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finally first gets to manhandle khaotung and push him into surfaces. good for him

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first & khaotung in the heartkillers pilot trailer

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I just watched the lineup for GMMTV 2024 Part 2, and I've gotta say, i'm pretty excited. I felt like there were a lot of interesting and unique premises, and i'm excited for when they start coming out.

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me: *has list of like fifty shows i have yet to watch*

also me: i really want to rewatch some shows right now

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"deep in the dark, you'll surrender your heart." — akkayan, the eclipse (คาธ)

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MARRIAGE EQUALITY

THAILAND

I’m crying from overwhelming happiness for the LGBT COMMUNITY IN THAILAND!!!!

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When I finished Last Twilight I was like "I need a show that is funny and sweet and will not hurt me like this show did" and then watched My Love Mix-Up and IT COULD NOT HAVE BEEN A BETTER FIT FOR WHAT I WANTED!!!

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Me: I want to watch The Sign the series

Me to me: You are going to fall asleep if you try to watch it now. Wait next week

My next week: tests, presentations, projects, sickness

Me after that week: Whew, now I have some free time to watch it.

Me: *proceeds to fall asleep twenty minutes after starting every time I try to watch it*

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My thoughts on the ending

Setting aside the slightly hamfisted dialogue, which I personally feel was the writers really wanting to hammer home the ambiguousness - my personal interpretation is that the ending is real, but Phee, Jin and Tee will always carry with them the scars and trauma of their parts in what happened to Non.

The main reason I think this is because the ending was unlike any of the hallucinations that we saw along the way. The hallucinations weren't happy at all, not even on the surface. The hallucinations were full of fear and pain and trauma and the ending had none of that other than the glimpse of Non. Why would Jin and Phee be hallucinating themselves having survived but being haunted by Non? The haunted by Non bit, yes, but the rest? The hallucinations were also supposed to be based on secrets and fears but this had none of that.

Then there's the glimpse of Tee, and THAT more than anything made me think that this is reality because Tee *became his father*. And oh, I know that a lot of people despised Tee but it makes my heart ache thinking about it, how he tried so hard to help his father only to become him in the end. He tried to find love and happiness with White only to inadvertently be the cause of his death and end up alone and going mad.

That's not a happy ending, it's a horrible ending for Tee. Just because he lived doesn't mean that he got a good ending.

As for Jin and Phee, they carry with them the scars and guilt of the past and the trauma from it and Non will always be there, in the backs of their mind, just out of sight. Remember, just because someone 'lived' in horror doesn't mean that they got away entirely. Phee's paranoia is a glimpse of that, of the fact that it will always be a burden on their shoulders.

Now I want to add on here that I know people will refer to the lighter sound and the dialogue, etc, and that's completely valid! I think that any interpretation is a valid one, tbh. If you want to think that they all died in the house - valid. if you want to think that they're still hallucinating and New's alive and about to kill them - valid. If you want to think that they're still hallucinating and they'll go to jail - valid.

I think if I had a second runner-up it'd be that they'll come out of the hallucinations to get free, but the hallucination was a glimpse of their future and what will become of the three of them.

This is just my personal head-canon on the events of the show and what makes sense to me with the threads running throughout the canon.

I just really hope that things don't get spoiled by post show interviews, etc, but I thought that this was just so well done in terms of giving viewers a way to take what they want from the ending.

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The glimpse that we had of this scene was really gut-wrenching for me.

White. Little baby White who was the focus of so much speculation and clownery (including from myself) and also the focus of so much love. The sunshine boy who was the apple of Tee's eye, who came into his life and brought him love and joy again just when he thought that he didn't deserve either.

In traditional stock horror, White would live as the 'Final Girl', the innocent who never dies, who must escape due to this fact.

But DFF is not stock horror and so instead White died at the hand of his lover, leaving him alone and spiralling into madness.

And we get this glimpse of White in the past where he looks at New in all his innocence and says 'But I haven't done anything'. And of course the context was different, but doesn't it say a lot?

People speculated about this line, including myself. Laughed about it, because it was true - he hadn't done anything, so why this weird scene with Tan!

