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Failed cash grab?
I just finished a binge of this about 5 minutes ago from writing this sentence. I went in with no information and couldn't believe I had never heard of this because I've done a pretty good job catching up with older Thai BL thus far. This show is so cute and supernatural and light and two kisses by episode 4 and I can't yet tell who is going to end up with whom and— Oh. Oooooh. There it is.Then I thought, non-con in fiction isn't generally a deal breaker to me because I can compartmentalize, even though this scenario was particularly messed up in the way it felt with the aftermath. The MDL rating that I just looked up must be based on that part alone. The rest will be super cute like the first halfish even though it contains a ton of standard BL illogical nonsense and the mom is beginning to grate on my last nerve (not because of her state of mental health). I'll just skip her scenes as well as the long pauses to get to— What. What the actual...
No happy ending except for the supporting character? Which he fully deserves considering how dirty the writers did him.
I don't consider most of the ending to be that truly open. Runway is heartbroken because the person who looks like Dream isn't actually Dream, so of course Runway will turn to Tanai for comfort, leaving Guide out in the cold. Even Tanai won't get a happy ending. It might seem that way at first, but he's only a stopgap measure for Runway. His love will eventually fade into resentment.
Since Elle is chilling with faux Dream, one can only assume that Elle isn't Elle either. They may even be boyfriends. Regardless, Good will also be left heartbroken. I know he saw a chick who looked like Fairy, but she also wasn't the Fairy that he once knew. Good's romantic options dried up in the blink of an eye.
Also, there's so much singing. There might be more singing than acting. After seeing a comment posted on this page that linked to a YT video of the cast performing, their casting makes so much more sense. The director obviously went for vocal ability over acting ability. Based on that clip, the worst singer of the bunch is, in my opinion, the best actor—none other than supporting character Yim. Besides his harrowing experience, Yim is excellent comedic relief throughout the show. The rest of the actors aren't *that* bad considering this aired in 2018, but certainly pale in comparison to today's available shows.
On top of all of the above, one of the main characters is a former imagining friend who gets frisky with Runway immediately upon reunion with his former playmate. Like the last time Dream saw Runway, Runway was maybe 8 years old? There's no suggestion that Dream has been able to watch over Runway all of this time. So Runway suddenly shows up in the dream world as an adult, and Dream's first instinct is to flirt with his long-lost friend. And subsequently try to de-clothe him the next night. Like we're getting into Twilight territory here.
I probably wouldn't be so salty about this if their entire relationship didn't seem like a giant pointless tease. Honestly, this might be the first BL I've seen where the secondary characters received way more screen time than the main ship.
Also, Dream has this odd habit of calling Runway "my little boy" as well as appearing to him as his deceased father. Maybe I completely misinterpreted these interactions, but I'll blame part of that on the missing audio/subtitles during a good chunk of their scenes.
In conclusion, don't watch this if you need a definitive happy ending in order to feel as if you didn't waste your time. Not sure how people dealt with the excruciatingly tortoise-like development while the show was airing. On the plus side, I now know what Toh from Secret Crush on You/Pan from War of Y would look like with a more attractive haircut. ?
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Great series. . .It leave you with wanting more!
I really enjoyed this series! It keeps you on your toes trying to guess the next plot twist. Many of the roles are heartwarming! Brilliant acting by Fame Chawinroj Likitchareonsakul (Runway’s best friend, Guide ) and Boom Raweewit Jiraphongkanon (Guide’s brother, P’Good). These two actors clearly immersed themselves in the role, making every moment very convincing.This series ends with a number of unanswered questions. There was to be a second series, that was ultimately canceled. (Most likely due to the pandemic) Although not ideal, it does leave you with wanting more. A testimony to a good series!
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underrated series
I don’t really understand when people say this series is somehow without any storyline or there is no chemistry. That was 2018. BL series started being a lot more popular than it used to be so it’s obvious they were trying to make something that we haven’t seen before. IMO maybe this series is slow, but I really enjoyed every minute of it. Acting is pretty good, music oh my god amazing and storyline is pretty confusing at first, but later u know what is happening. The only sad fact is that we will not receive 2nd season like they promised in 2019:/ I remember in 2019 how excited I was but yeah. it didn’t happen in the end probably because of the budget and that this series is not popular so doesn’t make sense to make new season.Was this review helpful to you?
