Relationships without any relations . . .

Prepapon:

NO SPOILERS
Plenty unnecessary pairings (who were these football guys really?), shallow story (forced drama in the main paring, unfinished plot threads), one episode feels like a big, over 40-minutes-long commercial (ep 10) BUT I must admit, I had a really good laugh. A person responsible for the sound effects must really love their job. Or actor playing drums on Hwahwa's birthday party - pure beauty.
Few things I don't like - there were maybe 3 scenes with some form of harassment and they are left without any comment. Maybe I shouldn't pay attention to that now, because it seems to be recurring motif in these dramas.
Overall, I recommend watching while drunk. Much fun. (besides final episodes - they're quite boring)


Grellina:

SPOILERS
This is a story about relationships without any relations. We have two main parings. Tutor and Fighter. Saifah and Zon. First paring is about Tutor who is a tutor in real life, giving English lessons for other students. We get to know he is a "poor person" and has some money issues. He needs to work in 2 separate jobs to be able to pay debt. His parents are alive but we know absolutely nothing about them for whole series. They work somewhere to pay these debts. We don't know the cause of these debts and we will never know to the rest of the series. But Tutor HAS 1.5 MILLION BAHT debt. We don't know why, we don't know from where, we don't know by who.

So u should think he is living in very bad shape house. To save as much money as possible. But when u see "condo" he lives in u realize its not so bad as it should be. Moreover he is living in very expensive, luxury home XD But he does not have a car. So I guess that makes him poor.

Another thing what is absolutely terrible about the series is we know nothing about relations between tutor and his parents and fighter with his mother. There is completely nothing. We just get to know that tutor is lonely because he has no relatives next to him.

Another thing is Tutor and Fighter. They have no relations. Their story starts with hating each other. We don't know why and we will never know. But they literally can't even look at each other for some mysterious reason xD And after that Tutor is being stalked by Fighter all the time. Wherever Tutor works or is, Fighter is there to "help him" somehow. And this help mostly contains money. Fighter spends a lot of money to get to Tutor. And it successes XD After they "fall in love" with each other he pays for very expensive hotel and a travel.

And the most problem is not even this "pay to win" relation. The most problem: there is no relations between them at all. They never talk. If they talk is only love dovey bullshit how much they love each other and how much they are protective over their "ownings". There are no real honest full of feelings and emotions conversations. They dont talk about their problems. They dont talk about the issues they had with their relatives. No word about Tutor feeling lonely, parents leaving him behind. No word about Fighter without mother, having incomprehension problem with father. NO A SINGLE CONVERSATION. They are not close to each other. They are not supportive to each other. They just live their full lives spending money of Fighter's father, I suppose. Because we dont know from where Fighter takes the money. We dont know why he had these 1.5 million Bahts. And didnt have a problem to spend it all in one second. And also there is no a single word about Fighter working somewhere.

I would say relation Tutor - Fighter is just a physical thing. They are attractive to each other and Fighter can pay for everything. And Tutor has no problem. Although he has said that he will try to give back these 1.5 million baht once. But everything ended there. No more problem with spending money on him.

At least series is very light and u can relax watching it I guess. Producers didnt mean to make it serious. So we should take all what happened there casually.

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Awful main characters

Grellina: Lets start from the very first episode. We are getting to know 2 main characters which story is about. Yan Fei - executive of some company (I have no idea what kind of company was it when I was watching the series. I guessed it was some advertising agency since we have taken some photos of coca cola product. Either way I have no idea about the life of this company. I dont know if it was the problem of English translation or just theme of this wasnt really developed. I don't even know what the Yan Fei was supposed to apologize for. What the problem was or anything wasn't showed. The only job we can see its like he sits in his office with his cooworkers or subordinates and talks about some things but nothing really specific or precise) and Hai Qing who is a student of art academy. It was first time for me seeing some painter artist in Bl drama so it seemed intersting at first. But lets go back to the topic. So they meet for the first time on the swimming pool and then they kiss in the changing room some minutes later. I dont have to say that it was super unnatural, weird and most probably wouldnt ever happen in real life. But here it happened. They cant find each other after and Hai Qing meets Ping Jun. The best material for boyfriend that could ever exist, But Hai Qing doesnt really appreciate it. Hai Qing is the most egoistic, narcisitic, hypocritical and false character u can meet in the series. He doesnt care about anyone but himself. Ping Jun does everything to make Hai Qing's dreams come true. He gives him money to start his school, he helps him go through grandpa's death, he renovates his work room since he knows how much important place its for him. Ping Jun is extremely supportive and loves Hai Qing with all his heart. But our Hai Qing prefers some handsome stranger from the pool anyway. Hai Qing is just an asshole who stabs everyone around him. No matter if its his grandpa, his boyfriend, his best friend. Just awful character. What makes this series hard to watch. Yan Fei is not better. He has a fiance for 5 years and he doesnt care about him at all. I have no idea how they made it through to be engagement. There literally was no feelings for Jimmy. Yan Fei's behavior towards Jimmy is just "whatever". Its like "u can be here or not. I dont care. U can do whatever u want". Yan Fei's feelings for Hai Qing are not true. He just meant to meet him on the swimming pool when he was already bored with Jimmy and thought about this as a "love". After 5 years with Hai Qing everything will repeat as it was with Jimmy. Yan Fei is just spoiled, rotten businessman who gets everything he wants. Two main characters super awful. So they are matching each other I guess. Hai Qing gives all the time wrong signs to the Ping Jun. Giving him a hope for sth more hurting him even more. Until Ping Jun decides to end it. The ending is so bad, is so unsatisfying. Im so sick seeing Yan Fei and Hai Qing together. Im glad the series ended. I couldnt wait for it to end. Not going back to it ever again The only advantage about this series was grandpa who I fell for. Super supportive and the best character in all series. And of course Ping Jun. The painting theme was interesting but still it didnt add anything to the plot. So it was disappointing. I don't recommend.

