Willian9891

This was a great episode, and it was a lot different from what I guessed was going to happen in Episode 6.

In the last episode we got to see Hom being a great sister to Seeiw . . . this time, we got to see Pao being a great big brother to him.

And (you know who you are), you were absolutely right about the year we are in right now.
When Seeiw was sitting at his desk, there was a September 2007 calendar next to him.

I wonder if they made a guess in production that we'd be keeping our eyes peeled for something like this. 😝

Now that we are heading for Episode 7 and what's about to happen there, I'm wondering if we're going to into Episode 8 a year, two years, or three into the future.
I'm guessing two. . .but I've rarely ever been right on these things. 😆

I was impressed with the acting level with everyone here in this one.
Santa on the bus was impressive to see.
You could read everything he was thinking before we even knew what was up.
Earth was totally impressive in all of the scenes, as usual.

I'm going to do a re-watch of this one again in the next day or so.
If they slipped the September 2007 calendar in and out of the scene so fast, I wonder what else I missed when I blinked my eyes. 😑

These last two episodes were absolutely great, just as the previous four were, but I am on the bandwagon with others that wish there was a 55-minute episode here to give us more time with these characters.

The shorter format here with 8 episodes and 23 minutes in each might be a casting thing for this production, a lot like what they did in Thailand with 'The Tuxedo'.
When we have two actors very new to being in front of the camera, they will often get placed in a shorter production just to test them in main roles.

Seeing how there's great chemistry and acting throughout this whole series, maybe they should step things up and give us a Season 2 with these guys. ❤️

While I'm happy that Ye Guang finally got another bowl of egg drop soup, I've also seen enough red flags where I officially DO NOT like his parents. 😠
I grew up in a house with one of these, and nothing you do would ever be enough for them, mainly due to control issues.

With two episodes to go, I think Ye Guang should bail, and leave his tracker phone on a bench somewhere,
If the parents are going to push, push, push with his studies and devotion to good grades, they sure are not going to be willing to let him have a relationship with anyone.

I hope all of our hopes and dreams can come true for Ye Guang and Xu Qizhang in these last two shows.
Maybe ours, too, and Episode 8 will be three hours long. 😁

Now that we are a full five weeks in and completely hooked on the series, there are two things I've been thinking about. . . . 🤔

What are the chances that, somewhere out there right now, someone has a new ringtone on their cell phone that rings, "Cake!! . . . . . Cake!! . . . . . Cake!! . . . . Cake!! . . . . . .? 😐

The other, when we finally move ahead in time a few episodes and Seeiw comes out of his isolated self, what are the chances that we will get to see him with a pierced ear, and wearing that Batman cut-off shirt from real life? 😆 555

I knew it was them in the animations, but I completely missed the numbers on the shirts all of this time. 🤣
I have a feeling that I'll do a rewatch of this series, and about 8 times I'll be like, "Wait. . .what was that? Play that last part back again".

. . .or that Peter Gabriel poster staring back at us for the last 5 episodes. . .🤣

[ Ouch. . .. never mind. . .. I looked again back on the wall by the Oasis poster and realized, "That's not a Peter Gabriel tour poster. . .. it's another picture of Jesse McCartney ]

Thanks. 😊
I forgot all about the missing iPods.

The posters on the wall had me worried, just a bit, that this was going to be 1995 and our favorite characters were going to almost 40 years old in Episode 14.

I was trying to make a prediction at where this episode was going to take all of us, and I was surprised again that it wasn't near to what I had guessed.
This was, though, the best episode yet out of the 5 so far.

I'm starting to see with the character development why it seems to be taking so long for us to get to where we are #5.
It's worth the wait if the story, the acting and the OST continues to be this great.

I also just started to notice a few details that escaped me so far. . .like the opening credits, to see that the animated characters have the same matching numbers on their shirts as Cake and Seeiw.
I love details like that thrown in to see if we're paying attention.

The screenplay writer deserves a lot of gratitude for Episode 5, too.
I would have given them my next month's grocery money if they would just write in a decent hug for Seeiw after the way Episode 4 ended. . .and that's exactly what they did.
Thanks to a supportive sister, Seeiw finally got to vent a little bit.

It also made me happy to see that they made room in the story for Seeiw to watch the rest of the movie that they had been watching downstairs, even if it still left him totally confused about what to do next.

