shriek

slow, meh dialogue, logic/continuity mistakes

While I am very excited for another Omegaverse story this first episode was lackluster. — The characters and world were weirdly introduced. How can Phatsa not know about the Omegaverse? Why doesn‘t everyone know about it? Why are his friends (& Sangnuea) kinda hush-hush about it as if it’s some kind of secret mafia organisation - no one can choose whether they want to be a part of it - and then tell him anyways as if it‘s common sense? Why was the explanation of the Omegaverse split into two conversations on two separate days? (I have an inkling why**) — Generally the dialogues were not flowing at all and quite repetitive (disregarding the not good translation we have atm) it was kinda painful to witness. — What is Phatsa‘s life like? Fighting with bad people on the street and hanging around the café of his buddy? That‘s all we learn about him in this Ep. And that he graduated with honours. But what he studied? 🤷‍♀️ Since his life‘s purpose now is being bonded to a stranger his personal life probably won‘t be that important anymore. So, why establish it? — My perception is that Nakhun entered the café after the heat incident happened… So, how in the world did Phatsa’s heat pheromones not hit Nakhun with a force as hard as our dearest truck-kun? But the cup he touched for a few seconds carried his scent for days…? sure. — I really missed the scene with them crossing each other on the street which causes an uncontrolled rut. That still could‘ve happened when he entered the café and smells the heat pheromones, so he frantically runs through the streets leading him to Phatsa who‘s fighting off those guys… speaking of that fighting scene: I thought they would reshoot it. While it was fine in the pilot it makes almost no sense to me that Nakhun would stop to stop a fight he sees in the middle of the night (he has 4 bodyguards, why do it himself? ye, they‘re not with him in that scene but when you‘re so used that…). I doubt he smelled Phatsa from far away… as it is established he only smells him when he‘s in close proximity. — There were so many scenes that were just silent and/or long but didn‘t add anything to the character or world establishing. Phatsa’s heat was a quite long scene where I thought he would loudly ask some more questions to the universe: „Why do I feel hot? What is happening to me? What’s wrong with me? Where is this suddenly coming from? Could this be because I am an Alpha? I need to go to a doctor.“ but no, we (pretty much) silently struggle in the café so our friends who are very familiar with the omegaverse notice nothing, then we just go home and endure it. — The scene at the bar… „here your welcome drink“ *sits down as if to have a conversation* „anyways I have to go somewhere else, enjoy“. There definitely was a scene cut out. All those (silent) scenes made the episode rather slow while I expected it to be a little quicker. — **I can already feel that they might stuggle with all the characters they‘re trying to handle here (to further „introduce“ Sangnuea they probably split the explanation into two convos). We get an extra brother that was nowhere in the pilot and we haven‘t even met the women of the story. (According to the trailer) we already know all the brothers will get their lovestory. Will the women end up with each other, too? Now That would be interesting especially if they‘re ABO as well. — Production value, the fight scenes and videography were good. Also the visual effects of the pheromones look very good. So there‘s still hope and I believe that it can get better. Fingers crossed 🤞

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Weirdly edited (spoilerish review)

Okay, this was a little weird to watch. On one hand: It looked like they didn‘t have all the actors available anymore for this episode. Because that didn‘t look like that French man we got to know with Lady Pa. Doesn‘t have to be but would be a little odd. — The fathers are just gone… 🤷‍♀️ —Just saw in the cast list: Ram (Thee‘s father) married the love of his life Ruedi? When did that happen? Did I miss that part in this episode? Did they originally plan/have more episodes to tell the story? — And did Rati and Thee go to France now or not? Doesn‘t look like it. After that emotional goodbye I thought it‘d end with them traveling or working together or idk.— The portrayal of Mhek and Dech kinda rubbed me the wrong way, too. They felt a little off character in their behaviour. — Generally the editing was a little jumpy. Like: Mhek and Dech appear to say hello to Rati and then a scene later it looks like they haven‘t seen each other for a whole day. The thing with them saying goodbye and then we just have to imagine they went. The whole episode jumped back and forth and skipped idk how much time just to show us this and that. And then that post Director credit scene was odd. Wrongly placed. — It was an episode where we learned about the ending of the characters we care most about but how it was done kinda ruined the mood a little. I wasn‘t really back in the story (only in the beginning of the episode) like I was for the rest of the series. The editing made this a not so enjoyable ending. Unfortunately. Because I loved the series.

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a dragging last episode

Sad to say I am not satisfied with this ending. There might‘ve been conclusions but also still waay too many loose strings. - Cool, we won the competition. yay. I do not really feel happy about that. It made the most sense but other than that. Eh. Since none of the contesants really get anything out of it just made this so… *sound of letting air out of a ballon*- We all (people in the series, definitely not me) have suddenly forgiven all the kings wrong doings? Sure, sure, sure.- In the fencing match I thought Ramil might purposely loose or forfeit to show he‘s no longer following his fathers orders. I would‘ve loved to see more about him and Paytai. Their conclusion was fine but left me with questions and wanting more.- Sad to see Ava just sitting there. She was my favourite to win the competition. - I totally forgot about Calvin and Jay. It felt really odd to have their conclusion in the midst of all the other things. At first I was like: ah yee, their story needs an ending…. but when it was happening I wished they didn‘t get one but instead a spinoff series. Because in this series they weren‘t relevant at all for the main plot. Their story would be worthy of its own series.- some scenes felt too long. The one where they leave the balcony felt weirdly long. And Khanin and Charans final kiss was definitely too long. Don‘t get me wrong I love a good kiss (& the kiss was good) but so long I wanted to tell them to get a room and walk away from the scene. I even watched on 1.25x speed and it was still too long.- Getting engaged? Really? That feels so soon. I have no idea how much time has passed. That engagement just felt like creating the grounds for a special episode in which they get married. Would love to see a royal emmalian wedding but grrrr I wished it would‘ve happened differently.

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