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The Too-Long PerthChimon Review: Part 1
In this part, I will be covering the three (!) shows both Perth and Chimon were in. One is a non-BL where their characters do not interact, but the other two (which you've probably watched, if you're reading this) are BLs and feature them as a couple!
(I segmented them for readability. If there's a better way to do it please lmk oops)
Please… Siang Riak Winyan aka Please… Soul Call
I only watched 4 episodes, because that was all that was available with subtitles. The other two are online somewhere, but I wasn't very inclined to continue.
'Please' is a short horror series where Win (Chimon) and his classmates encounter… ghosts, or something. I don't remember much about this one, if I'm being honest. They accidentally contact some ghosts in a school bathroom and they suffer because of it for 6 episodes. It's not particularly memorable, and the horror elements weren't super good but I am willing to cut it some slack in that aspect.
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What I did find interesting is Perth's character, Breeze. Breeze is a transfer student who is later revealed to be the younger half-brother of another character, Be. The two aren't close, but their interactions in the show are quite heartfelt.
However, this whole half-siblings subplot kind of comes out of nowhere…? And neither does it really lead anywhere. Be and Breeze aren't part of the main friend group in Please, and don't have much importance outside of this.
The only purpose this storyline serves is to explain the origins of the main ghost that's been haunting Win and friends (this is an assumption. I did not watch episodes 5 and 6 but it's heavily implied in the earlier episodes so I will stick with it).
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Please is rather unremarkable as a series, but as an actor fan it really makes me want to claw at the walls.
First, this is where PerthChimon met. They've mentioned talking a little at the workshops in some of their interviews.
Second, this is Perth's first TV series as well as Chimon's first lead role in a series (he was the lead of a movie I'll discuss in another part).
Third, this series is likely where director New Siwaj started picking favourite actors. Alongside Perth, Mark Siwat and Sood Yacht (I am so sorry if I got his name wrong I'm not familiar with him) are also in this series. The three of them would get cast in Love By Chance not long after, with Perth and Yacht appearing in several of New's shows after that.
Lastly, Perth and Mark Siwat (who plays Be) became friends on this set! Mark was Perth's first friend in the industry, and they're still good friends now as far as I know. I enjoyed watching them work together, but I'll get into that more when I talk about The Stranded. This paragraph is already longer than it should be.
Never Let Me Go
This is a show I have opinions that I struggle to put into words about. Never Let Me Go is a series about the heir to a prestigious family, Nuengdiao, and the bodyguard assigned to him after his father is shot and killed, Palm. Perth plays Nuengdiao's cousin Chopper, while Chimon plays Ben, a classmate of theirs.
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I did not like this show. The storyline is messy at times, the characters (with the exception of Chopper) are often underwhelming and don't reach their full potential.
It has an interesting premise, but fails to deliver at almost every turn after the first few episodes. I will be focusing on Chopper and Ben but one thing I particularly disliked about Palm and Nueng is that Palm is a very bland character.
We never learn much about him beyond his protectiveness and his existence as The Love Interest, and he lacks a distinct personality. This is a problem with Mork in Fish Upon The Sky as well (sorry Pond) but it's more noticable in NLMG due to it's more serious tone, which requires better developed characters than a romcom like FUTS would.
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There were some things I enjoyed about the show! It's very nice to look at. The visuals are good! The cast being pretty also helps. I loved Perth's performance as Chopper, it is by far the strongest performance in the cast.
It's not that the rest of them are bad actors, rather strong actors like Chimon and Pawin were dragged down because they aren't given very much to work with. When good actors are given subpar scripts or underdeveloped characters, they'll try their best but their performance will Not be as good!!! Which is unfortunate.
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Chopper is the only well-rounded character in this series. I assume there were rewrites along the way, since Chopper is quite different from the novel that was written alongside the series and ChopperBen were likely added in only after Perth joined the cast, to promote PerthChimon before Dangerous Romance. I personally have a soft spot for Ben (I have a big gay crush on Chimon) but Chopper is my favourite character overall in NLMG.
NLMG feels very much like a PG-13 Kinnporsche that misses everything that made KP… well, KP. This is probably a coincidence but I watched them one after another so NLMG's flaws were more obvious to me. By episode 12 I was only watching for ChopperBen and I had no interest in PalmNueng, which rarely happens even if I favour the side pair. NLMG just feels lacking in many ways, to the point where I enjoyed FUTS more (despite being equally bad) just because it's funny.
