Dinosaur Love (2023)

This is a frustrating mess of chaos.

I really wanted to love this. When i first saw it the thing that had me interested was that there was a confession in ep1. After the confession the thing that i loved was that there was no drama around liking a guy. Both ML are confident and comfortable liking guys. No drama there.
I liked the fact that Rak stood up for himself. He dumped his bf and never went back. He cut of his friend. He told Dino he was taken and that he shouldnt flirt with him. He generally sticks to what he says.
(I recently rewatched some of it and i realized that while a lot of people say that Rak is annoying because of his innocent child like behavior i noticed thats not really his character. Rak is not a naive innocent ML. He is not a virgin who doesnt know how sex works or relationships. His character is supposed to resemble a rabbit. Cute and kind but hes not supposed to be child like.
Something i liked was that when Dino tries to go further in their relationship Rak says hes not ready and Dino doesnt throw a tantrum about it. He respects Raks decision to say no. However when Rak is ready for sex he is the one to initiate sex. He undresses Dino showing he wanted sex and was ready. Rak is even comfortable with admitting that he wanted Dino earlier as well. He isnt supposed to be child like. Hes supposed to look cute and weak but he isnt naive. The actor just didnt know how to show any other emotion.)
I really dont see Dino as toxic. He was falls in love at first sight, acts heartbroken when its said that his crush is taken but he doesnt cross any lines. He doesnt try to force Rak to dump his bf or try to convince him to cheat or that hes a better choice. He just goes and drinks and moans to his friends. Later he doesnt try to force Rak to kiss him or get him drunk and try to sleep with him. I was inpressed when Rak during a moment of vulnerability tells Dino he'd date him after almost getting raped by his loser ex. Dino turned him down coz he knew that Rak wasn't ready. He could have taken advantage and didn’t.
Dino is also very jealous and possessive but he never takes out his anger on Rak. Whenever he is jealous he always talks to Rak.
Rak is also very honest with Dino. He doesnt hide it when someone flirts with him or bothers him. He doesnt lie to him so that they can create drama around this guy bothering him. They show how communication in a relationship should work because Dino always believes Rak.
I honestly believe that this show handles jealousy and possessiveness in relationships in a good way. You have a ML who is jealous and possessive but never to the point that it creates drama in the relationship. You have both leads talking through their issues and again when Rak is being flirted with he is very direct about not wanting this guy around him and telling him that he is taken and this guy needs to leave him alone and respect his relationship.
And thats all the good things i have to say about the show because what is the rest of the plot? I have so many questions that are just never answered ... like why didnt Rak attend university with Dino from the start? Its phrased as this big secret and we never find out why.
What happened to Raks friend? His mental health was really bad, he needed help and we never see him deal with it. Dude had issues but its never really addressed.
In fact that whole thing about his best friend sleeping with his boyfriend was cut way too short and its shown as completely illogical. I feel like theres huge chunks of the story that we never saw. His friend seemed to think that Rak would forgive him. Why? What was the point of sleeping with Meek (?) And how long were they all friends? What exactly happened there? I actually went back to see if i missed an episode or something because it made so little sense.
What about Raks parents? Does he have siblings? Hobbies? Friends? We find out very little about him as a person.
Exactly what is Dino up to on campus? Is he part of a gang? Or mafia? Or is he just a thug?
Whose bar did they go to and why was it bad?
The general plot makes no sense and many times i feel like theres chunks of the story thay was cut out but i will rewatch only because i actually did enjoy the ML screen time. I found their relationship to be wholesome but everything else makes no sense.

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The series was so so... It wasn't that good to rewatch.... I really thought that this series will show Pepper's talent as an actor but i think the story with no sane purpose of it make his talent go to waste i saw his acting before and i must say the plot, the atmosphere of whole series and the no purpose story make him disappear in the series.... While he was main lead and people should get interested in his character but the series didn't justify him... I hope he get some actual and brilliant work good enough for his talent....

As viewers didn't find any purpose of this series some of the bl fans get quiet disappointed with the whole series including everything about it and I'm definitely one of them.

Ruk was heartbroken and he start date Dino after some time and that was the whole thing... They didn't make any kind of drama in the series or a mood that'll engage viewers to watch more.... Even the kissing scenes were too pushy like they're forced to kiss or they're too horny to stop themselves...

