I think now that Jira did it with Koh, I feel like Jira might tell Pheem that he's with Koh. And I also feel like…
I'm not sure, but I'd like to believe it's the very ending that was added, given that in the novel, the ending was abrupt and no clear path for KohJira.
After catching up, there's no need for me to write any long comments! 🤣🤣 All I'll say is that I'm sticking to my older notes on who the killer/s is/are. I'm just waiting for the revelation now.
One year. It takes one year for Jira to be away from Koh - except when Koh's sleeping outside in his car and Jira is spying on him. Its amazing that no one even robbed Koh, but I'm getting off track here. In that one year, we see that Jira never got over Koh. If anything, he pined HARDER as if his life depended on it. #theSIMPlife
I get that returning to Koh after a year feels too wrong, too sudden, too unresolved, too whatever! But Jira's feelings were like ink leaking, spilling, and staining surfaces that couldn't contain his vast red flag love for a man who refuses to bend over backwards in the name of change. 🤨
Jira was always going to come back to Koh; it was only a matter of when. He and Koh has this gravitational pull towards each other. So Jira comes back to where it all started in the first place: with Koh buying up his art. It's a circle and now that circle seems complete in a sort of way that only KohJira can complete.
Jira doesn't come back a healed man. He comes back as himself, but finally choosing where he wants to belong.
As for Koh, there's no immediate apology or romantic gesture from him. He is still unapologetically Koh and I love that with Koh the door is open, but nothing is promised. Also, had they soften Koh, it wouldn't have made sense because come on! Koh melting like butter in one year? Then the story would've lied about him. In Pheem's case, he needed to move on from the chokehold Koh had on him, so his character gets the glow up.
They couldn't do that do Koh and had they did, I would've been utmost disappointed. 😔
In KohJira's case, I'll say the "love" here is about alignment. Jira creates from feeling but Koh is the opposite and only knows how to control. Its not healthy, but KohJira are true to each other in a way neither ever was with anyone else.
Jira makes his way back to Koh, because for him Koh was the place that first saw him for who he truly was, that bought his art, that rearranged his sense of self worth.
The ending makes sense because it refuses to resolve the mess. Koh is unapologetic and with a character like that - so real, so true, so irredeemable - his story don't end with answers; they end with a return to the question that mattered the most and Koh is that question.
Koh claims to love Jira, yes, but he offers recognition. When Jira first came to him hungry and desperate and unsure of his worth, Koh bought the art and in that same transaction without meaning to, he also bought Jira's belief in himself.
The Jira standing before Koh this time however, is much more confident than the Jira who first stood in front of Koh and didn't even know the ins and outs of selling his own art. This Jira knows his value.
This series was never a love story to begin with. Pheem was a self-absorbed player who just wanted to win against Koh. Jira found a user loophole and manged to exploit it. Koh was a manipulator. I think this show was more about the price of art and what it costs when it's placed next to AI, power distorts and what happens when creation is finally met by someone who REALLY sees it.
And that's why the ending makes sense to me. They return to the origin and attempts to correct it. Its unsettling, yet, it's far more honest than a clean ending could ever be because it doesn't pause, it just resumes, a truce, a compromise of sorts.
And with this last thought, I bade goodbye to BOS with a solid 10. I'll definitely rewatch this before year end. And thank you for tolerating my long comments no matter how silly they were. 😄 I'll miss this comment section.
"But the world I built, it needs someone like you in it."
THIS! This is so Koh-coded! This is not a romantic declaration no matter how hard we try to dissect it. The key word is "built". Koh is an AI architect. He builds and takes things apart callously. He builds infrastructure. He builds control. He builds balance. He builds super tech AI machines that can go to war against HR. Okay, straying off course now. 🤣
Koh's world is all about control, efficiency and prediction. AI doesn't ask to be understood because it produces, it obeys. It doesn't bleed. AI doesn't know how to behave as AI needs the "human touch" to be trained, to be taught, to be controlled.
That is already intoxicating enough for an introverted man like Koh, so of course, he needs to exercise this on a real life breathing human, too. However, Jira is the opposite of the algorithms that Koh has grown accostomed to. Jira is an artist in every sense of the word. He creates base on feelings and emotions, something that cannot be prompted into existence.
What Jira brings into Koh's cold system is noise (life). Noise that Koh doesn't know how to control, dismantle and take apart at first because Jira is not a computer.
It's exactly why Koh doesn't say "I need you", but "the world I built needs you". It's not a romantic stance. Its distant yes, but it's honest. Without someone like Jira, his world will become too automatic.
With Jira's human touch providing some kind of comfort to Koh's machinery world, I think the ending quietly reframes the AI debate in the series. It feels more like this was about anti-replacement rather than anti-AI seeing that Koh is still the Daddy of AI.
Koh knows that Jira is meaning and presence, and without Jira, he would eventually perfect himself into emptiness which he was doing just about fine before meeting Jira.
