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Did the lad improve over the years in terms of acting? it did seem so to me when I compared his early role to a later one.

Also, did he get a regular partner for BL series eventually?

My guess this annoying practice of censorship in Korea and other countries, even Thailand, where it is not necessary, is meant for broader international markets that might be stricter (e.g. Chinese platforms) or to satisfy specific internal regulators.

The latter is often the case with Thailand where studios often try to get the support of the state education authorities. So the conditions are that the series should showcase education for professions like engineering that the government prioritises, and no lust satisfaction or promiscuity, so even the main couple may only barely kiss once near the end of the series, and that is it. Nothing ever happens regardless of what the source material was.

This is how it is easy to see the difference between nearly all GMMTV (a major studio with tight governmental ties) series, where everybody is a prude eunuch, fanatical about abstinence and celibate, and the series like Make It Right, that show dramatically more realistic and believable things happening between lads (the series has its own issues, of course, but we discuss here only the censorship aspect).

In many. He was one of the cute protesters.

Can not stand tobacco. Lost my dear ones to it, so the series is a pass for me.

What? The smiley lad has become so crazy about this school reputation and rules that he has broke both the rules and even the law, becoming a dangerous criminal?

Well, there are people like that, but this type of a clinically insane character is not something viewers sympathise with because there are not too many people like this.

The series did not show how this cult-like behaviour would grow in people. For this to be believable, the sect should have a charismatic leader, but both antagonists in the school management are not that at all, so it makes no sense that random pupils would have become zealous fanatics or this stupid “curse” thing.

Also, Thai high schoolers are not that silly to believe in curses to begin this, so nothing about this is believable.

WAIT, did the uncle of one of the main lads commit suicide right in the front of him or his lover? He would not have wanted to traumatise his nephew, so he would not do this. He would have pretended to go along with the nephew in terms of changing his mind, but would commit suicide later alone regardless.

DID the scenarists ever had a nightmare about a real life tragedy? You will not be in the mood to kiss at all after waking up from this. You will be in shock, sometimes even for hours after. This is because the presence effect is so strong that you are fully there at the time and place of the nightmare as it happens. Emotionally it is not much different from reality.

Scholarships are not decided by a single teacher. Some series wrongly use this plot move.

The series take suicide superficially. They can never be from the people being disappointed at themselves or even because of betrayal of loved one. Nearly all people ever feel that way about themselves sometimes or experience a failure in love. But this is irrelevant to the suicide issue, which comes from how the person’s brain was wired both in terms of its neural network and the hormonal balance.

This is why driving to suicide as a crime has a high threshold. “A former school colleague has made me quit it” is not enough for the charge. The victim has to be cornered by the criminal for the criminal to be blamed.

The secret Facebook friend plot this was inspired by BL series Brothers (2021), but there it has made way more sense, and there was a mystery behind to uncover. Here it is unnecessary, though still cute.

There are behaviour quirks that a significant subset of gay people are born with, and they can not even really hide it. Zero of those people are straight. So yes, those traits have everything to do with who they sleep with.

Why should we always be detached from reality in matters like this?

You are confusing “homophonic” with being a “realist”, rather than a delusional delulu fanatic who thinks that “this ship is real” about every BL couple ever, even though nothing suggests that the actors in the couple are bi/gay to begin with, let alone that they are in any intimate relationship.

I am not watching new series as they come out because it might take months to finish, so I would rather wait for all episodes released. Among new series I did watch were RL and ABO, but basically everybody has already watched that, so I have nothing new to recommend. I would recommend watching Sunset (2020) and its second season Moon (2021), but you have watched that for sure anyway.

Among newer series I wish I could recommend The Cursed Love because it has a leading lad with thw most beautiful eyes I have ever seen, but the series goes stupid by the episode six so one can only watch it for the lads. It is worth to me, but not for most others.

CUTE and worth watching but silly, and not just about the whole “curse” thing.

1. Accidents with buses are decided by the road police, not by teachers.
2. Schools like this have entrance check points, so pupils can not enter if they are not in the uniform.
3. School pupil patrol does not have the right to violence, this would be a violation of the code.
4. Flower pots are never put in places where they can be dropped onto the heads of pupils.
5. Phones are said to be banned in the school, and yet they are shown openly used right in classes later.
6. The current level of social media development would not have allowed any events in the school to be hidden from the sponsors the management cares about.
7. the way how face damage from fights is shown in the series is the funniest ever because they use like one smallest bandage piece per a face for this, which is nothing like what actually happens.

