The Pictures They Took Together!

The pictures they took together!

Old flame sparks.

Krist Perawat & Singto Prachaya for #GMMTV2024PART2

The Ex-Morning | GMMTV 2024 PART 2

So, you may be wondering how I feel about the new KristSingto BL.

Take this. A collection of screenshots from my Discord servers. Not chronologically dated. THIS IS NOT EVEN ALL OF IT. I am overjoyed.

Some more thoughts that occurred to me.

I was thinking a lot about the car accident. It directly follows a scene in which someone attacks Pathapi on a motorcycle, indicating that this was an orchestrated, intentional act to harm Pathapi.

Of course, I know that this parallels reality, with Krist’s car crash, and initially that’s all I thought about it. But then I kept thinking and thought, well, isn’t a car crash pretty odd considering the rest of the show? Sure, a big car crash would make sense, but look at that scene preceding it. No, there’s probably a good chance that someone wants Pathapi harmed.

Tamtawan also comes to him after the crash. It might just be worry, but to me, it signals an idea: maybe Tamtawan and Pathapi were investigating something. Like. Pathapi is a reporter! And while at first he reports on celebrity gossip then ends up the target of internet hate? You know what could get him that award at the end for best reporter? Maybe: finding something out. (Okay, maybe this isn’t the main point? But? Like?)

So, what would they be trying to find out? Well, we have a mystery right in the show!

Who posted this online?

Okay, so I think there’s a very easy, very obvious answer, and I am split on if it will be true or not. Aou’s character. He would know this event happened, most likely have access to the cameras, and would have ample reason to want to leak this!

Then there’s the question of if it is Aou’s character, what does that mean for the story?

Well. A lot of things. I think everyone can think of most of it. Personally, I’d prefer for Aou’s character to not be the “villain” of the show, both because it could possibly undermine the initial character flaws Pathapi has, and because I think it’s just an incredibly easy out. I don’t quite like the idea of the story just having an easy antagonist. If anything, I could see Aou’s character as a decoy antagonist. Either in a sympathetic “Pathapi was a dick and Aou’s character leaked it because he was sick of the treatment” way (assuming the car accident stuff is either not tied to this OR actually just an accident) or in it actually NOT being him, and it being tied to a bigger conspiracy, that Pathapi and Tamtawan would then be working on uncovering.

If it isn’t Aou’s character, it could also be just a random staff member or something inconsequential to the story that I’m blowing up greatly. But I think it would be really interesting if Pathapi wanted to know who it was that posted the footage online is.

I am mainly focusing on just the trailer’s contents by the way, not the meta of KristSingto being in real life PathapiTamtawan. I have very different ideas for what the show will try to do with the plot and especially the car accident if we’re going to be focusing the plot even MORE on the real-life parallels. (Remember how awful certain haters were about Krist when he had his car accident? Well, I don’t want to. But it could come up in this show, if it wants to comment on that. Which, don’t quote me on that happening, I’m just speculating!) Anyway, in this case, I see much less grounds for my plot speculation here.

Well, who knows. No source material. Original story. I’m just throwing ideas at the wall and seeing if any of them stick. But I think I have a point regarding how sick it would be if we got our reporter Pathapi and his (ex) boyfriend Tamtawan investigating something! Even if it isn’t related to the footage being uploaded online (good chance it isn’t) imagine if Pathapi was trying to be stopped by someone from reporting on something! Then again I might just be reading into it in my many, many watched of the trailer. Please let me know if you agree or disagree, because I honestly have no idea if I’m on mark or off base here. Because maybe nothing is going on. But I’m having fun theorizing!

Thinking about the Mock-Trailer for The Ex-Morning

Pathapi is said to be the Best Reporter of the Year in the beginning. How. I want to know his career accomplishments so badly? I need to know how he got here!

I’ve been considering why Pathapi acts the way he does in the beginning. Has he always been like, since his university days? Or was it perhaps heartbreak and the passage of time that’s made him more like this? 

Aou is being made to play the exasperated best friend in Be My Favorite and the rival with coffee thrown on him in The Ex-Morning. Someone give both characters a raise. And a boyfriend!

I looooove the trope of the arrogant, whiny jerkass in a successful position who gets humbled. And that paired with him rebuilding his reputation with his ex-boyfriend of all people? I am so ready to see Pathapi’s character arc, and the things Tamtawan makes him do in this trailer makes me think he’ll get more in-tune with the spirit of good reporting and why it’s so important.

How does Tamtawan know and decide to come back? Obviously, he wants to help Pathapi and is still in love with him, but why did he leave? WHY DID HE LEAVE? Later in the trailer, when present-day Tamtawan leaves, it’s after he’s told “Tam. You have two options now.” What are the two options? The way Tamtawan leaves and the look on his face makes him look regretful, but what exactly is motivating him trying to leave here? Why did he leave in the first place? Does Pathapi know? His face looks half confused rather than just heartbroken!

What has Tamtawan been up to? I am intrigued.

The SOTUS reference in their university days flashback? I am obsessed. They were so sweet in that one frame, it makes me wonder how they fell in love. How different were they? How much of the same remains in them? How did they fall in love? Oh my god!