I hope they'll work on their skills and give the actors the best as they deserve....

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I can't believe I finished this

Where do I even begin? Let me start with the good, and it's a very short list of 1
Story/plot - Here's the reason I'm angry about this series, they wasted a good story on this rubbish. It was a love at first sight situation that should have been adorable but they somehow managed to bungle even that. Boy meets boy, boy falls in love with boy but finds out boy is in a relationship and respectfully takes a half step back till boy is ready for a new relationship. Sounds good right?

CONS
1. The acting - I've seen bad acting but Brute Force Dino and Doe Eyed Dummy Rak deserve some type of award for how bad this was. Rak spent the whole series looking like the lights were on but nobody was home and Dino spent it either being irrational, fighting or being jealous of everything that so much as breathes in Rak's direction. They had the subtlety of a sledge hammer and zero sex appeal, which brings me to the next con.
2. Smexy scenes - The slurping guys, so much slurping, so much tongue. The scenes were dubbed and didn't match. It was awful and made so uncomfortable.
3. Music - There's this one scene in episode 9 where Dino goes on a blind date and every single time the camera panned in the direction of the girl, this weird music played. EVERY SINGLE TIME. There's music for smexy time, which I appreciate cos at least I had warning and could fast forward the slurping.

This series took me weeks of sheer determination to watch and I would not recommend.

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If you dont like to be fucking confused dont watch it.

The story makes fucking zero sense.
The characters are horrible written there is no chemistry and its either awkward or really cringe.
As someone in comments said i agree the best two characters are Chalam and his pet snake.
I am sorry but from ep 4 to ep 5 there is so many things that seems to be missed.
The characters from the ep1 quickly dissapear and not or rarely appears and when they do they add up story making even more zero sense. I dropped this cuz it makes me angry with all the questions i have been left with.
No hate to the actors they are probally good at their job its just the one who wrote that-what were they thinking?
I hope for those who will watch this till the end i hope the story give you the anwsers.

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I had fun

I'm not sure why the rating on this show is so low. Then again I haven't read the reviews. I thought this was a pretty standard Thai bl and I enjoyed it. The two leads were mildly problematic but it didn't trigger my annoyance or my red flag alarm system. That was a bit surprising because Rak has a childish air about him that I generally would have found super cringe and Dino is stupid aggressive at times. But it was ok, for me. The only time I super cringe was at the kiss scenes. My God. Who directed them to kiss like that?! It was like watching overly horny teenagers make out - not something I ever want to see. All that tongue ...

Anyway, it was decent to me. A solid 7.5-8. But it seems a lot of people didn't like it which just shows - to each their own.

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Blank Stare

I don't really know how to review this without giving away everything. There isn't much of a story, once the basic plot is revealed (in the first and second episodes) it's pretty obvious what will happen. So without spoilers, the acting was not good.
Or the director made horrible choices and the actors did what he told them. No way to know for sure. Rak, one of the MLs was so blank that he looked stupid. Honestly, minus one or two scenes where he cried and once when he laughed, he just stared blankly at everyone around him all the time. No matter the situation, he just stared. He didn't speak, there wasn't any reason for the blank stares with no dialogue, it was just ... bad. I think the intention was meant to be that he looked innocent and didn't have any kind of bad intention but it just came off as him being too stupid to understand or not having any kind of personality.

There wasn't much chemistry between the two MLs. Mostly because Rak always looked like he had no idea what was happening. There was one exception to his weird face blankness, just before the first NC scene (I wouldn't call it NC really, but I guess the first sexy scene) between the two, Rak actually does not have a blank face. For this one, he looks like he totally knows what is going to happen and is anticipating. This leads me to believe that the director was the problem, not the actor, but I can't be sure. Another weirdness was that Dino, the other ML, seemed to need constant reassurance during the sexy moments. He kept asking how he was doing. I don't know about everyone else, but in my experience, if you're asking while you're doing, you're expending too much energy on the wrong things. Focus is important. I found that strange, but not bad. As far as Rak's reaction, "Dino is the best" with an almost comically wide eyed stare, was the best he could do, but the scene wasn't sexy, it was distracting and cringy. Later Dino was kissing him with so much tongue, it just made me want to wash my face.