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There are a few things I wished the series took from the novel. The ChopperBen epilogue set shortly after they move overseas together is something that I think the series desperately needed. It makes Ben's storyline (which the novel has a heavier emphasis on) more complete, and considering we didn't get ChopperBen in Our Skyy 2, it would have been a good conclusion to ChopperBen as a whole.
I also liked the PalmNueng rooftop scene but I understand why they left it out of the series. The novel also kills off Kit after the final confrontation in episode 12, but I assume the series didn't want to deal with the implications of Chopper patricide.
I didn't finish the NLMG Our Skyy 2 episodes but the slightly lighter tone definitely helped a lot. A bit of a weird choice to give bully kid whats-his-name a boyfriend out of nowhere but as a MarcPawin fan I respect it.
This series was… a mess. But I love ChopperBen dearly! They're something special and I spend a much longer time thinking about them than I show. They're what got me into PerthChimon and I'll never regret watching NLMG for that alone.
Dangerous Romance
Finally, their most recent work, Dangerous Romance. I was waiting for this one for months and definitely not disappointed, even if it wasn't what I expected! (Just a warning. I will be criticising DR a bit here.)
The character relationships are the strongest part of DR. KanghanSailom's development over the episodes, navigating how to love eachother and growing as people together, was incredible to watch over 12 weeks. The way it all comes together is amazing.
GuyNava and NameSaifah, although lacking screentime, were super interesting to me. They managed to sell us (even View and June, who referred to them as another couple in DR on Live House) on NameSaifah in around 3 episodes total somehow which I find hilarious. PimfahNabdao didn't get much screentime but they were cute and I hope we get a continuation of their story!
DR also looks VERY good. Some of the visuals are amazing. The windmill location is gorgeous and I assume it looks even better in person (I HAVE to visit someday… A few Japanese fans I know flew to Thailand and visited it. I wish I were them).
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However, DR often struggles to get from point A to point B. This isn't a huge problem because the A and B in question are well-written, but it really feels like they had a few scenes planned but couldn't figure out how to connect them. They knew the direction they wanted to take KanghanSailom and GuyNava, but had difficulty writing the 'to' in 'enemies to lovers'. This is evident with other scenes too but it's very obvious when it comes to the main couple and the primary side couple of a BL.
Some of the direction is also a bit questionable. I personally don't like the overuse of flashbacks and OST (it reminds me of Double Savage and that's not a good thing) but I've accepted that its just a DR thing.
I like what the costuming team has come up with, bless whoever managed to make Pawin look 10 years younger than he is and the same age as actors 4 to 6 years younger than him. The details in how the wardrobe of the friendgroup, down to the colour of their uniforms is a nice touch too. This crew definitely has a lot of love for the series and I like that!!!
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DR is hurt a lot by what it sets itself up to be. When viewed as a typical BL with interesting romantic storylines, it's very good.
However, the promotion tends to frame it as something darker than what we ended up with, a unique storyline that happens to be BL (similar to Only Friends in that sense). The pilot trailer also doesn't help, since it promised a darker overall feel with meaner characters. The themes of poverty and class differences aren't handled very well but people who think more about DR's themes than me have discussed this. I was here to watch KanghanSailom be cute after episode 3.
This difference between what was expected from the pilot and trailers and the final product is what I suspect causes people to view DR as worse than it is. Looking past that, DR is a flawed but great BL series, one of the better shows to come out of the GMMTV2023 lineup.
I'm also one of the people who were skeptical about the difference in the feel of the pilot and the official trailers. The pilot trailer occupies a good 15% of my brainspace and I will always miss all it gave us (the rain kiss!!!!! THE VIBE OF THE BACKING SONG!!!!!!) but DR is something that exists separate from that now and as it's own thing, I adore it.
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What I really love about DR is how PerthChimon it is. It's a very significant show for both of them in so many ways! It's their "official" return to BL (Perth hasn't done BL since 2020, Chimon not since 2018) and I don't think there would've been a better show for this.
Kanghan and Sailom have a lot of Perth and Chimon in them, and I don't even know if it was intentional. Perth and Chimon both relate a lot to their characters (for reasons they have mentioned in interviews) and when listening to what Perth said when he was asked what Kanghan wants to say to Sailom I wanted to run around in circles and scream because you could really tell it came from his heart.
It's also the first time Chimon has released a song, and the first time Perth has sung a duet.
