rapaciousobserver

I was pleasantly surprised by the final episode. One of my usual complaints about GLs is the toxic parent figure who is forgiven without doing any of the work to earn forgiveness. Yes, it leans into cultural norms, but it's also lazy writing. But Aunt Phani did the work. The time was compressed because they chose to cram it into a single episode, but with a couple of time jumps we felt the weight of the work she did. We also see how she is still grudging about it and then is finally good about it by the wedding.

I still say they are shortchanging themselves and the fans by compressing good stories down to 8 episodes. Each of the four stories could have been at least 12 episodes, but very few GLs are provided the budget for it. The Loyal Pin, which I still hold up as the pinnacle of storytelling in Thai GL, only managed 16 episodes because of the support of the Thai government.

Wow. Apparently you are seriously in your feels on this. Up to this point I have stayed very specifically on my issues with the series and have not criticized you as a person, but you have criticized me. Based on you attacking me rather than ideas, I don't feel concerned about that anymore.

Nothing came from my notepad. For months I have consistently criticized ch3 for poor writing. It's not a me problem if you can't tell the difference between a consistent position and copypasta.

"Literally not talking about Lingorm or any of ch3" I was clarifying that I'm not criticizing LingOrm, or their acting. Reading comprehension seems to be lacking here.

"Was there an actual scene?" Yes, all of them.- it's the entire show is repetitive. Ging does something evil, Ran fails to stand up for Neen and that causes tension between them. They could completely remove multiple episodes and it wouldn't change the story.

"I mean youtube does have to work on it's writing." Youtube doesn't write those- People post content. that content was AI slop.

"Don't bring up AI as something useful when you say you hate it" At no point in my post did I claim AI was useful. Again, reading comprehension matters.

All I see is someone who got angry and then responded from emotion instead of taking the time to cool off and them make sure they understood the point I made. In that anger, you have made multiple errors in understanding, simple facts, and logic.

Your last line was quite the self-own. I suspect you will have deleted out of embarrassment by the time I log in again.

I'm not looking for kudos. I'm expressing an opinion. You are welcome to disagree with my opinion, but don't just tell me I can't have my opinion. Bring an argument and make your case, or keep scrolling. I’m not saying other people can’t enjoy it. Some people stan anything LingOrm and will overlook all the legitimate criticism. I like LingOrm enough to make the argument that CH3 owes them for the reputational harm caused by In Love Forever and Only You.

The writing of this show is low-effort garbage; star power and high production values don't fix bad writing. The plot is so repetitive that I have been accurately predicting plot points from ep 3 on.

The writing is as bad as, or worse than, what AI would do. Why shouldn't I point that out? I'm specifically looking at the writing. I'm not comparing it to the full-on uncanny-valley slop that is filling YouTube over the last few months. There are some cute scenes that were only saved by LingOrm’s acting, and they get credit for that. I want to see them get better writing than ch3 produces, and we have to be honest about how bad it is, or ch3 won’t change. (Even then, they may not.)

On the bright side, there is only one episode of this poorly written train wreck left. AI could write a better script than this, and I detest AI in creative works.

If I were Ranuch, I would have agreed to the meeting with Ging and recorder her admitting to conspiracy with Utt. That woman needs to be in prison.

Ging is nucking futs... That is all.

It depends on where you are watching it. Some youtubers are reuploading it and numbering it differently. I try to stick to the source so they get the views. If you watch Kongthup's Channel, you get the correct numbering and support the production. 1/1, 1/2, 2/1, 2/2, etc

Having enjoyed EWB, I'm looking forward to seeing Cheese again. and hoping that Wine and Lan will make a cameo in this.

I don't see the comparison with AI 2001, that could be personal bias because I didn't care for the movie and haven't seen in in a very long time. However from what I do recall the similarity is very superficial.

While I have not rewatched Bicentennial Man in quite a while, I did like it. I liked the journey the robot took and the ending fit. What is more human than death? We are born, live a life (hopefully worth living) and in the end we die. His death was proof of his humanity.

In AI Girl the death scene doesn't feel like it completes the story. It feels like a spare part bolted on. It feels out of place. When you end a story, unless you are planning a sequel, typically you wrap up lose threads, though you may leave some things open to interpretation or speculation. This ending created more questions than it answered. Ai didn't age, so how did that play out over 45 years? My friend whose husband is only 10 years younger than he is, just got asked if they were father an son. (Yikes!) It also took me right back to the bad-old-days of sapphic fiction where the girls had to die or meet some other end (yes 45 years is a long time, and it's not the same, it still carried the feeling).

The story would have felt complete without the final scene, so what did the final scene add to the series, other than saying they had many years together? I don't think it adds anything that couldn't have been shown in another way, if it needed to be shown at all. No love is ever guaranteed to last.

So we have a scene that doesn't feel like it fits, doesn't add to the narrative in a meaningful way, and doesn't wrap up stray questions. Taken together it felt like someone had seen Bicentennial Man and just wanted to add this scene (maybe not even intentionally.)

Humans was great in season 1. I think I watched at least part of season 2, but I don't think I finished it.

It's not your fault. no worries.

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.

I've blocked Concrete Lotus. I don't have time or inclination for their nonsense.

Good to know. GMMtv is usually pretty good, which was part of why I was disappointed with MOS. I'm holing out hope for Moonshadow.

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.)

No, ignored your brain rot and addressed Sunshine's original questions.

Enemies With Benefits is comedy, but hits some hard topics TW for SA
Queendom is silly fun with a supernatural twist.

These are guesses since I don't know what you like.

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.

If you haven't seen Petrichor, I strongly recommend it.

Bold to start with account stats considering what yours look like.