"When Tin gets an idea he doesn't let it go until someone dies."55555! SO TRUE, but also very hilarious 🤣 I…
You can pause and replay during the live stream on Monday. I've done it before. But you just have to be sure to watch the whole thing before it's dropped.
But if you need to rewatch, Bilibili has the eps a day after they air on Youtube.
okay doubt: i must have missed something, thats my speciality. but when tin sleeps, he wakes up at the last place…
He can choose what day to wake up on, yes. It takes a while for him to grock this. It happens sometime after Jinta tells him he may need to go further back and he starts with just a day. That may have been episode 2? I'd have to rewatch to tell you the exact conversation.
When he goes further back he wakes up in the place, time he woke originally. So if the week prior he woke in his own bed at home, at 8am, then that is the point he will jump back to. There was one scene early in the series that suggests he can move to a moment when he was waking up, but he can't just go to sleep and randomly wake up at a point when, say, he was jogging or doing some awake activity. He must jump to a point when he was asleep and is due to wake up.
"When Tin gets an idea he doesn't let it go until someone dies."55555! SO TRUE, but also very hilarious 🤣 I…
Oh, he's not killing them, per se.
But he just won't let go of ideas that aren't working towards saving people until the same thing has failed over and over. That whole "definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome" is really a thing here. And it's a real problem. It takes Doc Tin way too long to come to the realization that something isn't going to work. When I said "Doesn't let go of an idea until someone dies" I definitely should have added "repeatedly" to the end of it. ROFL
The next episode is less than 24 hours away and I just got around to finishing the review of last week. I had a cold and took the time off.
So, this last week's ep really took Doc Tin to that edge of desperation he was going to have to reach before he would back things up to go at the problem from a far earlier approach. I'm beginning to think saving Tol isn't really about saving Tol. it's more that Tol is the thread in Tin's life to follow backwards that will save everyone by unraveling the schemes of Dr Evil and his Mini-me through the one person Tin has ties to that go further back than this clusterfuck does.
I have to sympathize with Tol in this episode, though. From the outside of the whole supernatural element to the plot, Doc Tin looks like a batshit-crazy stalker. In the beginning of episode 6, Tol is understandably creeped. But it looks like Tin might just handle it correctly in order to preserve the situation. He's all "Can you just not drive or do anything to aggravate your heart" and I'm like see, this is smooth. This might get through to the kid who is probably already worried about his newly discovered heart condition.
And then Tin fucks it by driving right over the ledge, head first into the ravine of creepy. "...Or you'll be dead by 10pm". DUDE! That was NOT what playing it cool looks like. The one thing our intrepid doctor has yet to do is grasp the need for subtlety, without a catastrophe and a redo. At this point poor Doc Tin is making me head-desk (I have a bruise. Promise). I love him. But I also just want to yank his hair (and not in the sexy way) and tell him pump the breaks.
Though it's all very well constructed to make us feel really bad for Tin. Even poor Jinta is rolling out the benevolent vibe, just to nudge Tin a little more effectively. Yes Jinta, this particular tool of destiny needs a bit more hand-holding and TLC than most of them require. Doc is a little stupid. But he'll get there eventually.
I love that Jinta is all kinds of "proud daddy" amused at Tin's idea to follow Tol. Papa Jinta tries his best to get Tin to ask himself the important questions. Like why you would follow someone who told you to fuck off instead of just letting everything roll out and start over? But due to the aforementioned stupid, Tin spins it as breaking the time loop and not to his feelzâ„¢ for Tol. We didn't expect differently. When Tin gets an idea he doesn't let it go until someone dies.
And in this episode, several someone's die.
Sometimes I think the clue buss has hit Tin and he knows he's in love. Sometimes it feels like he isn't sure. But when Tin pouts at the idea of everything returning to normal and Tin/Tol just both returning to their regularly scheduled lives, I never identified with Jinta so hard. That wide, wide grin. Tin honey, he knows you're bullshitting. But do you?
