Hello and welcome to Big Gay Energy.
I'm Caitlin. And I'm Fiora.
Come along with us while we dive into the fun and nuances of
queer media. Representation matters, and
we're. Here to talk about it.
Cheers, queers. What's on the big agenda today,
Theora? Today we are continuing our epic
scene by scene breakdown of Blank the series.
And today we will be doing some portion of the final episode,
Season 2, episode 6. How much we'll get done, we
don't know. I have a women's national soccer
team final to get to because my D was in the titles.
So we'll see how much we can accomplish today.
You will get this after the final results.
Will I be happy? Will I be sad?
Who knows? I I think you're gonna be happy.
I hope so. Martha deserves a fucking gold
medal or some kind of finalist award.
The she's like the actual best soccer player in the world and
she's on the pride and so like. Isn't like the star of
Washington, like, injured too? Like she's still playing, but.
She maybe, I don't know, I don't know because.
She's not in the national team. Rodman.
Rodman's on. Oh.
Trinity, Trinity. Rodman, Dan.
That makes me sad. I love her.
Yeah. I know.
She's still playing. She's still, I know, I know, but
again, she's still playing. But apparently she's coming off
injury. If you have a favorite team or
favorite sport, let us know below.
We just want mine's Gotham. I miss Kelly already anyway.
Anyway, OK, before we jump into all of this, I first want to
address a comment we got on YouTube by Snakes Not Eyes.
So basically they left us a comment with some concern about
like the podcast and our like learning of Thai culture and
stuff as we've been going on this journey.
So we want to thank you for sending us your thoughts and
feelings and we really appreciate the comment and we
fully acknowledge are shortcomings when it comes to
dissecting non American specifically based media because
we grew up in America and that's our bias.
So our lens of the world is like white Americans.
Yes, we're in the LGBTQ community, but like this, our
life experience does skew how we view media.
And when we're doing this podcast, we're a lot of it is US
reading the media for what it is, like reading a book and kind
of dissecting what like the Cass is showing us what the crew is
telling us by their different pieces of the puzzle.
We're trying to put that together to see what the artists
are telling us. So there are going to be things
we missed just because of our life experience and we fully
acknowledge that. That being said, we we are on a
journey to learn more and be better and we appreciate each
and everyone of you that have corrected us and given us more
insight into the show itself, Thai culture and aspects of
Blake. We just didn't realize we missed
because sometimes you don't know what you don't know.
And so we fully acknowledge that.
So snake snakes, not eyes suggested we add a new section
to our episode to address corrections and comments.
So we're going to do that going forward.
So thank you again for leaving your comment and for making the
podcast better. And like, hopefully we can all
learn something together, kind of like as we learn from each
other, because that's what community does, right?
So all right, so first we're going to start with Wanasorn
because at this point we've we have met with the Gloria
screenwriter who adapted, helped adapt like the series into the
series itself and like just want to hi, if you're still watching,
we love you. You're amazing and brilliant and
I love your artistic style and how you think about things.
But I want to address monitors aren't corrected in one of my
clowneries and I will own this one fully.
So when it comes to the episode where Big Nung gifts Little Nung
the bracelet before her exam, it was not a Jasmine flower 'cause
I was like what's native to Thailand, it wasn't.
It was simpler than that. It was a four leaf Clover for
good luck before the test. So I was right that Big Nung put
assigned a meaning to the gift and was thoughtful about what
she was giving. However, I was wrong about the
flower. So thank you WADA someone for
correcting me on that one. Like it's still.
It's so cute either way. This one, she was like you,
reading too much into everything.
Yes, that's my job. That's why we're here.
We're not going to be right all the time.
We're this is a clown show half the time we're just doing our
best as audience members to read what's on the screen, whether
it's there or not. At least we weren't full out
shipping the grandmothers right out of the gate.
No, that came when I was making the murder board.
And just shipping grandmothers films later because our mission
is to make everything even more gay.
So like, you know, there you go. It's fine.
It's. That's the gay agenda, right?
The gay agenda so that's why we're here so thank you
Wandasword. Wandasthan corrected us a lot
more so like if you that was just a sample so if you watch
our we're we're at some point going to post the parts of the
interview with Wandaswords. You can learn more from the
creator themselves so anyway, thank you wandasword.
That was really It was still cute.
Anyway, I love it. Anyway, so let's go.
We're going to go through YouTube, so we have Rora Neely.
If I say your name's wrong, I'm super sorry.
I'm just trying to figure out names off of YouTube.
Roha Renly. That's.
My that is my version of it. OK so this YouTube Huber writes
just an insight of Southeast Asian culture.
It's a common thing for majority of parents and elderlies like
aunties, uncles, relatives. We'll keep asking girls slash
women when they are going to get married and or if they have a
boyfriend every time they meet for family gatherings.
That used to happen to me. That's the Italian culture does
I should do. And if they don't have anybody,
then these relatives will want to introduce someone to someone
to them. Happened to me a lot before.
That's why these days most Asian women are quite reluctant to go
to these gatherings. I feel that so hard.
I mean, I wonder why? Yeah, that's a lot.
They just start practicing the women to get married.
Like, yeah, that's because sounds exhausting.
So little Nug was probably going through going through that.
That's what she was going through with the family.
So thank you for that insight. My Italian culture does that
shit too and it's fucking annoying.
I don't see my relatives for that reason also.
But I feel you on that. Like it was very satisfying to
be like, I married a woman. Leave me alone now.
And then I stopped getting to ask those questions, OK, Haroop
Karah, 84 wrote on the episode 2 O 4 recap.
Fine mentioned she bruised her toe and she kicked the car.
I feel so bad for. Her Why is she?
Always getting injured. She always goes for realism.
Like damn girl like protect yourself.
You don't have to actually take the car.
You don't actually have to suffer for your.
Art. No, but she does.
She goes for realism a lot like. Poor thing.
OK, then we have Yamaka SD. This was on the Season 2 Episode
3 recap. This was about the scene where
Lil Mung's with UE and when UE is like oh who you in love with
and and blurmong panics and says PB Bilkin.
OK so this is about that. So PP and Bilkin are two
separate people. The boy love series are known
for its its I told I told Sunset about you the name of the series
which has an influence on Blank the series according to the
screenwriter. Oh damn fuck I just want to
start about this. Let us know on Twitter OK?
She said P1, the nine star CEO briefed her that P1 wanted the
vibe from that show. Sorry this abbreviation.
Also P1 is APB. Bill can ship a shipper, that's
probably why she added it to Lil Mug's line.
Relatable. It'd just be like throwing my
ships out into the universe. That's so.
Relatable. I love that.
That's why we throw Phi into every.
Phi's in everything now for that.
We just can't help it. We just want more of her in
stuff. Between Phi and Jim, Jim, Jim.
Jim Jim is the character of dreams, the age of chaos.
It needs to be and everything. But like, OK, Phi needs more
work because the woman's a brilliant actor.
Put her everywhere. Jim just needs to be in stuff as
Comic Relief because things need to be funnier.
Anyway, the comic continues. It was random, but not random.
We can apply that Little Nung pretends to at air quotes, ship
them so that Yui wouldn't suspect her relationship with
Big Nung, but Yui has no idea. Yeah, Yui's just so confused.
Yeah. Anyway, thank you for clarifying
that. OK then we have Yuki T14 on the
2O2 recap. 5 was the winner of Miss Grand Thailand in 2016, as
well as the runner up for Miss Miss Grand International that
same year. She had acted in several shows
and movies before Blank. She was also a manager for Miss
Grand Thailand for a few years. While like, damn, that's a lot.
All right. This was basically us being
like, what did they do before? They're actors and not knowing.
I think this is the clarifying of that.
Yoko was in a girl group for a while, but she has been acting
since she was a child, doing commercial series and movies.
Fun fact, I saw something of when she was.
Oh, she was little. I saw something when she was
little. It was really cute.
It was adorable. OK, so this is on episode 2 O 2.
So there's the scene where they go in the bathroom and the birds
in there and they do the kiss and then they come out and they
scare the woman in the bathroom. Fun fact, the lady in the
bathroom is one of the nine star and staff members and then it
just laughs. That's really funny.
OK, now go be traumatized in the bathroom.
But the actor's like, damn. It's like we need someone.
What a cameo. I do like this.
This will make the scene funnier and more interesting.
Yeah, thank you. What are you doing?
Get in there. Imagine being like the
accountant and they're like getting this.
Scene. Like, you know what I mean?
They're just like random job has nothing to do with this.
That's amazing. I love that.
Keep it in the family non star. I respect that.
OK, that's all for YouTube that I have.
We have a lot more comments, but like, thank you all.
These were the ones that were most like clarifying and fit the
theme of this new section. So thank you all.
Then I just want to give a couple from Patreon.
So Nancy, friend of the podcast, it's forever Nancy love you
mention because we were talking about the episode where Big Nong
breaks every traffic law in Thailand to get to Lil Nong,
who's in Huahen. And we're like, how long would
this take her to do? Well, Lilong's missing.
So apparently the drive from Huahen to from Bangkok where Big
Nong was, is 3 1/2 hours. So this bitch again, it's like I
suspect where Little Nong is, tells no one and then drives 3
1/2 have hours to go get her fake note.
That was so dramatic I love it. OK, that's his 3 1/2 hour car
drive specifically. Like damn, she was determined.
So it was probably like 3:00 AM when she got there and when I
was like what the hell. Anyway OK then last one from
Patreon, we have BJL. This was talking about the
season 1 finale recap and this was talking specifically about
the scene where the Grand Am dies and then Big Nung and Sam
get into that argument outside the one where Mon has to stop
and be like leave my wife alone Big Nung, get out of here.
Apparently what Big Nung was doing outside the funeral is
considered sacrilegious. So like not only is she being
rude to Sam, but like disrespectful from like a
religious cultural standpoint. So like damn, damn big nong,
when you when she goes, she goes hard is what I'm saying.
Everything, everything. So she's big nong.
It's not OK. Also, like there's a comment
that every the original commenter mentioned something
about like the nicknames. We nickname everybody in every
TV show. It's not exclusive to like Thai
media. We do just like nickname
characters that it usually means we like them.
Like for example, we're doing Heart Stopper right now and we
call one of the characters Olivia Coleman, even though
that's not the character's name because we love the character so
much. We just call the character
Olivia Coleman because we love Olivia Coleman.
I think that comment was towards the loyal pin with KOA being
called an STD. We also call Kua an STD because
we hate him. But yeah, anyway, we just
nicknamed. When they make us feel
something, they get a nickname. Yes, they get nicknames like
Jim, the best character ever, and like we call ourselves Loyal
Pricks because we love Prick from the Loyal pin.
Anyway, thank you. If you have any other
corrections or anything, please let us know.
We'll give you a shout out at the beginning of our episodes
when we do our corrections clownery section.
So we appreciate it. Like we're not experts, we're
doing our best, but like we're just here to have fun and we own
the fact that we're clowns half the time.
That's totally fine. All right.
Any other announcements before we move on or just go?
Let's go all. Right, so let's get into the
episode proper. So I think we picked up at Part
2 of like in the YouTube. So some amount of time passes
and Big Nung is having a gay old time in the kitchen in the Bua
Palace. It's like a brand new day.
She's a brand new woman. Like she's up and about.
First of all, she's dressed, her hair's all done, got a makeup
on. She's looking good and like,
alive. Like not just like sobbing
endlessly in a dark room clutching a stuffed animal.
Like she looks like she's living life again, which is huge.
And she's in the kitchen cooking with the ancestors, basically no
recipe, nothing. She's just cooking with the
ancestors. And I love that.
That's a great way to put it, but she's got ready.
Enough chili. Yes, thank you, ancestors.
I get that. I get that kind of cooking.
I'm that kind of cooker. My wife is not today.
Actually, she has to cook. Something and I wrote the recipe
and I'm like a lightly salted pepper this and she's like, what
does that mean? I'm like, what do you mean?
You just like look at it tasted? No, can't do that.
Give me the measurement. That's why I can bake and I
can't cook. Sometimes, like, it's like, I
don't know what the amounts are gonna look like, 'cause she had
to go buy the vegetables and I'm like, well, I don't know what
the amount's gonna be to give you a measurement.
It depends. Anyway, Big Nog gets me.
So Oh no. I'm with her.
I'm with.
Her. So already we see that Big Nung
has a ton more knife skills than Little Nung because she is
cutting these Peppers on a bias and they look so good.
They're uniform, they're perfect.
I know again, she's cooking with the ancestors that had to do
with this for a long long time. Poor little Nung was probably
never allowed in the kitchen, so it's not her fault she's.
Gotta learn somewhere, I. Really want them to cook
together. That would have been a cute
scene. It would.
I have it later. We don't get to see it, but it's
my theory, yeah. I'm with you.
OK, All right, So while Big Gung's doing this, the song
playing in the background in the scene is the exact same song
that played when Little Nung was having her heart to heart with
Auntie Nim in the kitchen having the cooking lesson, which is
really cute. And I think like signifies that
like, not only is Big Nung Kooka with the ancestors, but she like
feels close to Little Nung because we come to see like what
she's cooking is the exact same Curry that she made for Little
Nung back in season 1 when Little Nung was like, I'm going
to college, things will be fine. I'll still come over and eat.
And she was making that Curry, the one she threw the trash for
some reason, because it was like rejection.
I can taste it. So she throws it away.
She's making the same meal because like, she feels close to
a little nug at the scene, which is really cute.
So then I assume that this morning when she's doing this in
the kitchen, it's probably the first time Big nun has woken up
and like was doing things since the accident happened.
Because when Auntie Nim comes into the kitchen, she looks so
surprised at what she sees. And then like she's like, oh,
and then she looks like ecstatic, like so happy that
like big guns up and about and then like cooking like.
Wow, this much? She's probably so worried about
her too. Oh.
My God, yeah, no, I'm confident she's the one that tipped off
Sam that like something is wrong.
And so 'cause they're basically like family adjacent.
So yeah, I, I imagine this was like a relief for Aunty Name.
And so, and dude's like, Oh my God, what you doing, Nung?
This looks good. And then Big Nung explains that
she's making green Curry for little Nung, which I mentioned.
It's just what I'm pretty sure this is exactly what she makes.
It's like the ingredients look the same.
And this was the that was the night of the famous Juan Viva
fight in 105. Anyway, before the Grand Man
died, which is kind of sad now that I think about it, because
the Grand Man was definitely haunting that palace and she's
making the food anyway. All right.
So Big Nung explains her logic to Auntie Nem.
She's like, well, if I make this food and Lil Nung smells the
food, then she'll wake up because she'll be like Big Nung
and want to wake up and have dinner with me because she
promised you'd have dinner with me, right?
Which is, it's just such a sweet sentiment.
And then when little I don't know, when Big Nung is
explaining that she's like smiling.
So she seems hopeful again, which again, is not where we
left her in the aftermath of the accident.
So good, good progress on her part.
Now it's so nice to be able to see her being hopeful while
everything else is terrible right now, because again, there
is that that flight response where she like does go to a bad
place and try to block everything out.
But now this is her still trying.
Like she still knows that things are bad, but she's has hope.
And it's also nice that the kitchen seems to be a safe place
now for her and doesn't call the cause the regression like we see
in her the as the rest of the palace does.
So like now she can be happy in the kitchen cause I mean that's
where the love of her life cooked for her like and it was
for the first time in her life and it was for her.
So like, this kitchen now means a lot to her.
Yeah, and like throughout the whole show and like wanna, Soren
said. Like food is her love language.
Also, it's a big love language for Nung, so I think there's a
lot of love happening in this room for all the reasons we kind
of pointed out. So it's like I like that it's
rubbing off on her and making her like cheerful again, which
is huge. I also I assume off screen
someone filled Auntie Nim on a on what happened the little
numb, because like Auntie, it was just like numb looks weird.
Numb's not OK And so like I assume like something happened
but like she has to know cuz like I mean Lil Nung's not
showing up which like she basically lived there so it must
be weird but I wonder who told her?
Who do you think was Did Big Nung divulge this information to
Auntie Nung or did like Sam fill Auntie Nung on what happened
Little Nung? OK.
So from what we saw previously, there is no way Big Nung was
capable of telling Auntie Nung what was happening, especially
like not even like when she became hopeful again because
Auntie Nung was surprised to see this.
That's fair, but also how would Sam know if Big Nung doesn't
tell her? I wonder if like when Sam was
over consoling Big Nung, either Sam put two and two together or
like Nung mumbled something. You know what I mean?
Something incoherent about Lil Nung.
And then like Sam probably sent her spies out and I was like, Oh
no, Sam probably called Pinkfu. She's like who the fuck are your
friends and like? Or one vivo who's probably at
that hospital. Yeah, I.
That's a violation to. My theory is that Sam played 20
questions with her until she could piece together what
happened and then with this info she relates it to Antonym
because that's the family. Yeah, now that tracks.
Sam's also nosy enough that she would like, you know, be the one
that'd be like, no, but really, what's He wouldn't have to like,
kind of leave it alone. All right.
All right, so Big Nung finishes her cooking project and then
packs it all up and then arrives to the hospital to enact her
plan. And she lingers outside of
Little Nungle's room for a minute and like before she goes
in and kind of peeks through the window.
And I wonder if she's lingering because of the family.
Obviously he's like, where do we leave it?
They're like, you're trashing on get out of here.
So like that they didn't end on great terms.
Or I wonder if it's like it could be partially.
That could be a multitude of things.
It's that. And then I think maybe it's also
like she can finally see little known.
OK, So even if she goes in there and gets kicked out, like it's a
moment of peace to just see her uninterrupted also, and like big
Nung's the type of person again, the 3.5 hour drive to Hulu
ahead. She has to see her with her own
eyes and like touch little Nung to like know for sure
everything's fine, right? Because she's the one that
overthinks everything. So like, I think this is a
moment of like this is real. She's still alive.
Kind of thing. Before she enters, she like
gently knocks on the door and to alert the family, the family and
it's Pinkva this time. It's who she's going to run
into. And Pinkva is like sitting in
the same spot we left her in, which is literally right next to
little, not like the like as close as physically possible.
