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The series is a cliché, which carries many problems. We have Third who is in love with his best friend (Khai), and he's a complete jerk. Not because Khai does not return his feelings, but because he is a terrible friend. In the first episode I even sympathized with Third's problems, but by the time the second one arrived, I was already full and wanted him to take the reins of his life and go after someone else, or be alone. What's wrong with being alone?We have the main couple consisting of two unlikeable characters, one is an idiot (Khai) and the other is extremely annoying (Third). Does anyone really step into the shower with clothe on to cry and pity himself? It took all the drama out of the scene and made me laugh.
On the other side is Two, which the series tries to make us think he is a good friend, but he also takes some pretty stupid moves, such as selling the friend, even though he doesn’ t agree with the situation before (I won't spoil this further). He even has a nice story with another character, but it is never well defined what they are.
Finally we have Bone, who was probably the only main character that didn't piss me off. Unfortunately his story with the teacher was boring and even a little uncomfortable.
BLs, mostly Thai, often ignore sexuality, but this time it was done as strangely as possible, with characters who never showed attraction to a particular genre creating an overwhelming desire out of nowhere. Another issue is the female representation, which bothered me more than the problem of sexuality and I am a gay man. Women were either crazy or just plot device to make Khai look like a womanaizer. All the characters made extremely sexists comments at some point.
They did have some cute scenes, but I was already so angry at the toxic relationship of the characters that I wasn't even touched. Instead of shipping them, I hoped they wouldn't end up together.
The positive side may be that the acting was good, especially from Gun, Off was fine most of the time, but at times it was forced. It could have had fewer episodes. It isn’t horrible, but could be a lot better, even approaching the same history.
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Basically, in an objective way contains the story of Tine and Sarawat, that start a fake relationship to prevent Green's character from forcing a romance in Tine. The beginning of the series is very good, as simple as that. Win and Bright's performance is very good, especially Win. This review has spoilers by the way. A LOT OF SPOILERS!!! English is not my first language.However, even at the beginning we started to see problematic situations. Starting with Green trying to win over Tine at all cost, even though Tine had specific said he didn't feel the same. After that, the asshole ends up becoming Tine himself who tries to drug Green at a party. I was seeing this thinking, “Wait what? Really? Nobody will talk about that? "
I ended up watching it because I was enjoying it, even though these two facts are still in my head throughout the whole series. Then we saw the relationship of the two main ones that grow in a friendship, than into a romance and an ending up in weird friendship that was neither.
The part of the fake dating was by far the best part, as we saw a Sarawat in love and Tine confused and starting to fall in love. And we came back with other unnecessary scenes like Sarawat and his friends trying to get Tine drunk.
The moment the two start dating, everything ends up getting worse. A relationship of the two never feels like a real relationship, but neither does it feel like a friendship, or leave a strange relationship without definition.
The romance scenes that had a good frequency during the fake dating stage, are almost all gone in the real dating stage, the only one I remember is the bus during a trip, the others are basically cliché jealousy tropes, very forced ones.
The lack of kiss and intimacy are also a problem in the series, I'm not asking for a softporn like Why R U? is. However, a total lack of them leads to the problem of sanitization of gay characters who are often portrayed as almost asexual characters. They could have done like Sotus with a basic kiss in the final episode and to avoid the problem.
Another situation was with Pam, or Sarawat's first love. Pam is a typical character who exists only as a plot device. This type of character is always bad independent of the gender, but nevertheless, being girl ends up worsening what was already bad, since in BLs women are horribly represented with few exceptions.
The last two episodes are the worse in the show, also brought with them a lack of characterization of the two main characters. Win, who was normally an easygoing guy, became paranoid and Sarawat who kept declaring that love all the time was quite aloof. The secondary couple formed by Man and Type was very cute, but lacked development. The couple formed by Mil and Sarawat's brother (who appears so little I didn’t remember his name) was quite forgettable. And I really wanted a show with Green and Dim.
Let's go to what I liked about the series:
- The beginning (despite the problems mentioned at beginning).
- The fake relationship.
- Sarawat obsession with Tine’s boobs.
- The acting.
- Secondary couples (with the exception of Mil and Sarawat's brother).
- The ost. (Best OST ever !!!!)
Well that's it, thanks for reading, bye!
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Niti Man Society and Lover
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Kind of ok?
The first thing I have to say is that it was a little difficult to rate this series. It screamed filler back and forth. We have an unoriginal script, what makes the situation worse is the fact we have similar scenes in every episode. Still it has some cute moments and a camaraderie relationship that is good to watch.It felt like we were following the university student routine, but for no reason. The plot is basically a boy who falls in love with another boy. The big problem itself is the lack of conflict. Is it possible to tell a story without conflict that is good? Not entirely, it's possible to make a story with little conflict to be good, but it takes a narrative refinement for such a task. The only thing shown with the develop of the episodes is Bbomb jealous of someone. There was a moment when I even wanted Jin to betray him just for something different to happen.
As with all BLs, something that is not necessarily a problem with those produced by Thailand repeats itself here: useless characters. To know if a character is needed you need to think about the story. "What would happen to the story if this character didn't exist?" If the answer is nothing, then this character should be removed. Nitiman makes this mistake, but oddly enough, it doesn't do it as bad as in shows like 2moons, 2moons2 (that angel gang could be boiled down to 2, maybe even 1 character, in both 2moons), LBC and the worst case of such an error in En of Love, that you can't even remember their names and more than half could be removed. Here, as much as many of them are unnecessary, at least they still have a slightly distinct personality.
The acting is not good for any of the main characters. At times it felt like a competition between Jin and Bbomb's actors to see which of them was most uncomfortable in the role. Jack and Keam actors were better, but I still wouldn't rate them as good. Some characters appeared so little that you can't even evaluate. I still don't understand why Fourwheels' name appeared in the credits in front of the other characters, if the sum of his scenes wouldn’t even be ten minutes.
I touched only in the negative points, so why does this show still gets a 6,5? Honestly? I have not enven the slight clue. I disliked many things, but even so was an easy show to watch. It didn’t deliver much, because never proposed itself to be more. It is an ok show, could be better, but definetly was not the worst thing I watched.
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