Nolan Peale

O.K. I'm kind of liking this more than most other BLs that are on at the moment and it looks like they now have a decent subber. Plus they corrected ep 2s subs. No more Pitch/Pizza/Picci/Pigsty.

I'm wondering how many episodes it will be before someone enters Cruella de Suzy's room and finds out that she makes coats out of the skins of young twink stars who disobey her.

I'd like all the folks over at Step By Step who are bitching and moaning about their boss and how much he micromanages everything to drop everything and watch this series. This is what a control freaky micromanaging boss looks like.

Can fangirl be more obvious?

Anyway, I'm guess that the reason that Soo hates Gun so much is that Gun and his brother were a secret item and Suzy had him run over by a car because of that. Now that it looks like Pitch is abandoning him for Gun, I hope he blows. Soo is such a cute innocent that if this ends with him hacking everyone with a machete, It'll be fun.

More mess.

I don't know how far gone you are down the fujoshi hole, but...that dude who was running the lines when Soo walked in was Soo's brother. It was a dream sequence.

If you respond "O.K. Then I'll move on", you're still safe.
If you respond "Ooooh. Incest. All the better!" you might be too far gone down the BL path for us to save.

Probably geared more towards action fans rather than sci-fi fans. Lots of humans taking constant beatings and then recovering to take some more. LOL. I wasn't really drawn into the story, but I appreciated a few things about it. While the plot was busy and all the characters had a lot of tasks to accomplish - solve a mystery, prevent a disaster, destroy the evil company, get a job, figure out what it means to be a mutant, etc. - I like that they showed at least some restraint and didn't and add "find true love" to the grocery list. I also liked that unlike the teen dsytopian stories from the last decade, Sa Wol didn't become the magic teen chosen one who once discovered would become the leader of the rebellion (while finding true love). I was worried about that for a bit. Nope. Thank god. "Here, noob. Your metal bones are great and all, but grab a gun and do what I tell you."

Otherwise, it felt a bit too video-gamey for me, and like they were worried that if they went more than 5 minutes without someone throwing a punch or getting in a car chase, they'd lose us.

Soulmate romances get boring quickly, since there’s 0 chance that their relationship can be any more than delayed. This one is especially problematic because they have already met and like each other. I guess the writers discovered that as they spent 30 minutes giving us a POV that didn’t change anything. Dr. Phat is as nice as he was when we met him. Oh, if you thought he was rude to jump in line last episode, your worries were put to rest. Someone must have been worried about it, maybe.

They are gonna just drag this out. At least someone hasn’t spent 10 minutes telling the missing piece fable that writers of soulmate stories like to tell.

Anyway, hopefully it will be revealed that if you actually deny your soulmate, you end up in peril so that there will be some stakes. Maybe the genes that cause hearing loss grant other powers beyond making it easier to find your lover. Of if you hook up with someone else, someone your brother dies.

Whatever they do, though, no one better harm that cat. That is one very well behaved Floofy friend.

I get Cher. I really do. I mean, last episode the mom told him to stop seeing her son and it looked lit he had some courage. But really, he just realized that he might not pass his internship so he went back and continued to sleep with the boss until he got an A. Then dumped him once he got what he needed. I mean, that's a character in a completely different kind of Thai series, but we've been reading this series all wrong. It's really high lakhorn.

I'm going to guess that all that broohaha last week about Thoop going to jail was just a way to get 500K baht out of him. That didn't look like a real jail and those police were all in on the scam.

Honestly, in my dream, next week when Cher comes back, Gun is dating Thoop. You know, that kid who Cher said that he loved who Gun is supposed to help keep out of jail and has no good reason to now? "While waiting for you, I decided to have Thoop work off that 500K baht debt plus the lawyers fees I fronted by providing me sexual favors and it turns out, he's a nice enough guy, so I really don't need you any more."

