How I would end it, if it were mine. Ken does not need to die. He needs to be able to. The show has already given us a way there, I think. Chita says his power comes from hatred. He hates Nours, so he can kill them. But in Episode 8, he turned Ji to save him. That is love, and it is the exact thing that was done to him. By the last episode, his hatred is no longer clean. The deal is still waiting. Ken asks him to finish it. Chita puts his hand on Ken’s throat, and the fire comes. And it does not kill him. Chita cannot hate the way he used to. The fire burns out whatever made Ken a Nour and leaves the man behind. Chita loses something too. Maybe he can never do it again. Ken would not find out because someone tells him. He has spent his whole life finding a pulse in other people. One morning, he puts two fingers to his own wrist and feels something there. Then he is hungry. Then he is tired at night. He cuts his finger on something small, and it does not close. I would skip ahead once. A few years, no more. Gray at his temples. Breakfast across from James. Something playing too loudly in the room, the way the record did at that party. A man once asked Ken to live happily. He could not do it while he had forever. Maybe he could do it with an ending.
Episode 6. Wan has a breakdown, gets hungry, and goes to 7-Eleven for a toastie.
Thai 7-Eleven toasties are genuinely worth planning a trip around. If you go, eat one.
What he's holding looks like แซนด์วิชไก่, the chicken sandwich. Hard to tell, the shot is quick. If it is, that's the mild one. Nothing heavy, nothing greasy.
My five:
1. แฮมชีสแซนด์วิชอบร้อน — Ham Cheese. The baseline. Start here.
2. แฮมทริปเปิลชีส — Ham Triple Cheese. Same idea, more cheese.
3. เดนิชผักโขม แฮมชีส — Spinach Ham Cheese Danish. Flakier, a little richer.
4. แซนด์วิชไส้กรอกชีส — Sausage Cheese. Saltier.
5. แซนด์วิชพิซซ่าฮาวายเอี้ยน — Hawaiian Pizza. Sweet. You either want this or you don't.
If James’s father was a Nour, what does that make James?
The show has not said his father was one. Episode 7 placed Chita’s fire beside his father’s death, and in Episode 9 Chita says he burned every Nour he met. That points somewhere. It is not a line yet.
But say it is true.
James still would not be one. Nours are made, not born. It takes a bite over the heart, and someone who already loves you. Nothing in the rules passes down.
Everything else the show gives us says human. He eats. He sleeps. He bleeds. Ken shot him in Episode 8. In Episode 9, Ken calls him mortal. That is the whole reason Ken is afraid.
So if anything came from his father, it is the part nobody has explained.
He can see the colour of a soul.
Not what his father was. Just the eyes.
There is one more thing I keep coming back to. When was his father turned?
If it was after James was born, then James grew up at a table across from a man who did not eat. In a house where one person never slept.
The farm in episode 6 is The Scenery Vintage Farm, a sheep farm in Suan Phueng, Ratchaburi. The white carousel under the trees was the detail I recognized first.
It’s also a resort, so you can stay right on the property. The forest-style café where Dean runs into his sister is there too. Grandma’s Cafe, right by the creek.
I also saw the farm listed as a location for The Fire. No wonder it looked familiar.
Do you mean they're saying what would TL into English as "uptight"? (Similar to "stiff", "prim",…
Close, but "uptight" is a personality word in English, and 夾子音 is about the voice specifically. Affected, cutesy, performed. Someone putting on a sweeter register than they actually have. A person can be uptight and still speak normally.
The reason I didn't go with "stiff" or "prim" is that none of them can also mean the physical thing. That's what makes Changyang's answer work. "Tight" is the one English word that can go both ways, same as 夾.
Let me add an alternate translation for Gagaoolala's subs.
In the second special, 21-year-old Qinglang crosses into the present and sits down next to Qinglang and Changyang.
Qinglang, who is already sensitive about the age gap and not thrilled about his own face, takes one look at his younger self and turns hostile.
晴朗：「我年輕的時候有這麼夾嗎？」 徜徉：「我又沒試過，我怎麼知道？」
Gagaoolala has it as "fake and breathy," which is a fair reading of one half.
My version:
Qinglang: "Was I that tight when I was young?" Changyang: "I never tried. How would I know?"
夾 is the hard part. In current slang it points to 夾子音, the affected, put-on, high and cutesy voice. So Qinglang is asking whether he used to be that mannered, that performed. A normal question about an old self he doesn't like. That is the part "fake and breathy" catches.
But 夾 also means pinched, clenched, narrow. The second reading is physical, and Changyang goes straight there.
