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Watching the Pete/Kao BL cut of this for the second time after about a year. Random thoughts after about 3/4 of the way through:

New's lips are the Best Supporting Actors of this series.
I am shipping SunKao big-time, but it was cute when Pete finally got it together and came butting into their growing interaction.
The pace of the direction/dialogue is soooooooooo freaking slow sometimes.
Terrible drunk acting. So bad it was good.
Thada is my third favorite character: so laid back, friendly, low-maintenance, not-nosy, accepting, handsome, etc. Bad hair but I'll overlook that.
PeteKao's first real, major make-out was pretty good, but nowhere near Together With Me caliber.
New should not be allowed to wear a shirt. Ever.
P'Sun's little, shadowy mustache is skeevy/sleezy looking. Funny how it comes and goes.
Sandee is awesome. I love her and the way she bosses those four big guys around.
June is a great, original character: Obnoxious but sweet, loud but sincere, nosy but supportive, annoying but a true-blue friend. He makes me laugh a lot.
I find New to be a quite good actor. Most of his dialogue/expressions/reactions/etc. are subtle and feel very authentic.
Rain is such a basically good/nice guy. It makes no sense to me that he would hang around with Mork the giant walking douche bag.
Most of the fight scenes aren't terrible, but the one with the evil gang behind the bar was kind of hilariously bad as far as choreography goes.
Whoever did the post-fight makeup on the guys' faces should be shot. Always looks like they passed around a container of rouge and called it a day.
I like the BL cut of this series quite a bit. I don't feel like PeteKao have passionate, intense chemistry, but the attraction feels real and low-key/easy. Kao is such a sweet/patient/ gentleman. It's touching how he just sort of...waits for Pete to come around, even from the beginning when Pete is so ugly to him. He doesn't engage in vengeful or spiteful behavior.

As far as what I choose to watch, I would suggest you mind your own business. As I said in another comment, I've invested in six episodes already, I might as well see how it goes from here. Maybe it will get even worse and I wouldn't want to miss out on that.

What are "these shows" to which you are referring? Can you name a few for me? Why did you put "way short" in quotation marks? I didn't write that, so you're certainly not quoting me.

Finally, what kind of show combines "light-hearted" with "direct" in tone? Can you name some shows as examples? Does that actually mean anything? Wouldn't a drama be more likely to be "direct" than a "light-hearted" comedy, which often use miscommunication, indirect plot lines, etc., to come up with the laughs?

Now I'm thinking maybe you are the mother of the director.

wth? You want me to go to multiple comments and do...what? I'm going to assume you are joking.

And no, why would it be "weird" that I'm one of the "few" who find this episode to have sucked? In what way would it be "weird?" To me it's weird that you think it was so great, but as I already sort of mentioned, different strokes for different folks. Like what you want and I'll do the same.

Do you normally scroll through comments, determine what the majority of commenters are saying and then adopt that opinion as your own? No, no you don't. And I don't either. So it doesn't matter to me what you think.

Are you related to one of the actors or something?

Yup. Well, that's what makes life interesting...everyone has their own perspective and something that's wonderful to you can seem terrible to me, right? No, I feel NO chemistry at all. I always feel the actors PRETENDING to be drawn together, but for me there's nothing there.

I gotchya. But it's the un-progressive relationships that make for all the fun drama and comedy, no? :D

No.

Agreed. It's terrible to horrible. Phuwin's acting is an embarrassment.

I agree with you about the writing and direction, but I would add in BAD acting, especially from Phuwin. He can be funny, but his dramatic scenes are...horribly amateurish.

omg...Phuwin is a terrible actor. His dramatic scenes this time around were so amateur.

It's funny how differently people experience the same show. To me there is NO chemistry between Phuwin and Pond. Pond is entirely out of Phuwin's league, as an actor and as a character.

Wow. The acting was terrible, especially from Pi. He is not equipped to do believable drama yet. That fake crying in the rain was embarrassing.
There is no chemistry between Mork and Pi. Why would Mork like Pi to begin with? That's never been explained. That entire supposed attraction feels entirely artificial to me.

I thought episode 6 was probably the worst to this point.

Of course Pi has changed a bit...his mother is a bitch to whom he's afraid to come out. She sat there like an accusing crone with that vinegar frown on her face when he walked into his bedroom. He feels no support from her and he has to hide who he is. And she looks through his belongings, snooping.

I can't imagine what they're going to do for six more episodes. This has stalled out.

What is a "good progressive relationship?"

Meh.
Phuwin is a pretty good comedic actor, but the dramatic elements this script and director are asking of him are out of his range. I felt embarrassed for him, especially that last, overwrought bit. The fake sobbing...yikes. The scene with him and his mom was terrible too.

Duwean and Meen are the best thing about the show.

I don't buy that Mork would be attracted to Pi. It's not just that Pi is an annoying dork and Mork is a stud, but also there is zero chemistry between them. I'm not feeling that at all.
Hey..."Mork and the Dork." That could work.

Neo is so damn funny. That grimace/smile he uses when Duean is in a bind is hilarious.

Yeah...pretty meh episode. I'll stick with this since I've come this far, but there were zero belly-laughs this episode and no believable drama

Weird...halfway through ep. 7...bored to tears. I've dropped it. Even Dong Wook can't save this snoozer.

Rating: 5. Awful story. Horrible, selfish main characters. Terrible direction and many, many flaws in logic and behavior that made no sense. Kokoy's a very good actor but was allowed by the director to take the whimpering/crying thing to the point of annoying several times. Best acting of the series was by Barbie in the scene where a couple of completely selfish, awful people come clean to her about something huge. Her building reaction and explosion in response to that new information took my breath away. And everything Krisha said to them was true.

I was amazed by the immature selfishness of Mando in insisting on sharing that information, and horrified by his father's advice that he had to do it for HIS own sake. Jesus, there was NO reason for her to ever know, assuming they ended it immediately. That's just easing your own conscious at the expense of traumatizing and humiliating another human being. This is maybe the one case in the show when Barry's instincts were valid.

I still can't decide which actor, Kokoy or Alex, is the better looking. I go back and forth depending on which one's on screen at the moment. Beautiful men. Horrible story/plot.

I thought that "in heat" scene was bizarre. Neither had any misgivings and just went for it out of the blue, just minutes after Barry porked another guy. wtf? STDs much? I'm no prude but the absolute disregard for K's feelings in such a matter were not even considered for one second. Complete assholes. And they left the curtains wide open!!!!

I loved it for three eps and then hated it. Felt sick to my stomach. Serious issues were raised but in awful, confusing, distorted ways. The two main characters turned into complete shit heads in a five-minute scene that was just bizarre. Nothing that happened there was realistic and they left the freaking curtains open for god's sake!

I gave this a 5. I was happy to have found it but when YOU KNOW WHAT happened I lost all respect for two of the main characters and it got worse from there. Just terrible...writing, plot, story, continuity, logic, things making sense...it all went down the toilet after that one incident. I dropped it to a 5 from an 8.5. Just awful. I hated the very characters I was supposed to feel for and empathize with.

Loved it...except for the 3/4 of its run time that I felt sick to my stomach. Seriously.

Needed much more Bare-Barry-Butt.