I spent a good chunk of my early career working in a toxic professional work environment similar, but in many ways worse, than this one. I'm actually enjoying watching Jeng attempt a cultural transformation and that the writers are taking it slow. I went through that and the results were wonderful. But early on, the toxicity kept going on since no one trusted that there would be change, and the people who benefited from the toxicity and wanted to keep the status quo dug in thinking they'd outlast it. The pushback he's receiving, especially from Pat, is so relatable. Pat has no idea how much Jeng is doing for him because whenever Jeng throws him a lifeline, he can't recognize it. You know you're still in toxic mode when someone does something helpful and you're like "This is awful! He's trying to drown me!"

Yeah. Its interesting in this series. Whereas in a regular BL romance, the tension we feel is usually "when will these two bozos realize they are in love with each other and start having sex?" In this case, there's a bigger issue we need to tackle first. Its "When will Pat realize that Jeng is a really good boss!"

Who knows. I'm actually rooting for So-Pizza and Piccolo-Gun. Maybe the character just changes his names so that his two lovers don't compare notes.

Gun: Hey, soo. Long time no see. How's it going with you and that Pizza fellow.
Soo: Great. How's it going with Piccolo?
Gun: Outstanding! I'm sorry we had to cancel our couple's night out last month. Piccolo and Pizza are always so busy with sudden work emergencies like.
Soo: Yeah. I hope they can meet someday. I think they'll find out they have a lot in common.

Whatever it is, may it be messy.

That's a problem of characterization and the fact that they decided to withhold pretty vital information from us until episode 10, when our feelings towards the characters are already baked in. They decided to hide the extent of the trauma so that this could be a perky series and let Thoops character and Cher's past go dormant for 7 episodes. We knew Thoop was a jerk when he met with Thoop in epsisode 1. In episode 3, we learned that he had lost his sister. They relied too much on that fact to help explain his behavior. It wasn't enough.

I'm glad the writer didn't just kill off Tian in vain. I mean, we found out about her death way back in episode 3 and the mystery surrounding those circumstances seemed to be forgotten as something that maybe should be looked into. Until now, the only impact that revelation had on the story seemed to be that it made Cher susceptible to leaving Gun when he realized that he was subject to nasty office gossip in ep 8, because he had experienced that kind of thing before and it drove him from his hometown. Otherwise, its been "character he loved died and her death was an excuse for Gun and Cher to take a road trip one weekend to meet his mom." That's harsh end, even for a minor character. Dying so that Cher and Gun had a reason to be cute under mosquito netting felt so cruel.

On the other hand, I wish they would have started this earlier as ep 10 is way to late for them to handle the task of both exonerating Thoop and getting justice for Tian. And the previews indicate that they aren't going to be spending much time on it in ep 11 either. So why introduce these tasks at all? I don't know what I would have cut. Let's see. We have Cher and Friends need to win a video game competition, Gun and Co need to launch a video game, and Cher & Gun need to get justice for Tian. Unfortunately, the video game competition is probably the odd subplot out, even if that would mean cutting out 3 and Zo cuteness. On the other hand, the product launch didn't actually have any impact either, and we still don't know why Cher sacrificed himself for Ink.

Anyway, my assumption is that they'll win the video game competition, someone will step forward with a video that exonerates Thoop voluntarily without Gun & Cher having to do any investigating, and incest step dad will get hit by a car, the media will stop publishing stories on the drug case, and Gun's mom will just suddenly change her mind because Cher will turn out to be rich. We don't really want them too get too bogged down doing other things that don't involve cuddling and showing off Force's torso, now do we?

Plus if you are dissatisfied, your friends can bring you food and that food doesn't appear to be subject to inspection. Just have your friends bring you files and you can just break yourself out if you want to go someplace else. (Note: It is true that if you are ever in a holding cell in Thailand, the police won't feed you, so you have to have someone bring you food. I'm guessing that there's a bit more security set up around that than "people can just walk in off the street with bags and pass stuff to inmates through the bars.)