Like that's Pinkva. Pengua has not left that
position. And unfortunately the
grandmother is still there, but she's sitting where we left Chet
last time. Chet's gone, so she's off to the
side. And why isn't Chet there?
Because it's Chet, of course. He's like a secret.
Because he hasn't figured out how to make himself the main
character of the situation yet. Yeah, he's probably like, well,
it's literally nothing for me to do here.
Call me when she wakes up. I'm sure he has to work but like
I hate him. Does he have to work?
We never see him. Work.
He works the way Sam works. Which is lots of other people
work. He doesn't have a man, so I
don't know how he's doing it. All right.
So big non press, be polite, as as polite as humanly possible.
But it's like Ice ice baby in there cuz like she's enemy #1
everyone's like, you're the reason we're all here.
And like partially true. We go all the way back to when
her and Pink Foe were children. This is Big Nog's fault, but not
for the reasons they're claiming her.
It is technically Big Nog's fault.
All right. So the grandmother who has
dubbed Big Nog Satan immediately gets to work with her
immediately. And the grandmother like, OK,
And then she's like, bitch, you're not needed here.
And it's like nobody is actually needed here.
Like little none just needs to like, recover.
Nobody is actually helping the situation.
We're all just like hovering basically.
So that aside, the grandmother is like, listen, I raise little
none all by myself. It's just her and me.
We don't need anybody else. And that's kind of like the
grandmother's headspace, right? She's like reverting back to
like, it's US against the world again, like casting off her
daughter who's in the corner. Always always making slights at
Ping Pho like only. She doesn't know that she's even
there, just. Listen, yeah, exactly.
But basically again, it's she's doing what Chet does where it's
like my like, I'm not sharing my daughter's love with anybody,
even though like the daughter is like, get out of here.
But the grandmother's doing kind of the same thing.
She's like little 1 doesn't have room in her life or anybody
else, just me kind of thing, which, you know, that was the
controlling environment. So she's kind of cling to that
now and things are getting desperate.
And just, again, poor Pink fight in the corner listening to this,
like, OK. But The thing is, like, Big Nung
does understand where the grandmother's coming from
because, like, she was also raised basically by her
grandmother. Like, yeah, she does.
I think she was probably at an age where she kind of remembers
her parents. But like, mostly most of her
formative years, I imagine were like, the grandmother heavily
impacted that. And so while they loved each
other, they had that twisted relationship.
And like, I think she understands the sentiment.
So Big Nung is like, listen, I get all that, but I'm here to
ask you for mercy because like she's worried about her
girlfriend and just wants to be near her the way like again,
none of you are helping the situation.
You're not helping Little Nun recover.
You're just there. And so like Big Nun's like, I
also just want to be here for her.
It has nothing to do with you. Please just do me this kindness
and let me just see her. And the grandmother tells her to
fuck off basically. So Big Nun has to clarify she's
like, listen, I'm not here to fight you or cause the scene.
Remember last time you slapped me?
We're not here to I'm not here to repeat any of that.
Like she's like, I'm literally here because I love little Nung
and like she's like, that's my crime.
My crime is that I I'm in love with her.
Wow, arrest me now, I suppose. And subconsciously like big Nung
proves her point because as she's saying that when she
finishes this, she looks over at little Nung and like her
expression completely softens. Like she's kind of like got her
walls up because like, again, people want to attack her.
But then when she sees Little Lung, it kind of like the
vulnerability starts coming back because she's not used to having
a mask around Little Lung. Like she's gotten used to not
doing that, not performing that kind of stuff.
So it's like a reflex when she sees her to like, stop
performing so much. Not that she was like being
dishonest or anything in the scene.
It's more so like defensive walls because of the situation,
right? And she says it again.
She's like, I'm here for a little long.
Like, that's why I'm here. I'm not here to fight you.
I forgot you guys were even here.
I got here for her. Like come on now.
Wait, do you think that big nun walked in like, oh shit, yeah,
she has family probably. She opened the door.
I mean, she did knock. She was like, yeah, that's
probably. She looked in the room and she's
like, fuck, here we go again, I guess.
I wonder if she plays that off later and she's like, yeah, no,
I need the food for you guys. She definitely did it, but she
tries to play it off like it's for you, it's not for you, it's
for her. Anyway, what a good cover.
I made you food anyway. But it's too late because the
grandmother has already cast, she cast Nung as the villain in
the story, and she's not ready to relinquish that.
Because to relinquish that would be to acknowledge all the
fuckery that this entire family played in this situation.
OK? It's easier to just blame the
outsider Big Nung than to like, look inward and be like, maybe I
should have done that. All right.
So Big Nung mentions like the heart of it all.
She's like, yeah, I understand. At this point, I've completely
demolished all the trust you had in me, which she knew this was
going to happen once the family found out about the relationship
and it's now going to take time to repair that, if it can even
be repaired at all. Like that was the thing she was
very afraid of happening was like the trust being shattered
because like, she needs some level of trust for them to
accept the relationship, right? But like, see your point that
you keep bringing up, Caitlin, right now, the family's feelings
is not what's important. What's important is little nun's
well-being because she's in a critical condition and like,
will she make it out alive or not?
Like that's what's important, not like your feelings right
now. I'm sorry.
I'm not sorry. Yeah.
The grandmother is way too focused on Big Nun being here
rather than like, OK, what's going on with my granddaughter?
I like, she should really just be ignoring her.
I mean sisters, Yeah. Yeah.
Mm, hmm. Mm.
Hmm OK. And then like from big guns
perspective, she's like, OK, this situation's really shitty
with the family, but like being away from little long is worse
than like being in this position with the family.
So she's doing her best to convince them to like take this
Curry that she made like the olive, the metaphorical olive
branch, right in the hopes that little Nung will recover.
Because it gets tearing big Nung up to like watch this keep
going. And like I understand that the
emotions are high for everybody in this room because of that big
unknown. Like will she make it?
Will she not everybody's on edge, like totally
understandable, like your loved 1 is in a life threatening
situation. I understand that.
But like let's acknowledge big knowing is also feeling all
these things that you're feeling.
But you know, they cast her as the unfeeling villain or
whatever. But like she's like, come on,
like this might help kind of things.
She's like, I'm trying to do everything I can.
Please just let me help. And she says like, I can't stand
watching her lying down like this anymore.
And from big none like her actions and what she's doing
now, it's all coming from this place of love.
She says I truly love little Nung and she does.
But like they're in this situation now where like it's a
quote heart stopper, like love can't fix this, this problem
that we're in. And the people that we're
dealing with right now, a lot of them minus pink pho are like
control freaks, OK? Cuz like the grandmother's a
control freak, right? We've established that.
And so is big Dong. Like big Dong likes being in
control in like all the ways. And this situation is out of
everybody's control. Like it's really just up to like
little mom's body and like to recover or not.
Like that's kind of where we're at right now.
It's like medical intervention wise, there's really nothing we
can do. Like she just needs supportive
care while she recovers and there's not much the family
members can really do except watch this play out.
So that's. Her does accept though, because
she's always good at accepting just like what's coming towards
her because she's just, she just sits there and takes it.
And like that's the issue with her mom because she doesn't have
that fight in her to stand up for herself.
So she's just so used to taking everything that comes at her.
So she's just like, OK, this is what it is.
We'll see what tomorrow brings. I mean, well, yeah, I'm glad you
brought her Ping because like, what was Pingfa's situation?
Pingfa had this thing happen outside of her control.
Thanks, Big Nong, where she sought out Chet, got pregnant
out of her control. And then what happened next was
also out of her control because the mother stepped in and was
like, I'm taking the child, sending you away.
Pinkva's life has never been in her own control.
What was in control for Pinkva is when she finally went away.
And like now she's like, I'm choosing my husband.
I have my own job. Like I'm I chose my life now.
But then when she comes back to Thailand, it's like all of her
choice gets taken away from her. So she's more equipped to deal
with situations where like things happen outside of her
control. So she's used to coping with
that. Unfortunately, that was her
childhood trauma, right? But like Big Nung and the
grandmother don't have those coping skills.
So like they kind of fall apart. So the, and the Big Nung's gone
on this journey with Little Nung of learning emotional
intelligence and how to cope with her feelings in a mature
way. That's what we see her doing in
the scene. But the grandmother probably
didn't have that training. So what does she do?
Let me attack Big Nung because it's easier than me dealing with
my feelings. I'm just going to throw my anger
onto you because that's easier to do.
That's the most emotionally immature thing to do in this
situation because like, nobody can control this and they're all
freaking out basically, and they're dealing with it the
different ways. Ping Fu's just sitting there
handling it. The grandmother's attacking
Nong, and Nong's like I'm trying to do something that I can't
control, which is like bring her food and hope that helps.
And just like support her through this, which is really
all you can do in this situation.
Yeah. So again, the cooking was a way
for Big Nung to like, get control of the situation because
she's controlling what she can and doing what she can for her
partner in the situation, which is like support her through it
despite the family who's trying to like, burn her at the stake
essentially. OK.
So really at the heart of it, the the grandmother really The
thing is like she doesn't want to accept Big Nung and Lung's
relationship for what it is. Like that's the really the heart
of it. And she's like to accept all
that I have to accept my granddaughter's a sexual deviant
and she's into you. And like this woman has never
liked Nong. Never.
She tolerated her because of the title and that's it and the
money. And she's like the status.
She's like, that's all great, but I really hate nong.
If you go back to like whatever dinner, the first time they had
big Nong over for dinner and the grandmother's like asked her
questions and big Nong's honestly answering these
questions to be like, I didn't finish school.
And she'll like that. And the grandmother's like, God,
I really don't like you. Like.
She does not like Nong. Yeah.
So she's like, get the fuck out of here Nung, you're useless to
me basically. And this happens right after Big
Nung tells them once again that she loves little Nung.
And I'm wonder if it's getting harder for them.
And I mean, I say them, but it's really the grandmother and Chad.
Who? Yeah.
Who's not here though? But yeah.
Most to accept that Big Nung is the villain because she keeps
saying that she loves little Nung.
Like how can someone be a villain if they just love the
person that you love? And the grandmother is just
trying to hold on to the fact that Big Nung is a villain.
I and like she doesn't even want to hear any explanations from
Big Nung. She doesn't want that view to
change because that means first of all, she was wrong and it
would change the entire situation in her head, and
there's too much going on right now to even think about having
that. Yes.
OK, so then the other thing that happens is Big Nung does show
them like she has to like, OK, so Big Nung the whole time has
been an action person, like getting a little on the
bracelet. Like she does things to show
that she loves people, right? To show her feelings because
like, she has struggled like Sam to like, verbalize her feelings.
She's got a hell of a lot better at it now.
But like, her first instinct is to do not say kind of thing.
So what she's going to do starting now when the big the
grandmother tells her leave, Big Nong says no, she starts doing
this thing, which is to show her love through persistence.
OK. That seems to be like a valued
trait in love that we've seen kind of in television shows play
out over and over again this that like Chet was doing where
he's like, no, no, I'll keep persisting no matter what to
prove to you that I love you or whatever.
And it's like this persistence gets equated with love.
So Big Nog starts doing that where she like keeps coming back
despite them saying no and keeps doing things over and over again
until they like finally like wear down.
I'm like, OK, the way Lilong wore her down, she's like, Oh my
God, I guess cling out of my arm.
Jesus. I guess.
So she's going to start doing that to so they can't ignore it,
right? OK, so then big numb basically
is like, I'm not leaving because I love her.
I'm not leaving. So the grandmother says my
favorite line in this whole argument, which is I'm trying to
keep my manners here, which I think is code for like bitch.
And we're about to slap you up to slap you again.
I think it's code for. Don't test me, bitch.
Which I love because again, this woman is Miss Manners.
So what the what a threat that was.
So I love that the polite threat.
And at some point during this big Nung grandmother show off
showdown, it cuts over to Pinkfa, who's like again,
sitting by little Nung supporting her daughter while
she's quietly watching these two women politely Duke it out.
And it's clear that her mother is getting to her breaking
point, like with this line. And she's like, crying, too.
Like, she's getting really upset, doesn't know how to
handle her emotions. She's probably going to attack
Nung. And the last thing little Nung
needs, you know, the person we're all here for is like a bar
fight in the middle of her hospital room between these two
Titans, right? That is not going to help her
wake up. No, she's.
Going to like wake up here and be like go back into a coma.
Coma. Right.
Where her? She's having dreams about Nung.
So yeah, she definitely wants to be in her dreamland with Big
Nung right now, not whatever the hell this is.
All right, so again, keep in mind Pink is watching the shit
go down and I assume Pink Foot is being triggered right now,
which I think why is why she like cowers in silence for most
of the scene because I'm sure she's been on the receiving end
of one too many of her mother's emotional outbursts.
Think about it. She's an elderly woman who still
can't handle her emotions. What was she like when she was
younger and Pink Pho as a child? Probably just like this but
stronger. So I'm sure Pink Pho is getting
like war flashbacks from her childhood, probably right now.
And is that's why she's like being quiet and small in the
corner. I think a part of her is also
impressed by Big Nung for saying these things to her mother
because she didn't have the courage to do it when Little
Nung was a baby so she could be her mother.
And also like I mentioned earlier, Big Nung is now taking
the fight stance when it comes to their relationship.
Little Nung would be so proud if she was aware of what was going
on because this is such a big deal for Big Nung.
Wait. Imagine if Little Mong just
spontaneously woke out of the coma right now.
She'd be like, kiss me it's so hot right now.
Like what the hell. She'd be so into this right now.
I'm not going to lie. She would be smiling.
She'd be thrilled. She'd be like Mother,
grandmother, please leave us. OK but like in this I was trying
to figure out where my next note went with this.
So Ping Nong is taking the fight stance while Ping FA did choose
the flight path. Or really we're thinking we're
doing fight or flight. I think she was more likely the
freeze path where she just did as she was told because of the
trauma inflected by her mother. Like if she were to try anything
else she was most likely berated and probably abused as well
because we did see her hit little nun.
And this whole situation is probably triggering for her
because it's basically the same thing that happened to her, but
and like obviously not the same circumstances, but like little
Nung is basically being banished to America right now.
Literally no. This is history repeating
itself. Like the family's banishing her
to America. It's like literally what
happened to big VA being like well on the bright side it
worked out for me but like the trauma it did 'cause her I'm
sure. Yeah.
And like, I think the whole thing with sending Lil Nung to
the US, it probably does have an effect on her.
And like, she probably is like, maybe it's not the best, but
she's holding to the fact that she does get to have her
daughter and that's the big thing for her.
So she's like, I want to be selfish this one time so I can
have her. Yeah, it's true.
She was robbed of so much. Yeah, I feel bad for Pingfa a
lot. But justice for Pingfa I would,
I want to go back and see the reactions to Pingfa in the
beginning because we have come such a long way.
With her, I mean, it was jarring to meet Pingfa in one O 4
because that was a hot mess to like meet anybody in and but she
was out for revenge against beloved big Nong in that scene.
Like that was the point of that, the initial scene and the she's.
Her karaoke song is vigilante shit.
Oh yeah, yeah, She was out for revenge against our big nong.
So, like I, we're going to be. Upset when we were upset like
that, yeah. But there's so much more going
on with her and. She's yeah.
No, she's fascinating. Yeah.
All right. So let's back to this argument.
So the grandmother in this scenario really has no argument.
So she just instead of like introspection, she blames Nong
for everything. She's like the car accident's
your fault Nong, even though you weren't there.
So big Nong then decides, OK, now's the time to like really
get to the truth because she's think about it.
The last time we were in the scenario and big Nong was really
getting blamed, it was chat and Ping FA that were like smacking
down on Nong about everything. And Big Nong was like slowly
rolled. I just loved her.
You guys caused her emotional damage that she was going to be
a therapist for for the rest of her life.
Why are you looking at me? Where are you here?
Because of you guys. You guys tried to send her away
and she didn't want to go. Did you think about that?
So last time grandmother was fair to this bullshit.
So now big man's like, no, no, no.
All right, let's get to the truth of this.
Let's see. I'm going to force you to do
some introspection. So she points out the fact that
like, I think we're here right now, Your Honor, because you
were the ones that were forcing her to go to America when she
didn't want to go, like. And it's like, again,
grandmother, because big nut was like, remember when you took the
phone away when she was on the phone crying because she didn't
want to leave and was like going to end her life and shit and you
brushed it off? Remember that you were there.
You saw that she was miserable and chose to continue with this
plan. Like, is that not why we're
here? Was that not a red flag to you
that she's not OK and was going to escape this because she
didn't want to be in it? And it's like they all were
complicit in the fact that little Nung was miserable and
they all saw it except chat because I'm sure he had no idea
she was upset because he doesn't pay attention to her.
And then Big Nung says the saddest line that's also funny
later when Little Nung wakes up and the the truth of it all is
she says, like, maybe it's better for Little Nung to live
in her dreams rather than wake up to face reality.
Like the truth of that hurt so badly.
And she's basically saying, like, if this is how you're
going to treat her, it's she's probably better off in her
dreams. And like, literally this was her
entire life up until she met Big Nun, right?
All she did was like escape into dreams and media and like, tried
to go to that market just to get away from her grandmother for a
little bit and find some peace, right?
That's how she found Big Nung. And I love that Big Nung tells
them straight up that like, none of you listen to this girl and
listen to what she wants. Nobody listens to her.
And so, like, you can't blame the one person that like,
listened to her and tried to like, be a safe space for her.
And I hate to say it, but I do wish Chet was here to hear this
part of the argument that Big Nung's making, even though he
wouldn't actually listen to interviews in the room because
like, he didn't hear this shit too, but you know.
I mean, again, I don't even know how you would get him to listen
because you he doesn't listen when you talk directly to him.
He really doesn't. It's amazing.
I I just. I don't know how you would get
through to him. I don't know, I think you can he
has to he has to do it. He has to want to.
That's the problem. He doesn't want to.
All right, so towards the end of this conversation, the camera
cuts back to Pingfa. I think Pingfa at this point has
had because there were Pingfa chat.
I've already heard this side of Nung's argument where she's
like, we all played a role in this, mostly you guys.
