Sun

Beautiful story about trauma, healing, love, and care

I didn't think when I started the first episode that this would be the one drama that would dare me into writing my first public review instead of keeping it just in my private notes... But I just have to after finishing the final epiosde because WOW!

I can't believe it is over... The amount of time I have spent thinking, crying, and smiling over this show in the past weeks is crazy. It's the best piece of media I've watched this year so far (and I've watched other amazing stuff like Khemjira or Paradise of Thorns only this year, soooo...)
Just what an absolute beautiful story about trauma, healing, love, and care!!!

To me, this show is once again proof why-TO ME-the thai dramas are often so superior compared to the ones in other countries... Because, as Puhwin put so eloquently put it, BL isn't a genre, and that's just how they treat it here… It is foremost a story about trauma and healing, and the leads happen two men in love. The trauma and the coping mechanisms are handled really well, the only thing that was a bit… underwhelming and unrealistic for me was Pobmek's mom immediately switching gears after everything she did. But, I guess, the main focus was Solar/Sun's trauma, so I didn't take a lot away from everything else being so well done.

The acting is top-notch, honestly. Big applause to everyone, but especially Santa. Playing both Solar and little Sun so distinctly was amazing, and probably the reason I cried so much basically every episode.

Pobmek and Solar's love is just soooo beautiful? PLS LORD MAY A LOVE LIKE THIS FIND ME SOME DAY cause fuuuucking hell, I wanna be loved and supported and seen like these two do for each other.

This will stay with me for a while and I'm gonna recommend this to everyone who cares and doesn't care!

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This never happened

Once I recovered from all the emotional damage, I will erase the existance of this episode from my memory forever. I thought "Paradise of Thorns" had given my emotional damage, but this was a whole other story...

WHAT THE ACTUAL FFFFF?
I thought they would maybe tie up some lose plot ends and give some development/back stories to the underdeveloped side characters or just some more quest but with happy JackJoke (yes I went in blind, my fault, I guess), but NOOOOOOO. Who ever thought this was a good idea?
Like you wanna emotional damage me? Sure!!! If it makes sense, I will be devasted for my darlings. But this? Why? The delusion? The wedding? Everybody supporting that shiat after denying him before? Yeah yeah noo... sorry. And then for 1 minute after the credis you tease a season 2 that will probably not even happen? Naaaaaaaaah...
Thanks for 12 episodes of Jack & Joke. I loved them very much. There never was a special epsidoe for them, how sad.

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Your actions have consequences... (unless you're filthy rich, of course!)

MY SHAYLAAAAAAAAAAS!!
I don't think I've ever attached to characters so quickly as to Joke and Jack. Like honestly. They're everything to me and they were everything to me from the start. Their slow burn was so well done for me personally and with everything going on around them, just made a lot of sense, too. Their chemistry had me in a chokehold, even when nothing much was happening between them yet. And I was ready to murder everyone who hurt them... If they didn't get their happy ending with their school, I don't know how I'd survived!

The plot was well... The set-up was so interesting, with Joker as the Robin Hood type thief and Jack as the poor kid who gets disappointed by the world again and again and yet never loses his hope and kindness. I think we should've stayed with that more. It would've still worked with the kind of underlying message that your actions have consequences (unless you're rich) they were trying to send. But they threw so many unnecessary layers and absurd games and whatnot on top of it, it just became... a bit non-sensical and deteriated too much from what made it good. It also leaves the side characters underdeveloped for the most part. Still, this show is a good reminder why we should eat the rich, be so frfr. The way they just play with peoples' life without a second though and laugh about it... Disguuuuuuuuuusting!!! I really, really wish they'd leaned more into it (and preferable in an even more serious way) and also the aspects of what greed and (lust for) power does to a person, but well...

I have come to terms with the fact that Thai shows almost always add stupid (and imho not even funny a lot of the times) humour and cannot stay with a serious undertone for too long even if the story demands it. I honestly don't understand why, but well... At this point, I'm just gonna look past it. You get so much emotion in exchange, it is usually worth it. I just wish it wouldn't take away important time from the plot, which it often does. Especially here, where so many plot points suddenly came up and were dropped, but instead we get Jack barking in 5 different dog breeds... What's the point?

The happy ending kinda fell flat for me, I don't know why... Maybe because the plot was all over the place, there were so many lose ends and questions left unanswered, but then boom, all good. Like don't get me wrong, they've earned and deserved it, and I'm so happy for them, but I expected it to hit differntly.
Either way, despite all of that, nobody can ever make me dislike this show just because YinWar (it was my first show of theirs) were amazing and Jack & Joke own my whole heart. (Alsoooo, give me more slow buuurns with this kind of tension, ahhhhh!!)

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