Then there was murdery shit from the lame toady doc (I can't recall his name and he's uncredited on MDL I think). He was such a spineless shit he had to get an evil nurse to administer the chemical that killed Mae's mom, instead of doing it himself. Is this whole hospital populated by evil medical staff except the ER? Is the ER the only bastion of safety in that whole mess?
Oh, and then party of FATE! haha! I loved that it opened with gratuitous boy kisses being watched by none other than Tol. Yes Tol, watch the baby gays. Learn from the baby gays. (Imagine I said that in a creepy voice. I promise I did.) And then Tol is having visions, then he's wet, then he's mad, and then he's having a heart attack.
And I wasn't cheering, but I was totally cheering. It was all so well paced! So well choreographed! (Although the moment after Tin is off the phone with emergency services and Tol is already looking like he's fading, an actual doctor would have already started CPR, but that's a tiny issue.) The nod to a "recovery position" was nice. I never see that in medical dramas and it was interesting to see it employed, even though that wasn't the situation for it, unless Tin had already gotten Tol's heart restarted on his own. Which obviously he hadn't.
But I do love this show. It keeps giving me ER nostalgia. And I will say they dodged the "ambulance arrives seconds after it's called because TV time" by breaking in with the scene of the old man who originally dies in the accident with Tol. Uncle, it feels like you're the only person who DOESN'T die this episode.
The arrival at the ER made me snort a little. The first real, solid fail for the show because the whole fake CPR thing unravels into absurdity. But by then I assume Tee might have been sick of having his breastbone thonked on during Triage's countless CPR scenes, so maybe they were approaching things from a different performance route. Tin losing his shit and being obstructionist in the ER is a pattern at this point, and I'm thinking maybe Doc Tin should be rethinking ER medicine. You just can't do that shit. Be calm in an emergency or be somewhere else, hon. But it did drive home his emotional attachment to Tol and his desperation not to fail and repeat the cycle of time again.
The murder of Dr. Faeng was expected but man that was brutal and bloody. Wow. And although I am loving how they've unraveled the theft of Rit's organ by getting Doc Singh involved, the failure to save Dr. Faeng assured that the clock had run out on this attempt and it was time for a do-over. Ultimately, everything unfolding this episode was written for maximum "ouch" factor, but also it gave us that next big step in things, in just the right way. Especially the reveal of Hart and Mai's motivations.
If I had a criticism for this episode it was the aforementioned bad CPR and a couple of brief shaky camera moments. But hell, that's a very minor complaint. Overall, this episode kept me on the edge of my seat, delivered the feels, continued to sculpt the world in a way that made perfect sense, and moved the plot right along.
I personally think it's a waste of time. However, I also think you should decide that for yourself, armed with…
ROFL. Alright, it's not so much me being generous as me encouraging people to form their own opinions. I respect free thinking above most other things.
If I endorsed the merits of forming ones own opinion any less than I do, I'd just tell everyone "Please respect and love yourself by skipping this trash-heap, waste of time"
Well while gay marriage isn't legal in Thailand the gay couples still perform marriage ceremonies. A police won't…
It doesn't matter if it was MEANT to show gay struggles or not. "Stories about gays weren't actually meant for gays" is not a defense. Fact is, they're profiting by selling queerness. If you're going to make a profit from co-opting queerness then we have a right to expect representation. And many audiences have come to expect better/more representation. Which they know because they made a half-assed attempt at it with the shallow virtue signalling they did.
Just because someone do biking or drumming, he/she needs to be disciplined wow :)On this basis, I would have been…
Apparently in that world having interests and hobbies you hide from others and secrets you keep to yourself means you're naughty and need a daddy figure to take over your life and force you to do things the right way.
If this drama had NOT been a romance, it would be a cute, if stupid, watch. But it's a BL so that makes it creepy due to Meow's relative child-like characteristics, especially compared to other cat people who apparently function perfectly well in the human world.
However...
Still better than Cutie Pie. Sorry-not-sorry. ROFL.