You can see the PerthChimon in some scenes like when Kanghan is feeding Sailom in their studying montage, and one entire postcredits Oishi segment (I don't remember which episode, I think it's the open house one). As a PerthChimon fan Dangerous Romance is incredible because of all this!!!
There's also a line before they perform Sunset at the open house that stuck out to me. Kanghan's line about how Sailom is talented but rarely has the chance to showcase his talents is just a little awkward by itself but it gets me very emotional because Chimon has talked about how he turned down singing jobs in the past due to trauma and still gets nervous on stage, something which Perth supports him through whenever they sing together.
(Since I first typed this, a clip has been posted where the directors talk about how a lot of the sweet KanghanSailom scenes were improvised. Incredible work from PerthChimon, 10/10 no notes.)
DR is filmed in the same campus building as several other Chimon shows like Edge of 17 and The Gifted which is a whole other thing I think about sometimes. Especially Edge of 17, his first BL series with Pluem Purim. Comparing Sun and Sailom, you can really see how much Chimon has grown in those SIX?! years.
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I also love seeing PerthChimon work together. They're very comfortable with eachother, and Perth has said that Chimon is the partner he's felt the most comfortable with (knowing Perth's acting history, this is a very bold statement but I believe he means it). I hope DR is just the start for PerthChimon and they continue working together for a long time.
(Similarly to NLMG, I responded to an ask about DR's flaws recently. I talk about the pacing issues here as well!)
And that's the end of part one. Thank you for reading!!! You can always drop me an ask if you have anything to say, my inbox is open. The next parts will be uploaded slowly.
Intro / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 (I'll edit to link them when I get these up!!!)
Episode 1
Saliom's groups is the cute group
Kaghans group is the trash group
I looove saliom!
Kaghan is trash, but perth tanapon is soooo pretty.
Episode 2
I guessed when kaghan saw his grandmother watching that clip that he was going to spin a bs story. And i was right!
He is such a snake, but perth tanapon is 😍
Not saliom's scholarships. Kaghan no, if you do that even having perth's face wont make up for it.
Kanghan back to being cocky and its so attractive. perth and nanon are the only people that can act as aggrogant/cocky and still have me adore them.
Looking annoyed as hell/ pissed looks so good on saliom.
"Im sorry... that i cannot say sorry to kagnhan" 👏👏 i love saliom. Saliom is literal perfection!
I love kaghan's grandmother! Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. This is how you discipline children. No violence. No raised voices. No belittling.
Kaghans and his gradmother's relationship is very cute.
"I want to kiss that jerk, guy, in the face" whoops, i meant punch. Damn autocorrect.
"Did you order food?" "Like i have money for it?" I love him. My favourite combination - cute and sarcastic. I understand why kaghan falls for him.
Nava don't get Guy in trouble. Please. Please. Please. Nevermind, hes to aggrogant for that.
Nawa and guy's interactions are so fun to watch.
Kanghan is such a douche, and what is up with him trying to get saliom to kneel at his feet. Is this something your into my dude?
"Call me tutor saliom" yep, no notes. 👌
I fucking love saliom and kaghan is such a peice if trash.
Pretty prevlige is real because if kaghan had a different face i would hate him so much. But he looks so gorgeous when he goes to salioms house with gun. And because he is the main character he has to have a redemption arc, here we go...
Episode 3
Kanghan wanting to be better is so much better than giving a sad backstory to excuse his behaviour.
I found the scene where kanghan cutting the steak for saliom very cute. My heart melted. Don't know why the scene would make me feel this way but here we are.
"People who try to do better are different from people who make excuses" or something similar. The line is from baker boys and it applies perfect here.
"Are you with your tutor or love exactly?" Both.
What kind of bouncer is that?
Kaghan always looks so uncomfortable around his dad.
In conclusion saliom/chimon is so so so cute . I want to keep him in my pocket. Kaghan is pretty cute too
Episode 4
"Be honest do i have any influence on you?" Saliom my dear, no else has the influence you have on kaghan.
"I just asked out of politeness" sure... sure you did.
He just pimped out saliom. Name can rot in hell. 😠
Episode 5
"Without wind, how can the windmill spin" yep, i love kaghan now. 🥰
This is how i like my sponsorships- ft. Cute boys being cute together.
"Saliom must be a friend you truly love". Grandma is the captain of this ship.
"I don't love him, i despise" kaghan you lying liar. 🤣
Why is kaghan father like this? It irks me.
Girl there's nothing on the board.
"Your intended major in college" enginneering? Enginneering for kanghan. Bl boys in uni = enginneering. And maybe architecture for saliom.
