Nolan Peale

Never change, Pond. Always be the good beagle puppy you are.

I'm going to soften my comments on the series a bit because I realize that they thought they had more episodes. But the last two episodes weren't as compelling story wise than the previous 13. Everything felt rushed. While that wasn't in their control, I can't exactly overlook that either. It made the series much weaker.

I'm not upset with the ending per se. There just wasn't a lot of emotional impact one way or the other. It's hard to be sad for the death of a character who has decided to die and then repeats that he's fine dying and being a teddy bear many, many times in a monologue after he's dead. O.K., then. I'll have to believe you if you say so, Mr. Tofu. (Nut told Tofu many times that he no longer wanted to be with Tarn. Just repeating something many times doesn't mean its true.)

I had a problem with the way the mystery was "solved." It wasn't really solved. They just kept introducing new inanimate objects at the right moment who were witnesses to the exact things Tofu needed to find out and who just told him what they knew. I don't think he even asked Mr. Backpack if he had ever seen Nut buying meds. Mr. Backpack just woke up and that was the first thing he told Tofu. Oh. O.K. That's pretty lame.

The final 45 minutes were simply an epilog of Tofu telling us everything that happened. It would have been nice to actually see Tarn and Nut work towards their proposal. And see if Nut was actually capable of taking care of his mother without Tofu there to calm him down. I mean, the last thing I remember was Na forgetting to turn off a burner on the stove and Nut losing his temper with her. I'm glad to find out he's in therapy to help him cope, but we weren't shown him dealing with any crisis' created by his mom's illness to justify the idea that he was stable enough to be patient with a sick person. And while its good that he found Tarn again, is Tarn really up to the task of taking care of Nut? I don't think so.

Anyway, it as 12.5/16ths great. Its too bad that Netflix doesn't have a feel for BL and couldn't recognize that it had the potential to have one of the best BLs on its hands if it wouldn't interfere with the pacing.

Ok. Not that it matters, but all that happened was that Tatarn twitched. The vital signs monitor that they focused on indicated nothing except his heart rate went from 79bpm to 80bpm. All his vitals are fine, and normal for a patient resting in bed. Lol.

And the moral of the story is…love sucks. Lol.

Saint, it really was a bad idea to take him to that particular bar.

So…screw you. Bastard. May you get a permanent hangnail so that every time you play the piano, you remember the pain you caused.

Mon. I know you’re upset, but could you at least acknowledge what Saint was saying?

Now that everybody’s sad, can we get some happy next episode. Maybe Mickey can have a relapse and be a bad boy again. We like bad Mickey better than the good one.

Mickey got as close to Q as he could and was waiting for Q to move the last few millimeters. Q didn’t. He does just look at Mickey as a young kid. The kiss was bad because Q couldn’t move a millimeter in 30 seceonds.

O.K. for a Cheewin series, I'll give some credit for making it through an entire first episode without anyone doing anything gross. Yay! No one had diarrhea! Episodes since flatulence or vomit = 1

Good to see Kok and Oreo. I don't expect much from those roles. I hope Kok gets a chance to wear shorts, since he had the best legs in TharnType.

Not much going on. My guess is that there's issues beyond just being late for one dinner. And FFS. Pick up your damn cell phone and call him rather than pretending you didn't do something totally wrong. He also could have just told Bank to fuck off, it was his anniversary.

I don't think this will be memorable series. But I don't agree that its a horrible use of their talent either.

Yep. The most sensible thing they could have done for a guy who was hit by a car going less than 10 miles per hour is...just call an ambulance. But instead, they lift him up and start walking with him while he's clearly barely conscious. Like getting his ass into an Udon shop would help any of that.

CPR done wrong is one of my peeve tropes. This was one of the worst. "I can't do CPR, because that would be my first kiss!" Ugh. Like he's clearly breathing and I'm assuming his heart is still beating, but don't bother to check to see if its even necessary. Because its "romantic looking". I don't know why, but whenever I see it, I want to take a bat and rattle the heads of screenwriters and directors. "Oh, you're unconscious from a head injury. Why don't we disrupt your breathing and break your ribs trying to "help" you." While we're at it, lets apply a tourniquet when you have a paper cut and do a tracheotomy when you have a cold?

Now to be fair, in cultures where child betrothal is practiced, a lot of the engagement is spent waiting for the girl to start menstruating so she’s legal to have sex with because she’s an adult that can bear children. Waiting around to have someone to have sex with is baked into the cake. Given that’s the world of the story, I’m going to give Lian a pass here. It’s going to seem gross to those of us who don’t have arranged marriages like this. Very few places still do. It’s not “child marriage”. That’s really rare. Most cultures that do arranged marriages these days at least wait until young adulthood before finalizing the arrangements so that the wait time is less. Or marry them earlier. But Kuea being married to Lian at 12 or 13 is even more repulsive than what we have here.

