#fon kanittha

[lal-wine]

P'Fon 🤝🏻 P'X being subject to EmiBonnie flirting and being lovey-dovey with each other while trying to shoot a scene.

[thebvbbletea]

Directed by sapphic director, having sapphic actresses as one of the lead & one of the main cast, having sapphic singer to sing for one of the ost, confirmed to having 4 lesbian, 2 bi & 2 trans character, the trans character played by real life trans actresses, having the first episode in women's day......

Oh god i love 23.5 The Series 😭

[akkpipitphattana]

i need to speak my truth because everytime i watch the us bts and fon comes on my screen i am left giggling and blushing. shes HOT and no one is TALKING ABOUT IT

[waitmyturtles]

High points and question points of 23.5, episode 7:

1) The mood is so much better. It's cute! Fon Kanittha does a wonderful job of focusing on elements of family and community in her pieces -- I love that she doesn't keep Ongsa's and Alpha's parents behind a curtain, that they're responsive to the nostalgic joys of watching a group of high schoolers commune and find each other.

2) Having Ongsa and Sun confirm their relationship while Ongsa was wearing a traditional outfit meant a lot. It's a visual bucking of an expectation of how a "woman should behave." Ongsa was of course gorgeous, but the shots of her holding Sun with those big gold bangles also meant that she was taking tradition to a new place, creating her own traditions -- all while we know that she was burdened with fear beforehand about publicly going out with Sun, and being afraid that Sun wouldn't feel comfortable being out with Ongsa (which clearly is not the case). (I also loved the move of having Ongsa get out of the first outfit, which was clearly indicative of a lower station than how Sun and Ton think about Ongsa. That was a nice little twist.)

3) @bengiyo mentioned in his Stray Thoughts on this episode that he wished that we could have sat a touch more in Ongsa's discomfort on the above, and I agree. This show is missing an exploration of emotional stuff that we've seen in other pieces by Fon Kanittha, especially, for me, as compared to 10 Years Ticket.

(On the recommendation of @dribs-and-drabbles, I'm giving My Precious a shot this weekend. MP is centered around a core romance, but in this piece, much of the first quarter of the piece is spent building the huge community around the main couple. And we get emotional nuances, wherever they might be, both from the individual characters, AND by learning more about them through each of their sets of parents, very similar to the structure of 10YT. In 23.5, we've rushed through this, or we didn't explore it in full.)

I have a theory: since this is GMMTV's first GL, I wonder if Fon is either intentionally, or being made to, give more attention to love tropes, either by reference to older ones, or creating new ones for GLs. We saw kabedon last week, for instance, and we're seeing a love interest make a turn for their courtier when it seems like their courtier may be straying, etc. (although the latter isn't necessarily specific to BLs). Since My Precious is also airing at the same time, I can't make a judgment as to Fon's takes on pure romance, as 10 Years Ticket was a community-focused lakorn of many stories. But in any case, it's weird that we're seeing these emotional skips. Just a couple more minutes spent, at this very moment, on WHY Ongsa has this (sometimes excruciating) hesitation of speaking and insecurity would be helpful to match what emotion we're seeing out of Sun. And seeing Sun nice and angry and jealous -- again, from my thoughts last week, I thought we'd see that a bit more after the catfishing reveal in holding Ongsa accountable.

I think this need for emotional clarity is dampening my overall embrace for this show, especially because I honestly didn't expect it from Fon Kanittha. But again, I thought the mood of this episode and the consistency of it made more sense than last week.

[hughungrybear]

Gods dammit, I wanna vote and support HSF 😭😭😭

TV drama of the year:

Actor in a Drama Series of the Year:

Series Director of the Year: (Sorry, P'Aof. I'll go with P'Fon 😭)

[maggiecheungs]

10 YEARS TICKET (2022) dir. FON KANITTHA

[lal-wine]

Moonshadow - BTS

[lal-wine]

You can tell that "Us" is directed by a lesbian. "Us" portrays love and intimacy between women in such a special way, I'll never stop talking about it.

I love that P'Fon allowed Emi and Bonnie to improvise their scenes together and do what they felt comfortable with because each and every scene between Pam and Dokrak feels so electric, yet so natural. Even the simple things like eating together, waking up together, painting each other's nails etc. You can feel the deep chemistry and connection between the characters. Emi, Bonnie and P'Fon have done such a wonderful job.

Personally, this is some of, if not the best, natural chemistry I have ever seen. I really hope P'Fon and EmiBonnie get to work together again sometime in the future because I think they work so well together.

These are some of my favourite pics P'Fon took of EmiBonnie:

(And this video.)

P'Fon calling out EmiBonnie for being clingy: