1 00:00:06,520 --> 00:00:09,160 Hello and welcome to Big Gay Energy. 2 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:11,360 I'm Caitlin. And I'm Fiora. 3 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:14,600 Come along with us while we dive into the fun and nuances of 4 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,280 queer media. Representation matters, and 5 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:23,840 we're here to talk about it. Cheers, queers, welcome back to 6 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:26,760 another big gay book club. Today I'll be discussing the 7 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:29,240 water. So I, Theora will be your host 8 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:32,800 for this super gay, super fun 4 elements book club. 9 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:35,640 Whoo. Caitlin will not be joining us 10 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:38,760 because Caitlin hasn't read the book, but Caitlin did join me in 11 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:42,480 discussing why we both really love the water the series and 12 00:00:42,480 --> 00:00:44,640 that episode is already out if you want to check that out. 13 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:47,360 But this will be the book club we'll be talking about the book 14 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:48,840 club. So for everybody. 15 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:51,200 Come to the. Studios, I know you're out there 16 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:54,040 for everybody out there who commented on our why did you 17 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:56,960 love water and you had a lot of things to say about the novel 18 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:00,360 and how many many novel things were not in the series. 19 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:03,000 This is the episode for you because today I'm going to be 20 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:07,680 talking about the novel and what made the novel so so special. 21 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:10,720 If you're looking for other four elements book clubs, I also did 22 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:14,360 the earth as the novel and I will be continuing to do the 23 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:17,760 rest of the four elements books, including the like special book 24 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:20,520 that's like just all about the cousins and their wives and 25 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:21,960 stuff. So we're going to be overviewing 26 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:24,160 all of it and it's going to be super, super fun. 27 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:27,120 But today it's going to be dedicated to the water the novel 28 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:30,480 or with water waves of deception, which tells you 29 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,120 everything you need to know right off the bat. 30 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:36,160 This was written by Salman, who read the rest of the four 31 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:38,960 elements and honestly, fantastic writer. 32 00:01:38,960 --> 00:01:43,440 This book did not disappoint. And I personally read the 33 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:45,840 English translation, so I want to do a shout out to the 34 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:48,120 translator. Natita. 35 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:49,960 I think it's how you say that. I'm really sorry if that's 36 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:51,320 incorrect. Thank you. 37 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:55,040 Your translation was honestly really great and I appreciate 38 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:58,760 you because you made it accessible for me to read and I 39 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:05,280 very much appreciate your time. OK, so like I said, we're going 40 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:08,520 to be focusing on the book mostly what I liked about it, 41 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:11,400 which is so many things. Honestly, this is a great story. 42 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:13,840 I'll do a little bit of comparison to the series, but 43 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:17,520 not a not a ton because I mean, there were a lot of differences. 44 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:21,200 So a lot of the things I'm going to go over were not in the 45 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:23,800 series. So honestly, if you have never 46 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:25,600 read the book, you've only watched the series. 47 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:27,840 A lot of this is going to be brand new information. 48 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:30,440 So if you don't want to get spoiled for the novel, turn this 49 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:32,400 off. Come back after you read it. 50 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:35,560 But if you don't mind, this is going to be a lot of spoilers 51 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:37,320 for the novel if you haven't read it. 52 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:40,520 Yeah. So let's get into it. 53 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:44,120 So I read this through the. I can never figure out how to 54 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:46,720 pronounce this app. It's Meeb or MEB. 55 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:48,760 I don't know. It's MEB is how you spell it. 56 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:51,720 That's the app I use to read tiger love novels that are 57 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:53,320 translated in English so that I can read them. 58 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:57,040 And I read it because I love the earth. 59 00:02:57,040 --> 00:02:59,320 Like, I really love the Earth, particularly in the novel. 60 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:03,400 And I was super eager for more in between the break of a 61 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:08,280 reading the Earth B the series ending and the Earth may be 62 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:11,800 super curious about who Nam was because for me I felt like that 63 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:13,800 was the character I knew the least. 64 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:15,920 About. Because she's really quiet and 65 00:03:15,920 --> 00:03:19,120 so there's not a lot to go off other than she's super smart, 66 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:22,560 good at planning weddings, and we'll ignore your wedding to 67 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:24,880 stay on a work call. That's all I knew about Nam. 68 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:25,880 So I was really. Curious to be like. 69 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:29,120 Who is she really? Because this is the water, so 70 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:33,880 it's going to focus on her. And my overall impression of the 71 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:35,920 novel was honestly very positive. 72 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:38,440 After reading it, I truly loved the story. 73 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:43,320 I am a sucker for a slow burn, enemies to lovers type of 74 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:45,800 situation. So this is I had everything I 75 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:49,240 could have wanted in a story and coming and again, coming off the 76 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:51,000 earth, I was like, I'm very confident it's going to be a 77 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,360 great book because the author is so great. 78 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:56,120 Like I mentioned earlier, I thought the the translation was 79 00:03:56,120 --> 00:04:00,800 fantastic. And because Oppo is so 80 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,280 introverted to me, I, I, I knew I was going to like the novel 81 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:08,120 honestly more than the series because introverted characters 82 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:12,200 read better in written word because I knew I was going to 83 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:16,079 have access to her thoughts and introverts tend to be more 84 00:04:16,079 --> 00:04:19,959 thoughtful and less verbal. So I knew I was going to get to 85 00:04:19,959 --> 00:04:24,240 know Oppo a lot better in this the novel, and I was not 86 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:25,680 disappointed. I feel like I got to know her 87 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:29,640 super well and Lada too, who's also kind of introverted as 88 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:32,600 well. So at this point, I will say 89 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,120 that I have watched the entire series of The Water. 90 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:38,880 I was going to film this a lot earlier, but scheduling made it 91 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:42,080 kind of challenging and I'm glad I and then then they started 92 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:44,640 doing weird stuff in the series where they very much deviated. 93 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:48,200 So I was like, let me wait so I can just kind of talk about the 94 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:51,160 novel as a whole and what's different, which is most things. 95 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:55,160 So again, mostly going to focus on the novel here, but I will be 96 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:58,600 doing some I'm I'm going to have to talk about the series because 97 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:01,600 they just changed so much. I kind of have to mention it. 98 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,360 So this will be a little bit different from my Earth book 99 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:07,120 club where I just focused on the the book. 100 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:13,080 OK, so with that, if you're I just want to do the timeline of 101 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:15,920 the major events that goes down in this series in the book 102 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:18,000 before breaking it down any further. 103 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:22,360 And so when the water picks up, it picks up a few months. 104 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:25,480 After the. Earth ends so it doesn't 105 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:28,240 jettison very far in the future. It's like Din and Rose been 106 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:32,000 married for a couple months. Then we start the water in the 107 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,800 story, it starts with Shamlada. She's kind of the main character 108 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:38,680 and Apple's like kind of secondary similar to the Earth 109 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:41,200 where Rose was really the main character in the novel, didn't 110 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:43,960 was secondary in a way. So tells you everything you need 111 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:45,880 to know about these cousins being bottoms because their 112 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:48,880 wives are always the wives are actually the main character and 113 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:50,440 they're like this is importing role. 114 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:53,800 So and now that I realize that's kind of revealing actually. 115 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:58,160 So starts with Shamlata's family and her brother Pat recruits her 116 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:01,600 to spy on their business rival, the Watson Group, which is owned 117 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:05,640 by Nam's family and Shamlata gains employment in Nam's 118 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:10,520 specifically is Hua Hin Hotel. Shamlata literally crashes into 119 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:13,720 Nam's life and gets this relationship off on the wrong 120 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:18,280 foot. Nam personally watches 121 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:22,240 Shanleta's career hoping to fire this troublesome employee but 122 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:24,920 overtime recognizes Shanleta's value. 123 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:29,920 Nam's curiosity with Shanleta morphs into attraction which is 124 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:32,840 hallmark of an introverted relationship which I will expand 125 00:06:32,840 --> 00:06:37,240 on. They flirt, then date officially 126 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:41,040 with supervision from Nam's dad, which is never not funny. 127 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:44,800 Inevitably, the truth of Shamala's family comes to light 128 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:46,680 and she has to choose her loyalties. 129 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:51,000 Spoiler, she chooses her family. Now I'm in the chaos. 130 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:55,080 Cousins and crash Shamala's wedding almost successfully. 131 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:58,400 This is probably one of the major differences from the 132 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:02,440 series. Meanwhile, Shamala runs away 133 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:05,040 with her oldest brother Watts. Help. 134 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,760 Then we get the classic third act breakup with self reflection 135 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:13,080 and eventual proposal from Nam and a happily ever after, which 136 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:16,440 I feel like is going to be hallmark of the four elements. 137 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:20,000 It's like good good good third act breakup, Ted angst and 138 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:26,880 marriage and then the next one. So honestly fairly similar just 139 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:29,040 on face value from what happens in the series. 140 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:31,600 So the series did a good job getting the main points from the 141 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:34,720 novel, but there's so many other little details that just made 142 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:38,200 this book so special. But before we jump into all of 143 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:41,760 the scenes I want to 1st give the characters their due. 144 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:45,480 So I want to start with Nam and answer the question who is Nam? 145 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:49,280 So who's the water? So this is Oppo within O IT, AKA 146 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:52,640 Boslek, which means little boss Siloam thing. 