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I think because P'Koo is actually experts in Romance and Family Drama (at least among Thai audience). If you see the reviews of his series, his family dramas and romances tend to have better reviews than his soap operas and comedies. Astrophile is more his style than Devil Sister.
What I really afraid is that 18 episodes might be to long and series might be dragging. Also, the reasoning parts, if too weak, will destroy the series.

The series has finished its shooting yesterday (May 25) and according to assistant director of the series it will be premiered on June 20 and aired on Mon-Tue schedule.

The shooting starts today.

As a Thai audience, please don't assume all Thai watchers like this kind of story. Thai TV audiences has been divided into many demographs, each group has different preferences on drama and series. The Baby Boomer likes the remakes, Gen X prefers soap operas and actions, Gen Y prefers romances and Gen Z prefers various genre of series with high standard.

As of now, this Lakorn actually receives poor rating compared to other GMMTV's non-bl shows. Its popularity on twitter mostly based on actors' fandom, who want to support their favorite artists the best they can.

I don't know why GMMTV decided to loose their money on Lakorns that their target audiences (mostly Gen Z and interfans) don't even interested in, instead of develop more perceptive series for its popular actors.

The Official MV has been released (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzPr40Crx8Q)
The production was finished in March/April. The official air date hasn't been confirmed yet.

I don't sure about international audience but in Thailand, it doesn't.
Due to Bright's presenter contract with True, the series will br streaming on its streaming service, True ID.

Yes, it was confirmed by Snap25, the production company behind the series.

I think the problem with Enchante is from the series, not the chemistry between Force and Book.
Enchante has got mix-to-negative reviews from interfans but not Thai watchers, because the current trends of Thai watchers (especially Gen Z) are focus more on SJW and political aspect from the series rather than storytelling. So, BL series that have sociopolitical messeges in the series tend to receive better reviews from Thai audience.

From what I heard, the novel's english version is still in the work. For the side-story book, it's a long shot to go.

Actually, I talked to Prapt. he's OK with changing the ending but the executives of both Channel and Netflix aren't OK with changing the ending and the deal has already been finalised at that time (The production team didn't have much involvement with this complex deal), so the production have to move forward with what they have.

It's because the book itself also didn't focus much on Nat- Tatarn relationship, most of Nat-Tatarn's relationship is told in the side-story book. Tatarn's spirit speculated from only one incident that Tofu make himself bleed in the left arm and Coma's Tarn started to move his left arm that Tofu and him is using the same life energy, nevertheless, Tarn still don't understand why Tofu have to accept that poison from Jun and when he wakes up from the coma he can't remember anything about Tofu anymore.

The series takes a different direction because they want to target older demographics in Thailand. If they make the series similar tone to the novel (which is a romantic-fantasy), the ratings will be much lower, as elder people tend to see BL series as a B-grade entertainment. There speculation became true, now it becomes a highest-rating BL series.

- Both novels never show the story from Tofu's perspective, they are Tatarn's spirit's speculation (in The Miracle of Teddy Bear, which Tarn can only see and knows Tofu's actions but cannot connect to his thoughts and sub-conscious) and Nat's point of view (in A Teddy Bear's Tale), but when readers collaborate both books, they will get the answer.
- Tofu and Neung are not only same in physical appearance and the death of them share one following event.

This is the summary sentence from A Teddy Bear's Tale (aka. A Tale of The Doll).
" In the dimension that time is circulated, reality, dream, past, present and future are harmonize. The unexpected reuniting is happen. Things happen in the present, has a long past that neither can be seen by normal sight nor sense. However, elation can be a special sense, which someone said this is a Miracle".

The answers of all of interfans questions like why Tofu (in human form) has to die, how's the miracle work, why Tofu has a similar appearance to Neung, etc. are all interconnected and are all in the side-story book, A Teddy Bear's Tale.
- The book is in fact crucial because if TMOTB is the lock, this book is the key. When the channel didn't receive the right to adapt the book, screenwriters have to interpret and write their own version of what missing from the story based on TMOTB only. As the reader, most of these newly-written explainations are contradicted with the explaination Prapt gives in A Teddy Bear's Tale.
- This also apply to why the series didn't felt finished, as the final plot arcs of both TRD and Tofu-Nat-Tatarn are all on other books.