I may have a weakness for engineering x architecture. Blame it on pat x pran (bad buddy)
Yes, i agree. Saliom calling out kaghan for doing a 180 in the presence of his crush.
Kaghan wants it to be a date however pimfah hasnt even thought of it as a date for second.
Kaghan stop trying impress her, its never going to work, she just not into you.
I felt so sorry for kaghan when the lizard pooped on him and then everyone laughed at him. If that was me i would have broken down in tears from the embrassement right then and there. 😥
Imgaine your crush's crush having a crush on you. I have mixed feelings. But i do not approve of kaghan smiling like that at pimfah when he should be smiling towards saliom instead.
If they give us ponsorships like this i might just pay attention to them.
An indrect kiss? What in the hidden agenda is this?
Episode 6
No kaghan no.
"He is a person, you cant just toss him around." 👏 Even though she's in the middle of my ship, she is right and she should say it.
So this is a love triangle, which i dislike but alteast here their helping each other being with their crush's crush rather than veing overzealous and possive about it.
You know what i take it back. Kaghan what are you doing? ! 😠
Nava how did you catch that ball with one hand?
I don't think we are talking about her twisted ankle anymore.
"Why can't i reject her?" Good question. You absolutely can. Kaghan stop being a jerk 🙄.
"I got sick. I walked in the rain for too long" i smell a spong bath oncoming.
"I'll pair you up" by the magic of drams kaghan and saliom will end up together.
Low necklines and sliver jewellery. 10/10. Perth looks soo good in black. Also his watch is really nice.
Kaghan love language is acts of service.
"Apart from guilt, i have never had any other feelings for you." Oh My God! Kaghan stop lying. Is guilt why you kiss him at the end of the episode?
Episode 7
"Kang, you've got this" what in the high school musical? 🤣🤣🤣
"What right do you have?" Thank you!!!
Finishing venus in the sky right before starting this, is making it worse for the already bad kiss scene.
YES! FLUFF! GIMME MORE! 🎊
When kaghan kissed the paper whole looking a saliom. Yes! Reminds me of when pat did it looking at pran in bad buddy (during the green tea girl episode)
In the middle of the bus? Right infront of your friends? Yes, they will be so suprised when you tell them your dating him.
Chimon looks really good in wavy/curly hair. Both in the bar and in homeschool.
Saliom looks so uncomfortable with the girl.
Guy and nava being drunk and trying to prove the sober. So fun! 🤣
Kaghan has really nice colllarbones. Saliom-in-love look when kaghan saves auto. 👏👏👏
Oh no safiah. Why are you here? Why are you here?
The girls look so pretty.
Highschool musical take 2, this time less dramatic. 😆
"Do you think i dont know about you and him...it was so obvious, even from mars" Thank you! Kinda reminds me of the "even from mars I can see that you are angry" winnysatang scene form my school president.
Salioms eyes are pretty.
Their so cute together! I cannot believe kaghan falls for it twice and then saliom falls for it. 😍🥰🎊
They are so cringe. I love it!
Their giggles! Ahhhh!
Safiah get away from grandma right now.
Episode 8
Kaghan whinning to sleep on next saliom is so cute.
The whole bed scene! I love! I love!
"I'm being serious." Watch it be the most unserious thing ever. "Can i hug you?" Kaghan! You so! 🥰
Trying to hide kaghan before safiah comes in.🤣
Guy and Nava!
"See you at 8. Jub jub" i love Perth playing hopelessly-in-love characters. First Ae from love by chance, and now this.
Safiah get out of here.
Ouch Saliom.
"If it were me..." but its not you so shut up.
"This might fill my thirst... but this definitely fills my heart." 🥰
"Give me encouragement as my boyfriend"
The scene whole scene where their hugging. Yep, That was chimon and perth.
"I think... my feelings for you are growing stronger, I love you" he is so hopeless! Im so fond!😍🥰
Karma's here to bite your ass safiah.
"I want to do something else" ohh! So you want to kiss him.
What is the omnious music? Dude don't take the watch hes going to frame it on you.
If you see me as your kid, can i sleep in the same bed with you every night" and i-whoop 😳
He's gonna get slapped. He's gonna get slapped. What did i say?
"A kid like you, without my money what could you achieve!" Excuse you! The fuck is wrong with you?! How could you say that!!
"Are you talking about the big bike or me?" Both. Both is good. 😉
Episode 9
"This isn't the first time kang has behaved this way" what is wong with you! Do you not see a problem with this?!