And I think and and she went this Big Nung like breakdown at
the end where she's like, why can't you just let us love each
other? So I think Piques had time to
really process what, you know, Big Nung's actual feelings about
her daughter. And I think she's more receptive
to this argument that Big Nung has presented to them where
she's like, maybe look on the inside and look at your actions
and see how that also LED us here.
It's not just me. Because like, everybody's
blaming the timing of this on Big Nung.
And it's like, yeah, Big Nung was the catalyst for change in
Little Nung's life the way that Little Nung was the catalyst for
change in hers. But like, like, to your point,
Caitlyn, like, the suicide thing, like, this didn't just
happen overnight. Like, little Nung has been
building up to, like, trying to escape you guys for quite some
time. It's just that she was a child
that never had the means to do so and was, like, always
isolated. And then she finally has
somebody in her life who's willing to listen to her and
help her escape the bullshit. And so she, like, was like,
yeah, let's do it, you know? Basically that's the same thing
as wanting to live in her dreams more.
It's like, yeah, that's the same thing as basically and like
trigger warning suicide because like, I mean, who knows what
happens when you actually are not alive anymore, But it's it's
the same thing. Like she's not going to be
dreaming, but she won't be having to deal with this.
Yeah, it's just that's horrible. Yeah, OK.
So I think this whole thing just becomes too much for Pingva.
Like, we've we talked about it already.
And her mother's voice at this point, she's getting more
agitated and louder and angrier. She gets louder and angrier
after this, which I'm sure it doesn't help.
And when that is the cause of your trauma, because I'm sure
that people heard this every single day, it's hard to just
sit there and handle it. And I am proud of her for not
continuing to sit there and trying to get her mom to back
down because it shows that a little bit of what Big Nung says
always gets through to her. And I think just when when they
both talk, they listen to Big Nung and they always do listen
to each other. And it just shows how much of A
bond they have. That even though Ping Pho
admitted her feelings and Big Nung turned her down, did not
just fully like cut ties in their relationship like they
always have this connection. Yeah, their bond endured all the
stuff. Yeah, that's a good point.
Yeah, I do love to see that. That's a really good point.
All right, so then Pinfa then witnessing all of this does
intervene to try and deescalate the situation, which again,
Pinfa's growth, right? She's not just the little, she's
not a helpless child anymore. Although sometimes I feel like
when she's being triggered, she feels like that she's a full ass
adult who's successful as fuck so she can be the adult in this
situation. And she does step into that role
and like pulls back her mother who's acting like a child,
right? And she's like, mom, quit it.
Like that's enough, but to your point, the grandmother is fully
triggered and is in full fight mode right right now.
Instead of listening to her own daughter, which she never does,
she turns on Pingfa immediately and like fully triggers Pingfa.
Like she's just attacking everybody because she can't deal
with her own feelings. And she says to Pingfa's face, I
can't bear to see little nom becoming like this.
Emphasis on the this while staring at Pingva.
So what she's saying is I can't watch her turn into a deviant
like you, because that's been the grandmother's biggest fear
the whole time, right, is that little nom becomes Pingva with
little nom, she's like, I get a do over to be a good mom and
raise the perfect child. That's basically what she did,
right? And then like here's little nom
becoming a deviant, right, choosing big nom, somebody she
hates and like he's like, great. Now I have two rebellious
degenerates. Pingfa like it.
It just Pingfa looks so hurt by this, but not surprised because
her mother's been doing this shit to her for fucking entire
life. She's in her 30s.
I'm like she spent 30 plus years of just like her mother
constantly degrading her and it's like she's like I'm bitch.
I'm trying to save you from yourself in this scenario and
like you turn on she's. Constantly doing things is help.
Yeah, I know. She's constantly.
Doing a lot like Sam. Yes, but she's more of a
punching bag than Sam is. Sam's family never treated her
like a punching bag, but like Oh my God the mother treats Pink
Fell like a punching. Bag, but I wonder if that also
was a cause of their bond. Is that she is a lot like Sam.
Oh, with like that? Aspect, yeah.
It could be, but I think maybe that's why Bing Dong gravitated
towards her 'cause I don't think she was very open with anyone.
But I think their bond and their relationship, friendship, and
that's why Big Nung was like, I can't have this friendship
change because you are the person I have outside of the
palace. Yeah, that's true.
That's a really good point. And which is interesting that
like Ping feels like Sam because Ping felt like her daughter's an
only child. We we assume we don't hear about
other siblings, but operating off of what we see.
And like the novel, I don't think addressed that either.
Like if she's an only child, like it's interesting that she
plays the role of the middle child like Sam.
Yeah, but the look that we have from it's painful at the end,
it's it hurts, hurts much because you can just see the
pain in her. And we still are being put back
to her childhood. Yeah.
Like she is a child in this moment.
Yeah, it's awful that like, again, probably her whole life
has been like this. It still hurts her after 30 plus
years of hearing this. You know what I mean?
I hope every night she calls her husband and he just talks her
down. Like, I hope he's like that type
of person for her to lean on because I don't think she would,
first of all, would have lasted here this long and like been
this strong because it's like she needs someone to
continuously tell her like, no, you are not terrible.
You are not a failure. You are not what your mother is
telling you. Yeah.
I know she needs, she needs the. Justice for Pingva.
Justice for Pingva, literally. OK, so while Pingva's getting
triggered, like the grandmother with that line effectively
silences Pingva, who's trying to help her and then their
grandmother after she puts Pingva in her place, so to
speak, she then turns back to Big Nog and starts yelling get
out and then physically assaulting Big Nog again where
she's like shoving her towards the door over and over again.
And eventually Pingpa gathers up enough courage to cut in and
like ask Big Nong. She's like, obviously I can't
control this woman. And she basically asked Big
Nong, can you again be the bigger person and leave?
And she's basically says, please do me this favor.
Like do it for me. Because I think again, Pingpa's
had time to come to terms with the fact that Big Nong loves her
daughter and is literally just here for for Little Nong the way
Pingfa is just here for Little Nong.
But she's like I he's like, and she recognizes that big Nung is
suffering because you can see it on her face.
But also the mother is suffering too.
Like that's why she's like having this tantrum right now
because the the grandmother also loves her daughter and is having
a temper tantrum right now. And really at the end of the
day, all this fighting solves nothing and is not helping
little Nung at all. So she asks Big Nung basically
be the bigger person and please leave before things get worse.
I have to say, Ping Fu sure does ask Big Nung for a lot of
favors. Like every scene we get of her
and Big Nung together, she's like do me this favor.
Please, please big nung, please. This won't make my life.
Harder. But I think this time it's, it's
significant that Ping Fu is asking, please do me a favor
because like, Big Nung in a way won back.
Ping Fu is an ally in this moment because like everybody
was like get the fuck out of this room.
And Pink was like, hey, I'll call you when she, you know,
gets better and then she doesn't and something big nose on the
outs. And now she comes back and like
despite her mother attacking her, Pink was basically like, I
understand you Dong like just please, like now's not the time.
Like we need more time kind of thing.
Yeah. And in this moment, this is the
moment that really made me think about their bond and how it has
never not been severed because yeah, this is where Big Nung
wants to be. This is huge for her to leave
little Nung right now. Yes.
And it's because she understands Ping Pho.
Ping Pho understands her. And I definitely think that they
had more in depth talks about their lives and feelings when
they were teenagers and like, this was the only person that
they could talk to. And at least they did more so
than anyone else. Like so we know Big Nung isn't
great with her feelings. She doesn't really know how to
communicate, but I think she spoke to Ping Pong more than she
could anyone else. Aside from like her sisters,
probably. Yeah, yeah.
But there's still some things where you can't really.
Talk to because I mean, Stan was a baby and then like.
Yeah. Who knows what song?
Was doing song, was probably just isolated from everyone.
Isolated herself like she had ice.
Again, we don't know in that this ring universe, but we knew.
Gap the series we're operating up.
Gap the series. Gap gap song is.
Basically our our song. Our song is the gal music song.
Make it up late. Tap it on Ice's window.
Definitely, that's what she did. That's what she was doing.
Ice was the best anyway. I do love them and our head
cannons about them. OK.
All right, so big Nung accepts what Pingfa say to her and
before she leaves, she does set down the food on the counter and
like takes a one last very long look at little Nung because
like, to your point, Caitlin, she definitely doesn't want to
leave here. Like obviously if it was up to
her, she would literally never leave this hospital.
Like that was when we went when this episode for the first time.
I'm like, there's no way big Nung voluntarily leaves this
hospital. Like there's no way.
Like she would never leave if she didn't have to.
But like, they keep kicking around, right?
You said that before we even started this episode, when we
were. Watching it, yeah, like, she
wouldn't. Like, she wouldn't.
She's so codependent. There's no way.
Like they had to kick her out. OK.
And it's sad because I think Big Nung feels helpless in this
moment because little Nung is literally right there.
Like, she can see her, but she hasn't touched her yet, right?
And they know that that's important for Big 9 for her
ground grounding reasons. And it's like she's closer to
physically closer to little nun than she's been in since the
accident happened, right? And who knows what time it is
right now. I don't know how many days have
passed since like the actual accident happened and the last
time she saw her. But like she's so close but so
far away in this moment because this family is keeping her at a
distance. And like she's slowly waiting
over Ping Pho. But like, there's still that,
that barrier, you know, And so it's like very heartbreaking for
her to like accept this and like leave.
But she is the bigger person and she does.
And again, if this was like 16 year old Nong who is like the
rebellious deviant or whatever, she'd be like, fuck you.
And there's no way she would leave.
But like, here she is the emotionally intelligent, mature
adult accepting this NBN is being the bigger person and the
more emotionally mature one, which again, speaks volumes to
like her growth that we've just seen her do in the in this show.
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So OK with a little big gun lost the battle of going to see big a
little nun and give her some food aroma.
So she like licks her wounds off screen and then tries again.
Another day brings food again and this time she runs into
Mommy Dearest and Ping Pho in the lobby and tries to hand over
the food since clearly they haven't left the hospital.
I think they're in the same clothes that they were in the
prior scene, and Big Dong's wearing a different outfit.
So like, I think they kind of slept there overnight, no?
Sorry, I'm sorry. I was thinking about timing.
That's that was the issue. OK, so yeah, that that is a
great catch and I'm glad you pointed it out because I did not
notice. I again, I don't notice
clothing. That's the OARS territory.
Clothing and light air. Yeah, clothing.
I'm getting better with lighting when you point it out first and
then I start looking for it. But clothing I will never be
good at because I don't even care what I wear.
I literally just throw on. Half the time it's podcast merch
anyway. It also means that the
grandmother is committed to being there for Little Nung,
which is a pretty big thing because it's showing that she
does love her. But notice who isn't here.
Bueller. Bueller anyone?
Anyone. Anyone.
Anyway, yes. CD.
Yeah, that was. Jack.
He basically. STD junior cuz technically the
first STD is he's. The STD they were talking about
in Mean Girls when he's like you will get chlamydia and die.
If you have sex you'll get pregnant and die.
That's basically Chet. He's the warning for Mean Girls.
OK. And we know he doesn't actually
work. I know Theor said that he
probably has to work. He doesn't work.
Yeah, he's like, he's like Sam. He doesn't work.
So. OK, so all right, Ping Pho and
the grandmother both at the same time reach for the olive branch,
like the food, right? And Ping Pho can't meet Big
Nong's eyeline. I think she's like, I think she
feels bad that Big Nong can't be in Little Lung's room right now.
I think she does generally feel empathetic.
But the grandmother is like this bitch and like, holds her
eyeline and she's like, challenging Big Nong basically.
And then the grandmother forcefully takes possession of
the food and like dramatically throws it in the trash.
Which like girl. Why would you?
Throw away those containers that cost money.
They're recyclable. Not even just containers.
OK, yes, the recyclable thing is like a huge thing, but also it's
not just containers. It was like the lunch box too
with it. And that's what I think.
Like that thing was cute. Why are you?
Throwing it away. Like awesome freak food.
Man, give it to the. Persons or something?
I get I get that food is like a sign of love though.
So like if they were accepting. They're rejecting her love.
I get that. But like, it's wasteful and it
makes me upset. And I mean, I want to eat it.
I want to give it to. Someone give it to me?
Yes. I actually want to try it.
I do. Do.
We need. To talk like.
Where we can just try a bunch of food.
I would love that. Do they make Thai fat buffets in
America or it's like is there such thing as a Thai buffet?
We need to know that in the comments.
Just out of curiosity because that was just a random thought I
had anyway. If things I was alone she
definitely would have taken it because like not only is she
finding common ground with big Nung but she is also desperate
to get her daughter back and is willing to try anything to help
her. So big Nung's like oh this
random thing may help her king fuss gonna be like let's do it.
Yeah I agree. While the grandmother is just
too stubborn and would put her own feelings before trying
something that could help. Aha, there's a common theme with
the grandmothers in the show, yes.
And like, this is exactly how they're both valuing little
Nung. And I had mentioned before,
Pingfa fully loves little Nung. We see that, we have discussed
that. I didn't see it the first time,
but again, these discussions help us just as much as like we
want to show you all anyway. So and like, Pingfa would be
there for a little Nung if she could be.
But while the grandmother loves little Nung and has shown that
by being there for her, she does value reputation and societal
expectations more than her granddaughter.
So if like someone else would be like, oh, it doesn't look good
for you to be here the whole time.
Not that that's a bad thing. Like I'm sure like it's a good
thing that she was there and that's probably why she's there.
But if someone would say, oh, that looks bad, she'd be like,
OK, I'm done. It's like pink was more
representative of like unconditional love.
It's not perfect, but it's more on that side of things than it
is the conditional strings attached kind of love because
like the grandmother, I mean, it's the same thing with Nung.
Like it's like I love you, but but I need you to do all these
things in order to be perfect in my eyes.
Kind of thing comes with strings versus like Ping.
Pho doesn't really have those expectations for her daughter
other than like, why can't you love me and be more excited to
see me? Like it's a different kind of
expectation that she has. It's not the same thing as like
conditional string. The issue with her love is just
the external trauma. That's oh, I'm not like that's
laying it down right. And that is, that is not.
Her fault? No, it's like, again, Ping Pho's
life is out of control. The stuff with Little Long is
out of control and it's like they're learning to beat each
other where they are now and it's like messy because they're
messy. The adults in the show are
messy, which I love. I love that it's so real.
Because. Adults are just people.
That's just a messy I love one O 4.
That's just a messy storyline, though.
I know it's amazing, OK. So the grandmother, despite
being a stickler for, you know, propriety, must have thrown her
manners out along with the trash because she starts yelling at
Big Nun in the middle of the public lobby to leave, right?
They're not in the private room right now and she's going off in
public on Nong. So to me, this is the hypocrisy
of it all because the grandmother is proving the point
that little Nong has been trying to make the whole show, which is
like the rules of polite society are complete bullshit and
totally made-up, especially when they're in direct opposition of
like what you want and who you love kind of shit because like
they're always like, no, you have to love a man.
And she's like, but I don't love a man.
I don't want to do that. And she's like, but you have to
because the rules say you have to do this.
And then the rules apply to society.
Say you don't make a scene in the lobby.
But here's the grandmother being like, well, now it's justified
because this deviant is here. You know what I mean?
It's so hypocritical because this is the same woman that's
been chewing out along the whole show for not being polite and
causing scenes, right? And so like, here's the
grandmother doing exactly what her granddaughter's been doing
the whole show, and now it's suddenly fine, like.
I hate this. But I understand it because this
is how people are, right? Because the to me, the
grandmother by her own definition in the scene is being
childish, which is the same thing she gets mad at Lumen for.
And it's like she's acting like a child.
The whole, this whole part that we've been talking about, the
grandmother is being very childish.
I understand she's upset, but she's like regressing into a
child by throwing tantrums and like throwing logic out the
window and that kind of stuff like a child does.
When she doesn't have control. Yeah, she doesn't have control,
which is her safety blanket is just controlling everything.
OK so who is the adult in this scenario?
Ping Pho because she steps in between the two Titans again and
is like can you guys not? And she grabs Big Nung's arm and
tells her, once again, can you, I'm sorry, but can you please be
the bigger person again and please walk away from my
childish mother? And Big Nung, I think, is like,
getting annoyed by all of this and like, I think fights the
urge to keep pushing this because, like, she's, you know,
worried and impatient and, like, wants to lash out, too, because
it feels good to, like, throw your anger onto somebody when
you're feeling hurt. But ultimately, Big Nun does the
emotionally intelligent thing, which is to accept the defeat of
this particular battle because the war's not over yet.
And she just leaves. And after Big Nung is gone, Ping
Fu consoles her own mother, which is such a 180 dynamic
shift for them, right? Because you have Ping Fu being
the adult, the stable adult, and the mother being an out of
control mess, which is like not their dynamic ever at all.
And to Big Nung's credit, she doesn't give up because again,
you lose 1 battle, we can still win the war kind of thing.
She tries again and again and again to deliver food, which is
the peace offering at this point to not just Little Nong.
She's like, I just need the family to accept it before he
can even get to Little Nong. Right.
And then one time she does use a nurse intermediary, like a
liaison, and it still doesn't work.
Yeah, I couldn't figure. It out if that was a different
day because we were talking about how Chet wasn't there and
like that's a scene with Chet yeah I was like is it is it that
like that same day where big nung just took it out of trash
waited for the other two to leave and then I.
Think it was a different bag but like.
OK. I think it's a different bag,
but that would be really funny. Just like, well fuck give this
the check. It's probably like spoiled at
that point. If it's like it's a night,
daytime, the night time. I think it's.
Trying to show that Chet shows up after work.
He knows what he's doing because nighttime when he's there, he
does the night. Shift I guess, but anyway.
That one was really funny because like even the nurse is
like, oh, someone gave this to you.
I'd like chat throws at the track.
All right, So again, big nuns doing the love thing where she's
like, I'm going to wear you down by persistence.
So she comes back another day and again she runs into family
members in the lobby, but this time it's just Pinkfa and big
nun just looks at Pinkfa and like accepts the rejection
before it even happens. And she just turns to leave.
She's like this is never I guess she like got to her breaking
point and Pink stops her though and then doesn't say anything
just like takes big Nung up into little his room.
