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You didn’t! They completely flattened his character to create drama and it started way before that scene, back when the wishes messed up and He Xiang Yong cornered him while on his bike. At that point he knew wishes existed and something was going wrong with his. Then this random guy who he doesn’t know comes up to him and starts ranting about wishes and as opposed to being like, “Holy shit, how do you know about this? Who are you? What’s going on here?,” he dismissively calls He Xiang Yong a lunatic and then drives away. His response in that scene made zero sense and his character has been shitty ever since that episode. Like forget, best friend dynamics, how could someone ever tell another person, “Well, maybe you don’t deserve to exist” and that person not be considered the shittiest human being ever???

To My Shore used B-rolls of Thailand because that’s where the story in the show took place. Yes, it’s a bit weird that everyone is speaking Mandarin for the most part, but the show is definitely set in Thailand in the beginning.

It might explain the craziness but not the rudeness, though maybe that’s explained by the age part. Even still, it does make the first few episodes difficult to watch, but it’s good to hear that he mellows out cause he’s honestly a holy terror in the first few episodes. I mean who pushes someone into the water and then is nonchalant toward them when they say they can’t swim??

Unfortunately no. I’m on the 3rd episode now and it’s still the same. The Klao/Nakun character is still especially annoying. I really don’t understand his motivations at all. He’s in a foreign time era where he doesn’t understand the customs or practices and instead of trying to blend in and stealth learn how to get home, he keeps acting out, shouting about the future and needing to get home, and being rude to the people trying to help. Like how does he not realized this just makes him seem crazy to the people of that time? He also keeps trying to run away, but to where I don’t know cause he has no money, no other connections, and no idea where to go. It’s dumb, it’s so dumb, and I feel like I’m in the minority with this thought process with the way everyone keeps raving about this show.

Hands down the worst short drama I have ever seen. I'm actually shocked it managed to be so incredibly bad.

Production companies in China can make BLs as long as they only release them to international audiences. Shows such as these are banned from Chinese entertainment platforms in China.

NC is short for NC-17. It is the highest movie restriction rating and means “No children 17 and under”. R rated movies means that it is restrict and usually children need to be accompanied but an adult, but with NC-17, it means that children should not watch at all.

It’s a movie. There’s only one thing to release and it’s 1 hr and 41 mins long like it says in the description.

You nailed it! Your review of the series completely mirrors everything I felt about it. I'm a bit less generous though giving that I'd probably have rated it a 3 (or 2.5 if I wanted to be picky). I somehow managed to get through the entire show too since I also admired the effort, but so many things left me confused, including how and when the two main characters managed to fall madly in love with each other.

I feel the exact same way. Like I read the manhwa years ago and can barely remember the point and the show isn't making that any easier. It's super disjointed like there's a huge piece of story missing.

Countries can have different ideas about what makes someone "old" without that having anything to do with changing what middle age actually is. In China, women at 27 who are childless and unmarried are considered old and called "sheng nu" or leftover women. This is China's specific concept of what makes a woman old, but does that mean a 27 year old woman should be considered middle aged or leftover?

Maybe this decided to keep it short cause of the movie.

Yes, 100%

It's so sad. To literally say that you don't want to understand the person that you are dating...that had to have been so painful for Kiyoi. Like I don't even understand Hira. Most people in even normal fandoms would give up their first born to be in a relationship with an idol that they love and admire. Hira quite literally has the heart of the one he loves and worships yet he'd rather throw it away for the continued fantasy of who he thinks Kiyoi is. It's baffling.

Wow, your ability to miss the mark of the last episode is spectacular. Like your words sound so hyperbolic they toe the line of trolling (not sure if you are or not, just notifying you).

Why would anyone be upset or dump on Kiyoi for falling in love with Hira? That makes no sense whatsoever. His heart wanted what it wanted and even he has questioned it himself multiple times in both seasons.

Kiyoi is also not okay with Hira's obsession. He has plainly stated that as well and Kiyoi's distaste toward Hira's obsession over him is exactly why they are fighting (Mildly curious to know how you interpreted the fight, if you were unaware of that). Also not sure if you realize this or not, but the first season has six episodes. You may have skipped the last one, but in it Kiyoi yells at Hira and tells him over and over that he's not a god and doesn't want to be seen as one. He's just a man who wants to be able to hold the one he loves, which just so happens to be Hira.

Also if you don't understand what it means to understand or want to understand another human being, in all seriousness, this may point to an empathy issue on your side, in which case, I would suggest therapy to help with that. In the case of Kiyoi not caring, the scene you are referring to is literally Kiyoi asking after Hira's parents and showing interest in other aspects of Hira's life. Hira doesn't do that for Kiyoi. Outside of Kiyoi's beauty and entertainment career we have, to date, seem zero interest from Hira toward other aspects of Kiyoi's life.

30 is not middle age. 30 is still considered young adulthood. Middle age is considered to be ages 45-65

Right! That is the only reason why I'll never consider a GMMTV BL drama great even if it should be. The ads take away so much from the story. And this is unique to BLs only. I don't watch regular Thai dramas but I did see an actor mention that he'd never filmed a product placement scene before shooting his first BL. That info kind of pissed me off. Not only do they get revenue from the in video pre-adds on Youtube and the Youtube ad sense ads, they have to literally stop the show to shove the products in our faces and most are products that international fans can't even purchase. I hope that in the future some of these BLs get picked up by Netflix or something. If that happens they'd have to remove all the ad scenes.