#episode 1 to episode 4

[miss0atae]

Random Thoughts about ThamePo Heart That Skips a Beat (EP 1 – 4) : Music as backdrop theme to bring people together.

I'm going to be honest, I wanted to wait until all Mars members were back together to start this post. However, I feel like waiting would make me lose the opportunity to write another post about the dynamic of their found family. So in a way, it's better to start now writing about this topic before the band is united again.

The series is about Po, a budding director who finds a job at a big entertainment company to make a documentary about a famous boys band before its disband and their main leader goes to South Korea to start a solo career. Po found in Thame, the leader, a kindred soul who understand him better than he thought. He quickly realizes that behind the facade, Thame is hurting a lot. This is something they have in common: they've been hurt, despite this, they remain gentle people. Po is set on helping Thame reforming the band and along the way they will fall in love.

Obviously when you're making a story about a boys band, you'll have to tackle on different topics regarding the state of the entertainment industry, the bias against idols, the constant pressure of showing a perfect image when you're public figure, the loneliness of stardom, how attention/engagement is sometimes more important than talent and the misguidance you can experience when being surrounded by people who doesn't always want the best for you. The series is showing all of these at one point or another, as most of the band's misunderstanding comes from one of these issues. The villain of the story is easy to spot: it's the manipulative CEO and the incompetent manager. Their harm may be different, but they both hurt the band in one way or another. However, I don't really want to concentrate this post about this issues. I believe they may come back again later in the series and it'll be interesting to talk about later. Right now, I want to focus on music. We're talking about boys band and of course it's linked to music. Nowadays, boy bands have been expected to write or at least contribute in songs they are performing and there are higher expectations on them. So as you can see and without getting too deep into it, music plays a part in this series because most characters' job are linked to it.

Music in general is important for movies/series. It helps create an emotional connection and set the tone. That's why when you hear a music from the original soundtrack of a very famous movies/series you can associate them with a scenes that made you feel a deep emotion. Here, the main problem may be that BL series in general don't have enough budget to have an original soundtrack. You can find a great post by @troubled-mind (and other contributors) about how most of the production companies recycled the same music over and over. Thailand definitely has great compositors, but we know that the budget for Bls isn't exactly high so you have to get used to them using the same music. It's a shame to not have an original soundtrack when the series is centered around “music”, but even if the soundtrack are not that original, the songs are specifically made for this story and sang by the actors/singers featured in the series. It's them that serves the music identity of the story. So the series is using the members of the T-Pop group LYKN and they gave them another persona and another boy band's image to interpret the members of Mars, the fictional trendy band of ThamePo Heart That Skips a Beat. I don't know how many songs they created for this series yet because we are still at the beginning, but they already presented some of them in the first four episodes. As for me, I hope that's not all of them because I believe the series is missing a love song ballad from William (Thame) to be played during his love moments with East's character Po. It would also be a great idea to sell an album as a merch for this series, just saying.

So as you can see, except for episode 3, we can have a variety of songs played in. I really like the fact they are changing the ending song since episode 3. I hope they will keep doing it! It was also very welcomed to hear a cover by William. I'm now expecting to hear more covers or new songs because it would sad if they didn't fully use their actors who are also real singers. Episode 4 was especially interesting as they use different genre of music. It was a way of giving a glimpse of the characters profiles and their connections. Rap freestyle was used because its linked to Dylan designated position within the group, but also frustration over his situation. The soothing and sweet ballad of Tui was used to show greater times from the past where the members were closer and how this feeling is missed by them. Finally, the cover song was used in two ways: firstly, it shows the dedication and work Thame is putting as a singer, and secondly the meaning of the song has romantic undertone (“You make the journey along the way more beautiful”) as Thame and Po's relationship is growing fonder. Music is the language of emotions and all our characters have a wide range of them. It also serves as a way of improving relationship and group cohesion. All Mars members have suffered from misunderstandings and music could be the way of tightening again their bond, the same way as it's helping Po and Thame becoming closer too. Songs stick in the mind better than basic narrative so for a series that focus on a boy band, I hope they will stay true to this idea until the end of the story.

[peachesingreece]

Can’t believe they meant for Anna to be Dean’s serious love interest. She literally never did or said a single compelling thing.

Cas walked in, blew up every light bulb in the barn, didn’t blink at being stabbed or shot, knocked bobby out, then turned around and said “We need to talk, Dean… privately” with a little smirk and they’re surprised we liked him better?

[xinyuehui]

―I used to know two people, and your eyes reminded me of theirs. What happened to them? They disappeared.

Link Click: Bridon Arc · S3EP1

[cloud-sitting]

“You can always tell when a suitor is serious about courtship just by how he looks when a young lady dances with another.”

Uhhhh yeah… I’d say he’s pretty serious.

[anakinskywalkers]

PHANTOM TRAVELER SUPERNATURAL (2005)

[marvelousbelladonna]

Talk to us about the relationship between Orym and Dorian. Their scene of confession and how they are doing in this new romance.

