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Nour EP 1-9 and random Buddhist commentaries before the finale

Because MDL updated that EP 9 had been released already (bc WeTV fast track it (those who have wetv subscription can buy ep 9 with 30 baht). For normal WeTV watchers, only EP 8 has come out, EP 9 is this week.

As for EP 10, it is not confirmed yet whether they will fast track it or not (highly likely that they probably will fast track). If they do, then EP 10 will come out this week for those who buy EP 10 with 30 baht. If WeTV doesn't allow the fast track option then we will all have to wait until Oct 14 to watch the same finale.

It's very interesting that initially it was just Thursday but then after the feedback and uproar from fans, Bank himself also said he would talk to the company (I'm assuming Tailai who would then relay the message to iQIYI Thailand) so the airing schedule really had changed from being just Thursday to Thursday/Friday

Did iQIYI really think that in this day and age, it would be possible for fans to stay tune to a show for 20 weeks,,,,, 5 months 😭😭😭😭😭😭

but i think building on your idea of that possibility of getting into a fight with chita, it could be that ken has already changed his mind about not dying and wants to keep living with james but when chita is on the verge of hurting james, ken shielded james or something to protect james and he gets killed (even though he didnt want to die this time) but is reborn/comes back as a mortal person 😅

but we have learned throughout this story that living forever is not a blessing,,,,,,, that it is a curse. and a curse can be broken. these characters also need to learn that love is letting go, not letting someone leave bc you want that person to be in your life (james)/bringing someone back against their will (chita) is not love but rather selfishness 😭😭😭😭😭 i just dont think the immortal/immortal jamesken makes sense in the philosophy of nour

Nour Finale prediction: James learns that loving someone is letting them go, Ken gets to die on his own choice after spending a good few months doing everything he wanted with James, Ken's nour curse is broken through him forgiving himself and learning to live and he comes back as a human and can now live like a mortal with James.

This is not to say other shows are not great, they are all amazing and clearly have their personal market and targeted demographic.

It's just that Nour's targeted audience might be seemingly niche but because they're very daring and bold and the willingness to go all out whether it's with the eroticism or vampirism or gore or violence really are put on display. And I personally really appreciate that.

I keep thinking about how Nour is a show that I personally feel really compelled to watch. Even if the acting are sometimes uneven, the pacing is unabalanced across the different episodes.... But yet I watch every single Nour episode with high anticipation every week. And then I saw a Tumblr post about Nour that resonated with me so I wanted to share it here.

"If Nour has taught me one thing, it is that I was dead fucking on with the industry putting out portfolio shows after portfolio show out of pure greed and as to not alienate certain markets. People crave good media so much that they are willing to overlook a lot of flaws in it if the media in question is of good quality and the story is interesting.

So no. Most of us didn't refuse to watch or dropped xx or xxx because this or that actor acted in it, we did so because it was fucking boring and watered down."
Source: papertigers09 on Tumblr

So if the BL shows you are watching recently are an iQIYI Thailand original or WeTV Thailand original or sometimes even shows received some amount of funding from either platforms, then their owner names will get exec producers credits even if they're not creatively involved with the work

no. you're misunderstanding. if you look into the credits within the show, there are two type of people who get executive producers - wetv & we tv thailand ceos and the production house tailai ceos (both are chinese companies so naturally their ceos are chinese)

wetv people (these people get credits because they are higher ups at wetv - which is the platform that co-invest in this production and had this show on their platform)
Jeff Han (WeTV Director and Vice President of Tencent Video)
Xiang Juan (Director of International Business at Tencent Video and Head of Management of WeTV)
Nattaporn Runghajornklin (Head of WeTV Thailand)

these ppl dont involve much other than signing the paperworks that give tailai the budget tailai needed to produce nour. their names are automatically on any wetv thailand originals

Tailai Entertainment is the Bangkok-based Chinese production company that produced Nour -> Tailai owners are Chinese and get automatic exec producers credits (Zhao Shan and Shang Nara)

As for the creative team who worked on Nour they are 100% Thai (director Boss Wasakorn and his 100% Thai screenwriters team, one of whom came from Nakhon Sawan where Nour is set)

tldr: Nour is on WeTV - a chinese platform and produced by a Bangkok-based Chinese company whose owners are chinese so a lot of chinese people are credited as executive producers but the creative team that created this show is 100% Thai.

2 eps a week is the perfect sweet spot. 1 ep is gonna drive me crazyyyyyyyyyy

45 q/days of filming for 20 eps is insane,,,,,, the perks of having a pro actor who gets everything right in few takes and a bunch of rookie actors who dont have other things to film/events to go to yet lol

50 minutes per ep and 20 eps,,,,,, if its really 1 ep weekly,,,,,,, the next five months will be excruciating
https://x.com/staryueyue02/status/2105666490007740673?s=20

finally you GET IT. i feel that people are missing the big themes of humanity, the philosophy of what it means to LIVE (regardless of whether you are mortal or immortal), LOVE, LOSS, GRIEF and are just making judgements based on very surface level of what Ken is saying (that he wants to die) rather than looking at what he is showing (that he actually dreams of a happy life, finally Living after two centuries of letting days go by)

I'm actually still here thinking about how I would love to see more past Wi/Phasakorn,,,,,, Like what do you mean they went to school together and were on the debate club together and were exes and then ended up on rival parties but Phasakorn still cared about Wi and dig up information for Wi because he CARES!!!!!!!!!!!

They're on two separate apps so the logic doesn't make sense [Tailai has no control over fast track or not]. Fool In Love starts in October is because that's when the previous iQIYI Thailand original just ended (Gelboys 2).

WeTV Thailand does 2-3 eps fast track for ALL of their originals. The only rare difference about Nour was that they did not announce the fast track in advance unlike other shows which would get a release schedule. Although I understand that if they did release it early, it would have been met with huge negative backlash even though it's just WeTV dumb practice

Played by Jaosua Sarin, one of the new Tailai talents.

my happy ending is that ken is somehow turned mortal. can we undo nour process for my old man?????? i just want him to eat delicious food and have a nice sleep again 🥲

Do you think the boyfriend is alive? I thought Chita was the only person surviving that fire no?

It's at the discretion of Viki to decide to buy license for distribution to a show or not. Their latest selection is a mix of BLs and True and One31 dramas