Keeping fingers crossed for Thai citizens having heard the national election results so BL or real-life PatPrans or AyanAkks may be considering real legal mariages soon!
GMMTV should do a BL period piece, if not just for the fab Thai fashion... The only thing that grated me in this installment too is GMMTV's penchant to give farang's roles to non English-speakers, usually Russians... Don't they have around some good looking Aussies, Kiwis, or Americans for those strictly Englis-speaking roles...? 🙄
[Chorus] You ask how deeply I love you And just how great my love is My affection is real And my love is true The moon represents my heart You ask how deeply I love you And just how great my love is My affection does not waver And my love doesn’t change The moon represents my heart
[Verse 1] So soft was the kiss That has moved my heart Such a deep affection Makes me long for you now
[Chorus] You ask how deeply I love you And just how great my love is Consider this And look above The moon represents my heart
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 2] So soft was the kiss That has moved my heart Such a deep affection Makes me long for you now
[Chorus] You ask how deeply I love you And just how great my love is Consider this And look above The moon represents my heart Consider this And look above The moon represents my heart
Khao and First are both 24 yo IRL, but First made Alan look like an older character to Gaipa. So, Heart & LiMing are hitting 18, Gaipa is approx. 22-23, Alan and Wen close to thirty, Jim 39, and Jam in mid-forties... That's a nice demographic spread that is so intertwined seamlessly
It’s a golden week for a GMMTV that nails the series ending for the second time in a few days, as perhaps never before! This episode had so many little gems from the acting, writing, and directing standpoint, like: - Gaipa, having noticed loving glances between Wen and Jim, declines invitation to the restaurant closing dinner - Jim’s relaxing smile at the end of the meal with the people closest to his heart, presiding over the bunch like a pater familias - Alan’s figurative and literal farewell to Wen at the hospital. Yes, he can walk away, even if with a considerable limp. The healing process is still in progress, but Allan’s getting there. - LiMing and his mum at the shopping mall - LiMing & Jim showing understated love and affection (in the scene with Jim doing bills) It’s interesting Best is the writer for this masterpiece and also for NLMG, that was quite a ho-hum script. He’s also the writer for Only Friends. I keep fingers crossed it goes the MC way! If you like Khao here, I recommend you watch him in 55:15 Never Too Late where he showed what he is really capable of on the screen, with the right material and guidance, that is!
I'm only 24 and I already feel personally attacked by this showhttps://at.tumblr.com/siqen/i-feel-like-theres-a-really-interesting-divide-in/z7wh15jkr8zgI…
👍👍 Also, I sense very much p'Aof would be aghast knowing any of his characters is being hated for this, or that. It doesn't look to me he wants us to judge anybody in MC. All have their own personal baggage, but are on a path to a different, if not better, future. Let's take Jim, for example. One may not approve his current ways, but he has had that specific socio-economic upbringing in that specific place and time & his love life wasn't the happiest. We shouldn’t marvel he's projecting his experience to all around him. I think even leaving Gaipa without a major upheaval in his hitherto cheerful life would be somewhat out of tune with different struggles everybody else is experiencing in MC. However, il looks like there is a light at the end of the tunnel for them. Don't we all deserve a slice of happiness, after all?
Watchable? Yup! Memorable? Prob not... Pond looks like he has improved his acting chops, but this continuous pairing with Phuwin leaves me sonewhat unconvinced... Pond could definitely move to more "mature" roles, whereas Phuwin should get more experience in a lighter fare IMHO. If I were NLMG producer, I'd keep perhaps overall framework, but pushing it much more into Weak Class Hero 1 violence and character portrayal style/territory. You don't need a big-ass budget, but rather smart overall vision and thinking. Perhaps Pond and Perth from the actual casting could pull off a real violent story together. However, I am imagining already the uproar from the GMMTV viewership accustomed to more vanilla storylines.
One of the issues I’ve got from the episode today is the true meaning of family nowadays, and real ties that bound us, one way, or another. It is interesting to see two contrasting mother-son relationships with the same acting duo, between LiMing and a distant mum in MC and Gun & very supportive mum in MSP! It felt almost like a crossover from MSP one more time, with Wen making a comment on older generation's attitude on gays versus the younger one and the dinosaur extinction one in MSP! I am not sure but I saw a glimpse of regret in Jim's eyes once he knew about Gaipa's inheritance and the "lost" opportunity. However, it's a human feeling, which it seems he brushed aside quickly. I don't now how to describe this episode in one word, but I really loved the overall feeling I've got from it.
What LiMing is dreaming about, exists IRL. This is a Working Holiday Visa that many countries offer (Canada, Australia, Taiwan, SK, Italy, Ireland, for example). Sometimes it is enough you are 18 y.o., have a R/T ticket, USD2-3K in the bank, a medical insurance policy, and off you go to a foreign country for a year, or two. You are on your own, though. I bet Thai youth would be excluded, as these opportunities are usually open to citizens from "richer" countries. I am on LiMing's side on it, though! He's on the age of legal adulthood, and seems resourceful and committed. It is good to follow up on our dreams, even if they appear far-fetched (as in LiMing tryying his luck in America), especially if we are young. I'd see him succeed. Jim might have his horizons quashed due to the life hardship, hence his better-safe-than-sorry approach with LiMing, and other stuff. But that was his personal experience...so far, that is...