She's cute. I am so glad, like, because she
recognizes that, OK, this whole situation is just so
complicated. I think by seeing big Nung like
give up kind of in this little place, she's like, well, I don't
want her to. I don't want her to do this.
I want someone to fight for my daughter so she's like, no, I
understand this and then this is the perfect.
Opportunity too. So yeah.
But again, you have to feel bad for paying for in all this
because she's always getting the short end of the stick.
Always. Like, meaning she's always
having things affect her. Like, yeah, again, we said no
control, right. Again, through talking on this
podcast, it's amazing, like, what characters we come to
actually love because we dive in deeper to them.
And she's misunderstood by everyone in her life.
And like, yeah, a part of it's because she's not good at
communicating exactly what she wants and feels, but she's
always trying to keep other people happy, and she's being a
puppet for them in the process of that.
And. Yeah, yeah, I'm sure she tried,
but she was just not able to. And but by doing this, she's
actually taking control back too because she's letting Big Nung
up. So she cuz I don't think at this
point she cares if Big Nung's there.
I think she would have been the one who, if she was upset with
her, just ignored her rather than kick her out.
I agree and also like again if she could get little Nung back
and out of the coma by having big Nung there again.
Disney tells us if the love of our life kisses us, we'll wake
up. Right, right.
Just let her bake out with bull on.
It's fine, Disney. Said it's OK, Disney said it's
OK, that's the medicine. Some things are OK that are
weird, but whatever. Yeah, it's like it's the people
without their consent, I guess, in Disney movies.
Such a weird message. Yeah, I'm with you.
I think Pingfa was because again, everybody shows up at the
hospital. Pingfa shows up first with Chad.
What's Pingfa's first line? How's my daughter?
That's why she's there. She's there for her daughter.
Like the family drama is going to come with it comes with it,
but like little long as the priority for her.
So I agree with you. I think she was desk.
She would try whatever and wouldn't care that the big note
was that would care less than anybody else.
OK, so then why now? Why is Pingfa letting Big Nung
in the room now? I think the big thing that's
obvious is that at this particular moment, Pingfa is the
only one keeping vigil over a little Nung, meaning there's
nobody else there, it's just Pingfa.
So there's nobody else in the room to attack Big Nung or chase
her away. Because to your point, I don't
think Pingfa would do that at this stage.
Also because she's had more time to process what big because she
was actively listening to big men when big men was pleading
her case. Nobody else was listening to big
men. Painful was a little.
She gained listening skills. I think she might have learned
them in the United States. Weird.
But. Good for you.
Weird. Yeah, weird because it's
America, but good for you, BIG5I.
Mean it was also in the in the past.
So true. True, True.
True. True.
I feel like it was getting better at that time.
It's we're going back, so we're on backwards.
There was times where it was going up, you know, like when
the same sex law was passed. Anyway, so Ping Pho let's Big
young in the room and the second Big Nung sees little Nung, all
the emotions come. She just lets herself feel what
she's feeling. She doesn't have to like have
these defensive walls on. No one's going to attack her.
She can just let the mask off in front of Ping Pho, which is also
huge because like shows the trust with Ping Pho.
Like you were saying that Big Nung is willing to just like let
herself feel everything with Ping Pho there.
And who knows at this point because like again, we got the
montage of her bringing the food over and again, who knows how
long it's been since she like saw Little Nung again.
So like, and this is the woman who's super codependent and
struggles to be apart from Little Nung for a couple hours.
Like this must have been very torturous for her.
And just like, imagine being Big Dong and being forbidden from
seeing Little Nung when she's in critical condition.
And like, there's so many unknowns.
Like it's the ultimate loss of control and must have been
driving Big Nung like up a wall, you know what I mean?
Yeah, and in this scene, like the relief, but the exhaustion
of her, like, it just looks like all she wants to do is collapse
and just lay right beside little Nung and clinging to her.
She's like, I need you to be my stuffed animal right now.
Like I need to be here. If I let go, I might be letting
go forever. And like I can't.
Yeah, Yeah. That's a good point.
OK, But to that point, like, it's not.
And again, it's never enough to just see Little Monk.
She has to also touch her to know that she's real.
So then she sits down next to her on the bed, and she starts
caressing Little Monk's cheek, OK?
Mind you, Ping is in the room watching this, OK?
OK, So what I've learned from our comment section is that in
Thai culture, the head is the sacred part of the body.
OK, Like the lower, the closer the body part is to the ground,
the less sacred, more dirty it becomes.
But like the head is like the sacred part.
So the fact that big nut so any the face touching is a very like
to me, it seems like because of the sacredness attached to that
part of the body, it seems like it's a very like it's more
intimate than anything else because like that's the sacred
part of that person. So what big Nung is doing by
caressing little Nung's face in front of her mother is extremely
intimate. OK, It's more intimate that it
would be in America if somebody did that.
So if Pingva was holding on to any iota of doubt that Big Nung
was being fake about her feelings, that's out the window
right now. Like Big Nung proves with her
actions to Pingva in particular that like, she means what she
says. Like when she says I love her,
she's my everything, I'm her everything.
She's showing Ping for that by like, not pleading the case.
She's just doing what she's doing.
And it's like. OK.
So Pingva seeing this, let's Big Nung stay until night time, OK.
And it's night time and Big Nun's reading a little Nung a
bedtime story, which is so cute because Lil Nung used to be the
bedtime story reader. And I think Big Nung missed that
part of the relationship because remember when Big Nuns like I
thought you were going to read me that book and Lil Nung, she's
like, why don't you read me novels anymore?
Lil Nung was like, I got what I need now.
Those novels I need to read. I got to already.
I don't need to keep courting you like that.
Get out of here, Big nun. I think big was like, oh man, I
like. The story time, I think she
liked it, to be honest with you. OK, so she starts to read.
She's reading the novel and like, she likes to sit on Little
Long's right side. OK, So it's like the left side
of the bed because she's like laying down right.
So her back is to the door where there's the window.
Looking in, yeah I do find this interesting though because
Pingfa always chooses the other side so I wonder if that's her
not wanting to take over their relationship either.
Like she wants them both to be in her life and close to her,
which is. Adorable.
This is horrible. But who screwed shit 'cause that
was technically his side too? Technical foot himself.
I hate him. All right, so anyway, so she's
reading this book and I, and there's some like some like, you
know, quote on the and I didn't catch what the, what it was at
first, but I, my first thought was like, how funny would it be
if she's reading Pluto? Because that was the book from
the, the Huahen beach house where big nun's like, don't read
this little nung. And like, that would have like,
it's OK 'cause again, why did she make the Curry 'cause she's
like, well, I made it for her before and she likes it.
I would just imagine her like reading a book that they read
together that meant something to them that would invoke a memory
where like little monk would like be like, oh, I get to make
out with you at the beach. You know what I mean?
Like it would be like a, a thing that would invoke memories in
the long if she like, read Pluto.
So that was my first thought. My Pluto would have been cute
because like, that was the first book they kind of like read
together, kind of because they were reading them separately.
Yeah, I mean, she could have been.
We still don't know. We still don't know we what is
Pluto? We're we're on the journey.
We're on the journey. Don't tell us.
We are we have started at the time of filming this.
We have. For a couple episodes it's
pretty good. But the other reason my brain
went there because like the word, like what Big Nung was
saying, the lines that she reads are those spoken words.
I'm not sure what they mean. It's both a permission and a
request. To me that sounds sexual and so
I was like, how funny would it be because I haven't read Pluto.
How funny would it be if she's reading Pluto and it's like the
smut part that she was giving long, long shit about at Huahen
and like ping Pho's in the room and it's like big, what are you
like shut up, I have to read this.
How funny would that be though? She's reading the smut a little
bit. I think what?
Would that be? With Big Young reading it, I
think Ping Pho would need to excuse herself from the yes.
She's like, I got to get out of here.
I can't handle this. Because she'd be like, Ping
Dong, why are you reading that part out loud?
Because remember, like, what was the whole dilemma at who had?
She's like Lil Nung, you don't need me to reading smut out
loud. And and like Lil Nung's like,
wow, giving her shit for like, skipping that part.
So like, she'd be like, no, I have to read it.
You have to read the whole book. That's what she wants.
And yeah, Pink would be like, I can't because I can't with you.
I'm leaving. I can't.
This is too much. You know who also shouldn't be
hearing this? The grandmother.
So the grandmother shows up and she thankfully doesn't go in the
room when Big Nun is reading whatever smutty part of the book
this was. And I assume she's there at
night to probably relieve Pingfa from Little Nung Watch 'cause I
assume that between the two of them, they try to always have
somebody there. I would assume Chet is whatever.
He just shows up when he's. The bulk of their conversations
currently is like scheduling. Oh yeah.
Oh yeah, for sure. And then Chad like just shows up
when it's convenient for him because it's Chad.
So. But I think these two always try
to have one of them there. Or like he would try to take a
shift and then he'll call out 15 minutes into it.
Right. He's got things to do.
And it's like, whatever, Chad. So they can't rely on him.
So I think between the two women, somebody tries to always
be there. And so at the door, she sees Big
Nung in the room, who's just sitting there reading to little
Nung. And she kind of pauses for a
minute to be like, what is this? Yeah.
And but when you're when you see her in the door and again, I
wasn't taking the whole thing in context.
I'm just looking at the line that is shown while the
grandmother's looking through the window and it says it's both
a permission and a request. And with just looking at this
and having the grandmother look in on big non, taking care of
little non, basically it's like the situation.
Not that Bing Dong is aware that she's there, but like, that's a
permission and a request to let her be there because she will
take care of her. Yeah, at least that's what I got
from it. Yeah, And that's fair because
like, the bit what she's doing is she hovers in the window for
a minute and she watches this play out before, like, storming
in and attacking Big Nung, right?
And what she watches is Big Nung like literally tucking Lo Nung
into bed, which is a super caretaking thing to do.
So like, Big Nung is not there, like, taking advantage of Lo
Nung or doing anything like devious.
She's like, literally reading her bedtime story and like,
tucking her in the person who's unconscious and doesn't know
she's doing any of this, right? Big Nung is just doing it
because she loves her. That's literally it, right?
And I assume the grandmother left them alone because she she
does, she just turns away and leaves.
Like she doesn't enter the room. She just leaves big Nung to
watch over Little Nung because she was again there probably to
like take the night watch. And then she's like, oh,
somebody's there who's actually taking care of her all the way
to grandma's like, I don't want to talk to this bitch.
But also she's like, OK, seems like she's actually taking care
of her. I'm just going to leave.
And So what big Nung is doing without realizing it, because
remember, her back is to the door.
So she doesn't see any of this happening.
Like the it's one of those things where she's like, what do
you guys do behind closed doors? And that's been the question
with Big nun knowing, oh, you're taking advantage of my daughter.
How dare you do all these things.
And then like, here's a glimpse behind literally a glimpse
behind the closed door, right? And this is what the
relationship is. It's just big Nung loving little
long. That's it.
She's just taking care of her. Like that's it.
She's just being a supportive partner, like a good partner in
this scenario. And so how?
Convenient. There's a window on this door.
Yeah, good job, everyone. And so big through her actions
is like shifting the grandmother's perspective, like,
right. She I can see what you do behind
closed doors. And it's not nefarious.
It's like, that's what I would do.
Like you're just taking care of her.
All right then the next day. I don't know, next scene we cut
to like the grandmother actually coming back during the daytime
and entering the room and when she does, big Nung is sitting on
the bed clipping little Nung's toenails, which, good job, wanna
Soren? This is actually realistic
because like people forget about these things you have to do with
like patients who are bed bound and can't do these things.
Like this is a part of taking care of them.
You have to like click their nails and like because they
can't do it themselves. And so like this is actually
very realistic. So I love this.
This is the thing that like nurses usually do in the
hospital if there's not a family member here, but also there's a
cultural implication here. So thank you to YouTube user at
Morbid Girl 6808. Who commented on usernames in
general? They're.
Hilarious, hilarious, hilarious. And this user commented on our
first reaction to the first episode, the loyal pin because
spoiler there's like a scene that involves like legs and like
this cultural thing. So their user rights in
Thailand, legs slash feet are considered to be the quote
lowest body part or the dirtiest.
And so in this scene, for Big Nung to sit there and touch
Little Nung's feet slash legs without any kind of shame, one
defies that cultural perception and two, demonstrates that Big
Nung's demonstrates Big Nun's complete devotion to Little Nung
from like the good parts to the bad parts and everything in
between. So like this is a huge thing to
show how much she loves Lil Lung that she's willing to like
quote, touch the lowest part of her body and like take care of
her kind of thing. So that's like this is actually
really big. It's like the complete opposite
of like her touching the face in front of Ping Pho, which is a
reverent thing. This is, you know, big Nung the
ML is like willing to like do this for like the quote lowest
part of the body kind of thing. So and she again, this is a
behind closed door thing. Like Nung is doing this without
an audience. OK, so she's not performing.
She's just doing this because she loves little Nung.
So then the grandmother enters the room and then once big Nung
realizes it's the grandmother, she looks petrified because last
time she got slapped again. So I'm like, I don't blame her.
She's like, I better get beat up.
I wore a white shirt. I can't bleed on this.
Come on man. She looks terrified but also
very childlike here, like how Pinfa did when the grandmother
was basically attacking her scary brother.
Scary. Yeah, but it's like Bing Nung
got caught with her hand in a cookie jar.
She is now asking for all the cookies I.
Mean it's her turn. She doesn't have the mouse to
ask for cookies right now. Well, the it's actually mice
'cause it's little Nung's family.
The family used to give her the cookie jar.
That's true. See, I think Big Nung is like,
oh shit, I'm going to get slapped, but also I'm going to
get kicked out of the room. I think that's the bigger
problem. She's going to take me away from
Little Nung, but that doesn't happen.
Instead of kicking her out, the grandmother just like silently
enters the room and then sits down and just decides to coexist
peacefully with Big Nung, which is a huge victory because Big
Nung is in the moment of taking care of Little Nung.
And the grandmother's like fine and just accepts that by
entering the room and just coexisting.
It's like an acceptance without saying it kind of move, which is
huge. So Big Nung now has two allies.
SO2 down one to go. Good job Big Nung.
We don't care about the third one though.
We don't give a shit, but like she has to win the trifecta.
Yeah, OK, cuz she's perfect, right?
She's got to go for the triple threat of or the the hat trick,
if you will. First the soccer.
All right, so more time passes and we've gotten to the point
where all the women can coexist with big non, which is huge.
And this scene starts with Big Non sitting on the side of the
bed with Little Non. So she is physically the person
closest to Little Nun. Wow.
The mother and the grandmother are sitting in the chairs by the
door. So Pingfa's not in her vigil
seat on the opposite of Big Nung.
She's like again, letting Big Nung take the watch of like the
closest one, which is huge. Awesome.
So I like that they basically gave her the space to be.
Like. The closest person along, which
like is what Big Nong is. And that's what she's been
saying this whole time. She's like, I've heard
everything. She's my everything.
Meaning like they're closest to each other.
So like this is a them physically letting them do that,
like letting Big Nong physically be the closest person.
So visually in the scene, it seems like they've all come to a
place of acceptance with Big Nong, which is further
illustrated by how the rest of the scene plays out, which is
very cute. Yeah, but then like, again, the
positioning in the scene we talked about before while Chet
was waiting for Big Nung to leave so he could replace her in
Little Nung's life because that's why he didn't want her
there. The grandmother in Pingfa, I
mean, more specifically Pingfa are giving up their position for
Big Nung to enter Little Nung's life.
So like, wow. And I think that's why Big Nung
chooses the other side of the bed.
I again, this is just us. Like she's on that side of the
bed because she's respecting Pingfa in that moment because
not only does she want her daughter to have not her
daughter. Well, yeah, Pingfa's daughter to
have a relationship with her. I'm like, that's it'll still
work. But she does respect Pingfa as
Little Nung's mother. Well, The thing is, like Big
Nung does respect the family dynamic.
Like at the end of the day, she does.
She respects the fact that like Ping FA is her mother and like
the, you know, the grandmother is the grandmother and like that
comes with roles and like she does respect that.
But she's like, you know, I'm not going to, like, sit by and
let you guys harm her. Basically.
And so I like that the comment on the positioning can kind of
be read as like. You know.
I comment on the fact that like when a, when you like have a
romantic partner, it doesn't mean you like have to like throw
your entire family away, which is like kind of a lesson in this
story. Basically, like you can make
room for all of those things. And that's kind of like
physically what's being demonstrated, right?
It's like big nun has her, you know, they're they're letting
little one have room for big nun in her life, right?
And they can still be there. Maybe they don't have as much of
A Blumong's heart as they did before 'cause she opened it up
to somebody else, which is part of growing up.
So like they're letting little nuns be an adult.
That's also kind of as. Big of a role and it's also as
when someone gets married, you gotta let go like this is
someone else's problem to deal with now and that's why there's
a lot of like over protective overburden.
I don't know what it's like overbearing, overbearing like
mother parent in laws because they don't know how to let go
yet. Right.
Yeah, and this is them learning. This is them learning to let
their daughter because like up till now, like again, everyone,
everyone except big time treats are like a child and she's not a
child. And and the first one to come to
acceptance that little long is not a child is Pinfa.
And now the grandmother's come into that acceptance.
They're like, OK, she's an adult who's like getting ready to move
on to let us go. Let not let you go completely,
but like not rely on us anymore and like build a life with
somebody else, which is like part of like, you know, growing
up as a human, right? You like find a family.
I mean, even if you're not like romantically involved, you have
a found family beyond that, support, another support system
outside of like the family unit you grew up with.
It doesn't mean you get rid of it.
You just, they, they move, they move on to the next phase of
their life and, and other people then become important the way
the family was when they were raising, you know, that person.
And for a little, I'm like, like the grandma, She's like, it was
just us and everything was fine like this.
That's part of her reluctance to let little one grow up, right?
Because she's like still viewing her as like the grandchild I was
responsible for, like holding on to until she became an adult.
And I think the grandmother's afraid to let her be an adult.
It's part of it too. And so she's learning to like,
let her be an actual fucking adult, like through this tragedy
that happens. Unfortunately, it takes the
tragic. Unfortunately, it takes a
fucking horrific car accident for everybody to get here.
