I may be tripping here, but Joe is letting Ming do all the fighting. Ming is a red flag, I know it, but once we…
Joe isn't fighting for love yet. We just havent't reached that part yet but it should be in EP. 11 that Joe realizes that he should fight for their love.
I don't think either baby was ML. Because I'm definitely sure Tukta's child was with her lover while for Linda, I felt like it was a long time between her last time having sex with Nat and her finding out that she was pregnant so I think that the baby belongs to one of her hookups. But it would be very fascinating how if neither of the babies belong to the ML but it's because of him that both women decided to get an abortion.
You ask for the impossible Joe can't return to his old body after the big fall he had. His old body is useless,…
Yes, that point exactly. I don't understand why keep watching when this was billed as transmigration and not body swap. I once saw an analysis on the transmigration trope featured in My Stand-In and it was just spot on. I wish people would embrace this story for what it is, rather than hoping it to be something it's definitely isn't (a bodyswap story)
"[T]here is no exploration of identity (tied to Joe’s body pre- and post-transmigration) forth-coming precisely because this isn’t that kind of story and body is only treated as a temporary shelter for the soul for most part when transmigration trope is involved. Moreover, the novel is steeped in Confucian values. So, most of the resolution to what it means for Joe to have a mother now is dealt through his selfless gratitude and the filial piety he offers her.
The same is the case with his old body – a proper funeral for that body is what he owes his own parents for having given flesh and blood to the body which housed his soul previously."
I have a question for the book readers who know the full story start to finish pretty please. I have one question…
Sol and Wut just suspects that Joe 2.0 is somehow connected to their olf friend Joe 1.0 so they went to a place on a date they know only Joe 1.0 could know to see if Joe 2.0 would be there and they found out first.
The old joe was older than ming but the new joe is younger than ming. Ming used to call the real joe "Phi Joe"
Yeaaaa. I do wonder if they change Joe's age to be closer to Ming or not but at least it's very well established that Ming is the younger, more spoiled brat in the relationship, hence Joe having to dote on him and coax him like a child a lot when they're together. Ming's age becomes quite important for an iconic line later in the novel when he begs Joe for forgiveness. I really hope we can see Ming saying that same iconic line about him being young and dumb later on in future episode.
The old joe was older than ming but the new joe is younger than ming. Ming used to call the real joe "Phi Joe"
Yea. Chapter 10 the literal translation for the line where Joe first introduces his age is he says "I'm 31 chinese age, 29 is my real age. The popular english translation chose the number in between being 30 but it's not the literal translation of the chinese text. Chapter 46, Joe in his new body introduces himself to Sol that he's 27.
The old joe was older than ming but the new joe is younger than ming. Ming used to call the real joe "Phi Joe"
No. New Joe is still older than Ming. Before the body transmigration they were 20-29 (Ming-Joe), now in the present they're 24-27 (Ming Joe). Should be around this age frame for series as well. In the present timeline, Joe calls Ming 'Khun' to show respect and keep it formal between them. They mostly use Khun-Pom right now (because the nature of their relationship is not close). but in general, at both timelines Joe is older than Ming.
As a novel reader, I think the pacing is honestly just right with the novel. The only thing is that each episodes…
Yea it's really so sad. I hope the series becomes successful and iQIYI will decide to make a special episode with contents from the extra chapters because it's really only then that we can get happy MingJoe.
As a novel reader, I think the pacing is honestly just right with the novel. The only thing is that each episodes…
Oh yea I totally get what you mean. That's pretty much what happens in the novel so I'm prepared if they only fully get together at the end of ep 12. I don't know how the series will go but I would say the emotions progression makes sense because I feel like after Joe finds out he's dead, he's more resistant against Ming so it felt logical for him to be in doubt whether he could actually be together with Ming. I will say that there is a scene of Joe facing off Ming's father based on what YYDS posted so I'm guessing they're facing the conflicts together but Joe probably only fully accepts Ming by the end.
"[T]here is no exploration of identity (tied to Joe’s body pre- and post-transmigration) forth-coming precisely because this isn’t that kind of story and body is only treated as a temporary shelter for the soul for most part when transmigration trope is involved. Moreover, the novel is steeped in Confucian values. So, most of the resolution to what it means for Joe to have a mother now is dealt through his selfless gratitude and the filial piety he offers her.
The same is the case with his old body – a proper funeral for that body is what he owes his own parents for having given flesh and blood to the body which housed his soul previously."