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Despite giving it a lower rating (7/10) the first time I watched Star in My Mind, I actually love it so much. It's short, both in number of episodes and the episode length, so it does not overstay its welcome and it's highly rewatchable... and it's just so sweet. I think it's an easy reach when you want to watch something simple and cute. The only thing I still don't like about it is the "director's vision" of the kissing scenes. Then again, the 2 bonus episodes in Our Skyy kinda made that better.

For me, it's the music selection during NC scenes... pretty much in every gmm series I've seen, they play some random song, mute the sounds and put together some half-assed attempt that looks like NC scene... and are done with it. I don't need explicit, almost vulgar NC scenes like Venus in the Sky had... but give me some natural sounds so my fantasy gets fed. My Stand-In did this really well, I think (despite the music) while still being pretty explicit. I Feel You Linger in the Air too, though they were much less explicit.

I'm not following FirstKhao that close but I think I've seen some BTS where they said kissing is strange for them because they are really good friends. They do, imho, have a soulmates/old married couple aura (just the fact how they agreed to handle their finances is just... 🤯) so I wouldn't be surprised at all if one day they announced they are married. 😂

JoongDunk... I mean, I personally think they are dating or are very close to dating. Are they really? As far as I know, they never confirmed anything. It might just be Joong's personality or like Perth said in one of his videos, some ships intentionally overdo the fanservice. Even if they were dating, I don't see why they would announce it. If they are good businessmen, the whole ship thing is based in large part on uncertainty and fantasy. Are they dating, are they not dating, how would it look like if they really were, does them walking next to each other mean they are dating, etc. If they confirm/deny anything, they can potentially lose this advantage and may become less popular. 🤔

I guess it depends on the culture and the generation. It was some time ago, but I think I saw a video of a younger Korean man talking about how he was affectionate with other men (like even cuddling in bed) in Korea and that was viewed as completely fine. Then he moved to the USA and there it was viewed as strange and inappropriate.

I'm European and in my country, as far as I can see, men are not very openly affectionate if I don't count a pat on the back or maybe a handshake. It's possible, but not a norm. Or they are being affectionate behind closed doors, lol. Not sure how it's in Thailand... then there's the whole fanservice thing. It gets confusing to me at times, because I can clearly see which ships would be dating for sure if they were living in my country. JoongDunk is definitely one of them. You don't touch other people like that in my country unless you date them... or you want to get smacked. 😅

I understand Qs (or queues) as the Nth day of filming. E.g. Q1 = first day of filming, Q11 = 11th day of filming.

Definitely worth it for me. Ep 1 was a solid 9/10 for me and that's a lot for a first ep. But then again, to each their own, you might end up not liking it but try it at least.

Do we know/are we able to guess how many episodes it will have? I just know I will watch it as it airs but it would be so nice to forget all about it until it's fully or at least mostly out. 😅

Thank you!

Does anyone know the names of the songs used for EP 7 two sex scenes? Please?

How long was the ep 1 uncut version?

Lol, I was thinking the same about Mike and the secretary spin off series. I'd watch that.

I expect a happy ending. That black and brown coach shirt Ming has in the ep 12 preview is the same one he had in episode 4 (when Ming called Joe right before Joe died) and it's not two different scenes with the same clothes (old Ming has a green phone cover, current Ming has a brown/pink one) so there will definitely be some flashbacks. I expect Joe will see these flashbacks and will reconsider going through the door. Joe 1.0's body is ash so he will probably wake up again in Joe 2.0's body. There are 2 or 3 happy scenes from the trailer I don't remember seeing in the series yet so yeah, a happy ending.

That would be a genius move. But for that to work, they would also have to not include any scenes from the last episode in the trailer itself. As it is now, I think there were few I haven't seen yet in the series so I can pretty much guess the ending. Still, I look forward to next week. <3

It would be great if there was a page on your profile for your liked lists. So far, I did not encounter this option. My workaround for this is this: I just follow the author of this list. Then I can relatively quickly access the list by going to my Profile > Following > click on the author > Lists > open the list I like. Since I am following just one person, this workaround works fine for me so far.

Really natural and believable, not cringe at all. I don't think I've ever seen a BL that would have so explicit NC scenes, yet so well written/acted. I mean, there's KinnPorsche but that is a special category of its own.

I would classify this as soft porn. However, even if it didn't have any decent plot at all, I am more than happy to have this in my watched collection. I was watching this and My Stand-In and realized the type of sex scenes that were shown in these were exactly what I like to see in my BLs from time to time. Not everything has to be that deep (just watched Unknown and am happy to watch something light). Anyway, here's me skulking the comment section to see if anyone mentions a series with a similar type of sex scenes. :D

For me, the ending was bittersweet. They do end up together, yes, and are quite happy... but are also facing the consequences of the events from the last episode. Aside from this plot twist, which I still think was bad writing and could easily be fixed by a simple dialogue or a scene (but maybe I missed something), and that one death scene (also in the last episode) that felt like it got included for shock value, I can't say enough good things about this series.

Ah, I thought so but wasn't sure. Thank you!

Who was in the picture? I'm so bad with faces. :/

Hey, no worries. I saw some people being confused and I was like "I have some insight into this" so I overshared a bit, I guess. 😅 I was also really surprised by how well this storyline imitated real life, I would not expect it to be this good. Anyway, I'm super invested and am looking forward to seeing how they handle this in the following episodes. 🧡