green giants, notoriously hypocritical.

i LOVE this series. it stands out a lot. the story is incredibly unique, it's nothing like anything i've seen before, both in plot, setting, and characters. the acting was beyond amazing. mix especially worked some real magic in this series. i was blown away by his ability to portray tian's emotions without saying a single word. the chemistry between mix and earth was astronomical, as always. these two work so well together and this story suited them perfectly. the cinematography was also extremely beautiful. the color grading and scenery was stunning. i was very impressed.
i do have to be a bit critical tho. there was some parts of this series that didn't really click to me. firstly, how quickly they moved on from the tea bags, which were apparently very important, that they spent so much time and effort on, being destroyed and burned to nothing. like.. what? also, the reaction of the villagers finding out about tian's connection to torfun. i understand that they were distraught and sad, but he really didn't do anything wrong. he wasn't lying, he really didn't know her while she was alive and he never said he didn't take her heart so....technically, no lying was done. he simply just wasn't ready to tell them yet as he was seemingly still coming to terms with his situation himself, which is understandable because it was quite a rough one. they were acting like he ripped her heart out of her chest with his bare hands, but she was a donor, which means it was really HER choice. and he even took responsibility for her death when it really wasn't his fault, which is a sign of his maturity to me. it also wasn't like he didn't care about the villagers, you don't have to look deep to see how much he loved them and that village.
i also want to very quickly praise mix for the scene in the beginning of ep 9 where tian is talking to phupha in the hospital while he's still unconscious, because his acting was outstanding. his words and his tears felt so true, it was a very moving scene and he did an absolutely beautiful job.

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#veehateclub

this series is pretty entertaining, and the cast is amazing (yin and war absolutely killed it!! wonderful work.), but it has a lot of problems. honestly, the biggest problem is just vee as a character. before i say anything about him, hats off to our lovely yin for playing vee so well and making me hate him so much! — in vee's very first run in with mark, mark is very drunk and under the impression that vee is bar, basically meaning he took advantage of mark. and while doing that, he was also cheating on his girlfriend. infact, for just about the entirety of this series he was cheating on his girlfriend, and then he wants to be sad when ploy cheats & be possessive of mark? really?.. yiwaa was right when she said mark is too good for vee. speaking of mark.. that poor boy. he got his heart broken by bar in tossara, and then he got caught up in this mess with vee, just to get his heart broken again. i feel so bad for him. — i'm glad that mark left vee for a while to give vee time to reflect on and better himself. i liked the ending, even if i do still resent vee a little bit... it was pretty cute.

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imperfectly perfect

this series isn't perfect, of course, but despite it's flaws, it's still my comfort series and one of my top 5 favorite shows of all time.

the story is entertaining, it's full of emotion, and twists & turns that will keep you guessing. it's so good, and it's almost impossible to look away once you start watching. + it's greatly enhanced by the editing. the perfect amount of goofiness in all the right places.

the cast all did an amazing job, but phuwin and pond especially. the chemistry between mork and pi was magical. i loved watching their story unfold. beautifully done.

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i have... thoughts..!!

i'm not gonna pretend to be hoity-toity here, i did actually like this series a lot, so i don't want to just crap all over it, i do have good things to say too!!! positivity, guys, positivity. mainly, i LOVE the casting. the actors, especially kimmon and copter. they really pulled through in this series. the chemistry was definitely there and they just felt to real to me. i loved watching them throughout every single second that they were on screen. nonetheless, my personal bias does not save this show from objective criticism, as there's a lot in this series that just... didn't click. it might've just been me over analyzing or maybe some of these things get cleared up in s2 (probably), but i'd like to discuss my thoughts. firstly: what the actual fruitcake fuck is going on with the wayu-thanu-pha-phai situation? according to these weird mutual visions thanu and phai had (where tf did this sci-fi-esque side plot come from btw? lol) they're "destined" to each other, but wayu has one with thanu too, so is thanu destined to both of them or something? who am i supposed to be rooting for here? it just doesn't make sense.. secondly. my biggest ick in this series, the only part i absolutely could not stand, the tong & pok sub-plot. to be blunt, it bothered me so much that i ended up fast forwarding or straight up skipping through a lot of it bc i wasn't comfortable watching it. it felt so out of place. a less serious critique, but what is koh and jack's relationship meant to be? it was hinted that jack likes koh romantically when jack was talking to wayu, and then they never brought it up after that as if it didn't happen. finally, what the hell is sandee's deal and where in god's name did pha go... and why????? again, a lot of this is probably covered in s2, but i feel like the reliance on "it's explained in s2" makes some parts of gen y feel extremely lack luster and just confusing. it probably would've been better to just make it a longer series so that it could be more concise.

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sigh

this movie is interesting, but feels way too drawn out for what it is. it's long and soooo incredibly slow. near the end of the movie i found myself repeatedly checking how much longer i had left. for the first 1h 40m of the movie all it did was make me want to hug shuhei and fuyuka and beat up their mom. when we FINALLY got to the interesting bits, it was kind of anti climactic. the most thrilling scene of the film lasted maybe 3 minutes or less. and i don't know why shuhei keeps defending his mom. i know he doesn't have much, but he seems to be fine taking care of himself a lot of the time, without her help. she's really done nothing good for him to make her deserve his mercy other than i guess be a mom

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