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Domundi really is hit or miss for me. But at least they dare to go out on a limb, taking risks, doing something new. Sometimes it's a total bellyflop. But this time they really took off flying

When she put that curse on that family she basically tied herself into the cycle of the curse. So she turned herself into a vengeful ghost who is just as relentlessly stuck in that cycle as all the victims.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teeth_blackening

I watched all of it and my personal opinion is that they dropped the ball on it

You have some very good points. At first I also found Khem a bit milquetoast and unengaging, but as the series has progressed, I have changed my mind completley about him, and also about Namping's portrayal of him. I see Khem (the character) as a young person with very limited experiences of normal life and at the same time lifelong ghost/curse PTSD. It's like he was born on Death Row. Take for example someone who has been bullied or abused all their life. They're not going to respond to more instances of that the same way as someone experiencing it for the first time. People with different personalities may respond in other ways to this kind of situation, but a very common way to deal with that is to go numb, to start dissociating, to at least partially disconnect yourself from the world and other people. Being afraid becomes the default state. For me Namping's portrayal of Khem suggests a boy who teeters between hope and hopelessness. He hasn't completely given up, but he also doesn't really dare to hope. He feels, but he doesn't dare to let himself feel all the way. He needs help, but he doesn't want to drag other people down with him. He wants love, but he also knows he might not survive the next few weeks. Any emoting he does needs to reflect that inner conflict, his constant fear, his inability to fully *live*. And Namping might not always succeed 100% in conveying this to the audience, which is fair since it's his first main role. But a role like this is also insanely difficult to do well. It would be easy to make Khem too weepy and dramatic in a very cringe way, or to be stiff and inexpressive to the point of mannequin blandness. I understand that for some people, he appears more the latter, though I think that's an intentional choice from the director and the actor (better to lean that way than the other). At least that interpretation is believable in the context of the character's settings. Perhaps you really have to pay attention (and maybe draw some inferences) to notice the subtleties in Namping's portrayal of Khem's character, but I do think that Namping has done exceptionally well with such a difficult main role as his first one, considering his lack of experience. Can he get better? Absolutely, and I believe we will be seeing that happening in the future. But I think very few rookie actors could have pulled Khem off as well as Namping has done.

We're definitely being refunded for The Next Prince 😅

Honestly, "sparkles and trauma" should be the unofficial tagline for this drama

"Queer as Folk" is a play on the well-known British idiom, "there's nowt as queer as folk" which means that people can sometime behave in strange ways. It's a play on words, since the word "queer" has also been reclaimed and normalised by LBGTQIA people for quite some time now. You're correct that it originated as a slur, but it's not a slur in modern day English. It's basically a synonym of LGBTQIA and is used by LGBTQIA people about ourselves, which I think disqualifies is from being used as a slur.

I guess if you have a very loose definition of BL? Like everything that features two men who love each other? I wouldn't call that a BL necessarily, not all gay media is BL. But YMMV

I actually like the domesticity. We so rarely get to see established gay couples "at home" because BLs usually just focus on the journey to get there.

I haven't watched episode 2 yet since I'm waiting for the fansubs.

Fansubs on DO

It's not BL, the main leads just happen to be a same sex couple. It's not focussed on their relationship except that they are in one.

It's out on Viki now

It's really something when Hua Yong the sociopath is the one with higher emotional intelligence 🤣

It felt incredibly amateurish

Boat and Oat can absolutely pull it off. Whether MFlow (the production company) can, is another matter 🫤

Boat and Oat were the only good thing about My Stubborn. Especially Oat really carried the series, with Boat supplying the charisma and the sexiness. But the rest of the acting was mostly laughable. I hope MFlow learned something and won't weigh them down with a big crappy supporting cast in their next one, but I wouldn't bet on it.

I mean, I'm willing to suspend my disbelief if the details make sense 🤣

The problem here is the production company, which doesn't have a good track record when it comes to plot, acting or cinematography. Boat and Oat were the only good part of their previous series, the rest of it was laughable, but their scenes were indeed on fire. But even the fans of My Stubborn will admit that it was more p*rn than plot.
Now, if you compare the currently airing Thai BL Khemjira, or some past series like "I Told Sunset About You" or "I Feel You Linger in the Air", or even "Top Form", those are on an entirely different level. There is so much BL coming out of Thailand and some of it is pure rubbish, while most of it is mediocre, but there are some gems too. But the media culture is different, so Thai BLs will never be like Japanese or Chinese BLs. And that's fine, because not everyone likes the same things.

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