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I detest both Pawin & Mintra, & just want Korn to get out of that toxic house, work on being less of an easily-manipulated idiot, get to know himself, realize his dreams, & maybe find a sane partner w/ whom to pursue a healthy relationship.

Thana & Patis just need to call it quits. Their relationship seems to have come to a natural end, as many relationships do. They aren't on the same page or the same path, & they're just hurting themselves & each other.

An awful lot of nonsense this episode.

Not is just a trash person. Just pure trash. Every time he's on screen I want to see him get slapped.

By the end, I just wanted to drown Souta in that sink. But the chicken looked delicious.

Ep. 9...what a migraine-inducing episode. Damn near threw my phone, being subjected to such frustrating nonsense.

This was just unnecessary.

I also found T8S "meh". Not good, not bad, just...meh.

Should've jettisoned the silly amnesia plot & given us one solid episode of Kiew explaining to Art why he's boinking his son. I would've paid money to watch that scene unfold. It doesn't seem that Kiew slow-dripped any of the time travel love story stuff over the 20-odd years he waited on Bamee, so I don't imagine Art's going to be too keen on his childhood friend marrying his kid.

THAT would've actually been an interesting, somewhat fresh take on the time travel trope. Only Kiew & Bamee remember the other timeline where they fell in love as youthful college boys; Bamee's still a college boy but Kiew is a 40-something, world-travelling architect, a fully-grown man with two extra decades separating him from the youth with whom Bamee fell in love. Watching the two of them making it work in their new reality would've been a far better story arc than...*gestures at show*...what we got.

Ah well. Maybe someone will finally give Cooper the quality script he deserves. He's always a delight to watch.

So Pietro won't be making another appearance? That's a real shame.

Well this took an abruptly stupid turn.

What a mess.

No, I'm not kidding. The two lead characters were going to reunite & be together; that qualifies as a happy ending within that story's universe.

It was as badly scripted as the rest of that trainwreck of a show, & I legitimately didn't care about their love story one way or the other, but it was still a happy ending. Unless Ken got choked out somewhere while travelling to the wedding...

There's seriously three more episodes of this?

A series centered on Pao, Khana, & Pai would've been engaging. These three characters have depth, layers, stakes, motivations, flaws, regrets, hopes, dreams. The choices they make, however big or small, have serious impact on their life trajectories & how they view themselves.

So why, again why, have we wasted all this time on Park & Tin? Good grief. The "Ward in love w/ Guardian/Guardian in love w/ Ward" trope can work as a romance plot but it just doesn't here, & it completely collapses when up against the far more compelling issues/storylines involving Pao, Khana, & Pai.

Run needs more freedom for writing/production of his scripts. Lee Long Shi deserves better BL material. And is the fish ok?

Right? The Din whom Ken loved was a man who believed in fairness, justice, & the rule of law. The Din who returned stole a dead man's identity, plotted extrajudicial punishment, outright murdered a few people, & kept insisting to Ken that his Din was no more. Ken, meanwhile, was a broken soul still desperately in love with a memory.

Watching all that unfold would've been compelling storytelling.

Ken dragged himself into it when he left that cabin & forced Din to go looking for him, resulting in them both getting knocked off that cliff. & Ken kept putting himself at risk in every episode, largely because he had close to zero information about what was actually going on.

I realize that "lying to my beloved to protect them" is a popular trope but it's a lousy one, & watching two lovers battling their enemies together as a united force is always more compelling.

Ken is not a child. He's a grown man with stakes in the story, & it was irritating watching all his friends & his lover infantilize him. Granted, the idiot got himself choked out nearly every episode but maybe if he wasn't working with asymmetrical information, he would've done fewer stupid things.

Bromance. I mean, the two male leads *could* be headed toward a romantic relationship, if you squint a bit.

Thinking about it, you're right. Indeed, Ken seemed like more of a hindrance to Din's plans, having to constantly be rescued & nearly getting them both killed every other minute. The aspects of the actual plot I liked were all about Din & his quest for vengeance; half the time I forgot this was supposed to be a love story & the other half of the time, I simply didn't care.

Maybe the show would've worked better if Lue's identity wasn't a loudly telegraphed "big reveal", happened much earlier in the show, & the rest of the story was dedicated to Din & Ken seeking revenge together while re-falling in love with the men they've become after their violent separation & the ensuing years of painful longing & lonely despair. They are both so different from the men they were in the flashbacks (especially Din, nevermind the identity-swap), it would've been compelling watching them grapple with all of that PLUS their bloodthirsty journey toward justice.

They are reuniting at the sister's wedding on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month, like in the fable of the cowherd & weaver girl. Alluding to it rather than showing it might've worked in a better told story but, alas.