Sapphicace

Enemies to lovers coffeeshop au with some dead dove as a treat😌

Rainbows are optional on Tuesdays, but mandatory on pancakes🦨

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This kind of dark fantasy concept is the most exciting for me but I hope they have a proper budget so that the special effects won’t look cheap. Bad CGI can kill a fantasy series very easily.

Two horses is more than one,but not if the dawn breaks early

Now that we have a date for this what do you guys think was the reason for the delay? I wanna hear your theories😁

I used to be hopeful about this, but similarly to some others,recently I’m seriously starting to think this is not coming anymore. Not only does the cast (including Jeff)have multiple long-term commitments elsewhere, they went from ”the script is 80% ready” in June to ”I don’t have a deadline for it” sometime around September last year. This and the endless pre-script meetings just allows sos to indefinetly postpone the series while appearing active.

Call me pessimistic but I think Jeff might have bitten more than he can chew with HE, as it is a VERY ambitious and expensive first-time project for a small studio with an inexperienced screenwriter who cannot commit full-time.Davika and her husband struggled to secure investors for Clairebell, which shows how hard securing financing for unique/risky concepts can be even for well-established figures in the industry.If there is no concrete update with new information (script lock, table reads, workshops, filming date,platform/sponsor announcement etc.) by the second anniversary of the pilot in June the project is with all likelihood inactive in all but name.It sucks but Thai series rarely get officially cancelled, either because a formal cancellation would hurt the reputation of the studio or because the creators are just very attached to the concept. The result? Indefinite limbo.

I wonder now that Be On Cloud is expanding so much into het series/movies if the result will be that the biggest budgets and best scripts will start to be allocated to those……

👏👏still need to see it with my own eyes though😂

Queer misery is still better than queer erasure I guess😅

If it is actually romance then count me very (pleasantly) surprised. They don’t have to go full heated rivalry or anything, just acknowledgement that the characters are more than friends is enough for me.

I think I’m gonna wait and see whether this is actually gay or just a bromance before making a watching decision. It does say ”愛の物語”,which means love story, but the word/character 愛 is more ambiguous than for example 恋, which has more explicit romantic connotations. So the fact that they used a word for love that can be used for not only romantic love but also platonic and familial love makes me not very hopeful. If it has been made into a bromance this would serve as a very classic example of queerbaiting, as the series was originally announced and marketed as queer, not to mention that the setup is very classic romance.

Co-produced BLs with South Korea have historically not worked out well (Wuju Bakery, Soul Mate). I wonder if this one will break the pattern and actually air😅

I’m not speaking for any specific generation, just stating my own preference .I don’t mind if the actors are super famous as long as I myself have not seen them in more than let’s say 3 productions (maybe it’s because I’m more from the anime/manga and book side of fandom where a new character always equals a new face haha) I think I’m a minority though, as most people seem to get attached to the celebrities more than any characters they play

Btw just curious, which seasoned actors would you have casted for Heated rivalry if you had had the choice?

If the company can afford to make another drama I hope they keep up with the interesting and unique concepts. I don’t want more office or entertainment industry romance because those are already everywhere😬

These international collaborations with South Korea rarely seem to go well, at least not when there is queer series involved. Wuju Bakery too was filmed and never released😅

If yes it would probably release in 2035 lol

Gmmtv will never change their formula of quantity over quality as long as it keeps being so profitable. Why invest money in good quality when people will watch anything as long as it has their faves in it.

Why does this still have a page?

I’ve been thinking exactly the same. Original series can’t go far with screenwriters that are ”quite good”,they need to be exceptionally talented. All of the most beloved BLs have been based on existing source material.If they can’t find any good source material from Thailand they should look into the possibility of buying rights to danmei novels like Yesterday the series did recently (no idea if it will be good but it shows that rights can be bought) or any promising queer themed source material from whatever country. Alternatively, they could do queer reimaginings of source materials that are not queer per se (like some modern Western authors have done with Greek myths etc.) Like Sammon is good, but I think we have already seen her limits.

Also, source materials would significantly reduce the time between announcement and release, making everyone happier in the process.

It is really frustrating to be a fan of the POTENTIAL of BL and GL but dissatisfied with the actual current state of them haha