look, I love that we're getting tons of ohmnanon content and that they're getting their own show and probably getting richer each day but you know what would make me like, the happiest person on earth?? more patpran content. please give me that high school special and wedding proposal special gmm I'm begging
pat & pran + favorite moments (in no particular order)
“I’d like to compose something that conveys the sense of…‘born to be together’. Like…growing up together, seeing each other every day. Nothing happens at the beginning, but without realizing it, their feelings…”
“…their feelings have changed.”
I know you've talked about your favourite Pat and Pran scenes but do you have an absolute favourite bad buddy scene overall? Everyone goes on about the rooftops in 5 and 10 or Pat's fight with his father in 10 but I will never get over the scene in Pran's room at the end of episode 4. It was the only time i properly cried throughout the show's whole run. Watching Pran's chin wobble and his eyes well up as Pat listed all his own loveable qualities thinking he liked someone else whilst the sad music played in the background really broke my heart. The performance felt so raw and authentic and made me really start to pay attention to Nanon as an actor (i'd never seen him in anything before this and just found out how many awards he's been nominated for?). It was just overall such a turning point for me in the series.
Oh anon, this is the loveliest. Thank you for sharing your favorite scene with me. The EP4 ending is definitely a standout for me as well. The direction, the mood lighting, the music, and especially the acting... it all came together magnificently. I anticipate writing an entire dissertation on this for my EP4 recap, so I won't say too much here, except that I return to this scene A LOT. The moment I consistently hit pause on is Pran’s soft smile as he watches Pat sleep. Even as his heart is breaking, he can’t help but look fondly at Pat. It gets me every time. It is so achingly relatable and oh so... human. Everything about this speaks to me. I've probably rewatched this scene more than the rooftop kiss and the beach kiss combined if that tells you anything. I’m weak for the quieter moments of the show, especially those that involve Pran giving into his longing.
Having said that though, while this is up there for me, gun to head if I had to choose JUST ONE SCENE that is my favorite? Ohhhh, you’re really going to make me choose? Wow, OKAY. I'm going to cheat and narrow it down to two. But I’ll force myself to make it 1a and 1b, fair?
The runner-up for my favorite scene is the I ran after you with your guitar from EP10. I’ve talked about this in my favorite Pran moments, but that smile of surprise and utter contentment gets me on every rewatch. Also, the little gulp he takes because he’s choked up from Pat’s confession is just EVERYTHING to me. It’s small and nuanced but also so incredibly telling of how overwhelmed Pat makes him feel. He quite literally has to catch his breath. I love it and them sooo much. And then add to this, Pran plays the first bars of his eventual song for Pat in the same place where he wrote and sang his first song, also for Pat. It's just such a full and complete moment.
Hiding for so long and now to express their feelings openly at the same place where they weren't even allowed to be seen together years before, they’ve come full circle. The natural light that surrounds them, the gentle breeze that ruffles their hair – an unintentional parallel for their sweeping emotions. The entire atmosphere of them being back at their high school and on that very stage. The embracing warmth of nostalgia and feeling like they’re the only two people on earth. BUT more than all that, it’s their unspoken conversation as they gaze at each other:
I couldn’t tell you then so let me say it now, I’ve loved you before I knew that I had fallen. I've loved you before I knew it myself. Thank you for patiently waiting for me to catch up. I’m sorry you had to wait alone for so long, but I’m here now. And I promise you’ll never be alone again.
And the response:
I’ve always loved you. I don't even remember a time when I didn't, if anything, my loving you has given myself back to me. Being with you feels like freedom. Thank you for that and for being entirely worth waiting for.