But like, you know, we are with everybody.
But it's also. Technically life too, because
again, we don't see that life is fragile.
It's not unlimited. I mean, like, you know it, but
then you don't. You take things for granted.
Yes. It's always when someone gets
sick that you're like, oh, I should have answered their call.
I should have called them. And it's easy to be like, oh, I
won't regret it. You don't know how you're going
to feel until something like this happens, right?
Exactly. Sometimes it takes a horrific
event for you to like get a new perspective basically on stuff.
And like people could tell you things like big man's been like
ring in the warning bells, but everyone ignored her.
And then, you know, here it is. And now we have to face reality.
Some people, you have to force them to face reality with
horrific events versus like processing it beforehand.
But you know, here we are. Sometimes it takes three months
after horrific events. Chat, chat.
Oh. My God, I know he's the worst.
Literally it takes him three months.
He's the actual worst. OK, so the rest of the scene.
So OK, so another bit of realism from like being unconscious and
how that kind of works in a hospital.
So the nurse comes in because it's time to check on little
Nung and do their like daily activities and stuff.
And part of that is like cleaning the patient so they,
you know, don't get sick, you know, don't get infections and
things like that. So she comes in to like change
her clothes, probably change the bedding, I assume was what she
was going to do and like give her a, you know, a sponge bath
or whatever, wipe her down. So what's interesting is that
she's like, the nurse is like, I don't have a million patients.
Do you guys want to help? And so like the family, I guess
helps helps the nurse out with this, whether it you know, I
don't know if this is common in like Thai hospital.
I did research, I'll tell you, OK.
Tell me in a minute because I don't work at a Thai hospital.
Like usually nurses are charged with doing certain things and
they have to do it but like family members can help out like
none was doing. That's not uncommon.
So they come in and like no words are spoken other than
nurse being like time for it's bath time basically.
And Ping forgets up to like as mother to take charge.
But like Big Nung is the one who she's already like moving
towards the nurse like like she's done this before
basically. And then Ping Fu sees Big Nung
doing this and just like sits down and like let's Big Nung do
it, which is huge. Yeah, and part of me still finds
it odd that Ping Fu is willingly taking the back seat right now
with her daughter, like after not being able to be there for
her. And like, I'm kind of surprised
she doesn't try to do more and like, sit next to Big Nung
because there is her spot on the bed is like still there because
Big Nung didn't take it over. Yeah.
But I I can, I know I can also rationalize it by it being
extremely painful for her as well to see Little Nung like
this. And that Big Nung is now helping
both of them out by sparing them this, I mean, quote burden.
But like by like, it's she's taking care of them by having
them not have to do this. Yeah, if that makes sense.
No, it does. But I think it's just Big Nun
wants to. Yeah, too.
But yeah, she is taking some of the work away from them, which
is, you know, sharing is caring, right.
Basically. OK.
And the remarkable part for me is that even goes as far as
like, so Big Nun's doing the thing like in patient rooms.
Like she's little obviously is wealthy, so she got a private
room and in the room, basically big nun draws the privacy
curtain. She's going to bathe her and
like the grandmother and the mom let big Nung do this, which I
thought was beyond wild. Like that's a level of
acceptance to like let big none like be alone alone with little
nung when she's going to like clean her body, which I thought
was humongous that the family let that happen.
And so it it's a demonstration of just how much trust they're
placing in big all over again with.
Little Nung. Yeah, but why is Big Nung or a
family member in general doing this?
That was my first question, and then I realized I got a brain.
I have capability. I took a step further and did my
own damn research. OK so for context in America
from what I see and like no if they are you said that they do
help out but I assumed it wasn't allowed because everything is a
liability right? Especially when Americans love
to sue each other over everything.
Correct. So like in America, I, I
practice in hospitals like I have a medical provider.
And so, so when it comes to bathing, the nurse will do the
bathing because like, again, if something goes wrong, they can
get infected, then the nurse is now liable and they get sued.
So that's why it wouldn't have. But like doing things like
clipping nails and like things that are less risky, like like
brushing hair, things like that, the nurse would absolutely like,
yeah, go for it, whatever. But like when it comes to like
things that can have adverse outcomes for the patient, where
nurses liable, hospitals liable, No, legally they wouldn't let
you do that. So that's why I was like, oh,
they're being I, I didn't know. Like I don't have time to look
into it. So I apologize.
But like from my practice. People are very quick to sue.
Yes, and again, part of the reason is like this.
Also medical bills. Like it's insane.
They'll try anything. Yeah, cuz then the insurance
company would be like, we're not paying for this because the
hospital caused the infection or whatever.
We're not paying for it. So yeah, it's a liability issue.
Yeah. And like the bathing thing is
like what? Mainly like everything else was
like normal, but the bathing thing I was like, Oh yeah.
Why is that doing that? That's part of like standard
care practice for like maintaining like health of the
patient. So like, yeah, there's a
liability aspect in America to that particular part, not the
toenail part. There's no liability to that.
OK, so meanwhile in Thailand, it's common for family members
to play an active role in a patient's care, especially in
public hospitals where nursing staff may be limited and bathing
or helping with hygiene is often seen as a way for family members
to show love, respect, and support for their loved ones.
And from what I've seen, policies do vary between
hospitals, but in public hospitals they're usually
allowed to do this. And in private hospitals or for
critical cases, medical staff handle these tasks, though
family members can help under supervision.
So yeah, it's a it's a huge cultural thing to like help take
care of your family member. So the Thai culture places high
value on familial duty, especially when it comes to
caring for elders or I'll family members.
So this makes sense. And the bathing and assisting
with hygiene are acts of compassion, particularly and
respect in particularly in Buddhist teachings.
And for elderly and incapacitated patients, this is
a way, it's seen as a way to maintain dignity and their
comfort while they are not able to.
So there are instances where only medical staff can do it.
And it's basically if the patient's condition requires
special attention, like with infections and stuff like that.
And like some, hospitals may have strict protocols where
family can only insist in less intensive tasks like washing the
face and hands. Yeah, which makes sense.
And from a, from an infection, again, that's my specialty.
So I just, and I know that part really well.
Like it does make sense from an infection prevention, which is a
whole subset of people in the hospital.
There's a subset of people who just their whole job is making
sure people don't get infections while they're in the hospital.
So like that would be part of that bundle to like make sure
they're not getting harmed. Not that the families are
harming people, but like, people hanging around in hospitals are
at high risk of contracting infections because like
hospitals like infected people come in there and like things
can get passed to people or just like in rooms.
And you don't mean for. I mean, it's airborne, right?
It depends. Some things, some things, some
things are from like contaminated medical equipment,
like nurse doesn't wash their hands and they touch the
patient. Family members don't wash their
hands, they touch the patient like things can just get passed
to them and they're vulnerable because they're not they're, you
know, their immune systems might be compromised.
Like things are people are not 100% in the hospital.
So like there's a whole department of people whose whole
job is just to make sure patient patients are safe and all these
and they're being cleansed properly.
So they're not contracting anything while they're just
trying to get better. So like I can understand, I
understand the legality of that. Like that's a whole department.
I work with the department that does that.
Like it's just people are just doing that.
That's their whole job in hospitals.
And we don't know if Little Nung is in a public or private
hospital because really it could be private.
They seem to have money. Chet has money, Big Nung has
money. Like even.
If there were, like uncovered, yeah.
I mean, she's in a private room. We know that.
But yeah, we we don't know. So like it could be a private
hospital and like they're they still can assist if they choose
to do so there. But in a public hospital,
resources may be limited. So they do rely on family
members to do non medical tasks because they just cannot handle
it. Yeah.
I understand that. Thank you and if any of that was
not accurate please let me know. Like obviously I can't scour the
whole Internet, I have to do as quick research as I can because
I will get distracted by it and go down rabbit holes and I will
learn the most random things. Also, like we have to rely on
like English translated stuff. So like, yeah, it's hard to
verify it 100% how accurate it really is because like again, we
don't live in Thailand and like we can't read like actual Thai
sources all the time. Like we're relying on
translation. So like, please correct us since
that was wrong. We, we did our we drew our
breast. OK, So thank you, Caitlin.
So big Nung late. We cut till later after the
bathing. No, no, no, I mean Big Nung
eventually passes out on with her head on the bed like like a
kid that falls asleep on their desk, like on Little Monk's bed,
like sitting in her same position.
Because this is what I imagined her doing the entire time she
was in the coma. Just like literally sleeping
like this. And we get a shot on the book
cover. So she wasn't reading Pluto, but
she was reading a book that has significance for the two of them
in so many ways. Oh, really?
I I don't think it has anything to do with them.
Fiora No. Because we it's blank the novel.
So A it's their story and B like this showed up before when
little Long's like I bought that just for you to read for you.
So like I assume off screen, like little long did read this,
regardless of what the book was called.
I assume she read this book and that's why big young picked it.
Also like product placement. Good, great, good job,
everybody. The product placement in the
show is so on point. I love it.
And honestly, big nong, maybe if you read this to her suitor, we
wouldn't be here because you'd be like, maybe you shouldn't.
We shouldn't use the radio. You know what I mean?
We would have had some tips, but you know, live and learn, right,
guys? How funny of you.
She gets to the edge. You're like, oh.
Wait. Yeah.
Wait a minute. Yeah, anyway, all right, so she
falls asleep is the bottom line probably was reading it, fell
asleep. And then the grandmother we see
like a blanket get draped over Nong and it's the grandmother
who's care doing something caretaking to nong who like
literally passed out like taking care of you're.
So. Cute and so like again, like Big
Nong, these two scenes back-to-back were showing that
like Big Nong won over Ping Pho. Not that she lost Ping Pho, but
like solidified her alliance with Ping Pho and then
definitely earned the respect of the grandmother, which Big Nong
knew was going to be hard, but she did it and then she did it
through her. Genuine love for Little Nung and
her persistence. So good job, big Nung.
And it's just, it's cute because he's actually taking care of.
Big big Nung. I know it was the only thing Sam
take care of big Nung. So like, yeah, and Auntie them I
guess does some degree too. Let's take care of Big Nung.
Yeah. Now it's time for a time job.
Three months later, where are we?
Well, we're back in Little Nung's hospital room and it's
the women are there, so it's Pingfa, grandmother and Big
Nung. And the relatives of Little Nung
have gotten to the point with Big Nung where they trust her
enough to be left completely unsupervised with Little Nung.
So they take a break from being in the hospital and they're like
Big Nung, you're on watch. That's fine.
We trust you. Which?
Wow, what? A place to be like, That's great
she got there. We've come so far.
We've come so far and they all even managed to have a civil
conversation where no one's swinging at big Nong.
So like big strides. We've made big strides here.
And also interestingly, Ping Phong makes a comment in this
scene where she expresses concern for big Nong and she's
like, hey, like, don't you know, spend your entire life at this
hospital? Like you need to take care of
yourself too, basically. So like we've gotten from like a
just we're tolerating you to a like you're we're worried about
your health stage, which is huge for big non.
Also, like I had a question in the scene because it's been 3
months now, Pingva is still in Thailand.
So my question is, what the fuck is Pingva's job that she's like
unexpectedly left Thailand like several weeks before the
accident is still not back in America.
Is she still employed? Like what?
What's going on, Do we know? For sure that she has a job.
I forget I. Assume she has a job.
Or like maybe her fiance or husband has a really good job
and she's just being a proper. Wife it's it's that's.
Sarcasm. I mean she's not married yet and
also like she's been in America since she was 16 and like isn't
in school anymore. Like she had to have some kind
of job and like I assume just left unexpectedly or bond.
Maybe she's a remote worker. That's supposed to be like there
is remote working like what year is this?
Right. I mean, they have cell phones
and shit and iPads. So like, I assume it's modern,
but like, yeah, I'm just wondering, like, what does Pig
actually do? Because like, she just like
pieced out her life for like a not insignificant period of
time. And I bring this up because if
she's in America, like you could take unexpected, like medical
leave and stuff, but usually you get a maximum of three months of
protected time. It's unpaid because it's America
that'll pay you. But then after that, your job's
at Jeopardy. So I was just curious, what was
her job? I'm worried about her like as an
American, like who knows these laws only she's probably not
worried about her as an American.
I mean, yeah, like, I don't your job's not protected anymore at
this point, like legally. So just curious what she was,
what she was doing in America because.
She's still here. All right, anyway, so when
they're alone, big nun and little Nung big nung transitions
into like it's Lil Nung time. So she starts using her cute
voice and she's teasing little Nung.
So again, again, nobody one person could be unconscious and
they're still like themselves, which is really funny.
And she's like, hey, you need to get wake the fuck up already.
What the hell, I miss you, which is so funny.
She's basically trying to annoy her into waking up, which
really? She has been taking on Little
Nung's personality with between the persistence and yeah,
totally yeah. It's like her way of being
closer to Little Nung. That's a really good point.
By like adopting her mannerisms and shit.
It is really, really funny. And also like again, Big Nung
has grown just even in the three months into Little Monk.
Basically. It was just super funny and but
my take away from this is that big Nung was able to like take
the focus. She seems more like in control
of herself and like of her life and like has a focus and like a
purpose again. So she she also seems like
healthier and in a better place. Despite the situation, which is
it's three months and little long is still in the coma stage.
I don't know whatever stage she's in for her like TBI
injury. So a real good thing despite the
circumstances. And so Big Nung kisses someone's
forehead and like if this was a Disney movie, Lil one would wake
up now because it's like true Love's kiss.
Oh yeah, that was the magical. They would basically be married,
right? They'd be married.
And the family is legally binding by the laws of Disney.
There's nothing you can do about this, which would be really
interesting to move into that. But anyway, all right.
So at this point we've established that Big Nun has
defeat two out of the three major foes in terms of Little
Nun's family. And then as she's doing this
care, taking shit, the final boss shows up, which is Chet.
It's it's amazing, but not surprising that he managed to
avoid Big Nun for three months, whereas the women were forced to
confront Big Nun because she was constantly at the hospital.
And they're like, I guess, and now they're at a place of like
she's part of the family. But Chet managed to avoid Big
Nun for three months, OK. And I assume he was actively
avoiding her because let's be real, the second Big Nun got
access to be in Little Nun's room, she never left.
Hence the comment from Pink of like, you might want to go home
once in a while and take care of yourself, right?
So like, I assume Chet never saw his daughter because he was
like, Big Nun's there. I'm not going to.
He's too petty, you know what I mean?
It's never about Little Nun. It's about him, you know what I
mean? I don't know, I just kind of
feel like he continued on with life as if nothing happened and
like maybe maybe texted Pingfa or the grandmother to check in
on little nun. But again, I I think he put it
out of his mind and it would be like under the guise of keeping
up appearances for the family and being the strong one, the
dad to make him look like the hero, right?
Of course, yeah, he's got to make it about himself, but he
doesn't want to see Big Dong. So I assume he was like just
like avoiding her and avoiding this room because she's always
in it because it's not about his daughter, you know what I mean?
Anyway, so we get like a basically a similar scene to
what we got earlier where like big nuns in the room, just
living her life, taking care of little nun and big and Chet is
now like getting a glimpse inside the room of like, what's
their relationship behind closed doors?
And for once, he doesn't run away.
He actually sticks around to like watch this play out and
here's big nong. And what she's doing in the
scene is she's like massage, massaging little nong's like
foot and like her leg basically, which again, important for
somebody in a coma to like keep blood flowing.
And things like that. So she's.
Doing a good thing and for once, Chad actually keeps quiet and
just like pays attention to like information that's like right in
front of him because he doesn't run away right away.
He just like lingers and kind of like watches this place out for
like a hot 2nd. And like you established
earlier. Thanks for YouTube comment.
Like what's big guns kind of doing in the scene is like
again, touching the feet, the lower part of the body,
culturally speaking. So she's defining a cultural
norm right in front of Chet, which I mean, she's the deviant.
So she does that a lot, but she's doing it to take care of
little Nung, right, whom he allegedly cares about.
And she's doing it with a smile on her face.
It's not like she's begrudgingly, like doing this
task that's like low or demeaning or could be read as
that, like from a cultural point of view.
She's like happily doing this with a smile on her face because
she's just, you know, happy taking care of little Nung.
That's what she wants to be doing.
She's a multifaceted. Deviant.
She's a multifaceted, She's a deviant with a heart of gold, I
guess. But Chet, being the coward that
he is, runs away again and once again avoids confrontation with
big Nut. And meanwhile Big nut, just like
again, can continues doing her. And she's talking a little long
the entire time because I feel like she's just doing anything
she can to be like, maybe she hears my voice.
Maybe she smells the food. Maybe if she feels my hands like
she'll like get out of this dreamland.
And so she's like actively encouraging little long to wake
up. And my favorite part is when she
calls her sleepy heads. That's just so.
Funny. Yes, she's.
So funny. She's choosing to be asleep.
That's exactly like, that's what I read like a sleepy head and
somebody who like chooses this and like it's just like, like,
you know, little bugs, just like ha ha, sleepy head.
No, she's like out cold because of a traumatic brain injury.
But it's just a cute, endearing name.
And I think that this comment is so funny and cute.
She's just being cute in the scene.
Like no, like with no audience whatsoever.
She's just this is no mask Big Nung and like this is what she
would do, like just given the chance.
And like here it is just calling her sleepyhead.
It's very cute. I did love that part.
So this is obviously exhausting for Big 9 because like I feel
like she never sleeps. She just hovers constantly in
this hospital. And so we cut over to like later
that day, I assume where Big Nung is in the lobby, like
passed out in a chair. Basically.
They're like falling asleep actively like in the lobby and
in the scene. For some reason Chet decided to
be a person and goes over and talks to her.
But my question is why was she in the lobby?
Because I. Wonder if like little mom was
sent for a test like they could like have to do.
I assume like at this stage where she's medically speaking,
when she's out like this, they'd have to like repeat an MRI, look
at her brain because like they can't do much, but they can like
keep doing imaging. So I wonder if she was in like
an imaging machine and there's no point to be in the room.
So she just got out of the room and the grandmother were like,
take a break and but now he's not going to leave the hospital.
She's like, why don't she wakes up?
Like, so she's going to fall asleep in the lobby.
