2 Luas: O Embaixador (2022)

ISSO ESTÁ LONGE DE SER 2 MOONS

Demorei um ano inteiro para assistir essa série e eis aqui o meu comentário sobre o encerramento dessa história que foi uma das introdutórias para mim nesse mundo. Eu acompanhei 2 Moons desde a primeira temporada (confesso que ainda estou apegado ao primeiro elenco) e me informei devidamente das tretas envolvendo a série para que mudasse o elenco em todas as temporadas (particularmente não gosto da Motive Village). Imaginei que 2 Moons: The Ambassador fosse uma devida continuação dos momentos finais de 2 Moons 2 e fiquei decepcionado ao descobrir que o foco era outro casal, pois eu queria realmente ver como o Phana ia tirar o Wayo daquele limbo em que ele se colocou por culpa do Park. Eu li a novel há muito tempo, então não tenho certeza se o Tatch e o Lom realmente são personagens canônicos ou foram criados para a série, vou me abster de comentar isso para não passar informação errada. Nos primeiros episódios, fiquei muito chateado por achar que a Motive Village tinha destruído uma das minhas histórias favoritas, uma das histórias que me introduziu no mundo dos BLs. Todavia, eles contaram a história dos seis personagens principais de 2 Moons ao longo do BL e, ainda que não fosse da maneira que eu imaginei, já me senti satisfeito por ter tido essa conclusão.

O relacionamento entre o Lom e o Tatch só fica aparente do meio da série em diante, que é onde o BL começa a ficar realmente bom, pois os primeiros capítulos não tem nada que remeta a 2 Moons que conhecemos. Confesso que fiquei apaixonado. Para atores iniciantes, pois aquele foi o primeiro trabalho deles, acredito que eles mandaram muito bem. É uma série boa, mas para quem acompanhou 2 Moons desde o seu início, é óbvio que esse encerramento não é o melhor de toda a franquia, de longe também é a melhor temporada; na minha opinião, é a pior, e isso porque eu tenho algumas ressalvas as temporadas anteriores. Defendo arduamente a primeira temporada, porque por mais que eu ame o Nine, o Joong, o Earth e o Phoom que protagonizaram a segunda temporada (a temporada que teve as melhores atuações de toda a franquia), o elenco da primeira ficou marcado em mim mesmo com a atuação engessada do Bas e do Gxxod. The Ambassador poderia ter funcionado melhor se fosse trazida como uma série original sem vinculação com uma outra. Ainda espero ver os atores que interpretaram o Tatch e o Lom em outra produção, e também o ator que interpretou o Wayo, porque ele é muito fofo.

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No more moons please!

Well, this is getting repetitive...
You would think that after giving us Kimmon and Copter and the 15 insufferable characters that Bas has played since he was the original Wayo in the first edition of "2Moons", this company would have said... "ok enough... we did well enough, let's move on". Sadly, season 2 became a chaotic mess when all the original cast left and they had to re-cast, sending fans into distress because some couldn't accept the idea of not having Kimmon and Copter playing Ming and Kit or couldn't accept the idea of having inexperienced newcomers replacing them.

But, we got "2Moons2", with a whole new cast and wasting the first 4 episodes with a reminder of what happened in the original series. This series was not perfect but we got Earth (now called Din) doing a decent job as the new Wayo, Joong who seems to be the most successful of the bunch moving to GMMTV, Nine who now seems to focus on his singing career after being on a Chinese singing competition, and Phoom who was quite subdued in the very mediocre "Coffee Melody". That season ended with Wayo suffering from his picture being placed all over the university by the guy who likes him but gets rejected and then seeks revenge. He runs away to his home and while Pha is kicking the other guy's ass, Joong (Ming) comes and tells everyone that he knows where Wayo is, at home with his father.

Even a this point, season 3 seemed inevitable, focusing on Wayo-Pha and their crisis and also on a secondary character called Suthee (played by Green) who was going to be "The Ambassador" in season 3. But, Mello Thailand/Motive Village (whatever the name is now) messed it up, again... first by creating a music group with all the guys from "2Moons2", except Din... which created an incredible uproar by the fans. Then, more controversies with their contracts and between the company and director Anusorn (who directed the second part), ended up with the whole cast quitting again. Instead of ending the project, Motive Village decided to re-cast for the third time and we ended up with this mediocre series as the third season of an already mediocre project.