Seekram (Rak's ex best friend) was creepy to say the least, but I'm not sure if that was bad acting or just poor directorial choices. Mek (the ex-boyfriend) was just a loser, but not necessarily a bad actor. In fact, Seekram and Mek weren't awesome, but they weren't terrible at their parts. None of the support roles were as weird as the main roles. The guest roles were plentiful. Seriously, they found people from a lot of BLs to come and be on screen for a few minutes without having much to say or anything to the story. Just cameos, I guess. Not really sure why they opted for that. To draw attention to the show? Who knows. Anyway, the story wasn't all that great and sometimes the acting was just cringe, so the show didn't really hit well for me. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't good.

The story is so predictable as to be boring and the jokes were too obvious to be funny. The OST was decent, but I never put too much weight into the music. Because of the predictability and lack of plot outside of the romance, this show has low rewatch value. If you like just a fluffy love story with not a lot of acting ability, this one is for you. I heard some of the support roles will have shows of their own, and I'm interested to see if they are any better than this one.

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Bury the Dinosaur

There is really not much, if anything, to love about Dinosaur Love. The only reason I even took an interest in it initially was because of Pepper who I liked in Love in the Air. But I found that I wasn't a fan of either his character or acting in this series, and I saw far more of his tongue than I ever wanted to. This isn't even one of those dramas that could have been better if X, Y, Z was different. This is one that probably would have been better off left on the cutting room floor in it's entirety.

The plot is completely nonsensical. It jumps from point to point without necessarily wrapping things up and the transitions are abrupt. The beginning with Mek and See-Kram getting together and cheating on Rak was poorly done. Why either of them chose to betray their friend and lover was not well explained. The fact that they both came back begging for forgiveness was pretty rich of them, particularly Mek considering he'd tried to rape Rak. That mess really only served to make Rak single and available to get together with Dino, but could have been utilized far more wisely to establish the characters and build on them. There are a few plot holes that are more annoying that they're not explained than anything terribly critical and multitude of unanswered questions. The passage of time is not well established either. It would have been nice with some events to know how much time had passed just to get a grasp on how quickly things were progressing. The ending, if you stop at Episode 8 is jarring and doesn't feel like a conclusion. The pacing was all over the place and generally just frustrating. I got to episode 6 and very nearly dropped this drama because I was so done with it. Not that I got anything out of finishing it. It really wasn't worth it.

Dinosaur Love suffers from an overinflated cast. There are so many supporting and guest characters that it got really hard to keep all of them straight, especially Dino's multitude of friends. There was no need for all of them and they took away time that could have been better spent trying to sort out the mess of a storyline. There was also a tendency for characters either pop up unexpectedly after being absent for a while or just disappearing. After apologizing and saying that he would win Rak back, Mek was never seen again. See-Kram is last seen in the hospital and then is absent for multiple episodes before suddenly popping up to ask for Rak's forgiveness. Guy had a mental break down and was suicidal last we saw him, but suddenly he's out and about and fine? Unsurprisingly the few ladies of the cast were completely underutilized. Sammy as Plabu was there for the jokes and Michelle as Please was present to be a "rival" for Dino's affection, but not really, and once she and Rak had their talk, she was another one who disappeared. I will never not be disappointed when they do that. If you're going to cast women, use them.
-Dino simply looked too old to believably be in college. I think the story would have worked better with him having already graduated from a realistic point of view. He was a weird combination of red and green flag moments. He had moments where he was an absolute green flag like when Rak offered to be his boyfriend in a panic after almost being raped and he declined. But he had other moments where he pushed Rak's boundaries and was pushy in general. He did generally back off, but sometimes Rak had to say it more than once. His temper was also a serious concern. It took very little to set him off and make him turn physical and that was not addressed in a satisfactory way. Also, what exactly was Dino a part of? That's never established and once that point was no longer useful, it was thrown out, but I was genuinely curious if he was part of a gang or just a good old fashioned thug.
-Rak's whole personality almost was him being cute and that got old really fast. He was this odd combination of naive and innocent and yet at the same time, not. I will give him credit for his consistency, once he'd made a decision, he really didn't waver. And despite his kind and innocent nature, he never led any of the multitude of men pursuing him on if he wasn't interested in them. Why he had that many men interested in him in the first place, I cannot begin to fathom. While I generally would commend his honesty, there were times where he kept secrets from Dino despite knowing it would cause conflict since Dino hated lies and secrets. While I have no doubt that Dino's temper was the primary reason, it's something that Rak should have felt comfortable addressing.
-Chalam was moderately amusing initially, but quickly grew boring and repetitive. He just had no personality outside his obsession with omelets and he was featured far too heavily to have that and his manner of talking be his only traits.
-Suea was fairly entertaining and was one of the sole bright spots. Not a great character, but Aomstin was expressive and that helped.

