#bad buddy ep 5

[respectthepetty]

I see today is episode 5's day in the Bad Buddy Rewatch Extravaganza, and if I haven't written it enough, this is the episode I want to be buried with.

This is the episode that Pat fully realizes he never wanted to be Pran's friend, and the boy is spinning out of control.

He is flirty

He is lost

He is jealous

He is realizing

He is in love

He is upset

He is overjoyed

He is heartbroken

Bury me with 5

[vegasandhishedgehog]

Episode five is insane because Pat has all of like 3 days to process his real feelings for Pran. And then the second he gets the chance to express them he can't hold back. He can't use words for the indescribable thing that has grown to the size of a mini sun inside his chest and its gravity, its weight, just needs to break loose. He definitely doesn't even think "what if Pran doesn't feel the same?" All he knows before that moment is that whatever is going on between them has been building and building and putting pressure on them for ages, and maybe what he saw from Pran in the music shop was real.

Imagine being Pat, being reckless, and kissing Pran because god he cannot help kissing Pran, and then Pran kisses him back. He kisses back and with FORCE. Two ocean currents meeting and forging a new direction entirely. Pat's smile afterward is so much because he feels like he's just unlocked the biggest achievement. He is finally seeing past the cool exterior and lo and behold it's been longing for him this whole time!

And then crashing from that high as Pran pulls himself away and gives him the most broken pair of eyes yet, and then walks off the rooftop without a word. And as we watch, we are all crashing with Pat, feeling something akin to a dagger between the ribs because there is so much left unresolved.

God I love this show.

[geonbaeeee]

“The world finally held by its orbit.”

in graphite pencils ✏️

Happy Anniversary legendary ep 5 rooftop kiss! 💋🥳

[dribs-and-drabbles]

Khaotung, First, Louis, Neo, and Golf all saw Pat and Pran in ep 5 part 4 of Bad Buddy and went hold our Oishi tea...and then instead of trying to outdo the heat and intensity of that kiss decided to give us the softest, most tender presses of their lips...which proceeded to cause the second ascension of the joint fandom.

[movementsofmylife]

bad buddy ep 5 (rewatch)

how many times does pran pull out his entire (extremely intense) set of markers and not use them:

total so far: ////

so this episode. i have watched it so many times. and every time i am left in shambles. it builds up to that final rooftop scene so well and so insidiously.

they start the episode in this brown white beige complimentary look, with pat wearing the 'friend' shirt. which is so fucked up considering where this episode ends.

like it starts with pat declaring himself a friend and teasing and flirting in a way which shows he's more than that. (ink explicitly states that they have a "lovey-dovey atmosphere") and over the course of the episode this dichotomy gets pulled apart as pat realizes it himself.

i've also already screamed about the breakfast scene over here.

this is so good! because it's both asking pat to consider like, they aren't romantically involved, so why are they acting like this. but also when pat responds "i'm not your wife" it's a direct call out to later on in the episode where they critique the terrible wife/husband dynamic thing from bls.

also often in bls the one making food is classed as the sub/wife/bottom w.e in the situation. but pran is absolutely not having that, and he never does. love my non-heteronormative king.

i fully never clocked this, but pa's holding ink's 'p' bracelet in the opening. we should have known.

so while pat is flipping through the photos on pran's computer he comes across this one with ink, and it gets about as much pause as every other photo in the set. and actually the last lingering shot is on the one with just pran. how this man didn't know is truly a mystery.

again, it should be something chill to tell ink here that pran's the one she reminds him of. but i think he knew if he mentioned that ink would actually understand what he's saying, (ink is fully on the patpran ship, she has definitely known since high school) more than he would.

also secret keeping of and for each other is patpran's entire jam. and while its a necessity at times, i think they both enjoy keeping each other and their relationship close to their chest, precious and just for them.

i remember when i first watched this and lost my mind. ink is so clearly flirting with pa the entire time, she's an inspiration.

