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If GMMTV wants GMMTV can
This is what happens when u actually put some money and thoughts into a project. Gmmtv delivered in a way I've geniunly haven't seen in a LOOOONG time.
The plot is extremely basic: a normal, almost "boring" photographer, Peach, meets a very "peculiar" mafia boss, obsessed over soap operas and with a clear lack of social awareness, and very simply they fall in love even through their substantial differences.
That's basically it. I know some people were disappointed in this, cause to be honest, there is no actual plot beside two people falling in love. No drama. No fight. No risks. However I think that, if done well, even no plot is a good plot. A great one even. And this is the case. Its just to people falling in love and building a life together, solving problems and misunderstandings, having to deal with their background and their own personal struggles to really love each other. I found that beautiful and very much needed. There was no unnecessary break up between them, no secrets. And I found that beautiful.
If there was one thing that I found highly useless was the whole Tatsuya storyline. He was there for... nothing? Usually those type of character serve some sort of growth for the protagonists but in this case it was not even that. I dont know what was the purpose fr. They could have just completely cut him out, and spend those time to better develope some plot
For example, they could have spent more time on TawanAran. Giving them the actual attention they deserved. I found their storyline so underrated, and that could have been WAY more. You know what I love more than a realistic depiction of a toxic relationship? THE TOXIC PART BEING ADDRESSED AND CONDEMNED. I know that gmmtv loves disney endings, and i am not against them going back together. Toxic relationships work exactly like this. But i wished they explained it better. They rushed their reconciliation so much that it left me mad. No person can change that much in so little time. Not even after what happened to Tawan. He never once apologized properly for how he treated Aran, which was the MAIN person he had to apologize to. If they gave the tatsuya storyline time to them it would have worked so good. BTW, I would have very much liked if they did NOT get back together, cause Tawan as a boyfriend was unbearable. OH! And i want to be honest. For everybody that said "yeah but Aran offering his body to Thee for Tawan is so out of charactert". NO ITS NOT. It just shows that him, the same person that was so adamant about his body and his self respect would go to such extreme lenght like selling himself for the person that besides everything he keeps loving, maybe even more than he loves himself.
On the contrary, unlike the absurd amount of people, I never complained nor seen a problem with RomeMohk lack of screentime. Honesty im glad they even got some. As much as people were hoping, nobody really knew if William was actually going to appear as Rome and the fact that he did was enought. I dont know if they will continue foward with a RomeMohk series (which would link perfectly with this one) but regardless i love how they left room for more and just gave me some more WilliamEst, for scientific reasons.
Peach and Thee were geniunly the two best main character I've seen in a while now.
If i see a single Peach hater im gonna lose my shit. Finally a character that is normal, like everyone. Finally a character that act and answer like I would. Everybody be making fun on Thee's speaking and his soap operas way of speaking when some bl character are even worst and more unrealistic. FINALLY SOMEONE PUTTING A "GET A GRIP" TO IT. Like, finally. He behave exactly like he should. I love him, I geniunly think he is the best BL character in history, like just goat material. Thee on the other hand is a complete scene stealer. Every single time he is in a scene you are just drawn to his extravagant mannerism, and you laugh. I really loved how over the top he was in comparison to how grounded was Peach. Complete opposite in that department. And maybe that's why they work so well as a couple, they make the other qualities shines. I just wanna point out the scene on the beach after their first kiss when Peach says "what you did- no what we did" cause honestly it left me flabbergasted how mature he sounded. Yeah
They, and all the character would have benefited from ONE and i mean just ONE more episode. Idk what happened to GMMtv and their absolute inability to choose which show needs 12 episodes and what can have just 10 episodes. With all due respect, they made We Are 16 episodes long (could have very much summarized in 10 ep) and made Me and Thee 10 ep when they clearly needed at least one more. Oh god.
