About the series: starting with the main couple, Teshow and Ping, I honestly have nothing but praise for them. They delivered so much! Their chemistry, acting, and dynamic worked really well, and honestly, I hope they get the chance to have another series together in 2027.
Now, talking about my secondary couple: Sing and Chimon. 🥹 Since they were my main focus, some of the choices in the series made me a little sad, especially because I feel like their characters could have been developed so much more.
But one thing this series really reinforced for me is that their natural chemistry is VERY strong. It’s not just about the characters. The actors themselves already have a connection that shines through on screen. And when you bring that natural chemistry into the characters, you can feel their relationship even more.
The looks, the smiles, the softer voices, the little gestures… they can create tension and flirtation without needing big romantic scenes. And to me, that’s what real chemistry looks like.
In the end, even with everything that could have been developed further, I really liked the way the series ended. And honestly? After watching Sing and Chimon together, all I can hope for is that they get the opportunity to lead a new series together in 2027. Because one thing they’ve already proven is that the chemistry is there.
Can't believe I'm doing it, but I'll be a contrarian and defend GMMTV a little. I'm not sure the marketing for…
I think you’re confusing “a couple was never explicitly promised” with “there was no construction of a romantic expectation.” Those are two very different things.
I’m sure you understand what romantic connotation is. In the trailer, there really isn’t a scene literally saying, “Sing and Chimon will be a couple.” But that was never my argument. My point is that all the promotional material constructed that reading.
In the second trailer, for example, there’s that scene where the two of them simply stare into each other’s eyes. And, honestly, what kind of friendship is GMMTV trying to sell there? Because you don’t include a scene constructed that way between two characters if your intention is to communicate only that “they’re close friends.” Visual language also communicates intent.
And it’s not just the trailer. It’s the narrative built throughout the series itself, through the few moments they’re given: the looks, the proximity, their hands meeting, the small interactions. All of that creates an expectation of romantic development. They aren’t presented in the same way as Franc or Java, for example, who clearly exist as friends of the protagonists and receive an amount of screen time consistent with that narrative function.
Then there’s the promotion itself. When GMMTV and OneD post content from the series, who appears repeatedly? Ping and Teshow, Sing and Chimon.
During the press tour, in promotional content, and in official posts, they’re presented together. And many of those captions also use language that reinforces a romantic reading.
So when I look at all of this, my natural interpretation isn’t, “Oh, they’re just two close friends.” The reading encouraged by the marketing is that there’s something developing between them.
And regarding the idea of “testing the waters”: that argument doesn’t solve the problem either. In the examples you mentioned, by around episodes 6 or 7, there was already concrete development of the romantic relationship. I’m not necessarily saying they were already kissing—I’m talking about development. The relationship was already moving toward something.
We’re approaching episode 10 of Match Point, and what do we have with Sing and Chimon? The same hints. The same looks. The same small interactions. Their hands meeting. And practically no progression.
That’s precisely where the contradiction I’m pointing out lies.
If the intention was always for them to be just close friends, that’s fine. But then they could have been treated like Franc or Java: secondary characters who are important to the protagonists, with an amount of screen time consistent with that function.
The problem is that GMMTV doesn’t promote them that way.
It promotes them as a relevant duo. It puts them together in promotional content. It posts scenes of them together. It uses romantic connotations. It places them side by side in promotional materials. And then the series delivers very little development to justify the expectation that this promotion itself created.
So no, my argument isn’t, “The trailer promised they would be a couple and GMMTV lied.”
My argument is: if you repeatedly build a romantic expectation through trailers, scenes, editing, captions, and promotion, you can’t then act as though the audience simply invented that reading.
The issue was never the absence of a literal promise. It’s the difference between what the marketing leads the audience to expect and what the script actually delivers.
What pisses me off the most is the hypocrisy of the marketing. You can’t pretend SingChimon were never presented as a couple. When it was convenient for promotion, they put them together, highlighted their chemistry, promoted them as a duo, and created expectations. But when it came time for the SCRIPT to actually support that, suddenly there was no room for it.It’s an absurd contradiction: the marketing says “look at this couple,” while the story says “we don’t actually have a story for you.”And if the intention was for Boat and Kong to just be friends, fine. Then own that from the beginning. Cut the romantic scenes, remove the hints of feelings, and stop using their dynamic to sell an expectation the series never intended to develop.Because the problem isn’t that the romance didn’t happen. The problem is creating the promise of a romance through the promotion and then delivering a script that completely fails to support that promise.It honestly feels like they wanted the engagement and attention SingChimon could bring, but weren’t willing to invest the same effort into their actual storyline. And now the audience is left with crumbs and expected to pretend that was meaningful character development.Marketing and storytelling need to match. You can’t sell one thing and tell a completely different story.
I feel like someone lost in the desert searching for water; it seems like they deliberately create this situation for the secondary characters, They gave us 6 very cute episodes, and when we thought "wow, now their relationship is going in front, they simply disappeared, I was so eager to see where this story was going, I feel so frustrated, I want to know more about them, about their pas...what was your relationship like at school? what did he do when they parted ways, what will his future be like? Perhaps GMMTV could make a spin-off series focused on him...ohhh, it's like torture... They give us a great couple and leave us starving.