147 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:55,240 She gets called little boss, her dad is big boss. 148 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:58,800 It's adorable. She started managing her 149 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:03,280 father's hotel empire at 16 of her own accord. 150 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:07,560 So in the novel it just came in, Oppo started working at 16 151 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:09,600 because she wanted to, not because her dad insisted. 152 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:12,400 She insisted that she was going to start working at 16. 153 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:16,040 So by the time we start the water, she's had at least a 154 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:19,960 decade and a half working experience in the hotel 155 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:23,840 industry, which is a lot. She is the second eldest cousin 156 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:26,120 of the four elements. She's almost 30 years old when 157 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:31,840 we start the water, and her name is very indicative of who she 158 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:34,960 is. So it roughly translates to my 159 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:38,679 understanding by reading this as she's the water, like calm 160 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:41,159 Stillwater. Which makes sense because Oppo 161 00:08:41,159 --> 00:08:44,880 is very introverted. She's serious, very balanced. 162 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:49,000 Except she's a workaholic, she makes time for the people she 163 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,480 loves, and she cannot handle Chili Peppers. 164 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:53,480 I think that's a summary for personality. 165 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:57,880 Because she's so introverted in Syria, she's fundamentally 166 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:03,120 misunderstood by most people. And we really get the context of 167 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:06,880 this when Rose starts interacting with Shamlena and 168 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:12,320 she labels Nam as nerdy and doesn't think Nam understands 169 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:15,440 human biology. Just one of the best scenes. 170 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:18,280 Thank you Salman, that was fucking hilarious. 171 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:23,280 But honestly, the fact that she's fundamentally 172 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:25,880 misunderstood by most people, you really can't blame people 173 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:28,840 when it comes to Nam because honestly, when we first meet 174 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:32,160 her, Nam doesn't know herself that well either. 175 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:35,200 So think about the context of Nam. 176 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:38,760 She became a leader at a very young age, which is similar to 177 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:40,160 Din. I would say of all the cousins, 178 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:42,840 she's the most similar to Din. And her story matches Din's. 179 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:46,840 So Din. But the motivations of why she 180 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:49,600 became a leader at a young age differs from Din. 181 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:52,280 So Din did it after duty. When her father died, she took 182 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:56,680 over the farm versus Nam volunteers because she loves it. 183 00:09:56,880 --> 00:10:00,480 But they both started working and became adults, like at a 184 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:05,840 young age. But Nam is so singularly focused 185 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:09,360 on work that she doesn't have the mental or emotional capacity 186 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:13,360 for anything else. And so because of that, she 187 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:16,680 comes off as really dismissive and cold. 188 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:19,480 And I feel like that's something that was lost in the series 189 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:23,640 because Nam was portrayed more as like, cuddly, kind and like, 190 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:26,200 warm. Whereas like, she's supposed to 191 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:28,160 be water. She's supposed to be cold. 192 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:31,480 Like, and not because she's mean, but because she's so 193 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:35,000 introverted and serious that that's how people perceive her. 194 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:40,400 And it isn't until Shamlana crashes into her life literally, 195 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:45,560 that Nam breaks from this and that that is the the homework 196 00:10:45,560 --> 00:10:48,160 significance of their relationship and what makes 197 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:52,040 Shanleta incredible. So who is Shanleta? 198 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:55,760 Shanleta's name is indicative of her character as well. 199 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:58,640 It translates roughly to ocean waves. 200 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:02,560 So where Nam is the cool Stillwater, Shamlada is more 201 00:11:02,560 --> 00:11:06,280 energetic, chaotic, unpredictable version of water, 202 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:08,760 which is waves because you don't always know when a waves going 203 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:12,200 to come crashing into you. They just kind of happen, but 204 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:14,320 you know they're going to happen because chaos is needed for 205 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:17,200 life. And one of my favorite quotes 206 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:20,000 from the book is an explanation of how she got her name. 207 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:24,320 Where I think Shamlada thinks this, her mother had chosen it, 208 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:28,200 hoping she would be like a wave, free to drift across the vast 209 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:32,440 sea, discovering new places, growing with independence, and 210 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:35,200 exploring the world on her own terms. 211 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:40,600 So her name is indicative of who she is and who her mother wanted 212 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:41,760 to be. So I really love that her 213 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:44,240 mother, when you get to know her mother, I think this is so 214 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:47,680 important that she wanted her daughter to have freedom, to 215 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:52,120 live a life she didn't live, be independent and do things on her 216 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:55,200 own terms, kind of like a wave. So that says a lot about their 217 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:58,360 relationship and how Shanala's mother, how much Shanala's 218 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:00,440 mother loves her and how she loves her. 219 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:04,600 Other personality traits besides her name that I think are 220 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:09,640 significant are Shamlana is Nam's intellectual equal, which 221 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:12,640 is why their relationship works. So she, like Nam, is also 222 00:12:12,680 --> 00:12:15,640 strategic. Shamlana is very resilient. 223 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:20,200 She doesn't give up very easily. She's incredibly intelligent and 224 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,200 she, unlike Nam, knows what she wants. 225 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:26,800 Like she knows she knows. She's more self aware of who she 226 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:31,120 is. She is also a 22 year old chaos 227 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:34,280 demon. And I think I'm going to leave 228 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:38,200 OPPO to explain this because she thinks this about Shyam Luda 229 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:40,480 quote. If someone told her Shyam Luda 230 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:43,480 had two different personalities, she would believe it. 231 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:46,440 One moment she could be completely chaotic and the next 232 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:48,400 she was serious, professional and responsible. 233 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:54,360 So John Luda is a woman of multitudes and even notes this. 234 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:57,360 I think that sums up her very well. 235 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:03,040 Thank you oppo. Another character trait for her 236 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:06,840 that's important to the plot is that she is desperate to be 237 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:11,960 valued by people she loves and it starts with her family and 238 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:16,960 stays with her family mostly. In terms of plot, I think that 239 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:19,880 her desperation to be valued is part of her resilience. 240 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:24,320 It's what makes her stronger and unwilling to give up and keep 241 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:27,560 fighting. But unfortunately in the context 242 00:13:27,560 --> 00:13:30,520 of the story, it also made her very susceptible to 243 00:13:30,520 --> 00:13:33,000 manipulation, particularly by her brother Pat. 244 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:38,440 Another aspect of Shama's personality that I really like 245 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:43,000 is despite her coming from a rival family, she was always 246 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:47,360 very respectful and not respectful, but she had a lot of 247 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:53,280 respect for Nam's family, like the very successful hotel empire 248 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:55,960 that her family, Oppo's family built. 249 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:59,920 So in Chapter 1, when she's staking out the Huahin Resort, 250 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:05,520 Shamlola thinks to herself about the hotel is that or about the 251 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:08,760 Wathen group is that even Oppo, who is also a daughter, was 252 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:10,480 given the chance to be an executive. 253 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:14,360 So she has a lot of respect for their family because she comes 254 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:20,080 from a very misogynistic family where she's like respects them 255 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:23,800 because they, they put the best person in charge of that hotel 256 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:26,080 because this is the part where she's like trying to find fault 257 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:29,600 the hotel and it's like there is none and it's oppo's hotel. 258 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:31,600 And she's like, well, they even took a chance. 259 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:34,360 They even like put the best person in charge even though 260 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:37,040 she's a woman, something my father would never do like that. 261 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:38,320 That's why she's having this thought. 262 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:41,360 She's like, even if I was the best like business person in our 263 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:44,360 family, he would never put me in charge strictly because I don't 264 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:48,720 have a penis, which is insane. So there's respect for Oppo's 265 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:51,920 family even when she's at the like, peak of her, like I need 266 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:53,800 to take them down. So it says a lot about 267 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:58,920 Shantalena's like moral compass and her thought process versus 268 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:01,840 like the brainwashing and manipulation that kind of goes 269 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:05,120 on with the family that influences her decision making. 270 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:09,960 All right, so now that we've met our protagonist, I want to talk 271 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:12,600 a little bit about Oppo and Shantalena's relationship. 272 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:15,240 Just kind of like an overview of what it is. 273 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:19,920 So what I love about it is it's messy adults who discover who 274 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:21,120 they are through their relationship. 275 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:25,320 And that's probably one of my favorite stories ever or type of 276 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:30,640 romance because it just leads to dumbass behavior. 277 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:35,000 And I find it more interesting when you have adults who like 278 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:37,480 should be better at this, but they're navigating this for the 279 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:40,680 first time and it's just worse than if teenagers are doing it. 280 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:45,120 And the other aspect of the resident that I love is that 281 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:48,520 this is an intellectual's falling in love love story. 282 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:52,840 And so it it parallels my absolute favorite television 283 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:54,760 show of all time, which is Killing Eve. 284 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:57,000 So I like to call this the villain Eve syndrome. 285 00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:59,160 OK, which is the ship in that show. 286 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:02,520 So the question is, how do you get an intellect to fall in 287 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:04,640 love? It's not a typical like, I see 288 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:08,960 you across the room. There's an attraction just by 289 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:10,920 looking at you. That's not what works with 290 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:14,560 intellect, which is why I think Salmon plays with the oh, I saw 291 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:17,280 you and immediately there's a spark trope and shows it doesn't 292 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:19,120 work here because you're dealing with intellect. 