Ai Long Nai (2022)

Did anything actually happen?

Saying that is in anyway related to Tonhon Chonlatee is criminal. Let’s leave aside the fact that the cast is completely different (makes sense, they were done by different companies), but the story doesn’t even fit with it. I am not familiar with the novels the two series were based off, but seeing the novels were done by the same author, I would have expected at least some consistency when it came to the plot.

Let’s start with the good first. I love the relationship between Sippakorn (Ai’s father) and his partner Nan. Nan didn’t get that much screen time, but I feel like whenever he was present, he stole the show. I loved his character. And the fact that the actors who play them, Porsch and Arm, are real life partners is amazing! They didn’t need much more than a simple look to see their love and I was there for it!

Another great part of the series was Nhai’s friend group. They are all aware that their friend is not very bright and extremely whiny, but they accept him for who is. And they are not afraid to tell him that when the chance presents itself (e.g. the reason for the ducky keychain).

Now, the not so great part – Nhai. As I mentioned before, he is kind of dumb and whiny, to the point of it being extremely annoying. I don’t even know how I sat through all 12 episodes of it, but I did. Only for there to be absolutely no character growth for him. I found the conversations others had with him boring and with no meaning. The subtitles were horrible as well, so I am sure certain things got lost in the translation, but I doubt the dialogue was actually much better. The only redeeming act of his that I can think of is how he delt with Ai’s mom. That’s it.

Ai can be a brat, but he is a brat that knows how to take care of himself. And his boyfriend. I found him much easier to tolerate. I think there was much more thought put into creating his character. His backstory showed his character growth as well, which was great to see.

Oh, one more thing that I liked was that no matter how annoying Nhai is, at least he knows how to communicate – we don’t see that very often, so it was really refreshing to see. Do you know how many conflicts can be avoided by just talking about it?

As for the plot, was there even one? I feel like there was no real plot, yet there were so many plot holes in the end, that I don’t even know where we got them from. I also feel like the story was unnecessary long and dragged out – and that is coming from a person who usually complains that the series are too short. I feel like if they only focused on Ai and Nhai getting together, made it a cute and short series with like 6 episodes, it would be much better.

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As I stated before, I need more than good looking actors to make a series good. The series started off ok, but went downhill very quickly. The script is not the greatest. The pacing was very off and everything was happening at a rapid speed. It seems to have the same “I don’t like men, but I like him” concept from Tonhon Chonlatee that was used which I can’t stand.

Random Note:

I should have listened to my initial gut reaction to not watch this series, but gave it a shot when it became available on Viki. I was also giving a MFlow production another chance before I completely give-up on them. Yet again, I was proven wrong.

The English subtitle on Viki were pretty bad (I didn’t take points off for this). It seemed they stopped caring and gave up after episode 2. The subtitles had a lot of spelling and grammatical errors. There were times they were so incoherent that I had no idea what the actors were saying. There were other times that there were no subtitles at all.

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Rape is not love

It seems that Thai BL only ever have two kinds of gay people, Camp or rapist. Why do they just keep on regurgitating the same old rubbish over and over again, can't they find any new stories? The worst thing about it is I could probably tolerate it if they didn't have to make them such disgusting filth all the time.
You do not love someone if you rape them!
Rape should not be glorified!
Childlike moron at university, what is he studying? He seems to have the brain capacity of a preteen
Can we just have someone hate their rapist one time, maybe be angry and tell them to never come near them again. Maybe get them arrested or my favorite, stab them and leave them bleeding in the street.
I watched this on Youtube and I seemed to be the only person in the comments complaining so maybe people like glorified rape, that would explain why they keep making this kind of garbage

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La historia es simple pero linda.

La historia es simple, incluso diría que tiene mucho relleno. Los personajes principales no tienen mucho trasfondo aparte de tal vez Ai. Aun así el tema de su madre no se resuelve, sentí que solo está ahí para causar un conflicto que encima solo sirve para dos o tres capítulos.

Creo que su principal falta es sobre los personajes secundarios, sus historias las tocaron mínimamente, ni siquiera exploraron en ellas, les falta trasfondo, podrían no estar y no harían ninguna diferencia.

Lo que más ame y por lo que la seguía viendo era por Jonan y Sib. Personalmente me gustaría ver más de ellos.

La historia tiene huecos y varias fallas, principalmente con los personajes secundarios, la historia es linda, pero le falta bastante. Podría esperar esto de una serie de menos capítulos, pero para la cantidad que tiene y la duración de estos pudo ser mejor serie. Es linda de ver aunque hay mejores.

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Just don't judge thai bls from this series

Just the worst acting and a crappy story led to this. I mean what's with the obsession with a keychain and they just kiss in the second episode without any buildup just so out of the scene.
Just putting 2 guys in a series and tell them to just fall in love doesn't work, WE NEED A STORY. NO amount of NC scenes could have helped. Seriously I am disappointed with myself to even think of starting this series. I lost my brain cells watching this.
For anyone who is watching his first thai series as this just please don't lose hope. Their are others who are much better.

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University BL with bad acting

Unlike many others, I don't mind university set BLs and I've liked or loved most of the ones I've watched so far. However, this was I minded. It wasn't good. It wasn't even actually decent.

A few people recommended this to me and every sing one of them failed to mention how bad the acting was. This has got to be some of the worst acting this year. It also didn't help that the subtitles were awful and at times nonsensical but even with perfect subtitles, the acting is still bad. I can't recall any of the actors giving at least decent performance.

There were side characters & side couples with their own stories & they're so forgettable that the script forgot them as well. So there isn't much to say about them except that they exist.

I dropped it mainly because halfway through I found out that one of the main characters was a minor during filming. The thought that that 16 to 17 year old was doing all those kissing scenes and love scenes with an adult in a room full of adults made my skin crawl. The BL industry needs to stop pairing minors with adults. It's creepy and should not be a thing.

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É uma bosta

Atualmente estou no episódio 4 e ja vou dar meu veredito
Essa série e terrível, ela tem la seus pontos positivos mas em geral e péssima
A relação do casal principal e estranha e forçada com personagens mais estereótipados que negros nos filmes dos anos 2000
Personagens pouco cativantes e desconexos, interações forçadas e situações esquisitas. Mundo fechado e monótono e personagens superficiais
Além de cenário e cinematográfia de baixo orçamento (provavelmente gastaram toda a verba alugando o carro do ai)
Comédia infanto juvenil que não combina nada com o jeito que é retratado o relacionamento dos protagonistas (o cara cuida de um patinho de chaveiro a mando do pai e ao mesmo tempo transa bêbado na casa do amigo dele???? é muito incoerente) que é tão mal dessenvolvido que parece um relacionamento pedófilo
Os diálogos são forçados e parecem que so tao ali pra explicar o óbvio e fingir aproximação do casal (que não disfarça os furos de aproximação)
As vezes da pra dar umas risadinhas, mas o fato de uma série com um humor tão bobo fazer piadas com sexo explícito me deixa muito incomodado

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