Lys

Yaaaaay, excited for tomorrow! I hope the series is great. It definitely seems different and interesting. Other ghost BL type stuff isn't usually horror too.

People are constantly running around saying every actor doesn't want to be in BL anymore. Both Ohm and Nanon have explicitly expressed interest in doing another BL together. I don't know why people in the BL fandom are obsessed with the idea of actors not doing BL.

I still don't understand why they haven't just announced it, given the obvious hint. But whatever, maybe they wanted to do a photoshoot that they couldn't schedule first. I just hope they haven't changed the leads, because I've really been looking forward to this. It seems really interesting, though.

I get that. They generally have to be backed up with proof, but I know we've all seen rumors turn to legit pages. I generally trust the place where I saw the announcement, but I'd feel better seeing it actually confirmed by the creators. Fingers crossed that it happens.

I saw it referenced in a list of upcoming shows from BLUpdates on Instagram. But this is the series page, so that suggests it is indeed coming. Or so I hope! If you're asking where they got that information, I have no freaking idea. But they've never steered me wrong before, so they must have their sources.

As long as the ending is truly satisfying and makes sense with the narrative, I'll be happy. I just hope he continues to pleasantly surprise me in the sense that, though I see all of the lame ways the show could go if it were in the hands of a lesser writer/director, he never takes that route. So as long as he doesn't go for his usual break up/time jump happy endings (because that is a thing he loves) and we get a conclusion that feels real and not forced, I suppose I'll forgive him for intentionally screwing with our emotions like this. I'm a writer too, and I've never understood that thing some writers get off on, where they just want to upset their viewers as a power trip, or to keep them guessing.

Bad Buddy is not an especially fresh or original show at its core. What makes it so exhilarating and enjoyable is that while Aof is still using all of the basic BL ingredients, he's tossing out the elements that don't make the recipe taste as good as it could. In the end, it's still a cake, but he's only using the finest content. I would hate for him to give up at the last minute and just throw in the rest of the junk.

There have amazingly been quite a few people who liked it! I was getting stressed out because the place I was browsing had a bunch of "it's so perfect and sad and beautiful!" type replies, or "it's realistic this way" replies, saying this is how they wanted it to end. I was surprised so many people liked it. Then I remembered MDL tends to have better discussions than some of the other BL hubs, so I came here and felt a little better. Took a few days for me to gather my thoughts though.

I get it, though. It can be hard to think about when you don't want to be harmed more than you already were. I'm in a bad situation right now in my real life, and Bad Buddy was my weekly endorphins boost, so my best friend had to spend the whole day calming me down, because it messed with me that badly. I just look forward to us getting our true conclusion soon, and I hope Aof doesn't let us down. It would be so bizarre for him to throw away all of his hard work for something so flat and cheap, but I'm trying to prepare my heart just in case it turns out he's more about shock value than following the logic he himself has already established.

We've got each other in the meantime. Hang in there, sister!

I would like if the preview is Pran's mom experiencing what would have happened if she got what she wanted. No Pat, no music, no anything that she doesn't deem to be key to his perfect future. And he follows her wishes and succeeds in a surface way, but the person he was is completely gone. He's not happy and can no longer be happy, because he sacrificed everything he truly wants to please his mother.

This is reflective of what he says to her in episode 10, that the way she raised him is why he isn't like other kids. Pran is very touchy and uptight, afraid to relax and just enjoy himself. He avoids things that he loves because he's afraid of what his mother will do. She needs to see her short-sightedness, or the conflict will never end.

A time jump where the two of them give one another up in order to make their families happy doesn't make sense with their character development or the overall arc of the show. It would leave the problem with their families unresolved, and it doesn't follow the path of growth established from the start. It does, however, tie into the themes of doomed love based on family stubbornness that we see throughout. Because this show is a lighter version of the novel, there won't be a tragic ending, but those parallels are still important. Those are the "what if" timelines that could and SHOULD terrify their parents. In Romeo and Juliet as well as The Scar, the parents pay the ultimate price for their refusal to budge and end up losing their children forever. I think it'd be interesting to see the parents really contemplate that possibility.