I went with "tight" because English carries both at once. Tight as in strained and artificial. Tight as in the other thing.
And 我又沒試過 is doing the same trick in reverse. "I never tried" is a perfectly reasonable thing to say about someone you met years later. It is also an admission.
With "fake and breathy," Changyang's answer stops making sense. There is nothing to have tried.
i look forward to your insights as much as i look forward to the actual episode. btw how you feel about the comical…
Thank you. And honestly the comedy is what makes the rest of it work.
A beauty tea. Qinglang goes to all the trouble of setting up the tea table under the old tree, sends Changyang off for mushrooms, and then doesn't drink it. The one thing he arranged for himself goes to the wrong person. That's a joke.
Rin’s work gets selected for a competition, so Khobfa gives him actual gold as a gift.
Honestly? Very practical. Flowers die. Gold does not. I too would like to receive physical gold, thank you very much.
Then Khobfa, a literal business major, says:
“If gold ever hits $100,000, I hope you’ll still be by my side.”
And I’m sitting there thinking, sir. If gold hits $100,000 an ounce, I think Rin being by your side is the least of our concerns. We have global inflation. Economic collapse. Possibly the end of civilization.
If the world is ending and Rin is still there, though?
Fine. True love. 555
Except that’s not what Khobfa means.
The Thai is ทองบาทละแสน, basically “when gold reaches 100,000 baht per baht-weight.”
Thai gold is priced by baht-weight, about 15.2 grams. Right now, gold bars in Thailand are around 66,000 baht per baht-weight.
So Khobfa isn’t predicting the apocalypse at all.
He’s basically saying, “Someday, when this gold is worth a lot more, I hope you’re still with me.”
And suddenly the business major sounds very much like a business major.
He gave Rin an investment and attached a love confession to its future value.
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Ken does not need to die. He needs to be able to.
The show has already given us a way there, I think. Chita says his power comes from hatred. He hates Nours, so he can kill them. But in Episode 8, he turned Ji to save him. That is love, and it is the exact thing that was done to him.
By the last episode, his hatred is no longer clean.
The deal is still waiting. Ken asks him to finish it. Chita puts his hand on Ken’s throat, and the fire comes.
And it does not kill him.
Chita cannot hate the way he used to. The fire burns out whatever made Ken a Nour and leaves the man behind. Chita loses something too. Maybe he can never do it again.
Ken would not find out because someone tells him. He has spent his whole life finding a pulse in other people. One morning, he puts two fingers to his own wrist and feels something there.
Then he is hungry. Then he is tired at night. He cuts his finger on something small, and it does not close.
I would skip ahead once. A few years, no more. Gray at his temples. Breakfast across from James. Something playing too loudly in the room, the way the record did at that party.
A man once asked Ken to live happily.
He could not do it while he had forever. Maybe he could do it with an ending.
Watching The Next Prince: oh my god, who is that, he's gorgeous.
Watching Mr. Fanboy: ugh, this man is so greasy.
Same actor. One stands in uniform without moving. The other holds up a phone and says he has eyes and ears on set.
He keeps making me react. That's the job.
Takeuchi: Don't be so nice to me right now. I'll accidentally fall for you.
Iwasaki: Fine by me.
Takeuchi: ...Huh?
Iwasaki: You're surprisingly cute without the glasses.
Takeuchi: Wha—?!
Iwasaki: Let me see. Come on, let me look a little longer.
Saeki: Wait, is a new BL starting over here?
Sorry, our innocent little couple gets benched this week. Takeuchi and Iwasaki first.
As they say. Out with the old, in with the new. Nothing beats someone you already know (not really).
Saeki with front-row ocean-view seats for the birth of a new romance 🤣
Thai 7-Eleven toasties are genuinely worth planning a trip around. If you go, eat one.
What he's holding looks like แซนด์วิชไก่, the chicken sandwich. Hard to tell, the shot is quick. If it is, that's the mild one. Nothing heavy, nothing greasy.
My five:
1. แฮมชีสแซนด์วิชอบร้อน — Ham Cheese. The baseline. Start here.
2. แฮมทริปเปิลชีส — Ham Triple Cheese. Same idea, more cheese.
3. เดนิชผักโขม แฮมชีส — Spinach Ham Cheese Danish. Flakier, a little richer.
4. แซนด์วิชไส้กรอกชีส — Sausage Cheese. Saltier.
5. แซนด์วิชพิซซ่าฮาวายเอี้ยน — Hawaiian Pizza. Sweet. You either want this or you don't.
The show has not said his father was one. Episode 7 placed Chita’s fire beside his father’s death, and in Episode 9 Chita says he burned every Nour he met. That points somewhere. It is not a line yet.
