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Episode 9 was so intense emotionally, they did such a good job. I was devastated the whole time.

I love these two so much, KimCop all the way. They've been friends for so long they have the best dynamic.

As much as people have issues with this series and as imperfect as it was, I'm ready to take it for what it is and enjoy it. It honestly had some really good moments, I loved MarkKit's story and relationship. I'm all for more KimCop coming back as MarkKit and I honestly did become invested in seeing the endings to a lot of these couples and characters lol. Wayu/Thanu were endgame for me from the beginning so I'm ready to see how that plays out. Also, I'm really hoping we get more Sab, and that something ends up sparking between him and Padbok. Also, Jack and Phai finding their own happy endings would be nice too!

Mainly because people went in already attached to that pair haha DunBas were/are extremely popular in Thailand and they were being marketed together WAY before the series started. They constantly hang out together, did lives together, were all over each other's social media, and participated in all the marketing for the show as a couple so of course, everyone fell in love with the idea of them being a pairing no matter what. It was pretty strategic, StarHunter wanted this pairing to be endgame. That's why I was so surprised to see people thinking Wayu and Phai ever had a chance of being together. A huge clue to that was in the marketing for the show, they were never even in the same room together haha and actually, I don't think Pon even participated in any of the marketing for it (like the usual fan meets and things).

I think it they purposefully tried to make it vague, as an artistic choice, but yeah I get it can be hard to catch things sometimes. There's a lot of subtle nuances in this, which I actually prefer as a viewer, but some people might not really like hah.

It's how the novel was written. The last book hadn't been written by the time they bought the rights to produce the drama. The production company made a deal with the author if they could do a kind of "choose your own adventure" with the ending. They wanted fans to be able to vote for their favorite couple and choose the ending for Wayu (Bas). In the novel Thanu genuinely has strong feelings for both, and at the end of book 2 he hadn't chosen who he wanted to be with. In the book he's in love with Wayu, but he feels guilty because he never was supposed to fall in love with him only watch over him for Pha. For Phai he's drawn to him because of the visions but his heart isn't in it, which is why at the end of the last season we see him decide he wants to make his own destiny and finally chooses Yu.

Because this story was made by a different author as an alternative universe to 2Moons. What people don't understand is that these stories are actually a separate series of books called Gen Y written by Liu Lijun. They are not the same story and the only way they are connected is that the characters Mark (Ming), Kij (Kit), Wayu (Wayo), and Pha (Phana) are based on the 2moons characters, the storyline isn't supposed to mirror 2Moons or be a continuation of 2Moons, it's a new story. The author did this on purpose BECAUSE she didn't like aspects of 2Moons, specifically Wayu and Pha's storyline. While some of the main characters are the same or similar (Mark, Kij, and Wayu) the majority of the characters are new and original. If you read the novels Phai actually doesn't even make an appearance, he's just mentioned, which is why he doesn't show up in the live-action. This happens quite often in fanfiction when fans of stories or media don't like the direction a storyline is taking, so they write their own. The producers chose this specific storyline because of the drama with the author of 2Moons. Fans wanted to see 2Moons2 reprised with the original cast and that was never going to happen, so they found an alternative.

You're right. I went with the most common usage in an effort to make what I was saying more easily understood, and I shouldn't have, google is readily available for anyone who doesn't have an immediate reference to specific terminology. I've edited my comment to be both the most appropriate term (that I know of) and understandable, thank you for pointing that out.

I'm not kidding when I say I cry every episode, the emotions in this are heavy. Yoon Oh's relationship with his mom is just so...ugh...tragic.

I'm pretty sure Yoon Oh imagined the kiss, because it looked like a dream sequence. When he started singing Peach wasn't next to him but in front cheering him on and the theater was dark. They switched to clearly a bright theater with a stage, Peach beside him, and other people applauding. Yoon Oh was imagining what he wished that moment to be like for them. The kiss basically never actually happened between them which explains why there was no mention of it and things just jumped back to reality.

I mean your comment was incredibly disrespectful and derogatory. You called their form of showing affection "shit" and said they should "drop it", you also said they should do it "properly" like there is only one way to do something or to show love and affection. I'm telling you that "I' personally found your comment offensive and problematic so you can take that however you like, it's my personal opinion after all. If you're aware of "PDAs and culture" as you said than your comment makes absolutely no sense, and in fact makes what you said worse, as you deliberately ignored the fact that this is a part of their culture and still want them to stop doing it and change to mirror your own cultural standards. It doesn't matter what your background is or what you see as a sniff-kiss from your own culture, that's very ethnocentric.

