#i didn't want to add kram's illness because i actually like the idea that it's incurable

[pharawee]

I really appreciate that the narrative in Two Worlds didn't just concentrate on Kram and Tai's love story but included action sequences, world and lore building and actual side plots - even if they weren't quite fleshed out. I loved Phupha as a flawed and ambiguous character, and I would have loved to see more of Wayu and Jao.

It seems like ultimately Two Worlds suffers from the same pacing issues as so many other Thai BLs this year, and I think it comes down to budgeting*. If they had one or two more eps to tie the plot together, the ending wouldn't have felt quite so sudden and disjointed.

As things are, Tai shows up completely out of the blue because [insert a plot point that wasn't previously part of the lore and is shown in a short flashback] and scar!Tai was randomly killed by a snake bite just as he started his road to redemption. Which is really mean. :(

Also, am I supposed to believe that Kram didn't even say goodbye to his dad? And what about the fact that he was slowly losing his mind due to the rules of dimension-hopping?

The short snippet of Wayu and Jao swapping rings felt like an afterthought, and the scene with Phupha and his family completely out of place (the kid was what? Six? What's the timeline here lmao). I can appreciate what Kongthup were going for - I just wish they would have had more time to tell their story because I actually really, really liked it.

*I feel like a lot of shows were downsized to 10 or even 8 eps this year when up until recently 12 or 16 eps used to be the norm. This in itself isn't a problem (see Memory in the Letter) but the pacing with these shows (see 1000 Years Old, For Him and even Deep Night) feels off - as if the script was written with more eps in mind and had to be re-edited later along with the number of eps.