A break up at this point would undo what the show has spent 11 episodes establishing. I know there are people who get off on misery under the guise of "realism" (don't get me started on that one), but it doesn't make sense for a story about two young men learning to break away from familial expectations and embrace their own lives to end with them regressing back to square one. That kind of ending is reflective of poor writing and direction, which isn't something Aof has shown us so far. I'm annoyed with him for pulling this crap, but it would be very strange for him to take so much time and care to create a show that doesn't fall into typical yaoi pitfalls, only to take a massive cliche dump at the end. I know the man loves a time jump happy ending, but I don't buy either boy being able to just let one another go for a family that doesn't support them living their lives outside of being pawns for their parents.

So I hope what we saw in the preview is used to show someone who needs to see it just how bad things could have gone if Pat and Pran were forced to give up the one thing they'd ever had that was worth challenging their parents to obtain. I know that footage might be another attempt to hide the relationship, or it could be some other type of fake out, but I would much rather this bad timeline was actually utilized to teach a few lessons. While everyone else in the cast has grown throughout the show, the parents are still firmly planted where they began. Aof isn't a hack. He's been laying the ground work for a stronger resolution than something as lukewarm as the preview would imply at face value. I just wish we didn't have to wait a damn week.

MDL is just a list of what people have posted. A lot of pages are missing information until more official details are announced. I'm not sure why no one has changed to add him based on the interview where he's confirmed to be in it, but it could be a matter of them waiting on a studio announcement. I hope they update it soon though.

My Broccoli ^^ It's a pet project that Boun is doing with Prem. There's not a lot out about it so far, but it has a MDL page. EDIT: I was on my phone before, but here's a link ^^ https://mydramalist.com/714271-my-broccoli

Omg! Someone mentioned "Light series" in passing, and they didn't answer when I asked about it. I was hoping it was an extension of the short, but I couldn't find anything on MDL. I'm so glad to see it finally confirmed. I really like the short, but it was way too rushed. It could have been so much more, and I hope it properly utilizes its time.

Oh my god, I'm so excited for this. I thought people were mistaken about the vampire part after they released the promo photos. It looked like your average slice-of-life, and I thought the one actor's past vampire role combined with the original title of the series was confusing people. So glad that isn't the case! It's a crime that we don't really have much vampire BL, and the ones we do have are all really weird and generally not very vampire-like. But now we get two in one year? Please let them both work out!

Oh, thank you! I thought I looked there but I don't recall seeing it.

Cast will supposedly be announced later today. I'm eager to see.

Dude, share sources before you say something so damaging about a person. There are a lot of sexual predators out there, unfortunately, so I'm not saying it can't be true, but at least back it up with valid links.

Any word on when this is actually coming out? I hope it isn't canceled.

I tried to watch this in theaters yesterday, but the place I was looking at only had Chinese subtitles. That seemed so weird to me. It was a mainstream theater, but they didn't have any English subtitle options. I didn't realize it was the fifth installment, but it's action, you know? I was having a bad day and thought I could tolerate some mindless violence and explosions. But I'd at least like to kind of know what's going on. The only places that are showing it with English subtitles are like $16 tickets.

It looks like it'll continue, but unfortunately it'll be entirely recast under a different production company. I was looking forward to seeing Boat in this, too. :(

Thai BL typically films a "pilot trailer" to entice investors and such. So all of the shots you see in the trailer are shot exclusively for the trailer. When everything is good to go, they film the actual show and make a new trailer with the footage. It's kinda frustrating, since things can change a lot, but generally speaking they typically get even better (or different in a good way) than the original.

I was so confused watching Second Chance because I thought they were the same person! I was like, why is he acting so differently? And it seemed like he was gonna be paired with that guy, but now he's flirting with that guy? Then it turned out they were brothers, so I guess I can forgive myself for the mix up, haha.