found a months-old sketch which sums up sookai dynamic
wait do those tin can phones really work?? I thought this was all a myth.
I just looked up a video this is wild I’m making one tomorrow
in my high school Art 4 class while we were no doubt supposed to be getting ready for a Very important Art Show, two of my friends made one of these phones but instead of talking into it they would write messages and clip it to the string and slide it across the string to the other and when the art teacher asked why they said “we’re texting” and she could not BELIEVE it, this was the FUNNIEST thing she’d heard all year
so she got on her office phone and called the principal and said “two girls are texting in my classroom I need you to come take their phones and issue them detentions” and we all waited like assholes for him to show up and when he asked where they were she gestured at my friends “texting” on their tin can phone and my principal was already a pretty tired dude but that was the most exhausted I think he ever looked.
I can't help thinking about how the casting of Be My Favourite, which at first (and second after the recast) felt so odd, could actually be very cleverly intentional.
When the first trailer was presented at GMMTV Live 2022 we all collectively lost our shit at the casting of Krist and Mike. Not only for the backlash Krist (potentially wrongly) received after SOTUS but also for pairing him with Mike. Two actors who had been in bl pairs before but not for a while and who weren't predicted to do any again soon.
But then Mike got replaced (for whatever reason), and by yet another person who no one saw coming, Gawin. Again, an actor not shy of a few bl pairings but who hadn't lead a show yet and who seemed pretty reserved and not the obvious choice to do another bl.
And looking at Krist/Kawi and Gawin/Pisaeng sat together at the end of ep 7, it hit me that they don't seem like an obvious paring.
And they're really not. They've not even worked together on a series before (as far as I could see on mdl) let alone built up a friendship/relationship on the 'promotional circuit' compared to other newer pairings (I'm thinking Ohm/Nanon before Bad Buddy, or Perth/Chimon going into Never Let Me Go and now Dangerous Romance, who it's easy to picture together from the get go.) And also compare this to Krist and Aye, who have worked together in three other series prior to filming Be My Favourite - and recently too.
So it feels like the show wants us to see the Kawi/Pearmai pairing as the obvious one - just as Kawi does.
It wants us to see the Kawi/Pisaeng pairing as a little odd, or unimaginable - just as Kawi did (and is kidding himself that he still does).
And I love that because, as it's taking time for Kawi (and Pisaeng) to get used to the idea of them as a couple, we also get to do the same thing at the same time.
Their pairing is growing for us as it's growing for them.
And in some ways it's making me feel closer to their journey.
(shout out to @grapejuicegay for our dm discussions about the show)
Hope you don’t mind me tacking on, but I was discussing Krist’s casting recently with @bengiyo @ginnymoonbeam @waitmyturtles and we came to a similar conclusion that the choice to go with him is very intentional. In addition to the reasons you state above re: how he works with Gawin as a pair, there is also a kind of — how to say this — not particularly cute or cuddly quality that Krist has, along with some reputational baggage that he brings to the table that works really well for Kawi’s journey.
We, the audience, are not supposed to like Kawi, especially in the early episodes of the show. We are supposed to find him difficult to love. We are supposed to wonder why Pisaeng even likes him. And we are supposed to, despite all that, come around to the idea that he is still redeemable and worthy of kindness and generosity from the people around him. It’s the entire point the show is making, and it doesn’t land nearly as well if Kawi is someone we like right from the start.
Krist is a great casting choice for a character the audience is meant to struggle with, both because of how he shows up as a performer and because of some of the issues longtime bl fans have with him. It’s actually a pretty genius choice both for the story and on a meta level.
the gentleman doth protest too much, methinks...
MINATO'S LAUNDROMAT 2 | EP. 2
bonus: boy, you are five kinds of gone