293 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:22,120 So that was never going to work. It might work in the air, but 294 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:24,440 it's not going to work here because we're dealing with 295 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:28,880 intellects. Another another piece of media 296 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:35,320 that really it shows the how this works is the poet Empress, 297 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:38,720 if you've ever read that story, but it's an incredible book. 298 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:41,640 It's not it's not queer, but then there's queerness in it. 299 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:44,040 And I wasn't expecting it and I was like reading this book 300 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:47,200 through the audio book and I was just listening and then I was 301 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:49,920 like, why did they just get really gay out of nowhere? 302 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:55,000 So but anyway, it's a phenomenal story about power and it's 303 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:56,600 excellent, excellent way it's written. 304 00:16:56,600 --> 00:17:02,240 But in that story there's a whole the basically the the 305 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:05,839 Empress has to like get through to the emperor in the scenario 306 00:17:05,839 --> 00:17:08,319 and like he's a monster literally. 307 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:11,640 And well, not literally, but like, yes, he's a monster and 308 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:13,920 she has to get through to him and he's incredibly intelligent. 309 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:18,160 And so she described it really well when she was explaining how 310 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:22,160 she's going to do this is to get past the mental defenses of an 311 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:25,359 intellect is you have to play into their intellectual 312 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:28,560 curiosity. And that's part of a that's what 313 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:30,480 happens between Oppo and Shamlada. 314 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:35,040 So it's not that they're attracted to each other 315 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:36,920 physically. There is an intellectual 316 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:41,080 attraction that stems from I'm curious about you because I 317 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:45,160 cannot figure you out. And then because they are so in 318 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:47,880 their intellects, they're constantly thinking. 319 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:49,800 They're more likely to overthink things. 320 00:17:50,120 --> 00:17:53,280 So if you peek an intellect's curiosity, they're going to keep 321 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:55,640 thinking about you, whereas normally they would stop 322 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:59,120 thinking about you. And eventually that curiosity 323 00:17:59,120 --> 00:18:03,320 then morphs into attraction because then they're thinking 324 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:08,680 about you constantly. And then we'll actually look at 325 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:10,720 you as a whole person. And then attraction will happen 326 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:12,440 that will eventually develop into love. 327 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:14,920 And that is exactly like the beat by beat of what happens 328 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:17,880 with Oppo and Shamlara. So this is the villain Eve 329 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:19,880 syndrome. This is poet Empress approach. 330 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:23,320 It's one of my favorite things because it requires a lot of 331 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:27,080 mental it it it's it's slower, it's a natural slow burn because 332 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:29,120 you have to get through the thought process first. 333 00:18:29,120 --> 00:18:32,960 So it works super well here with the slow burn situation. 334 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:36,960 Another aspect of their relationship that I really love 335 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:40,320 is that the two of them balance each other out, both 336 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:45,000 professionally and personally, which are like the the you know, 337 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,160 which again is very. They're a very. 338 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:51,920 Balanced couple and I like that. So I'll start with 339 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:55,000 professionally. So professionally, I think that 340 00:18:55,120 --> 00:18:58,880 they operate in a similar way, like they have similar 341 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:01,720 strategies when it comes to work, but they have different 342 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:06,440 approaches. So Oppo believes that outcomes 343 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:11,000 speak for themselves, meaning like our like in the hospital. 344 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,000 Sorry, that was my Freudian slip for my job. 345 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:16,720 My hotel has a lot of satisfied customers. 346 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:19,960 We're winning awards, we're doing well. 347 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:22,400 Outcome, the outcome speaks for itself, which is very logical. 348 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:23,880 She's a very logical approach to things. 349 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:28,400 Whereas Charlotta understands what motivates people, which is 350 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:30,360 which motivates people's behavior. 351 00:19:30,360 --> 00:19:33,080 She understands the behavior of people and she's able to 352 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:37,840 leverage that to get the outcome she wants, which is more 353 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:41,840 emotional intelligence. So which is something that Naam 354 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:46,720 lacks and Lada has an excess. And Lada, while she's logical, 355 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:50,680 she can be more of a slave to her emotions versus Nam, who's, 356 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:53,520 like, cool and collected. And so in that way, they balance 357 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:57,040 each other out. And I think something that the 358 00:19:57,040 --> 00:20:01,880 novel was able to articulate way better than the series is that 359 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:07,640 their relationship was, is and was always built on the mutual 360 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:11,960 respect between the two of them. Because these are intellects who 361 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:15,160 understand each other and they were always respectful towards 362 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:17,240 each other. I mean even outside of like the 363 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:20,360 rivalry stuff, the whole fuck shit that goes on in the 364 00:20:20,360 --> 00:20:24,080 beginning with Shambhala and the ultimatum of I will fire you if 365 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:26,720 you fuck up again. But the two of them have have 366 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:29,280 respect for each other at the end of the day, particularly 367 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:30,840 when it comes to like professionally. 368 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:31,880 They have respect for each other. 369 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:35,320 It then later morphs into personal respect when they get 370 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:37,880 to know each other as people. But it starts like 371 00:20:38,120 --> 00:20:41,520 professionally. The moments from the book that 372 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:45,840 helps emphasize that is when Shawna is thinking about their 373 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:49,320 relationship and her thoughts go quote. 374 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:52,560 It wasn't surprising that they often disagreed on things her 375 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:56,120 and ABO meaning though their disagreements weren't fights, 376 00:20:56,120 --> 00:20:58,840 more like debates to find the common ground. 377 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:01,080 End Quote. Which is very healthy. 378 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:03,720 And what she's saying is that like it's not that they get into 379 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:06,560 these explosive arguments that are passion driven. 380 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:10,120 The two of them when they disagree on something, they the 381 00:21:10,120 --> 00:21:14,200 conversation is them trying to figure out how they can 382 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:15,840 compromise or meet in the middle. 383 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,560 It's not a, this is what I want at all. 384 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:22,280 You know, it's not childish. They're very adult about their 385 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:24,880 relationship despite they that they have an age gap. 386 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:28,200 And because they're both intellectual, they're more able 387 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:31,520 to talk things out. And so they, they have a very 388 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:34,080 healthy relationship. When you look at the two of them 389 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:37,440 in isolation and get rid of like the external stuff, that makes 390 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:42,400 their situation dramatic really, which is the family stuff, the 391 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:43,800 hotel business, that kind of stuff. 392 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:49,880 And so to kind of conclude this part, just talking about the two 393 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:52,720 of them, I want to do a quick personality comparison because 394 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:54,960 that was like kind of the professional stuff, a little bit 395 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:56,880 of personal, but like a little bit more about the personality 396 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:00,400 comparison. So Oppo and Lada are both the 397 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:04,520 smartest person in the room but. Oppo has. 398 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:08,440 Experience and reinforcement that she is the smartest person 399 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:12,840 in the room whereas which is both internal and external 400 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:17,160 validation because oppo has been working, like I said for like a 401 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,680 decade and a half by the time Shawn Letta is starting her 402 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:22,120 career. So people have and she's won 403 00:22:22,120 --> 00:22:24,320 bunch of awards. She's the CE, she's like in 404 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:26,360 charge of this whole hotel. Shawn Letta is starting as a 405 00:22:26,360 --> 00:22:30,040 receptionist. So Abbos had it reinforced that 406 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:33,760 she is the smartest person in the room, whereas Shawn Letta is 407 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:37,440 insecure and less experienced, which makes her prone to 408 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:40,360 manipulation by her brother. Even though she is the smartest 409 00:22:40,360 --> 00:22:43,320 person in the room sometimes, like she just she no one has 410 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:47,080 ever told her, yeah, you are like her family does not 411 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:49,200 acknowledge that she's intelligent. 412 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:51,400 Maybe her mom. But like she's not trying to win 413 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:53,840 her mom's approval like the dad and the boys. 414 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:56,040 They're like, no, you're just a girl. 415 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:59,440 And she's starting out her in her career. 416 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:02,600 So she has no accolades to be like, I won these awards because 417 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,280 I'm good at this. Like she has her degree, but 418 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:07,760 that's it. So like she because she's she's 419 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:11,240 more insecure about her intelligence and her how smart 420 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,400 she really is. That's why she's easily more 421 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:17,800 easily manipulated, whereas Oppo would never be manipulated by 422 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,360 somebody like a family member like this because she's so 423 00:23:20,360 --> 00:23:24,600 intelligent and like knows she is OK. 424 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,200 Oppo and Lada are both strategic thinkers. 425 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:30,760 Both of them. I think the series harps on the 426 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:33,040 fact that Oppo is, but they both are. 427 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:37,640 But the difference between their strategic thinking is that Oppo 428 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,880 can't human and Sean Lola can't. So Sean Lola is better at 429 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:46,680 reading people, Oppo is not. And because Sean Lola can think 430 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,440 from the perspective of other people, she has much higher 431 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:53,400 emotional intelligence than Apple and she uses it to her 432 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,360 advantage. So her strategy differs. 433 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:59,760 So one of the biggest examples of that is when the rumor starts 434 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:03,440 circulating that they're dating because like she came out of 435 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:05,360 Apple's office in the morning because Apple made her stay 436 00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:08,120 there to avoid Lam or whatever. I think that was it. 437 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,960 Rumor starts circulating and Lana is like, here's the rumors 438 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:18,440 and she's like, it could stop this, but quote, scandals are 439 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,840 more interesting to people. So she's like, I could leverage 440 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:25,400 this because this is going to create a situation and that 441 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:27,040 oppo's going to want to stop. And I'll use that to my 442 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:28,240 advantage. I'll just sit back and let it 443 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:30,280 happen. And then when that scenario goes 444 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:32,480 down in the book, what happens with oppo doesn't know what to 445 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:33,760 do with this? She's like, I don't know. 446 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:35,360 Then won't they stop talking eventually? 