#rin posts jutathep

[rinbylin]

i think a deeply beloved series should be banned from having sequels more than 10 years after it has ended especially when the sequels don't just turn out plainly bad. do you know how fucked up that is? because i just found out it is

[rinbylin]

hi! i saw your tags on my dhevaprom gifs. i just wanna say i really appreciate you giffing the original duangjai series which are majorly the reason why i decided to check the og series out before the new dhevaprom series

i haven't made gifs for suparburoot jutathep but definitely posted about them before - thank you for the message nevertheless! and for the duang jai tewaprom gifs :) hoped you enjoyed something from suparburoot jutathep and even tewaprom!!

[rinbylin]

jokingly and also non-jokingly, the only tewaprom sequel I would be remotely interested in seeing (but also hope to never see) is saruj and cheewan's mid-life divorce but just ends up staying together because their lives and social circles severely overlap since they were kids growing up in the same big family. lol

groundbreaking for one of the most romcom franchises to ever romcom to conclude with casual discussions between the leads about their possible divorce and going with yeah shrugs if we divorce then so be it as long as we've tried our best. takes all the guts for that lol. and based on the latter part of their relationship's development in the show, I can absolutely see that's where they'll head towards ngl. I don't think saruj ever addressed the root problem of cheewan's inferiority complex and her reservations of being with him, and the writers instead make up some other strawman problem to deal with? lol. the dining scene with his parents was a disappointment - he never guided her to integrate into her world and just let her embarrass herself. even though the show seems to want to express that it's ok for her to be herself even in his world, the hell we know it's never really the case with jutathep's daughter-in-laws (but we don't talk about it and never will). she wanted to be presentable to the people in the palace but he never helped her, while she did everything to help him back at her home.

s1 never even really had issues of half-baked executions even when it's an instalment that's just plain boring and bad. the goal of every fem lead in the series is to learn to integrate into the family (yucks I know. this was 20th century seasia). sometimes it's a real problem that the show addresses and takes time to illustrate how it's overcome (piangkwan, krongkaew), and sometimes it turns out to not even be a problem (soifah, rasa), and one time there has never been a problem to begin with (maprang). for cheewan, they just completely glossed over it. yeah it's an old problem but we do still need to address it if it's presented as a problem in the story. but also cheewan's case is unique because in name she's like prang but in reality more like kwan and kaew. she has the same problem as what chai ruj was facing except now it's gender reversed - which makes for a thematic connection as a sequel but ironically it's also what makes it not as meaningful as chai ruj and rasa's. and when it comes to the whole display of "saruj is capable of integrating into cheewan's rural lifestyle" is basically nothing as compared to chai lek and soifah's story. the good thing about s2 (poncheewan) is i can see shades of s1 in it but conversely also, all s2 tries to do seems like an inferior shadow of the best parts of s1. rip

in all seriousness, I think the divorce conversation would be perfectly cool in another show and I love it. but also the jutathep series is literally the True Love is Real and Everlasting story -- that being said, it's not all fluff. it just has a very positive, proactive outlook in the idea of love. true love is worth waiting. true love is worth the hard work. speaking as number 1 dysfunctional relationships/BE enjoyer, the series is one of the few things in life I indulge in as an optimistic fairytale. for every pairing in s1, regardless my personal feelings for each of them, I could believe they'll love and grow with each other to the end of their lives. but the fact that poncheewan seems to have left a small crack in that fairytale perhaps is what invoked the wrath of many people. which basically sucks extra bad for me bc intellectually I get the disappointment but I also just have such a soft spot for poncheewan's premise(/tropes) despite its execution.

[rinbylin]

tewaprom's choices of 90s thai cultural references are inconsequential fun for me when it's something like the shoutout to 90s heartthrobs like num. frankly, relatable.

others times it's more complicated. now having seen that dujupsorn koo gum reference scene in context, I've confirmed my guess that it was indeed used as some uwu fluffy romcom reference to connotate the lead's meeting as a romantic destined one like of a hypothetical romance classic, extending into a device for them to flirt with each other... which is impossible to sit right with me when kg's story - version after version - has always read as a harrowing anti-war character study tragedy (to me at least, more than its reputation as starcrossed romance story). I don't believe a jutathep story is anything like that. plus grandma oon casually referencing to sawan biang and calling kawee attractive in poncheewan is extremely funny bc kawee isn't even fucked up in a hot way to me. grandma, that's a bratty manchild afflicted by arrested development, and for some reason still about as attractive as a piece of wet, stale bread. but I guess grandma begs to differ.