Regardless. THE ACTOR CHOICE WAS TOP NOTCH. I was kinda skeptical, cause honestly PPW in we are were.... em.... not it, but they redeemed themselves so hard in this one. Someone said that Peach doesn't really show love or doesn't really look in love. Oh SHUT UP! the hell u expect for someone who had such a traumatic childhood. And Phuwin portrayed Peach so well. No I geniunly believe that those were the best performances from PondPhuwin. And I strongly believe that Phuwin needs more of those character cause he slays them so much, the quiet and very mature type. And their kisses were SO better than We Are, beside maybe the boat kiss, which i cannot really pin on them given how uncomfortable the setting was (even if it was BEAUTIFUL).
But the one that i really wanna give my flowers to is the production crew. You can tell they put MONEY in this project. One thing that let me geniunly shocked was how good the sound was. If u ever watched a single gmmtv show you will know that they have serious sound problems with their mic, especially in like water or beaches scenes, yet here they did so good. It never bothered me.
The soundtrack was good, but kinda repetitive. I feel like there were only like five songs on repeat, which is not bad, but maybe a bigger variety could have helped the vibe to set in a little better.
Visual wise it was very good. Not top tier level good, not "never let me go" level good, but good enough to be enjoyable and sometimes mesmerizing enough. I liked it, and honestly the colour scheme was very good (im very keen on color grading ecc ecc). The contrast between red and blue scenes throuout the show were geniunly good and i loved it. I loved how they dressed and gave a character through everyone style. They made them look AMAZING in the show, like LITERALLY AMAZING. I loved it.
There were some small but, well, everlasting, mistakes in the editing phase, which we are not major or bad like in other series, but they sometimes made the fluidity and continuity disappear, which is the only bad rhing production wise
Rewatch value to the sky, given that I've already rewatched it like more then once I keep rewatching its becoming embarrassing.
In conclusion: watch it. Or give it a try. Its a beautiful show, well produced, well acted, maybe a little rushed, given the amount of episodes they had but indeed amazing and funny, a good show that makes you unplug your brain for a bit and just enjoy love.
Ps. To whoever did pondphuwin makeup: come here and let me kiss u, I hope both sides of ur pillow are cold exactly like you want them, I hope the sun will always shine when you need it and everyone will have luck and health in ur life. I love you more than words can describe.
The plot is extremely basic: a normal, almost "boring" photographer, Peach, meets a very "peculiar" mafia boss, obsessed over soap operas and with a clear lack of social awareness, and very simply they fall in love even through their substantial differences.
That's basically it. I know some people were disappointed in this, cause to be honest, there is no actual plot beside two people falling in love. No drama. No fight. No risks. However I think that, if done well, even no plot is a good plot. A great one even. And this is the case. Its just to people falling in love and building a life together, solving problems and misunderstandings, having to deal with their background and their own personal struggles to really love each other. I found that beautiful and very much needed. There was no unnecessary break up between them, no secrets. And I found that beautiful.
If there was one thing that I found highly useless was the whole Tatsuya storyline. He was there for... nothing? Usually those type of character serve some sort of growth for the protagonists but in this case it was not even that. I dont know what was the purpose fr. They could have just completely cut him out, and spend those time to better develope some plot
For example, they could have spent more time on TawanAran. Giving them the actual attention they deserved. I found their storyline so underrated, and that could have been WAY more. You know what I love more than a realistic depiction of a toxic relationship? THE TOXIC PART BEING ADDRESSED AND CONDEMNED. I know that gmmtv loves disney endings, and i am not against them going back together. Toxic relationships work exactly like this. But i wished they explained it better. They rushed their reconciliation so much that it left me mad. No person can change that much in so little time. Not even after what happened to Tawan. He never once apologized properly for how he treated Aran, which was the MAIN person he had to apologize to. If they gave the tatsuya storyline time to them it would have worked so good. BTW, I would have very much liked if they did NOT get back together, cause Tawan as a boyfriend was unbearable. OH! And i want to be honest. For everybody that said "yeah but Aran offering his body to Thee for Tawan is so out of charactert". NO ITS NOT. It just shows that him, the same person that was so adamant about his body and his self respect would go to such extreme lenght like selling himself for the person that besides everything he keeps loving, maybe even more than he loves himself.