ADVICE FOR PEOPLE CONSIDERING WATCHING THIS:Please, read the novel beforehand if you are going to watch the short…
In all honesty, if I have to read a book to make sense of a drama, the drama has failed. I shouldn't need a magic decoder ring for a tv show.
Movies sometimes tell long, drawn out stories and do it with less than 2 hours. This show had close to 4 hours to work with and still couldn't tell the story coherently.
This was confusing and at times didn't even give enough cues about passage of time. The timeline was obviously rushed. With only four episodes to capture the story they could have resolved some of the confusion just by using more time markers. They used a few, using one every time there was a larger leap of time would have made more sense than just leaving audiences to guess at how long the romance elements were actually taking to unfold.
And you can tell a long story in short form without making things ambiguous or confusing. If I have to read the book to decipher what is going on in the drama, then the drama is a fail. No matter how much story you pack into a series, there are tools for telling it well so passage of time and shifts of emotional attachment are clear. Movies do it all the time in less than 2 hours. There is no reason that with a 4 hour mini-series they could not tell this story more coherently, except that they simply did not have a good screen writer or editor.
The music editing was also awful. Though the other production values were nice.
But I did love the characters, especially Mark. He was really spicy and his defensive attitude was well performed. Vee was portrayed effectively for the most part as well. And I feel the actors had a compatible chemistry. Too bad the story was so damn all over the place. There was no excuse for this level of confusion and it was a waste of the on screen talent.
This was boring, frustrating and kind of uninspired. Mek was an asshole. Kim was okay, if a little too uptight. The support characters were okay, except Mek's right hand man who was basically a toady. The setup was dumb because it was thoroughly unreasonable to hold Kim even a little responsible. The only up side was the short moment Tim was on screen because I agree with Kim that he's total eye candy.
The setup needs major work. Hopefully the writing for the rest of this will be better than it was for the first episode.
Fuck. Wow. I AM SHOOOOOK! SHOOKETH! That got buck wild right there at the end.
The telecast press conference was creepy weird and forced feeling, and I'm still trying to figure out what bothered me about it so much. This episode was VERY telenovela. But the press conference did reveal that there is a legit reason Lukchub is so shy and nervous. And wow. What a reason. Poor thing. Skull fracture? Yikes!
Also, Nam unraveled! Holy shit did she come undone! I was watching her going "Okay, in any crime drama a rapidly devolving psychopath is either going to kill herself or kill someone else. But surely not. This is La Cuisine." And then there was a gunshot and that absolutely insane preview for next week. So I have no fucking idea how this is going to end. I really don't.
Where did my sweet little cooking BL go?
The flashbacks with Nam...Not sure if that was meant to humanize her or explain exactly how fucked up she really is and how she got that way. I just don't care. At no point does her tragic past excuse the shit Nam has pulled. So the real estate devoted to her childhood was not particularly well invested.
Also, someone explain to me why the police where sitting there politely negotiating the search warrant instead of executing it? And explain to me why Lukchub and Ram were there? That's dangerous and unnecessary. Whatever it's the setup for, I call bullshit.
And Ram is back to having no facial expressions and emoting like a fish with a head injury. This time it's at least fair because he actually has a head injury.
Jirichin remains the weirdest part of this program, even with Nam as a character. He is so strange. But I genuinely feel the love he has for Lukchub, so I guess I like him. But he's just so strange!
Kitty and Pangchie remain so Extra that they're irritating. Way to graft yourself tighter to your friend just to get access to the celebrity brother. The two of them are meant to be comedic relief and sometimes they are. But often they're just annoying.
We got some Phai this time. But not enough. He was at least finally at Lukchub's side this time. And doing his usual "I'm the grownup in the room" routine. I do love Phai.
For some reason people were asking Super of all people about fashion. How the fuck?! Unless you are looking for dude bro chic, is there a fashion opinion of his that matters? Also, what the fuck was up with him in the preview. Instead of solid Sky/Phai we get a preview of Super and the girl he's been seeing off camera. Why exactly are we supposed to care about them?
