EmiLayo

I loved this movie. Yes, there's infidelity-- life's not black and white, no matter how much we'd prefer it to be. Both Ki Hong and Sang Min were deeply unhappy. They found solace with and in each other and that, of course, led to complications. While love is a vital force, it isn't always simple and pretty.

Completely unhinged-- in the best way. Two broken people found each other, made a mess, and somehow ended up cleaning themselves up and settling down into domestic bliss. There's nothing remotely ethical or normal about this story, but it was a lot of fun.

The ones who cornered him in the previous episode and seemed to be one the verge on getting handsy with him because be was able to get close to the Four Heavenly Kings were not pleasant. They were the ones that Hioki was primarily concerned about.

Also, there are girls constantly twittering and fawning over the guys. That's hella cringe.

Ah! I avoided reading it, so missed the details. Hilarious! 😅 Thank you.

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They represent us? Us, who? Who would behave in this manner? Who would WANT to behave in this manner? It's embarrassing and disturbingly cringe.

Now, if you meant fan as in fanatical lunatics, then maybe.

"If you take time out of your day because you have the desire to write hateful comments about someone, however casually or without care you claim to do it, I just think it is a net negative for everyone."

Thank you for writing this. Sometimes, people sink so deeply into hate that they become poison for themselves and, tangentially, for others. A life lived sowing hate is a sad life-- a life wasted.

Spoken like someone who proudly practices zero concern for others. I understand you more fully now.

Good day.

I haven't read the manga and I'm sure I'm not the only one. I avoid searching Google to learn details, as I want to immerse myself in the series as it unfolds. I don't read the last chapters of books, either. I love the journey of discovery.

Yes, the screenwriter of this series may change the ending, but now you've deposited the info of the likely ending and I'll be watching the rest of the series with that info in mind, which makes me want to stop watching entirely.

Please, is it difficult to keep in mind that there exists those of us who do not desire knowing the ending of a story while watching it?

STOP POSTING SPOILERS

I'm completely over the excessive slow-motion editing. Slow-mo doesn't up the tension-- it bloats the runtime and, for me, is leading to boredom. I'm interested in the story, but am growing increasingly annoyed. Now, I've resolved to watching the rest of the series on 1.5 speed, just to finish this thing. Dudes, get to the point already. Geez.

Unnecessary pauses and loooong drawn out scenes-- them taking forever to do something as simple as walking, moving closer to each other, speaking to each other. This is turning the pace into molasses and I started watching the episodes on 1.5 speed, because I've grown annoyed with the directing. They're not creating tension-- they're inflating the episode runtime.

I'm puzzled by some of the issues you listed here.

A.
Naran didn't just "leave his meaningful job behind." He resigned, as his boss was insistent on continuing with burying the truth of the government's and the military's corruption in the country. He had already quit before Krailert proposed they leave together. Also, Krailert's wife threatened his life. She made it clear that if he stayed, he was likely going to be killed by her family, just as Krailert's first lover was killed. Her exact words were, "Tell him to leave as fast as he can if he doesn't want to end up like that movie star."

B.
Regarding your assertion that "Trin just [threw] everything down and [moved] away, that's not at all what happened.

Trin was an economist--a civil servant-- someone who worked to better the lives of his fellow humans through appropriate distribution of society's resources ranging from small, local communities to entire nations, and if positioned in the right departments within certain countries, even the global economy. He didn't abandon his civil service work. As he told Krailert and his wife, he would continued it from his position at the Thai embassy in Paris.

Trin got reluctantly dragged into the politics, but that was never his intention nor was he particularly passionate about it. What he was passionate about was bringing about positive and fair changes. Before he departed Thailand, he proposed the village co-operative project for education, which contributed with bringing about positive changes in Thailand. Towards the conclusion of the finale, we also see that he was still working in his position at the embassy-- he signed documents for a project that needed to be confirmed with the Austrian embassy.

C.
As for Naran and Krailert wanting to leave together-- if only they'd been able to do so and live a peaceful life. So many choose to sacrifice their lives, their peace and their joy for systems that chew them out and spit them out. If only they'd been able to have the outcome that Trin and Tanwa eventually got. If only Victor had been able to have the gift of experiencing a long life of beautiful skies.

The script didn't spell everything out, but all the details were provided for the audience to infer these details. Shine had some of the most nuanced and impressive writing I've ever encountered in a series, Thai or otherwise.

What I wrote seemed pretty self-explanatory to me, so I'm left wondering your age and whether English is a second language? I'm not trying to insult you, but I'm baffled how that got tangled. Is it because MDL is such a cesspool of arguments if anyone remotely disagrees with someones preferences; therefore, you just assumed I was disagreeing with you? Fascinating. 🤔

No dear. You thoroughly misconstrued what I wrote. 🙃

Note the inclusion of the word VERSUS in my initial reply to you. I was comparing the dramas you mentioned-- Happy of the End, Love is a Poison and My Personal Weatherman against 10 Things I Want to Do Before I Turn 40 and other series of its ilk, which have undeserved high MDL ratings.

To be clear, here are my ratings for the series in question:
• Happy of the End - 9.5
• Love is a Poison - 8
• My Personal Weatherman - 9
• 10 Things I Want to Do Before I Turn 40 - Lost interest early and have no desire to return to finish it.

The dramas you mentioned were geared towards authentic Gay Romance versus featuring main leads who were good on the eyes enough for watchers to ignore weak scripts.

Clearly, I misinterpreted your intent.

I always believe if I have to read or watch something after the conclusion of a movie or book to glean the true intentions of characters, then the movie or book failed. I'm not doing further homework to figure out a piece of entertainment.

By the bye, I thoroughly enjoyed KILL TO LOVE. It depicted love in all its twisted complexities.

Have a good day.

When we love someone, especially someone we are in a romantic relationship with, deciding to take away their choices, because WE feel we know what's best for them, is control, not an expression of the highest form of love. Yes, Shu He loved Zi Ang, but clearly, he cared deeply about his own choices and his own honor, as well. What Zi Ang did was wrong and he paid that price, in the end, and forced Shu He to act as he did.

You're welcome to believe otherwise, but I hope you never do something even remotely similar to another and label it as love. It's malignant narcissism.

In the realm of escapist fantasy, this type of all consuming love is fascinating to witness. In life? It's actually disturbingly disgusting.

What Duan Zi Ang did in the end to Xiao Shu was turn a gentle but honorable soul into a prized possession. He dishonored him and left him with no choice but to escape from him in the only manner left available to him. Regardless of the depth of his love for Shu He, Zi Ang chose to force him to capitulate to his desire for him over giving him the respect and freedom that he deserved, and by doing so he ended up breaking both their hearts and sealed their fates. Love can be a crazy game-- a game neither of them really won, even though Shu He eventually won back his pride.

Le sigh....

Wasn't this week's episode just number 9? Episode 10 is next week.