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I fell in love
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I enjoyed every second of this series. I couldn't believe I found a Thai bl without a bunch of side couples and drawn out dialogues between irrelevant characters. The plot was PLOTTING, and acting was on such a high level, especially Ming. Even support characters like Wut and others were enjoyable to watch and contributed to the plot. It's rare to find series with thought out plot AND character development. I loved how the story was from Joe's POV, this is what lacked for me in Love Mechanics. In comparison of 2 stories of toxic relationships, My stand -in did it right, allowing us to form our own perception of Ming's character, not sugar coating his behavior with sob stories and his dialogues with support characters. This series let the story unveil Ming's reasons behind his actions and only in the last episodes showed us his struggles.
Even production was beautiful, and all this on the background of filming set was so refreshing to watch. Another thing, main leads had a strong chemistry and authentic tension, all NC scenes were beautiful. Heck, there was even humour and funny moments, this show was perfect.
SPOILERS ahead
I deducted 0.5 points from the story as it lacked the backstory of Ming's character, especially his love for Thong. It's evident that Ming is an obsessive and possessive man, but it wasn't clear how Ming still couldn't get over Thong even after 4 years of studying in USA. And revealing later on that he fell in love with Thong's charisma in fencing scene (his back actually) did a disservice to his character. I get that a teenager could fall in love at first sight with a cool fighting scene and idolize the actor later on, but him breaking into tears and drinking himself to oblivion just because Thong proposed to his sister, while Ming himself was living together with Joe and even bought couple mugs made zero sense. It would make more sense if how Thong was low-key flirting with Ming, making his heart flutter, hence making him misunderstand, but Thong was portrayed as a heterosexual character, not even bisexual, so it wasn't clear what Ming was hoping for.. That's my only beef with the series. Overall, I fell in love with Ming's character and his way of hurting other's with his words. Finally a toxic, red flag character done right.
I enjoyed every second of this series. I couldn't believe I found a Thai bl without a bunch of side couples and drawn out dialogues between irrelevant characters. The plot was PLOTTING, and acting was on such a high level, especially Ming. Even support characters like Wut and others were enjoyable to watch and contributed to the plot. It's rare to find series with thought out plot AND character development. I loved how the story was from Joe's POV, this is what lacked for me in Love Mechanics. In comparison of 2 stories of toxic relationships, My stand -in did it right, allowing us to form our own perception of Ming's character, not sugar coating his behavior with sob stories and his dialogues with support characters. This series let the story unveil Ming's reasons behind his actions and only in the last episodes showed us his struggles.
Even production was beautiful, and all this on the background of filming set was so refreshing to watch. Another thing, main leads had a strong chemistry and authentic tension, all NC scenes were beautiful. Heck, there was even humour and funny moments, this show was perfect.
SPOILERS ahead
I deducted 0.5 points from the story as it lacked the backstory of Ming's character, especially his love for Thong. It's evident that Ming is an obsessive and possessive man, but it wasn't clear how Ming still couldn't get over Thong even after 4 years of studying in USA. And revealing later on that he fell in love with Thong's charisma in fencing scene (his back actually) did a disservice to his character. I get that a teenager could fall in love at first sight with a cool fighting scene and idolize the actor later on, but him breaking into tears and drinking himself to oblivion just because Thong proposed to his sister, while Ming himself was living together with Joe and even bought couple mugs made zero sense. It would make more sense if how Thong was low-key flirting with Ming, making his heart flutter, hence making him misunderstand, but Thong was portrayed as a heterosexual character, not even bisexual, so it wasn't clear what Ming was hoping for.. That's my only beef with the series. Overall, I fell in love with Ming's character and his way of hurting other's with his words. Finally a toxic, red flag character done right.
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