And can we talk about how much I liked everyone in the families except both the mom's? But the family moments were cute and I really was surprised by how much I liked Ram's brother and dad. And how funny Lukchub's dad was.
In all honesty, this episode was really kind of a weird spacer, ramping up the angst, despite happening at a point in the plot when things should have been moving towards a conclusion. They spent way too much time on the press conference and then it didn't balance out with the rest of the episode's content. I will say this episode was worth it for the Nam scenes. That actress knocked it out of the park. She played Nam at the end of her mental rope, perfectly. I mean, KUDOS. And lukchub was still the cutest person in the room. Always. At all times. Mick is adorable.
Sky and Titan were much missed this episode and I was low key mad about that. Honestly Sky is the best of the hot boys and I love every moment he's on screen. He was needed to break up this weirdly intense and oddly paced episode. Surely we could have fit some SkyPhai in somewhere.
I still love this show but I've given up even guessing where it's going. I meant it. I have never seen a BL villainess story this intense. And in a fluffy drama no less! But I'll be here next week to see how it all finally wraps up. Then I may need some time to decide how I feel about the show in the aftermath before I leave my final review. I mean, what was up with Ram going "I plan to Study Jewelry design in England?" Isn't he in architecture school?
But if you need to rewatch, Bilibili has the eps a day after they air on Youtube.
When he goes further back he wakes up in the place, time he woke originally. So if the week prior he woke in his own bed at home, at 8am, then that is the point he will jump back to. There was one scene early in the series that suggests he can move to a moment when he was waking up, but he can't just go to sleep and randomly wake up at a point when, say, he was jogging or doing some awake activity. He must jump to a point when he was asleep and is due to wake up.
But he just won't let go of ideas that aren't working towards saving people until the same thing has failed over and over. That whole "definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome" is really a thing here. And it's a real problem. It takes Doc Tin way too long to come to the realization that something isn't going to work. When I said "Doesn't let go of an idea until someone dies" I definitely should have added "repeatedly" to the end of it. ROFL
Despite that, we love him.
No wonder Jinta was rolling his eyes.
So, this last week's ep really took Doc Tin to that edge of desperation he was going to have to reach before he would back things up to go at the problem from a far earlier approach. I'm beginning to think saving Tol isn't really about saving Tol. it's more that Tol is the thread in Tin's life to follow backwards that will save everyone by unraveling the schemes of Dr Evil and his Mini-me through the one person Tin has ties to that go further back than this clusterfuck does.
I have to sympathize with Tol in this episode, though. From the outside of the whole supernatural element to the plot, Doc Tin looks like a batshit-crazy stalker. In the beginning of episode 6, Tol is understandably creeped. But it looks like Tin might just handle it correctly in order to preserve the situation. He's all "Can you just not drive or do anything to aggravate your heart" and I'm like see, this is smooth. This might get through to the kid who is probably already worried about his newly discovered heart condition.
And then Tin fucks it by driving right over the ledge, head first into the ravine of creepy. "...Or you'll be dead by 10pm". DUDE! That was NOT what playing it cool looks like. The one thing our intrepid doctor has yet to do is grasp the need for subtlety, without a catastrophe and a redo. At this point poor Doc Tin is making me head-desk (I have a bruise. Promise). I love him. But I also just want to yank his hair (and not in the sexy way) and tell him pump the breaks.
It IS interesting to note that there is timeline bleed in the form of Tol experiencing déjà vu in regards to Tin. Although I suppose technically speaking it's more jamais vu. And at some point if this intensifies, it may result in Tin being able to be honest with Tol without a major freakout. But for now there's not enough of a temporal anchor there for Tol to trust Tin when our hotty Doc over-shares.
Though it's all very well constructed to make us feel really bad for Tin. Even poor Jinta is rolling out the benevolent vibe, just to nudge Tin a little more effectively. Yes Jinta, this particular tool of destiny needs a bit more hand-holding and TLC than most of them require. Doc is a little stupid. But he'll get there eventually.
