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It’s really hard not to compare this with Goddess Bless You From Death, even though one is a supernatural-horror, while the other is a thriller, simply because the author is the same. So it’s like a study in watching 2 companies interpretation of the same BL author. And one production house is killing it-outside of minor issues that all shows suffer from and the age-old plot change controversies that adapted works struggle with, and the other production house is dropping the ball a little bit.

I really want to like this series. JoongDunk are such a charismatic couple. And I love me a good thriller-mystery; smash that with a BL and I’m usually in heaven, but oh man, this is just not doing it for me.
Shelving the shoddy police work for someone more versed in this world, the romance/romantic development feels 00s romcom level forced. Someone below said it's just the story of two people falling for each other due to forced proximity, and I can't agree more... but it's not even sexy forced. It's just procedural job forced (and their jobs of running around, questioning students, barely interests me since they're in the preliminary stages of the investigation atm. Thank god the killer is out here keeping it fresh).

The blend between romance and cop work is really sloppy.
It's a procedural cop show, but we have to throw in some BL to keep the fans appealed. The sad part is, the BL they throw in feels awkward and disjointed and the cop work just feels cheap. So in the end, it feels like no one wins....

Also, I understand that Jade is attracted to Kamin’s work ethic, his sense of justice, his delicious hotness, but it feels really strange that a grown man is SO hung up on being in a relationship with a man he barely knows and more conflictingly, is his hard-ass boss of all people. Jade acts like a virgin who has met his first love and his only experience with love is through BLs.

If they jumped into FWB because they’re both hot and attractive, as Kamin suggested (which I’m already a little surprised about since he seems the type who’d want to wait till after their case together is over before getting frisky), I would be more understanding. But instead Jade's practically ready to put a ring on it and gets all mopey over his not-boyfriend-crush-boss being hit on by the forensic doctor 🤣 It feels more like what Joong would do than Dunk.

And then outside of Joong’s perfect body and being protected once or twice, I have no idea what Kamin sees in Jade. I don’t even really understand Kamin’s character tbh. He’s portrayed as the ideal, white knight police officer. But then, he flirts with his subordinate, moves in with subordinate (which was by the way, the strangest transition), kisses his subordinate… is he a cop who plays by the rules and seeks justice at all costs to offset Jade’s devil may care, rough around the edges personality? Or is that just a ruse for a morally grey, plays- with-fire boss who toys with his subordinate’s feelings? Idk, I can't put a finger on Kamin's character because the show doesn't give us much, and what they do give us regularly conflicts with his actions.

All this is to say, I'm going to keep watching and pray that the character and relationship development improves over the course of the show.

Haha true, you couldn’t invest $1 as you could today (I mean, you actually could, but the risks and difficulty were much higher), but it was just as a hypothetical to show how good the return on investment was pre- March 2000. Plus, Armin would’ve had much more access to money than his portfolio would suggest since I know TD would be funding his dreams 😂 (oh, if only I’d offered cup noodles to the wealthy heir in the 80s/90s and then time traveled to the past…MSFT stocks here I come (man, that’s a lot of if’s) I probably would’ve gone the route of investing in pennys stock, if given initial lack of funding. Or possibly gone the route of buying low interest leveraged bonds. Given the fact he died at 50, I think he’d probably be more money savvy, and coupled with his knowledge of the past, I think he could do quite well for himself. Especially since TD would’ve helped him with whatever venture Armin would’ve set his mind to. If Armin decided one day he was going to become a fianance tycoon instead of an actor, you know TD would be helping him every step of the way 😂
I think Armin honestly has untreated PTSD given the way he died and his past experiences; he’d benefit greatly from therapy 🤣🙏

Just to humor you, but you really didn’t need to invest that much money in tech stock before the Dotcom Bubble (hence the stock market crash). For example, since he went back in 1999, if he’d invested even $1 in Xcelera.com, he could’ve made $139 USD (pre-inflation) before the market crashed. Even using some money from his part time job could’ve netted him quite a bit of money to retire somewhere with low COL and good savings.
I get that acting is his passion, but I just find it funny that he’s always upset that he’s meeting one of his enemies. Like what does he expect when the Thai entertainment industry is so small and his enemies are so famous. Of course he will meet them again unless he wants to act elsewhere. Hence my joking response. But you taking it so seriously is even funnier 😂

I love this drama, but whenever I watched Armin crash out over meeting his another nemesis in the entertainment industry, I just think about how much faster this story would've ended if Armin left acting and just invested in some 90s stock before the Dotcom Bubble and then peaced out to an island in the South Pacific.