I think for Lian and Kuwaiti it’s 4-5 years. Kuea is 18. Based on their ages when they did the betrothal ceremony, Lian is something like 24 at the most.

“is this sort of relationship really desired by anyone?”

Men. Lots and lots of men want this kind of relationship. And why wouldn’t they? Pretty much everything in the relationship works to their advantage. If only so many women weren’t so “stubborn.”

I didn’t really like ep 9. The biggest reveal to me was that Lian’s family was poor. For some reason I thought they had indicated early on that they were both the sons of prominent families. The arranged marriage makes even less sense than it did in ep 1. Why would a super rich (at the time) family enter into an arranged marriage with a poor family? I’d say it wouldn’t matter, except the character himself says it’s impacting the decisions he’s been making and his feelings about his lover and their relationship. Ciminies, why wait until ep 9 for that info.

So we’ve seen Lian make investments in a club for Kuea to perform in and a racetrack for him to drive around in and sports cars for him to drive. And now it turns out that he wants a frugal household with a guy who saves money on food. FFS. Does anyone think these two will go without a Maid and cook? Kuea…could both be a very successful pop star or go work for Toyota. But hubby will always be sad that he didn’t marry someone who cooks his meals. And any number of standards hubby pulls out of his ass at any time to keep wifey feeling inadequate. Plus sex whenever he wants it. O.k. This series would work as a parody of the gender imbalances in Thailand except that it wants us to take it seriously.

I guess I’m supposed tp be thrilled that they use their snuggle time in the tub to make the case for same sex marriage. I mean, it looks like it’s not going to be passing Thai Parliament this year. But come on. No one who is supporting gay marriage is lobbying for arranged marriages between an 8 and 12 year old. They would have been better off setting this series in a fantasy Thailand where marriage equality was already legal. All this pontificating does is serve as a reminder that the premise of the series is ludicrous. Why would the two families go through the trouble of making this arrangement when it is legally impossible? Kuea’s family is nuts. No wonder they’ve lost their fortune.

There is no meaningful age gap between the pairings. It’s just been created so that there’s some kind of conflict. There’s nothing here that couldn’t br solved by the show runners allowing me to go into the restaurant to smack some heads and give a 5 minute lecture. The power imbalance has nothing to do with age.

Mickey handled his rejection well. He gave Q 30 seconds to move one millimeter to return that kiss. And nothing. Q I think does like him, but only as a brother.

After watching Miracle of Teddy Bear, both Mon and Mickey have no idea how bad very bad parents can be. Mickey should watch that series and go buy his mom flowers every day for a week for being such a brat.

I think this is it for So. He told 7/8th of the truth, but the lie at the end was too much. Chance was blown. The problem for Saint is that I don’t think Mon has feelings for him.

I know he’s never had a pet, but…you really don’t want to teach a cat to use a knife. That is not a good idea.

Going to guess that Gen and Song are going to be fine. But its really sad that the moment Song's dad starts trying to take an interest in him and celebrate his success, he talks in a way that indicates that he'll be disappointed to find out his son is gay. Although maybe he'll say "I'm fine as long as your boyfriend buys new glasses." And our biggest problem with Gen will be solved.

I hope that episode 10 FINALLY ends Phrippri's courtship of Nut. I couldn't feel at all sorry for her, no matter how heartfelt and poignant they wanted to make that rejection. It seemed to go on forever + 10 minutes too long.

I appreciate the backsliding, even if I don't like the behavior. Nut has issues and its frustrating for all of us watching him revert to old habits whenever he's stressed. But that's what people are like. Same for his mother. Its one thing to say that you're better and will do better going forward. But Nut in particular hasn't done anything to actually change, so he's back abusing his mother again. And let's be honest here. He went out of his way to create a confrontation with her in ep 10. He's not actually getting better.

So Tofu does the laundry of shame the next morning. I wonder if Tofu feels awkward having sex when he knows the bedspread, desk chair, notebook, desk and pillow are all getting a front row seat.

Well, I did use shazaM, and if that worked I wouldn’t be asking.

Has anyone found the opening theme song? It’s catchy.

Well, something happened to make Nut angry with Tarn. Angry enough that when he thought his ex might have sent Tofu he got angry and paranoid. Given that Tarn is Jan’s nephew, and that Jan’s school director friend was involved in outing him, going to guess that somehow Nut was manipulated into thinking Tarn was a bad person.