In this episode of Check It/Round Table Onna discusses Bromance the Thai 2014 BL Drama, https://youtu.be/zywzVne5CDI, and why she watched this film because Natouch Siripongthon plays a lead role in this film. Onna elaborates on the plot line in this film featuring the lives of Golf and Bank who are step-brothers as their parents abruptly get married and the two boys have to deal with the changes that ensue. Onna considers how the two boys are both still grieving over the loss of their mother and father, respectively and how Banks does what he can to ease the growing pains that Golf is experiencing because of their parents new marriage and the adjustments involved and the realization that Golf starts to like Banks more than he thought he would and how Onna thinks Banks, despite all logic against it, seems to have liked Golf more than expected from the day he walked in the door. Onna then has a diatribe on the importance of couple rings in Asian drama and the good, the bad, and the humorous aspects of this fact shown in I Need Romance 3 and the fact that the main character in that series has a jar full of couple rings from her poorly ended relationships until she ends up with Sweet Potato, https://www3.dramacool.movie/drama-detail/i-need-romance-3. Onna considers how in relationships miscommunications can literally choke a horse and curiosity really won't kill the cat when it comes to relationships and figuring things out regarding relationships and would save a lot of time in getting to where they perhaps should go.
Onna considers yet again why the BL dramas seem to be the only genre that the couples involved tend to commit to one another for the long-term
Onna elaborates on how Golf and Banks ended up together because they came from similar backgrounds and had to navigate the pieces left by their families and the upheaval they were left to handle. Onna considers how this film and the family's response to Banks and Golf's relationship is so terrible because if family members don't invest in people's lives, you don't have the right to judge or try to destroy their relationship and how the family is really missing the whole point because the only reason they were interfering in Golf and Banks' relationship was because their relationship was not the status quo and they were worried what others would think about Golf and Banks' relationship. Onna considers how when it comes to eighteen-year-olds, using the argument that they shouldn't do something because of what others will think isn't going to work as they still have enough moxie to see through that and say that they should not make decisions based on what others think, which is one of the many cool things about young adults. Onna considers an opposite scenario that if the aunt had walked in and just sat down and asked what was going on and they could discuss Golf and Banks' relationship and see not only the negative possibilities and what society would think and instead see the positive aspects of their relationship--no fighting between family for who they have holiday dinners with for example.
Onna concludes with the aspect that the farewell scene in the classroom between Golf and Banks where Golf tells Banks that he was never ashamed that he cared for him though they were both guys. Onna considers that the one thing that sets Thai BL apart from American BL, for example is the fact that sexual orientation is secondary to personal appreciation for the individual and their qualities as a person. It's all here. It's all real. Reunion short film, https://youtu.be/G7xNFAf30RY.
