Dinosaur Love (2023)

WARNING!! WARNING!! STEER CLEAR OF THIS SHOW!!!

Before I go any further, TRIGGER WARNING FOR EPISODE 3!!! Like 10 minutes in!! Since the dumbass creators of this show didn't add a trigger warning, I'll provide one so you won't be freaking scarred and left screaming at your screen like how my sister and I were.

Sometimes writers have to sit down and think to themselves, 'What am I writing?', or 'Does this make sense?' The writers of this show obviously didn't sit down and think and we got this monstrosity. Now, I'm a sucker for watching bad shows cause I like to see, what makes the show so bad and how the show could get better, but I just can't force myself to actually continue watching this show. I don't even write reviews often but I just had to warn people of this show!! t is actually the worst show, I've ever watched. It is devoid of a plot, interesting characters, or comedy, and it has sound effects galore! However, I didn't finish this show so it might get better, but it would actually take a miracle for that to happen. There is not one notable part of this show, except for the excessive use of sound effects. Now I watch and love Thai shows, and I know how much they love sound effects, but 39 sound effects in the INTRO FOR THE SHOW BEFORE THE 5 MINUTE MARK IS CRAZY!!! This show is only bearable if you're watching it with someone else and even then, you might still find yourself quitting. Damn!! This show pissed me off more than a MAME show!! This show really couldn't pick a struggle. Like how do you have terrible, writing, directing, editing, and characters!! Pick one, or even two struggles, and get one with your day!!! AND OMFG THE CHARACTERS!! Ruk is BORING! Dino is BORING! Mek is A LITTLE BITCH. And there are just no words to describe Kram that would do justice to how TERRIBLE he is!! I'm not gonna spend more time on this show cause the more I think about it the more I hate myself for clicking on it. This show got a dumbass trailer, theme song, and poster to tie everything together into one little shitshow! Sorry for the cussing, I'm just A LITTLE pissed off.

Of course, the UNFUNNY classmate that Love in the air so badly tried to shove down our throats made this!! Damn, mans can't act, direct, or tell a joke to save their life. We living in a real scary world cause how he STILL gonna get a paycheck and probably move on and make another monstrosity!!

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Cringy but kinda interesting…

I can understand why the rating for this BL is low. It was cringy in majority of its scenes, but I kinda liked it at times… Even though it did have some weird moments, overall I thought the drama was cute. The dude who played Dino was also in Love in the Air, so I was surprised to see him playing as the main role. His character was a red flag in half the show so it made the series kind of repetitive or annoying. But I’m a sucker for cringy series sometimes so I think that is why I enjoyed it.

It definitely wasn’t my favorite but I enjoyed it at times. The acting was not all that good but I liked the cast so hopefully we can see them in a better drama in the future.

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Cute and sweet but likes development

The series is overall cute and a sweet cast, but does lack character and development. The storyline has a lot of potential. The character of Rak is horrible. He is stupidly naive never shows no true emotion and all he can say is I'm not mad. This is a Smart character but knows nothing about true life. Rak is very observant and sees people for who they are but he him self plays dumb and has no true emotion, he is extremely passive and nothing about him feels real. I love the Dino character. I hate how much the times they try to be funny comes off dumb. The serious had so much potential but in the end it is horrible. I found my self skipping so much out of boredom and lack of good story. The only good thing was Dino, his friends and Chalam character. The storyline was a good idea if you did not have so much bad dry jokes and a dumb passive lead character like Rak. One last thing that was annoying was how the episodes play the storyline line did not flow and there were major times that there were gaps in the story and nothing explained the moment. Very horrible episode play through story is missing a lot of storyline. The actor and character of Rak is a horrible character to play and actor needs better acting.

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Bland and stiff. Very red-flag-y and uncomfortable to watch

To be honest I think I have quite a low standard/high tolerance for the problematic/dramatic BL tropes especially since many of them end up being my guilty pleasure. So for this show to get so uncomfortable to watch, it's an accumulation of multiple factors.
TLDR: Nothing. This entire show make me feel nothing but some tired moments and some very uncomfortable moments. Acting is stiff, the plot is unclear, using toxic and problematic events to add drama without and clear story flow. Chemistry? Who, where?