On the contrary, unlike the absurd amount of people, I never complained nor seen a problem with RomeMohk lack of screentime. Honesty im glad they even got some. As much as people were hoping, nobody really knew if William was actually going to appear as Rome and the fact that he did was enought. I dont know if they will continue foward with a RomeMohk series (which would link perfectly with this one) but regardless i love how they left room for more and just gave me some more WilliamEst, for scientific reasons.
Peach and Thee were geniunly the two best main character I've seen in a while now.
If i see a single Peach hater im gonna lose my shit. Finally a character that is normal, like everyone. Finally a character that act and answer like I would. Everybody be making fun on Thee's speaking and his soap operas way of speaking when some bl character are even worst and more unrealistic. FINALLY SOMEONE PUTTING A "GET A GRIP" TO IT. Like, finally. He behave exactly like he should. I love him, I geniunly think he is the best BL character in history, like just goat material. Thee on the other hand is a complete scene stealer. Every single time he is in a scene you are just drawn to his extravagant mannerism, and you laugh. I really loved how over the top he was in comparison to how grounded was Peach. Complete opposite in that department. And maybe that's why they work so well as a couple, they make the other qualities shines. I just wanna point out the scene on the beach after their first kiss when Peach says "what you did- no what we did" cause honestly it left me flabbergasted how mature he sounded. Yeah
They, and all the character would have benefited from ONE and i mean just ONE more episode. Idk what happened to GMMtv and their absolute inability to choose which show needs 12 episodes and what can have just 10 episodes. With all due respect, they made We Are 16 episodes long (could have very much summarized in 10 ep) and made Me and Thee 10 ep when they clearly needed at least one more. Oh god.
Regardless. THE ACTOR CHOICE WAS TOP NOTCH. I was kinda skeptical, cause honestly PPW in we are were.... em.... not it, but they redeemed themselves so hard in this one. Someone said that Peach doesn't really show love or doesn't really look in love. Oh SHUT UP! the hell u expect for someone who had such a traumatic childhood. And Phuwin portrayed Peach so well. No I geniunly believe that those were the best performances from PondPhuwin. And I strongly believe that Phuwin needs more of those character cause he slays them so much, the quiet and very mature type. And their kisses were SO better than We Are, beside maybe the boat kiss, which i cannot really pin on them given how uncomfortable the setting was (even if it was BEAUTIFUL).
But the one that i really wanna give my flowers to is the production crew. You can tell they put MONEY in this project. One thing that let me geniunly shocked was how good the sound was. If u ever watched a single gmmtv show you will know that they have serious sound problems with their mic, especially in like water or beaches scenes, yet here they did so good. It never bothered me.
The soundtrack was good, but kinda repetitive. I feel like there were only like five songs on repeat, which is not bad, but maybe a bigger variety could have helped the vibe to set in a little better.
Visual wise it was very good. Not top tier level good, not "never let me go" level good, but good enough to be enjoyable and sometimes mesmerizing enough. I liked it, and honestly the colour scheme was very good (im very keen on color grading ecc ecc). The contrast between red and blue scenes throuout the show were geniunly good and i loved it. I loved how they dressed and gave a character through everyone style. They made them look AMAZING in the show, like LITERALLY AMAZING. I loved it.
There were some small but, well, everlasting, mistakes in the editing phase, which we are not major or bad like in other series, but they sometimes made the fluidity and continuity disappear, which is the only bad rhing production wise
Rewatch value to the sky, given that I've already rewatched it like more then once I keep rewatching its becoming embarrassing.
In conclusion: watch it. Or give it a try. Its a beautiful show, well produced, well acted, maybe a little rushed, given the amount of episodes they had but indeed amazing and funny, a good show that makes you unplug your brain for a bit and just enjoy love.
Ps. To whoever did pondphuwin makeup: come here and let me kiss u, I hope both sides of ur pillow are cold exactly like you want them, I hope the sun will always shine when you need it and everyone will have luck and health in ur life. I love you more than words can describe.
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