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I completely fell for Jett and Charn in the book, and they’re just as sweet in the series. Pong is perfect too. They really have nailed the casting.

I can’t believe they did the wee role reversal piece 😆

I feel like this came out of nowhere.

I don’t see it. The second couple yes, but the central couple mark me sad.

Agreed. I’m here to see how many more hilariously daft episodes I have to watch, and found your completely accurate review.

YouTube threw me a video with these actors together off the set, and it made me sad that the main couple have much better chemistry in real life than in the drama. Director problem, I guess.

I’m not saying anything against the relationships. This series is just leaving me cold right now, because it’s set in a bad time for an amazing nation, and because at the point in the story I’m up to, I’m not feeling Mile. I’ll go back to it once I’ve pared down my watchlist a bit, and my mental health is better. I’m watching so many series right now, and I’m stripping that back to the warm, fuzzy mind-candy. Think of it as self-care 🙃

I’m finding Thanwa annoying, and the era a bit grim. I grew up through the 70s, and it’s distinctly unromantic to me. There was nuclear testing going on in the Pacific, the Cold War was going on, as well as many more conventional conflicts. Thailand was a mess. South Africa was an apartheid state, and had locked up Nelson Mandela in the 60s. I was in Bangkok very briefly at the end of the 70s, and the strongest impression was made by armed forces personnel carrying rifles at the airport. Around then the ozone hole that effected my country badly started appearing. The 60s and 70s was a period when counter-culture had a lot to chew on, so it makes sense to base a political drama about social unrest then, especially a Thai one, given the instability there at the time. It’s just not conducive to me getting a fix of romance, so after three episodes I’m going to put it on the back burner, until I’m feeling optimistic enough to re-visit it.

Minjun’s a lot like me, to outward appearances. Their conversation by the river in the third episode confirmed that he shares less visible traits with me too. He’s got listening-comprehension deficits and doesn’t understand cues for intent, but I’m not sure if they’re from similar causes to mine or not. When he was younger he was terrible at wearing his heart on his sleeve, he’s much more expressive in the scenes set in the present. That’s probably a case of learning how to over time, because his more overt expressions feel like ASD-style masking to me. I don’t know if it’s good actor instincts or good direction, but he’s acting his socks off, from where I’m sitting. It’s subtle though. Jinhwan is the opposite. He wears his heart on his sleeve, and is very authentically rendered, which makes him feel sincere and earnest, when they are communicating properly. His masking is much more neurotypical, and as such much more obvious, because he comes across as insincere in those moments, such as in the boardroom encounter when they are first reunited by the director. They’re both great, in my opinion. Good casting.

Good idea!

I’m enjoying this, but Jinta is really irritating me. The demented over-acting grates.

If you’re VPNed via a node in Thailand you can watch it on
yt:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXvmzTa73vgt2xtCW8pZSr_U_hKW2RNfH&si=6a8gO3man15PW1xJ

YOUKU trailer on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/i1-tzytBFtE?si=PJCnKb4gSjQvdufl

Oh sorry. I wasn’t paying attention to who you are. As to your second point, that’s a matter of opinion 🙃

Every demographic has monsters, just as they have healers and protectors.

Not at all. I haven’t read every other post, and, of those I did read, only yours was rude to another member of the community. I called out the one post I’ve seen that came off as being really rude. My personal view of the series doesn’t come into it at all.

Thanks. Last time I fell for that trick I lost six months of paid VIP by signing up for a month of premium. I’m not doing that again. I guess I’ll be patient.

Does anyone know when us plebby iQIYI VIPs get episode two?

It’s years as a professional Community Manager coming into play. I see offensive posting, and call it out.

It might help to think of Haiyuan as that 70 year-old’s wife.