May 7
Ok...I'll Bite
But Will Need To Keep That Shirt To Sniff On Later, Bro. Those My Terms.
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Ok...I'll Bite
But Will Need To Keep That Shirt To Sniff On Later, Bro. Those My Terms.
The author of "Manner of Death" just posted a teaser for "Bite Me" which seems to be an adaptation of her novel, "Grab A Bite":
Ake played by Mark Siwat (@Mmarksiwat)
Eua played by Zung Kidakarn (@Zung_Mattnimare)
Looks promising...
Looking forward to it!
So, about Bite Me…
(Spoiler alert if you didn’t watch the series or read the novel yet. And btw, this is seriously LONG)
Okay, so this has been sitting on my draft for a while now, and I decided to rewrite the entire thing cause I realized I sounded so angry before. LOL. Please understand, I hate episode 8-9.
So, Bite Me. Bite me is a case of adaptation not following the original plot. Because although the main plot is the same, how they approach the theme is vastly different. I wish they follow the original plot, cause the flow in the novel is good. But, I could understand that general audience might not like the slow progressing romance, and so the scriptwriter/director need something to spiced it up. Because even with the added drama, I still see complain here and there that the story is way too slow and way too plain. And if they want to focus completely on the romance side (or that’s how I feel, cause the food competition itself is not as fierce as the novel), it would be even more so if they follow the original story.
I’m gonna talk about Aue first. He’s so awkward in the series, and pretty shy about his love for Aek. While I don’t have any problem with this portrayal, I feel like Aue could be so much more than that. Novel Aue was shy at first. But then (pretty soon) his confidence grow and he’s very cheery and open about his feelings for Aek. I feel like the writer could introduce some of Zung actual personality to Aue and he would resemble novel Aue more (I mean, he went home and scream My Love, My boyfriend, the cutest, I miss you, before hugging Aek. I wish it’s there on the series, but okay).
He’s not afraid to touch Aek, like giving head pat or shoulder pat. But he’s not forceful. This is why Aue in ep.8 bothered me so much. I can’t imagine Novel Aue forcing himself on Aek. They didn’t even kiss until after they are officially dating. And after Aek reprimand him for kissing Aek when Aek’s mood is bad, he never kiss or try to get overly intimate with Aek without permission. He actually kneel down and ask for forgiveness when that happened (and by asking forgiveness, also by promising to give Aek everything as long as they don’t break up because of it. They don’t. See, no drama). I cry laugh at that chapter. He’s just so blinded by his love for Aek, he did whatever Aek want.
Now moving on to Aek. At first, series Aek feels pretty close with how I imagine Novel Aek is. Serious about his work, very independent and strongly opinionated. And then come episode 8, and things started to get a little wonky. I know that Aek was provably confused with his feelings, but him on ep 8-9 is just so OOC. Although to be fair, even the kiss is out of character for Aue. They totally butchered this scene. Instead of the heartfelt confession, what we got is a split lip (okay not really) and broken arm lol. Both in the novel and series adaptation, they did dine in a candle lit dinner. And if I’m not wrong, Aek did confront Aue about the meaning of all the grand gestures (cmiiw, I have a bad memory). And Aue did confess about his feelings. But instead of getting a very aggressive rejection, Aue accepted the confession (as in, oh okay, so that’s why. Not accepting as in, aighttt lets date) and both of them come to terms that Aek need time. And that’s it. No blood spilled.
Let me just tell you, there are only two times where punch are flying in the novel. First from Aek to someone named Kit that was sent to harassed Aek when he was on the Chef Master competition. And the other one is from Aue to Eve ex-husband (not to Aek of course, that guy will worship the ground that Aek walk through if possible, or is he already?) that harassed Eve and then Aue for being gay. And the only broken bone is Aue’s little finger, from the punch he’s giving lol. He’s the one punching, he too the one who suffered. He’s just so cute and funny in novel.
Now I can’t say much about Prem and Vich relationship cause to be honest, aside from the fact that they don’t appear as much as I thought they would be, the relationship is pretty normal. Personality wise, they resemble the novel version pretty closely. And their relationship did moving on that fast with no drama at all. Pretty simple and business like. They are like, I like you – I like you too. Then they went out, jub jub and do more than jub jub. That’s it. No drama whatsoever. Prem and Vich relationship did move like some kind of bullet train. I blinked my eyes a little and they are already on dating stage.
Anyway, does the plot differs from the original novel? I’d say the main plot is the same, but the approach is different. If you like sweet romance and sweet talks with storyline that is relatively drama free (except for the competition) you would probably like the novel better.
If the series adaptation left you wanting a little bit more, do read the novel. They are really good. And they are quite different with the series adaptation, so it won’t leave you feeling bored (or you might, I don’t know, you do you). Btw, if you want to know where I read the novel, it’s on watpadd. Pretty easy to find (or not, lol. I open tens of expired link before I finally found this one), but they are on my native language and not in English. If you still want to know anyway you can message me and I will send you the link. But I won’t suggest using translator on this one, because it’s pretty obviously MTL. And translating it to another language using MTL again might cause a terrible confusion.
upcoming bl's your interested in?
Are you psychic, anon? :’D
I just went through MDL to check on upcoming shows ^^
[answer under cut because it’s kinda long]
I couldn’t wait to watch Bite Me, so I decided to look for the novel (found one, not the best translation out there, very obvious MTL, but at this point I’ll take whatever I could find 😂).
I finally get to the candle lit dinner part. And boy, the difference. It’s still a slow moving romance, so I guess I kind of get why they decided to go with the drama in the series (altho tbf, I didn’t even watch the series yet, only the highlight scene. but so far the story is pretty different). Because even with the pacing on the series, people still feels like the romance is tooooo slow.
Chef Aue in the novel is really cute tho. I keep imagining Zung doing all the things novel Aue did and I can’t help grinning all the way 😍
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GRAB A BITE SEASON 1 EPISODE 2