The transition from Pathapi being awkward with shirtless only-clothed-in-a-towel Tamtawan to taking his own shirt off and asking if Tamtawan has an ulterior motive to fluster him is hilarious to me. I love how forward Pathapi is here! And Tamtawan getting flustered is amazing. Oh my god, I love this trailer. It balances a comedic tone, angst, tension, etc all in one show. Can’t help but adore it.

“You’re still the same selfish jerk.” I need to know what happened! I said this above and I’m saying it again. I am intrigued.

Uni Tamtawan pulling Pathapi by his tie? I am obsessed.

The umbrella scene is both so very P’Lit and so very much a SOTUS reference, it delights me. I wonder how many SOTUS references we’ll have in the show proper.

I wonder if the car accident will coincide with the climax of the show.

That! Last! Scene! I suppose this is a scene when they’re hooking up but not properly together, seeing as they’re flirting, shirtless, and probably just had sex, but still won’t admit they still like each other. This sounds great to me.

I’ve mostly not talked about the meta elements here, because I feel it’s less about the contents of the actual trailer and more about the nature of the series as such a KristSingto RPF-type plot. Anyway, I love it. Everything about the meta of this series is perfect to me, and exactly what I wanted. This show is SO fun to think about when you know about the lore of KristSingto in real life. I’m half expecting Tamtawan to have hazed Pathapi at this point!

Side note that is not a side note: I LOVE THEIR ACTING! I love their characters!

Is this vers? I’m going to say it’s vers or Top Krist until proven wrong, because that last scene? Well. Let’s put the KristSingto into the KristSingto.

I love the small cast and the focus on KristSingto! I just need to say this. I am so excited for this comeback, in-part because it really is just Tamtawan and Pathapi’s story.

Tamtawan is supposed to mean “follow” and “sun” whereas Pathapi means earth/soil/ground. Coming off of KongArt, where Arthit is obviously “sun,” and KristSingto, who compare themselves to the sun and moon, this seems so definitely meaningful. Aof and Lit, I need to know what you’re cooking! 

The coals scene is sooooo perfect, both for the characters AND KristSingto themselves. Again bringing it back to the meta of it all, but, oh my god? This is perfect? Aof wrote a screenplay that was KristSingto RPF? On that note, I keep thinking about the idea of KristSingto channeling their feelings from the irl work-partner “break up” and it makes me go a little crazy. Especially with Krist talking about all his efforts to bring Singto back, and how he over-thought it when Singto left. And even more so seeing as they say they’re basically playing themselves.

The lyrics of the song used in the trailer are so fitting, I am now looping it and thinking about Pathapi and Tamtawan forever and ever.

I noticed that Tamtawan goes by “Tam” but did I miss it for Pathapi in the trailer, or do we get no indication of his nickname? I’m curious.

The “Begin Again” for the new Peraya Party speaks to both KristSingto and their new characters, and this is again making me go, oh god it’s true they’re just playing themselves.

I said my ideal KristSingto BL was a vers exes-to-lovers that parallels reality. Evidently, I was not alone.

Is it just me, or do the Pathapi + animals and Pathapi + soil degradation water scenes feel a lot like certain episodes of Friendship with KristSingto? Just me? Maybe it’s just Krist. I love him so dearly.

So much is revealed in this trailer, but that somehow makes me more intrigued about what is not being revealed to us?

Krist still goes for the top lip and Singto still goes for the bottom lip when they kiss. This kills me every time. I am so excited to see lovey-dovey Tamtawan and Pathapi!

SOTUS || THE EX-MORNING dir. Lit Samajarn

kongpob x arthit || pathapi x tamtawan aka kristsingto rpfs

People still have so many wrong opinions about KristSingto and I'm getting tired of pointing that to them, I'm about to unfollow several people on tumblr that are somehow still on my dash :')))

Krist/Singto are literally the biggest legendary OG couple that has returned to GMM because they wanted to play together in BL series again for many years but had different plans for lives. And now they're back as THE FINAL presented trailer (I don't count scarlet hearts since they count more as a teaser) and they even get their whole fanmeeting because SO MANY FANS were celebrating for their return and eagerly wait for Krist and Singto to be reunited because SOTUS meant a lot to BL industry.

Their posters were literally all over GMMTV building even when Singto was out of the agency and now they are everywhere because fans celebrate and Thai fans know better! They have so many new BL actors, right? But Krist and Singto will always be special, and intl fans can't do anything about it except for accepting or ignoring it if they don't like it. Both Krist and Singto are very popular and successful as solo artists and actors and they simply returned to film BL together again because, I'm quoting them, "It's home, it's comfort"

To mock them or their screen pairing and chemistry is to spit on the entire BL history and publicly announce you're a fool for being aware in lakon community only through clickbaits and scandals and spreading negativity while refusing to fact check and learn actual information and accept people's development.

How about you don't rain on people's parade which clearly makes you a minority right now, thanks to fans getting sick of hate and being loudly happy now ^^ I also won't be staying silent anymore like I was all those years ago, not knowing how cruel fandoms were.

Damn, I can't even celebrate without seeing weird takes all over my safe spaces, huh? (Thank discord for having cool folks tho<3 definitely closing twitter tho)