[blood-loving-leech]

episode 1 here

episode 2 here

episode 3 here

episode 4 here

links for the first four hazbin hotel episodes for everyone who doesn’t want/can’t afford amazon prime, enjoy and share!!

[charactercandyart]

♪ help you put on your lipstick ♪

♪ lean close, and help you ruin it ♪

[lilpomelito]

i need a fic or something where steve tells eddie "hey you were a dick in high school too. jumping on tables and screaming at people who just want to eat their lunch about their conformism to the man or whatever was annoying as fuck. also why did lucas have to choose between a sport and your nerd game that's normal. people are multidimensional. I'm not alone in this, who wasn't a total dick at 16. where is your redemption arc mister."

[briz-z]

klaus is so fascinating to me because even though he’s barely involved in the main plot, he has arguably the most bonding moments between all the siblings

[gg-ladybug]

Guys I’ve found my new favourite activity—

Someone give me characters, I’m going to make this a thing while I wait for the Full Moon episode

Alastor: (Part 1 - Here)

Lucifer: (Part 2)

Random Groups / Duos / Ships: (Part 3) (Part 7)

Charlie: (Part 4)

Adam: (Part 5)

Angel Dust: (Part 6)

[tea-cat-arts]

Girl who fundamentally understands that making Moon Lin Ling's love interest would ultimately undermine the point of her story- forcing her back into the role of girlfriend when all she wants is to be free to do her own thing- but also is a big fan of the "pretty boy blushes, giggles, and kicks his feet as his feral racoon of a girlfriend destroys shit" trope

[birrdify]

what if 4 just went so coo coo crazy once that even mr puzzles would catch onto his weird ass behaviour<3

[2-59-amwater]

PJO episode 4 spoilers

I love how the show is focusing more on the cruel manners of the gods and how they view "family" especially how that bleeds over into the demigods feeling they must earn love and care

like, annabeth has had to earn care from everyone in her life except luke (and probably Grover cause my mans wouldn't do that)

everyone in camp is so used to it that the motive for going on a quest isn't to save those you care about, to do it because you have to, or for an adventure, it's specifically to gain glory so that your parent and the kids at camp might respect you.

from what little we have seen of camp the kids there are messed up in the head about what they think of love and family, it's genuinely so sad

then in comes Percy who has a great relationship with his mom, who believes people shouldn't have to earn love and care, and he's so bewildered by everybody's attitude and everyone at camp keeps telling him that that's the way it is and he needs to get used to it and our boy is just like "not on my watch" I'll pry child support from the father's cold dead hands if I have to

i just cant -this show, THIS SHOW

[mushiemadarame]

...and Comfort ⇢ Top Form, 2025, EP05

[bbygirl-aemond]

"Always coming and going, aren't you? And I have to clean up afterwards." Milly's Rhaenyra is right on the money about the patterns of Daemon's behavior towards Rhaenyra, so let's recap the many ways in which we've seen this exact dynamic play out between Daemon and Rhaenyra throughout the series:

Season 1 Episode 1: Daemon's callousness towards Baelon's death is the final nail in the coffin that forces Viserys's hand against him and first pushes him to declare Rhaenyra his heir in Daemon's stead. This puts Rhaenyra in a precarious position where she will be forced to fight for the rest of her life against those who do not wish to see her on the Iron Throne. (Viserys eventually came to truly believe in Rhaenyra as his heir, but the impetus to first declare her as such had more to do with his guilt and his need to create distance between Daemon and the Iron Throne).

Season 1 Episode 2: Daemon steals the egg that should have been Baelon's, and Rhaenyra has to fly to Dragonstone and convince him to give it back before Viserys's council pushes him into drastic measures.

Season 1 Episode 4: Daemon brings Rhaenyra to a brothel in Flea Bottom, only to leave her alone and vulnerable in a dangerous and unfamiliar place, leaving her to find her own way back to the Red Keep. He's the one who puts her in a position where her reputation comes into question, but Rhaenyra is the one who has to fix it by marrying Laenor, a man who cannot give her children.

Season 1 Episode 10: Daemon indulges his own desire to prepare for war against Rhaenyra's wishes, leaving Rhaenyra to labor and deliver her stillborn daughter alone even though Daemon is the father.

Season 2 Episodes 1 & 2: Daemon uses Mysaria for his own ends and makes a promise to her on Rhaenyra's behalf, without Rhaenyra's permission. He then leaves Dragonstone entirely, leaving Rhaenyra to deal with Mysaria's fate.

Season 2 Episodes 1 & 2: Daemon uses Rhaenyra's request for revenge to get at his own personal desire for revenge, resulting in Jaehaerys's death. When confronted about it, he leaves Dragonstone and breaks contact with her entirely. This deals a massive blow to Rhaenyra's reputation, gives their enemies ammunition, turns Rhaenyra's council against her, and leads directly to the attempt on Rhaenyra's life, all of which Rhaenyra now has to deal with on her own.