447 00:24:35,360 --> 00:24:37,400 And then oppo keeps doing all these things that makes it worse 448 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:40,320 because she doesn't understand people and human behavior. 449 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:43,640 But like Lotta does. And so strategies will differ. 450 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:45,200 So that's a fun difference between them. 451 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:48,480 Another thing they unfortunately have in common is that they are 452 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:54,520 both lonely. But Shamlana is aware of this. 453 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,840 But Appu is completely oblivious that she is alone until Shamlana 454 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:02,200 comes in her life. Because Appu thinks Appu fills 455 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:05,640 the loneliness void with work but constantly working. 456 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,680 So she doesn't think about the fact that she's like alone. 457 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,720 She doesn't feel it until she is forced to stop. 458 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:19,320 So another So when Oppo finally realizes it is when she's quote 459 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:22,440 sick in the book and Shala was taking care of her. 460 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:27,600 And Oppo insists on joining a lot of for a walk and a lot of 461 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:31,280 things. Honestly I was happy the morning 462 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:34,240 the the walk back wouldn't feel lonely with someone walking 463 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:36,840 beside me so like they. They both. 464 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,680 Kind of come to this realization later on that like, oh, I didn't 465 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:44,160 realize how lonely I kind of was until we started bonding and I 466 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,880 was like going through my normal routine and I realized it's 467 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,960 nicer to have you there because she would walk a lot and like 468 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:52,600 Nom joins her and she's like, oh it's kind of nicer to have you 469 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:54,800 here than than not have you here kind of thing. 470 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,720 All right, last comparison that they have in common, they are 471 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:05,440 both workaholics but but nothing they both respect each other for 472 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,680 it and it's why their relationship works. 473 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,000 And I feel like the series kind of got weird with it when they 474 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:14,400 tried to do the special chapters but but nothing no, that's one 475 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:17,040 of the the things they mutually respect about each other. 476 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,680 OK, another thing I have really interesting when I was reading 477 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:26,360 the novel and came apparent to me is that when you first meet 478 00:26:26,360 --> 00:26:31,680 Nam, because she's the calm Stillwater, her life lacks daily 479 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:34,640 chaos. So in the beginning, Nam is 480 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:37,920 succeeding in her life. Like she's CEO, as you know, 481 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:41,800 she's head of this thing doing great, but she's like not living 482 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:43,560 her life. She's succeeding but not like 483 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:48,360 living living. So her organization and serious 484 00:26:48,360 --> 00:26:53,600 nature breeds routine that lacks randomization with these 485 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:56,440 processes in place to keep things very orderly, all these 486 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:57,960 rules and all that kind of stuff. 487 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:00,880 She's kind of like marching through her life on autopilot. 488 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:02,800 And I mean, she's doing well. Like by all. 489 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:04,960 If you were to just look at her on paper, you're like, damn, 490 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:10,240 she's killing it. OK, But the thing about Oppo is 491 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,760 that she's she's introverted like I've mentioned. 492 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:16,200 So she lives in her internal world, like mostly most of her 493 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,640 life is like in her thoughts. So it's more mental than like 494 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,320 physical world interaction, which works for her at this 495 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:25,160 point because she's just doing work, thinking about work. 496 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,280 So that works great. But then when Sean Lomit comes 497 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:33,000 up and comes into Nam's life, she forces Nam the wave. 498 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,000 The wave crashes into the Stillwater and forces Nam out of 499 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:41,760 her comfort zone, which forces Nam out of her mental like world 500 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,200 and like forces her to interact more with the physical world 501 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,560 where Shyamala is. And when that starts happening 502 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:50,480 with Nam, that's when she starts questioning her life. 503 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:54,360 She starts questioning her identity and her wants and 504 00:27:54,360 --> 00:27:58,440 needs. So Shyamala is like this element 505 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:02,120 of chaos that forces Nam to re evaluate her life. 506 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,200 And when I was thinking about Shamlola that way, it kind of 507 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:08,520 reminded me of the the chaos cousins, like Nam's family 508 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,480 members. So to me, the the cousins are 509 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:15,360 like elemental chaos. It's part of their charm, right? 510 00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:17,680 That's why when they show up, you're like, this is going to be 511 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,280 a great scene because they're chaos, right? 512 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,360 But of the cousins, Nam is the least chaotic. 513 00:28:24,360 --> 00:28:28,160 She she's the Stillwater. I think if I'd have to rank the 514 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:32,720 cousins in terms of chaos, I think Phi is probably the most 515 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:40,040 chaotic, followed very closely by YO and then like over here, 516 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:46,560 like far far far away is Din. OK, Din is way less chaotic than 517 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:51,360 Phi and Lom, but Din is still chaotic because Din is a awkward 518 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,880 dumbass who can't communicate sometimes and so causes chaos 519 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:58,600 out of her being awkward. But then like even further from 520 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:02,280 Din is Nom so Nam is like the least. 521 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,240 Chaotic. Of all of these cousins. 522 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:10,120 And what I kind of got from the novel is that Nam doesn't 523 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,520 interact with her cousins on a daily basis. 524 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:16,760 So like she seems to interact with them, like she doesn't go 525 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:18,560 seek them out. They seek her out kind of thing. 526 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:22,080 So it's like she's interacting with them probably the least and 527 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:23,800 it's definitely not on a daily basis. 528 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:28,760 So that means that in her day-to-day, there's a lack of 529 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,920 constant chaos that her family would bring. 530 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,480 I mean, you can grant, you can say the dad brings chaos, but 531 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:39,360 Abo keeps him in check. OK, so I will, I will make the 532 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,200 argument to her life is missing some chaos. 533 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:46,840 So that creates a perfect opportunity for Shawn Le to come 534 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:50,760 in and fulfill a role in Nam's life, which is to bring chaos to 535 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:54,560 her. So to emphasize that, I want to 536 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:57,280 I want to bring up something that was definitely missing, 537 00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:00,400 missing from the series, which is after the wedding debacle, 538 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,800 like a Shamala's arranged marriage situation. 539 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:09,560 After that ends, Nam and what Shamala's oldest brother have a 540 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:11,600 conversation. This is in chapter 17 of the 541 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,360 novel. And what happens is that Watt 542 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,880 goes and confronts Oppo for a heart to heart because he's the 543 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,400 one that aids Shamleta in running away from the wedding. 544 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,000 She he helps support her plan basically. 545 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:25,320 And so he has a heart to heart with Oppo. 546 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:27,880 And honestly's heart to heart goes really well between the two 547 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:29,640 of them. And I'm really sad and feel 548 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:30,920 robbed that this wasn't in the show. 549 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,640 So this was important. And in that conversation, Watt 550 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:38,960 realizes how much Oppo loves his sister and basically accepts 551 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,960 that their accepts their love and roots for them. 552 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:45,480 But as a Big Brother, he warns Oppo quote. 553 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:50,000 It won't be easy for you Oppo. My little sister is as stubborn 554 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,240 as they come. Lada always does the unexpected. 555 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:56,080 You've seen this first hand with what she put my father through, 556 00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:58,680 which was the public humiliation by running away from the 557 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:02,000 wedding. And Oppo replies yes. 558 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,480 And I love her for that. So it's it's Nam's 559 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,560 acknowledgement that like, Shamla is so chaotic and 560 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:13,320 unpredictable and that is why Apple loves her, because her 561 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:17,760 life was lacking chaos. It lacked unpredictability 562 00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:22,480 because Nam like sheltered herself and cocooned herself in 563 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:26,520 routine, in predictability. And because of that, she's not 564 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:28,720 living her life. She's just like walking through 565 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:30,800 it. And then Shyamala forces her to 566 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:34,240 live and experience the day-to-day and experience 567 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:36,400 unpredictable things and love them. 568 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,320 Like just getting flowers just because like things like that, 569 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,880 like trying ramen noodles, like she forced her to do new things 570 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:44,440 that Nam would never do on her own. 571 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,360 And that and she started to really appreciate living her 572 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:49,600 life more. And that's when she started 573 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,080 taking a break from work. I mean, like, oh, you know, 574 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,920 there's other things I like. I thought I only like this. 575 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:58,440 So ABBA loves her because she's chaotic. 576 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:02,960 And I think that in that way, it makes her a perfect fit, like 577 00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:06,440 Shamlada a perfect fit in her family because her family is 578 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,120 chaotic and that's part of their charm. 579 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:12,280 And so she's is the chaos element for Nam to kind of like 580 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:14,920 solidified Nam in the family. You know what I mean? 581 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:16,480 Like Nam's not chaotic, her family is. 582 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,960 But then like the wife makes her chaotic. 583 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,600 And so it's a good fit for this family and I, I love that about 584 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,200 them. And on the flip side, so that's 585 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,120 what. Shamlena brings to APO's life 586 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,520 and what's makes the relationship special for APO. 587 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:35,040 And then on the flip side with Shamlena, Shamlena's life lacks 588 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:38,880 stability. OK, so Shamlena has never ever 589 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:43,280 experienced stable love. Just let me finish this before 590 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:44,600 you start arguing with me in the comments. 