FreshKicks

For some reason your reassurance reassures me the most. <3

It would indeed be rather strange for a transcendent drama like this to have the central couple break up at the very end. It would be all we remember it for.

I can't wait to experience a rewatch where I'll always know what's going to happen next and I can just enjoy the ride.

Same. And it will ruin the entire series.

I've watched a couple of dramas this year where they're uplifting and fun until the last episode and then it's like a bomb drops. If this series also ends up doing that to me it will be traumatizing.

I'd have to be reminded of any scene where JJ wasn't nice to her. She becomes awkward around her but she's never less than pleasant.

"She just needs people to see her as herself and not as her mother's daughter."

That says it all.

Could it be any other? lol

I suspect he had something to do with the plagiarism accusation. If he did, put a fork in him -- he's done.

The hand-holding at the end was a breakthrough moment for Sarawat and Tine. They looked comfortable doing it.

It's not weird!

Bright just looks so uncomfortable doing a lead role in BL. If he was a better actor he could fake it, but as it is he's lost at sea trying to play Sarawat. Early in the first season when Sarawat was still in his aloof and mysterious phase Bright was really good. But from there he couldn't bring the character to life.

Mil and Phukong are played by actors who have lots of experience in BL, and I get the sense that they look for the fun in playing such roles.

Maybe Bright is just too worried that people will start to think he's not straight.

For the train wreck of the century check out 'My Day'. It makes LBC 2 look like a masterpiece lol.

I don't criticize it to stop people from watching it. The Bright Cult is impervious anyway. He could sit on screen cutting farts and it would get a million views.

I criticized '2gether' so that future series won't follow the same path of marketing a bromance as BL. And I'm pleased that they rushed this series into production to immediately deal with what people like me were saying. 'Still 2gether' isn't perfect, but it's better, and I respected everyone involved for being willing to do it.

It shows that while you yourself think big viewership is enough to indicate quality, the people who produced '2gether' knew that they couldn't let the lasting memory of the series be a high five and two boyfriends who slept 5 feet apart in the same bed with their backs turned.

I've used both approaches, but more and more I think it should be acceptable to talk about long-ended series without a spoiler tag.

Oh and you're right about Techno/Kengkla.

I remember how Perth over-acted in 'Until We Meet Again' and at the time I thought maybe all the attention from LBC had gone to his head. Ae going emo in ACTL isn't a big draw for me either.

With Can it seems like the director said, 'Everybody loved how scatterbrained Can was in LBC, so let's have more of that in ACTL.'

I don't get a romance vibe between them at all.

What am I missing?

It does look like the pieces are being put in place for a happy ending for everyone ... well, except for one particular someone who should be institutionalized.

As always, the writing just blows my mind. People who I never expected to like are people I care about now.

I'm convinced that the initial script for this series was BL and that it was toned down in rewrite. For so many scenes you can almost tell where they stopped in order to avoid taking Puen and Than's relationship too far.

Because of this I've watched 'Spike!' believing that it is the story of a romance, along with being a top-notch example of the 'enemies to lovers' trope.

In a way, LBC2 isn't giving us what we wanted so badly after LBC1, which was Tin and Can overcoming their differences and becoming a couple. It seemed like a perfectly good setup for "enemies to lovers" storyline. It kinda bothers me that over in that universe Tin will stay miserable, and that's sad.

That's a good point about using different actors though. It would help us accept the way they've been reimagined.

It's already making the kind of moves a sequel should make -- ones that 'Still 2gether' still needs to do.

Agreed. It's going to have some unfamiliar elements but who'd want predictability, and seeing the characters again and hearing that playful music score is making me feel nostalgic.

If this series does somehow go off the rails, we'll be counting on you for some fanfic featuring that insanity declaration ... I love it! :)

Question for those who have watched Ep 36. The artist who implied that JJ stole his design -- is that her ex-boyfriend?