Turns out it was more meaningful than any of us could imagine.

'I haven't done anything', because he was just a boy. Two years younger than the others, so 17 or 18 at most. Just at the start of his life, on a trip with his boyfriend to have some fun at a cabin.

'I haven't done anything', because he wasn't even a part of what happened. He had no secret past or connection to Non, he was no part of anything. He didn't hurt Non or New or anyone else in the show for that matter.

He was just a kid in love who went on a trip with his boyfriend, and he died in a horrible situation.

'People die in horror', I was told - which I'm well aware of, since I watch a ton of horror and am well versed in it. But this is a reminder that sometimes it's a tragedy, isn't it? A bold choice and one that I applaud the writers for making.

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It's such a shame that BOC took the coward's way out with that dream sequence ending when they have handled everything else beautifully 😭😭😭 The characters' deaths are all poetic and a clear reflection of how they lived their lives up to that point.

Por, who has this intense need to act like the leader and the most important person because of his family's status, died unceremoniously like some kind of extra in a horror film.

Top, who kowtows and leeches/mooches off everyone, ultimately died acting like a deranged puppet.

Fluke, who is extremely selfish and acted like he did not see anything when he knows everything, stabbed his own eyes.

White, who whole-heartedly loved Tee and did everything to make Tee smile again, died by Tee's own hands.

Tee, who knows and acknowledges his guilt from the beginning, will soon die with the added guilt of unwittingly killing White.

Even New's death is poignant and sad with Non holding his hand at the end.

(Uncle Deng, who was an innocent bystander, died like innocent bystanders do - as an afterthought).

Which is why, again, I am extremely salty that we did not get to see Phee and Jin (especially motherfvcking Jin) getting their proper comeuppance. 🤬🤬🤬

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Because in my last ask, I said New was alive and everything was a hallucination as the boys were dying.

A bitch decided to unmute for once, and we hear something being lit and burning at the very end of the episode when Phee says they are still in the house

Then someone exhales.

Exactly like New did at the very beginning of the episode.

Go back. Replay the beginning and the end.

They are the same.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

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What an ending. DFF was an excellent character study rather than a romance, whodunit, or even murder revenge. It's unnecessary to take sides or impart some sort of morality on each of the characters. I think this series showed that people are grey, neither all good nor all bad. (Except maybe Top, it seemed like he really was just a shithead.) Each have their own motivations, fears, and pressures. People are selfish and will do shitty things to survive. That doesn't necessarily make them evil, just human. They are allowed to feel guilt, regret or try to make up for what they did. That doesn't mean they're "good" or redeemed either.

That being said, Non, White, and Uncle Dang didn't deserve their fates.

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Okay so my thoughts on the Dead Friend Forever Finale:

I'm okay with it. It wasn't perfect, but it was entertaining and I appreciate having it end in a dark way.

While I didn't want White to die, I think having him die makes sense with the narrative. The only issue I have with that is that he died simply because it would hurt Tee. As other people have said, his character was more about his affect on Tee than being an individual character. On the other hand, it is fitting in how he parallels Non. Non and White were both innocent, ended up going with the wrong people, got caught up in circumstances beyond their control and ended up dying.

I was fine with the twist at the end, and its implication that they will never escape what happened, both in a physical sense and a never-moving-on sense. It gives a somewhat tragic ending to a show based around a tragedy.

I think that both these parts of the ending contribute to an idea of the inescapably of your actions; it's literally what the show is about: all of these guys being punished for their roles in hurting someone. They come back to the same place, with a lot of the same people, they film the same film again, the same plots in the movie happen, although this time in real life. They are stuff in a cycle that they started, and they have to face consequences.

Overall, I think the show had a very interesting premise and very good build-up, it just started getting a little chaotic in the middle and a lot of the tension went away because we left the events of the present day for several episodes. The characters were interesting and I think it'd be cool to learn even more about their backstories. I really loved the way it was shot in the first few episodes, it did a great job of contributing to the mood of the story. Overall, there were very good elements in the story, I just wish it stuck the landing a little better.