591 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:47,640 In her looking at her family, OK? 592 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:52,840 Like the dad, the brother, sister-in-law, mom, there is no 593 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:55,440 love in her family. There's no love there. 594 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:58,360 It's not a loving family. It's a family that structured on 595 00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:03,040 obedience and obligation to the patriarch who is her dad, who's 596 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:04,920 in charge. It's just that you do what I say 597 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:06,720 household. That's it. 598 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:10,880 And now you can argue that Sean Luda has her mother that loves 599 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:18,560 her unconditionally and she does until dad needs Sean Luda to do 600 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:20,760 something and then mom is like do what he says to make him 601 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:22,520 happy. So there is a condition there. 602 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,440 The condition is I love you unconditionally until your 603 00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:28,600 father needs something and you have to meet his conditions kind 604 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,520 of thing. So, and again, mom's in a 605 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:33,520 horrible in a pretty shitty position here. 606 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,720 I'm not blaming mother. I'm just saying like Shan Letta 607 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,480 has never experienced stable love because there's always 608 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:42,040 conditions and it seems like she can never meet the expectation 609 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,160 to get the love kind of thing. So psychologically, you can see 610 00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:47,080 how that messes with Shan Letta as a person. 611 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:52,040 And then here comes Nam. OK, Nam is calm and serious, 612 00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:54,480 which is the complete opposite of unstable. 613 00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:59,800 And just like the scene I mentioned with Watt and Oppo, 614 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:04,440 Sean Little admits that this is what she loves about Oppo. 615 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:08,000 She loves that she is calm and serious and stable. 616 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:12,000 And the other thing she loves is that Oppo, once Oppo learns how 617 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,880 to express her feelings because she struggles with it because 618 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:16,920 she's an introvert and never had to do it before. 619 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,159 She just learned. Once she learns, you can't. 620 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:21,600 The thing about Oppo is once she learns something new, you can't 621 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,280 turn it off. So once she learns how to like 622 00:34:25,159 --> 00:34:27,440 like be expressive about her feelings, she will never turn it 623 00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:28,800 off. Like she's just that's who she 624 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,040 is now. And once she starts doing that, 625 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:34,480 Appa was very direct in her actions and feelings towards 626 00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:37,520 Shanleta. And that's she shows Shanleta 627 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:39,639 stable love. Like it never changes. 628 00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:42,080 She's like, I love you and like I will show you that 629 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:45,679 consistently versus the wishy washy shit from her family 630 00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:50,800 because they're all crazy. And so in a way they have a ton 631 00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:52,280 in common. They do. 632 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:57,000 But this is an opposite to attract couple because each 633 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:01,320 partner knowingly or unknowingly seeks a character trait that 634 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:04,520 they lack from the other partner, that the other partner 635 00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:08,200 has an excess. So Oppo seeks the chaos that 636 00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:11,800 Shanleta has to bring color to her life, which I'll get to 637 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:15,720 that, to that metaphor in a second, where is Shanleta is 638 00:35:15,720 --> 00:35:18,200 seeking the stability that oppo has an excess. 639 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:23,240 And by coming together, they achieve balance, which is a very 640 00:35:23,240 --> 00:35:25,280 like Eastern philosophy type of thing. 641 00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,400 So the two of them are unbalanced apart together, 642 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,680 they're balanced and therefore they are kind of perfect 643 00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:34,480 together. OK. 644 00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:37,680 Other thing I like in the novel that Salmon was talking about is 645 00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,400 she used or they, I don't know, the pronounce situation with 646 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:43,080 that the author apologized. Are she used a couple of 647 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:46,840 metaphors when in the in the novel to kind of describe their 648 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,760 love. And so she used color and see 649 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,480 metaphors. And so one of them was that that 650 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,400 Shamleta brings quote color to Nam's life. 651 00:35:56,680 --> 00:36:00,160 So it's one of those things where like Nam's life is like 652 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:03,040 completely black and white and Nam doesn't know that's weird 653 00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:07,960 until Shamleta comes in and like she sees the chaos and she sees 654 00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:13,360 color for the first time, which I love that because I think 655 00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,280 that's such a which Nam was. Nam is the one who thinks this 656 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:18,720 and you're just like, damn, she's actually pretty poetic for 657 00:36:18,720 --> 00:36:20,680 somebody who's a robot, you know what I mean? 658 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,840 Like she's actually pretty poetic in her brain, which is 659 00:36:24,240 --> 00:36:26,720 really cute and an interesting character trait for Nam. 660 00:36:27,720 --> 00:36:31,360 The other thing that Nam does is she starts speaking in metaphors 661 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:36,800 by using the C as code for Shamlada and uses that as a 662 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,880 stepping stone to be able to express her direct feelings for 663 00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:41,440 Shamlada. Rather than saying I love 664 00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:45,840 Shamlada, she's like, I love the C so which is cute. 665 00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:48,640 And it's also a play on words because Shamlada means like 666 00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:51,840 ocean waves. So at one point. 667 00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:56,560 So the best example of this is when she's with Din and she's 668 00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:59,920 tells Din, I think I like the sea now. 669 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:02,920 And Din is so confused. She's like, what the hell are 670 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:04,920 you talking about? Live in Hua Hen. 671 00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,280 But and I was talking about Charlotta. 672 00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:11,600 And so she she uses that as like the stepping stone to being able 673 00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:13,880 to like express herself fully, which is really cute. 674 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:18,560 But it goes a little bit deeper than that because oppo work, 675 00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:21,560 like I said, works at Hua Hen. So she's like literally always 676 00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:25,800 by the sea, but once she falls in love, suddenly the sea is 677 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:27,880 something that feels special to her. 678 00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:33,840 So in a way, I think that the setting it in Huahen, the names, 679 00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:36,880 the water kind of thing, I think it's a good metaphor by the 680 00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:41,600 author for how where where Oppo starts saying I think I like the 681 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:43,080 see now. I think it's a good metaphor for 682 00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:46,600 how Oppo didn't appreciate the beauty in her life before Shamla 683 00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:49,040 comes into it because Oppo couldn't really see it. 684 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:51,520 You know, it was all black and white and then Shamla shows her 685 00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:53,600 color and then she's like, whoa, there's all this beauty here I 686 00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,520 didn't see before. So I love that. 687 00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:58,680 I'm a sucker for that trope too. So like, they filled a lot of 688 00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:02,360 quotas for me of things I love. In romance. 689 00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:06,080 So brought up Din. So I think now is a good time to 690 00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:10,920 segue into the families, because a hallmark of the four elements 691 00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:12,360 is we're all about the family here. 692 00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,280 It's not just the protagonist. So we'll start with Nom's family 693 00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:17,960 and get into them a little bit because I think it's important 694 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:19,520 and it's different from the series. 695 00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:21,760 If you're just listening to us and haven't watched, you know, 696 00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:25,360 read the book. OK, so Nam's father is probably 697 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:29,000 the biggest character in the series or in this novel, aside 698 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,160 from the two protagonists. So her father is Addisore and 699 00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:34,920 he's big boss. So he's like the leader of 700 00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:38,480 their, the Watson group, this hotel empire. 701 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:44,880 One thing I want to talk a lot about Asaran and Oppo cause the 702 00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:48,520 their relationship is so interesting. 703 00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:50,880 Like it's a, it's a, it's a relationship where the father 704 00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,720 clearly loves his daughter, which I'm all about. 705 00:38:55,920 --> 00:39:01,680 But the way Nam talks back to him is astounding. 706 00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:05,360 And it's something that's very lost in the series because he's 707 00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:11,080 this huge, like hotel tycoon and like she go, he go, he will talk 708 00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:14,320 to her and she will like flat out ignore him, ignore his text. 709 00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:18,840 Like he didn't like tell him no. Like the way they verbally spar 710 00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:22,440 was I think lost in the series. Like how much Appa like kind of 711 00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:27,200 fights with him a little bit. Just really funny actually part 712 00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:32,520 of the relationship but I think everyone can agree that probably 713 00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:36,000 his most endearing trait as he is the number one Nam lotta 714 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,920 shipper like from the beginning that he ships them first and the 715 00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:41,720 most. And it's. 716 00:39:41,720 --> 00:39:45,320 Honestly, really adorable how how much he he ships his 717 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:50,360 daughter with Lotta. And what's funny is he he again, 718 00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:52,880 nobody knows who Nam's gonna fall in love with, but at the 719 00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:54,920 beginning he's like, I I want you to find love so you're not 720 00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:56,520 alone. And then when he finds out that 721 00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:59,640 Ma has a woman, he's like, yay, I'm getting a daughter-in-law. 722 00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:02,680 Like he doesn't question it. He's just like, yay, finally 723 00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:04,200 somebody. Is it a woman? 724 00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:05,280 Great, I'm gonna have a daughter-in-law. 725 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:08,280 That's wonderful. So and he's so like eager to 726 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:10,080 meet her. And it's just really fucking 727 00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:11,600 sweet. Like their relationship is 728 00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:15,440 really cute and adorable. And I think the two of them have 729 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:17,080 definitely have a lot of similarities. 730 00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:19,840 They definitely both have like the workaholic thing in common, 731 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:25,720 which honestly Appo also has in common with her mother actually. 