Top 15
1. Miseinen: Our Youth (Japan)
2. To My Star 2 (Korea)
3. See Your Love (Taiwan)
4. The End of the World, With You (Japan)
5. ThamePo (Thailand)
6. To My Shore (China)
7. Love Begins in the World of If (Japan)
8. The Journey to Killing You (Japan)
9. Kill to Love (China)
10. Reset (Thailand)
11. Secret Relationships (Korea)
12. Secret Lover (Taiwan)
13. The Proper Way to Write Love (Japan)
14. School Trip: I’m Not Close to Anyone in this Group (Japan)
15. Huang Jing Tai (China)/The Bangkok Boy (Thailand)

Yeah.... it's so messed up that the ML has known this since he first met the MC, but no one ever tells him... 😩 Even the psychiatrist was like: oh well~ It is what it is 🤦‍♀️ I wanted to scream at the end...
They're all just happy that the ML is finally taking his medication and the couple is happy... All the characters need to get exorcised except the MC lol
It really is! I need all the Black Flags to get their comeuppance. I actually don't mind the twist; there's so many dramas where the MC can see ghosts atp that psychosis is actually a breath of fresh air.
But I can't root for a relationship that propagates such an enormous lie... I really hope the show fixes this... I hope you're right that Santa's character puts two-and-two together or he has better friends in the show... or Perth's character tells the truth-that would be even better.
But thanks for riding this wave with me... I'm still flabbergasted haha

I was literally just thinking the same thing! The only person who would know Puifai was raped by Tar AND care enough to get revenge seems to be Puifai herself (since the entire friend group is a den of snakes). At first I thought it was a I Know What You Did Last Summer scenario due to that bloody 5 second flashback, but after the serial killer locked on Tar because of SAing Puifai, I had it in my mind that it's Puifai committing the crimes. And the forensic doctor has to be in on it, since he's the one who has handled her entire autopsy- even outside of his jurisdiction. It's all really sus to me!

1) The series just ends so abruptly. I thought I was going crazy when I got to the final chapter 😭 2) You learn that there are no ghosts and the MC and ML share joint psychosis. Which I guess is an interesting twist, but I think what I didn’t like is that you find out the ML has been hallucinating about ghosts for years (at the end, it’s revealed he starts taking his psychiatric meds once he is in a happy stable relationship with the MC). He knows they are hallucinations and that the MC’s “ghost” are also hallucinations. But he uses the MC’s cowardly nature and fear of ghosts to manipulate him saying that he is the only one who can get the MC’s heart to race fast enough to get rid of the ghosts. So he pretty much gaslights the MC into letting him touch him, kiss him, move in together, and then later tells him that if they have sex, he will stop seeing ghosts entirely. Of course he knows this isn’t true and that the MC will agree. I believe that the MC would’ve slept with him anyways, ghost or not, so it’s not dubcon… but their whole relationship was built on the premise of the lie… and then I kept waiting for him to say: psyche! They’re not real~ But no, it just ends with them having sex and the side characters finding out that the whole thing was BS. And he never tells the MC ever… it was just… strange… Like if my partner withheld that from me when all along I could’ve gotten psychiatric help, I’d be a little angry…

I’m still excited for this drama, but I just finished the manhwa and I’m a little disappointed by the ending…

I have one word to say: Fahlanruk.

Shout it from the rooftops so everyone in the back can hear!

