Another Forgettable Fluff Story Between Commercials

Overall Review:
The trailer of the series might present the series about universe jumping and its consequential complications, and the motivations to travel back to their original universe, but if you take out the different universe aspect out of the story, you still would have 10.5+ hours worth of same content, which is to say that it's not an important aspect of the story. But then you would assume it's more character driven; which again is false as the characters are mostly one dimensional are used way too often to sell things. So this is a series that doesn't deliver what it promises but forces you to watch commercials.

Plot:
- While the trailer and official synopsis promises a multiverse and body jumping plot, it is mostly treated as a side-note rather than the main focus, so much so that one can trim the universe jumping story out and still have 10.5+ hours of video.
- Aside from that main failing, the plot also lacks internal consistency, that is the things canonised to be true at the beginning of the series suddenly become non-canon at the end to further the plot.
- Moreover, all the important events driving the plot happen in the background, so the viewer is left to instead fill-up the plot holes on their own to try to make sense of the development in the plot.
- The plot also jumps time a lot, which again is a task for the viewer to keep tabs on, as this time jump is only displayed through text once, with no significant changes to establish that in the story.
- This plot at best revolves around a love story, but it is not a slow-burn at all, instead the couple-esque moments start pretty early, making it a non-stop cheesy lines & slow-mo moments saga of fluff.

Characters:
- The characters of the Series are pretty uninteresting on their own in terms that they are one-dimensional, their own life, thoughts and motivations are either non-existent or don't matter to their character's actions. Tun (Puen) is obsessed with Talay from the get go, and Talay is hesitant to his advances throughout the series- be it being strangers, friends or in a post-confession relationship.
- Tun (Puen) doesn't want to go back to his universe as he says that he enjoys his new friends and family, while Talay wants to go back as he says that he misses his friends and family; neither of these two motivations/reasons are established in the series as there are zero to none scenes depicting that - Tun cherishing the love from his famliy, and Talay missing his family (we don't even get to see Talay's real family until the end of the series). {Tun (puen) is moreover shown spending all the days mostly with only Talay.}
- Talay as much as he claims desperately wanting to back home, abandons all the work to find his portkey; and is shown as comfortably living in the new universe.
- There is also a second couple that the series starts establishing at the rear end of the of the series and is left unexplored.
- The original Tess and Pakorn are also left unexplored and frozen in time, and their story for these two years in which the main story takes place, is left to a minute of dialogues in 12 hours of the series (about 0.1%).
- The one-dimensionality of the characters is also worsened by the unnatural/unrealsitic actions of the characters.
- Whilst the characters proclaim time and again both directly and indirectly how they aren't attracted to each others bodies (which are also not their own bodies anyway); there are a lot of kisses, sniffing, bath scenes, etc set in slow-mo in romantic music, which signifies the opposite. Tun (puen)'s obsession with Talay, on a similar note, is also not logically explored; {why did he flirt with Talay but not his newfound friends, as all of them are strangers to him. It might not be much of an issue if characters didn't claim that physical attributes aren't important to them in the first place.}


Conclusion:
This series, in essence, is just a wasted potential of a story wrongly marketed with a false cover of universe jumping, when it is just another forgettable fluff-cheesy 'man' and 'woman' stereotyped homosexual couple story.

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Intense Drama with Powerful Performances

Overall Review:
It is a very intense slow burning series, almost like a thriller, but make no mistake, it is a drama through and through. Each scene and character builds up the world, with very powerful performances leaving no room for non-sensical actions or motivations with the camera-work being a cherry on top. If you're looking for a light series, this aint it. It would not be surprising if it gets nominated for and/or wins awards.

Plot:
- The plot has layers on layers and it unfolds in a very slow-burn manner.
- Scenes and events are very natural flowing.
- The lack of time jumps makes it super easy to follow.
- Careful consideration is given to beautiful execution of the plot.
- Some episodes are more intense than others and thus some scenes in other might seem like filler in comparison.

Characters:
- The series revolves around three main characters and they built very realistically and profoundly.
- While other background characters may appear, their screen-time is negligible, leaving more focus on the main characters.
- The motivations behind characters' actions feel very natural.
- The cast lending their skills to these characters are very talented, they keep a hold on you.

Conclusion:
A very powerful and serious drama, waiting to have a hold on you, setting a standard for all the other dramas existing in this genre.

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Let All Logic Go

(Thoughts may change as the series goes)
(Last updated: 18 Jan, '22)

Overall review:
Although the series is almost good, it's not gripping or gravitating enough to be anticipating the next episode. Turn off your brain-cells whilst watching, there are many plot holes.

