I should start out by saying that the original Two Moons was my first ever BL, so I am a little skewed in favor of the original cast, with that said, even from an objective point of view, this was not the best Two Moons. From the top, the story wasn't bad. It was a continuation of the original Two Moons cast but add in Lom and Tatch. The story wasn't terrible, just cliche. The actors weren't terrible, just well, inexperienced. It does bother me that the actors didn't match the physical types of the characters from the story. I think Yo was actually taller than Pha or around the same height and build. I'm not saying that they should always perfectly follow the orginial, because you should base it on acting ability, but if we're basing this on acting ability solely without considering the physical characteristics at all, they should at least have gotten more experienced actors and worked a little on chemistry. Speaking of, there was no chemistry at all between MingKit, PhaYo, or ForthBeam. At least the TatchLom pairing did have chemistry, so they did an okay job with that. By the way, since Lom is supposed to be Pha's cousin, why did Tatch get the arrogant prick gene? His beginning treatment of Lom was so much like Pha's treatment of Wayo from the first season that I felt like he was possessed by the ghost of Pha past. Luckily he changed faster than Pha did, so you at least had a believable reason for Lom to start liking him. The music was nothing special. Not bad, not good. Rewatch value is low, because to me the story didn't stand out.

I can't talk about Two Moons without comparing it to the books, which I read (a translation on Wattpad by permission of the original author, but they did a good job before it got taken down and moved to a new site). Going by the books, the 3rd series was well ... I don't know how to describe it. Off. Crazy, Wrong. Taking a different direction. Oh well, you catch my drift. It was not what was in the book, BUT we did get to see the scene with Pha testing Yo and then proposing (which grates on my nerves to this day, like I seriously wish that book was never written). As in the book, Pha treats Yo badly, hurts his feelings and ignores him, then says if you can handle this and still love me you passed my test and we can get married. In this series, we get a much better response from Yo, where he tells Pha that he can handle all the times they can't be together because of work but he doesn't want to feel like Pha doesn't care about him. Then Pha apologizes (still half heartedly in my opinion, because Pha will always be the most arrogant prick ever) and proposes. So at least the writers in the series knew that ending with Pha being a complete d**k was not the way to go for that part of the series. The scenes between PhaYo, MingKit, and ForthBeam all seemed a little forced and weird. Like, where were they intending to go with this? Just ruin the relationships between all the characters, put them back together again as if nothing happened and call it a day? What was the point? We should have all just stuck with Season 1 and been happy. So overall, not a waste of time, but if you're a big fan of Two Moons, you will probably be disappointed.