First of all, look at those little nerds go! Brawling in the street as if their lives depended on it. The fight was scrappy, unhinged, unpolished, and I loved it! 🤪
What I've noticed during the fight scene is that Koh said he loved Jira and accused Pheem of knowing so. Pheem never said he loved Jira. He just said that he saw Jira first then accused Koh of stealing Jira from him.
Then in true Pheem fashion, "Did I win?" 🤣🤣
I think the fight scene confirmed that Pheem indeed wanted to have Jira in order to win against Koh. It costs Koh something to say it, but Pheem never mirrors that language. Instead, he argues that he saw Jira first. It was his favorite brand new shiny toy, yet to be played with and broken in, and Koh stole that beautiful toy away from him.
That's not the vocabulary of love. If that is, then I don't want to live on this planet anymore. Pheem owned the toy first, so it's only fair that the toy stays in his possession. But then Koh spies the toy and wanted to play dress up with it. So now the toy wanted to choose and Pheem couldn't believe that his brand new toy had free will, so he accused Koh of stealing it. 😧
You can't steal a person who was freely choosing.
The fight for the beautiful toy was one of my favorite scenes overall in the series. Pheem wanted to prove that he matters more because he saw Jira first, so in that way, he'd never be number two to Koh again. I think Pheem and Koh had more to give and I would've been happy to watch an entire series devoted to Koh and Pheem in which these two coding idiots try to one up the other.
So, yes, for me the fight confirmed and cemented that Pheem's anger was misdirected throughout the series. The very first time he met Jira he gossiped about a friend of his in such a way that we could tell that Pheem was held hostage in his co-dependence on Koh.
Meanwhile, we have the cold King of AI making a spectacle of himself in front of the bar in the name of love. I clutched my introverted pearls then! 😲 Koh doesn't bother to justify entitlement, the man just states an emotional fact and left it to stew: you know I love him! 😆
So, Koh represented love while on the other side of the ring, Pheem luxuriates in his obsession.
Love: Even if it ruins me, I choose you. I choose you again. And I'll keep choosing you.
Obsession: I deserve you! I had you first, therefore, I deserve you!
Debate closed with that fight scene. It took Pheem a while to understand that he didn't lose Jira to Koh, for there was no contest first to begin, as Jira was never a trophy for either to bag.
Thank you OffGun for breathing life into KohJira. Thank you Dew for bringing out the best in Pheem. Thank you Mawin and Emi for being ride or dies for your besties. Thank you Mr. Bartender Thor. Thank you, Nuchy and writers. 👏
This series was better than I hoped for and everyone excelled. It's one of the best series I've watched in the past few months. 10/10!
"But the world I built, it needs someone like you in it."
And so, Koh gets to speak the last words on screen to close this amazing masterpiece!
However, the words land, but it doesn't sound romantic to me. Koh's world is hardware and AI and he needs Jira's human touch to balance it off. It felt like a compromise of sorts.
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It doesn't make sense... but it does.
One year. It takes one year for Jira to be away from Koh - except when Koh's sleeping outside in his car and Jira is spying on him. Its amazing that no one even robbed Koh, but I'm getting off track here. In that one year, we see that Jira never got over Koh. If anything, he pined HARDER as if his life depended on it. #theSIMPlife
I get that returning to Koh after a year feels too wrong, too sudden, too unresolved, too whatever! But Jira's feelings were like ink leaking, spilling, and staining surfaces that couldn't contain his vast red flag love for a man who refuses to bend over backwards in the name of change. 🤨
Jira was always going to come back to Koh; it was only a matter of when. He and Koh has this gravitational pull towards each other. So Jira comes back to where it all started in the first place: with Koh buying up his art. It's a circle and now that circle seems complete in a sort of way that only KohJira can complete.
Jira doesn't come back a healed man. He comes back as himself, but finally choosing where he wants to belong.
As for Koh, there's no immediate apology or romantic gesture from him. He is still unapologetically Koh and I love that with Koh the door is open, but nothing is promised. Also, had they soften Koh, it wouldn't have made sense because come on! Koh melting like butter in one year? Then the story would've lied about him. In Pheem's case, he needed to move on from the chokehold Koh had on him, so his character gets the glow up.
They couldn't do that do Koh and had they did, I would've been utmost disappointed. 😔
In KohJira's case, I'll say the "love" here is about alignment. Jira creates from feeling but Koh is the opposite and only knows how to control. Its not healthy, but KohJira are true to each other in a way neither ever was with anyone else.
Jira makes his way back to Koh, because for him Koh was the place that first saw him for who he truly was, that bought his art, that rearranged his sense of self worth.
The ending makes sense because it refuses to resolve the mess. Koh is unapologetic and with a character like that - so real, so true, so irredeemable - his story don't end with answers; they end with a return to the question that mattered the most and Koh is that question.
Koh claims to love Jira, yes, but he offers recognition. When Jira first came to him hungry and desperate and unsure of his worth, Koh bought the art and in that same transaction without meaning to, he also bought Jira's belief in himself.
