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I think the reason so many people love Kinnporsche so much is the characters.The characters really captured the hearts of a huge amount of people in a way that no other Thai show has been able to. If a show is good technically and plotwise people will watch and enjoy it, but forget about it soon after. But if the characters get people hooked that will make the audience stay, even years after the show has ended. To this day, Kinnporsche has an active fandom for all the three couples (Kinnporsche,VegasPete and Kimchay) with multiple new fan fics being written every day with no end in sight (also all 3 couples made it in the top 100 pairs in ao3 stats in 2022 and 2023 which is like crazy considering that Thai shows have not been able to get even one couple on the list before)So yes, KP the series might not have been perfect, but it has the kind of emotional hook that the other shows you mentioned do not have.

I think the cast is too large. Hard to give individual characters good development.

It seems it is always the new startups that pop up out of nowhere that create banger queer productions. Happened with Kinnporsche and now with this. Established big companies rarely make any truly good GLs or BLs in my opinion.

I’ve been waiting and biding my time around for something like this. I haven’t really watched any Thai GL before because romance taking place in school/the workplace/the entertainment industry do not really interest me, so I’m glad there is finally a premise that I find interesting and can enjoy🥰

Definetly bingewatching this! I’m so glad that they were able to make this within a reasonable amount of time (within a year since announcement)Many shows that publish a pilot take way too much time to actually air, if they ever do. Kudos to the Clairebell team!

It took me a bit to find it but here you go☺️
https://www.tumblr.com/secriden/793963361737080832/in-other-news-my-poly-relationship-with-bratty?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/secriden/796758067714883584/thank-you-revamp-for-always-fueling-my-bratty?source=share

As long as the relationship is portrayed as an actual friendship and not with intense romantic undertones.

I really wanted this so I could have gotten some vicarious Kimchay as a consolation prize since there was so little of them in KP and I love them💦I doubt Happy ending will work in that regard cause Damon and Anawin seem too different to be able to watch it as a Kimchay au so this was my only hope.

Is he like homophobic or something or why does he not want to kiss a man? Like it’s just acting lol

I really would love this to be gay but I hate how Thailand pretty much refuses to make queer stuff that is not fluffy romcom (only a few exceptions). Like the straights already have everything in every conceivable genre imaginable, so I’m bummed if there will not be even one dark themed action show that is queer:(

Hopefully now that it has been changed there will be hollywood-style action with queer romance (not your typical Thai romcom BL) It’s unfair that so far all the big budget vampire dramas have been given to het dramas.

Still waiting for the new cast announcement………

For me this is the kind of show that you could write an academic analysis on for your thesis, but not the kind of show that makes you want to engage with it creatively through fic and art.Like it was a solid 9 in terms of quality, but now that I’ve finished it it’s easy to move on.

I’m not watching this show but I saw a gif set with captions of bratty sub!Ciar with soft dom !Mekhin and stern dom!Methas and now I cannot unsee it XD maybe I should watch this after all…….

Since the script probably isn’t going to be completed in the next few months and assuming that filming will take at least 6 months (since it seems to be a big production with many episodes considering how long the script is taking), I think we should not expect to see Happy Ending until late summer next year or even next fall. Saying this just so that nobody expects this anytime soon.

The good thing with them taking their time is that the script will probably become really good and polished. The downside is though that so much time has passed that some of the hype has inevitably died down , not to mention that people will also have had maybe too much time to sit with their own ideas about what they want the show to be, which can lead to disappointment if the show ends up being too different .In my case for example the pilot gave me expectations for dark queer romance with fantasy and mystery, and since those feelings have been there for well over a year now I would end up terribly disappointed if HE would not deliver in that department (also if Jeff removed Damon choking Anawin I do not know if I could forgive it haha)

For me, a great example of a sweet and kind character that is not stereotypically bland or a doormat is Chay from Kinnporsche. That boy had a level of emotional maturity, sense of self-respect and ability to set boundaries that the other characters more directly involved in the mafia could not even dream of. Also his emotional honesty and genuine heart really had Kim silently going insane, becoming wrapped around his little finger. I would like to see more characters like this whose emotional intelligence is their strength.

Thanks for clearing that up.

It is definetly a really well-made show. Still, I also understand that a political period drama is not everyone’s favourite genre. The film critic in me is enjoying this a lot, but it’s not inspiring me to read/create fan fic or fanart like for example Kinnporsche did. I guess it is a casual enjoyment versus hyperfixation kind of thing.

The show is on my list still, I’m just waiting for more episodes to be out to start:)

A masculine guy with a feminine guy does not make the relationship any less gay, just like a guy with a masculine girl would not make a relationship any less heterosexual. I have yet to start watching the show so I really cannot comment on individual characters but I think the problem is often that writers refuse to give more feminine gay characters deeper characterization. BL actually would do well to have more femme characters as most couples are masc for masc but the issue is that the creators don’t seem to know how to write them well, so they end up being doormats with no agency lol Also sometimes in romance shows or books, whether gay or straights there is often the problem that one character is written as a thrist trap and the other as a self-insert for readers. And self-inserts are usually notoriously bland, like Bella from Twilight etc. I need both characters to be interesting in their own way to enjoy a romance story.