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It’s an 8 episodes long Thai BL drama with a rivals-to-lovers story. Is it good? No. Do I recommend it? No really. Did I enjoy it? Oh yes, immensely. It’s ridiculous and OTT, but so entertaining. And high heat. I can just turn off my brain and have fun watching beautiful men angrily yelling at each other and then angrily kissing each other.
The first three episodes hinted at much darker and kinkier show, but then it turned into a fluffy, vanilla rom-com. I would prefer that they kept that darker and kinkier version for all 8 episodes. But despite that it was very entertaining.
Apparently source material is 90% smut and mpreg and 10% very flimsy plot, so in comparison to that the drama is a big improvement. :)
More with spoilers below.
And I have to say this - I like consent in my BLs. And here they use dub-con sex (both participants have impaired judgment, they are drugged, because one of them wanted to drug the other with a sleeping drug, and by mistake they were both drugged with some sort of aphrodisiac) and blackmail over a sex tape as a plot device. But the drama presents both the whole situation and characters in a negative light and doesn’t try to pretend it is romantic or something like that. That’s why I don’t mind it here.
They also have a conflict caused by the irritating lack of communication, which is also one of the tropes I dislike. And main couple’s kissing leaves much to be desired. But they’re both beautiful, especially Bank, and their chemistry is scorching. And the rest of their NC scenes apart from kissing is good. Like that scene in the beginning of episode 3 when Yai kneels obediently because Mangkorn ordered him to. That was so hot.
I was never that much into BDSM in fiction. I read fics sometimes, but as soon as it starts to get too formalized I’m out. I don’t mind when there is like two or three sentences long mention of having a safeword or about discussing things earlier, but any more than that and it’s a turn off for me instead of a turn on.
I guess I just like that “we stumble into d/s dynamics and never really discuss it, but we’re still absolutely compatible with each other and it works perfectly” thing. I don’t care if it’s unrealistic, I just love it. I got that with Vegas/Pete and now with Mangkorn/Yai.
And the drama has an adorable secondary GL couple. They had just a few short scenes, but they were so sweet together.
And Yai has two incompetent, but hilarious bodyguards, who insist that they are absolutely not together, but they bicker like an old married couple, and look at each other with hearts in their eyes. They are also very sweet together.
I also love the opening song sung by one of the leads. It's called Dancing With The Devil. No surprise there since it was composed by Jeff Satur and I love his songs. :)
But I am surprised that I’m so invested in this silly drama. I want to write fics. And I can’t now because I have to finish my Yuletide fic, and there are two treats (maybe three) I would like to write. And I already took a break from my Yuletide writing to write a short Kan/Thua fic for The Eclipse.
And unfortunately for me this is another very small fandom. There are only 29 fics in English on AO3 and I already read every even half-decent fic at least twice. After falling in love with KinnPorsche I was so happy to be again, after a long time, in a big fandom with a lot of new fics posted daily. Now it’s back to tiny fandom hell for me. :)
Big Dragon is on Youtube here, but it’s the censored version. VIKI has the uncensored version.
The first three episodes hinted at much darker and kinkier show, but then it turned into a fluffy, vanilla rom-com. I would prefer that they kept that darker and kinkier version for all 8 episodes. But despite that it was very entertaining.
Apparently source material is 90% smut and mpreg and 10% very flimsy plot, so in comparison to that the drama is a big improvement. :)
More with spoilers below.
And I have to say this - I like consent in my BLs. And here they use dub-con sex (both participants have impaired judgment, they are drugged, because one of them wanted to drug the other with a sleeping drug, and by mistake they were both drugged with some sort of aphrodisiac) and blackmail over a sex tape as a plot device. But the drama presents both the whole situation and characters in a negative light and doesn’t try to pretend it is romantic or something like that. That’s why I don’t mind it here.
They also have a conflict caused by the irritating lack of communication, which is also one of the tropes I dislike. And main couple’s kissing leaves much to be desired. But they’re both beautiful, especially Bank, and their chemistry is scorching. And the rest of their NC scenes apart from kissing is good. Like that scene in the beginning of episode 3 when Yai kneels obediently because Mangkorn ordered him to. That was so hot.
I was never that much into BDSM in fiction. I read fics sometimes, but as soon as it starts to get too formalized I’m out. I don’t mind when there is like two or three sentences long mention of having a safeword or about discussing things earlier, but any more than that and it’s a turn off for me instead of a turn on.
I guess I just like that “we stumble into d/s dynamics and never really discuss it, but we’re still absolutely compatible with each other and it works perfectly” thing. I don’t care if it’s unrealistic, I just love it. I got that with Vegas/Pete and now with Mangkorn/Yai.
And the drama has an adorable secondary GL couple. They had just a few short scenes, but they were so sweet together.
And Yai has two incompetent, but hilarious bodyguards, who insist that they are absolutely not together, but they bicker like an old married couple, and look at each other with hearts in their eyes. They are also very sweet together.
I also love the opening song sung by one of the leads. It's called Dancing With The Devil. No surprise there since it was composed by Jeff Satur and I love his songs. :)
But I am surprised that I’m so invested in this silly drama. I want to write fics. And I can’t now because I have to finish my Yuletide fic, and there are two treats (maybe three) I would like to write. And I already took a break from my Yuletide writing to write a short Kan/Thua fic for The Eclipse.
And unfortunately for me this is another very small fandom. There are only 29 fics in English on AO3 and I already read every even half-decent fic at least twice. After falling in love with KinnPorsche I was so happy to be again, after a long time, in a big fandom with a lot of new fics posted daily. Now it’s back to tiny fandom hell for me. :)
Big Dragon is on Youtube here, but it’s the censored version. VIKI has the uncensored version.
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*Solidarity fist bump of fans of small fandoms for things we can't really recommend*
29 fics sounds like a lot to me at this stage for Asian dramas that aren't the big 4.
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