I'm here instead of watching the second half of episode 6, so... yeah 😂
Your reply has been the best part of a cursed monday, so we're even! And you have my utter thanks and respect for reading all that without paragraphs 😂
Suggestion very much appreciated - I totally forgot.
Let's see what his next work will bring; the guy sure knows how to get a story startet, so there's always that.
I'm here instead of watching the second half of episode 6, so... yeah 😂
Yeah, same here, though I watched it on highspeed. I wanted to care but they pulled out the 'things to be in a modern BL production'-checklist and probably panicked because it was still empty.
The hotel was absolutely unnecessary and out of place: Orange and warm tones throughout the show but out of nowhere you blink twice and get a four minute disco filter.
It's weird since they really balanced it so nice in the first half. No big cliches, they actually tried to hide it and did so in a normal way, slow burn and jealously done right... and then it just goes overboard and into what feels a lot like sunshine and rainbow faith propaganda and less like two troubled teens finding their way. I love happy ends, but it's too much, especially for the time it's set in.(As it is, it would've made a bit more sense these days.)
There was not one person opposing them! Two gay boys in a catholic church school and not one person telling them it's wrong? I get that it's supposed to be a nice and comfortable story and they did good (the fantasy is why I'm here after all), but for one I could've done with a touch more realism. Just what you said: more emotional scenes.
Because of the dead parents I can see how Tan would need to stay in connection with god, but instead of everyone around him just accepting his homosexuality, it would have been better seeing the best friend, the football guy or the father confronting him, telling him he never would see his parents again, if he went down that path and that this was a test he had to overcome.
Have Tan ran out, trough the rain and to the statue outside. Make Barth find him crouching there in misery. Make Tan lash out but hold on to Barth the next moment, as if he was in fear of drowning. ''I can't live like this, I don't know who I am or what to do anymore! What am I supposed to do without my faith? How is it wrong? Why am I wrong?'' Barth is there but doesn't know what to say, but takes him off the school ground.
A lovely lady working on the graveyard sees them wandering through the rain and taks them in over night. ''Oh, you're that sweet boy that always brings those beautiful flowerst to his parents grave.''
Tan can't cry, he's empty after all that outburst. He eats, crys some more soundless tears and sleeps. Barth can't sleep, now he's the one starting to get angry, his last drop of faith gone. He'd always had a hard time believing in a story with so many unseen factors, hypocritical Commandments and one, that personally marked him wrong and rotten. After finding Tan in pieces under the statue (he prayed to his whole life), there was only anger left. How was he supposed to believe in a higher power, who not only was okay with hurting people, but made them suffer as a way of proving their faith, even though they never did anything wrong?
Barth finds a bible and he wants to throw it away but it nearly falls apart, because it was old an used. Marked in there are lines, that actually could help Tan. He himself may have lost his faith, but he saw that Tan needed to be able to believe. He couldn't loose everything he lived for and the last connection he had to his parents.
So the next morning Bath finds Tan sitting outside or whatever and started reading words from the bible that actually resonates with the guy. He tells him that if god could love and forgive a rapist or killer, how could he not love Tan? It takes time, eventually a photo falls out of the book, where you can see the lady as a young boy - nobody mentions it (it is 1996 for gods sake) but Tan asks if she is a Believer and she says yes.
They leave, Tan deals, meets the lady again some days later, bringing flower to his parents, ask how she still can have faith (last two days were hard on him, with confession and the best friend being an ass this time around) and she tells him: Let five people read the same book and you'll get five different opinions on it. The Bible was written down by human hands. God is with all of us, we are all his children, he's good and forgiving and I don't see why the interpretation of his will should only be for the priest to define. God gave us a brain so we could form our own thoughts, so I choose to do that.
Barth and Tan get out of the school, Tan slowly finds his own way to believe in god and accept that views differ. Mother in prison gets out at one point and is a big help, since she is a strong believer with a gay son herself. God made no mistakes, therefore they all were exactly the way they're supposed to be.
Tan doesn't get into priesthood (it's not possible) but he still helps out in the church, being there for children in need of help.
Make it end with the best friend as it was, but instead of the hugs make it nods and the absence of an once ugly grimace, maybe a smile. It's not good, but it's okay. You can be happy without everything being perfect - they are together and happy and that was the most important thing.