A POSITIVE shocker: the lads are not written to be hardcore straights who are shocked to find out that they have all of a sudden become gay. And even when they are not friendly to each other in the beginning, they still throw assessing gazes, which is incomparably more realistic compared to lots of other series where the encounter is simply hostile because neither of the lads are written as bi/gay.

The Hollywood-style over dramatic music is a bit distracting.

A PSA: never accept friendship requests from unknown accounts as this series shows. Those are most certainly neural networks-enabled bots to spread spam or malware to rob you.

There are maybe nearly a hundred of BL series planned for the current year, so there should be no issues in term of what to watch at least technically.

But, of course, there is always the scriptwriting issue, so I imagine that maybe like half of those are not that good.

Though because ratings on this site are useless as they are prone to brigading and fandom’s campaigns, you might be forced to START watching all of those series yourself to check if you like to watch them fully or drop them.

How does it compare to the original manga, visual novel or whatever the source was?

I mean, did the series production team tone it down or the original source itself was afraid going in all the way?

But I like the sound of Mandarin. I like how Japanese sounds, too, but it makes no sense to have those switched.

Maybe the Chinese production company is afraid of censorship or some fines from regulators, hence running away?

WORTH watching for the cute lads and story, however typical. Overall the direction is not boring, which already a lot for any series.

The relationship spans like nearly two years, but the lads are depicted to be eunuchs or belonging to a sect that practices extreme abstinence because even to the very end of the series nothing happens between them, which is not believable at all.

But it is good and believable that the characters were not written as the straightest straights that have been shocked to all of a sudden ceasing to be that.

I still have not seen any Thai BL series that gets violence and gangs portrayed anywhere close to reality. The fights look ridiculous and events in the crime aspect make no sense.

Another issue is that all of the Thai series do not ever care to use microphones on sticks for hugging scenes, so the sound quality is always disaster because all they have is small microphones, hidden in shirts and jackets.

The director for the sake of a comedic effect had instructions for Bom lad to be over the top, even though he can act reasonably.

The other lad has an unusual hairstyle with cockroach antenna hair strand that would annoy me immediately, but it is just me.

The setting around temples is great. It is such a waste that we rarely see them in Thai series. And we even get to see the square back flip-flops.

Thanks.

Meanwhile, I have noted Amus (especially), Ozone, JJ, Bee, Jame (out of 21 total) from Buddy Boys Project. The actor market in Thailand is saturated, so the rest will have a chance of they show some real acting talent beyond just looks that the five lads I listed have.

I like the lad’s voice, sounds cute.

As it often goes with Thai productions, it will be either pretty soon or never.

Most of the actors in the series are not from wealthy families, though this is irrelevant anyway because most actors are into vanity, they want to be famous and celebrated, while riches alone do not provide that.

Also, under GMMTV many of them never kiss even once (2gether series etc) or barely once per series even if they play the main couple.

Nothing in a job like this indicates by default that the lads are anything but straight, especially if the job promises lucrative promotional brand contracts in case of success, unlike being in a regular herero couple barely anyone cares about.

As I have mentioned earlier, the lads’ behaviour, clothes choices, and statements do indicate, but no actors in this series fall into any of the categories of those indicators even after many years.

(What is stupid depends on the logical arguments about the matter in question, not on emotional proclamations.)

YOU are not switching to liking lads because lasses have started to bore you or because they are gold diggers, but some silly bi lad from a village can say that, this can happen.

Thanks. I am surprised that Thai media industry is not pushing this enough similar to how Korean agencies do with their competition shows for K-Pop.

Totally agree that the concept of making a BL series out of the school/university setting alone is already deserving some praise, as well as the showcase of the class issues. But I wish the scriptwriters would have rework all of the details of what exactly is happening so it would have been more believable. Just a good general idea is not quite enough for people who can not fully suspend disbelief, though it is fine for all others.

Also fully agree on casting and acting, the few rating in this department is very high. And the flute alone adds to the rating of the music score.