AbsoluteBL
chronic traveller
It's not that great but it has a decent story
Assessment? Not great.
Quick thoughts:The Eng Subs are really bad. It’s as near to google translate as makes no difference. If you don’t understand enough Thai to at least self correct pronouns in your head as you watch, it will be difficult to follow.
The plot, however, is pretty decent. Or at least THERE, which isn’t always the case in Thai BL. It revolves around two sports teams (Volleyball & Swimming) at an “institute” which I guess is a boarding high school or junior college of some kind.
Main Couple Plot:
Ongsah is a super introverted new transfer student on a swimming scholarship. He meets a ghost who’s haunting the locker room, North. North recently drowned and his backstory, friends, and family guide the rest of the story. His friends don’t know where he is. His mom is the principal of the institute and very suspicious. His body is nowhere to be found. Ongsah is on his own trying to figure out what happened to North and why. Meanwhile, the two boys meet up every night and slowly fall in love. (Slow burn, low heat.)
Don’t worry it all ends happily. This arc is actually really solid and the leads have good chemistry and are decent actors. The denouement happens halfway through with Ongsah figuring everything out. And then there’s a nice twist and this couple’s narrative bisects with the overarching sports homophobia plot in a very clever way.
If you like He’s Coming To Me, you’ll like this take on a ghost theme.
Overarching Plot:
Meanwhile, North’s mother the principal of the institute is a crazy homophobe and is trying everything she can to shut down the volleyball team because there are too many queers. The queer rep in this story is actually really decent, and the femme and trans characters are not played for laughs, nor are they jokes of the narrative, nor are they depicted as predatory. So, that's different. The homophobia as a plot devise is a bit ham handed and tired, though.
B Plot:
There is a second ghost and a second investigation conducted by senior students Jedi and Indy. Jedi and Indy used to be close but something caused them to become enemies. They follow an enemies to lovers arc. This pair is okay, but not much chemistry, medium heat level.
B Plot:
Wan and Mai have been dating, sort of, for a while. Wan is North’s best friend. This couple seems to exist in the narrative only to provide a high heat level. It’s pretty awkward and shoehorned in. Mai is also on the swim team. They don't really have an arc.
B Plot
Arm and Ten are best friends and roommates. Arm has been trying to get together with Ten for ages. They are the defacto leaders of the volleyball team since North is gone. They have a cat and mouse friends to lovers thing going on, and I really like that Ten is playing an out gay femme character, and Arm is REALLY excited and into that aspect of him. (Reminds me a bit of Yok and Mo from Make It Right 2). They’re cute, but never really get together.
Final Thoughts
Aside from the main couple, the acting is awkward across the board, the heat levels extremely uneven, and there are too many superfluous characters. The eng subs are abysmal so I can’t judge the script. However, the plot was decent. Finally, the actor playing North had a really long pinky nail which I kinda hyper-fixated on. (I spend too much time worrying about what this industry does to younger actors ANYWAY, throw possible drug use in and I just... can’t.)
If you’re a huge fan of Make It Right, you might like this one. Or if you really like a high school-ish narrative and/or He’s Coming to Me.
Otherwise you can probably give it a pass.
Quick thoughts:The Eng Subs are really bad. It’s as near to google translate as makes no difference. If you don’t understand enough Thai to at least self correct pronouns in your head as you watch, it will be difficult to follow.
The plot, however, is pretty decent. Or at least THERE, which isn’t always the case in Thai BL. It revolves around two sports teams (Volleyball & Swimming) at an “institute” which I guess is a boarding high school or junior college of some kind.
Main Couple Plot:
Ongsah is a super introverted new transfer student on a swimming scholarship. He meets a ghost who’s haunting the locker room, North. North recently drowned and his backstory, friends, and family guide the rest of the story. His friends don’t know where he is. His mom is the principal of the institute and very suspicious. His body is nowhere to be found. Ongsah is on his own trying to figure out what happened to North and why. Meanwhile, the two boys meet up every night and slowly fall in love. (Slow burn, low heat.)
Don’t worry it all ends happily. This arc is actually really solid and the leads have good chemistry and are decent actors. The denouement happens halfway through with Ongsah figuring everything out. And then there’s a nice twist and this couple’s narrative bisects with the overarching sports homophobia plot in a very clever way.
If you like He’s Coming To Me, you’ll like this take on a ghost theme.
Overarching Plot:
Meanwhile, North’s mother the principal of the institute is a crazy homophobe and is trying everything she can to shut down the volleyball team because there are too many queers. The queer rep in this story is actually really decent, and the femme and trans characters are not played for laughs, nor are they jokes of the narrative, nor are they depicted as predatory. So, that's different. The homophobia as a plot devise is a bit ham handed and tired, though.
B Plot:
There is a second ghost and a second investigation conducted by senior students Jedi and Indy. Jedi and Indy used to be close but something caused them to become enemies. They follow an enemies to lovers arc. This pair is okay, but not much chemistry, medium heat level.
B Plot:
Wan and Mai have been dating, sort of, for a while. Wan is North’s best friend. This couple seems to exist in the narrative only to provide a high heat level. It’s pretty awkward and shoehorned in. Mai is also on the swim team. They don't really have an arc.
B Plot
Arm and Ten are best friends and roommates. Arm has been trying to get together with Ten for ages. They are the defacto leaders of the volleyball team since North is gone. They have a cat and mouse friends to lovers thing going on, and I really like that Ten is playing an out gay femme character, and Arm is REALLY excited and into that aspect of him. (Reminds me a bit of Yok and Mo from Make It Right 2). They’re cute, but never really get together.
Final Thoughts
Aside from the main couple, the acting is awkward across the board, the heat levels extremely uneven, and there are too many superfluous characters. The eng subs are abysmal so I can’t judge the script. However, the plot was decent. Finally, the actor playing North had a really long pinky nail which I kinda hyper-fixated on. (I spend too much time worrying about what this industry does to younger actors ANYWAY, throw possible drug use in and I just... can’t.)
If you’re a huge fan of Make It Right, you might like this one. Or if you really like a high school-ish narrative and/or He’s Coming to Me.
Otherwise you can probably give it a pass.
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