I love that Jinta is all kinds of "proud daddy" amused at Tin's idea to follow Tol. Papa Jinta tries his best to get Tin to ask himself the important questions. Like why you would follow someone who told you to fuck off instead of just letting everything roll out and start over? But due to the aforementioned stupid, Tin spins it as breaking the time loop and not to his feelzâ„¢ for Tol. We didn't expect differently. When Tin gets an idea he doesn't let it go until someone dies.
And in this episode, several someone's die.
Sometimes I think the clue buss has hit Tin and he knows he's in love. Sometimes it feels like he isn't sure. But when Tin pouts at the idea of everything returning to normal and Tin/Tol just both returning to their regularly scheduled lives, I never identified with Jinta so hard. That wide, wide grin. Tin honey, he knows you're bullshitting. But do you?
Then there was murdery shit from the lame toady doc (I can't recall his name and he's uncredited on MDL I think). He was such a spineless shit he had to get an evil nurse to administer the chemical that killed Mae's mom, instead of doing it himself. Is this whole hospital populated by evil medical staff except the ER? Is the ER the only bastion of safety in that whole mess?
Oh, and then party of FATE! haha! I loved that it opened with gratuitous boy kisses being watched by none other than Tol. Yes Tol, watch the baby gays. Learn from the baby gays. (Imagine I said that in a creepy voice. I promise I did.) And then Tol is having visions, then he's wet, then he's mad, and then he's having a heart attack.
And I wasn't cheering, but I was totally cheering. It was all so well paced! So well choreographed! (Although the moment after Tin is off the phone with emergency services and Tol is already looking like he's fading, an actual doctor would have already started CPR, but that's a tiny issue.) The nod to a "recovery position" was nice. I never see that in medical dramas and it was interesting to see it employed, even though that wasn't the situation for it, unless Tin had already gotten Tol's heart restarted on his own. Which obviously he hadn't.
But I do love this show. It keeps giving me ER nostalgia. And I will say they dodged the "ambulance arrives seconds after it's called because TV time" by breaking in with the scene of the old man who originally dies in the accident with Tol. Uncle, it feels like you're the only person who DOESN'T die this episode.
The arrival at the ER made me snort a little. The first real, solid fail for the show because the whole fake CPR thing unravels into absurdity. But by then I assume Tee might have been sick of having his breastbone thonked on during Triage's countless CPR scenes, so maybe they were approaching things from a different performance route. Tin losing his shit and being obstructionist in the ER is a pattern at this point, and I'm thinking maybe Doc Tin should be rethinking ER medicine. You just can't do that shit. Be calm in an emergency or be somewhere else, hon. But it did drive home his emotional attachment to Tol and his desperation not to fail and repeat the cycle of time again.
The murder of Dr. Faeng was expected but man that was brutal and bloody. Wow. And although I am loving how they've unraveled the theft of Rit's organ by getting Doc Singh involved, the failure to save Dr. Faeng assured that the clock had run out on this attempt and it was time for a do-over. Ultimately, everything unfolding this episode was written for maximum "ouch" factor, but also it gave us that next big step in things, in just the right way. Especially the reveal of Hart and Mai's motivations.
If I had a criticism for this episode it was the aforementioned bad CPR and a couple of brief shaky camera moments. But hell, that's a very minor complaint. Overall, this episode kept me on the edge of my seat, delivered the feels, continued to sculpt the world in a way that made perfect sense, and moved the plot right along.
If I endorsed the merits of forming ones own opinion any less than I do, I'd just tell everyone "Please respect and love yourself by skipping this trash-heap, waste of time"
What a load of toxic shit.
However...
Still better than Cutie Pie. Sorry-not-sorry. ROFL.
Movies sometimes tell long, drawn out stories and do it with less than 2 hours. This show had close to 4 hours to work with and still couldn't tell the story coherently.