[rinbylin]

on jutathep nostalgia - and unfortunately, somewhat of a h8r - mode here...

the way this first episode was a complete trainwreck, for me, with only the impact temporarily cushioned at the end by the rare gathering of the gen 1 and 2 boys in the same picture..tragic 😔😔 whoever said saruj turned into a red flag should apologise to poncheewan bc why does asira jutathep look like a flashing red alarm here - to me... chai yai and prang take your son back...

he may be chai yai's son but if anyone in gen 1 came closest to petch's behaviour in ep 1, it would probably be chai pat. for the same reasons, I couldn't quite stand chai pat as a romcom ml too (lovable as a brother though) - but he's also so beloved by the fandom. whenever I recall that jutathep catered to so many different flavours and you get to see how wildly diverse people's tastes are (no matter the objective ranking of each instalment, there will always be a pairing that someone claim favourites over)... I'm constantly humbled... this might be something some people are into but it's just so extremely super not for me.

on the more objective front - it might just be me being unrealistic, but I do go into tewaprom expecting there to be some sense of continuity thematically or even just trope-wise from jutathep - well, as sequels should (hah!)... especially knowing full well it was possible with poncheewan. while i think it's relatively hard to fuck up chai ruj and rasa's child bc their characters are distinctive but relatively normative, I can still see parts in saruj that is only possible owing to him being chai ruj and rasa's son. like, saruj's character was substantially shaped by chai ruj and rasa's absence at home, unlike his cousins who are always seen at home spending time with their parents. and we know that played a part in his love story later on too. not only did saruj follow after his dad's footstep in his career, he inherited his mum's courage in holding onto the person he loves. chai ruj and rasa's love story started as childhood playmates reunited in a foreign country many years later and then torn apart by social class difference - which is similarly also reflected in poncheewan. it's an instalment heavily couched in the big family context that the entire series is premised on. I appreciated poncheewan for calling back to some of the essence of the original series even if it wasn't fully done well.

I haven't seen the other 4 instalments in their entirety but -- on the contrary, when chai lek and soifah's domestic life with their children look indistinguishable from chai yai and prang's domestic life with their children... you know it's just not gonna hit home. we don't talk about soifah's "domestication" by the end of the jutathep series, but the alienating effects have caught up in tewaprom. and -- a lot of these are my personal judgement of each instalment -- the impact of taratorn being a writing mishap also leaked into its sequel. chai yai's character being entirely centred on his role and identity as the eldest with the heaviest responsibilities was hardly incorporated and developed into his love story with prang - so that left me with nothing at all to work on petch's character. but I guess I'm asking too much... or am I??

[rinbylin]

also kinda feel like an old person experiencing generation gap looking into tewaprom discussions talking about the cast bc like who are these newbies and why are people acting so familiar with them- say what? they're from which bl? i am not familiar with their game but ok. my era of thai ent is stuck in the 2010s

[rinbylin]

i died badly

nobody here gets the legendary presence of the jutathep series but at least random cnetizens will always be there for me

[rinbylin]

breezed through in less than 2 days. far from the best the jutathep series has done but i can assure it's also 100% not the worst i've seen from it lmao and there are people who are so mad at this... the conclusion to a whole series comes with a lot of expectations that it definitely didn't live up to.

also learning that poncheewan's scriptwriter scripted tawipob 2011?!! padiwaradda! dao kiang duen!! that explains the parts I liked about poncheewan ...wait what but they wrote ronapee too huh??? 😭

if you dk which instalment of the jutathep series to start, always start with the switzerland tourism instalment

[rinbylin]

😭 THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL BUT THIS IS SO UNFAIR...............

forget about bps 2. this is the lakorn sequel i've been waiting for