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I vividly remember that this series was announced wayyy longer before he announced doesn't want to be in a BL.

Am I imagining things? Cause last time I remember this series was announced before the whole drama of him doesn't want to ship him IRL was a thing

if this series only aired on Ch3, then most likely they follow Ch3's whims, and I don't see a producer name as well, so this might be Idolfactory owned with Ch3 . Although I think it is a good decision for them to approach Ch3, who are more open to an Epic genre like this than say GMM, I do think this particular story, with a lot of plots and potential for growth, won't be developed well in Ch3 cause their tendencies to focus only on 1 season series. At least with GMM, if the series gained much support, they would make a season 2 even if it probably didn't need one (coughSOTUScough). And don't get me wrong, I fully believe this series won't even be saved from making a season 2 at this point, only a remake will. I just feels like it such a shame for such strong start and concept. We rarely see modern Thai bl with supernatural and action, and the fact that they couple with Thai's folklore and Buddhism just a cherry on top. I wished Idolfactory could learn & hirer an experience team on top of their current team, but as you said, they are young company.

I agree with you and I can tell you most of problems within this drama are a direct results from the cuts and too fast pacing plot, and there is nothing you can do to save it now.

I didn't know that CH3 was behind the finance. Their track records shows that they rarely renew a drama, even successful ones, so there is no hope for multiple seasons either. and I totally disagree with you, this is a drama that definitely has potential to be a multiple seasons drama, not just two, and I say that with my background knowledge in writings and literature. This is the reason why I feel like thai bl industry had trouble to grow and expand with its story because the businesspeople just want something "safe" and mainstream, and when they do experience, they go half-way about it. I definitely blame it on the fact that they don't really understand what's a good potential in a story and their obsession on playing it to the mainstream media.

Honestly disagree, this one one of the series that would benefit from multiple seasons because there were so much plots that just got wrapped suddenly. Like I think they should've take more time explaining the training and the criminal world, and only hinting at the supernatural things for suspense in this season while the second season (or the end of season 1) we finally "discovered" that Tharn and Phaya had a history. This is such a sad things happening like with Big Dragon as well, such a strong start but got ruined because the plot just randomly wrapped.

Again, as someone who had been in the same situation as Yai and pretty much come from similar cultural background, you're absolutely wrong. Love has no rule that bind them, and especially not when culture involve. Try to see it from the cultural perspective rather than your perspective of what relationship should be, after all it is a period drama with heavy cultural nuance. Studying abroad are just a fact of life abroad, like getting a job, etc. It's pretty normal, people here aren't that much obsessed with staying with your lover all the time since "true love" in Southeast Asian means "Going back to the one", this sense of the one person you'll love no matter how far and how long is pretty much romanticize in most of Southeast Asian cultures. It's not about relationship, it's about the love you have for the person and again, if you love them, no matter how long you've met the person and how long you'd have to go, you'd still love them, just like how Yai have to wait for literal decades to finally meet Jom again in the future, which is an irony at the start with Jom and Ohm. This is pretty much the concept of "true love" around Southeast Asian, and again, as someone with similar experience, I can fully say, what Yai did was pretty much make sense.

However, episode 11 was horrible with the pacing which in turn ruin the emotional build up, I'll give you that

There is difference between going and have someone waiting you at home, and never meeting someone again. It's also very cultural as well because for people in Southeast Asia, going away for learning is a normal thing and they are EXPECTED to be back home once they're finish/will be back often, so it was totally make sense for Yai to be okay leaving Jom because it's normal in the culture for someone to go far away for studying, and Yai is going to go back anyway. Jom on the other hand, will never go back. They really highlighted the difference between "going" and "parting"

The coloring is more purposeful than you think. The bright coloring, I am pretty sure, were only recurrent during the "past" scene after Jom time traveled, while the scenes in modern time, was sort of "normal" if not a bit darker. It's probably for nostalgic reasons since the bright colorization was used in many Spanish (I think) telenovelas which were quite a thing in SEA back then. Pretty sure old Thai lakorns also adopted this style of colorization like old Indonesian sinetrons. They tended to be either too bright or too dark.

Exactly, I remember handphone wasn't even used in my hometown widely until late 2000s, and phonebooth was a thing, but my mom literally owned the only phone in my town before and it didn't even exist in the nearby city. I don't remember what year exactly, but definitely 1990s. It was quite a profitable business until handphone came along.

There really upping the suspense and ambiguity for season 2 with this one. cause if Jom didn't return in the next episode, then we're absolutely getting the 2nd one.

These people who called the plot too "slow" don't even know what "plot" even is. They see a long scene and called it "slow moving plot" like as if we didn't have heartbreak, car crash, and time travel in the first episode.

I wouldn't say I feel you linger in the air is a Lakorn. It is historical, but not really a "Lakorn" because of the writing style. It's not overtly dramatic the way Laws of Attraction is. The easiest way, at least for me personally, to differentiate between "Lakorn" (which is also a kind of genre on its own in basically Southeast Asia and South Asia), is the evil guys tend to be absolutely evil. Like that corrupt old fart from "To Sir, with Love" or the councilman in "Laws of Attraction". Robert on the other hand was shown to be more "human", just look at how he treated his second wife in the latest episode, where he wanted her to be part of the family. I feel that IFLITA is more down sincere than the other two because, well, they are clearly a lakorn, hence the overly dramatization. IFLITA didn't have such overly dramatization.

I am not saying that there are no drama, the scene where Jom cried and being dumped by Ohm is clearly a very dramatize scene, but it wasn't overly dramatize if that make sense. Like that scene in "To Sir, With Love" where the mother was dying and still managed to speak for a long time even though others died quickly to the poison. I hope that makes sense

Director isn't the only one in the production team, there are producer and screenwriters, and sometimes even the actors' agency meddling with the production as well, so even if you have good director and actors, and the director have good vision of the film, things still can get messy if there is no synergy with the rest of the production. I was also worried when I knew the director was the one in Step by Step, but I am glad they tone down the "holier than thou" attitude in this one. Jom's rampage on the episode 4 was good while mantaining the comedic side, and didn't feel preachy or shoving the message down everybody's throat.

I think you're mistaken dragging scene with slow pace, because pace is all about moving events/plot progression. Like if they dwell on the break up and OhmJom for the rest of the episode, that would be slow. A scene with many shots of the scenery is a drag/slow scene. Some people enjoy a slower scene that let you bask in the mise-en-scene and some people don't. Trust me if the pace got any faster, we'll be in Mars already.

Yes I disagree with you, mise-en-scene is an important part of this series, at leas the first episode, and in fact, they played a lot with the cinematography rather than literature elements. Or rather, they moved some of literature elements function from boring dialogues into cinematography instead, or Showing rather than Tell, that's why if you didn't notice, the dialogue, more often than not, focus more on the characters' personal feeling rather the nitty-gritty stuff like foreshadow. In fact, the scene that you said had "no purpose" is actually the foreshadow scene. The scene also serves as a tone indicator, which is important for first episode, to hook people with similar interest to the somewhat serene and melancholic tone of the series. You can't just put weird jump scare noises and expect people to be scared. It's definitely for those who enjoy a more emotional build up kinda films, but even then, THIS IS NOT SLOW PACE.

It's not his fault to fall in love, but he cheated instead of breaking it with Jom first.. It's absolutely his fault that he cheated and left his lover back at home for 2 years who managed to keep it in his pants, unlike Ohm. So yeah, it's totally his fault that he cheated.

You got LDR, break-up, ghost sighting, carcrash, and time travel within the first episode, which is 1 hour long... How much faster you want them to run?