BAD BUDDY – JINDAPAT ANKLES
This is a little late for Shottiversary 2024, but among all the zingy, zany and joyful Pat Got Shot posts flooding my dash these past 24 hours (thanks and much love to instigators @shortpplfedup and @dimplesandfierceeyes! 😍) this 2021 Ask from @magicalgirlchar to @maggiecheungs caught my eye:
After numerous rewatches in the three years since – WE NOW KNOW THE ANSWER! There’s no need to dig through the medical records at Boonyavej!
Take a look at this screenshot from the fight scene between Pat, Pran and Wai in Episode 5:
(above) Bad Buddy Ep.5 [4/4] 5.46
PAT HAS DOUBLE-JOINTED ANKLES.
He can splay his feet 180° to the side! 👀 (Well, technically it’s Ohm who can do that, but it also means that Pat can too. 🤩)
In the image above, Pat’s thighs are parallel and his knees are pointing forward – but his feet have decided to do their own thing and that is a freakishly difficult pose to hold!
Did he twist his ankles at rugby? Did he fracture them falling to the ground after Wai punched him in Ep.5? DID HE MASTER CINQUIÈME POSITION IN BALLET CLASS? 👀
We may never know, but what this means is that Pat’s feet needn’t always be where you think they might be – and if he had any inkling that the gun might misfire as he wrestled with Ham, he could have swiveled his foot out of the way well beforehand in anticipation. Of course our boy Pat knows his way around in a fight (we saw that in Ep.1 scene 1 👍😊).
I wasn’t expecting to post about Jindapat Ankles on Christmas Day, but then again when did Bad Buddy ever not surprise us? Merry Christmas and Happy Patgotshottiversary Boxing Day to all!