listen… i know i should be preparing myself for duang with you to end, bc it is going to happen, and honestly i don’t think ive been personally so emotionally invested in a show since bad buddy, which literally re-centred my world it was so catastrophic for me. sure, shows have made me feel things since then, ive cried at shows, ive laughed at shows, i have adored shows so immensely for their characters and journeys and aesthetics and artistry and everything. but truly, i don’t think it has been since been bad buddy that a show has just had me, heart and soul. and it’s not for any reasons i can explain, it’s just got me.
but the thing is, while yes im of course sad its gonna end and we won’t get any more new content of duang and qin (unless we get special eps plsssss), i dont feel sad in the way i did when bad buddy was ending. bc unlike bad buddy ending, which had stakes and tension and a plot to finish and things to tie up, duang with you kinda doesn’t have that. there’s not anything that specifically needs tying up for the show to work or for us to feel satisfied, and while yes it would be nice to see how things end up eventually, for example with jamie and marvis or with qin and his family, i dont think the show would feel woefully incomplete if i didnt see that. bc again, unlike bad buddy, which had a story centered around tension and stakes and conflict right until the end, duang with you has kinda been a show free of any of that, at least in the way you typically see those things done in media. yes there was tension and stakes waiting to see when qin would admit his feelings and they’d get together and there was the thing with tiw which in the grand scheme of the show was like a blip of uncertainty, but it was tension you enjoyed watching, not bc it made you feel nervous or on edge not knowing what was gonna happen next, bc it made you feel the exact opposite. it was tension that was fun to watch bc duang and qin in the show enjoyed that feeling of tension, the build up, the slow burn. i was never uncertain that they’d end up together or scared of adverse obstacles or things going wrong. it was tension that put you at peace.
and that’s what i love. bc it makes the show perfectly and gloriously rewatchable.
now don’t get me wrong, i love rewatching things. heck, I’ve already seen about half the stuff I’m usually watching. but for bl, it’s different. i usually rewatch bl shows in binge bc im chasing or want to be reminded of a certain feeling that show conjured for me. but i also find it hard to rewatch shows i really love bc they made me so emotional in the first place and returning to that feeling is hard and it lingers and the nostalgia of it all just turns me into one big emo mess. and on the other hand, while fluffy shows are fun, they’re hardly ever something i connect with in a way that makes me want to go back to them. they’re more of a ‘it was fun while it was happening’ kinda thing.
but now, there’s duang with you. a show that makes me feel so fucking good when im watching it, relaxed, free of fear and uncertainty, but that still hits all the emotional notes i need it to. it is the perfect rewatch show bc the plot is kinda non-existent which means you could drop into any episode and just enjoy, and the show is so fundamentally built off the duang and qin dynamic that i will just go back and watch episodes just to see those two exist in the same space again. its kind of like when you catch up with friends- they’re familiar and you can instantly adjust to that wavelength you exist on together and you end up talking about the same stuff you always do, recounting the same stories but it’s still just as fun and the comfort you get from that head-emptiness you feel bc there’s no stress or nerves in any of it is so hard to come by but it’s perfection, bc truly the world doesn’t exist, you’re just having fun. yeah, something tells me rewatching duang with you will feel like that. so come find me in 20 years, I’ll still be here.
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