Please, if you're going to consume media from different cultures, try to learn about their culture and the origins of certain actions, idioms, etc. The sniff kiss or hom kaem is the most common and accepted form of showing affection and love, it literally means breathing in the perfect and unique scent of the one you love. A lot of Asian cultures take more delicate and sweet forms of PDA over overt ones like direct kisses. In fact, Thai people rarely kiss in public, usually that gesture is so intimate it's reserved for private spaces like the bedroom, but even then the sniff-kiss is seen as something incredibly sweet for couples to do in any context (for example Thai couples actually sniff-kiss as their "wedding kiss" rather than kiss at the end of the ceremony like Western couples do). Due to morality issues kissing actually wasn't commonly even seen on screen until after the 1990s. Today, even in more progressive and touristy places like Bangkok public displays of affection are not accepted, in some parts of Thailand even holding hands is taboo. The reason for this is due to the belief that the body is a sacred, the head in particular is the most sacred as that is where the soul lies in Thai culture and therefore you should not infringe upon that space. It doesn't matter if you "hate" it (which is odd btw) it's an important part of Thai culture that should be respected by people outside of it. A lot of different cultures have things like this, for example the Inuit Kunik (rubbing noses). You might think kissing is a common form of expressing love but actually it isn't, almost half of all the world's cultures either don't kiss or never do so outside the bedroom.

I was thinking the same about Aue! I thought it was refreshing to see that he doesn't seem to be the typical lead tropes: asshole, cold, reserved, stoic, arrogant lol the list goes on. I hope they continue with that as I think it would be a nice switch up from the usual.

I'm loving this already, the food porn is everything and I'm all for a good slow burn. There have been too many sped-through series lately. Suffice to say, I need to be well-fed before watching this, or I'm going to sit there drooling the whole time haha. I'm excited to see the development happen between the two leads, and I'm already liking some of the secondary characters that I hope they develop more as the series progresses.

I need a season 2!!! I don't want it to end!!! I need to see them all grow old together T_T

It's everything that's left unsaid. There's a lot of underlying tension, each of the characters has a very front-facing or public personality, but also an unspoken undercurrent that leaves you guessing as a viewer. It's intriguing and I'm hooked.

Well, it's official, Kaeng and Puth are still my favorite couple, with Thurs/Pae and Sun/Nuea in that order after. I do admit to having a soft spot for Mon/Team purely because of Mon, I really loved his character. I actually grew to love his character more so because of his continuous appearances in the other stories, his character was both hilarious and adorable. Also, his relationship with Puth is just everything...they're so cute, they truly reminded me of brothers.

The last story was such a missed opportunity. In my opinion, I think it's obvious Masuk is still in love with Tir. They kept reiterating that the love they had was rare, and even during Jia's confession to Masuk he said Masuk didn't need to love him and he would likely never measure up to Tir but he still wanted to take care of him. I think the saddest part of this is that people kept pushing Masuk to move on by finding "someone else", I mean you can be happy without being in a relationship. If Tir was Masuk's soulmate (which how could you not come to that conclusion?) then yeah, nobody was ever going to measure up again and he lost him unfortunately soon. In the last episode, Masuk said nothing about his feelings for Tir had changed but he was going to do what Tir asked and open himself up. It's obvious that without Tir telling him it hurt him to see Masuk so sad he wouldn't have made the same decision. I feel like they should have shown Masuk coming to terms with Tir's death (which he needed to do) and then moving on and being happy with his friends solo and starting to heal. Not every love story has a happy ending, but that doesn't mean that the characters themselves need to wallow in misery or find themselves another relationship to be happy and fulfilled. I actually think it would have been lovely to show the last scenes between Masuk and Tir, where it's clear they still are very much in love and Tir tells him to just be happy and he'll watch over him. And then show Masuk moving on with his life in healthier ways. That way it wouldn't have been totally weird for them to keep showing Tir, he would simply be waiting for him until they're able to meet again.

Niko's in this?! This being based on a true story gives me some hope it'll be good.

Ok I just have to comment that you saying psycho triggered the fact that when it panned to Mork smiling on his bed in the dark after talking to Pi...something about that immediately had my head spinning psycho-thriller music lol I've been disturbed by this man on so many levels, but I agree that Pi has issues that definitely don't need an overbearing, possessive boyfriend to fix. I know that was technically supposed to be a cute moment, but for me personally, it gave me the heebie-jeebies.

I definitely agree, he throws his weight around a lot. He uses the fact that he's bigger than Pi this his advantage in ways that are quite disturbing.