No, she doesn't mean LGBTQ+ isn't natural, because all 4 main character is LGBTQ+. In the meaning of her, Tofu is the representation of miracle, miracle isn't a natural thing that appears everyday and forever to everyone. So, If the miracle appears, it has to be gone by time, so we have to live in the world that Miracle doesn't exist, that's why Tofu needs to go.

However, in the side story book, A Tale of The Doll (aka A Teddy Bear's Tale), the origin of Tofu's miracle is notting related to Tatarn, nor Nat, but it is related to the store and the teddy bear. When tchannel 3 doesn't receive the right to adapt that book, they can't use the same explaination of how the miracle's work as the writter intended.

He actually said it and I fustrated about this too because this not in the novel (or at least what I interpreted from the novel). I will left my comparison between the production interpretation on Tofu-Nat-Tatarn's relationship and my interpretation in the final paragraph, so you can choose whether you want to read or not.

As I mentioned in previous comments, the major problem for international watchers is that most of Thai watchers read the novel before, so they've already known the answer to all question the series not explain. Another problem is that Channel 3 didn't receive the right to adapt other important novels, which is important to answer the question the watchers will have and closing story some arcs. Without these 2, screenwriters have to write their own version of those things and I have to say it's not so good.

I mentioned in some comments that I disagree with how the directors viewed on Tofu-Nat-Tatarn's relationship.
- As Paa Jaew, the main director of the series said, she viewed Tatarn is love of Nat's life because Tarn is Nat first love and he stayed with Nut for 3 years, the relationship ended is Nat's fault (in Nat's mind) because Nat didn't go against his father. His relationship with Tofu in director's view is a Boss-subordinate relationship, as Tofu isn't a human, his love to Nat is unrealistic as it has no condition and his time with Nat is shorter than Tarn. Nat sees Tofu as a great memory and a person who makes his life better. His love to Tofu is not much as to Tarn and the existence of Tofu is unnatural and injustice to Tarn's life.
- My interpretation from the novel is that both Tarn and Tofu are loves of Nat's life, the timing is not the criteria to judge it. His loves on both men occured in different time and when it ended, it becomes bonds and memories. when he met coma's Tarn, he said clearly that "I once loved him, but now I love you (Tofu)". and after Tofu died, Tarn mentioned in the before-finale that their relationship isn't the same as their high school's because Tofu will always in Nat's heart. In Nat's final letter to Tofu, he clearly indicates that the loves he has with Tofu and Tarn cannot be compared, he miss Tofu but now accepts the death and decides to move on as Tofu said in his dream. At the end he said Tofu will always be in his beautiful memories. All of these coinside with the main sentence of the novel, "What we love cannot be replaced".

Even though the opinions you got quite different from what I got from my friends, which is great because I want to know the diverse opinions from everyone. The angle I got might not cover the whole.

I agree that the series is not happy ending, it's sad. I also love that you point out about suicide in earlier comment, I think the same as you too when I watched the series but I'm not sure it's because of the book or how the series wrote.

I actually didn't like how the series write about the ending (even I know the production face a lot of limitation and I protect the crew a lot).

This is really true. Thai watchers that haven't read the novel are mostly have the same raction as the comment section, but the fustration cools down a lot after the twitter space held by the production team to explain the ending and the limitations they're facing, plus when they know the endings comes from the novel, they know the production team can't do about it much.

There is a case study of changing the ending from the novel. The Fallen Leaf (2019) changed from original sad to happy ending, it pleased the viewers but not the publisher that the production teams have to write a public apologetic letter to avoid criticism and legal battle. Several series such as Blacklist decided to have a illogical climax and ending instead of writing a different ones from the book also to avoid the legal complexity of contract that might gonna cause a lot of money.