And you can tell a long story in short form without making things ambiguous or confusing. If I have to read the book to decipher what is going on in the drama, then the drama is a fail. No matter how much story you pack into a series, there are tools for telling it well so passage of time and shifts of emotional attachment are clear. Movies do it all the time in less than 2 hours. There is no reason that with a 4 hour mini-series they could not tell this story more coherently, except that they simply did not have a good screen writer or editor.
The music editing was also awful. Though the other production values were nice.
But I did love the characters, especially Mark. He was really spicy and his defensive attitude was well performed. Vee was portrayed effectively for the most part as well. And I feel the actors had a compatible chemistry. Too bad the story was so damn all over the place. There was no excuse for this level of confusion and it was a waste of the on screen talent.
The setup needs major work. Hopefully the writing for the rest of this will be better than it was for the first episode.
The telecast press conference was creepy weird and forced feeling, and I'm still trying to figure out what bothered me about it so much. This episode was VERY telenovela. But the press conference did reveal that there is a legit reason Lukchub is so shy and nervous. And wow. What a reason. Poor thing. Skull fracture? Yikes!
Also, Nam unraveled! Holy shit did she come undone! I was watching her going "Okay, in any crime drama a rapidly devolving psychopath is either going to kill herself or kill someone else. But surely not. This is La Cuisine." And then there was a gunshot and that absolutely insane preview for next week. So I have no fucking idea how this is going to end. I really don't.
Where did my sweet little cooking BL go?
The flashbacks with Nam...Not sure if that was meant to humanize her or explain exactly how fucked up she really is and how she got that way. I just don't care. At no point does her tragic past excuse the shit Nam has pulled. So the real estate devoted to her childhood was not particularly well invested.
Also, someone explain to me why the police where sitting there politely negotiating the search warrant instead of executing it? And explain to me why Lukchub and Ram were there? That's dangerous and unnecessary. Whatever it's the setup for, I call bullshit.
And Ram is back to having no facial expressions and emoting like a fish with a head injury. This time it's at least fair because he actually has a head injury.
Jirichin remains the weirdest part of this program, even with Nam as a character. He is so strange. But I genuinely feel the love he has for Lukchub, so I guess I like him. But he's just so strange!
Kitty and Pangchie remain so Extra that they're irritating. Way to graft yourself tighter to your friend just to get access to the celebrity brother. The two of them are meant to be comedic relief and sometimes they are. But often they're just annoying.
We got some Phai this time. But not enough. He was at least finally at Lukchub's side this time. And doing his usual "I'm the grownup in the room" routine. I do love Phai.
For some reason people were asking Super of all people about fashion. How the fuck?! Unless you are looking for dude bro chic, is there a fashion opinion of his that matters? Also, what the fuck was up with him in the preview. Instead of solid Sky/Phai we get a preview of Super and the girl he's been seeing off camera. Why exactly are we supposed to care about them?
And can we talk about how much I liked everyone in the families except both the mom's? But the family moments were cute and I really was surprised by how much I liked Ram's brother and dad. And how funny Lukchub's dad was.
In all honesty, this episode was really kind of a weird spacer, ramping up the angst, despite happening at a point in the plot when things should have been moving towards a conclusion. They spent way too much time on the press conference and then it didn't balance out with the rest of the episode's content. I will say this episode was worth it for the Nam scenes. That actress knocked it out of the park. She played Nam at the end of her mental rope, perfectly. I mean, KUDOS. And lukchub was still the cutest person in the room. Always. At all times. Mick is adorable.
Sky and Titan were much missed this episode and I was low key mad about that. Honestly Sky is the best of the hot boys and I love every moment he's on screen. He was needed to break up this weirdly intense and oddly paced episode. Surely we could have fit some SkyPhai in somewhere.
I still love this show but I've given up even guessing where it's going. I meant it. I have never seen a BL villainess story this intense. And in a fluffy drama no less! But I'll be here next week to see how it all finally wraps up. Then I may need some time to decide how I feel about the show in the aftermath before I leave my final review. I mean, what was up with Ram going "I plan to Study Jewelry design in England?" Isn't he in architecture school?
I feel like the previews made my brain bleed
Just...wow.