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dramas-vs-novels · 3 months ago

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I've seen a lot of stories lately about different duos splitting, and it made me wonder... Why do you think MMY and DMD seem so good at creating duos that last?

DMD certainly had their rough phase, nearly every duo they launched with originally when they swapped to a drama house split (except for Jimmy and Tommy, their split was special circumstances).

I know MMY let one partner pick the other (Either Boss picked Noeul or Noeul picked Boss, and I think... did Fort pick Peat or other way? IDK about ChanyaAya or ForthDonut). But MMY also puts out shows so slowly that it's still not clear if duos will be long lasting or not (well, to be fair, FortPeat and BossNoeul have both said recently that they have zero intentions of splitting within the next several years).

DMD really hit lightning in a bottle with ZeeNuNew, MaxNat, and TutorYim staying together for so long. IDK what they were doing to get it so right, but they do genuinely seem to have good eggs who get along really well with one another personally and professionally.

Maybe this is related, but those two companies, their shows have this feeling like... you can tell when they had a lot of fun filming a show. Even if you never saw the behind the scenes, you can tell they care, they had a lot of passion for the story and the characters, and they just seem to genuinely enjoy each other's presence.

I'm sure that helps too.

#I watched an interview with the khemjira duo and they mentioned going through the script and helping write or rework scenes #Net has also talked about LUAT and how much work he put into helping get the rights in the first place and also helping with the script #and I have that novel but haven't read it yet #but just from the 2 pilots it looks like one was written very much to James' style and the other very much to JJ's style #i wonder... if that is something that is common practice in DMD- giving the actors more ownership and agency over their characters #and scripts and stories and whatnot #that's got to make it feel more personal as well and help create that bond to the stories at least #so like if you're amicable with your partner but maybe not friends- if you both at least share a love of the story and passion for it #that might help keep duos together #idk it's very interesting to me how much DMD seems to allow their guys to control their work #MMY- mame allows a lot of improvisation and interpretation as well #but DMD surprises me with mentions of like helping rewrite or Tee Tee talking about how Aof would offer acting or boyband work to him #and accept a polite 'no thank you' if he felt he wasn't ready yet #making them feel like people and not a commodity probably helps a lot #maybe it's because they're small- they still have a personal touch

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