My theory was that the three of them set up a schedule where
like they all get one-on-one time with her.
Oh. That's cute.
It could be, it could be, it could be.
I mean, Trek came from the log from the elevator.
So like, was he in the? Did he like sneak into the
little bug's room? He.
Doesn't on the schedule. Let's be honest because even if
there was a schedule and they texted it or emailed it to him,
he would rate it. So he just shows up whenever
it's good for him, so. He's not even on the schedule
because he can't be relied on to show up.
Right. No, but like, OK, even if they
don't put him on the schedule, he'd bitch about not being
included. So they like include him
understanding he's not going to do it.
I feel like as what would end up having because he has to feel
included, it has to be about him, but he's not actually going
to do it unless it's on his schedule.
You know what I mean right? Anyway, so Chet decides to be a
person to talk to big. So he asks her how she's doing.
That's the first thing he asks, which weird and but she
responds, I don't know how I'm doing, which is super valid.
Like we've seen all the stuff that she's been through, all the
stuff that she's doing still not awake.
She doesn't know she's just like doing her best.
And then she asks Chet the same question and he also says, I
don't know how I'm doing either cuz like, what is life in the
scenario really? And this is like a wild scenario
that they're living right now in so many ways.
Yeah, it's not a very typical one, I would say, not now one
that people usually go through. Yeah.
All right, so then he sits down next to her and this is
interesting because like, OK, this is the first time we've
seen them interact in like 3 months, right?
And so when he goes to sit down next to her, he sits down in the
adjacent chair so he doesn't leave like an empty chair
between them. Like what if you flashback to
when Little Long first came to the hospital and like she was in
the OR and they got their they did their fight and then they
sat there. Hi, Kendra.
Hi, Kenji. Hi, baby.
I closed that door. She opened it.
Did you watch her open the doorknob?
How did you get in here? I mean she.
Can stay in here, it's fine. Just close the door.
What is she going to do? She's so cute.
She's like I missed you. Hi.
I don't know what she's doing. Anyway, OK, so if you go back to
that scene when everything calms down, Pingfa sits down next to
big NUM right? They leave like an empty chair.
So there's like a gap between the two of them showing that
they're divided. But like here Chet, Alexa sit
directly next to her. So like I, I don't know what
happened with him off screen. I don't really care.
But I guess he's at a point where he's like seeing Nong as
a, as a human being again for some reason.
So he's like, OK, I'll actually talk to you and treat you like a
human. I somewhat respect, which I
don't know that he really does. But like visually, that's what
this looks like. Also, it helps with the camera
because it's like you can get a better frame if they're sitting
next to each other. So there's also that
practicality of this, but that's the reason.
That's the reason. But Chet, like me, the hospital,
Chet elected to sit directly next to her.
So there's that. But big I was like, this is
weird. You haven't talked to me in
three months. So she still has like her arms
crossed. So she's kind of defensive going
into whatever this is with Chad, but like, she's kind of calm and
put together, you know? Yeah, but you always have to be
on guard when it comes to him because who knows what the hell
is about to happen? He's a wild card, isn't he?
Well, he's not really a wild card.
He's just going to be selfish because that's what he always.
No, it's a wild card because who would have saw that proposal
coming? That is true.
I mean, he was flirting. He was trying to court her,
like, the whole show. So it's like, and he doesn't
listen. So, like, it's not a stretch
really for him to get there. It's just like, I hoped you were
better than this, but you're not.
I'm not. Like, remember when she got the
proposal, she wasn't surprised by this.
She was just, like, annoyed. Yeah, he's an idiot.
You can always, always rely on him to be selfish because he's
always selfish. OK.
So anyway, they do a bit of small talk and then chat follows
that small talk up with some silence and big none takes the
opportunity to ask what we're all asking.
And she's like, OK, you're sitting down next to me or chit
chatting with me like a friend. Like, are you not mad at me
anymore? Like, have you come to your
senses the past three months? Like what's going on?
And chat actually responds with, well, actually no.
Chat responds with the most emotionally immature answer,
which is I'll be mad at you forever.
Which like dude, come on now. Again, what did she really do?
I mean. He has nothing better to do with
his life and it's easier to blame her than actually face
shit and try to make changes himself.
Right, exactly. So what he's admitting is I'll
never change. Like, at least you're
consistent, I guess. Chad, we're not.
Again, we're not surprised by any of those.
You were the actual worst character of the show.
So there we go. There we go, all.
Right, but the answer. Makes Big Dong uncomfortable
because like she's like fuck, he's like the last pillar of the
family. And I'm trying to.
I did look at the strides she made with the grandmother.
So it's to her who's been like persisting on this quest for so
long. It's like she feels defeated a
bit by this. She's like, goddamn the final
boss. I'll never beat him, I guess.
But Chet decides out of the kindness of his cold, dead heart
to take a break from hating Big Nong while Lil Nong's in
critical condition. Like wow, what a big person you
are, Chet, So big of you. How kind of you.
That's all I could have ever wanted.
So kind. Best gift you could have given
her. Yeah, and he keep the gift that
keeps on giving because he's like, let me tell you about how
I've been doing again. Let's shift the focus off my
daughter and let's talk about me for a minute.
And he's like, you know, since she's been in the hospital, I
can't really sleep and shit. And what a shitty conversation
be having a chat. But like obviously big Nung has
taken whatever cookie she can get from this man because she's
like, I'm here for big a little Nung.
I, you know, it's just whatever it's.
All like chocolate chips from him.
It's crumbs. Take the crumbs.
Not even chocolate chip, like chocolate chip on its own is
good, but like you just got like a piece of a piece, you know?
But. You know Big Nung can despite
his bullshit. Big Nun can relate to this
because obviously she's not sleeping well either.
She's like literally always at this hospital.
And then Chad admits that, oh, you know, I love my daughter
very much even though I didn't raise her.
Do you? You keep saying that, but I
don't see the evidence that this is actually true.
There is no evidence. 0 You won't even accept her.
The jury of your peers would agree with us in the court of
law, Chet, that you love your daughter, but OK.
Could you imagine if this is like stuff that would be decided
in a court of law by peers? Do you love your daughter?
Objecting, Your Honor. Yeah, No, there's no way unless
he paid off the jury, which I would have asked him, Right.
So big things on this for a second before she suggests like,
OK, because she's like he's like being like, I love my daughter
so much and she's like, you shouldn't tell your daughter
that when she wakes up instead of telling me in the lobby
because that's weird. Like talk to your person, your
daughter like a person. Chat for fuck's sake.
That's been the lesson. We're trying to get you to learn
the whole goddamn show, and we're still.
Here. In the finale, I don't think
he'll ever learn it. No, you know, he never, he just
admitted he's like, I will never change.
Nah, I'll hate you forever. And it's like basically I'm not
willing. I don't want to learn anything,
is what he said in that line. So there we are.
At least he's self aware. He's not learning.
OK, because big gun once again suggests this.
Please tell your daughter this. He doesn't agree to that
obviously, but instead says like, if I could turn again,
makes it out himself, if I could turn back time, I would want to
be a good dad for her. OK, first of all, Chad, you this
isn't reverse for you, Chad. You could never A have those
magical powers because you'd abuse them and but B like you
could never be the parent in that story because it requires
you to be selfless. Like never.
You could never be. You could be any of those
characters, actually, because you're not smart enough and you
don't know what love is. That's the whole point of that
novel, is the concept of love. If if we were still on our first
session of recording, I had it all queued up to do if I could
turn back on. That's what we're saying, but I
don't have it. I forgot about it.
No, he doesn't deserve that song.
That song is horror verse for you.
That's fair. That doesn't deserve it.
He could never, all right. And second of all, you can be a
better dad, Chad, if you just fucking listen to Pig Nong and
take her God damn advice like it's not.
You don't need to turn back time to be a good dad, you just need
to actively start doing it now. You know what I mean?
Yeah, I mean, I get just care. No, he doesn't care.
But once again, this conversation is Chet making this
entire ordeal about himself. So like, let's move on to the
better part. So at least like, he does admit
in this conversation that Big Nung was right about like, the,
hey, you guys are responsible for what's happening with Little
Bug. And like how we get all LED up
to this situation. Like, you ever stop the question
why she was trying to flee all you guys all the time?
So he does admit that he's like, all right, yeah, we were all
responsible for this. So there's that.
At least you learned that off screen.
But again, he's the epitome of that, of the human being that
like, it took his daughter getting into a horrific car
accident where she's on the brink of death for him to
realize that, like, maybe I should have treated her like
that, Like. And then he like gets into it
and he's like, basically like, also came to the real whopping
realization that, oh, she's a person and her life is her own.
And it's like, Oh my God. Yeah, like his, his line is
something like it took this disaster or something to make me
see that she's a person. And like literally said that.
What the hell? Did you not see how problematic
that is? But I'll never change.
None. I'll hate you forever.
I'll never change none. Yeah, no, he he's the worst of
humanity because people are like this where they're like, that'll
never happen. And then it happens.
I'm like, oh shit, maybe we. Maybe I should have?
Done things, never late. OK, He tried to warn me.
I ignored you. Oh, God, he's the worst.
But yeah, it's sad. And it really boils down to why
is he like this? It's a lack of empathy.
He doesn't have any empathy skills whatsoever.
And like, because he can't, he never once took the time.
And a lot of characters did it in the show or like, it took
them a long time to like, put themselves in Little Mong's
actual shoes and empathize with her and be like, oh, this is
pretty shitty. You know what I mean?
Like Chad is the kind of person that like, has to, it has to
personally affect him and he personally has to experience it
for him to give a shit. He's that person.
So and the irony of this too is like, yeah, we're looking at
Chad is terrible, objectively speaking, but also like big Nung
was also like this. And when we first met her,
right, she because like, she didn't have a lot of feelings.
She went through life with feelings on mute until she met
little Nung. And then they're like full
volume. She's like, oh God, what do I do
it all? What is this, right?
It took her a while to learn empathy because she never had
the feelings to be able to like to empathize, right?
And little Nung is the one that taught her empathy and like this
man's been ignoring his daughter the whole time.
If he had paid attention to her, he would have learned empathy
because she's good at teaching that little bug, you know what I
mean? OK, but bottom line is we
finally get what we've all wanted.
Chat relinquishing control as the parrot for little Nung.
So he's like and big Nung's like great, you're going to let her
be her own person. That means her love life's her
own too, which is a huge win for little nun.
First of all 'cause then she could be queer or do whatever
the hell she wants, which is a big one.
But also like big Nung's like yay I can have her now.
I don't care if you're mad at me, who cares?
Like now I could date her. No one cares if he likes you or
not. Also the fact.
That he was able to control her at all is annoying.
I yes, it's we've already been through that.
Yes, it's the worst. All right, so the but of course
he's like, I understand this, but like I don't want to accept
it big. Now.
Of course you don't want to accept it.
You don't want to accept any of those, Jed.
All right. But then he like kind of starts
that line and then pauses and leaves out the but I love my
daughter and I'm choosing to accept what she wants and she's
made that pretty close to clear what she wants.
And. I've just been not willing to
accept what she actually fucking wants this whole time because I
wanted her to do what I wanted her to do, right?
So she makes it clear, but it goes through like a reverse
filter and it's just like. Amazing.
Really. Yeah.
But then he finishes this by telling Big None to look after
Little None for him when he when she wakes up.
And basically what this is is this is Chat finally accepting
Little Long's queerness in his own way, despite his reigning
homophobia. And it's him giving Big None
permission as the suitor to date Little None.
Not that she needed permission, but like in the family
structure, like, that's the proper way to do it kind of
thing, like the traditional way to do it.
So like we're getting everything back on track is kind of like
this conversation the final boss is.
Being defeated. In a way, I guess.
It's the best acceptance they're going to get from him.
Yeah, like literally, he'll go back to like ignoring nothing
forever after this conversation, which is fine that we have to
hear him less, which I'm fine. With would he because he's never
actually ignored her in his life.
It's always either been oh, I'm trying to get you, or I hate you
and I'm going after you. I mean, if he's, he's basically
saying in this conversation that like I want to do better and
like love my daughter more. So if he does stick to that, the
best way he would do that. If he's hell hell bent on hating
Big Nog is literally like staying out of the way pretty
much like out of the way of the relationship basically because
Big Nog is going to piss him off.
And then like if he's trying to win over his daughter, then he
just probably would stay out of the love life picture.
And like in the novel, they get to a point where like I'll get
to it later, but basically like the family members that don't
agree, ignore that it's happening.
And that's I think that's what Chet would do.
He would just do the I'm never going to talk about it.
If I don't talk about it and I don't acknowledge it, then for
me, she's not in this relationship.
It's probably what he's going to do really, because he's not he
doesn't want to accept any of this.
So I think in his brain he will choose not to accept it and just
ignore it instead. That sounds plausible.
Yeah, so I'm pretty sure that's kind of how the book goes down
too for some of the family members.
All right, So like, again, to hear this from Chet is pretty
shocking and big hearing this is a shock, but she can tell that
he's being honest in this moment.
So she just like, kind of like nods her head and like, OK,
like, yeah, I will. I was going to do it anyway, but
I'm definitely going to look at. Her for sure.
And he shares a smile with her at the end, which is also good.
Like, again, like, this was a friendly, civil conversation
with Chet, which, like, I don't think she's had one of those in
a very long time. So like, that in and of itself
is a big deal. And good that they had this and
cleared things up. So we're tying up loose ends,
you know, all right. And then Chet looks away
because, you know, it's Chet. And then Big Nun's kind of left
to kind of process what just happened.
And then we start getting those award-winning hovering tears
because wow, what? A huge weight.
It was just for Lifted. Lifted off of Big Nun, like she
defeated the final boss, right? And it took months and months of
persistence, but like she won. Like she finally won the thing
she was trying to get the whole time, which is like getting the
trust of the family and getting them to accept Little Nung and
Little Nung's decisions and so that she can have her family
intact. Like that's what she wanted.
And she finally got all that and she ended up getting the
acceptance of all the family members like beat the homophobic
father. You know, when I you know what I
mean? Like that's a big deal.
And so she and and she herself earned her place as like the
insider when it comes to the little monks family again, by
the way, they're trusting her, talking to her like, and
basically this was Chuck being like, I trust you with her.
Kind of thing is that he's also saying like as the father in the
scenario, which like it's a win. This is a win for Big Bang,
basically. This is why Big Nung isn't the
one playing video games, because she has to defeat so many levels
in real life. That it's exhausting.
It is exhausting, but she did it.
She did it. She did it.
She. It was worth it, right?
It was worth it. It wasn't worth the car
accident, but it was worth the the persistence.
OK, so after Nung defeats Chet, we cut to a brand new day again.
And now Sam's here to visit Big Nung in the hospital and they're
in the waiting room. And Sam brought Big Nung extra
clothes because she basically moved into the hospital.
So Little Nung got Big Nung to move into her room.
Go Little Nung. She wasn't, and she wasn't even
there to like make it happen. So like, that's kind of amazing.
What A twist. I didn't see that coming.
I told you, Big nun's becoming little nun.
She's becoming little nun. You're right.
She's taking on the the traits of her partner and I do love
that. But in all seriousness, like I
keep saying, I'm sure she's staying in the hospital like
24/7 and and that's what she wanted.
But now that she has the the trust of the family, she can
freely do that. And I'm sure she like never
leaves the hospital and she absolutely has to.
And it like, it just took getting the trust of the family
back for her to, like, achieve this.
So things are going well for big Nung.
Now. The missing piece of the puzzle
is just a little Nung. We're gaining consciousness and
like, we're fully recovering, right?
And she tells Sam like, well, you know, this feels like home
now because I guess she never leaves.
And then Sam asks the dumbest question of all time because
it's Sam. Sam is a dumb ass at the end of
the day. And I do love her for that.
And she says, oh, are you basically living here?
Because little Nung's here. Why?
Did you have to ask her this? I think no Sam your your sister
Oscrey developed a really big interest in medicine just
randomly and wants to be a doctor.
Like why do you think she's living at the hospital?
Like what a stupid. No, Sam, it's because she bought
the hospital as an investment and used all the family money,
so now she has to live here. This is the new palace.
Sam. Such a dumb ass I swear to God I
love. Her not fully observant but
she's empathetic and cares so it's not exactly like Chet.
Right, No, Sam does not mean well.
She's definitely trying to tease none, but I'm like, girl, this
did not need to be said all right, but but through this
dumbassery of Sam that I love big that we get the admittance
for big none, which is what we suspected all along.
She's like, well, I the reason I'm like literally living here,
aside from the fact that we don't own this hospital, Sam,
I'm surprised. The other reason is that I need
I need to be the first person long season she wakes up, which
like completely attracts with like everything you've seen with
big nut, right? She always has to like be the
first what she sees when she comes out of school.
And things like. That so like, makes sense,
right? But.
She's not in her room right now. What happens?
If she were to wake up at this current moment, she wouldn't be
the first person she sees. I mean, that would that would
count on somebody else being in the room with little and we'll
find out there isn't anybody in the room.
So like, I mean, it's a gamble, right?
She got to leave the room. Well, a nurse could see her
first too, because she was upset by like all the people in the
school cellar before. You're right.
I mean, Sam could have met her in the room.
They're doing well. I guess they're getting coffee
right now. Just like a coffee break.
No one's got to eat and like do stuff, you know, if you could
just be in the room 24/7. But you're right, technicality.
So I guess we could have avoided what's about to happen if Nong
was just in the room. Seriously.
But it's cuter in this way, so. It is.
She has to leave the room sometime.
All right? And Sam's like, yeah, Nong.
I get it. And, like, fan fiction time.
So let's say this. The roles were reversed.
And like, Mon's in the hospital, and this is and like, Sam is
Nong in this situation. Like how would Sam handle Mon
being in a coma for three months?
OK, so here's the issue. There's gap Sam and Blank Sam.
OK. I have both.
All right, we'll do it. OK, so gap Sam, we're going to
start gap Sam because that's that's a messy bitch.
But Gap Sam would also buy the hospital.
I thought that let me just. Say my thing.
It's the first thing I say. I'm sorry I didn't read it.
As you shouldn't. So gap Sam, she would first buy
the hospital because she can. She thinks she can fix things
with money first. That is the first thought she
has. And then she would completely
shut down, fire all the diversity employees.