732 00:40:25,720 --> 00:40:28,680 So let's talk about mom. So mom in the series, her 733 00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:30,280 parents are not divorced by the way. 734 00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:33,520 They have this long distance relationship where mom lives in 735 00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:39,040 Canada where she runs her business, dad's in who and him 736 00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:42,600 run his business and her parents maintain a healthy relationship 737 00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:45,680 like despite the distance because they their I think their 738 00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:50,520 relationship like Lada and oppo, it's probably built on the same 739 00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:53,680 type of mutual respect because they understand each other's 740 00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:56,000 like workaholic nature and they make it work. 741 00:40:56,840 --> 00:41:00,720 The series divorced them because I think that was just some kind 742 00:41:00,720 --> 00:41:04,960 of an explicit like Oppo. This could be you if you fuck it 743 00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:09,400 up kind of thing, but I like this better because it gives you 744 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:15,120 more similarities between the parents and the daughter because 745 00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:17,800 and the daughter and her relationship because that's kind 746 00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:22,360 of something that's missing a little bit in the in the in the 747 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:25,760 earth, because you Din lost her parents when she was so young. 748 00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:27,880 So it's harder to make the comparison. 749 00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:31,600 And also like Rose's mother isn't alive, so there's less of 750 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:34,720 that comparison happening. So here, particularly in this 751 00:41:34,720 --> 00:41:38,680 story where the cousins are involved less, I thought this 752 00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:41,760 was good that you had this kind of like stable family kind of 753 00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:44,800 comparison for Nam and Lada personally. 754 00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:53,200 In the same vein, I would also argue that Nam's family circle 755 00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:57,640 consists of her assistant Prim, because that's the closest thing 756 00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:02,480 Nam has to a friend. Honestly so and oppo at the very 757 00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:05,200 beginning thinks this about Prim where she says quote, if she 758 00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:08,640 ever lost Prim, who understood her perfectly mainly things 759 00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:10,320 would become significantly more difficult. 760 00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:12,160 So she made sure to keep Prim happy. 761 00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:14,240 And a lot of the book is her being like I'll give you a 762 00:42:14,240 --> 00:42:17,000 raise, I'll give you a bonus, whatever makes you happy. 763 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:21,400 You can't leave me. So that in noms workaholic I 764 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:25,920 can't see color yet Life Prim is the closest thing she has to a 765 00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:29,400 friend. But I will note they have a very 766 00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:34,120 a strictly business relationship despite this being the closest 767 00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:40,160 thing that Nam has to a friend. So in the series they have the 768 00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:44,920 character FA who does not exist at all in the books that is a 769 00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:48,840 made-up character. Nam does not have a sister, none 770 00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:51,000 of that. He has parents that are together 771 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:54,560 and her assistant and that's kind of it, OK. 772 00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:56,000 But then she also has the cousins. 773 00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:58,520 And so I have. To talk about one of the 774 00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:01,320 funniest things that was definitely messing from the 775 00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:07,880 series is that Din's marriage ruins Nom's life and Don's and 776 00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,200 and Nom's not too happy with Din at the beginning of the book. 777 00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:14,240 So. And it's not because she's not 778 00:43:14,240 --> 00:43:18,560 happy for Din, it's because of the way her dad reacts to Din's 779 00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:20,600 wedding. So this is what? 780 00:43:20,720 --> 00:43:24,680 Oppo thinks about the situation so quote ever since Din had 781 00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:28,680 gotten married, her father, Ada Soren had suddenly become much 782 00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:31,800 more open minded. Going so far to say is that he 783 00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:34,560 would accept whoever she loved regardless of gender. 784 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,480 He just wanted her to care about someone or at least try opening 785 00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:41,640 her heart as if it were a national crisis. 786 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:47,240 So he he's on like the warpath to be like, you have to get with 787 00:43:47,240 --> 00:43:48,880 someone before you're going to die. 788 00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:51,880 He's like, you're going to die alone now I'm so worried about 789 00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:53,240 you. Like, I love that she thinks 790 00:43:53,240 --> 00:43:55,520 about it as like a national crisis. 791 00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:58,320 That was one of the funniest lines. 792 00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:00,520 Like Alpha was funny in her brain. 793 00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:04,400 OK. But the problem is that like, 794 00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:09,560 excuse me, that Nam really doesn't know what she wants 795 00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:12,200 outside of work because she's been, she's almost 30 at this 796 00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:13,480 point. She's been working since she was 797 00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:15,560 16 and doing nothing else. She's like, she kind of like 798 00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:18,680 doesn't know herself and really doesn't know what she wants. 799 00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:23,160 And as she continues that thought like the national crisis 800 00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:27,920 thought she keeps thinking. Honestly, she, meaning Nam, 801 00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:30,760 wasn't even sure what her own preferences were. 802 00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:34,720 Unlike Whyo, who had known since childhood that she had a thing 803 00:44:34,720 --> 00:44:39,040 for beautiful women, or did who surprised everybody by marrying 804 00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:40,480 Rose. What really was that a surprise? 805 00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:45,360 OK Abo, Abo does a bad dungeon. I'm convinced Atrima was similar 806 00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:49,280 to her, indifferent to love, but even she wasn't as completely 807 00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:53,360 uninterested as Oppo. Abo had never felt her heart 808 00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:58,000 race for anything except work. OK which makes sense. 809 00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:00,800 She's the she's the workaholic. Also, I love that they're like, 810 00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:02,800 Llama's gay as fuck since the womb. 811 00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:07,960 Like they're like, we're all, we all know where that's ended, OK. 812 00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:13,000 And so Din eventually confronts Nam on this. 813 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:16,000 And like basically being like, I'm like, aren't you? 814 00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:18,600 Don't you want to like a life partner like me? 815 00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:19,960 Like I have Rose, everything's great. 816 00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:22,880 And Nam, when she thinks about it, says quote, That's just 817 00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:26,760 another burden I don't need. I can't even picture someone by 818 00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:29,480 my side. Just thinking about it annoys 819 00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:31,880 me. So so. 820 00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:37,640 That really, like I, I read that as like Nam really is a creature 821 00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:42,280 of routine when it comes to how life operates and another person 822 00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:44,960 would just disrupt the routine she has built. 823 00:45:45,720 --> 00:45:48,360 And I think when you think about Nam that way, I think you could 824 00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:50,960 definitely make an argument that like Nam is a little bit on the 825 00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:54,160 autism spectrum here by just her thoughts that go in her head. 826 00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:58,640 And Caitlin and I did speculate a little bit about that in the 827 00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:00,880 why We love the series, if you want more on that. 828 00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:05,160 But I love that she's like, I can't even picture that. 829 00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:11,040 And just thinking about it pisses me off. 830 00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:14,120 OK, so let's talk about the cousins just a little bit. 831 00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:16,280 Give them some love. So like I mentioned a bunch, 832 00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:18,680 like they unfortunately play a minor role in this novel. 833 00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:22,040 I think that Addison really replaces them in a lot of ways 834 00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:24,600 as like the element of chaos aside from Sean Leto. 835 00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:27,920 But a quick run through of what's going on with them in 836 00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:31,440 this this novel. So it is for Din. 837 00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:33,280 We'll start with Din. It is established at the 838 00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:36,120 beginning that Din and Rose, this is my favorite thing. 839 00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:39,000 I'm sorry, this is my favorite thing that was left out and 840 00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:43,800 unclear in the series. It is established at the 841 00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:50,920 beginning that Din and Rose are, are, are so ungodly gay on mane 842 00:46:51,240 --> 00:46:53,160 that no one wants to hang out with them. 843 00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:58,880 Like they're just so in the honeymoon phase that literally 844 00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:02,720 nobody wants to be around them. They're so they're like, I don't 845 00:47:02,720 --> 00:47:04,600 want diabetes, so I'm going to stay over here. 846 00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:08,000 And now I'm well, kind of annoyed with them because 847 00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:10,000 everyone's annoyed with them because they're so ungodly in 848 00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:12,560 love with each other. She's genuinely happy for dance. 849 00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:14,880 Not that she's not happy. It's just that they're, so 850 00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:18,040 there's lots of, there's lots of marital hand holding and nobody 851 00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:22,560 wants to see that basically. And Nam puts it this way where 852 00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:24,040 several months into her marriage. 853 00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:26,840 Quote Din. Never missed a chance to show 854 00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:28,800 off her wife. So, like, again, like, they're 855 00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:31,600 flaunting their love constantly to the rest of the cousins who 856 00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:33,280 are not in serious relationships. 857 00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:34,600 So, like, nobody wants to be around them. 858 00:47:36,240 --> 00:47:39,720 And then Rose, OK. He said Rose does play a little 859 00:47:39,720 --> 00:47:41,440 bit. Din and Rose are probably the 860 00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:43,200 most in love, are the most involved. 861 00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:46,000 I kind of like shows up once and then pieces out, does the wrong 862 00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:50,120 thing. But Nam in in between the earth 863 00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:52,200 and the water. Nam sorry. 864 00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:56,440 Rose encourages Nam to preserve the Rose, the roses from the 865 00:47:56,440 --> 00:48:01,040 wedding bouquet she caught, and Nam takes the advice and dries 866 00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:03,080 out one rose. So the reason she had that is 867 00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:09,080 because Rose told her to and then Rose, which was lost in the 868 00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:12,360 series. Rose is the actual MVP of the 869 00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:15,120 quote shut down Shan Ludo's marriage mission. 870 00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:17,640 And I personally prefer how this went down the novel 'cause it 871 00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:21,880 was ungodly chaotic. It was so chaotic what they did, 872 00:48:22,240 --> 00:48:25,400 but Rose is the MVP of the whole kerfuffle. 873 00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:30,200 Then Whyo. Whyo tries to hit on Shamla 874 00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:33,320 which both Lada and Nam shut down. 875 00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:35,600 That was missing from the series and the series it looks like it 876 00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:37,600 was Nam that shuts it down. Lada does too. 877 00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:42,040 And honestly her thoughts because Lada's point of view are 878 00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:44,720 hilarious when Whyo is doing this. 879 00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:49,200 It's so fucking funny. And then while conspires with 880 00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:52,360 Phi to get Nam to admit slash act on her feelings for Shala. 