The acting was fairly disappointing. I was not a fan of Pepper here, he didn't suit the role for me. Kong was boring. He lacked any kind of diversity in his expressions and mostly just walked around with this wide-eyed, innocent look. The chemistry between him and Pepper was overall lacking. There were a few moments where I felt a spark, but for the majority of the series I was left unimpressed. Again, Aomstin was entertaining as Suea at moments if nothing else because he knew how to use his facial muscles. Even if a lot of is expression were a bit exaggerated, he had some variety. I love Sammy, but this was such a stupid role she really did not get a chance to shine unfortunately.

The production was lacking a lot. The lighting within scenes was off at times with one angle being bright and another being dark. It lacked consistency. The comedic sound effects were severely overused and had me hitting mute more than once. That horrible bird sound was used so much. The music was extremely generic and at times annoying. The transitions were also very poorly done. They'd go from relatively intense music to something perky and upbeat which did not work. The opening credit song wasn't bad though and I ended up kind of liking it.

I can't recommend this drama in any way. It was a positive chore to get through and I don't feel like I gained anything from it other than disappointment and lost time. Go find something better to watch and avoid this one.

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Most Disappointing Watch of 2023

There is no myths here; that went extent along with the dinosaurs. Instead, it is a jumbled incoherent mess of disorganized shifts of scenes packed with individuals for the most part that are astonishingly unlikable, dumb as a box of rocks, naïve, and caricatures. Some are decidedly despicable creatures as well.

The whole universe of this story centers around one of the densest characters I have ever seen. Not only is he naïve and remains so throughout, but he is also the biggest milqutoast and nebbish individual ever in any BL. It was exacerbating to watch him not be able to fend for himself in any meaningful way, with conviction and simply ‘forgive’ people for astonishing bad transgressions against him without making it very clear how he really felt or where he stood. He gives a new definition to the term wimp. I am talking about, of course, the apple of so many guys’ eye for whom I simply could not figure out why. Rak (Kong Montree) who consistently walks around looking lost and functioning in a dream world of his own making. To say he is naïve is to be kind to him. It goes deeper than that. It is as if he wears a sign on himself that says, “Yes, I am really this clueless and as dumb as I look. So go ahead and use me. I really won’t figure it out but oh when I do, I will simply forgive you and move on. Thanks.” For example, his boyfriend had been cheating on him for a while with his own best friend. His passive acceptance of this along with his wounded look made it appear as if it was his cross to bear, and he wore it almost like a badge of honor. When he finally breaks up with him, he allows and tacitly accepts his former boyfriend to visit and harass him without making it abundantly clear that it is finally over, period. At one point, his former boyfriend attempts to rape Rak, and still, Rak forgives him.

Read the complete article here-

https://the-bl-xpress.com/2024/01/05/dinosaur-love-series-review-ep-1-to-8-final-story-ep-910/#more-14438

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Smh

They did Pepper and Kong so dirty with this show. The script, directing, editing, all trash. Like what even was this show? & if I I had to hear that crow sound one more time... ? I felt like a prehistoric dinosaur by the time this show finally finished.

Anyway, Pepper the whole time: ?
? the only good thing about this show is the two mains. They have great chemistry, and their spicy scenes were the best part of the show. However, these scenes were still ruined by the same horrible and loud music played over and over again each time. The bad filming and editing also didn't help. They doomed these two actors from the start.

I hope they can star in a much better BL in the future.

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story and character could have been better

There is no match of the story and characters. REK is too kiddish. His acting is pathetic and his friends too. They way they talk it looks like puking. The acting of some character is average like DINO and MEK. but the dialogues giving to them make their character cheap and lousy.
There is no story line . suddenly unnecessary dialogues are given which makes the series boring. DINO has a good personality but his dialogues are not good which shows that the writer has not done his job well,

when the BL was announced , i had a high expectation, but now i don't even feel like watching it.

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