I have a question: will Boat and Kong actually end up as a couple? Or just friends? Like, GMM puts them on posters,…
This is making me so angry. I read the novel and their story had so many cuts, it's really a shame, because they already don't have much screen time and they're cutting even the few scenes they have? It would have been better to exclude that couple and just leave the main couple if that was the intention. I mean, I know they're secondary characters, but damn, no development in 8 episodes? That's so ridiculous. I hope I can watch Sing and Chimon in another series that can develop a decent story for them, because here in MP it's been awful 🤷
I don't think I've ever watched a series where a secondary couple has SO little screen time hahaha but it's okay, my heart still radiated joy at the phrase "it could be that the person you like, also like you! Really very cute, Sing has such a deep gaze, it made my heart flutter!
I really like the dynamic of the series, I really wanted to see more of the secondary couple, they delivered great chemistry in the last episode, but since the parents take up all the screen time in this series, it's difficult I'm hoping that by 2027 Sing and Chimon will be in a series as main characters, exploring the relationship between them.
Unfortunately, that's the pacing of the novel; they practically don't appear in it at all 😭😭 All the scenes…
It's necessary, hahaha, I've never seen two secondary characters with SO little screen time, it's difficult to explore the chemistry that way, even the gay couple who are the parents have more screen time, nobody deserves this 🥱
Only 4 episodes left and SingChimon's character not moving at all 😅
Unfortunately, that's the pacing of the novel; they practically don't appear in it at all 😭😭 All the scenes in the series are exactly like in the novel. I sincerely hope to see them in another series.
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Now, talking about my secondary couple: Sing and Chimon. 🥹 Since they were my main focus, some of the choices in the series made me a little sad, especially because I feel like their characters could have been developed so much more.
But one thing this series really reinforced for me is that their natural chemistry is VERY strong. It’s not just about the characters. The actors themselves already have a connection that shines through on screen. And when you bring that natural chemistry into the characters, you can feel their relationship even more.
The looks, the smiles, the softer voices, the little gestures… they can create tension and flirtation without needing big romantic scenes. And to me, that’s what real chemistry looks like.
In the end, even with everything that could have been developed further, I really liked the way the series ended. And honestly? After watching Sing and Chimon together, all I can hope for is that they get the opportunity to lead a new series together in 2027. Because one thing they’ve already proven is that the chemistry is there.
I’m sure you understand what romantic connotation is. In the trailer, there really isn’t a scene literally saying, “Sing and Chimon will be a couple.” But that was never my argument. My point is that all the promotional material constructed that reading.
In the second trailer, for example, there’s that scene where the two of them simply stare into each other’s eyes. And, honestly, what kind of friendship is GMMTV trying to sell there? Because you don’t include a scene constructed that way between two characters if your intention is to communicate only that “they’re close friends.” Visual language also communicates intent.
And it’s not just the trailer. It’s the narrative built throughout the series itself, through the few moments they’re given: the looks, the proximity, their hands meeting, the small interactions. All of that creates an expectation of romantic development. They aren’t presented in the same way as Franc or Java, for example, who clearly exist as friends of the protagonists and receive an amount of screen time consistent with that narrative function.
Then there’s the promotion itself. When GMMTV and OneD post content from the series, who appears repeatedly? Ping and Teshow, Sing and Chimon.
During the press tour, in promotional content, and in official posts, they’re presented together. And many of those captions also use language that reinforces a romantic reading.
So when I look at all of this, my natural interpretation isn’t, “Oh, they’re just two close friends.” The reading encouraged by the marketing is that there’s something developing between them.
And regarding the idea of “testing the waters”: that argument doesn’t solve the problem either. In the examples you mentioned, by around episodes 6 or 7, there was already concrete development of the romantic relationship. I’m not necessarily saying they were already kissing—I’m talking about development. The relationship was already moving toward something.
We’re approaching episode 10 of Match Point, and what do we have with Sing and Chimon? The same hints. The same looks. The same small interactions. Their hands meeting. And practically no progression.
That’s precisely where the contradiction I’m pointing out lies.
If the intention was always for them to be just close friends, that’s fine. But then they could have been treated like Franc or Java: secondary characters who are important to the protagonists, with an amount of screen time consistent with that function.
The problem is that GMMTV doesn’t promote them that way.
It promotes them as a relevant duo. It puts them together in promotional content. It posts scenes of them together. It uses romantic connotations. It places them side by side in promotional materials. And then the series delivers very little development to justify the expectation that this promotion itself created.
So no, my argument isn’t, “The trailer promised they would be a couple and GMMTV lied.”
My argument is: if you repeatedly build a romantic expectation through trailers, scenes, editing, captions, and promotion, you can’t then act as though the audience simply invented that reading.
The issue was never the absence of a literal promise. It’s the difference between what the marketing leads the audience to expect and what the script actually delivers.
I hope I can watch Sing and Chimon in another series that can develop a decent story for them, because here in MP it's been awful 🤷
The series' storyline is very similar to the novel's storyline.