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Beautiful, emotional and realistic...
So... they saved it last minute... I seriously did believe that Phob is dead and I actually liked that ending. Not because I love sad endings, not because I didn't want them to be happy, but because this series was once again literally screaming for it. The last minutes feels kinda forced... It doesn't mean I don't like anymore, trust me I do love it with all my heart, I just think that Phob didn't have to end aline and perfectly fine... Some injury would make it maybe even better. He already has a scar on his hand, so why not give him another?
But... It doesn't change my opinion about whole series. This year is full of BLs that are just about cute or popular faces but not actual story we could enjoy and literally live through. This one belongs to the minority of 2026 BLs that I'll probably never forget. It's beutiful, cute, romantic, meaningful, realistic, emotional but also cruel and what I like the most is that the production decided not to play these typical Thai "sunshine and rainbow" games. In my terminology, it means that everything is overly cute and in the end no matter what happens, everyone ends up happy. Well, yes, Phob being alive is totally forced happyending, but Vasin and Chat are in prison, they still don't really like Phob and so on...
You can clearly see, from very first until the very last minutes, that production and people involved in making this series put a huge amount of effort into it. Every single scene, every single moment and every single second of it feels so magical and real at the same time. Inn and Ongsa have an insane chemistry and I hope I'll see them together again. The way they portraid Phob and Tin was never caual. From the beginning, we could see that they not only cared about each other, but their feelings were truly genuine from the much longer begore this series started. They had to overcome some obstacles, they were separated and reunited, stayed on different sides in revolution and they were so close to being enemies, but they actually never hated each other. Tin loved Phob so deeply that even in the moment he could turn his love into hatred, he deciced not to and instead of saying "I don't want to see you ever again", he said "I understand you and I wish you'll be successful."
I've read that this story is based on reality, but I'm not sure if it's true. The revolution is, but the lovestory doesn't have to be. If it is, I'm so happy they decided to show it to international fans and if it isn't, I'm so happy they were able to make this beautiful lovestory in this serious and dangerious era of Siamese history.
The charcter that made me really conflicted was Chat. I liked him and I wanted to protect him. At the same time I wanted to punch him. Really hard. I believed he has reasons why he acted like this, he was jelous over Tin, overlooked by father and basically looked down by everyone. But... It still didn't give him any rights to act like this. From the certain moment, not even a devil judge like me could justify him anymore. But deep down I knew he'd get some kind of redemption arch and I was right. It wasn't exactly a redemption like you'd expect, but in the end he came to his senses even tho it was too late. Well, maybe if situation was different, some bad things didn't have to happen...
Overall... As I already said, I probably won't forget this series anytime soon. It was incredible, amazing and so powerful. All of the emotions I could feel through the screen of my laptop and I put both headphones into my ears, it felt like I was actually there.
I think we have a winner of best Thai BL series from 2026. I know there are 4 months ahead of us, I know that some other pairs have much bigger fandoms, but objectivelly, I can't imagine anything better. They just set the bar really high...
But... It doesn't change my opinion about whole series. This year is full of BLs that are just about cute or popular faces but not actual story we could enjoy and literally live through. This one belongs to the minority of 2026 BLs that I'll probably never forget. It's beutiful, cute, romantic, meaningful, realistic, emotional but also cruel and what I like the most is that the production decided not to play these typical Thai "sunshine and rainbow" games. In my terminology, it means that everything is overly cute and in the end no matter what happens, everyone ends up happy. Well, yes, Phob being alive is totally forced happyending, but Vasin and Chat are in prison, they still don't really like Phob and so on...
You can clearly see, from very first until the very last minutes, that production and people involved in making this series put a huge amount of effort into it. Every single scene, every single moment and every single second of it feels so magical and real at the same time. Inn and Ongsa have an insane chemistry and I hope I'll see them together again. The way they portraid Phob and Tin was never caual. From the beginning, we could see that they not only cared about each other, but their feelings were truly genuine from the much longer begore this series started. They had to overcome some obstacles, they were separated and reunited, stayed on different sides in revolution and they were so close to being enemies, but they actually never hated each other. Tin loved Phob so deeply that even in the moment he could turn his love into hatred, he deciced not to and instead of saying "I don't want to see you ever again", he said "I understand you and I wish you'll be successful."
I've read that this story is based on reality, but I'm not sure if it's true. The revolution is, but the lovestory doesn't have to be. If it is, I'm so happy they decided to show it to international fans and if it isn't, I'm so happy they were able to make this beautiful lovestory in this serious and dangerious era of Siamese history.
The charcter that made me really conflicted was Chat. I liked him and I wanted to protect him. At the same time I wanted to punch him. Really hard. I believed he has reasons why he acted like this, he was jelous over Tin, overlooked by father and basically looked down by everyone. But... It still didn't give him any rights to act like this. From the certain moment, not even a devil judge like me could justify him anymore. But deep down I knew he'd get some kind of redemption arch and I was right. It wasn't exactly a redemption like you'd expect, but in the end he came to his senses even tho it was too late. Well, maybe if situation was different, some bad things didn't have to happen...
Overall... As I already said, I probably won't forget this series anytime soon. It was incredible, amazing and so powerful. All of the emotions I could feel through the screen of my laptop and I put both headphones into my ears, it felt like I was actually there.
I think we have a winner of best Thai BL series from 2026. I know there are 4 months ahead of us, I know that some other pairs have much bigger fandoms, but objectivelly, I can't imagine anything better. They just set the bar really high...
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