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You're going to be left without any tears

This is definitely an episode that can make you cry to the point where you won't have any tears left.

This episode (or should I say a movie) was definitely too short or maybe they tried to include too many characters. Everything happened too fast in this neary 2 hours runtime making it for me, really chaotic.

Main plot felt really forced, especially seeing last couple of minutes of the episode. It felt like they first created the ending and then tried making plot around it.
As Jack and Joke get engaged and start planning their wedding to live happily together, someone steals debtor's data from Save's office. Everyone tries to pinpoint where hard drive with the data could be and end up finding weird invitations to some party that ends up being trap to catch them all.

First of all, making villain of someone who pretty much did nothing in the first season felt really forced. Carbon didn't seem to have any special motive to devote himself to catching all of them other than the fact that he's an asshole for no reason.
This whole plot was just to kill villain without a motive that we saw for 2 minutes on the screen.

Second of all, between Carbon stealing hard drive and all of our characters finding out about the party, creating a plan, changing up and beating up everyone, a lot of time has passed. Yet when they arrive at Carbon's place, hard drive is still uploading data. Maybe it's just nitpicking but it feels really unreal, though Xiaomi Mi Bands in the necks in S1 also didn't feel really real.

Interactions between Yin and War felt really good as always. They just have amazing vibe between each other in every show they perform together. The only thing that was lacking is the screen time. I felt like we didn't see their best performance because we just had too many characters. The last scene of their fight when they lie together holding hands was something that made me cry instantly and I think from this point, this episode gets better.

After Joke goes missing, we see how Jack starts coping with the feeling of losing his partner just a day before their planned wedding. It's not only that he can't accept that Joke won't come back, he also believes in the promise they made. That Joke will always find him. I think seeing his fight with losing his loved one is the best part of this episode, even though it's also really, really sad.
What surprised me the most was reading people's opinions about wedding and the fact they laughed at the doll. For me, this was the saddest part of all of this episode. It should have been the happiest day of their life but what we see is sad people in the audience looking at person griefing in front of them and trying to accept the reality by spending the last moments thinking of his loved one that he won't ever see again. This wedding was like last goodbye. We also need to remember that what we saw on the screen was only imagination, it doesn't mean that in real life Jack was slurping face of a doll in front of everyone, though even if he did, it's completely understandable.

After this tragic moments, Jack goes for the journey and accepts that Joke isn't anymore in this world this time saying his final goodbye.

Last seconds of the episode kind of ruined it for me. Only then I 100% felt like this whole episode was made just to fill space between first season that had completed plot and second season that probably if it even airs, will be about new plot with our tragic couple.

To sum it up, it was a nice watch. It wouldn't be as good if we didn't have Yin and War on the screen. Not only because of vibe between them but also because of their acting. They just absorb you in the story even if it's not the best. Jokes in this episode were pretty okay though it was pretty crazy ride between Jack and Joke slurping each other and Hoy getting killed upstairs.

Should you watch it? If you aren't scared of cliffhangers and sad moments then yes. We have A LOT happy endings so this is a nice change.

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Like many of us, I've watched En of Love first and Love Mechanics 2022 second. Recently I've rewatched both versions and thought I'll write a review.

First of all, 4 episodes are way too short, but it could've been done way way better. There are a lot of time skips making this short time really chaotic and hard to understand. Main characters feelings don't feel genuine because we don't see much interactions between them. It's hard to tell how much time passed between one scene and another. Vee is obsessed with Mark without any reason and is annoying him, Mark is mad, but then one second later he's not mad. It's hard for me, viewer, to understand why they could be magically in love. Giving most of the plot in posts or videos on social media is also pretty easy way to deliever something. Too easy. It just looks like our characters are always scrolling and refreshing homepage of some social media app and that's how their whole day goes by. It just doesn't feel real.
Even this one stupid detail like the fact that Vee is spending time in Ploy's room that is beside Mark's isn't explained that well in the first scenes in my opinion (or maybe it's translating issue?).

After watching 2022 version, I actually did like the story. It wasn't the best, but with cast and enough time, it was nice watch. And this makes me hate this version even more. Honestly, I feel like these two versions are adapting two different stories and definitely would say, skip this one, it's bad.

There are two thing that make these 4 (or maybe 3,5) episodes good for me, music and War's acting. I feel like War Wanarat can make any show look good. It was I think his second main role in drama, but it already was pretty solid. He can make really small changes in his expression and still show viewer what the character is feeling. I would say it was one of his weakest performances, but still, my eyes couldn't look at anything else than his facial expressions.

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