But say it is true.
James still would not be one. Nours are made, not born. It takes a bite over the heart, and someone who already loves you. Nothing in the rules passes down.
Everything else the show gives us says human. He eats. He sleeps. He bleeds. Ken shot him in Episode 8. In Episode 9, Ken calls him mortal. That is the whole reason Ken is afraid.
So if anything came from his father, it is the part nobody has explained.
He can see the colour of a soul.
Not what his father was. Just the eyes.
There is one more thing I keep coming back to. When was his father turned?
If it was after James was born, then James grew up at a table across from a man who did not eat. In a house where one person never slept.
Children notice things like that.
Or they decide not to.
The camera drops to Thiar's eye level. So we're looking up at Mangkorn, shirtless, drugged, very pleased with himself, and he asks:
"Are you ready to see fiery Mungkorn?"
Small detail. มังกร (mangkorn) means dragon in Thai.
So what he's really saying is "Are you ready to see the fire-breathing dragon?"
And he means it. The aphrodisiac has fully kicked in, Thiar is pinned underneath him, and the man is announcing his attack like it's a boss fight.
Thiar came in as a police officer. He's leaving as a dragon's hoard.
Someone in the writers' room picked that name on purpose. I'm sure of it. I just want to know how long they waited for this scene.
It’s also a resort, so you can stay right on the property. The forest-style café where Dean runs into his sister is there too. Grandma’s Cafe, right by the creek.
I also saw the farm listed as a location for The Fire. No wonder it looked familiar.
The reason I didn't go with "stiff" or "prim" is that none of them can also mean the physical thing. That's what makes Changyang's answer work. "Tight" is the one English word that can go both ways, same as 夾.
In the second special, 21-year-old Qinglang crosses into the present and sits down next to Qinglang and Changyang.
Qinglang, who is already sensitive about the age gap and not thrilled about his own face, takes one look at his younger self and turns hostile.
晴朗：「我年輕的時候有這麼夾嗎？」
徜徉：「我又沒試過，我怎麼知道？」
Gagaoolala has it as "fake and breathy," which is a fair reading of one half.
My version:
Qinglang: "Was I that tight when I was young?"
Changyang: "I never tried. How would I know?"
夾 is the hard part. In current slang it points to 夾子音, the affected, put-on, high and cutesy voice. So Qinglang is asking whether he used to be that mannered, that performed. A normal question about an old self he doesn't like. That is the part "fake and breathy" catches.
But 夾 also means pinched, clenched, narrow. The second reading is physical, and Changyang goes straight there.
I went with "tight" because English carries both at once. Tight as in strained and artificial. Tight as in the other thing.
And 我又沒試過 is doing the same trick in reverse. "I never tried" is a perfectly reasonable thing to say about someone you met years later. It is also an admission.
With "fake and breathy," Changyang's answer stops making sense. There is nothing to have tried.
He answers the question Qinglang didn't ask.
Renji walks in and says it out loud. Babe, I’m back. Time asks what took so long. The van dropped Wan off first.
Renji goes in for the kiss. Time turns his face away.
Ninety seconds later Renji is asking whether anyone can tell. Time says they’ve almost given it away too many times. You never play it cool.
The leads perform a relationship that isn’t there. The juniors perform nothing, over a relationship that is.
In this industry, the real one has to look like nothing at all.
A beauty tea. Qinglang goes to all the trouble of setting up the tea table under the old tree, sends Changyang off for mushrooms, and then doesn't drink it. The one thing he arranged for himself goes to the wrong person. That's a joke.
Honestly? Very practical. Flowers die. Gold does not. I too would like to receive physical gold, thank you very much.
Then Khobfa, a literal business major, says:
“If gold ever hits $100,000, I hope you’ll still be by my side.”
And I’m sitting there thinking, sir. If gold hits $100,000 an ounce, I think Rin being by your side is the least of our concerns. We have global inflation. Economic collapse. Possibly the end of civilization.
If the world is ending and Rin is still there, though?
Fine. True love. 555
Except that’s not what Khobfa means.
The Thai is ทองบาทละแสน, basically “when gold reaches 100,000 baht per baht-weight.”
Thai gold is priced by baht-weight, about 15.2 grams. Right now, gold bars in Thailand are around 66,000 baht per baht-weight.
So Khobfa isn’t predicting the apocalypse at all.
He’s basically saying, “Someday, when this gold is worth a lot more, I hope you’re still with me.”
And suddenly the business major sounds very much like a business major.
He gave Rin an investment and attached a love confession to its future value.
Okay, Khobfa. You win.