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They would never do this with a straight novel:(

I’m no expert but I don’t think keeping a production company alive nominally costs that much (if anything). So could be simply for cosmetic reasons.

If Mike has plans to produce a new project in the future it would probably have to be less ambitious
and smaller in
scale. Also any pilot trailer would not really be taken seriously anymore unless they already had funding secured and filming locked in. I don’t think there is anything planned tbh but I’m open to being surprised lol

Real fantasy or fake fantasy?

They did indeed have a good budget but it’s super rare.

They will probably work together again because they are from the same company. I kinda hope we would get more project-based temporary pairings though because it signals the project is more prestige as opposed to just a vehicle for the actor ship brand (series as the main product versus actor ship as the main product)

Fantasy is my favourite but I’m always worried because it requires big investment that Thailand is still kinda reluctant to give to Bls, despite their popularity.

Please don’t be a disappointment like Revamp🙏🙏🙏

Ngl, I got tonal whiplash from the trailer. There is a lot of switching between serious drama and typical Thai romcom. I wish they knew that they can do mm romance within a serious genre framework without having to resort to clichés. Still, I’m happy we are getting more diverse concepts now.

The good thing is that the worst ones are eventually gonna stop being made because viewers have limited time and will have to become more selective. In like 2019 there was still so little quantity that many people watched basically everything. You have to stand out more and more with your show if you don’t want people to stand it up in favor of something else.

Probably because the project is not happening anymore, or at least not with the original cast. I mean it’s been pretty obvious for a while as Mike has not mentioned the project for like a year now.

I’m really curious what Jeff will do on the second anniversary of the pilot which is coming soon. Last year he posted a script snippet, so what he does (or doesn’t do) this year is very telling. If the project cannot be salvaged in its original form, it would be a good occasion to call it quits and give fans closure. Or announce a pivot to novel or something as you suggested. Because if Jeff just keeps talking about Happy Ending with no progress for much longer it will become a credibility problem for SOS no matter how beloved Jeff is.

I’m not even going to bother unpacking this

MDA entertainment has unfollowed the whole Vamp cast besides Mike himself on insta

When a project gets abandoned it rarely happens because the creator wants to abandon it. The usual cause is inability to secure funding fully or overestimating one’s own capacity to execute the project (common pitfall for first-time producers) This can result in heavy financial losses, not to mention wasted time and effort, but sometimes it just can’t be helped. If the barriers preventing Happy Ending from entering production are significant, it will not happen no matter how hard Jeff or anyone else would like it to :(

Why do so many people in BL fandom nowadays use the word twink like it´s a slur/insult....Almost like a replacement for faggot. I see it all the time on MDL and elsewhere too. Do you guys know the actual definition of twink? Because the word gets thrown around about characters that in no way are twinks.I´ve seen people call Jay´s actor a twink too and not in a kind way lol. If you don´t like the portrayal of a charcter or think they are weak do not use "twink" to convey that. Also many people tend to forget that there are different ways to be strong. Strength is not only about physique and fighting ability but can be about intellect, mental fortitude or emotional intelligence.

Even in those relatively rare cases when projects are actually filmed in secret under NDAs they do not just drop on a random Tuesday without any promotion. Big projects start promotions months ahead of release. Jeff is most likely protecting his image and trying to maintain fan goodwill. Projects in Thailand are rarely cancelled publicly unless rights run out because cancellation can hurt reputation. This is why we have so many Thai projects that were never officially cancelled but that never happened either.

Q2 means April-May-June so it is definetly impossible lol. I´m not surprised fans are being confused though as Jeff has not exactly been transparent in his messaging around this project. He reported Q2 in multiple international sources, even in Variety level coverage. For quite a while now fans have been forced to choose whether they believe what Jeff says or what he does because those do not align. I only believe actual concrete movement at this point.

There is a lot of interesting experimentation going on with BL this year: this one, Payback, Love Destiny. Regardless of whether I end up liking them, BL is definetly gradually trying to scale up more.

If there had been a season 2 I don’t think they would have stuck to the book too much. They already changed a lot for s1 and gave the charcters a lot of depth which is an essential factor that made the series so popular.

I wonder if any BL will ever be able to dethrone Kinnporsche in the future in terms of scale and iconicness of characters🤔 All three character pairings function as distinctive psychological case studies, which makes the series just too compelling compared to other existing ones. After all, most BLs rely on archetype-based writing instead of character-driven psychology writing.