"Im expensive" "doesn't matter, I'm rich" aboslute perfection! 10/10. No notes.👌
"It's your friend" Guy and Nava!
Kaghan become a football coach.
Two roomates per room. Guy and Nava share a room. Colour me suprised.
The bathroom doors are see-through, and kanghan lying down on bed like that.🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏
"Are you talking about the big bike or yourself" you better take care of him kaghan. Saliom/chimon is so cute. He's a smol bean.
Kaghan in the Motorcycle jacket. Yes! Yes! Yes!
"..VIP zone" be careful.
Careful. Careful. Careful.
Ah fuck. They're going to get beat up.
"That's the first gift he ever brought me." Dude.🥺
"Im expensive" "doesn't matter, I'm rich"
I love that kanghan saved pick-up lines to use on saliom. Saliom is the only one who can match kaghan.
Chimon looks so cute with curly hair.
Episode 10
Mosquito bite? Really?
Chimon's/saliom's giggles are so cute!!
The watch. For a manipulator he's so dumb. Don't fall for the person who tried to make your brother an escort.
"Tonight, I'll have a talk with him." In other words he's going to end dead or aleast close to it.
Safety tip - dont annoy somone when their holding a butcher knife.
His in a gang and he thinks its going to be easy to get out. Was he born yesterday? 🙄
I get you have reasons but there are better ways to go about it.
And this is where you walk away safiah.
I don't like this omnious music.
They look so happy when they hug each other.
Oh no, dont let go of saliom's hand. Didn't you just tell saliom you will get through it together. His brother did the crime; not him. He was with you the entire time.
I'm betting that Name did it and then blamed it on Safiah.
Guy and Nava!
Safiah you really choose Name over your brother? Really?
He young enough to be your son! Yuck!
It's fucking drugged isnt it? Yeah it is.🙄
Episode 11
...And i thought they made up. My bad.
Most of the adults here are so fucking disappointing.
"So, have you been following me?" Yes, yes he has.
"I thought i had no one left" Mr kaghan if you were going to take care of him, why were you behaving as if you left him? 😠
"Do you think i should go and see safiah?" No! You absolutely should not!
Guy and Nava remind of satangwinny (my school president)
"there's a simple way to fix this." Yep, by killing him.
Name is a fucking idiot. He pulled a gun on Boss even though Boss knows he wont shoot, with his back to two other guys.
Once again, the police cant do anything right.🙄
Episode 12
"Sorry, are you interupting you two?" How perceptive how of you pimfah.🤣
Okay, so Safiah did chose Saliom.
Saliom was so cute when he hugged safiah.
"Welcome back, Saliom, our top scholarship student!!!" subtely is not Kanghan's specialty.
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As romantic as that is. He did pimp out your brother. Best bud my ass.
Kanghan might become a coach! Yeah!
"you're so cute." Says saliom with one arm around his faen. Dude have you seen yourself?
Guy and Nava kiss! Their kiss!
"My grandson" thank you.👌
They walked away with saliom and left kaghan behind. Lol.
Kaghan will take every oppouturnity to show he's Saliom's boyfriend. As he should.
"Do you think all people are equal?" And we have made a full circle back to the begiining.
"Sorry, sir. I'm an introvert." 🤣
"Take off your shirt and kiss me nicely." 😳
"If i have you, I'll take my best to take care of you."
"Care to be my heroine?" I love full circle moments. 🥰
Final thoughts
Chimon is so cute and curly hair looks so good on him. Black is perth's colour. He looks so good. How did the orginal title translate to dangerous romance? They have chemistry but not romantic chemistry and 0 sexual tension. I don't like their kisses at all. I rather have not have seen them kiss at all with the help of some camera magic then watch them kiss like that. Also i think they could have toned down on the flashbacks a little.
For the never let me go side ship ben and chopper I've seen two very interesting theories on how their relationship will go
The first theory I saw was:
Due to jealousy chopper with work with his father to take down neungdiao and his family and eventually ben will eventually find out and gets upset over it causing chopper to realize what he did was rough and therefore having his redemption arc
This theory most like comes from the common "mafia/rich boy will get jealous and do bad things because of it then the person they care for/loves finds out and gets mad and only then do they realize what they've done wrong." Trope they often do for side pairings and/or rich x poor ships. Though you'll find many different versions of it, the trope isn't really hard to find.