- The acting is very static and emotionless. Even if you look at Rak as a naive, innocent, and a-bit slow type of character, it's quite hard to deny that his acting is so bland and flavorless. I really feel like the actors in this show didn't have enough time to study their characters, do workshops, and train their acting because the execution is so terrible and boring. Of course, their talents might be varied to some degree, but considering Rak's actor (who's the main protagonist of this show) is quite weak in his acting, it's hard to salvage from that. Consequently, a sad moment doesn't feel sad, a dramatic moment didn't feel dramatic. Even when they try to attack or push someone away you can't even feel the tension. Everything was weak and slow. And I guess camera work could partly be the culprit but all and all you can just feel that they were reading from a memorized script and not acting. Sadly bland.
- Plot just kind of ambushes you left and right with red flags. Especially ep3. I couldn't even bring myself to finish ep3, it seems like problematic story tropes (including mental illness and assault-y stuff) just got tossed into the plot out of nowhere to add drama. As said above I'm someone who usually doesn't take BL as 'actual IRL stuff' and can easily indulge in the fantasy of it all if it at least has some build-up or a comprehensible plot to it. But hahaha going through the first 2 halves of Dinosaur Love only got me UHHHHH and then more UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Whatever's going on with Mek and Kram like... excuse me??? It was so uncomfortable and unbearable.
- It's not even funny. I think the side characters were written up only for gag purposing but they're not even funny. Both script and execution of it were unimpressive. The portrayal of the 'feminine' gay character as a laughing stock and zero depth is so overused now, but if they can even pull off a 'classic' character trope idk what they're capable of doing. If you want a good execution of this character archetype who's comical, and fun-loving but also has his own story, plot, moments, and depth, I would recommend watching Step by Step (character Chot).
- Finally, chemistry. You thought I would've put this higher on the list because it's such an important thing but I'm writing it down here because honestly... I just kinda forgot about it while watching. If there was any moment of chemistry between the two leads it was either very brief or barely there.
So yes, this is me, giving up on this series. I was only checking out UltimateTroop/Dinosaur Love because I ran out of things to watch. But tbh after ep3 I don't think I'll ever revisit this channel in the foreseeable future.

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Eu amei a história, acho que levantou algumas questões bem importantes, como relações nocivas. Algumas cenas foram muito bem editadas (sério, acho que os beijos foram os melhores que já vi em BLs). Amo o Pepper, achei o Kong um fofo...mas o que foi essa direção??????? 😡🤬.... um total desperdício de recursos... como fã, assisti mesmo sendo ruim, por respeito aos atores, mas você vê falhas simples, que até uma criança conseguiria arrumar: transições de cenas sem pé nem cabeça, diálogos cortados bruscamente, cenas e personagens totalmente desnecessários (dava pra fazer uma série de 6 episódios muito mais coerentes se tirassem uns 4 personagens que não acrescentaram absolutamente nada ao enredo). Muita pena dos protas que tiveram que se sujeitar a esse tipo de trabalho...meus parabéns pela coragem que eles tiveram em seguir em frente....

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I enjoyed it

I don't know why there are so many bad reviews, I honestly enjoyed watching it, it is a standard BL to me. There needs to be a WARNING for episode 3, but I loved the main characters' chemistry; I thought it was so cute, and it made me all giddy. The storyline itself was okay, not the best, definitely not the worst that I have seen, but it did get boring in some areas. Overall I thought it was pretty good, the standard for the normal BLs that I have watched.
The last two episodes were probably the best, the acting and storyline were better, and the chemistry was so cute, although I wished we had seen the few new characters at the end instead of a POV and maybe even seen a little more of those sub plots because I am so interested in them and seeing those characters in those scenarios, especially Chalarm.

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Chato, morgado, lento...

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It was okay

This one wasn't that bad but it also wasn't anything major outstanding, I did a second rewatch and was able to dissect and analyze the show this time, and well, here we go.

Mek & Kram: These two sucks, there's nothing nice to say about them, anytime they were on the screen they annoyed me to no end. Mek is horrible, he forgets Rak and his 3rd anniversary brings his friend over to Raks with Kram's favorite food, and has the nerve to tell Rak he can't remember what he likes. then when Rak goes to "sleep" Mek and Kram are talking as loud as possible and Mek still has the nerve to tell Kram to be quiet because he doesn't want Rak to hear, like it's too late for that. Then when Rak let go of his suspicions about Kram because he didn't want to fight, Kram sent a picture to Mek and Mek couldn't believe Rak when he said nothing was happening. Not to mention both Kram and Mek are major gaslighters, I was getting secondhand gaslighted listening to them. Both were crazy, Mek violated Rak and still gaslighted him while doing it and Kram was just nuts and needed more help, the fact he could put his best friend through what he did out in front of the apartment was crazy.

Rak & Dino: I don't know if I've seen chemistry with these two but I will say anytime Dino made out with Rak I was like please stop, his whole tongue had bills to pay. I love spicy and kissing but gosh darn we didn't need the tongue every 5 seconds of kissing, I wonder what Kong thought while filming this, anyway, I do think Dino was too pushy like you knew what Rak went through, give him space and help him heal from all of that. Poor Rak attracted all the crazies, from Mek and Kram to Tart, even Dino was a little crazy.

Chalam, Suea & Mhee - These 3 were my favorite and the most normal out of all of them. Chalam was just too funny and I adored all of his screen time. I need more of Mos, and I love Mhee and Suea because they were there for Rak like real friends should be and took care of him. Though I would've liked to see the love interest that they had talked about in the last episode, it would've been cute to see them all there at the beach with there lovers.

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