I was a little surprised that Jorn punched the teacher on Tinn's behalf because I didn't think he'd feel so strongly…
This! I was wondering about Kajorn's reaction that was way out of his character on the surface... On the other hand, his punch literally saved TinnGun from acting contrary to their wholesome personalities
#1. Come on... Haven't we learnt the art of GMMTV preview misdirection yet? It's p'Aof at the helm FFS... # 2. It was Khaotung's turn to serve his acting chops. Those microconvulsions while trying not to dissolve in a puddle of tears, while valiantly retaining as much composture as possible, and offering more food as nothing happens... 👏👏 I feel for him... I've been on a receiving end of a very similar situation, albeit at much more advanced age than Gaipa, and it hurts nevertheless... # 3. I get Jim's character for various reasons... Unfortunately, we live in an era of moral certitudes, or dogmas, where it is either 0 or 100. What about everything in between 1 and 99...? Jim is supposed to be hitting forty... It is not a men's mid-life crisis age threshold as before, but maybe his approach is that he has less and less time to make any mistakes in his life, which wasn't a bed of roses by any stretch to begin with... He doesn't seem to know how to be soft to himself, or to those around him, when needed, because nobody has taught him this yet...
The only thing that grated me in this installment too is GMMTV's penchant to give farang's roles to non English-speakers, usually Russians... Don't they have around some good looking Aussies, Kiwis, or Americans for those strictly Englis-speaking roles...? 🙄
You ask how deeply I love you
And just how great my love is
My affection is real
And my love is true
The moon represents my heart
You ask how deeply I love you
And just how great my love is
My affection does not waver
And my love doesn’t change
The moon represents my heart
[Verse 1]
So soft was the kiss
That has moved my heart
Such a deep affection
Makes me long for you now
[Chorus]
You ask how deeply I love you
And just how great my love is
Consider this
And look above
The moon represents my heart
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 2]
So soft was the kiss
That has moved my heart
Such a deep affection
Makes me long for you now
[Chorus]
You ask how deeply I love you
And just how great my love is
Consider this
And look above
The moon represents my heart
Consider this
And look above
The moon represents my heart
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So, Heart & LiMing are hitting 18, Gaipa is approx. 22-23, Alan and Wen close to thirty, Jim 39, and Jam in mid-forties... That's a nice demographic spread that is so intertwined seamlessly
This episode had so many little gems from the acting, writing, and directing standpoint, like:
- Gaipa, having noticed loving glances between Wen and Jim, declines invitation to the restaurant closing dinner
- Jim’s relaxing smile at the end of the meal with the people closest to his heart, presiding over the bunch like a pater familias
- Alan’s figurative and literal farewell to Wen at the hospital. Yes, he can walk away, even if with a considerable limp. The healing process is still in progress, but Allan’s getting there.
- LiMing and his mum at the shopping mall
- LiMing & Jim showing understated love and affection (in the scene with Jim doing bills)
It’s interesting Best is the writer for this masterpiece and also for NLMG, that was quite a ho-hum script. He’s also the writer for Only Friends. I keep fingers crossed it goes the MC way!
If you like Khao here, I recommend you watch him in 55:15 Never Too Late where he showed what he is really capable of on the screen, with the right material and guidance, that is!
I think even leaving Gaipa without a major upheaval in his hitherto cheerful life would be somewhat out of tune with different struggles everybody else is experiencing in MC. However, il looks like there is a light at the end of the tunnel for them. Don't we all deserve a slice of happiness, after all?
Pond looks like he has improved his acting chops, but this continuous pairing with Phuwin leaves me sonewhat unconvinced... Pond could definitely move to more "mature" roles, whereas Phuwin should get more experience in a lighter fare IMHO.
If I were NLMG producer, I'd keep perhaps overall framework, but pushing it much more into Weak Class Hero 1 violence and character portrayal style/territory. You don't need a big-ass budget, but rather smart overall vision and thinking.
Perhaps Pond and Perth from the actual casting could pull off a real violent story together.
However, I am imagining already the uproar from the GMMTV viewership accustomed to more vanilla storylines.
It is interesting to see two contrasting mother-son relationships with the same acting duo, between LiMing and a distant mum in MC and Gun & very supportive mum in MSP!
It felt almost like a crossover from MSP one more time, with Wen making a comment on older generation's attitude on gays versus the younger one and the dinosaur extinction one in MSP!
I am not sure but I saw a glimpse of regret in Jim's eyes once he knew about Gaipa's inheritance and the "lost" opportunity. However, it's a human feeling, which it seems he brushed aside quickly.
I don't now how to describe this episode in one word, but I really loved the overall feeling I've got from it.
I bet Thai youth would be excluded, as these opportunities are usually open to citizens from "richer" countries.
I am on LiMing's side on it, though!
He's on the age of legal adulthood, and seems resourceful and committed. It is good to follow up on our dreams, even if they appear far-fetched (as in LiMing tryying his luck in America), especially if we are young.
I'd see him succeed.
Jim might have his horizons quashed due to the life hardship, hence his better-safe-than-sorry approach with LiMing, and other stuff. But that was his personal experience...so far, that is...
Btw, Fourth and Gemini are high priests in that temple for sure!
# 2. It was Khaotung's turn to serve his acting chops. Those microconvulsions while trying not to dissolve in a puddle of tears, while valiantly retaining as much composture as possible, and offering more food as nothing happens... 👏👏 I feel for him... I've been on a receiving end of a very similar situation, albeit at much more advanced age than Gaipa, and it hurts nevertheless...
# 3. I get Jim's character for various reasons... Unfortunately, we live in an era of moral certitudes, or dogmas, where it is either 0 or 100. What about everything in between 1 and 99...?
Jim is supposed to be hitting forty... It is not a men's mid-life crisis age threshold as before, but maybe his approach is that he has less and less time to make any mistakes in his life, which wasn't a bed of roses by any stretch to begin with... He doesn't seem to know how to be soft to himself, or to those around him, when needed, because nobody has taught him this yet...