Personally, I hope they don't go this route. It could be an interesting storyline if done right, but it's done often, and it's hard to pull that off nowadays without it being predictable and unmoving.
So far, going that route would seem out of character for chopper as (from what we've seen so far) he's a lot like neungdiao. I'm the sense that he controls his emotions. He's different from neung because he doesn't put distance between himself and others to protect his emotions it seems more like he hides everything from everyone.
An example of this is when he comes up to palm after class - he introduced himself and offered to help palm despite the fact that palm is clearly a beginner. At this point, I don't think Chopper knows that Palm is working with neungdiao or his family- he just wants to help out the new kid.
He has also stated that he doesn't want to compete with neung I believe this is not only because he's seen what happens when family is put against eachother with his uncle and father but also because he seems to dislike confrontation and violence. He's also not shy about letting his father know he doesn't like it either.
For example, the scene where his father hurts someone:
Obviously, I use this scene not because he looked away; we would probably all do that unless desensitized to it. But because after all is said and done, he confronts his father about it. He tells his father that he thinks it's too cruel and he says that he doesn't want to fight for neungdiaos role in the family; he wants to do it himself (probably so he can do it without the violence)
In conclusion, I don't think Chopper will join his father just because he is jealous over ben. I think he'd need a much bigger motivator to go against his dislike for the violence his father brings and the fact that he doesn't want to compete with neung at all.
The second theory is a lot more interesting to me as I don't think I've seen it done in this setting/capacity before:
Ben is the one doing bad things to get what he wants from neungdiao, and chopper finds out and doesn't understand or condone what ben is doing
I've already stated that I don't think Chopper likes the violence his family comes with and I think that backs up this theory: the fact that he wouldn't be ok with ben hurting someone to get what he wants (emotionally or physically).
Ben is extremely suspicious to me due to the fact that he says multiple times that he doesn't want anything from neungdiao and seems to be overly sensitive if someone accuses him of it. Not only that, but he only started trying to become friends with neung after his father passed away: when neungdiao is at his most vulnerable and has the most power he's ever had.
On the other hand you could argue that he's only getting close to him now because he has just lost his close friend chopper (I'll come back to this later in the post) and wants a friend he knows he has something in common with- music! Or that he didn't 'wait' until neungdiao's father passed, but he talked to him in the hope he could become a comfort to him while he's grieving his father. Both are valid arguments, and I don't think we have enough information about who ben is as a person to really decide which it is yet.
From what we have seen, I've come to the conclusion that even if ben is using neungdiao for something at this point in time, he hasn't started yet and genuinely wants to be his friend. though maybe what he wants out of neung is to be his boyfriend because it seems our boy has a little crush (poor chopper)
Another reason I have stated is because he has just lost his close friend chopper. It is said during ep 2 that ben wasn't the one who pulled away and basically ended their friendship but chopper. Though it seems like ben didn't really want the friendship to end.
I say this because the two have a genuine and cheerful conversation between the two before chopper asks ben what he wants from neung.
I feel the reason why he was much more offended when Chopper asked then when neung did is because Chopper was a close friend. Someone who should know that ben would never use another person to get what he wants (that we know of wink wink) but not only was this a close friend asking but one who has essentially diched him since he became class president (so probably the start of the year)
To finish off my thoughts on this theory I'd say that neither of these theories seems very likely based of the information we have from these first two episodes- of course my opinions could change depending on how these characters progress through the series. As of right now, it looks like these two theories are extremely out of character for both chopper and ben but we'll have to see how the characters grow before I say if I do or don't believe in either of them.
So now that I've said all I could over these two theories with information I've got from the two episodes that are out all I want to say is- I demand the palm + chopper friendship and neung + chopper family bonding time <3
Personally I think if chopper and ben don't have a happy ending together I'm going to fly to Thailand and fight gmmtv
Neung's reaction to palm talking back to him and treating him like an actual friend would during the swimming scene 😭😭😭😭😭
and chopper my love my baby boy I s2g if anything bad happens to him I might break down and cry!!! And get his father OUT OF HERE that man terrifies me not only for neung and his mom but also for chopper himself my man's seems low key scared of his dad and its understandable!!!
Ben you sus bitch the more you're telling people to trust you the LESS I trust you!? Not only that but neung asked you not to talk about the fact that palm is protecting him and the first thing you do is tell palm you know?! Not to mention you're (unintentionally or intentionally we don't know yet) breaking choppers heart!!
Also chopper being low key friends with neung and high key friends with palm <3