Thank you! I clocked out for the last 4 episodes tbh, and I kept expecting things to make shit if I kept pushing through the confusion, but it just kept getting more whack the more I watched.
Thanks for your help 🙏

Like, for example, there's an entire scene where Ramil says he doesn't eat human food for sustenance. But then he'll complain to Punn how hungry he is and in response, Punn will cook him human food - make it make sense... No wonder why you're always hungry!

At least in My Golden Blood, they were getting synthetic blood via blood transfusions...

I have a really stupid question... if time never stops in the portrait, won't it be like Ramil and Punn never left?

Because wasn't the point in Ep.6 that when they escaped into the portrait to heal Ramil's wounds, when they returned to the real world, it would be as if time had never had not passed?

I understand if time stops in the painting, but continues as usual in the real world (because Ramil was sealed inside the painting for 100 years but time outside the painting still passed, but ig it was only a few seconds technically from lol) , however when they returned from the painting, it was the same night that the original attack happened despite them being inside for at least 2-3 nights based on their sleep patterns ... so now I'm confused lol

All of them are saying emotional goodbyes, Ramil gave Methas instructions on how to care for the roses, and Punn said they'd visit frequently, but wouldn't it be like they'd return to the real world and it'd be the same day they left? They could easily spend lifetimes inside the portrait without missing a moment of their loved ones lives too... technically...? Did I misunderstand how this space-time defying portrait work 🤣

I love the fun cereals- my Fruit Loops, Frosted Flakes, Coco Puffs etc. but guess it’s cuz sometimes I just want plain Cheerios 🤷🏻‍♀️
I’m basic like that, but in world of proliferating unique BL series, sometimes I just want to eat comfort food.

The great news is you have a lot more choices than a few years ago, and dropping this drama probably won’t be any skin off your back with so many great options continuing to air this year.

Putting aside execution, GMMTV has been diversifying their settings and plot-lines outside of the stereotypical school themes.
We had criminal 10 Things I Hate About You, 2 vastly different vampire series, exes at the office, a well executed idol meets director series (weirdly enough, there really aren’t that many idol BLs despite starring so many idols lol), a pre-WWI, class defying romance, an amnesiac prince, and a psychic x doctor run away series. While not all of them were my favorite, there were some gems there and I would genuinely be sad if I’d never seen ThamePo or My Magic Prophecy. Sure GMMTV puts out a lot of mid dramas, but the excitement for me is finding those few shows that shine in my eyes, and as for the rest of them, I just drop them and move on 🤷🏻‍♀️

Like you said, there’s a lot of other masterpieces out there.

I agree with you. Also saved that baby from being raised by two scumbags. Bad parents are show to be a life ruining theme in this show. If a professor is willing to drug/SA/film/leak that footage - and it’s shown it isn’t his first rodeo- and his wife stands by casually and lets that happen (while also berating the victim), I can’t see them being good parents.

There’s no way the wife doesn’t suspect something after all these years. When you’re with someone, you may not have a finger on the pulse as to what’s wrong exactly, but there’s always an underlying suspicion when something is truly off. And Ice can’t be the first and only one who’s accused her husband of something similar after being a repeat offender.

And having a father that not only preys on students like that but then also manipulates other students/victims to join him in his sick side hobby 🤢 I can only imagine what kind of father he’d be…

Is the BL world too interconnected? The song they used for the Ep. 6 Couch NC scene was also in the hotel hug scene of Revamp Ep.4. It’s called “I Want You to Stay” by Victor Lundberg (the artist behind I Remember from the ThamePo pilot trailer) and it’s not exactly a well known song. Is Victor Lundberg pawning off his songs to BL shows? Or is there one person behind all BL soundtracks? 😂

Glad I could help 🤣

Sorry lol I actually think this is pretty happy for a Cdrama lol
Maybe the extra will show them reincarnated. Or it’s just a BTS compilation haha

I think it’s because he didn’t think XSH would poison himself.
He thought it was a conciliatory drink that there would be peace between their two kingdoms. But XSH peaced out ✌️