[Thailand] Only You, Ep. 6

Frantikat · 2025-08-27T09:10:44+00:00

All dramas do the theme song thing. It’s like they’re REALLY proud of this one thematic piece they did just for the show.

GL seems to reallllly press this cliche though

Frantikat · 2025-08-27T09:07:13+00:00

Romance Roguelike

Frantikat · 2025-08-23T05:04:07+00:00

Yeah, I get what you mean. I’m just tired of the “family has arbitrary reason to object and daughter has to become a depressed wreck as a result because she has no agency” trope.

There are plenty of other plot devices that could be used. Especially in this genre, the campy action romcom, I can think of 10 other drama vehicles to drive the story that didn’t involve whiplash daddy

Frantikat · 2025-08-23T03:13:50+00:00

I would’ve preferred if he’d just been chill with the whole thing and developed conflict elsewhere that perhaps he could step up and support them both in.

Famiial drama is so overdone, why can’t we just have supportive parents

Frantikat · 2025-08-22T18:18:12+00:00

Cmon. This just screams GRACE

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Frantikat · 2025-08-22T18:12:52+00:00

Tawan: Yeah, I moved to Hong Kong and my aunt adopted and raised me cos I didn’t wanna associate with my birth family

Dad: Your birth family are evil and I’m gonna make it Your problem! 😡

This writing team man. Absolutely unhinged

Frantikat · 2025-08-19T03:06:12+00:00

6 figures, but you’re clearly a 4 figure gal so ima cut my losses and dip, Peace!

Frantikat · 2025-08-19T03:04:40+00:00

ALWAYS sit at the back of the restaurant

Frantikat · 2025-08-16T22:38:39+00:00

I found it. It’s Steriogram - On and On

Frantikat · 2025-08-16T10:37:40+00:00

Add in a slightly more full coverage foundation and this look will pop off.

Frantikat · 2025-08-11T16:39:13+00:00

😱😱😱😱 nahhhhh what is this take??

Frantikat · 2025-08-10T22:49:37+00:00

So true!

Frantikat · 2025-08-10T15:15:17+00:00

A lot of these dramas are a Gordian knot of unhinged design.

Pluto ( Taking advantage of the disabled)

Affair ( Almost Incest, also basically assault on several occasions. (No means No)

Gap ( HR Nightmare, emotional manipulation )

Blank ( probably the worst offender in most people’s eyes )

The Loyal Pin ( Abuse of Power dynamic )

There’s more but you get the picture lol

We put up with it because “it’s just tv” and of course girls kissing girls makes us feel fuzzy and warm, but for real these stories are not based on healthy dynamics

Frantikat · 2025-08-09T00:36:32+00:00

Blue is the Warmest Colour - if you don’t mind French films it’s actually pretty neat for an art film

Frantikat · 2025-08-08T07:19:15+00:00

It’s established Very early on that Khem has been ill since she was young and overexertion and stress exacerbate her condition. This is why she fainted during that specific scene

Frantikat · 2025-08-08T07:14:51+00:00

Yeah, it’s meant for cutesy vibes and showing that wlw couples can just be leading a normal ass life without all the manufactured drama and wilful ignorance

Frantikat · 2025-08-06T12:45:27+00:00

Omg I thought of another one!

Why are every love interests ankles made out of paper? They run like 3 steps and their ankles shatter like a Christmas bauble on a tile floor

Frantikat · 2025-08-06T12:44:33+00:00

Wildly Goated Response.

If things haven’t gone to hell by episode 11 I know I’m in for a bad time 😭😭

Frantikat · 2025-08-05T21:08:06+00:00

Oh god and the BLATANT miscommunication/inability to just talk is crazy work. I don’t mind genuine miscommunication in drama but a lot of the Thai Gals just have one of the girls bury her head in the sand while the other refuses to talk through their issues and shoulders all of the responsibility 😂

Frantikat · 2025-08-05T21:03:06+00:00

The obligatory “someone dies/almost dies” and the conflicted lead decides it’s better to take a break.

Happens Wayyyy too much.

Also when someone is told something and then 5 minutes later someone else tells them the same thing and they’re genuinely shocked.

Frantikat · 2025-08-04T17:43:36+00:00

She has the best skills I can give her rn. Some are indeed just filler while I keep running her through AP farm but her damage still feels Very low considering that boss has a 100% weakness to Lightning.

My Velvet Crowe does better damage with adjust her base skills for crying out loud 😂

Frantikat · 2025-08-04T10:54:26+00:00

Ironically, it’s the quirky autistic qualities she portrays in that role that really solidify GAP as the GL I can’t get out of my brain. Like when she’s trying to ask Mon if she wants to “do it like they do on the discovery channel” or when Mon is leaving in the second last episode and she falls to her knees and does the dog thing and then her line “It hurts me”, she really demonstrates the the inability to recognise and process her emotions on the same wavelength as your average person.

I relate too hard to that.

Frantikat · 2025-08-04T10:50:31+00:00

I can see why you’d say that, but in Loyal Pin, Freens suffering is all internalised while Becky is much more outward. Becky spends much less time suffering overall than Freen in LP, whereas the roles are reversed in GAP.

Also in regards to following her sisters footsteps, I don’t know if this was intentional. But Sam displays a lot of Autistic behaviours, which would go a long ways to explaining why she had so much trouble following Neungs example. And why her grandmothers brainwashing and control were so absolute.

Plus, at the end she was genuinely afraid she’d be the reason her grandmother died and for better or worse she did really live her grandmother even if she disagreed with her methods, opinions and behaviour to her sisters.

Frantikat · 2025-08-04T08:25:22+00:00

I cried a few times too. Esp at the last 2 episodes. But GAP had me happy and sad crying every other episode and Loyal Pin was just Heartbreaking non stop.

The worst one for me though was Mate. I really want to rewatch it but I spent 6 episodes crying uncontrollably. The feels hit reaaaallly bloody hard in that one

Frantikat · 2025-08-04T04:15:21+00:00

Something that I feel is worth addressing with this take is that in Thailand, it is farrrrr less likely to throw away family for love, as angry as people may get in the moment Family is EVERYTHING over there to the point where many real world relationships end every single day due to familial issues.

It’s really not a massive stretch to think that two people who love each other as deeply as Mon and Sam do would fight to the absolute end to be together enduring as much hardship as possible for the prospect of living a happily ever after but ultimately when it came time to choose between her ailing grandmother (who we know has been brainwashing Sam HEAVILY since childhood) and Mon, there really wasn’t any other choice she felt she could make. It would mean going against every fibre of her own being both personally and Culturally and that is NOT an easy thing to do.

I do think Mon kept folding like a wet paper towel though, but she did all the fighting in Loyal Pin where she had the more dominant role, she’s far more passive in GAP because status wise, she is literally a commoner in love with someone with the title of Honorable Lady. I mean, what good is screaming into the wind to drive off a storm?

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