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LOL excellent point! The ML always falls in love with an average girl even if she looks like a supermodel

It's the whole closet scene and when he says how can a girl covered in cuts and bruises, dirty, ordinary looks, make me fall in love so hard. I think my soul levitated over the look he gave her.

Thanks for your perspective. I'm in the US which is why I describe it as tip toeing into the conversation. If I'm off base or wrong in my observations please call me out.

"However, I do notice how Bright is the most obviously 'western' looking out of the 5 cuz of his features, with Tu looking the most... ethnically Thai?" This is what I noticed so maybe this is more accurate than talking about colorism.

Your observation on Prim's looks is fascinating!

He had that intimacy with Win in 2gether as well. I'm thinking of the scene where Tine stays overnight in Sarawat's room for the first time and they're sleeping on the sofa together. Being able to generate that with different people is a gift, one that will keep him working regardless of wherever else he's lacking.

Right, I'm not really commenting on his ethnicity but more about colorism standards and how having Tu as the heroine pushes back against that. I love it, I think she's beautiful and I'm all for tearing down those restrictive standards.

I'm tip-toeing into this because I don't want to offend anyone but did you notice that Gorya's skin is darker than Thyme's and that her looks are more ethnically Thai than his are? I think she's incredibly beautiful but her looks aren't beauty standards if you think of standards as bright white skin and more western features. I think they may have cast Tu that way deliberately as a statement on colorism and bias. I'm thinking also of the closet scene with Thyme saying her looks are average (in what universe??? but maybe average is code for looking like a real Thai person). What do you guys think?

Thank you!

Where are those clips coming from? I haven't seen that anywhere else.

Exploding parts is exactly correct, adding that to my comment

Agree on comedy and scary, esp in the opening scene in the stadium. I get that he may not have that It Factor for you but I think the fact he has such a big and fervent anti fandom says a lot about the emotion he provokes, good and bad, and to do that you have to have some kind of star power.

To add to the ongoing raging debate over Bright's acting: He goes wrong in the big emotional scenes (ETA: or as @MyneAcc says the exploding parts one, like when he is super angry or super sad, or super confuse) but is brilliant at the quieter more intimate moments. For example, I wasn't much feeling his performance in his scene with Hana but he was amazing at the dinner with Gorya's family where he's just quietly reacting to what everyone is saying and trying to take it all in. Also he can reallllly turn it on in romantic scenes like the closet scene (and bless him for that).

The other thing about Bright is he's got that It Factor. When he's in a scene you're looking at him. He grabs attention. I think it's very telling that he came out of 2gether a bigger star than Win even though Win is arguably a much better actor. Whatever you want to call it - charisma, star power - Bright has got it.

I would absolutely love this and maybe eventually someone will do a non-official adaptation along these lines.

The fiance in 2001 Meteor Garden had a similar vibe. I always like it when the fiance is super cool because you could see her as being a good wife to the ML except he's already lost his heart to the FL so it makes his choice more meaningful.

I saw a tweet that said Hana was Thyme's mirror reflecting back at him all the ugly things he's done in his life and I loved that.

He's amazing as an in love person but also in the scene with Gorya's family where he's sitting quietly and taking it all in and trying to understand them. I think he's very good in quieter scenes and goes wrong when he's in the scenes that require big emotion because he overdoes it. But he also has that indefinable something that makes people stars. When he's onscreen you're looking at him. It's something beyond his acting performance.

Assuming you're okay with being spoiled, the situation between them varies in different versions of this drama. Sometimes they get together and sometimes they don't. In most versions though her boyfriend cheats on her and dumps her and Kavin helps her get revenge.

It goes back and forth here. There was another bump in antis a while back. Just wait them out and the interesting people will weigh in again.

I feel the same way about Jerry Yan's Daoming Si! It's because he brought a lot of vulnerability to the role. You really feel it in the scene before the basketball match when he grabs Shancai and begs her to love him so he can call off the match. But unfortunately Daoming Si also had crazy abusive moments like trying to sexually assault Shancai and slapping her hard across the face, so I couldn't be 100% on board the ship. Bright is bringing a lot of vulnerability to Thyme only with less violence directed against Gorya (which is a good thing, dear god)

Him kissing his glass after he says everyone in the club gets free drinks was erm pleasing to my eyes

Yeah I've seen her videos, she doesn't like the drama and has been way more critical than I am. I love it very much but this episode was a bit much with the Hana scenes for me.