Aaaand that got completely out of hand! Very cathartic though, but what I actually wanted to say: The hugs actually made me laugh. I mean once for the sake of cliche-drama-happiness? Alright, I'll survive, but then they did it again. ...and again, with an additional participant. (No, I'm not calling it a threesome!) At this point we have as much passionate kisses as fatherly embraces. ...guess, it is a good thing they didn't take the realistic take with religion after all😂
For me he got worse. In the end I wanted to get him a one-way ticket to the sun. It wasn’t really his uselessness…
I remember rolling my eyes, but at that point I honestly didn't care anymore. Last straw for me was, when he left at the end of EP 9. Khem has absolutely no respect for other people and their opinions. Peem told him again and again that he had obligations to the people, he couldn't neglect. He told him ''no'' in every way possible but Khem didn't give a poop - he's persistent like that and who can blame him? The guy just wants to live. (It's also a BL so where would be the fun otherwise? ;)) So he makes himself stay, he makes Peem accept his love and even gets him away from the girl, he makes Peem finally help him (thus making him break his promise to the villagers), makes him loose every person/spirit he cared for and then... he leaves. The moment Peem needed Khems help for once, the moment the man lost everything that made him smile, the moment he asks him to stay, Khem was gone (not dead mind you, he just choose to leave) and he bloody well knew Peem couldn't follow. Cowardice I can deal with but disloyalty is where I draw the line.
Aaah, there's the red and blue light I was waiting for - it is a GMM show after all! Jokes aside: The first half is a masterpiece, the second one didn't resonate the same with me. I wished he would have found his own belief for himself, but it's wonderfully refreshing to see something new.
He doesn't get why Kong is upset... after beeing treatet like shit for weeks, a forgotten book can do that. He's been your best friend for years, I'm surprised it took him that long😂
i really want to continue this but Khem character really got on my nerve. Just watched ep 1 and I feel like he…
For me he got worse. In the end I wanted to get him a one-way ticket to the sun. It wasn’t really his uselessness that got on my nerves though, but his lack of backbone.
I only watched two or three episodes at the time but I'm still thinking about those costumes! I can't get them out of my head - their beauty cursed me to never forget or see anything alike ever again! Oh the mockery: knowing about its mere existence while being incapable to bath in all of it's glory!
First half really surprised me in the best way, but after flower boy went with the ex boyfriend it was a free fall without a chance of saving for me. ...Seriously, what was he thinking? ''Oh well, you nearly killed me a weak ago BUT you also gave me a late sorry-bouquet sent to my BF with a courier - I'd love to move in with you, you trustworthy little guy I had two forced conversations with so far!''
Ha... never thought about it but I also skipped most of the last episodes😅Puts that last scene in a different light - I like that. I go with that from now on, at least it makes sense.
The scene where you see Zen wearing the tie pin is so nicely done. The lighting is just perfect and I love that it's not about the pin at all - just a lovely detail.
I can't believe they pulled this off... If someone would have asked me, what I thought about making this story into a drama, I would have laughed in their face. Way too much possibilitys for cringe, secondhand embarrassment or stupidity. But... they did it... I can't believe they did it! Fantastic acting, directing, writing, music and cutting. You can think of the story what you want, but the execution is a masterpiece.
My expectation: Revenge, manipulation and violence!
Reality: Betrayal, payback and pink bunnys!
Well, guess I'm gonna find out soon enough.
Suggestion very much appreciated - I totally forgot.
Let's see what his next work will bring; the guy sure knows how to get a story startet, so there's always that.
The hotel was absolutely unnecessary and out of place: Orange and warm tones throughout the show but out of nowhere you blink twice and get a four minute disco filter.
It's weird since they really balanced it so nice in the first half. No big cliches, they actually tried to hide it and did so in a normal way, slow burn and jealously done right... and then it just goes overboard and into what feels a lot like sunshine and rainbow faith propaganda and less like two troubled teens finding their way. I love happy ends, but it's too much, especially for the time it's set in.(As it is, it would've made a bit more sense these days.)
There was not one person opposing them! Two gay boys in a catholic church school and not one person telling them it's wrong?
I get that it's supposed to be a nice and comfortable story and they did good (the fantasy is why I'm here after all), but for one I could've done with a touch more realism. Just what you said: more emotional scenes.
Because of the dead parents I can see how Tan would need to stay in connection with god, but instead of everyone around him just accepting his homosexuality, it would have been better seeing the best friend, the football guy or the father confronting him, telling him he never would see his parents again, if he went down that path and that this was a test he had to overcome.
