Jun 3, 2021
One day, my time will come.
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One day, my time will come.
Teh
Teh is one of the most beautifully complex and flawed character that I've had the pleasure of watching in a Thai series. He only has about two working braincells, the rest of them are busy sniffing coconut and writing "Nan Zhu Zhue" 20 thousand times. He's a certified dumbass, and a master in the art of self destruction and sabotage. He's a jittery little thing with a baggage of emotions he can only hope to carry, but he tries his best and is a solution seeker to a fault. He is afraid of change and seeks validation from the people he loves. But the main thing about him is that he has feelings. So many of them, an overflowing amount, and he seems to drown in the excess. He feels too much and thinks too much: too many thoughts and too many emotions, and he doesn't seem to know what to do with either of those things. Teh, at his core, loves with all his heart. He is never fickle, never unsure. Be it with his love for acting and theatre or Oh-Aew. From the time that he could admit to himself that he loved Oh-Aew, he has never been unsure about what he felt towards him. So what the fuck is ipytm episode 3, huh?
I don't know if it's bad writing or not. I kinda see how they were leading up to this, I kinda don't. Because on one hand, Teh is just...so rash. So fucked in the head. There's so much psychology going on here, I don't even know. On the other, I would've never imagined he would actively try to hurt Oh-Aew like this. Always thought whenever he did hurt him, it was circumstances out of his hands (the aftermath of the underwater scene) or by mistake (whole of ep5 in ITSAY).
So honestly, I don't know if it's in character or not, I don't know if the writers ruined Teh's character in s2 or if he was always meant to be this asshole, I really really cannot make up my mind.
What I know is, I don't understand the when?
When did Teh went from being...Teh to a person who went around kissing his theatre friend behind his lover's back?
When did he change from looking at Oh-Aew with the utmost adoration, to being this careless, non-attentive boyfriend who won't even invite him to a play?
When did he go from crying in Oh-Aew's arms in fear of abandonment to ditching him for Jai?
When did he go from the supportive study partner who would wake up at 4am just to help Oh-Aew study, to not giving a damn about his good grades in uni?
I don't know when this pure dumbass became this calculative person who would edit his text to "hanging out with friends" before sending it to Oh-Aew.
I don't know when this passionate, filled-with-love-and-longing-cutie, stooped down to sleeping with Oh-Aew for "research purposes".
I loved Teh, he was my comfort character.
I related to him so much. His ambitiousness and his drive towards his dreams was something I saw reflected in myself and my life. How he believed in himself, even when his friends laughed at him when he told them his "unattainable" dreams. Even when the teacher didn't choose him for the main role, or any at all. I know these things, I get it, I get him. It was amazing to watch this character run towards his goals and fall flat on his face, and then get back up, only to drag the person he loves down with him. He was so flawed, so honest, so human, I loved his character arc and growth and loved that he came of age and that his life is such a story that is just begging to be told.
I related to him so much. How, when he fell in love, he literally drowned in the excess of his feelings. He was so helplessly in love, carried so much of it inside him because he just couldn't pour it out yet. His yearning, longing, mistakes, denial, EVERYTHING was so human. So wonderfully human, because a dumbass he might be, Teh's erratic heart was always, ALWAYS in the right place.
So again, I don't know if it was in-character. Don't care if it was a long time coming. This human character was made to do such a messed up thing that it feels like he has been snatched away from me. He made mistakes before, but his heart was always in the right place. My comfort character is gone, I can no longer look at Teh and think "yes him, I relate to him" because he just turns out....awful?
And I I might agree with the writing, admire the execution, LOVE the acting, and still finish watching the series, but you know what? I'm fucking pissed. I'm pissed because I don't have my comfort character anymore, and it honestly just feels like betrayal at this point, however in-character. And I think that's reason enough to be pissed. I'm pissed that they did Teh so dirty, that it's always his fault, his mess ups and never someone else's.
And I'm so pissed that it makes sense, so pissed that this coming of age is true to the real world to the point it's basically horror. So pissed that they're doing everything right, and this is the exact reaction they wanted from the audience and they're getting it. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT??? COMFORT-TEH IS GONE! EVEN IF YOU TRY TO REDEEM HIM IN THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY, HE IS NEVER COMING BACK. I am furious.
@shortpplfedup tagging you because I'm hoping you'd have some answers to my deranged questions of "WHEN?" Meanwhile, I'm gonna go touch some grass, like the whole fandom probably needs to.
"What is it?"
"It's a cup of tea"
"But why a cup of tea?"
"Well, Teh means tea"
*no fear*
they made promises of loving each other always no matter what under the moon. the series is called i promised you the moon which has the connotation of i promised you something impossible. jai and q are lurking in the bg. we have 3 more episodes to go
*several fears*
not to be a teh apologist but to be fair one of the things we learned during itsay part 1 was that oh-aew’s desire to act stemmed from his desire to spend time with teh as a kid and i’d bet that teh realized this to some smaller extent too and now oh-aew is switching into advertising which is what his friends are doing??? so teh’s wondering if oh-aew has a greater desire to spend time with his friends than he does with teh
and then also acting was what brought teh and oh-aew together in high school, they were the only two who wanted to go into acting in their chinese class. it was what made them different from everyone else and the same as each other. now their in the city and they’ve had so many things set them apart (university location, their feelings towards university, their feelings towards home, their friend groups), this was the one thing holding them together in teh’s eyes
a lot of relationships are dependent on finding/maintaining common ground. if nothing else, it’s scary for them to lose that when everything else has changed already
and of course we already know that teh likes to be in control in all aspects of his life - that he’s upset by this change indicates that he really did build oh-aew into his plans. their original fight as kids was partly because he hadn’t built oh-aew into his career plans, that he hadn’t thought those two parts of his life would collide, and he had to learn that both could comfortably fit both pieces into the same space, but now he’s having to rearrange this perfectly constructed puzzle
also i don’t think teh is the most socially aware/intuitive person? the scene in the restaurant has similar vibes to teh randomly asking his classmates if they had ever had sex in itsay - which is not to say teh was totally unaware that he was being a jerk in the restaurant, but he may not have been aware of the full impact his words would have until things started spiraling
none of it makes his hurtful actions excusable, but i think along with his apology and the way he has grown in the way he treats others, his actions are forgivable. he’s not perfect, but he’s learning to treat other peoples’ emotions with greater care, so i have hope that he’ll continue to grow in that way in the future as well
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not directly related but the story about the pig that could fly feels purposefully similar to the title? pigs can’t fly and you can’t give someone the moon. khim can’t sacrifice everything for acting, and oh-aew can’t sacrifice his personality for acting, and that means he can’t make that sacrifice for teh either
I really expected everyone to be spilling a bunch of teh hate after yesterday’s episode but clearly a majority of us relate to teh so much that’s it’s hard to hate him.
I mean I was MAD at him the entire dinner scene and when he said ‘maybe’ to oh aew... OH WAS I MAD but at the end of everything you just understand where he comes from... it’s just so refreshing to finally see Thai dramas where the plot doesn’t revolve around a typical third person in the relationship and has ACTUAL REAL conflicts.
I promised you the moon ep 2
Episode 2 of I promised you the moon is here and so am I. I won't do small talk today, so let's get right into it, seeing as I am already late with this messy review!!