We can’t pin everything on Khun New. It’s tempting! But we can’t. While I’m disappointed, I acknowledge that there were bound to be other factors at play. And now that I’m calmer and not just waking up to the outrage of an entire fandom, I can talk about this logically.
The first factor is that Khun New is apparently devoted to staying accurate to the novel (and then he throws TinCan under the bus despite how they don’t actually happen in the first book). This also means there’s a lot of problematic material that happens because apparently the author likes all those problematic tropes. Even the “stable and healthy” relationship of Type and Tharn was started with rape in the novel and that was pretty damn jarring to learn about too.
The second factor might have been the investors. They might have said that Khun New had to do X, Y, and Z with the story or they wouldn’t fund it. IDK, I’m not privy to that info, but I wouldn’t be surprised. It may explain why TinCan show up when they wouldn’t have happened until another season if he was following everything to the letter. It would also explain the poor pacing of their story since he tried to stuff it into the last three episodes.
Seriously Khun New, you couldn’t find better solutions? I get it, you needed to build up the conflict between Tin and Ae so that Can would punch the daylights out of Tin to stay “true to the novel”, but you could have also cut out the slow motion effect for every kiss between Ae and Pete and saved yourself an entire hour or something. Also that whole TumTar story line? Just stop it.
The third factor is impact factor. Khun New probably thought this would make the show go out with a bang. This was probably not the bang us international fans were expecting. I don’t follow what’s going on with Thai fans, but apparently they’re not all that upset, so this is a cultural thing I guess?
But overall Anon, I agree, this was a chance to really push the limits of the BL Drama genre. And let’s not forget that LBC did push. They did a lot more in LBC than they’ve done in a lot of other very popular dramas (See SOTUS and 2Moons). Like the level of chemistry and even the intimacy the characters had in LBC was many times better than any other drama I’ve seen EXCEPT when compared to Long Time No See. But Long Time No See is about grown ass adults so I’m not surprised.
AePete is the main reason why LBC will always have a special place in my heart. I am fairly new to this whole BL fandom and I am not entirely sure if I’m that big of a fan of all those Thai-BL-shows which are going to be thrown our way.
But when I watch LBC I imagine LGBT+ people, maybe teenagers, maybe younger, maybe older and I am happy because they will watch
the main character saying he is gay
a coming-out scene which is so true to the actual expirience of coming out that it makes me tear up every time
the potrayal of a first love which is lovely and heartwarming
They will watch a couple falling in love, like every other couple. They will watch the developement of physical intimacy and the message, that yes of course you are worthy of love and this is how it should look like.
I sincerely hope that the positivity of AePete’s relationship will be the first of many healthy relationships and gay storylines in the Thai-BL-Fandom.
I will miss them and my other ship TinCan, but the impact of LBC will drive me to write fanfiction for a long time – that I can promise.
Hey Khun New, one day, some day, someone will bring this ask to your attention.
When that happens, I’d like you to take this piece of writing advice from me. I hope you’re sitting down and wearing a sturdy hat, because this might fucking blow your god damn mind.
There doesn’t need to be a sad ending for ANYONE.
THERE DOESN’T NEED TO BE A SAD ENDING FOR ANY OF THE GOD DAMN PAIRINGS.
As one gay man to another, why do we need sad storylines all the damn time? What does that offer? What does it prove? Just because one couple ended up happy, we need some contrast? Hell no! Plus you fucking made this show unrealistic already.
It’s a fairytale for Pete to trust in Ae like that. It’s a fairytale for them to love so purely. And I loved it. So give everyone else a happy ending too!
You didn’t even need to have the TumTar story which didn’t exist in the novel to this capacity apparently? And no one internationally was clamoring for what happened to Techno.
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