Some of the bad things:

1. The plot/storyline: No clue, really... the main character of the this season is Lom, who is Pha's cousin and his "enemies to lovers" story with Tatch. They both argue about being the candidate for the university's Ambassador competition and decide that, whoever has more IG followers by certain date, will be the faculty's representative. Lom lives in a self-pitying world as he always says he is not good looking enough, especially when compared to Tatch, but he has way more followers than him, so he is always trying to make Tatch more popular and in the process, falls in love with him. That part of the plot seems clear... but then we have the other couples from the previous two seasons and we see them quite scarcely throughout the episodes... the Wayo issue from the end of season 2 should have been the starting point for this season but, instead, gets pushed I think until episode 5 or 6 (don't even remember now) when Pha tells Lom how the problem was solved as a 3-minute flashback during the episode.
Kit and Ming, Pha and Wayo and Forth and Beam do not advance their relationships and, instead, we get the usual jealousy, fighting, arguing and tears in the usual BL tropes wasting whatever momentum the couples from part 2 left for the new couples in this season. I mean, we even have Pha and Wayo still arguing in the last episode and suddenly solving things with a kiss and a hug. It seems the director and the writer were set on focusing so much on Lom-Tatch, that the rest of the guys were just a side note during the series... if you watched carefully (unless you fell asleep from the boredom or you quit the show before the end), each couple (Wayo-Pha, Forth-Beam and Ming-Kit) had their "big" argument, their jealousy moment, and their NC scene with some very awkward kissing making it the same dull formula for all the couples all the time. Lom and Tatch being the focus of this season, had way more screen time, way more kissing scenes (a bit less awkward than the other couples), so we got to see the perfectly waxed armpits from Danny many many times. Plus, we even got an extra couple with Toon and Tong (Lom's friends) kissing in episode 12 without much development for their couple.

2. The acting: Yes, I am aware the actors are brand new and QUITE inexperienced... but it was painful to watch. No emotions in sad scenes or angry scenes or any scene whatsoever, no chemistry between them, some of the characters really don't match these actors, and yes, I also know I shouldn't compare, for example, the acting and character development by Nine vs.the acting and character development by Toey (both played Kit) or the cute, naive acting done by Din vs. the cute, naive acting done by Park (both played Wayo), but the chemistry between the couples in "2Moons2" felt a bit more natural than with these couples. Plus, with the reduced screen time that the 3 original couples got, meant we barely had any chance of really getting to watch how each actor portrayed their character... just to see if they brought anything original to the table. Instead, we end up getting Danny (playing Tatch) and Mark (playing Lom) for 85% of the episodes and very few glimpses of the rest. It is a shame that the company did not prepare these guys better for what was definitely a pressure-cooker because fans already had 2 different casts to compare and to choose from.

3. Side characters: If we barely saw the main couples, we had even less side characters with Lom's friends being the ones who got most airtime and the cartoon-like villain we got this season (Panon), that actually has a good twin as well (Parak)... evil twin-good twin, how original! But the bad guy is in love with Lom and tries to get him to break up with Tatch ... so in this Thai BL we got the crazy male character instead of the usual crazy female character. We also have a girl who likes Tatch and is a friend of Lom... she thinks Tatch will ask her out but he never does and then feels betrayed by Lom when Tatch tells her he is in love with him and not her. At least we didn't see the plot get any crazier by having her do something "evil", so we settled with the crazy male character doing all the bad things, then get beat up with his own twin and miss the Ambassador competition.

Good things? I'm not sure... some of the actors had cute moments but good luck finding something else.

In the end, for the third time, this series has been wasted due to poor management, poor writing, poor directing and mediocre acting. I truly hope this is the last season of the "2Moons" franchise because the original was not exactly a masterpiece and the other 2 have gone down in quality ever since.

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