So, now you're thinking wow, what scene is going to top that?! Well, some of you may be surprised with my choice, but in a series that’s overflowing with memorable moments, my favorite scene overall has to be the EP12 ending. Like a siren, Pran lures Pat with song and he climbs into Pran’s window as he always has. The familiar yet lit anew with hopeful expectations for the future. The adoring looks they share, the words both said and unsaid that expresses their lifelong commitment to each other. Pat looking at Pran as though he holds Pat’s entire world in his heart and hands; he then caresses him as if he couldn't bear not to. Pran returning the mutual adoration with a look that says:
If anyone were to ask me what does love look like? I’d respond that it’s like everything I’ve ever lost come back to me. The watch, the guitar, my music, my freedom and most importantly you. All returned to me. I am overflowing in all aspects of life because I have you by my side.
They’re just so ESTABLISHED here. It's P’Aof's parting gift to us, allowing us to see this private, intimate moment between them. It’s to assure us that Pat and Pran are going to make it. They’ve weathered the storm and are still going strong. They’ll continue to face everything together. Come what may. And it is so incredibly satisfying to see. And then to understand that their journey isn’t ending, it’s only just beginning. Even if our time with them has come to an end (sobs), we find comfort in knowing that there is a world out there where Pat and Pran continue to annoy each other, fight alongside each other with pinkies attached and hearts aligned.
And THEN to bookend all of this with the tin can telephone and their younger selves? It’s magic happening on screen. It’s the show telling us that we should have never doubted our boys, it’s always been like this for them and will continue to be. Parents, friends, long distance? None of this has anything on their love. They put each other first and everything else second. They bet on themselves and won.
i love how no conflict in bbs was bc of misunderstanding bc pranpat were set up as characters that knew each other as well as they knew themselves. they were versed in the other like a second language they'd picked at birth. and that was the most romantic thing ever
its not a trope i dislike bc obv two ppl won't know everything about e/o esp if they've recently met. and its common in stories w even childhood friends to lovers. but heck pran and pat were told to hate each other and somehow grew to complete the other. grew up as separate halves. they knew each other so fucking well. how to hurt the other. how far they could push the other. how to cheer each other up best.
even when they didn't know what the other was thinking, minute flippant cues would be enough for them to sort out what they needed to know. mannerisms so innate to one u wouldn't realize ur doing or expressions u let crack thru ur walls bc no one else notices. they could read all of that. maybe they didn't even know themselves as well as they knew the other. bc clearly falling in love helped them both learn their own selves better.
i just love how misunderstandings couldn't possibly last long btw them. insecurities were resolved in ways more effective than comforting words could. any fear of losing the other once they were dating just didn't exist. bc they were determined to work this out and knew the other well enough to be confident they felt the same. the best example of this is when they both said sorry together. like two halves meeting each other halfway to make a whole.
I've noticed that in many Thai bl dramas actors do this... cheek kiss that's like... you don't actually touch the partner's cheek with your lips? (esp 2gether or Bad buddy) Is that an actual thing thai ppl do? It actually always makes me a little "???" when fans go crazy over a kiss like that because in my country an actual cheek kiss is when you touch with partner's cheek with your lips?
it is absolutely a thai thing called "sniff kiss" in english :) in thai, the way to kiss a cheek is to put your nose on the person's cheek and smell it with a little sound, instead of making the "mwah" sound we're used to in the west. when you look at the actual way to say "kissing cheeks" in thai, it is actually หอมแก้ม, or hôm khaem, hôm being smelling a pleasant smell, and kaem being cheek. though in recent years, western culture & the fact that thai dramas have acquired a huge international fanbase have changed a few things. firstly I'm fairly sure I've heard the expression "jub kaem" before in a series, literally meaning kissing cheeks, which is not the real thai expression. but more importantly, there are now three different ways to kiss cheeks in thai dramas:
1) the sniff kiss, as already established. it's becoming less common in bl dramas that are meant for an international audience, but is still the most common way in lakorns, thai soap operas that are meant for a majoritarily thai audience.
2) the in-between, with the person putting their lips on the other person's cheek but still inhaling loudly instead of the usual western "mwah." the most recent example & my favorite is white kissing sean's kiss as they wake up after their first time in not me ep 9 :)
3) the fully non thai way of kissing cheeks, which is really prevalent as I said in a lot of bl dramas that have a mostly international audience.
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