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Really...I find his acting to be very good. He's almost to the point where he WANTS to stay mad but he is beginning to weaken toward SD.

He damn well better be ready to give everything after the ridiculous five-year disappearing act he pulled.

I think he LOOKS plenty old enough to BE Shu Yi's dad and that's what matters. Probably grayed his hair and deepened some wrinkles.

lol You're welcome. :D

I was the Director of Advertising, Store Merchandising and Design and Display for a mid-size, up-scale mens and womens retail clothing chain in the midwest for 15 years. I made a point of NEVER sitting around with my legs crossed doing nothing while everyone else was busy. it's a bad, arrogant look and sets a bad example. There is ALWAYS something that needs doing and I didn't place myself above those I supervised.

If you had a shitty boss who let you do all the work while they took the credit, I'm sorry for you, and I understand that is not an uncommon experience, but I assure you I made a point of NOT doing that to those I supervised. A good supervisor spreads the credit and praise around and NEVER looks like they're doing nothing, especially during a crisis.

"take 5-8 minutes of the 30-minute episode screen time so you can actually SEE how busy he is..."

What does that sentence even mean?

Wow. It's always refreshing to watch a full-blown SJW-church lady-prude fully expose themselves like this. Yes, I DO take words literally. Words mean things, did you know that? What "other way" is there to interpret "endless smut?"

You forgot to name even one BL that contains "endless smut."

Also entertaining is how you take umbrage at my "YOUR way" comment and then proceed to explain that YOUR WAY would have been to not make the show. lol And then you say "the RIGHT way." I see...LeeMyCookies alone knows what is right and best for all of the rest of us to see and hear.

Stop watching the show. It is very simple. It is not for you. Go away. Your comments are a great example of why I say people like you actually LOVE these shows in that they allow you to get off on the offending action and then get off AGAIN on your moral, righteous indignation and outrage. We get it. You hate any form of sex that doesn't conform to your strict, puritanical and inhuman standards of what is permissible. IRL sex is messy and full of gray areas and not always easy to put in the black and white categories people like you with limited thinking skills crave so desperately.

A commenter in this thread claims to have a friend who SAID YES to having sex with some dude and then followed through, and now says she was RAPED. That is crazy, down-the-rabbit-hole thinking. A verbal statement of consent is now not enough either. Insane.

Hilarious that you the expert can predict a show's trajectory 1/3 of the way in. Good for you. Why on earth would you keep watching?

I'm still waiting for your explanation of why you made the sexist and classist assumption that I live in Alabama and have a vagina between my legs. I am looking down right now and I can assure you THAT is no vagina.

Wow. All of that to convince me Shu Yi is super-busy? The problem is lousy direction and writing. What I saw on screen conveys almost NONE of what you write above. I got no sense that Shu Yi was wildly busy. A couple of times he tosses orders at other people, and yes, I caught the reference to these exhausting dinners he has to go to, blah blah blah...but there he is sitting on the couch, legs crossed, doing nothing. Curious as to why you feel so strongly about my comment?

Now that you say that, I remember thinking much the same thing. And now this episode we got the cliche bitch Asian mom sending a kid "abroad" to study at a school they don't want to go to, and the kid going along with it. I'd tell her to shove it. I think Mix redeemed himself with some fine acting in this last episode but up until then I was getting really tired of that same, screwed-up, onion-face, I'm-about-to-cry expression he used so often.

Please name ONE BL that features "endless smut." lol If you think what you have seen in ANY BL is "endless smut," you are one very sheltered and prudish person. Come on, I want to see this list of smutty BLs.

"and not addressing it in the RIGHT way..." and let me guess? That right way would be YOUR way, correct? Again: artists have the right and obligation to push boundaries and test assumptions. It is not their job to make you comfortable. The fact that H4CTY has you so worked up is a great thing from the perspective of the team and actors who made this show.

Finally, the show is only about 1/3 of the way through. How can you possibly even begin to judge where it's going, plot-wise?

Glad you enjoyed the comment. lol

Over-used SJW censor-ish term used as code for "too hot for me to handle and should be cut so no one else can see it either."

Forgot to say that the music throughout this series, and especially this episode, was beautiful.

In my opinion that series is one of the worst BLs in existence. But the two leads are gorgeous. People just like to look at them.

Was 2gether actually successful, ratings and popularity-wise? By the end i was so sick of the whole thing...the guitar player who never actually played the guitar, his acting got worse and worse as the show went on. Awful. Dark haired guy was good though.

Hi there. In what way were you "underwhelmed?" I'm pretty demanding and I felt emotionally full to the brim by the end of this episode. Totally agree about BL controlling parents. It's a cliche now and writers need to get more creative, and also have BL children, who are actually young adults, tell these parents where to stuff it.

Hi. Wondering what it was in episode 8 that put you off?

This is a great set-up should GMMTV decide to do a second season. Tian/Chief and their life in the village together. Teaching school and foiling smugglers. A beautiful village wedding near the end with Tian's parents and the entire village population in attendance.

Random thoughts on TOATS1 final episode: 8.5 stars

I have failed throughout this series to praise the acting of the village school children. They and the director did a great job. Not a false note among them. When Tian was saying goodbye and I could see the kids in the background crying even when they weren't up front made it all so real and cracked my icy heart wide open.