I know they sold this as "based on a true story", but is anyone at this point buying that these characters are behaving like people would given the same circumstances? They are behaving in such a way that says "our actions are driven by the need for the writers to extend this to 10 episodes."

I'm fine with having these boys on my screen each week as the entire cast has been plucked out of modeling agencies down to the throw away supporting character. (Did anyone catch the super hot guy who works in the cafe?) Average looking people apparently just don't exist in Thailand.

And average looking people don't exist in Nan's life. Anyone he meets at any given moment could be selected to be a model and any good looking person he meets will fall in love with him. Life should be great for Nan! But he's such a dull nonsense character. He might as well shave his head and become a monk. I think his character would be helped if we saw him actually try to date a stranger, since he's so hell bent on never dating a friend. Has he ever dated anyone in the ten years since Uni while he was looking for Phu? Purposefully gone out of his way to hook up with a stranger? Probably not. 10 years of celibacy for Phu. 10 years for Nan. That has to be a challenge when everyone you meet will automatically start trying to get in your pants.

I think that's supposed to be symbolic of Park finally moving on from something or other and that they'll be creating their home together rather than continue to live in Park's parents' home. Would have helped if they would have set this moment up in previous episodes so that there would be some emotional weight here. Like Kana spills something on the sofa and Park starts crying. Or something.

I don't think the makeup was different. It was that Kong no longer had his top knot and Fourwheels' had a "I'm a college student now without time to cut my hair" style. Their hair was just very different.

I wish it was bolder in expressing what it was trying to say. But it is too, well, bound to the idea that we need to look away when things get uncomfortable. I wish one of the characters would just break out and say "I'm not o.k. and I'm on the verge of losing it" because that's been the story that's been unfolding. I think there was a good idea somewhere in here about a group of friends who had been rejected by their families or couldn't cope with family life sticking together and falling in love that got lost somewhere. That would have been interesting and I think that was the theme from the beginning. We have all these children who are never with their parents. They are being passed around. They wander about hospitals. They get dumped off to whomever is willing to watch them. And when they grow up, they aren't o.k.

I like how this series really turn the optimistic story about growing up on its head. The progressive optimistic story about parents is that they sacrifice for their children, who then move up in the world and move away to Bangkok to make it big, leaving the old neighborhood behind. But here, its the opposite. All the parents seem to be leaving the neighborhood and their kids are stuck there. Heck, the one kid who has managed to make her way out of there had to come back this episode. The golden boy attempts suicide. The kid who was abandoned by his mom is so anxious that people have only helped him because he's cute that he can't deal with an erection and start having sex because if he becomes and adult, he's afraid no one will take care of him. The epitome of success - the one who worked his way through medical school as basically a single foster father - can't figure out if he's in love or just really guilty about something. Like those are two things that are difficult to tell apart.

These are not happy people, but there was so much potential to make them interesting. Give them a struggle to overcome. A problem to work out. Force them to make a decision. But instead we've meandered around so much that we're in episode 9 and finally getting backstory. But whenever that gets too uncomfortable, we are taken out of it.

I'll be curious to see how this ends. My guess is that nothing will happen and somehow they'll tack on a wedding and call it a day.

Like "Do you need some help with that?" or "I can help cure that" are cliché porn responses to that, but come on...they are perfectly fine cliché's to spice this drama up.

Not really. There's characters from about 3 or 4 different novels in this series and they all appear with their boyfriends from those novels and tell their stories.

All Thai wigs are bad. All of them. Seriously, if anyone here is at all skilled in wig-making, move to Thailand and you'll have the entire entertainment industry knocking at your door in a week.

His sister. It's probably hard enough to tell his mom "No", but sometimes she's asking him for tuition for his sister. Plus if the father sexually assaulted him, he's probably doing it to the sister as well. That kind of abuse doesn't always stop with a specific gender.