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Did we hear a bit of the instrumental track of “Lonely Girl” during the skit? The musical foreplay continues: Niran’s music club (Clo’ver) safe space; his dad’s guitar wooing and record collection; his Judo burnout and search for a passion; all fuel for fantasy. Hem bringing his guitar to the camp is really getting us too close. C’mon Champ! You have one of the best singers in all of BL, and the rest of a three leaf Clo’ver, can you give us a little sweet musical release?

SEABLINGS!!! 😂

Calm down public school; not everyone here is well “versed” in queer sexual politics. And to be fair, toning down Sea’s masc side, behind ill fitting glasses and an ultra-nerdy persona, especially after his Head 2 Head glow-up, takes a little getting used to. But, to your point, we all need to absorb a little PorTeeteePor-ness, and embrace all sides of our beloved BL ships, and not put anyone in a box.

I like to keep in mind that we are in “2gether” director Champ’s world - mostly slices of life aimed at GMMTV’s younger audience - and just to have fun with it.
And Champ CAN get the “Fin” part right. A billion BrightWin fans couldn’t have been wrong, and the PeteKao (TayNew) edit, from “Kiss Me Again”, has taken on a life of it’s own.
Champ did launch two of BL’s all time biggest ships. If he can recapture even a little of that magic with SeaKeen, the payoff will be worth it.

When did our baby Moo get so hot? Keen’s bad boy glow-up is in full effect; and now we get served hot-headed, wet-haired Niran. It’s like that time when your childhood bestie came back from summer break and suddenly had muscles.

The Judo lesson had to be one of the sweetest love scenes ever. And the post credit mat holds were hilarious and strangely stimulating. Who needs NC scenes when you can pin down your willing practice partner?

Head 2 Head

Aungpao, as Hem, is serving the cheeky charm that he gave to Dynamite, Cooking Crush’s most lovable character. It was just his bad luck to be paired up with Neo out of the gate. I hope the HemJom ship sails and PaoTor can get their own series.

Science and self defence training are their love languages 💕

Who knew Judo could be that romantic?

Yeah, but it is 2020, and we are all living in a “2gether the Series” slow burn time warp. But, to your point, we no longer have Covid-stretched attention spans, so we can’t go too long on sweetness alone. Personally, I’m hoping for a Niran musical awakening; the setup is there and it would be a shame to waste Keen’s (and Clo’ver’s) other talents.

PaoKeen! I can’t… a delulu’s ghost ship. Its like when your work spouse has to interact with your real spouse 🤭

Introducing a real life villain, like the Catholic Church, into the BL safe space and not have it play the villain, is a precarious move. Not only do you run the risk of alienating those who have been marginalized by the church; you may create an expectation that viewers will be pulled out of the genre, into the male gaze of queer cinema, and be served another “Your Name Engraved Herein”. But, truth be told, those of us who are most marginalized in the real world have always looked to BL to show us an aspirational world; the world as it really should be. It is not a function of BL to portray the Catholic Church as it is; it is to envision what the church could be at its best. P’Aof did not escape his Catholic upbringing unscathed; from the darker tone of the original trailer, it seems he had to wrestle with a number of his personal demons on his own Ticket to Heaven path, to be able to plant us squarely, and safely, in the BL universe. And for us viewers, especially us queer ones, rather than be frustrated that TTH is not a dispatch from the front lines, we can take heart that P’Aof and team have sent us a roadmap to use on our own healing journeys from religious trauma.

I can see part of your point around repetition; they might have hammered home the message a bit too much, especially at the end. Poor P’Aof is having a little trouble landing the plane ever since Last Twilight overshot the runway. But for me, I could appreciate the message, through a non-denominational, spiritual filter, and it didn’t take away from the overall impact. And I think it still slots in as my No. 1. Between eps 2, 3, 5, and most of 6, I don’t think BL gets any better.

Bad boy yes do

C’mon Cheewa! Using his science brain and Vulcan flirt tactics not only to get his man, but, maybe more importantly, to inch Niran out of his early-life burnout and depression era.

Although it’s a little childish, the fact that this conversation even exists is music to the ears to those of us who lived through the lean, “Only Boo!” years. That the company failed to promote one of their best BLs in 2024 felt like a personal crime against the young ship. In retrospect, GMMTV might have been more concerned about the fallout of “Only Boo!”’s anti-industry message than about neglecting its young idols, but it certainly hindered any early SeaKeen progress. So let the Westies rant; and let us all revel in SeaKeen’s villain era.

Hang in there girl.
In “2gether” director Champ’s worlds, not much happens on the surface. But before you know it, the series might be spreading across the globe like some sort of aggressive Covid anti-virus. And if you are a SeaKeen fan, you want to be seated for that.

Wow. Thanks for that. Now I don’t feel so crazy in feeling that we are watching a cleverly disguised KirkSpock fanfic.

Yes! Give Sea his flowers. Because Keen has had such star power and charisma, almost from day one, Sea tends to get underrated. But he has been steadily growing his craft, and this role feels like a breakout.