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The loss of innocence
In a confusing way, 'My Dream' explores the loss of innocence, as it follows the lives and relationships of five young people who are united by friendship, love and blood: Runway (Best, Cholsawas Tiewwanichkul), the main narrator; his friends Guide (Fame, Chawinroj Likitchareonsakul) and Yim (Ellfa, Chollatee Bampen), Doctor Good (Boom, Jiratpisit Jaravijit), Guide's brother, and Tanai (Taro, Shatree Suwanvalaikor), Runway's athletic, slightly older neighbor than him, who is in love with the young protagonist.Directed by Job Piyawat Chaithiangthum, at the time of its premiere in 2018, the series 'My Dream' meant a pleasant change within the BL universe with the mixture of youth themes, romance, fantasy and supernatural.
Runway is a brilliant high school student marked by nightmares since the death of his father. Thanks to her father's old dream catcher placed near her bed, Runway manages to fall asleep, in which a mysterious man named Dream (Fluke, Pongsapat Kankam) appears to her.
However, Runway, who lives alone with his mother, has not created an imaginary friend in his mind, but rather an imaginary lover who makes the teenager not only fantasize and invent various conversations and situations, but also leads him to confuse fantasy and reality.
Instead of helping Runway find an escape from the situation, Dream, who has been present in Runway's dreams since he was a baby, will help immerse him further and further into an imaginary world that will be difficult, if not impossible to escape.
Dream won't stop the teen from interacting with other humans, but he will be upset when Runway comes into contact with Tanai, the boy who has a crush on him. This is how Runway will ignore Tanai's declarations of love and her constant worries about him.
I don't like Tanai that she loves Runaway because "she sees him as a girl."
Runway's personality is wonderful, being the good son and good friend of his friends, always attentive to the feelings of others.
At the end of the series we will see a meeting between Runway and Dream in the real world, and thus we will have new elements about the relationship that exists between Dream and Elle and the bond between both of them with the dreamcatcher, since Elle will be Dream's companion on that occasion.
Another of the main characters is Guide. This intelligent high school student tries to help Runwai deal with both the imaginary relationship and the real world, but everything changes when he suspects that his girlfriend Yaimai (Noon, Pitchatorn Santinatornkul), has been unfaithful, and decides to separate from her afterward of three years of courtship.
At the same time, Guide begins to feel attracted to Tanai.
Regarding the character played by Noon, I don't like that she doesn't mind sharing Guide with as many men as he wants to be with, as long as she allows her to be the only girl. I don't understand these types of female characters obsessed with boys who have lost interest in girls, among other reasons because they are homosexual. Instead of accepting to be her friend, Yaimai will try again and again to get Guide to return to her side, causing tensions between the two and their family and friends.
For his part, Yim, who has lived his adolescence without complications, will suffer a sexual violation and will find supportive arms in Runway and Tanai, to whom he confesses what happened.
I don't like how Yim's rape story is handled.
Not even Tanai, because he is of legal age, suggests that he seek justice and report the sexual assault, after Yim demonstrates that he feels affected by the events. On the contrary, we see the boy being driven home by the rapist in the same car with which he was previously taken to the place of the rape, which would mean greater stress and suffering for a person after suffering a tragedy like this.
Other scenes, such as the "farewell" kiss when the rapist finally recognizes his mistake and asks for forgiveness, also make it seem like Yim suffers from Stockholm Syndrome.
It is true that Tanai hits the aggressor, but this seems insufficient punishment to me, since the possibility of the rapist acting in the same way in the future remains latent.
These events contribute to the loss of innocence of adolescents.
At the same time, the young doctor Good will be trapped in a strange supernatural relationship with a mysterious girl who turns out to have the appearance of Kafe (Anna Glucks), his old girlfriend who died in an accident five years ago, but in truth is a strange being who He changes gender depending on whether he comes into contact with the water, because when he is dry he transforms his appearance and becomes a boy named Elle (Choot, Cherdchanin Vitapinan), who is somehow connected to the dreamcatcher and the tragic outcome that cost him life to the woman that Good still has not been able to forget.
The three teenagers will lose their innocence when each one knows pain, evil, and deception. As the series progresses, Runwai, Guide and Yim will realize that things in real life are different from how they saw them.
The series also tells us about coming of age and that, coupled with the loss of trust in the world, human beings can activate their capacity for resilience based on affectivity. The more love and understanding the characters receive, the greater their ability to overcome obstacles.
After the dreamcatcher is burned, Runway wakes up from a coma and asks for Tanai. He is worried about him, but not only in the sense of knowing his state of health after the accident.
