rapaciousobserver

A badly written story about a badly written book.... that's a complete circle.

Honestly, this is the best GL curently airing. Yes, better than The Air (though I like it too.)

I like the girls as a couple, but this story is just all over the place. They deserved better writing, but it's best to aproach anything from CH3 with low expectations.

Right?! I expected them to adopt Nueng's baby, but assumed she would live.

I never said any of that was not the case, and Blew has already said there is a way to contact her father just that she is concerned about puttign him and her brother in danger.

Yeah, the water was disapointing. They didn't give them a good story, which is anoying because we know they can handle it.

The air is airing Saturday morning in the US, which I believe is Saturday night in Thailand. It's on iQiyi. 8 epsidoes of the earth, 8 of the water and we are three into Air.

Yeah, not exactly the "real world." When they asked about proving Blew is the real princess, my first thought was DNA? LOL. Finger Prints.... I'm sure they have all that on file.
And Big Thit wasn't even aiming that rifle. LOL. (his name cracks me up.)

You like Freenbecky, but haven't watched The Loyal Pin? I highly recomend it. It's so beautifully done.

I started watching this show hoping it would be fun. I have been really impressed so far. They have done an excellent job of building tension and interest without jumping into all the overdone tropes.

I’m trying to figure out if Khun Lene is her Dad’s rival, rebelling by being good, or a cop. 🤣 which is good. Keep me guessing. EP4 3/4 oh that smile P’Le…

I don;t mind a bit of conversation, but when they become willfully obtuse, I stop interacting with them.

I disagree. It was clear from the trailer that this was not going to be an enemies to lovers trope. There is also plenty of tension, but it's about defining the relationship and keeping it hidden at work, which again is in trailer. Lal wants more. but Wine is scared of the career implications and pushes Lal away.

It's really like we watched different trailers.

I just discussed the grape/rape thing with a 72-year-old literal boomer, and she immediately said, "You have to do that to avoid the censors and being shadow-banned," with total disbelief that people don't know that. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

We followed that with a fun conversation about the euphemism treadmill (where a euphemism tends to become a slur or pick up other negative connotations just like the word it was replacing- rinse and repeat).

As for "playing the victim." I tend to believe victims. I can believe they are both a victim and clueless about grape as a euphemism.

Who said anything about being surprised?

Literally the first dialog in the trailer was Lal asking her friend about "friends with benefits." It quite clearly set up the intent that the enemies part is nothing but show for the work place. Half way through the trailer Lal is being introduced to Wine's friend and litterally pauses because she wanted to say she was Wine's girlfriend. Lal and Wine still haven't admitted they are catching feelings even though it's obvious to the viewer.

It's confusing becasue it's like we watched totally different trailers. I saw a fun romcom where the enemies part was an obvious farce from the beginning, and so far the plot is exactly what I expected, but with enough small twists to keep me engaged.

No, in a day when most people don't read past headlines and TLDR is a well known abrieveation it's not at all surprizing. Cunfusing yes. Sad, perhaps, but surprising-no not even a little.

If you like something with a fantastic twist, but not heavy fantasy. Reverse 4 You and Reverse With Me have an interesting time-travel element.

The fact that I highlight failures in GLs doesn't always mean I dislike the show. I can and do often say overall I like a show, and yet here is this red flag, or issue they didn't resolve that would have made it better. Honest critique moves the needle. The companies just want profits. We have to push to make them make it better.

Yeah it's such an over used trope, and frankly its lazy writing.

Both of your points are true. My point was about how overused the trope is in GLs. There are so many ways to create the tension needed for a story to be interesting, but CH3 (and others) seems stuck in a rut. You can't throw a rock without hitting a creepy dude in a GL. It just strikes me as lazy writing.

The gun handling is better than most GLs, but they still commit the cardinal sin of fingers on triggers at least occasionally. I can forgive it for the baddies who presumably have little training, but law enforcement and other hero types should display good skills. One of the few unequivically positive things I can say about Only You is that they really did a very good job of maintaining trigger finger discipline. The training they did for the show shone in that respect. I still expected better, but it was good. I haven't seen any footage of Freen training, but I would bet she has not fired a real gun, or not much. I've shot competitively, so these things always jump out at me in stories. Most media handle guns poorly, so it's not a strong criticism of the show; more of the TV/movie industry worldwide.

Regardless of that, I am really enjoying The Air. It feels like Freen is having a lot of fun with her character.

Why CH3? this is an interesting concept, but why does there need to be a creepy dude? And of all the actors to cast for it? That's not a critisizm of Ohm, he is playing the creep very well and I hate him, but how will I feel the next time I watch The Loyal Pin. SMDH

It is kinda jarring to see him as the badguy, but the only other thing I've seen him in was The Loyal Pin.