EB fan here. Didn't watch/read the novel for MOS, but I've read some negative, borderline disturbing comments…
I hadn't noticed that. It makes sense though. I don't mind heavy topics, as long as they are handled carefully. For instance Enemies With Benefits handled SA quite well, showing the harm it caused and of course it wasn't the other lead, and he had repercussions.
It really comes down to Channel 3 being completely hit-or-miss. They have hit some out of the park with great…
Oh... you poor summer child, you can't tell that Sunshine and I are two different people? The context clues in how we speak should be sufficient.
I did conceded that the Thai GL industry is young, but I didn't fail to respond to your "economic point" I ignored it because it wasn't worth responding to. (technically I did respond to it, but apparently you didn't catch it.)
I really like EmiBonnie (US is one of my all time favorites) and I hope this is a good show, but I'm reserving judgment since this is in the same universe as My Only Sunshine. The books were both written by the same author (Jan and Sun are sisters) I'm afraid something terrible will happen. I dropped My Only Sunshine after Flint SA'ed Sun.
The toxic parent trope is so overdone but I feel like Runch's mom is about the worst of the lot. She's far worse than Prem's mom in Poisonous Love. I mean she is up there with Aoey's mom from Mate who kept protecting her abuser. On the bright side there are only 3 episodes left.
can someone explain me what exactly happens in the industry?apparently.. lingorm are one of the top gl pairings…
It really comes down to Channel 3 being completely hit-or-miss. They have hit some out of the park with great pairings and strong direction, but the writing isn't there in most of their shows.
I'm going to ramble, but may give you some useful tidbits to consider.
The three sentence plot of Only You was mostly good (though many plot points were lame), but the writing and directing were awful. It made money because two pretty girls kissed. GL attracts just as many (probably a lot more) straight men watching as lesbians. Men just see corn, so judging the industry by money is short-sighted. Which I think is the problem at ch3; it made money, so "it must have been good enough," and that follows to other production houses to some degree. The other side of it is that in a world where there is so little lesbian content, many people have very low thresholds for what they consider good.
There is a seemingly never-ending list of absolute trash content that manages to “unbelievable numbers and locked in major bags.” Equating this to the quality of the product is nonsense.
I've joked (but kinda true) that the east is speed-running all the worst tropes in sapphic content that the west already went through. It's only been 4 years since GAP broke the mold in Thai GL and gave us a happy ending. I could write a thesis on all the problems with that story, but the money behind it just saw the money and hit repeat, with the results visible in cringe-worthy shows like Blank, because they followed one very problematic author at first.
On the flip side, we have things like US and The Loyal Pin which hit it out of the park. US is by the same author as GAP and Bank, but the screenwriters took a lot of liberties with the script and really made something special out of the disaster of a book. Similarly, we have My Safe Zone, which is objectively a boring script, but Lena Miu and the director still managed to make a great show from it.
Don't make too much of the other comments. Some people confuse platform account stats with real-life experience and knowledge. I haven't been on MDL very long, but I've been watching and reading WLW content longer than half the users on this platform have been alive, and I’m also a lesbian.
The Thai GL industry is young, and that is part of it, and some of these production houses are just in it for the cash grab, and yes, sexism is alive and well in just about every industry.
In the end, we won’t get better content unless we demand it. So, call out bad writing, bad direction, problematic tropes, and all the other flaws. LingOrm and so many others deserve better than this.
how was it stolen? lmao. at most it took inspiration from the movie including a death bed scene, cuz the scene,…
I never said the entire story was stolen. The final scene is nearly identical in the ways that matter. One dying the mandatory death of being born human, the other choosing death. Different enough to avoid a legal claim, but still the same.
If anything, the difference in context highlights the theft. In Bicentennial Man the point of his death isn't to die with her as some statement about their love (though it does make one), it was the inevitable conclusion of his epic his journey to be recognized as a person. While Ai became more human over the course of the series, that was only a sub plot at most. The plot of AI Girl is love against all odds that nobody else understands (literally what it is to be queer.) The only thing the death scene does, other than wrenching our hearts out, is to cement the idea that their love lasted, which they could have done in hundreds, if not thousands of ways.
I did not need or want that last scene. First of all it was heart wrenching. Yes we know their love lasted, but it still hurt. And that is before considering that it was super lazy to steal the final scene from Bicentennial Man. (and, no I didn't like it either)
And the train wreck continues, but at least Runch seems to have decided who to keep. and is seeing her mother for who she is. She needs to fire the looser Utt, though.
I am seeing in X and reddit...people coming with various BS that how a person and robot can't be together or it…
Some people just don't get science fiction. Or facts for that matter, we have people actually falling for Chat GPT larping as a their girl friend. NGL I didn't even finish Broken of Love. I just couldn't connect with the characters.
I did conceded that the Thai GL industry is young, but I didn't fail to respond to your "economic point" I ignored it because it wasn't worth responding to. (technically I did respond to it, but apparently you didn't catch it.)
Queendom is silly fun with a supernatural twist.
These are guesses since I don't know what you like.
I'm going to ramble, but may give you some useful tidbits to consider.
The three sentence plot of Only You was mostly good (though many plot points were lame), but the writing and directing were awful. It made money because two pretty girls kissed. GL attracts just as many (probably a lot more) straight men watching as lesbians. Men just see corn, so judging the industry by money is short-sighted. Which I think is the problem at ch3; it made money, so "it must have been good enough," and that follows to other production houses to some degree. The other side of it is that in a world where there is so little lesbian content, many people have very low thresholds for what they consider good.
There is a seemingly never-ending list of absolute trash content that manages to “unbelievable numbers and locked in major bags.” Equating this to the quality of the product is nonsense.
I've joked (but kinda true) that the east is speed-running all the worst tropes in sapphic content that the west already went through. It's only been 4 years since GAP broke the mold in Thai GL and gave us a happy ending. I could write a thesis on all the problems with that story, but the money behind it just saw the money and hit repeat, with the results visible in cringe-worthy shows like Blank, because they followed one very problematic author at first.
On the flip side, we have things like US and The Loyal Pin which hit it out of the park. US is by the same author as GAP and Bank, but the screenwriters took a lot of liberties with the script and really made something special out of the disaster of a book. Similarly, we have My Safe Zone, which is objectively a boring script, but Lena Miu and the director still managed to make a great show from it.
Don't make too much of the other comments. Some people confuse platform account stats with real-life experience and knowledge. I haven't been on MDL very long, but I've been watching and reading WLW content longer than half the users on this platform have been alive, and I’m also a lesbian.
The Thai GL industry is young, and that is part of it, and some of these production houses are just in it for the cash grab, and yes, sexism is alive and well in just about every industry.
In the end, we won’t get better content unless we demand it. So, call out bad writing, bad direction, problematic tropes, and all the other flaws. LingOrm and so many others deserve better than this.
If you're just saying "look these other stories did it" that doesn't counter my point. There are probably more storylines with similar scenes.
Yes, this has a scifi element, whats wrong with wanting good original writing?
If anything, the difference in context highlights the theft. In Bicentennial Man the point of his death isn't to die with her as some statement about their love (though it does make one), it was the inevitable conclusion of his epic his journey to be recognized as a person. While Ai became more human over the course of the series, that was only a sub plot at most. The plot of AI Girl is love against all odds that nobody else understands (literally what it is to be queer.) The only thing the death scene does, other than wrenching our hearts out, is to cement the idea that their love lasted, which they could have done in hundreds, if not thousands of ways.