Upon arriving home and left alone with Tanai, Runway laughs at Tanai's jokes for the first time. He has lost his innocence. And Tanai asks him again the question of whether he can take care of him, in the sense of whether he can be his partner. And if until that moment he had rejected it, Runway asks him for time to think about it, a response that makes Tanai happy.
In the next dream, for the first time Runway finds Dream and her father in the same vision. Call the father. But when you look at the place where Dream was, it is no longer there. It seems that Dream has recognized that Runway has chosen to be with her father.
However, instead of moving forward, the series goes backwards, keeping Runway lost between fantasy and reality. Apparently, the creators thought to resolve this situation in a second season that never arrived, leaving all the stories unfinished.
Some viewers will point out that the series is slow in the sense of the action of the actors' and actresses' movements being slow, but I consider that the long shots and wide spaces for reflection do not make 'My Dream' boring. On the contrary, the slow rhythm has been used with precision in the Thai series, and the music and other arts related to television easily adapt to the feeling that the musical themes and the story have wanted to express.
Likewise, the static camera and silences contribute to telling the story and recreating the general feeling of the series. What is interesting is how 'My Dream' takes its time to build the stories and characters step by step.
What I enjoy most about the series is the slow and wonderful relationship that Guide and Tanais have been weaving. Fame achieves a good performance by showing how his cute character falls in love with Tanai, who in turn has been in love with Runway, but he remains obsessed with Dream.
The moments of interaction between Guide and Tanai are wonderful. Among these, the kiss on the beach or the one that the two enjoy in front of the door of Guide's house when Tanai takes him on his motorcycle and says goodbye to him at night before Yaimai's prying eyes. Or when Tanai places food on his plate while the three teenagers and Tanai's friends celebrate the latter's birthday.
It is extraordinary how the characters show the relationship that they have been developing in silence, even with their backs turned to themselves, and how they transmit anxiety, restlessness, nervousness... all those common symptoms that can surprise people in love.
I must also highlight how striking it is that the characters do not react with surprise to the supernatural phenomena they are forced to face. Accepting the supernatural without drama contributes to the development of the story, since it is evident that all the mysterious supernatural events and characters have the dreamcatcher in common.
We will be looking forward to seeing Yim and Asawin (Beer Rapeewish Sangiamwong) interact, since we only got to see it for a few minutes in the final episode. The chemistry between the two characters is undeniable. In case of a second season, I would be interested in seeing the evolution of this couple and that of Tanai and Guide.
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Its okay
Alles in einem fand ichs gut. Das einzige was ich nicht gut fand ,war das ende. Weil der P'Dream nicht mehr da sein konnte und auch nicht geklärt wurde, warum. Und dann trafen die sich in der schule wieder oder Uni und dann kannten die sich nicht mehr. Auch mit dem anderen Guy. Es wurde nicht geklärt ,warum auch er nicht mehr da ist. ______________________________________ All in one it were good. The only think what not so good were were the end. Cuz P'Dream could not be there and it werent said why. And then both if them Met in the Uni again and they dont know each other this were a lil confusing. The sam with the other blond guy. It wereent said why he must go.Was this review helpful to you?
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confusion - zmätok
Where the hell is second series?On the end they tell, wait for 2nd series, and .....nothing :(
I hoped, 2nd serie everything explaine
Seriál je celkom milý, postavy sú klasický tínedžeri, ktorí sa sami hľadajú, na môj podiv, nič afektované ( žiadne prehnané grimasy, žiadne vykrikovanie, či "srdcervúce " scény, ako to v mnohých seriáloch z ázijských štátov je. Je to pohodové, relaxačné, ale.... Seriál mal podľa môjho názoru potenciál, len škoda, že ho nedotiahli do konca. Veľa nedovysvetlených vecí, udalostí a vzťahov, fakt by to potrebovalo pokračovanie, aby sa veci vysvetlili a po dopozeraní seriálu, neostal v sledovateľovi pocit: čo sa to vlastne stalo a čo bude ďalej. Ak by to malo 2hu sériu, ktorá by všetko vysvetlila, dala by som seriálu 9,5 hviezdičiek, nakoľko sa mi to páčilo ;-)
Seriál som objavila, až po odvysielaní PITBABE (2023) a bola som zvedavá, akým hercom je Fluke Pongsapat Kankam - je bratom Garfield Pantach Kankham, ktory hral KENTU ;-)
Seriál si možte pozrieť na youtube, je tam v dobrej kvalite s ang titulkami, občas síce vypadol zvuk, ale nebolo to také drastické :D
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