Most Thai watchers have already read the novel, we know how it's gonna end so mostly we focus on actors and other social issues instead.Thai watchers (including me) kinda stick with novel and we respect to the writer's decision, this is the reasons so many shows' review between Thai and International watchers are drastically different.The team have really done a great job on social issues though.

I don't agree with the team on

1. how they viewed Tofu as a Human-formed Teddy bear, not Teddy-bear-turned Human. (this is also indirectly mention by Prapt in the twitter space)
From Paa Jaew said, the team view Tofu as a miracle of Nat's life as he fulfilled what Nat's need. (Good memory, unconditioned love, make his mother and himself better and solve the bad things around him). The team sees that Tofu become human means he use Tatarn's life, his existence violates Tatarn's right of living jis life.
For me, Tofu is a real person, even though he born from a miracle, he still become human. His naiveness and lack of selfishness is because he is just "born" and got subconscious. Even though he and Tatarn is using the same "life energy", for Nat, they are 2 different persons and this is highlight on the novel too in the sentence "What we love cannot be replaced". So, I don't think either of them steal the other's life.
However, I agree with the writer that if Tofu choose to stay, we won't love Tofu as much as this.

2. how they viewed on Nat's character development.
I disagree about Nat's mindset of love hasn't change at all. He changes a lot. Formerly, he sees his love life cannot end with hapiness. When Tofu become a part of the house, he sees it a different way. He open up about his insecurities to his mother and not shy to display more love to other people around him.

3. how they viewed on Tatarn-Nat-Tofu relationship.
Paa Jaew stated that Tatarn is the love of Nat's life because he is the first love that in the bottom of Nat's heart and cannot gone away by time.
In my opinion, both Tatarn and Tofu are loves of Nat's life, they come in a different time. Tatarn is the first love of Nat throughout secondary school years. He helps Nat to trust himself and be confident for what he is. While Tofu comes in the time Nat's life is so troubled, he helps nut to overcome his insecuroties and start showing his care for others. Although Nat has a longer relationship to Tarn, Nat never love those two in the same time. He said in the novel "I once loved P'Tarn, but now I love you (Tofu), why don't you trust on my love.", which indicates clearly Tarn is become just only a bond and a memory. He sad to see Tarn become coma, but it clearly that he doesn't love him at that point.

(Actually, there is a big difference about what led to Tofu's death. Actually Nat's clearly shows that he love Tofu at the time, but Tofu himself start to compare his love with Tarn's. After he knows the origin of himself that he's born from the injustice of Tarn case and know that it would let dangers to Nat's family sooner or later. He thinks the only way to bring justice back is for Tarn to wake up. In the final letter of Tofu, he still compare himself to Tarn. Which in the final chapter of the book, which is the reply letter from Nat, he clearly stated he love Tofu so much and will still always be in his good memory, he now moved on like Tofu said on his dream to make Tofu happy and not worried about him anymore.)

In Thailand system of adapting novel, it depends on what publisher and what writer you're dealing with, also which streaming service you sold your series too. Not Me is directly deal with the writer, so it's easy to talk and change, and the most important is that it's later discovered to be a fan-fiction, not the original novel as GMMTV bought. So they have to change the story of it to avoid further issues as P'Nuchy once said in her instagram post. This also apply to several BLs that the production discover later to be a fan fiction or a violated-copyright one. Also, the deal with AIS Play and GMMTV is not exclusive to series, which means they deal only the number of series GMMTV are going to send to the service, not what series. If which GMMTV series is exclusive to a streaming service, it announces in the separate event from the line up (or formerly announce as streaming exclusive in the line up), like Our Skyy, My Gear and Your Gown and I'm Tee, Me Too.

The Miracle of Teddy Bear deals through many partners and the deal with Netflix has done in an exclusive way, which means Netflix purposely pick this series up to the service (along with other 5, including Dare To Love) and as I know, this one was pick up because Netflix interesting on the novel plot, so the change from the novel might means the deal is over and the team might lost their money to support production.

I hope you see the difference now. I actually admired Not Me, it's one of the best series I ever seen, but comparing the production's condition of 2 series is more complicated than it seems, as I'm not a executive of both shows, I tried my best not to compare what good or bad.