Prepapon: A weird romanticization of a love from the first sight?
DBM is a bl drama where I did not ship the main paring and actually disliked main characters.
Yan Fei and Hai Qing met once and by accident and yet after over a year (and one kiss), god knows where that came from, have huge feeling for one another after that time. So huge that they don't care that they act absolutely selfish. Especially Hai Qing who does not know what he wants and hurts everyone around him but still acts like he is the only one who suffers. (SPOILER for example that scene where he says that he will forget about his grandpa) He shows no gratitude to anybody.
He is young and learns who he is but there is no scene where he comes to realisation that maybe he should try to make up for things. No scene where he apologizes. Most of the time he is passive and dishonest.
SPOILER Ping Jun was with Hai Qing during his darkest time. Accepted him, loved him and cared for him. But when Yan Fei shows up, Hai Qing just starts cheating on Ping Jun. Just like that. I refuse to think that one accidental kiss a year ago can win with all the support and love he got from Ping Jun after his grandpa died and dad went abroad for months. But, as I said earlier, Hai Qing feels no gratitude...
I do not recommend.

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~Love~ Barely a story

Grellina:
I don't even know what to start with, beside saying how bad it was. A torture. I've seen some bad boys love dramas, but this one is one of the hidden diamonds. There is literally no story, no action, no acting. But what was the most painful experience was absolutely, an extremely *annoying music*. There were only 3 or 4 songs played again, and again alternately. And this "happy event" one - disgusting. No taste in music whatsoever. Just the cheap, simple, annoying poop. Another extremely annoying one was popping the name of "4 cafe", "park origin", and "hotel origin" over, and over, and over. Actually I think it was much more annoying than this bad soundtrack. And the same scene of moon....

What about the characters themselves? Main character Pun - typical, no personality character with some psychotic mood changes. One second he is happy, next second has a syndrome called "automatical tears".

Pan - a cool girlfriend who cares only about herself and getting expensive gifts. (Still she didn't get this necklace Sib promised her)

Sib - absolutely the most annoying person u would ever meet in your life. His favourite quote is "I don't know" and let's leave it there. Guy doesn't ever know about his own feelings, and he hurts others just because of his own stupidity and selfishness. Disgusting "faggot". Won first place in worst character.

Tar - cool guy, although he suffers on "non stop facial cramps" which makes him have the same "suffering" expression whole series. I actually feel sorry about him for falling for Sib.

Em - the best character. Actually was the only one who I can say I liked in the series. Felt very bad for him when Pun decided to dump him.

In summary very bad series. Very boring, dissatisfied ending. The title "I am your king" took the popularity from the first series and gave us something completely different. Something completely genderless. I couldn't wait for this series to end.


Prepapon:
If someone asked me what this series is about, I would not know what to answer. Things seem unfinished, sometimes even barely started.

A BL series where everybody ends single is unique but the plot is disappointing. There is not much of a story.

The series is very shallow. It's not ambitious (tho I liked the unexpected scene with the dead mother) but it's not even fun at any degree. Too illogical. It's not possible for the viewer cannot care.

There's plenty of illogical things but my personal "favourite" one is that" Pun, for some reason (looooove for Sib I guess), doesn't consider Em as a boyfriend material and prefers to suffer with Sib, and then not, and then comes back - why? Don't know.
Em respects him, doesn't deny his feelings, and care about him. Sib, on the other hand, is selfish all the way (yes, he pays people to befriend his brother which btw he doesn't respect himself xd and really, since when pity is care? Also, the relationship with his gf is forced because he lies to himself for years and years. Are they even friends? They have no relation, don't talk about important things and just are a couple because they got used to it) and VERY undecided.

Acting is stiff but the plot itself isn't better (the scene at Pun's where he jokes with Em just to "cry" a minute later because he recalled he's hurt. And the c r y i n g - I'm dead).

Overall, I don't recommend the series. It's hard to understand the main characters and their actions.

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