Have Tan ran out, trough the rain and to the statue outside. Make Barth find him crouching there in misery.
Make Tan lash out but hold on to Barth the next moment, as if he was in fear of drowning. ''I can't live like this, I don't know who I am or what to do anymore! What am I supposed to do without my faith? How is it wrong? Why am I wrong?''
Barth is there but doesn't know what to say, but takes him off the school ground.
A lovely lady working on the graveyard sees them wandering through the rain and taks them in over night. ''Oh, you're that sweet boy that always brings those beautiful flowerst to his parents grave.''
Tan can't cry, he's empty after all that outburst. He eats, crys some more soundless tears and sleeps. Barth can't sleep, now he's the one starting to get angry, his last drop of faith gone.
He'd always had a hard time believing in a story with so many unseen factors, hypocritical Commandments and one, that personally marked him wrong and rotten.
After finding Tan in pieces under the statue (he prayed to his whole life), there was only anger left. How was he supposed to believe in a higher power, who not only was okay with hurting people, but made them suffer as a way of proving their faith, even though they never did anything wrong?
Barth finds a bible and he wants to throw it away but it nearly falls apart, because it was old an used.
Marked in there are lines, that actually could help Tan. He himself may have lost his faith, but he saw that Tan needed to be able to believe. He couldn't loose everything he lived for and the last connection he had to his parents.
So the next morning Bath finds Tan sitting outside or whatever and started reading words from the bible that actually resonates with the guy.
He tells him that if god could love and forgive a rapist or killer, how could he not love Tan?
It takes time, eventually a photo falls out of the book, where you can see the lady as a young boy - nobody mentions it (it is 1996 for gods sake) but Tan asks if she is a Believer and she says yes.
They leave, Tan deals, meets the lady again some days later, bringing flower to his parents, ask how she still can have faith (last two days were hard on him, with confession and the best friend being an ass this time around) and she tells him: Let five people read the same book and you'll get five different opinions on it. The Bible was written down by human hands. God is with all of us, we are all his children, he's good and forgiving and I don't see why the interpretation of his will should only be for the priest to define. God gave us a brain so we could form our own thoughts, so I choose to do that.
Barth and Tan get out of the school, Tan slowly finds his own way to believe in god and accept that views differ.
Mother in prison gets out at one point and is a big help, since she is a strong believer with a gay son herself. God made no mistakes, therefore they all were exactly the way they're supposed to be.
Tan doesn't get into priesthood (it's not possible) but he still helps out in the church, being there for children in need of help.
Make it end with the best friend as it was, but instead of the hugs make it nods and the absence of an once ugly grimace, maybe a smile.
It's not good, but it's okay. You can be happy without everything being perfect - they are together and happy and that was the most important thing.
Aaaand that got completely out of hand! Very cathartic though, but what I actually wanted to say: The hugs actually made me laugh. I mean once for the sake of cliche-drama-happiness? Alright, I'll survive, but then they did it again. ...and again, with an additional participant. (No, I'm not calling it a threesome!)
At this point we have as much passionate kisses as fatherly embraces.
...guess, it is a good thing they didn't take the realistic take with religion after all😂
Khem has absolutely no respect for other people and their opinions.
Peem told him again and again that he had obligations to the people, he couldn't neglect. He told him ''no'' in every way possible but Khem didn't give a poop - he's persistent like that and who can blame him? The guy just wants to live. (It's also a BL so where would be the fun otherwise? ;))
So he makes himself stay, he makes Peem accept his love and even gets him away from the girl, he makes Peem finally help him (thus making him break his promise to the villagers), makes him loose every person/spirit he cared for and then... he leaves.
The moment Peem needed Khems help for once, the moment the man lost everything that made him smile, the moment he asks him to stay, Khem was gone (not dead mind you, he just choose to leave) and he bloody well knew Peem couldn't follow. Cowardice I can deal with but disloyalty is where I draw the line.
Jokes aside: The first half is a masterpiece, the second one didn't resonate the same with me. I wished he would have found his own belief for himself, but it's wonderfully refreshing to see something new.
...Seriously, what was he thinking? ''Oh well, you nearly killed me a weak ago BUT you also gave me a late sorry-bouquet sent to my BF with a courier - I'd love to move in with you, you trustworthy little guy I had two forced conversations with so far!''