881 00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:55,280 So why is the one stirring up the family in the background to 882 00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:57,440 like be like she's always like the ringleader. 883 00:48:57,440 --> 00:49:00,520 She's like, we gotta like, get Nam her girl. 884 00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:02,800 And so she's like, she's the one that calls in all the favors and 885 00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:06,320 like gets everybody together. And then Phi, again, like I 886 00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:08,800 mentioned, doesn't really interact with Nam a lot, but she 887 00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:11,880 does remain president of the Rose Protection Squad because I 888 00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:14,040 feel like she's going to love Rose forever. 889 00:49:14,040 --> 00:49:16,920 And if anything ever happens to Din, I'm confident Phi gets 890 00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:22,320 custody of Rose. All right, so now let's talk 891 00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:25,720 about Nam's father. One of my absolute fucking 892 00:49:25,720 --> 00:49:29,680 favorite things about this novel is all of his interventions when 893 00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:34,000 it comes to his daughter and his daughter's love life because 894 00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:37,880 they're just hilarious. So after the rumors start that 895 00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:43,480 Appa was dating Shamlada as Soren takes it on himself to 896 00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:45,880 take Shamlada out to lunch to get to know her better, which 897 00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:47,920 because he's so eager, it's really sweet. 898 00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:49,800 So, and this is during work, which is hilarious. 899 00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:51,360 He just takes her out of her job. 900 00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:52,800 I mean, he's the big boss. He's like, I'm going. 901 00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:53,840 To take you out for. Lunch, let's go. 902 00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:59,920 And at the lunch, he immediately is that she calls him dad 903 00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:06,720 outside of work and he starts nicknaming her Lada before Nam 904 00:50:06,720 --> 00:50:10,520 does, which is crazy. So like in, you know, Thai 905 00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:13,840 culture, like that kind of naming is like super intimate. 906 00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:17,360 So he makes their relationship incredibly intimate immediately. 907 00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:19,600 And Shamlin doesn't know what the hell is happening. 908 00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:23,120 It's crazy. Like he's like they're closer 909 00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:25,240 than Nam and Lada are at that stage. 910 00:50:25,240 --> 00:50:27,360 Like just by the way, he's like referred to me this way. 911 00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:28,600 I'm going to call you by your nickname. 912 00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:33,080 Like he's just like, he's just so eager and so happy his 913 00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:35,800 daughter found a human. And so it's just really cute. 914 00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:39,120 But he's just so much because he strikes me as the type of person 915 00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:42,240 kind of like oppo who's like not used, who's used to getting 916 00:50:42,240 --> 00:50:44,640 their way. Not because they're pushy and 917 00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:46,920 he's a little pushy not but not because they're pushy, but 918 00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:49,160 because like they're really good at their and effective at their 919 00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:51,000 jobs. So they're used to like getting 920 00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:53,920 things done is what I mean. And so like here he is being 921 00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:56,320 like, my daughter needs a wife. I'm going to get this. 922 00:50:57,480 --> 00:50:59,960 I need a daughter-in-law. I'm going to get this done, but 923 00:50:59,960 --> 00:51:03,840 like everyone else is just confused by this and all of his 924 00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:06,760 behavior really stems from the fact that he's genuinely worried 925 00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:11,640 about Appo. So to continue that after Appo, 926 00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:17,280 Appo after Lada then denies she's seen Nam in this 927 00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:19,720 conversation at lunch, Addison asked her a serious question 928 00:51:19,720 --> 00:51:23,320 where he says Lada, tell me what's wrong with Nam. 929 00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:26,760 If there's something wrong, she needs to, she needs to improve. 930 00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:28,320 Like, I can tell her to work on it. 931 00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:31,240 And Lada says, why are you asking me that? 932 00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:34,560 And Anderson says, because I don't want Nam to be lonely. 933 00:51:36,240 --> 00:51:37,800 And which is really, really sweet. 934 00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:40,320 Like he he just, he's over the top because he cares so much 935 00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:42,840 about her and he's so afraid she's going to end up alone. 936 00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:46,040 And like, in this context, he's in a happy marriage with another 937 00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:48,480 workaholic. So like, he's like, oh, I just 938 00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:50,880 want my daughter to find somebody else who's like her 939 00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:57,000 that will they'll make it work. And he thinks that's Lada but Oh 940 00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:00,320 my God Lotta's inner monologue was so hilarious after. 941 00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:03,480 He's like I don't want my daughter to be lonely and he's 942 00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:07,280 like tell me if she has flaws. And, Lotta thinks to herself, if 943 00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:11,960 Addison really wanted to know Oppo's flaws, did he have an 944 00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:14,520 entire day to listen to her because she could list them all 945 00:52:14,720 --> 00:52:18,120 non-stop? So fucking funny. 946 00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:21,120 I feel like a lot of her humor is totally. 947 00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:23,000 Lost in the series and it makes me sad. 948 00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:26,320 She's she's really funny and she's kind of a brat sometimes 949 00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:29,640 and it's hilarious, but she's like, wow, but how long do you 950 00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:31,040 got? I can tell you all of her 951 00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:40,240 fucking flaws for hours, OK? And then this. 952 00:52:40,240 --> 00:52:44,120 This conversation continues where Adasorn asks Lada if being 953 00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:46,960 a workaholic is a deal breaker because, again, he's similar to 954 00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:48,240 his daughter. He knows how important that is. 955 00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:53,000 And I love Lada's response. Lada says being a workaholic 956 00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:56,200 isn't a flaw for Oppo. On the contrary, I think hard 957 00:52:56,200 --> 00:52:59,480 working people are attractive. When it comes to relationships, 958 00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:02,360 I believe the amount of time spent together isn't what 959 00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:04,720 matters. It's about communication and 960 00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:10,320 understanding, which is 100% the foundation of her relationship 961 00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:14,840 with Oppo. Other thing is a lotta also 962 00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:18,400 admits to herself during this that she admires Oppo's work 963 00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:20,760 ethic. And because again, like I 964 00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:22,800 mentioned, this is all the evidence of like their 965 00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:26,080 relationship really being built on this mutual respect between 966 00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:28,080 them. So like in the same conversation 967 00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:31,120 where a lotta is like, wow, Oppo is a deeply flawed human being, 968 00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:34,080 here she is being like, well, she has these good qualities too 969 00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:37,400 that I respect in her because they've always respected each 970 00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:38,680 other. Again, even when they're on the 971 00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:41,520 out, even when they were on the outs of each other after this 972 00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:46,080 admission, Adasorn responds with so that means eventually you'll 973 00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:50,200 fall for a nom because she's like just kind of complimented 974 00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:53,080 her in a way. And then when he trails off the 975 00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:56,000 next line in the novel with no context says, what the hell are 976 00:53:56,000 --> 00:54:00,800 you thinking, dad? So nom shows up to this much 977 00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:04,520 being like, what is this? And then Nom tries to insist 978 00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:06,080 that there's nothing going on with Sean Widow. 979 00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:08,480 But Adasorn leaves this conversation by saying I'm 980 00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:14,280 rooting for a lot of Oh my God he's ridiculous. 981 00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:18,280 And then Nam and Lotta bicker after this because Nam is in a 982 00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:22,120 bad mood because of Father's fuck shit. 983 00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:27,360 And mentally in this part, lot of them refers to Oppo as Nam 984 00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:31,040 for the first time when she's thinking after this, which I 985 00:54:31,040 --> 00:54:33,640 thought was really interesting because the two of them make a 986 00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:35,720 make a big deal about the first time. 987 00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:39,480 Not that it's I mean they have a big emotional reaction and a 988 00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:42,680 big, big feelings really about the first time they hear their 989 00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:45,880 nickname from the other person 'cause it's very intimate way of 990 00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:48,840 speaking. So it's interesting that Lotta 991 00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:56,120 uses the intimate name for Oppo, which is nom in her thoughts 992 00:54:56,240 --> 00:54:59,440 first. So she thinks intimately about 993 00:54:59,720 --> 00:55:03,400 Oppo before she like verbally says it. 994 00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:06,520 Which again is more evidence that Lada is introverted like 995 00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:11,880 NOM, at least I think. OK, so. 996 00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:15,560 Continuing on with Addisorin, so later on he insists way later in 997 00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:18,600 this in the novel, he insists on introducing Lada to his friend's 998 00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:22,560 son. And Lana and Nam at this point 999 00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:28,960 aren't seeing each other. So it's fine right now because 1000 00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:30,240 he that's what he says to his daughter. 1001 00:55:30,240 --> 00:55:32,000 It's like it's fine, right? You're not seeing her, right? 1002 00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:35,680 Spoiler it was not fine. So jealous and possessive Nam 1003 00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:39,360 that appears and she grabs Sean Liu's wrist for the first time. 1004 00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:43,240 She like touches her and then holds it for so long that Lana 1005 00:55:43,240 --> 00:55:47,120 notices and it's like, what you doing there, little boss? 1006 00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:53,160 And this whole exchange with the sun, like Oppo, it's the most 1007 00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:57,520 off kilter that Oppo is in the novel up till that point. 1008 00:55:57,840 --> 00:56:02,480 And she's so like off balance by this thing that her dad 1009 00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:05,840 introducing Lada to somebody else that she insists on driving 1010 00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:09,160 Lada home, which sets up the noodles at Lada's scene, which 1011 00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:14,840 is one of my favorite scenes. And I will get into that scene 1012 00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:18,560 much later in greater detail because it deserves it's time to 1013 00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:21,320 shine. But focusing on the dad. 1014 00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:24,920 So the dad tries to set up a lot of somebody else to, like, spark 1015 00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:28,200 a fire under Nam's ass to get her to, like, do something. 1016 00:56:28,600 --> 00:56:32,880 And then the noodles happens. And so at Lada's, Lada spills 1017 00:56:32,880 --> 00:56:36,520 the noodles on Nam. And then Nam comes home in 1018 00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:38,960 Lada's clothing. And this is different from the 1019 00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:41,400 series, and it's extremely important to the plot. 1020 00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:45,400 In the novel, Ada Soren, when she comes home, is not pleased 1021 00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:48,800 to see his daughter in some in Wada's clothing. 1022 00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:51,280 OK. And then he says, wait, wait, 1023 00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:54,880 don't tell me you and Lada have already reached that stage. 1024 00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:58,600 If you're going to date someone, do it properly and openly. 1025 00:56:58,600 --> 00:57:01,080 I won't support you taking advantage of anyone. 1026 00:57:02,240 --> 00:57:05,560 Remember that because this comes up later, OK, in the series. 