Hated Tian's cliche Asian mom. Even though she agreed, after much begging, to let Tian study education, naturally she HAD to have the last word by sending him off to the USA to study at a school he didn't want to go to. And naturally the dad backed her. Just once I'd love to see a BL character say "no, I am NOT going off to study abroad," (which is always the answer to everything in BL World) "I am going to study in the best education program Thailand has to offer and that will be more than good enough. And if that means you won't pay for it and I have to try for scholarships and get a job, so be it, bitch."

The 2 year separation made for great drama and reunification but it was totally unnecessary as a plot device. Tian studies in Bangkok and sees the Chief once or twice a month at the village. Problem solved. More of these horrible, rich, nasty, selfish Asian BL parents need to be told to stuff it.

Love how supportive Chief's buddies and the village are of the Chief/Tian thing. Beautiful in their very simple and full embracing of the couple.

Loved Tian's dad's acceptance of Tian/Chief. He got more than he bargained for in asking the Chief to watch over his son. :D

Mix's acting improved greatly this episode. I saw him being Tian and feeling Tian's feelings instead of acting them. What he conveyed with his eyes and face was the main reason I went through half a roll of paper towels.

Earth did a great job portraying Chief as the grumpy Green Giant whose heart, in this final episode, was broken wide open by his love for Tian.

Loved how Tian, beginning at the airport, demanded direct statements from the Chief as to what his emotions and intentions were. No more silence. Communication! And he kept it up right up to the cuteness overload near the end in making Chief beg and plead to join him on the soft bed. Surely they will get a bigger bed!

Loved that we got a final shot of the Chief's hot torso and cool tattoo as he proceeded to pull the blanket up and roll over on top of Tian at the end. Let the house-shaking banging begin! :D

What else?...the reunion scene on the mountain top was lovely and I sobbed through it, but the bit with telling Chief it was an emergency and him going up there aiming a loaded rifle at Tian was a bit much. I was just sure he was going to accidentally shoot Tian and that would be the end! wtf?

Earth portrays stifled emotion extremely well.

I want to see Tian bring Chief home to meet the parents.

I want to see that horrid Asian mother go visit Tian in the village and have to take a dump in the woods.

I want to see Chief's two ranger side-kicks end up as a couple. :D

Mix has a great butt and it was not featured nearly well or often enough in this series.

I am so thankful for a happy ending. We deserve all we can get.

The village elder broke my heart when he was telling Tian goodbye and said that usually it was only the children who cried when a teacher left...I'm bawling...

I wish Tian would have kept Torfun's beautiful diary. I understand that symbolism of the burial, but if it were me I would keep and treasure that diary for the rest of my life.


Eager to wade into comments and see what the rest of you thought of this. I bet there wasn't a dry eye in the thread. :D

Just finished watching.

OK, fine...I cried the entire first third of the episode, got about a third of a break in the middle to hate on the cliche Asian mom, then cried the entire last third of the episode except for the last ten minutes, which I spent wide-smiling like a crazy person until my face ached from happiness. I've had a lot of misgivings about this series but kept watching for the full and good heart I sensed was at its center. This episode made up for pretty much everything that bugged me off and on through the first nine episodes. BRAVO

Just finished watching ep. 5. A few comments before letting it sink in:

This episode was better by itself than the rest of the season all together so far, except for the couch scene and the initial re-meeting at the office with the awesome face-slap. Couch scene/face-slap should have had their own special one-hour episode. :)
The Aspergers dude and future BF story line is beautiful and engaging. That flashback scene of when they first met was incredibly powerful and well-acted. When Aspergers bit into the other guy's arm and he gently said "you must be in a lot of pain" I got goosebumps and teared up. Lovely. Great acting. Even the makeup in that scene was great. Usually when a BL character is injured they just smear a little rouge in the corner of their mouth and call it good. Aspergers wounds and bruises looked real. Details like that are SO important.
The give and take between She Di and Shu Yi's dad is awesome. Great negative-chemistry and I love the way Shi De toys with the dad. I wish I didn't still have to pretend all that went before that is ridiculous and impossible, but oh well...
We wait five episodes and we get ten seconds of Shi De in the shower, though a bunch of steam, from the back, waist-up? WTF? They could have redeemed the entire season with one extended butt shot.
Does Shu Yi actually DO anything at the office? He seems to sit cross-legged on the couch a lot and wait for other people to do things. lol
The leads' inter-chemistry is off the charts. So sad so much of it was wasted by the script for most of the season.
This show has so much potential and when it's good it's great. Why is it only six half-hour episodes long? When we get series like 2gether with 400 episodes that are absolute crap? How does that work?
Aspergers guy is so hot/cute it slays me. When bartender guy walked in to get him at the police station and Aspergers just looked up at him with those puppy eyes I about wet my pants with adorableness.
Shu Yi's dad, the actor, is hilarious and really good in that part. His frustrated anger is well-portrayed and a joy to behold. But I also feel him ever so slowly falling for Shi De as a potential son in law. He seems like the type who later on will be claiming that getting SD and SY together was all HIS doing. :D

I disagree with some of your perspective, but overall you stated it very well and I appreciate you sharing it.