I didn't expect Cake to finally notice that something was amiss, and to care enough to try to sooth the crisis a little bit.
In the last 4 episodes before this one, I was almost sure that Cake was the kind of personality that was just going to ignore the change in Seeiw's behavior and keep him in quiet agony.
I'm glad that was addressed.

There's great acting and chemistry from everyone here in #5, and Earth astonished me once again with his style of acting.
Between his ability to play a whole scene flawlessly with either non-verbal cues or dialogue, I'm tempted one of these days to mute the sound and subtitles and watch him deliver the whole scene without a word.
That includes the scenes where Seeiw is keeping himself distracted by passing the time, when it is clear to all of us that this situation is eating him alive.

Especially the scene up in Seeiw's room where Cake confronts Seeiw about being avoided.
You can read the character's mind just by watching the tension in the room around him.
All of us, somewhere in our own lives, have had to get in and around a difficult conversation the same way it lights up on the screen here.

At this point, being hooked on this series, I don't even care what I'm expecting to see in Episode 6. I'm just looking forward to next Friday to see it, regardless. . .. even if I am seeing it 12 hours later than everyone else there.
I'm 8600 miles away, and while it is 11:00pm in Thailand, it is only Noon here, but I won't get to see it until evening, anyway.

If someone out there has any observations, I'm wondering how many years are being devoted to this story between high school and the present day?
Based on all of the electronics everyone is using, the backgrounds, the wall posters and other details, I'm making a random guess that this school year is happening in either 2004 or 2005, even though some of the posters are hinting more towards 1995-1998.

The flip phones have me kind of convinced that it's 2005 right now.
Has anyone else got a guess on this one?

After 4 episodes, I'm really enjoying this series, even if it's going to be only 8 episodes and 25 minutes each.
This storyline deserves to be expanded, but I'm loving it anyway.

My only cringe moments so far are from Ye Guang's Mom tossing out the egg drop soup just as he was getting ready to enjoy it.
I want to see him get his soup back.

The other is in the waiting game to see the look on Ye Guang's face when Xu Qihang tells him about his umbrella.
He almost had the chance in this last episode.

I'm very impressed with the way all of these scenes are set up, and the great acting jobs from everyone.
. . .even the half-crazed uncle.

I'll watching to see what happens Monday when we get Episode 5.

I'm impressed at how wide the range is for likes and dislikes with what everyone has seen after four episodes. . .which is good for those who step back from the artwork, see something of themselves in it, and are either comfortable with it or not.

I've watched episodes of shows and have come away completely confused on where the story was going, only to find all of the missing pieces filled in for me three episodes later. . .and then for me to go back, do a rewatch of them and truly appreciate the details that I missed the first time.
I see that here, too, in one of the many projects that New has put together - - if you blink your eyes and look away from the screen for eight seconds, you might miss something.

There were two comments here about something very striking that I admit that I missed the first time, so I had to back to it, right to the opening scene of Episode 1.
There is a lot of technical skill involved with the way they opened the series, starting with the camera showing you the street, then up the Seeiw's room, down the stairs, through the bakery, and up the stairs to Cake's room without cutting the scene once. That was impressive.

Between the great acting and the storyline, I lost count of how many times I was watching a scene that put me back to something vivid I had either seen or had experienced myself in high school.
You get to see all of the good and the bad aspects of the emotional roller coaster of being a teen, especially when Earth is in front of the camera, and you can read everything he's feeling in his eyes and expressions.

There were very few times I actually enjoyed being that age, and the first four episodes have been a real ride through all of that again.

I tried to make a guess at where the calendar is going to come in here, and I guessed that by Episode 3, we were going to find ourselves a few years away from our familiar surroundings.
That hasn't happened yet, and the suspense is building.
I'm looking forward to everything that's coming up in the next episodes, not only to see that, but also to see what sorts of details and surprises they've thrown into the details to make this a great story.

For everyone who was annoyed, bored or lost in what we've seen so far, I would usually hope that they should wait and be more patient with all of the places this story is going.
But with art being what it is, it is all up to people's own experiences in life, what they've embraced and cast out, and what takes them out of their comfort zone.

I'm one of those who dive into the story, the details, the acting, the cinematography, and the amount of work that it takes to make each of these scenes work, so my opinions are almost always going to be on the complimentary side.
That, plus most of the times I had a complaint about the story, I found out that if I just wait another two episodes, I get the answer.

I hope you watch the show and like it, or at least find yourself affected by it.
I can't believe that we are already four weeks along since the opening scene.