apathy

we saw cir’s scar reappear tho after he switched with the payu-looking cir

the person who was hit by a car and nearly died is cir from this world, no? it was after he was fighting off the guys that tried to steal phu from this world’s car. that’s why he has a scar on his forehead and went into a coma and everything.

this world cir went to black cir’s universe not too long ago (when phu from this world was sick) iirc and black cir’s body was fine. black cir explained, i’m pretty sure, that each cir eventually takes a turn explaining to the other cir’s (that need extra assistance) that phu is their other half or whatever. there could be something wrong though. i guess we’ll see

that’s not what i understood. i assumed he just saw how cir fucked up by stalking phu so he’s wondering if this universe can still have a happy ending

i knew cir was also a stalker but seeing the evidence/extent of his stalking this ep gave me chills 😭 idk how he’ll come back from this one, and apparently he still doesn’t realize/ believe he can see parallel universes so that’s not gonna help with winning phu over

he was shot twice by carbon at the river’s edge. he fell into the river and took carbon with him. carbon’s dead body is found but not joke’s. joke is presumed dead because of his injuries and circumstances. jack has a psychotic break, everyone is mourning, and at the end just when jack has finally accepted joke’s gone and there is hope jack can eventually move on, the last 2 minutes show joke waking up in a mysterious outdoor shack with an unknown figure approaching him, with joke looking kind of scared.

basically everything is gut wrenchingly sad until the last few minutes.

even though there’s hope at the end thinking about the sadness of the special ep is still making me a little queasy. i hope they announce a continuation soon. personally, i would prefer another special ep to a season 2. i think id like something new from yinwar for their next full series, maybe something light…lol…but still different and challenging

also i just had a horrifying thought. what if joke makes it back to jack, after some time bcs it looks like he’s captured, but jack has already moved on with someone else like “joke” told him to do. the angst potential for a continuation is insane lol

i think that’s kind of the point tho. it’s so creepy and so absurd that the extent of jack’s psychotic break and grief really hits you, and for me, so did my hopelessness that joke would be back

maybe carbon can’t swim lol. my theory is that it’s someone joke knows from prison or one of the horsemen

glad to be of service 🫡 you can prob check social media for the cute scenes they have haha.

yeah, i’m canadian! hbu

on the bright side at least joke isn’t dead!!! i can at least go to bed peacefully with that (it’s 1am here lol) if it ended without the post credit scene with joke waking up i would kms 😭😭

that’s fair. ngl i would have preferred a normal fluffy special ep. i still think it was cruel to bait us with all that wedding promo only for jackjoke to not only not get married fr but for the “wedding scene” to be one of the most tragic things i’ve ever watched in a bl, but it is what it is. hopefully there’s a s2 or special ep announcement soon

are you sure? the last thing i heard is yinwar are fully booked for 2 years and may consider another series after saving money.

tbh, as much as i think there were some worthwhile scenes and acting in this (they have some cute moments)…i think i would prefer not to have had this special episode tbh. like you said, the series ended good enough. i probably won’t rewatch. not sure why they would make this unless they had plans for another ep or season

yeah they’re not together. jack actually just finally seemed to accept joke is dead and joke is god knows where.

the ending is a major major cliff hanger. not giving us a s2 or another special episode or SOMETHING would be sadistic, even more sadistic then just killing him off imo

i have never felt so played with in my life. i cried so hard my chest started to hurt but then at the very end, literally the last like 1min 30seconds we see joke wake up in some mysterious outdoor shack with some figure we don’t see approaching him, so there’s hope he’s not dead? hope for a season 2? ..god knows how long we’d have to wait for that.



more info: in a way joke’s death is worse than the spoilers. they don’t get married (not for real anyway) and jack’s descent into like madness made me more sad than joke getting shot tbh. it’s absolutely heartwrenching. i thought i cried all i could cry last week when i heard joke died, but watching jack like that was horrible (yin did a great job tho). bcs of his grief jack sees hallucinations of joke and in the end joke’s hallucination says goodbye and tells jack to move on, embrace new love etc and it made me want to throw up.

overall if you really can’t handle sadness, then maybe skip this until there’s an official announcement or release of a s2, but i do think there are some worthwhile scenes that make it worth watching now.

i agree with this! i’m still enjoying the show (the actresses are great, the story is still interesting) but i think they could have written the script better. i’m one of those people who was confused why they feel so strongly for each other already, particularly kliao. i just ended up attributing it to residual feelings from the other “timelines” i wish we got to see that growth though. that’s one of my favourite parts of a romance. i think this show easily had the potential to be a 9.5 or even a 10 if they tightened shit up tbh, but we’ll see how they handle the rest of it.

i think their acting has improved quite a bit actually. i just dropped LITA partially bcs the acting (along with the plot and pacing, not sure what you see in it) is mid at best imo, meanwhile TBNW is my favourite BL of the year i think. they’re defs improving, maybe not like oscar level performances but defs improvement

i’m not sure if i was just blinded by how good they look together, or i didn’t notice bcs they weren’t technically dating, but i think y’all were right about the leads not having much romantic chemistry 😭. overall not a bad series though. i’d give it like a 7.4-7.7

I agree it was a legitimate theory before ep 8, along with some other theories people had, but in this thread we’re talking about after ep 8

something super hot about the way karan says “extern”

i’m surprised by how impatient some ppl are ngl. it’s like they want all of the story and mystery to be revealed in the first 15 minutes of ep 1