Kirk would keep pestering her that she can't fire everyone.
Sam says whatever and leaves the office, goes to the hospital
where she had a suite built for a queen because she owns it now,
and where Mon is lying and Sam never goes back to the office.
She just lives there. Like she'd move in.
Like no, yeah. Yeah, so she doesn't set foot in
the business again until Mon can.
So the business either has to file for bankruptcy due to lack
of attention, or Kirk made the thing super successful because
he brought someone in who actually shows up more than just
a stare at cute employees. Well, let's I guess it would, it
would depend on like when Mon went into the hospital because
like if we're talking like end of gap, like Mon was in charge
of diversity, but like, let's be real, diversity would probably
be fucked if Mon went into a coma.
She basically runs it at that point because like Sam doesn't
work, so they're already in trouble.
So yeah, Kirk would have to come in and like keep things going
like as Mon would do it. And like to your point, maybe he
makes it better and then when mom wakes up, they're like, mom,
do you want diversity pop bag or this hospital?
Looks like somewhat successful. What do you want?
To run true then they just have like 2 businesses then mom's
trying to keep afloat. Well like they could also like
give diversity pop to Kirk if they want to keep the hospital.
So like it just depends on what mom wants because Sam doesn't
care. That's true.
Cuz she has mine now, she doesn't need anything.
Mon is the actual business person, Sam is just the buddy
lady. Except the Nintendo Switch,
apparently. But that brings us to the blank
Sam all. Right, Blank Sam.
What does Blank Sam do? OK, so blank Sam's a little more
straightforward. Yeah, she would be very
distraught and would basically take after big nong here.
She wouldn't leave and would be trying to do everything for
mine, like would not let anybody else do something and Big Nung
has to bribe her with a Nintendo Switch to get her to focus on
anything else for 5 minutes. That would be really funny
because she's not Sam's not food motivated the way Nung is.
Like Sam could probably get her out of the room, be like, I
brought food and I'll be like, OK, all right, I'll leave the
room for the food because like it's probably she got her out
and she's like, no, you want coffee and like pastries.
And I was like, all right, yeah, food.
And that's probably how Sam got her out of the room to have this
I'm. Just picturing Big Nung right
now with the Nintendo Switch. Say you want hey.
Sam, well, I I don't know that Nung would know that about Sam.
She'd probably have to like call Jim and be like Jim.
What does Sam even do? Because like that doesn't know
like. Did you might know Jim comes in
and bribes her with Mario? Whiskey say I don't know what
Sam does. Could you imagine if she brings
Jim? That would be a mess.
That would be really funny. I actually want that now.
Sam Nung and Jim just give. I don't even know what the scene
is. It just would be hilarious,
whatever it is anyway, that'd be amazing.
OK thank you for answering the fan fiction question.
I agree, I think Sam would be a mess.
Sam would do like Nung does regardless of which Sam it is,
where she wouldn't leave Mon's side ever, but she would cause
more chaos because it's Sam. I think because she's the upset
Sam and upset Sam's not rash. Super rational.
So where it's like, no. You should try to do all medical
things. For right like Sam would be the
doctors should be a nightmare to have in the hospital because she
would be like in the doctor's business constantly, whereas I
think Nung is more like reserved.
Like I can do the blood draw for you.
Right. Like it would be a mess to have
Sam in the hospital. They're like, no, you will kill
her. I we don't know how, but you
would figure it out. She'd.
Be like I'm your boss now bitch and then be like OK.
But still. Anyway, it would be the hood all
the dogs would be like, are we allowed to sue our?
Boss right? Can we fire her or something?
OK. So Sam like pig Pho reminds big
Nun she's like, girl, you got to take care of yourself.
Like this is real sweet. And I do understand because Sam
would absolutely do this, but you need to take care of
yourself. And then big nun is naturally
annoyed by her sister and it's because it's like big nun like
this is like their classic banter of just like, Oh my God,
Sam, like you're being too much right now.
So it's like big Nung feels better.
This the bottom line, because they're she's joking around with
Sam, which is which is really good.
She's like, oh God, you're nagging me again.
Like go back to like just bringing me food and be giving
me a hug. That was better.
But I meant like, Sam must periodically check up on Nong
now because like, after she witnessed Nong's giant breakdown
at the Bua Palace, like I imagine she's just like, like
peripherally hovering around big Dong to like, make sure she's
eating, make sure she's like, kind of take gears off.
Sam might show up randomly and be like, hey, Doug, he's some
clothes. Sam kind of just big maybe
didn't call Sam. Sam just showed up and she's
like, I noticed you haven't gone home in a month.
Like, you probably need clothes like, and like, food and like.
So, yeah, I'm sure that like she worries about like Big Non
because like, Sam's the caretaker and so like here she
is like probably stepping into that role on asked by Big Non
because like, she could empathize with Big Non in the
scenario too. I think it would be like, yeah,
I get this. I would do it too.
You know. She also has.
Hospital spies now. Probably, she probably grabs
from the nurses, like, let's be real, it's Sam, all right?
Also, Speaking of Mon, where is Mon?
Also, where is Mon? Because like Big Doug asks,
she's like, seriously, where is your other half?
And Sam does actually get to answer this, but we all know
where Mon is. Mon is actually running
diversity pop. Sam is just the money, the
financers. Mon is the actual brands of that
operation. She's like, she's keeping the
actual company going right now. Big Doug, She's the actual
employee that does stuff. While also single handedly
probably being HR. Well noy is useless, so yes, I
hope mine's first act was to fire noy because noy is useless
as HR. Or, you know, at least find Noy
a different position that could work for her.
What? The hell could noy even do?
I don't know if he or you got to work with her.
Like I don't open the door, open door opener it.
Could be the door opener like does the elevator.
The Bell. The Bell Person Bellhop.
The Bellhop. That's for a hotel, but.
Anyway, so annoy is getting, I hope, getting fired off screen
while that's what Mom's doing. So Sam doesn't answer the
question. And while that's going on, the
brief decides to crank up everyone's favorite radio
station and the DJ gives a tiddly introduction.
Basically says on today's episode we have an age gap
relationship that no one can accept.
I wonder what's about to happen. It sounds oddly similar to
something we heard three months ago.
Yeah. Weird the DJ is like I hope we
don't get hung up on again. You better not put all your hope
in that DJ because history is super about to repeat itself.
Also one of our Patreon members I think confirmed that the radio
DJ is the CEO of Nightstar, so love that.
OK. So the DJ, OK, so then we again,
history is literally repeating stuff because the DJ refers to
this person calling in as Nong A.
So like younger, the younger person honorific A, which is
basically the exact same alias big Nong got when big Nong was
like first starting the story, but she was Kun A and now we're
so it's kind of weird that we're kind of doing this again.
So it's like it's setting up a really good it's setting up an
actual parallel between these two calls.
So then we now get instead of big nuns point of view, we're
going to get little nuns point of view.
She's the one calling instead of like get her dramatic ass.
Can she just text big nun and be like, where are you?
I'm awake. She had to go through all of
this because I OK, and I wonder why, because I think that little
nuns again, she's in she was in the coma.
So she's operating off the fact that like they weren't supposed
to be talking. She doesn't know where big nun
is like being unconscious probably has to know where she.
Is huh like she OK I have it later but like does she know she
was in a coma? Is she aware?
Is it like nothing happened? Probably not.
I mean, she right. Yeah.
So I think she's like operating
off of the last thing that happened before she was
unconscious. She probably doesn't know she's
unconscious. Like you said, you don't know
that you were in a COBA for three months.
You just like wake up and you're like, what the hell happened?
Anyway, so then we get the parallel to see where she's
doing the same thing and when Leon starts talking big none
like perks up at the voice, but it like seems like it takes her
a minute to register like what's actually happening right now
because it's been 3 months to be fair to her, right?
And I think what she does register, she kind of just sits
there because she's like, I want to hear this the way literally
wanted to hear it. She's like, what was your point
of view? Because these two never actually
talked about their relationship, at least at the beginning.
They just kind of like started having it.
So this is a kind of brand new information a little bit from
Big Doug. 'S point of.
View And I do love that during the Sam notices Big Doug's
acting weird. She's like, dog, what are you
doing? And no.
Completely leaves her unread because she's like, hey, on
every word coming out of the little dog's mouth right now.
So let's get into what she says. So Littleung explains the first
time she saw Big Nung, which is not something we've been Privy
to yet as the viewer. We just like, jumped into their
relationship with like, little annoying big nug at the art
stall as if she's done this before, right?
So then we get like, what happened the first time they
met, right? And Littleung describes that
first meeting as like she feels like she was possessed.
She couldn't take her eyes off Big Nog.
I mean, yes. And then she thought to herself,
this must be love. So like, put a pit in that
sentiment because like, at the very end of the show, we do get
their first meeting and like, Yoko chose us.
Like what that was like, like without saying anything, but
like, this is what I'm describing.
Like what that actually felt like possessed couldn't look
away. And like I had a feeling that I
that she registered in that first moment as love.
Which is. Love at first sight was little
Nung's experience basically which like yes girl we get it.
Side note, what an ego boost for big Nung to hear this.
Not that she needs one, but like wow, what a thing to learn for
the first time. She definitely doesn't need it,
but she kind of does from little Nung because I think she does so
need that reassurance in their relationship.
I agree. I agree.
I think she she definitely gets insecure like for sure.
So, yeah, especially after three months, like, you know, things
shit happens. Like what a nice thing to hear
and like, OK, let's listen to OK, what were those words again?
Love at first sight possession. I that has to be a little.
Who else would be this dramatic, right?
So big nums like that's her. And then she like runs away,
leaving Sam completely confused. Like she's like, hi, none things
are going great, you know, right.
And then her sister just runs away.
Oh, girl, I brought you all these damn clothes and now
you're like, I'll leave them in the lobby like I missed work for
this. And it's like, girl, you missed
work for a sandwich. What do you?
Mean Ciara. You know she definitely forgot
she even had work. No definitely.
But like also did she not hear big nung repeating nung?
Like she literally kept saying nung.
It's also. Her name.
So like Sam's baby's like, you're going to start a
sentence. Like, what are you doing?
Because, you know, sometimes, like in the speaking, like,
yeah, they say their name to refer to themselves.
Like, I don't know. But she's just like sister.
A sister's broken. I need a new. 1.
OK, so while Little Nug is explaining, she goes into the
relationship the way Big Nug did when she 1st called.
Big Nug makes the grand gesture of racing from the lobby to
Little Nug's room. And we don't know what exactly
floor she's on, but it's not the next floor up, it's many floors
up right? And poor if I ended up having to
do this whole thing because where's the elevators at work?
So she's like run upstairs and like the boots she has on have
heels and like this poor woman ran up so many flights of
stairs. You are dedicated to your craft,
ma'am. That's all I'm saying.
And I'm so sorry you had to do that for the drama.
All right, how annoying that was.
That must be awful for everybody because like tight stairwell,
she had to run up at many flights of stairs.
Like, it just seems awful. OK, so all right, here's a
breakdown of what little long side of the story is.
So basically she starts the story by admitting the age gap
is 16 years. So she gets right to the point
with that. And she mentions that like, you
know, as a rule, she doesn't really talk to other people
because she doesn't like it, which is something we've heard
her express before. But she's like, I don't know
why. Like she's like but like I don't
really usually talk to people but like boom, this feeling of
love compelled me to basically keep bothering.
She's bothering herself bothering big Nog basically.
And my favorite part is like little Nog is very honest on the
phone and she's like, well she kept telling me to leave her
alone but I didn't. I can only hope so honest.
It's so honest. Like she's like, yeah, yeah, I
was renoing the shit out of her, but I kept doing it because love
I. Was like girl.
The audacity of this phone call and I can only hope that Shet
and Pegfa are listening to this so they can fully understand
just how aggressive their daughter was.
She was respectfully aggressive when it came to big nun and
super aggressive and this is all her like big nuns like leave me
alone. And then she's like I did it.
I ignored. Her.
But in a good. Way, but in a cute.
Way anyway in a cute. Way I was annoying as fuck all
right yeah she's just brutally honest during this whole thing
which is on brand and just amazing and she admits like yeah
it was great or whatever but things got complicated because
everything that happens in one O 4 and if trip was worried about
all of Thailand knowing his business family business from
big non little non left no rock unturned when she her side of
the story comes out she's like here's the rest of it the actual
because big non was being polite mom was like Nope here's all the
fuckery that went down here's every detail.
Here's why there was so much issues with our relationship,
but I want to see the faces of the radio people as they hear
the story because she the way that she throws it out is so
nonchalant and like quick at them because it's just like one
after another building. It's one O 4 the phone call.
And everything. And it's just like, they're
probably like, what the hell, Didn't someone screen this
right? Who?
Fed it this call for real, Like, yeah, for real.
The I wanted the live reaction of the the radio host feel like.
And they're like, this can't be the worst part.
And then it keeps going. It's one O 4.
There's more, there's more. And then I love little things,
tells the DJ. She's like, she's hot.
Could you blame me, like, like, for all this nonsense, like
she's hot? I don't know.
And then also on top of that, this goddess of a woman told me
she's never loved anybody ever before except me.
So like fuck that drama Worth it.
Little no progress. She was like no regrets.
It was all worth all the fuckery.
It was all worth it for me. And then, unlike big non
literally brings up sex on the radio basically, or she's like
Chad is for sure and he's listening, having a heart attack
somewhere because she says like, oh, we both crossed the line,
which is the sex, bringing it up on the radio.
And then like pivots hard into the fact that she's you know,
when I was in the coma, like didn't they know you were in a
coma? Like she just pivots to the coma
and like with no contacts and she's like, you know, when I was
in a coma, all I did was dream about her.
How long has she been awake to the fact that she knew she was
in a freaking coma? That's what I'm saying.
Did a doctor find her? Like did she have her phone next
to her and she looked at the date?
I was like, oh fuck, what happened?
I mean, she didn't. She's calling on her cell phone.
So like, oh, wait a minute. Which also was somebody keeping
that charged? Yeah, like that.
And it was right next to that is another very interesting thing
to think about. Also, is there something like on
the machines that if someone were to wake up from a coma you
would know or is it just like normal?
I don't know if there's dates on those machines like usually
there isn't unless they're hooked up to computers to like
download the data, because sometimes they are depending
not. Like if she were to wake up
would there be like a monitor going off that she woke up or
can they not tell if she wakes up?
Oh no, I mean she wasn't attached to like anything that's
reading brain function or anything like her vitals
wouldn't change now it it wouldn't register that she's
suddenly awake. Those machines are just
registering like her heart rate, high blood pressure and like she
had her vitals were normal when she's in the coma.
So like it's not going to register any kind of like change
that it would it alarms when it's too high or too low.
So like when she's conscious, it's normal.
So like it wouldn't register anything.
And I was just thinking like, would she if she looked at the
machine, would she see a date? I don't know if there's actual
dates or times on the well it. Has to be the phone at this
point I don't know how she got the phone.
I simply just left it in the room and somebody was keeping it
charged. Probably big numb.
But it has to be right next to her because she.
Yeah. I mean she probably has like a
little like night stand or whatever.
Yeah, I just don't know why we did see big.
Nung bringing it to the room at the set at the start of the
hospital. It's just wild that it's still
there after three months and charged so she could make the
phone call like somebody was taking care of the phone off
screen. So like, well, we can't do too
much for Little Nung, so let's do something for Little Nung's
phone, right? But anyway, so little ones like,
oh, when I was in the coma, which again, like, how could you
do that? Maybe a doctor did come in and
see her. I was like, hey, you've been in
a coma. Like so big.
No, might not have been the first person she saw.
Like. A nurse came in and was like
what happened or like oh girl you was in a coma so cuz like
you wouldn't know that when you wake up I guess maybe she
assumed what the date like you said.
Hold on, it was like some underpaid nurse or someone
working there and you're like, it's a it's a good thing you
were asleep because like they don't get a bunch of shit going
on in this room like you didn't want to be awake for it.
She. Didn't.
Let's be honest, she did not want to be awake for it.
She would have made it worse honestly if they were trying to
like big ones. Trying to like get the trust of
the family literally would have made it worse.
So it's kind of. Worked out, you know, but
anyway, so it's interesting that she brings up the dreams and
she's like, when I'm in the coma, I was just constantly
having like dreams about her. So like big numb earlier in the
fight with the family was like, well, she's been better off in
her dreams than this fucking crazy reality you created for
her. So like here's confirmation like
big no was actually right, like. It was like it wasn't something.
I was dreaming about her the whole time and then for some
reason we get flashbacks. I guess this is our big next
point of view. We get flashbacks of big non
taking care of little non in the hospital or maybe like the wrong
subconscious register and some of those.
OK, And then I noticed we get one of the flashbacks is a big
non reading blank, the novel basically to little non.
And I noticed like there's like underlining and circling in the
book, like somebody was underlining and circling stuff.
And my question is like, who is, who's the underliner?
Is it big nung or little nung? That was like doing that?
Big Nung, Yeah. Because I feel like she was like
really trying to understand things for a little Nung to be
able to talk to her about it. I feel like Big Nung is the
margin writer because like, I'm a lot like Big Nung and I like
to do this in novels. I feel like Big Nung would be
the one that does this. Where little nun's just trying
to get through the store and like, learn.
Read more. No, not even that.
I think little Nung doesn't because remember she bought this
book to read it to big 9. I feel like if little one got to
any kind of like anything that was interesting, she would just
voice record it and send it to big or just go to big nun and be
like listen to this. Like I feel like she wouldn't
have time to do this. Big Nung is in her head and be
like I want to remember this for later or like just personality
wise. I feel like she's the one that.
Would be doing that. And it's Thai, so I don't know
like what was what passage this was exactly, but I just thought
the circling of the underlining seems like a big 9 trade to me.
All right, so a little. Finishes the story by clarifying
for the entire world. My heart only belongs to her and
the fact that we're both women is irrelevant.
Like DJ let me say something and it's like girl if you let you
talk uninterrupted for like 5 whole minutes about this crazy
story that is your life and like why are you asking permission
for just say it like they no one has stopped you up till this.
