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#shook.

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I don't want to sleep alone anymore. NEVER LET ME GO (2022-2023) | dir. by Jojo Tichakorn

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Be my favourite: a central theme of the series is that you can't just skip to the good bit

Me: yes, sweet, I dig it

Me when the episode immediately following Kawi and Pisaeng getting together is them talking together about how to approach a romantic relationship so that it can be healthy and last a long time, and not just a montage of dates and cuddling and such: goddamn it

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it's so easy to forget that pisaeng knows about kawi's time traveling abilities. he's sooo?? nonchalant about it. Oh you can time travel? cool anyways *goes back to staring with heart eyes*

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Pear: you’re my best friend and we tell each other everything. You would never ever lie to me, right?

Pisaeng:

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Very interesting to see Be My Favourite touch on the concepts of mistakes and negative consequences in a way that suggests unavoidability. Up until now, we've largely seen Kawi running around to fix his mistakes and every failure is framed, at least by Kawi, as not fixing the mistake 'correctly,' which he then returns to the past to do.

The first hint of this was in the previous episode where we saw that despite recieving the life-saving surgery, Kawi's father still passed away. They go further in episode 9 by showing us the fall out of how he and Pisaeng get together.

The significant feature of this, however, is that Kawi tried to do everything the right way. He had scheduled a date to break up with Pearmai and he'd only confessed to Pisaeng after panicking that he was leaving the country. The fact that he hadn't managed to break things off with Pear cleanly first was out of his control.

Sometimes we try to do everything right and it goes wrong anyway. Sometimes we try to do our best for someone but they still get hurt. Sometimes we try to make the right choices but we miscalculate the consequences. But that doesn't mean we should stop trying. Life is messy, nothing is fully under our control, and sometimes all we can do is muddle through in the right direction and have faith that the people around us are muddling right next to us.

Being honest, owning our mistakes, and hoping that others understand that there was no malicious intent, is sometimes all we can do.

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It’s a date. It must end with…

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What kind of person looks this good even when he sleeps?

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TAY TAWAN as KARAN & NEW THITIPOOM as ACHI Cherry Magic 30 ยังซิง (2023)

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I can't help thinking about how the casting of Be My Favourite, which at first (and second after the recast) felt so odd, could actually be very cleverly intentional.

When the first trailer was presented at GMMTV Live 2022 we all collectively lost our shit at the casting of Krist and Mike. Not only for the backlash Krist (potentially wrongly) received after SOTUS but also for pairing him with Mike. Two actors who had been in bl pairs before but not for a while and who weren't predicted to do any again soon.

But then Mike got replaced (for whatever reason), and by yet another person who no one saw coming, Gawin. Again, an actor not shy of a few bl pairings but who hadn't lead a show yet and who seemed pretty reserved and not the obvious choice to do another bl.

And looking at Krist/Kawi and Gawin/Pisaeng sat together at the end of ep 7, it hit me that they don't seem like an obvious paring.

And they're really not. They've not even worked together on a series before (as far as I could see on mdl) let alone built up a friendship/relationship on the 'promotional circuit' compared to other newer pairings (I'm thinking Ohm/Nanon before Bad Buddy, or Perth/Chimon going into Never Let Me Go and now Dangerous Romance, who it's easy to picture together from the get go.) And also compare this to Krist and Aye, who have worked together in three other series prior to filming Be My Favourite - and recently too.

So it feels like the show wants us to see the Kawi/Pearmai pairing as the obvious one - just as Kawi does.

It wants us to see the Kawi/Pisaeng pairing as a little odd, or unimaginable - just as Kawi did (and is kidding himself that he still does).

And I love that because, as it's taking time for Kawi (and Pisaeng) to get used to the idea of them as a couple, we also get to do the same thing at the same time.

Their pairing is growing for us as it's growing for them.

And in some ways it's making me feel closer to their journey.

(shout out to @grapejuicegay for our dm discussions about the show)

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Also the fact that kawi had to live through his dad dying twice 💔

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"Because I don't like Pear, I like you."

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Magic repair man: whats wrong with your car?

Me:

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be my favorite (2023) episode 8

"I have no idea... when the feelings for you started. without realizing it, you've become an important part of my life. it's the part... I can't lose ever again. when I didn't have you by my side I knew right away that it was the biggest mistake of my life. I can't... let that happen again. therefore, I will set everything right. Will you go out with me?"

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It was the biggest mistake of my life had so much impact and the set up for this line was done perfectly. Kawi royally fucked up the lives of all of those around him in any version of the future by simply being in their lives. Couldn’t save his father. Became an alcoholic. Had his dream career in one version but it wasn’t safe from the mess that was his private life either and at one point or another could come crashing down. I think this show truly delivered in showing us just how much of a mess his life was and the consequences of his choices, and how being with Pisaeng can be the best version of his future.

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glad that this energy is still with them 😂😭