BenedictTan

There is a clear difference. I am not doing the same unlike what you claimed.

I wasn't discrediting those unhappy with the ending. There is a very clear difference of presenting our thoughts and explaining with details and evidences from the series vs ranting against/supporting a series blindly without evidence or even blatantly misleading others by presenting false narrative about the ending/last episode because they haven't really watched it.

It is perfectly ok to dislike the ending/series as I mentioned. But as some others earlier on pointed out below, that once they actually watched the ending, it wasn't as bad as what some presented it here. Bittersweet maybe, but not sad/terrible/rubbish as claimed.

The main issue is how some were (and are still) actively discouraging people from watching the ending and dropping the series altogether without giving the people the chance to form their own thoughts and opinions about the ending.

This is a good take on why they turned Jan’s house to a studio. Hope the team gets to release the special episode cut. Pasit mentioned that Jan selling/giving her house to Tarn is one of the cut scenes.

Yes this one is very important. Both Nut and Tofu wore their matching bracelets to the very end. They ‘lock’ their hearts to each other.

Reading some of the comments, it seems some are hell-bent on whacking this series to pieces, totally discrediting it and crushing it just because they disagree with the ending or the direction of the story.

It is perfectly fine to dislike a series, just as it is fine to like it a lot. But to do what I mentioned above is crossing the line.

Fingers crossed! It needs much more recognition and popularity. Many mediocre and terrible BL and non-BL series are currently more well-known and popular than The Miracle of Teddy Bear. 😔

Thank you for the details! Much appreciated. Hope we will all get to see it too.

I suspect even the sweet and happy scenes from the opening intro were cut out from the episodes because of this.

It might have been planned to be longer than 18 episodes too, but then Netflix must have kept forcing CH3 to cut down more and more.

I am busy posting in that page at the moment, hoping that people will understand the story and ending better.

Honestly, it reminds me of the early days when we were still just in the beginning of Bad Buddy, and there were some naysayers who were raining unfair criticisms and attacks on Bad Buddy (without good reason).

It may be released in CH3 with Eng sub later.

Not confirmed, but possible.

Which is really very, very unfortunate…

It was mentioned at the end of EP 14, that all the animated objects were due to the memories of their respective owners.

I posted this before yesterday, and there I mentioned how Tofu appeared like Neung because Nut has essentially shut himself off to love (Nut and Tofu talked about this in the earlier episode).

The only so-called good memory of love he had, was Neung, his first love, who had never hurt him, unlike Tarn (not his fault, but the circumstances forcing them to separate traumatised him), and his dad and mum (the former for his opposition to him being gay, and the latter for her slapping him and appear to side with his dad instead of defending him)

Hence, Tofu materialised as Neung, the memory of his first love (and not Tarn, as mentioned above). This is what I came out with after studying thoroughly what happened in all the episodes.

Pasit, thank you for this!! I really appreciate your post earlier on this matter.

Thanks for sharing about the special episode/cut that they hopefully will share with all of us too.

Netflix always has its problems, and that is why no wonder they are currently bleeding subscribers too. They will lose more if they keep on doing this.

Do update us more on what the director and the production team decided to do.

Same here ):)

The scriptwriters based on some of the shared info here earlier were unfortunately tied and constrained because they could not change the way the story was done in the original novel, due to the conditions of the deal between the author and the production company.

And as I mentioned below, CH3 also didn’t have the rights to the other novels and the Netflix apparently forcing them to cut short the episodes number which led to the finale not as well executed as they could have been (to me, it’s still beautiful, though sad, nonetheless).

Thanks for the great words anyway! And yes, we all love Tofu! And we should love the other characters too, for all the flaws they had!

Yes, you can almost say that. I haven’t read it myself, but based on how close the series followed the book, it is basically so.

It’s an adaptation with Thai local flavour.

Plus just wanna say that if many people can binge through great 50-80 episodes of Chinese and Korean drama series (which totals just about 36-60 hours) without skipping, then I don’t see why the same can’t be done with the relatively shorter The Miracle of Teddy Bear.

Though I was saddened that due to the Netflix deal, CH3 had to cut out probably about 3 episodes (or up to 8 episodes, since I heard it was supposed to be 24 episodes). That way, the time skips towards the end could have been explored better (but nothing’s perfect, no best solutions. Partly, CH3’s hands were tied too.

And why? Thanks to some users who shared earlier, CH3 also unfortunately did not have the rights to the other books of the same author set in the same universe and characters, which would have explored Tarn and TRD’s story more, as well as more story from Nut’s POV. We see things mainly from Tofu’s POV in The Miracle of Teddy Bear.

Yes, what I meant is that, the novel of the series followed the story of the ‘Little Prince’ to its smallest details, sans the coming from another planet part.

The Miracle of Teddy Bear is a series that had to be watched in its entirety (which I did), for every single episodes, every single scenes and moments (without skipping at all) to get the entire flow and all the easily missed cues and hints (there were lots throughout)

Obviously this isn’t something easy, considering that all in all, it adds up to about 24 hours in total. But if you are here looking for just snippets of happy moments and fluffy scenes, or hot bed scenes or making out scenes, unfortunately, this series is not really going to offer you that.

It’s not that we didn’t have those romantic and happy scenes, but that wasn’t what the story is about, and we can see that the messages this series wanted to bring across to us, are aplenty. I am still amazed at the way they handled all those sensitive issues, even touching to the extent of the role of the military in Thailand, which is really sensitive, but putting it very subtly within the episodes.

(For example, when in EP 14 Nut had the conversation with Pritr, who is Na’s friend and Nut’s former teacher, he mentioned that if he joined the army as his father wished, he could have become a prime minister)

It has been mentioned before, and I think the novel followed exactly the same path.

And as pointed out by Pasit earlier on, due to the deal that CH3 had with Netflix and the publisher, plus they did not have the rights to the other books severely curtailed their ability to venture beyond the novel plotline and ending, even if they wanted to.

This series is very, very deep, both in plot, character and more.

Understanding the meaning of their conversations, monologues and narrations properly is step #1 in understanding the story and its flow (including the ending).

Of course the next step is to understand the context, gestures and the local Thai unique situation to be able to know more about the story (this is actually fleshed out quite well throughout the series - hence a proper Eng sub is crucial)