Personal Review / Thoughts : I Promised You the Moon!

A Gamble of Love -- 9.5/10.0

[This review contains spoilers. Watch first the part 1: I Told Sunset About You, and part 2: I Promised You the Moon]

Production Design / OST

• When it comes to production design, Nadao's ITSAY/IPYTM are really the best that I've ever seen in a series. The cinematography, lighting, colors, and transition of music gave us a cinematic excellence. The background music is always pertinent to the scenes and it gave additional intensity. Sometimes, there are scenes where I am just staring at the beautiful shots they made. Meanwhile, the OSTs will surely soothe your ears. I am glad that all of the new set of OSTs become a hit. For personal preference, I think that ITSAY'S skyline will always be the best.

Acting/Cast

• Billkin and PP never disappoint us when it comes to showing their talents. They manifested right emotions. Whenever PP's character is crying and hurt, the emotions transcend from the screen to the viewers. Billkin on the other hand made the viewers feel that he really fell in love with another guy. By just looking at Billkin's expressions and gestures, it already shows what are Teh's feelings.
• All the new casts also added a good flavor for the show. Top being a good friend and Khim being a fighter for her dreams. I like how they gave us a little story about Khim, Goy is really an amazing actress. I am surprised that Khim and Top are also in a relationship. Oab effectively showed a manipulative character that will made the audience be confused and mad. Oh Aew's new friends are the comfort characters, the friendship seems so realistic. I love how they gave a little screentime to Moraoyulok, Tarn, Hoon and Teh's mom. Of course, Bas appearance is one of my favorite part of the show.

Storyline / Plot

• This is where ITSAY and IPYTM become seperated. IPYTM focuses in the love story between the characters, while ITSAY gave us more than just a love story. Several fans were disappointed because of several reasons. I think one thing behind the disappointment is the high expectations that ITSAY brought.
• Cheating plot. This is really unexpected because Nadao chooses a plot where it involves cheating. They chose a problematic plot and that made some fans disappointed because ITSAY's storyline is more valuable. I hope that they made a plot where there's no cheating involve. Yes, this kind of plot is realistic, but not all couples went thru this thing. However, I personally think that they delivered the story well because people went crazy after episode 3 and 4. I am one of those who said that I am fine if Teh and Oh Aew will not be together at the end because of the cheating he made, but after all, it's still up to Oh Aew. His heart already chosen a guy, and that is Teh. Even Teh did a lot of shits, Oh Aew still gave him a chance. He knew that he might got hurt again, but he chooses to gamble. We will have different perception about this matter, because if I am Oh Aew, I will already gave up.
• The thing about changes in attitudes and dreams are the realistic for me. People changes over time, but that's a human nature. We are getting old, and we tend to realize and discover more things. The most important is how we adapt with these changes.
• They show us that Q has feelings for Oh Aew, but he never had a chance to admit it. I also feel that there is something more when Bas said that his life doesn't become exciting when Teh asked about him. When Teh posted the picture in the last part, they show us the reactions of Moraoyulok and Oh Aew's new friends. But the camera focuses on Q and Bas's reactions. Are we getting some side story???