The Jira standing before Koh this time however, is much more confident than the Jira who first stood in front of Koh and didn't even know the ins and outs of selling his own art. This Jira knows his value.
This series was never a love story to begin with. Pheem was a self-absorbed player who just wanted to win against Koh. Jira found a user loophole and manged to exploit it. Koh was a manipulator. I think this show was more about the price of art and what it costs when it's placed next to AI, power distorts and what happens when creation is finally met by someone who REALLY sees it.
And that's why the ending makes sense to me. They return to the origin and attempts to correct it. Its unsettling, yet, it's far more honest than a clean ending could ever be because it doesn't pause, it just resumes, a truce, a compromise of sorts.
And with this last thought, I bade goodbye to BOS with a solid 10. I'll definitely rewatch this before year end. And thank you for tolerating my long comments no matter how silly they were. 😄 I'll miss this comment section.
"But the world I built, it needs someone like you in it."
THIS! This is so Koh-coded! This is not a romantic declaration no matter how hard we try to dissect it. The key word is "built". Koh is an AI architect. He builds and takes things apart callously. He builds infrastructure. He builds control. He builds balance. He builds super tech AI machines that can go to war against HR. Okay, straying off course now. 🤣
Koh's world is all about control, efficiency and prediction. AI doesn't ask to be understood because it produces, it obeys. It doesn't bleed. AI doesn't know how to behave as AI needs the "human touch" to be trained, to be taught, to be controlled.
That is already intoxicating enough for an introverted man like Koh, so of course, he needs to exercise this on a real life breathing human, too. However, Jira is the opposite of the algorithms that Koh has grown accostomed to. Jira is an artist in every sense of the word. He creates base on feelings and emotions, something that cannot be prompted into existence.
What Jira brings into Koh's cold system is noise (life). Noise that Koh doesn't know how to control, dismantle and take apart at first because Jira is not a computer.
It's exactly why Koh doesn't say "I need you", but "the world I built needs you". It's not a romantic stance. Its distant yes, but it's honest. Without someone like Jira, his world will become too automatic.
With Jira's human touch providing some kind of comfort to Koh's machinery world, I think the ending quietly reframes the AI debate in the series. It feels more like this was about anti-replacement rather than anti-AI seeing that Koh is still the Daddy of AI.
Koh knows that Jira is meaning and presence, and without Jira, he would eventually perfect himself into emptiness which he was doing just about fine before meeting Jira.
First of all, look at those little nerds go! Brawling in the street as if their lives depended on it. The fight was scrappy, unhinged, unpolished, and I loved it! 🤪
What I've noticed during the fight scene is that Koh said he loved Jira and accused Pheem of knowing so. Pheem never said he loved Jira. He just said that he saw Jira first then accused Koh of stealing Jira from him.
Then in true Pheem fashion, "Did I win?" 🤣🤣
I think the fight scene confirmed that Pheem indeed wanted to have Jira in order to win against Koh. It costs Koh something to say it, but Pheem never mirrors that language. Instead, he argues that he saw Jira first. It was his favorite brand new shiny toy, yet to be played with and broken in, and Koh stole that beautiful toy away from him.
That's not the vocabulary of love. If that is, then I don't want to live on this planet anymore. Pheem owned the toy first, so it's only fair that the toy stays in his possession. But then Koh spies the toy and wanted to play dress up with it. So now the toy wanted to choose and Pheem couldn't believe that his brand new toy had free will, so he accused Koh of stealing it. 😧
You can't steal a person who was freely choosing.
The fight for the beautiful toy was one of my favorite scenes overall in the series. Pheem wanted to prove that he matters more because he saw Jira first, so in that way, he'd never be number two to Koh again. I think Pheem and Koh had more to give and I would've been happy to watch an entire series devoted to Koh and Pheem in which these two coding idiots try to one up the other.
So, yes, for me the fight confirmed and cemented that Pheem's anger was misdirected throughout the series. The very first time he met Jira he gossiped about a friend of his in such a way that we could tell that Pheem was held hostage in his co-dependence on Koh.
Meanwhile, we have the cold King of AI making a spectacle of himself in front of the bar in the name of love. I clutched my introverted pearls then! 😲 Koh doesn't bother to justify entitlement, the man just states an emotional fact and left it to stew: you know I love him! 😆
So, Koh represented love while on the other side of the ring, Pheem luxuriates in his obsession.
Love: Even if it ruins me, I choose you. I choose you again. And I'll keep choosing you.
Obsession: I deserve you! I had you first, therefore, I deserve you!
Debate closed with that fight scene. It took Pheem a while to understand that he didn't lose Jira to Koh, for there was no contest first to begin, as Jira was never a trophy for either to bag.
This series was better than I hoped for and everyone excelled. It's one of the best series I've watched in the past few months. 10/10!
And so, Koh gets to speak the last words on screen to close this amazing masterpiece!
However, the words land, but it doesn't sound romantic to me. Koh's world is hardware and AI and he needs Jira's human touch to balance it off. It felt like a compromise of sorts.
Okay, time to rewatch and overanalyze things.