't put my finger on why that is.

This BL has the possibility of going in the standard "Cake doesn't realize that he likes Seeiw until he gets jealous" route and the "uke spends all of his time wanting a boyfriend, but is shocked to find that sex might be involved with that." route. So I'm skeptical. And I was a wondering a bit at why Seeiw was so excited to get balloons. Hopefully they'll explain that. But otherwise, I understand the character. He's a boy scout - like quite literally there's a boy scout uniform visible when we first meet him - and a kid who has filtered in way too much moral instruction so that he's wound up. I'm sorry if you've never met an uptight kid who thinks that if he follows all the rules life will go better for him. Who believed too much what the guidance counselor said about the eternal consequences of breaking school rules and the permeant mark on one's record. But those kids actually do exist, and he wouldn't be the first gay kid to think that if he followed all the other rules except this single irrelevant "no sodomy" rule that maybe he'd get a passing mark. But that's who he is. Also, he doesn't hector strangers - there's one specific boy who needs to walk the straight line with him. Its not going to work, but its only ep 1.

Curios about the time setting of this series. I'm assuming that its around 2003. No one has cell smart phones or mentions video gaming or social media or ear buds. Next episode, Cake will be chatting on a computer, so we're probably around 2003.

I like that we're in downscale HS for a change. We've had too many elite boarding schools with everyone living in palatial mansions even if their sole source of income is a home baking company. They live above their stores.

It does seem odd that "critics" are getting pissy about Earth's age. The synopsis indicates that there will be a time jump when Cake goes abroad. Whatever. Singto is going to be doing a high school series. Outside of Louis, most of the main cast of the Eclipse could only pass as high school students at a school for children who have been forced to repeat grades several times. I guess this standard applies specifically to Earth. I guess hating the ship means you have to hate the series.

O.K. its getting weird that what attracted Kamol to Kim was Kim's ability to handle his violent, insatiable sexual appetite, but since episode 1, he's been nothing but a cuddle bunny.

Yep. Agreed. He's probably not going there on his own, either.

It would be an unexpected twist if Sun hired a goon to break Tew's arm. It is rather convenient, isn't it. That this happened just then, when Sun was starting to get frustrated over the constantly rescheduled auditions...He blacks out when he doesn't have apples. Maybe it isn't his heart that's the issue. If he doesn't have apples he turns into Mr. Hyde...