this music store is a place of so many awakenings for pat. i feel like because the high school concert was clearly leading towards pat and pran figuring something out but it was aborted, it makes sense that his actual realization comes in a music related space. the whole episode is basically about music and how it carries love and bravery.

pran would be such a good anime protagonist.

the sheer confusion from pran through this entire jealousy scene. also the green shirt of doom. there's so many green shirts of doom in this ep.

case in point. also the fact that in the first part when pat and pa are having this conversation pat is wearing this bracelet. and at this point he's taken it off, he's realized!!!!

he got soooo close here to connecting the dots. but truly insert the shane/ryan i connected the dots you didn't connected shit meme, because that "they became rivals" line smh.

pa on her ink agenda as always. i like the parallel to pat in high school who didn't realize his feelings for pran yet. and pa here, in the same situation with ink.

pran is so brave through this whole thing. i feel like this is part of how he's dealing with pat's confession about ink. he's declaring to everyone, but also to himself, that pat's his friend and that's what he can have.

and then he proceeds to sing this fucking song about friends being confusing lol

look i cannot get a good screen shot here, but i'm sure i don't need to. i feel like this is branded on everyone's brains at this point. i just couldn't not include it.

also god this fight scene hits so hard. this analysis of it by @jemmo is so good!

to slightly derail from the emotions. is this what showers are like for all tall people?? or is this an exceptionally small shower. it was so confusing to me. like why does he look like he has to crouch to get under the water.

"I just stood there, bathed in the quiet No," (cut your bangs by girlpool, which overall is not about this, but this line)

this point where pat realizes the situation, looks beyond just his feelings for pran. fuck. devastating.

also the fact he's in blue, red and there's a swathe of yellow behind him. their love is so intense and present in this scene. but also feels so far away.

this fucking episode. like from ep 4 on i feel like this show does not let you breath.

[pose4photoml]

15. favorite premise (even if you didn’t love the actual show)

17. best kiss

for the bl ask game!

Hi ~ Thank you for the ask!!

15~ History 3 - Make Our Days Count

Enemies to lovers ~ I like that the popular guy goes for the nerd and the nerd makes him a better person!!! Of course I didn’t like the ending so when I do rewatch I stop it when they move in 😉

17. Best kiss 💋 this is a hard one… if I have to choose just one then … Bad Buddy episode 5 on the rooftop !!!

[djeterg19]

Pat is finally realizing that the person he has feelings for is Pran!!!

[inventedfangirling]

watched bad buddy ep 5 again and wondering for the 100th time just how many more times of watching it, will the episode and particularly the waipatpran confrontation and the iconic rooftop scene not completely blow me away to smithereens? how much exposure can make someone immune to the effect of things? is it even possible to achieve immunity against this?

do i even want that immunity?

my gawd. everything peaked here fr.

[ardentlytess]

#badbuddyweek ☆ day 2: favorite episode — episode 6, the beach episode

[kattahj]

It's so addictive to watch these shows where gay people get happy endings!

Just. No arguable subtext. No tragic endings because true art is angsty. No cancellation that leads to the story ending on a cliffhanger. No side couples in a story centering straight romance. (I'm not AGAINST straight romance. I've shipped it plenty of times! But still.)

Not even any quota that says you can only have one gay couple per show. You want a second couple? It's there. You want a third? It's there.

The current show I'm watching is a lurid crime drama with murder, mafia, trafficking, and hard drugs. And I STILL know that the main couple will get a happy ending! I mean, I know it because I've spoiled myself and know that they pop up in a 5-minute guest role in another BL, but that's not the point.

[badbuddyingifs]

[dribs-and-drabbles]

Bad Buddy 🤝🏽 The Eclipse

- giving me a reason to never leave the rooftop

[freensrcha]

if we’re not enemies, do you think we can be friends ? why ? do you want us to be friends ? no.

BAD BUDDY REWATCH - EPISODE 5

[aestheticsfandomsandmore]

i will never, never, get over the way pat's eyes get softer when he realizes pran still has pictures of their highschool years together 😭

[djeterg19]

Pat not realizing why he loves the way Pran and Pran's clothes smell is sure something.