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I WILL NEVER FORGIVE THAT HORRID PRAEW FOR TRAUMATIZING MO NEAR THE END.

The sad tears rolling down his face in that scene wrecked me.

For some reason, I kind of like Yok. I think he comes off as kind of aggressive and bitter because he IS. His homophobic mother is a nut case who knows he's gay but keeps throwing girls at him and humiliating him in a million other ways. Imagine having a mom like that. Yikes. I also like that he's kind to Christina, whom I could never have been friends with in high school. Yok is a confident/proud/angry gay. With good reason.

High-schoolers do all those things.

Man, was he handsome/beautiful or what?! That body too. Yikes.

Tee was pretty darn straight-forward and aggressive in letting it be known he was after Fuse. Remember the cafeteria scene where he made a big, loud spectacle of dragging his chair over to Fuse's table to sit right next to him. He pretty much said out loud "I'm going after Fuse," and let the place go crazy as a result. lol

Stopping back by after finishing episode 12. I watched this about a year ago, so second time thru. I had forgotten what a beautiful, silly, touching, adorable, moving BL this show is. I think of it as iconic in the BL catalog. So much cuteness and joy and awkwardness and uncertainty and courage and pain and fear all put together in an imperfect but nevertheless wonderful package.

I cried a number of times simply because the scene I was watching was so very tender and the connection between characters felt authentic and real despite the hilariously annoying mannequin-kisses. lol I loved the combination of laugh-out-loud slapstick comedy and juvenile fart-jokes with deeply moving and heartbreaking drama that brought me to tears. That is not an easy combo to pull off, but for the most part this series did just that.

If I were 16 again Tee would be the boyfriend I never had at that age. The actor often said so much with that tight smile and those hesitant, beautiful eyes.

Well, you're right about the SJW part, at least. :D

First of all, I am not the commenter who used the Holocaust survivor term as a descriptor to begin with. Keep your facts straight. I am reacting to your attempt to police other people's style of writing or choice of analogies.

My dad fought in WW II. His airplane/bomber was shot down over Germany. He parachuted to safety but was arrested by German troops and spent 18 months in a Nazi prison camp. As a result, I have always been fascinated with everything about that war. I know more about Germany, WW II and the Holocaust than you can even begin to imagine. I have studied the topic and soaked up everything about it that I can for many, many years. I continue to do so to this day.

I have images in my head of the extermination camps that will never leave me. Which is why the commenter's vivid descriptor leapt out at me. They may have exaggerated about MR's thin frame, but not by a whole lot. The man is extremely skinny. The metaphor made its point aptly. The difference between you and me is that I see the writer's choice of words as an effective means of communicating a strong visual comparison and you see it as an opportunity to go all SJW self-righteouos-how-dare-you-shut-up-see-how-socially-aware-I-am for the comment section.

Think about being a lot less super-sensitive about everything outside your very narrow perspective. You'll feel a lot more relaxed. It must be exhausting to monitor and evaluate and judge and condemn people's speech and thinking all around you every day.

It's amazing how riled up certain types get if one dares to challenge their thinking, which is usually along the line of outraged sexual prudery and the idea that what they believe is self-evident, thus their shock at being told otherwise. I was raised in a very religious atmosphere. Church/Sunday School and eight years of daily parochial school. It was ALL about being told what to think with the assumption that to question any of it was beyond the pale if not sinful itself. And of course the most passionate outrage was reserved for anything having to do with sex, especially gay sex. I am gay, I was gay then and 37 years in the closet didn't make me any less gay. It was horrible.

The SJWs on here ranting about you-know-what sound just like those people I heard when I was growing up and throughout my life. I know personally the kind of damage that sort of thinking can and does do to other people every day. I suppose all of this is where my passion for these comments comes from. I don't like people like this one bit.

Of COURSE you'll keep watching. lol

Oh honey, it's not complicated: If you really find the show offensive or objectionable, then stop watching it. Why would anyone do otherwise unless they just enjoy declaring their moral objections in comments? Or do you secretly get off on the parts you complain about? That's not a rare thing. Lots of moralizing blue-noses are eventually exposed as practicing those things against which they most strongly preach. Stop giving the show clicks and quit bothering people.

Smart ass. lol

I quote you: "go get your ass to therapy, you dummy! there's seriously no good reason to be /that/ unhappy."

XS moving back in is still a crazy-ass idea. What a nightmare of bad vibes that would be. Both step-sons need to get out of there permanently. They can go home for dinner as often as they like.

Listen, Nity, you came in here and accused someone of "body shaming" for using a vivid descriptive term you don't like. Yet you claim to be here just to be sweet and nice and discuss things calmly. Telling other people how to express themselves and attacking their choice of words is not respectful discussion. News: No one cares what YOU think of other peoples' writing style and choice of adjectives and analogy.

So "SJW" hit home with you, eh? It's good you know what you are.

This is the type of personal insult that comes when the commenter can no longer come up with more BS to support their position. lol

To an extent it IS twisted...that is a thing called DRAMA. A difficult, fascinating, compelling story is created so that we can see where it goes as an audience. Twisted characters, or in this case, basically good people, do twisted things all the time IRL and in stories. Who are YOU to tell the writers or anyone else what is "appropriate?" It's so weird. I've never seen people like in this thread who want a narrative to be tied up in a predictable, pretty bow by the end of the story. But no, you won't even wait to see how things develop, you want the plot to go YOUR way RIGHT NOW. Again, google "drama" and "narrative conflict" and "plot devices."

And I want to note your use of the hilariously stereotypical SJW word "problematic," as though you're going over what's been presented with a fine-tooth comb, looking for "problem" areas that don't fit your idea of what the story-line should contain. Then what? Do you email or call the production company and let them know you don't approve?

Stop watching this show and bitching about it.

Are you still waiting? I'm a paid commenter, yes, they pay me $400,000 a year to argue with sex-phobics like you.

Why the question marks?

"It’s just That is exactly something a rapist would stay". "Also, trolls like you like to make these comments to get people riled up." So you implied that I am a rapist and you called me a troll, which is the lamest, laziest accusation on the web. But no, you don't do name-calling. You're above that.

lol I'm crushed at your precise diagnosis of my plight. You see right through me. I'm so thankful someone, at long last, understands me...