Point. Well, it's the same thing as can
I ask you a question? What do you mean?
Like you, you were asking somebody a question, but you're
already asking questions, so you may as well just ask the
question. I guess that's true.
It seemed. Pointless, but anyway.
She's like and big nun is rounding the corner of like the
lobby of like the path to get to little nuns room at this point.
And then Lauren calls out her name and says like our nun, come
see me now I've woken up. You could have just called her
directly. But anyway, as if on cue, Big
Nun burst into the room when she's summoned over the radio by
Little Nung. And just like Big Nung, Lilong
sees Big Nung in the room and she just ends the phone call and
leaves the DJ unread. But she doesn't UN she just like
she. Just.
Puts her phone on the I swear they're still there, man.
Ma'am. Yeah, like I'm pretty sure
they're so they're like, is she done?
And like, they hear big. They're like, so do we keep it
going? Because now that her Love's in
the room, like can we get the ending to the story?
But they're not talking when she gets in the room.
Like they do a little and don't talk for a while.
So like, I feel like they got bored of her.
Is this common on this radio show for people to just end the
call without like telling the DJ?
Just like end the call. Before we continue, I'm going to
say my next note now because as she's bursting in the room I
just would like to mention that while doing notes for this exact
part, as soon as she burst into the room, Taylor Swift was
singing Romeo Saved me. I've been feeling so alone like
that crescendo part. I mean, yeah, she's.
A It was insane. I was like, well damn.
Like it was while she was running and like going into the
door. I'm like well this is perfect.
Finding a therapist should be easy.
I thought you too. Bad.
Things just happen with Blank. It's just magical.
I don't know what to say that is perfect though.
OK. Now, OK, so at this point, like,
again, I'm always like, she could just just call her.
Like, I wonder what little nun was thinking when she made this
phone call and we kind of talked about this a little bit.
We got sidetracked, but like like, OK, So what what
information is little long operating off right now?
Probably like nothing cuz she like woke up, probably has no
idea what's going on. She somehow put together she was
in a coma, but like in relation to like where big Nong is like
where big nong's at with everything.
Like I wonder if she called the radio show cuz she's like, I
don't know where she is. I don't know if she's talking
about family. I don't know what.
I wonder if you just did that cuz like the very last memory
she has, if she like has her memories intact, which like with
the traumatic brain injury it we don't know like what is actually
the last thing she remembered. We remember her last moment
before the coma, but like we don't know what her brain
actually remembers because like her brain got traumatized by the
fall or the car accident. So like assuming she remembers
everything up until like the car accident, like the last thing
she remembers is Big Nun calling her on the radio.
So I wonder if like that's in her brain and that's why she
like does the same thing versus like just calling Big Nung.
But why does she think that Big Nung was listening?
Because like. First of all, I mean, she's
like, if I was in a coma, I'd be stressed that you were.
I would be listening to that radio and outside because I'd be
super stressed. But it was just, I, I feel like
that's it was just so much had to line up right now for her to
hear it cuz it wasn't even her listening to the radio, it was
the barista. Right, Barista.
Yeah. It's a very popular radio show,
though, So like, apparently, like, everybody's listening to
this all the time. So this is the hospital of
coincidence. This is just what happens in
storytelling. But I wonder from her point of
view, she's just like, that's how she contacted me.
I'm just going to contact her that way.
Like that was just what's because again, like I mentioned
on the road recovery after traumatic brain injury, her
brain is still recovering at this point.
She's not fully 100% there. So like to me, it kind of makes
sense that like if that's what's in her brain, that's what she's
going to do because like logic hasn't fully come back yet after
the recovery, she's still recovering.
It could take up to a year for a brain to function 100% again.
So kind of makes sense. And then we get this dramatic
whole scene right. So big non lingers in the
doorway for a minute, like trying to catch her breath
because the woman just ran off so many stairs.
And like, remember we had a whole scene where she was
struggling to just jog a lap on flat ground.
So this is a lot for her. OK, Like and heels and he boots
with heels. So like, bravo man, you did a
great job. You should go to the gym more
probably though. And then once she's in the room
and sees little Nung awake, she says her name.
And I think this is when like again, the reality starts really
sinking in for big nut. Because it's one thing to hear
the radio thing and be like it. Definitely.
It definitely sounds like her. But what if it's not?
Oh my God, what? You know how our brain spirals
but hears little Nung like sitting up staring at her awake
like. And then little Nung being
little Nung immediately demands a hug.
So it's good to see that her personality is still intact
after the the TBI, so that's a good sign.
She's cheeky as fuck immediately out of the coma so that's good.
But could you imagine if she woke up with a different
personality like season 3 spin off?
That would be wild. That would be wild and I don't
want it. I'm glad she's.
A. Little done.
No, I would like, I like a different show that actually
does that because I feel like that would be something really
interesting to explore. Like maybe you do get like a
season of them together and then there's a coma and then they
wake up and you basically have to start all over again and they
they don't end up together. Isn't that?
Basically the movie 51st. Dates.
I don't know, I've never seen it, but.
I never saw you pretty. Sure.
The premise is that like. What I mean, yeah, she has
basically an everyday it like resets.
Yeah, her brain resets. But I mean like the personality
is so different that those two never actually end up together
and she has to go explore herself and find someone new
basically. I don't want that story, but
yeah, it would be interesting. I.
Told you I'm good at making things sad.
You made it worse. That's a no the Series I.
Don't know I'm good at that. Anyway, so little nun is little
nun, we get confirmation that her personality is intact, which
is good. And then little monks like, hey,
she's like, you need to come over to me for the hug because
like I don't have any strength left.
And again, this was the writing here and the acting of little
nun coming out of the coma was all very realistic because like
I said, she's not going to be 100% with the moment she wakes
up. Like she is still recovering,
actively recovering. So I imagine like the phone call
itself like took a lot of energy out of her because like you're,
you'd be like she was asleep when you're in.
She's not, she's not really sleeping like her body is shut
down because she's weaker than normal.
And until she can recover enough for the body to sustain her to
be awake, like she's still like going to be tired.
That takes a lot out of her body.
So like, this was all very realistic.
And I like the way Yoko plays Lil Nung out of the coma because
she still seems groggy to me and very weak.
And it's like, that is exactly how this would happen.
Really, really. So thank you stare for a minute
because wow, like this is like the day has finally arrived,
right? And the big Nung like gravitates
to the bed essentially. And we've all been on the
journey with Big Nung for the past like 3 months.
And we know she's feeling extremely relieved in this
moment because a little one's awake after many, many months.
And like B in her brain, she is the first person to see Little
Nung upon waking up, which we don't know because she knew
about the coma. So like, let's, we'll just go
with it. We'll pretend for Big Nung that
that is what happened. But what's going on in Little
Long's brain right now? Like, what is her reaction to
seeing Big Nung after waking up? Like, again, with the assumption
that her memory is fully intact? Because like, we don't know
again, because like, that you can have degrees of amnesia.
You can have a hard time remembering after you kind of
come out of a coma like this after a brain injury
specifically, like, operating off the fact that the last thing
she remembers is like, trying to get the taxi, right?
Let's say she remembers all of that.
That moment when she was trying to get the taxi to come see Big
Nung was this big moment of desperation for Little Nung
because she was, I thought her life was ending because she was
going to America. Big Nung calls her out of the
blue and then she like fleed that room with nothing but a
cell phone just to get the hell out of there and go see Big Nun.
That was all desperation, like all of that.
So the moment of the car accident, she was in a moment of
desperation trying to get to Big Nong.
OK. And now she's awake.
And I assume that like perhaps some of that like desperation
she was feeling, if her memories are coming, that would be like
the most recent memory. Like perhaps that like
desperation was so kind of lingering from the memory and
desperation specifically to see Big Nong.
And then Big Nong appears, right?
And so I wonder if like she was feeling that initially.
Then Big Nung shows up and like she like summoned her.
Basically she's like get over here right now.
And then she shows up like a meeting, like she's a witch.
Like, I don't know how she did it so.
She's a witch. I imagine her feeling feeling of
relief in this moment is like 10 times whatever the hell big
Nung's feeling. It's like she's just like wow,
OK, they finally because like her quest was just to get to see
big nun and it took her three months to finally get there.
Not that she knows that part, but like this is also a big
relief for her because like that was that would be the last thing
she basically would remember if she remembers everything and
like she made it, you know what I mean?
In a way that makes sense, as the whole thing about comas is
very interesting to me. Because it just.
Seems so terrible, like people waking up years later.
And I just. Yeah, that's not right now.
She basically just lost three months of her life basically.
All right, So like to add to this whole point, then Big Nun
is at the bed now and sits down next to Little Nung.
And then Little Nung uses whatever little strength she has
left to like, sit up, to like, meet Big Nun halfway if she
likes, kind of sits down. So she's like.
Yeah, it's just that's how powerful, like, this moment is
for her as well. But before Big Nung even sits
down, she like, reaches out because, again, physical touch,
right? And she cradles little Nung's
face, OK. And like, a Big Nung needs the
physical touch to be like, this is real, but also like, that's
the most sacred part of the body.
And so this is super intimate what she's doing.
And that's Big Nung's headspace, right?
This moment gets super intimate very quickly.
And then Big Nog says her name again, because like that she's
like doing all the things to be like, this is real without
saying Oh my God, this is real, right?
And then pulls it along in for like a hug.
OK, like finally they made it back to each other in like, all
the ways kind of thing. Despite that separation that
happened, the car accident, all that stuff, they've made it back
to each other. This is the like pieces, puzzle
pieces coming together from it kind of so naturally, because
it's a beautiful moment. We start getting award-winning
hovering tears start happening because like this is like the
pinnacle of all the emotions, right?
And like the relief and all of those things.
OK. And while big man's reaction is
of course great, little ones is the most precious to me because
when it cuts to her, she's just smiling like she's very happy.
And then like basically buries her head and Nung's neck and
like pulls her in. Even like big Nung goes to like
let her go and she like pulls her back and like holds her even
closer. And for me, it's like Lunar Nong
feels safe finally, Because remember the act of desperation
of like getting the taxi and getting out of there is because
she felt unsafe, didn't feel like she felt hopeless.
And like she got she made it home in a way, right?
Because like her quest was to get home to see Big Nong to be
safe again. And like, here it is, she got
her safety right and and this is really happening.
It's this isn't dream big Dong. This is actually big Dong.
She can like feel her. It's tangible.
And it's like this big weight comes off of little monk too,
right? Because like, that's how she
ended up in the coma, was like trying to get to big.
And she finally, like quote made it, you know what I mean?
And then when Big Nung pulls out of the hug, like they stare for
like a whole second, tears are happening and she kisses Little
Long's forehead. And this kiss lasts for a while
because it's like in this kiss, Big Nung is trying to like
essentially pour every single ounce of love into this one kiss
basically. And to me it reads as this like
reverent, spiritual, holy awe filled kind of moment because
while big None's doing it, like her eyes are up towards the sky
and it just feels very powerful, like coming from big None,
right? Because like she made it home
too in a way that's kind of like what this moment is.
And I feel like it's just like a this is going to be a core
memory for big None. Let's say that we don't get the
slow MO, but I think it will be. And towards the end of the kiss,
a new song starts playing, which is you are the one in English
sung by fire, the voice of an Angel, which I love that.
What an upbeat, like beautiful thing to like end it with
something. Although be my boost started
playing. I'd be like, damn, it's just so
upbeat. This was like romantically
upbeat. So I was like good for this
moment. Like the music is like swelling
kind of music. So like, it's good for this, OK.
And then Lulung tries to be her cheeky self and is like, I'm
awake now, a big nung. You're never getting rid of me
again. Which goes unspoken, but does
heavily imply. But my favorite part like during
this face holding thing is that Big Nung like still can't really
accept that this is real and she's awake because I mean,
she's been waiting three months for this now.
It is such a long time of just seeing the love of your life
unconscious. So like she's just keep holding
her face and like staring at her.
And like little Nung nods her head to tell her that she is
real and that this is real. And it's adorable that she knows
exactly what Big Nung is thinking right now, and enough
to reassure her. That.
It's OK, everything's OK right now.
Yeah. And and then we transition from
like Little Nung's feeling of desperation going away to like,
we get desperation from Big Nung, who when she's talking to
Little Nung, says basically like, don't leave me ever again.
And she doesn't let go of Little Nung's face.
Like the first thing she did was she grabbed her face, sat on the
bed. She is still holding her face
like again, that reverent thing that she's doing.
And this is like a plea, a bag, like a moment of desperation for
big nun because like, please stop disappearing.
I can't, my heart can't take it. And little one responds by like
nodding enthusiastically. And again, it only took a
horrific car accident and a three month coma for her to
finally get everything she wanted.
It's like, worth it, worth it. And then they do the cute
forehead touching thing that is obligatory in every piece of
lesbian media ever. There's always a forehead touch.
Always at least one. And yeah, but no, that's like in
any, any country. It's you have to.
Do that. It's universal.
Yeah, there's lesbians forehead touching, yes.
So they do that. And then Big Nog pulls little
Nog into another hug. And just like we hear the we
hear her sigh. Like it's an enormous sigh.
Because like finally, like finally, like she doesn't have
to live with the house. Well, she will live with the
house. Well, I mean, it's just like she
doesn't live in fear anymore. It's like everything fell into
place kind of thing. Like what?
A moment of relief. Yeah, and the way that she's
holding her right now with her hand, like really keeping her
head close to her, it really parallels to that hug in 104
when she was holding little Nung after finding out she was the
reason little Nung was almost not born.
And now she's holding on to her for dear life because she almost
lost her once again. Like, this is like, don't even
lift your head up. Like I need you as close as
possible to me. Yeah, yeah.
Like what a what a what a great parallel.
Super dramatic. I loved it.
Very cute. I love that it was just a moment
with the two of them. Also, like after all of this,
like they got a moment to themselves too before like the
doctors come running in, the family comes in.
Like they get the moment to themselves to just be like be
relieved and like have the weight lifted off to them after
like the bullshit that and you know, the bullshit that caused
this whole thing, that this whole accident to begin with,
you know, like I'm glad they had this.
That's. True, so if a doctor would have
seen her awake and told her about the coma, wouldn't they
have all been in there? Like doing tests and stuff.
I mean, at this point, what is there to do?
Like they would have done like a physical exam I assume she gets
blood work done in the morning pretty routinely.
There's really nothing to do. She has to go to physical
therapy now. They would do a physical exam
and that it would take like 5 minutes.
There's really not much to do. They would probably make sure
she can move all her limbs and like, yeah, they would do a
physical, more physical tests than anything else, but there's
really nothing to do. Like I assume she's being imaged
like there's really nothing to do.
She's got physical therapy now, basically.
And they we're probably. Like physical therapy, we'll get
there next time. Yeah, we will get there next
time because yeah, that's part of the road to recovery.
So that was the other third of episode 2 O 6.
We're going to end it here so we can give the actual finale of
this finale an epic conclusion. So with that, what won the Big
Gay Energy Award for you? I I'm like the I was like, what
part? What happened in this part?
Little nun calling the radio station.
I mean that. Yeah, that definitely.
And being like, yeah, so we had sex, like being like just being
super honest about all of their shit on on the radio was also
hilarious. But also for me, there's that.
And then I want to give her the big gay energy award for with
the minute she sees Big Nun being like, come hug me, I can't
move. Like the way she's like bossing
her around immediately out of the coma.
Like girl, so much big gay energy.
I mean basically little nun gets the big energy award with only
being. Conscious for like 5 seconds.
Yeah well also like Honorable mentioned to Big Nun calling a
little nung sleepyhead because I just thought that was cute.
Like teasing her when she's in the cobot, which is fucking
funny. And Big Nung not leaving her
side. I mean, not that she would, not
that she would. Yeah.
And I guess on somewhat honorable mention to Sam for
trying to be a good sister. But the is it little?
Is this a little? Happening.
This is all happening. Sam's still in the lobby with
the clothes and the coffees and she's like what the hell no,
like Sam got left super unread for this romantic moment we're
all enjoying with the dogs. Like Sam's the lobby confused as
fuck. Like think about it.
She was watching her and she's like.
Where's she going? Because she's like pressing
button to the elevator. She's not waiting.
She's running away. Like what was Sam doing right
now? Then Sam like, oh, maybe this is
the emergency room. I'm going to call Mon.
I don't know what to do. Mon sitting nung ran away.
What do I do? She's like, Sam, I'm in a
meeting right now for your company.
Call Jim. Oh my God, that would spiral out
of control. Then Sam and her friend show up.
Anyway, let's not go there, because this will never.
End. They would get kicked out.
They would definitely. Get kicked out.
All right. Taylor Swift songs.
Taylor Swift Well, you did love story yeah, love story is a good
one. I have one but that I'd love to
get into, but we don't have time right now, which is daddy.
I love him. That's that's a big non little
non song 100,000,000% and I want to get into the.
Deer next time. Yeah.
I wasn't sure how long this was going to be.
So we'll do that next time because like it involves like
Chad or like just basically like the family and then like the
winning over be like fuck the family.
It's this is our lives. That's that's oh, no, it was my
boy only breaks his favorite toys.
Is he it was that because yeah, I don't think it was that one.
Pooja gave a list of Taylor Swift songs.
I think it was we we see you, obviously we see you get a shout
out in every episode now, every. Episode.
Yeah. OK, secret word for today.
Yes, I've been thinking about this.
Not too hard. It's not that great the wait for
the ending one. The ending word is just what?
Anyway, today's word is consciousness, so use that in a
comment, a review. Please review or message us on
social media using that word. I will be very confused on
social media because we have no context whatsoever.
But it'd be great. Yeah.
Wait. All right, Well, come along on
the journey with us as we wrap up Blank, the series.
I never thought we'd get here, but we're gonna.
We're getting there. So.
We're getting there. We're getting there and keep it.
Let us know what you want us to cover after like the series.
We want to know what you guys are watching and what you want
us to like dive into the way we're diving into stuff like
this. We cannot physically do
everything because there's not enough time on earth for that.
But let us know what you'd like us to cover next.
So we will definitely take that into consideration as we like
figure out what we're going to do next calendar year.
So think about that. Let us know and until next time,
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