Production quality:
- the audio engineering at many points feels very amateurish and breaks immersion. For example sounds of footsteps, car doors, car engine, music in earphones, etc.
- the ost is nice.
- sometimes there is a lack of establishing shots which can deteriorate the watcher to discern where the scene is set. For example, is it the same day, next day, are they at the school, house, external place etc.
- sets are designed nicely.

Story and characters:
- the protagonist, Nueng is not likeable. He seems very irrational, erratic and thus toxic.
- which makes the supposed endgame romantic interest, Palm, his obligated servant, like a captive who's stuck in a hard place.
- palm has better/healthier relationships with other people.
- palm deserves so much better than having to babysit nueng

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Decent show except romanticised sexual assault

Before the romanticized sexual assault in episode 6 (Edit: detailed spoiler description of it in comments) afterwards which i dropped it and have no knowledge of what happens afterwards, this show with all its cliches and minor faults was a strong 7.5+ for me. Just a regular run off the mill 'hidden feelings surface' plot with time travel sprinkled on top.

The main character was little annoying being 30 year old cosplaying a pre-pubescent teen in a 20 year old body but it was tolerable. Everyone in the show were doing some messed up, problematic or questionable things with Pear and Max being the resident collateral damage but it was tolerable and not bad as a viewer. So that's why it was 7.5 for me and not 8.

What instantly dropped the rating from 7.5+ to 5 overall was the fact that in episode 6 there is a scene b/w main characters where one of them is drunk and the other who is sober, engages in sexual activity (if an activity is sexual or not, it depends on the context) with him and only stops when he notices the protagonist being asleep and not before. All this happens whilst romantic music plays in the background. Thus romanticizing the activity happening in the scene.

Multiple respectable orgs and lawmaking institutions (courts/govt etc.) around the world state that drunk people (or intoxicated people) cannot give consent. And i personally hold the same belief.

Sexual Assault's definition on Wikipedia:
"Sexual assault takes many forms including attacks such as rape or attempted rape, as well as any unwanted sexual contact or threats. Usually a sexual assault occurs when someone touches any part of another person's body in a sexual way, even through clothes, without that person's consent."

That all being said,
Since i didn't watch past episode 6 (except the first 5-7 minutes of ep7 to see how the show handles the convo of 'what happened last night'.... - They romanticized/normalised it further whilst also spouting the dialogue "people have no idea what they do when drunk"), I can't comment if the story improves past ep6 or not.

Maybe they fix all storyline/character issues and the show becomes great, maybe they further mess up storyline and characters and the show becomes worse. I don't know and i won't know.

But what i do know is that the show romanticized sexual assault and i can't continue watching it post ep6. You can watch it, it's a decent show except that thing. And that's why the rating for me is 5 instead of 7.5+

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Just couldn't continue after the Rape scene

Maybe the cast's acting was great, maybe the story was great, maybe the dynamics were well executed... I don't know, I don't remember, and I don't care.

The rape scene overshadowed all of it. And i just couldn't watch anything further from it. Dropped it.

And since the character count needs to be atleast 500 words, here's what Wikipedia has to say about Date Rape:
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The term "date rape" is used to refer to several types of rape, broadly acquaintance rape, which is a non-domestic rape committed by someone who knows the victim,[1] and drug facilitated sexual assault (DFSA), where the rapist intentionally drugs the victim with a date rape drug so that they are incapacitated. Acquaintance rape constitutes the vast majority of reported rapes, while DFSA is infrequent. A frequently overlapping category is incapacitated rape, where the victim is incapacitated and unable to give consent – this is often the result of intoxication, but can also simply be because the victim is asleep or has a medical condition. DFSA is when the rapist intentionally incapacitates the victim via drugs, while acquaintance rape can occur when the victim is not incapacitated.

Acquaintance rape can occur between two people who know one another usually in social situations, between people who are dating as a couple and have had consensual sex in the past, between two people who are starting to date, between people who are just friends, and between acquaintances. They include rapes of co-workers, schoolmates, family, friends, teachers and other acquaintances, providing they are dating;[2] it is sometimes referred to as "hidden rape" and has been identified as a growing problem in western society.[3] A college survey conducted by the United States' National Victim Center reported that one in four college women have been raped or experienced attempted rape.[4] This report indicates that young women are at considerable risk of becoming a victim of date rape while in college. In addition, there have been reported incidents of colleges questioning accounts of alleged victims, further complicating documentation and policing of student assaults, despite such preventive legislation as the Clery Act.[5][6]
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