Rudravarman

Not sure why this is in my Plan-to-watch-list. Looks interesting, though.

I am not teenager enough anymore to understand why the one excludes the other. Aren't there any singers, actors, artists on this planet who are married?

Yes, sure, they must be celibate. However, it depends all on the school of Buddhism you are ordained in. Southern Buddhism, ie. Theravada, which is prominent in Sri Lanka and Thailand, asks for absolute celibacy of monks. In the Northern Buddhism in China, this is also practiced. In Japan, as you already mentioned, the "monks" do not follow these rules and are allowed to marry and have children. They are therefore called priests instead of monks. Some do vow celibacy, though.

There are several sets of rules.
- every Buddhist, be it monk or lay person, usually follows the 5 basic precepts: not kill, steal, no illegal sex, lie and no use of alcohol/drugs. The last one is usually broken by most lay people. On the Buddha days (4 times a month), there is a set of 8 precepts.
- Novices have to hold on 10 basic precepts (the 5 above plus 5 others, for instance, not alowed to go to party/theater or touch money). The third, the illegal sex, is changed to "no sex at all" for novices (and also monks).
- Monks will have to hold fully on all monk rules, which depend on the school of Buddhism. There are between 227-249 rules.

Having sex is the first rule of all and a so called "broken" rule. If you do that you will lose your status as monk (you can stay in the temple, but will be lifelong a novice, which is a disgrace, so most broken monks will leave).

In other countries, however, like Japan it is a bit different.

I am an ordained monk. Not sure what the screenwriter is up to, but if they follow normal customs, Syn would take the pabbaja ceremony and become a novice. This is what Thai boys and men usually do once in their life. You can do for some weeks, or months, and then just go back to normal, secular life. You can also stay a novice for some years and become then a fully ordained monk. As a novice he must stay celibate. But to be honest, a lot of novices aren't. I mean, those are often just normal boys and men who stay for some weeks. As long as they do not have sex publicly nothing won't happen (The spiritual realm left outside).

I guess they do not need to discuss a relationship, because Syn might come back in some weeks. Thai BL depicts everything so inevitably. It is not that Syn will become a lifetime monk.

Let me guess...the main sponsor was a wig producer...

A bit hard, but I think...directing is neither...

I like a lot of series he has written or was part of the writers' team.
Not to mention that he really looks gorgeous. Like his smile here. He should try acting. I would watch it :D

Would you mind to put a spoiler allert on your comment?

Okay, it is finished. I liked it, otherwise I would not have invested time watching it.
Just want to name two points I did not like:
1. Lifeless world. Okay, all are in the bunkers. But that's not how human psychology works. Ever been in evecuation situations? I have been threetimes. Once in Germany, when a World War II bomb was found at a site I was working on; and twice here in Vietnam, during a flood and a typhoon. You wonder, how many people do not comply with official evacuation...

2. Lengths. I mentioned it once before, but there are so many periods of inactivity in this series. Can they not talk AND drive? Why have they to stop for 10 min and talk? Or just stand around? Or sit around doing nothing, while they literally have only 1day or 1 hour left to live?

I liked the idea. After realising, and getting some hints from fellow commenters here, I dropped my "scientific" analysis. This is a BL and , yeah, there was a nice development in between the main leads. Not so sure about the side couple, how to explain their relationship. I actually felt not much in the last episode, regarding the main leads' relationship. They hugged sometime, and kissed. But Art and Golf often stood quite distant from each other. Again, that is not how I feel someone would react, whose life expectancy is less than 30min. The end was okay. I think a lot of people might be disappointed/unsatisfied. Some of the previous episodes had more "emotion", to be honest.

Despite those points, as I said, I liked this series.

I could live with that. I was a bit scared Name will not survive this...

The YT comments are always positive. I wonder if negative comments are locked there, as they do with the thumbs down now. I would consider myself an average viewer and in most cases I feel something is bad, when it is bad (and opposite). When I read through YT I always think I am going to watch a masterpiece. I think, it is because YT does not really want a discussion/argument in their comment section, while MDL is there to just do that.

I just checked. I have no subs at all. I watched yesterday the premiere at 8.40pm and the first two parts had subs. I dropped it when part 3 came and had no subs. Now they've gone for all parts here. They probably upload them later or tomorrow.

? Do you mean, there's no eng subs on p3/4? Because that is what I have. Part 1/2 have eng subs, but the rest not. It was already at the premiere yesterday. I dropped it and left it for my breakfast. But in the morning it still has no :((

Yes, you are right. I am not against modern plots in BL. I just mentioned. And I do not even complain if we BL-fans seize some series with nice looking boys :D
But I am more afraid of film companies who sell us "BL" which in reality isn't...

"not that I am looking for the meaning of life in a BL"

I think, this series is not BL. Who, actually, claimed this to be BL? I already wrote, for me this is a coming of age series. I am quite strict with the BL definition, I usually apply the traditional straight-to-gay plot for BL, and most Thai series would not be BL in that sense. Beside the fact that we have one couple and another one which smells a bit for BL, there is nothing BL-ish here...

For me this is a Thai youth series (see above) with some male-male side couples.

There is one episode to go...a lot of things can magically happen in final episodes...

Sorry to say that: but this series does not give me anything. It looked so promising. Next week's the final and there is no "message", no content, I can get out of this (not that I am looking for the meaning of life in a BL, but I hope you get the gist of what I try to say).

Looking forward to him in Wall of Dawn...

I was a bit wary after the first episode, but the second episode had everything I look for in a BL.

That's why I often feel a bit left outside. We actually haven't seen their whole relationship. They go together, then we jump many years, and now we see them having issues and break up. No wonder I feel somehow disappointed...