1027 00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:09,760 So he's basically like, Nom, you have to do this honorably, not 1028 00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:13,120 dishonorably. I will not have you dishonor 1029 00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:15,160 somebody or have a mistress or some shit like that. 1030 00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:18,320 You date, you show the woman the respect she deserves. 1031 00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:21,720 Remember that that comes up later and Nam remembers this 1032 00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:25,480 moment OK. Probably one of my favorite 1033 00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:29,760 things that he does with with Nam is that he dates Shyamala 1034 00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:32,360 for Nam for a bit because his daughter is doesn't know how to 1035 00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:34,520 human. So basically he sets up and 1036 00:57:34,520 --> 00:57:36,520 supervises one of their first dates. 1037 00:57:37,040 --> 00:57:42,320 It's one of the funniest scenes and the way he gets this set up 1038 00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:48,040 is that he invites Shawn Leto over for dinner and but then he 1039 00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:51,400 has to get oppo there and he basically baits her, which is 1040 00:57:51,400 --> 00:57:55,480 hilarious. So because they have more of a 1041 00:57:56,240 --> 00:58:00,000 back and forth relationship when it comes to like than they do in 1042 00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:03,480 the series. And so anyway, he texts her that 1043 00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:07,320 Lada's coming over for dinner. OK, he texts her this, but he 1044 00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:10,720 also knows that his daughter ignores his texts all the time. 1045 00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:13,960 So he texts for that. And then after that, he then 1046 00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:18,680 texts Prim, oppo's assistant, and is like, can you tell my 1047 00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:21,880 daughter to read her text messages so that Prim goes into 1048 00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:24,200 the office and is like, Nah, read. 1049 00:58:24,520 --> 00:58:26,600 Your dad said someone's going on for dinner or some shit, You got 1050 00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:29,560 to read your text. Oh my God. 1051 00:58:29,560 --> 00:58:31,760 So that Ana raises the text and she's like, fuck. 1052 00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:34,040 And she literally runs out of the office without saying 1053 00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:37,560 anything to her assistant. And there's and Prim's like, why 1054 00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:39,240 didn't she just literally run out of her? 1055 00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:42,120 There's a whole ass pile of work on her desk and she just like 1056 00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:47,360 left it, which is a humongous red flag to Prim that something 1057 00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:49,080 weird is going on. Something has fundamentally 1058 00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:52,520 changed with Oppo because Oppo that she knows and is very close 1059 00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:55,000 to would never, ever do that. And that's like the biggest 1060 00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:58,120 hallmark that, like, Oppo is changing fundamentally, that she 1061 00:58:58,120 --> 00:59:01,800 leaves work, piles of work to like run, go for personal 1062 00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:04,640 matter. OK, But then. 1063 00:59:05,160 --> 00:59:07,760 But then then we go to the dinner and we go to the dinner 1064 00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:12,280 and we're in Lada's brain. And she thinks to herself, the 1065 00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:14,680 atmosphere was undeniably awkward. 1066 00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:20,960 And like, it sure is. Because at this dinner at a 1067 00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:23,920 sword was like he literally dates Charlotte a Fernom by 1068 00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:28,360 bossing Nam around the whole time because according to his 1069 00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:31,360 thoughts quote, his daughter was utterly helpless. 1070 00:59:33,680 --> 00:59:36,560 Like The thing is like Nam is trying, she's trying, she's 1071 00:59:36,560 --> 00:59:40,160 trying to, she's trying to date and like, and he knows she's 1072 00:59:40,160 --> 00:59:42,760 trying. It's just that Nam is so serious 1073 00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:44,680 and awkward that it like doesn't work. 1074 00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:48,400 So he's like trying to help her and makes it worse. 1075 00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:54,240 And Nam is mostly just being real quiet and like being 1076 00:59:54,240 --> 00:59:56,320 herself and just like quiet and kind of conserved. 1077 00:59:56,320 --> 00:59:59,200 And then he keeps interjecting to get her to do something. 1078 00:59:59,200 --> 01:00:00,320 He's like, can you peel the shrimp? 1079 01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:02,320 He's like, peel the shrimp for Shamlada, give her some food. 1080 01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:05,880 And then he orders flowers in advance as an apology gift for 1081 01:00:05,880 --> 01:00:07,560 mom. And he's like, Nam, take the 1082 01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:10,200 flowers and give them their I'm like, this is what you do in 1083 01:00:10,200 --> 01:00:13,080 relationships. And by the end of this I was 1084 01:00:13,080 --> 01:00:15,880 like. How is this not mom's father? 1085 01:00:15,880 --> 01:00:18,360 Because like, he's literally like dating John. 1086 01:00:18,360 --> 01:00:20,480 What a fornom right here. And I feel like it's something 1087 01:00:20,520 --> 01:00:23,720 mom's father would do because like if if the fathers are like 1088 01:00:23,720 --> 01:00:26,520 their daughters, like mom is like the queer coach for 1089 01:00:26,520 --> 01:00:29,080 everybody. So like, I feel like this is 1090 01:00:29,080 --> 01:00:32,040 something mom's dad would do. But I guess we'll find out or I 1091 01:00:32,040 --> 01:00:34,120 will find out when I read such watch the air. 1092 01:00:34,120 --> 01:00:36,680 But I was just like, this doesn't seem like something. 1093 01:00:36,880 --> 01:00:38,640 But I guess it's also like Addison's like a problem solver 1094 01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:40,920 and he's like, how do I fix this problem that is my daughter's 1095 01:00:40,920 --> 01:00:42,320 love life? Got it. 1096 01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:45,760 I'll pull up every romance trick on the I'm surprised you didn't 1097 01:00:45,760 --> 01:00:48,960 like have chocolates jewelry for not to give her. 1098 01:00:48,960 --> 01:00:50,680 You just started with the flowers. 1099 01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:55,360 All right. So that was very quickly. 1100 01:00:55,400 --> 01:00:57,640 Some like the highlights, I think of the novel, some things 1101 01:00:57,640 --> 01:01:01,280 that I really love, and now I'm going to transition into, like 1102 01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:03,560 getting into the novel more in depth. 1103 01:01:03,560 --> 01:01:07,320 I will say this is probably a much longer book club than the 1104 01:01:07,320 --> 01:01:11,360 Earth because there were so many things missing in the show. 1105 01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:16,520 So there's a lot to get into. So I'm basically going to start 1106 01:01:16,520 --> 01:01:19,120 from the beginning and just go through it a lot more in depth. 1107 01:01:19,120 --> 01:01:22,320 But I wanted to give some, you know, set up the stage and then 1108 01:01:22,360 --> 01:01:24,480 kind of talk about my favorite parts, which was like Nam and 1109 01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:29,560 her dad, which were so funny. OK, so let's start the book. 1110 01:01:29,560 --> 01:01:32,840 So the book begins with Chanlada's family dynamics. 1111 01:01:33,200 --> 01:01:35,680 So let's dive into her family a little bit. 1112 01:01:35,680 --> 01:01:38,520 So her family members, there's Pimduch, who's her dad. 1113 01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:41,360 He's the hotel tycoon of the Witchara group. 1114 01:01:42,160 --> 01:01:45,360 Then you have Pima or Watt. He's the eldest son and he's 1115 01:01:45,360 --> 01:01:47,520 nearly 20 years older than Shan Lada. 1116 01:01:47,520 --> 01:01:49,920 What do you think is important to note that they have a bit of 1117 01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:53,360 an age gap. Then you have Pimpat Who or Pat, 1118 01:01:53,360 --> 01:01:56,680 the youngest son. He's not thriving When it comes 1119 01:01:56,680 --> 01:02:00,520 to the business. You have May, who's Watt's wife. 1120 01:02:00,520 --> 01:02:03,880 They had an arranged marriage that is very loveless that was 1121 01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:07,240 arranged by his father for business reasons. 1122 01:02:08,160 --> 01:02:11,440 And then you have Chudaman or Mon, that's Shamlada's mother 1123 01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:14,680 and Pimditch's second wife, and she's described as the second 1124 01:02:14,760 --> 01:02:18,200 wife in the novel. And so I wanted to provide a 1125 01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:21,280 little bit of cultural context of what that means, the second 1126 01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:24,320 wife. So this is according to the 1127 01:02:24,320 --> 01:02:28,560 Internet. So in Thai culture, the Mia long 1128 01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:32,960 or is the first wife or official wife is legally recognized and 1129 01:02:32,960 --> 01:02:38,440 often holding financial control, while the mianoi, the minor or 1130 01:02:38,440 --> 01:02:43,360 second wife, is an unofficial, culturally rooted partnership, 1131 01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:46,920 sometimes tolerated if the husband provides for both. 1132 01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:52,720 Although polygamy was outlawed in 1935, the social hierarchy 1133 01:02:52,720 --> 01:03:00,800 between official and the second wife or Mianoi persists, often 1134 01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:05,120 linked to status and wealth. So I think the reason that 1135 01:03:05,120 --> 01:03:10,000 Shyamala's dad has a quote second wife is because it's a 1136 01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:13,840 status thing for him to have that and he financially 1137 01:03:13,840 --> 01:03:18,360 compensates Ma Shyamala's mother, OK. 1138 01:03:18,360 --> 01:03:20,920 So I think it's a status thing because it tells you a lot about 1139 01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:25,760 this man's headspace that he's very old school and is all about 1140 01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:28,760 status, OK. And he definitely treats 1141 01:03:29,440 --> 01:03:31,720 Shamlada's mother and Shamlada as such. 1142 01:03:34,800 --> 01:03:42,240 It is also noted that they are a family of Chinese descent, which 1143 01:03:42,240 --> 01:03:47,080 culturally is very patriarchal. Definitely values men a lot more 1144 01:03:47,080 --> 01:03:52,200 than women. Inshallah is looked down upon 1145 01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:55,280 for being a woman and the offspring of quote the second 1146 01:03:55,280 --> 01:03:57,320 wife. So she's like a disappointment 1147 01:03:57,320 --> 01:04:00,080 upon a disappointment. Her job, according to her 1148 01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:04,840 father, is to marry a man that he selects for her, IEA rich man 1149 01:04:04,840 --> 01:04:09,400 that benefits him, which is what he did to Watt, his eldest son. 1150 01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:14,360 And it's very it does express how unhappy he is in his 1151 01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:19,760 marriage, but he did it because familial loyalty and just to 1152 01:04:19,760 --> 01:04:22,960 really like drive the knife in there about Lada's dad and why 1153 01:04:22,960 --> 01:04:27,000 him having an A redemption arc in the series was insane. 1154 01:04:29,320 --> 01:04:32,760 Is this is how his how he described her out loud to her 1155 01:04:32,760 --> 01:04:35,240 face. Having a daughter is like having 1156 01:04:35,240 --> 01:04:37,480 a public disgrace right outside the house. 1157 01:04:39,720 --> 01:04:42,480 Fuck that guy. Thank you, gentlemen, for not 1158 01:04:42,480 --> 01:04:43,760 giving this man a redemption arc. 1159 01:04:43,800 --> 01:04:45,480 Fuck this guy. Gross. 1160 01:04:46,640 --> 01:04:52,160 OK now with the family comes the hotel rivalry between Shyamala's 1161 01:04:52,160 --> 01:04:54,760 family and the Batura group and the Watin group which is mom's 1162 01:04:54,760 --> 01:04:57,840 family. So Pat extends an offer to 1163 01:04:57,840 --> 01:05:00,840 Shyamala that she cannot refuse where he asks her to help him 1164 01:05:00,840 --> 01:05:03,320 infiltrate the Watin group by working for them. 1165 01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:07,520 So and Shyamala accepts this. But why does she do it? 1166 01:05:07,520 --> 01:05:09,160 I think it's important to establish why. 1167 01:05:09,160 --> 01:05:13,640 So she thinks about her family. Apart from Team Pat, no one in 1168 01:05:13,640 --> 01:05:16,920 that house, meaning her father's house truly welcomed her. 1169 01:05:18,240 --> 01:05:22,160 Shawn let her feels like she has less value than her 1170 01:05:22,160 --> 01:05:28,560 sister-in-law, somebody who's not related to anybody and this 1171 01:05:28,560 --> 01:05:31,400 for Pat to offer her this felt like recognition from her 1172 01:05:31,400 --> 01:05:32,960 family. Finally. 1173 01:05:32,960 --> 01:05:37,640 She was so desperate for that and up till now, like her little 1174 01:05:37,640 --> 01:05:39,960 brother is the one that seems to love her the most. 1175 01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:42,960 And so she trusts him. And he assures her that the 1176 01:05:42,960 --> 01:05:47,360 wathing group keeps out winning, keeps beating their family. 1177 01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:50,400 And the reason they're failing is because that that group, they 1178 01:05:50,400 --> 01:05:54,280 cheat and her job is to find evidence of them cheating. 1179 01:05:56,560 --> 01:06:01,000 So at this stage, like Charlotte is caught between familial 1180 01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:03,760 piety, doing with her family, with mostly her father, which is 1181 01:06:03,760 --> 01:06:07,640 do nothing, get married and then her own ambition here. 1182 01:06:08,240 --> 01:06:13,400 So she's like, well, if I can find dirt, take down our rival, 1183 01:06:13,400 --> 01:06:17,360 I will help my family succeed and show that I'm valuable and I 1184 01:06:17,360 --> 01:06:20,320 will win the love of my family. So this seems like a win win 1185 01:06:20,320 --> 01:06:25,880 situation for her like and Shalana's motivation for trying 1186 01:06:25,880 --> 01:06:28,480 to prove her value specifically to her dad. 1187 01:06:29,560 --> 01:06:30,800 This is what she thinks about this. 1188 01:06:30,800 --> 01:06:31,880 This comes from her inner thoughts. 1189 01:06:31,880 --> 01:06:35,720 She says quote or thanks, living in comfort by having all the 1190 01:06:35,720 --> 01:06:39,520 money as the second wife's daughter yet feeling stifled 1191 01:06:39,520 --> 01:06:41,560 inside. How could that truly be 1192 01:06:41,560 --> 01:06:44,760 happiness? But she didn't want to argue or 1193 01:06:44,760 --> 01:06:49,040 make her mother worry. So Lada is unhappy with their 1194 01:06:49,040 --> 01:06:51,600 situation and she doesn't want to be put in this box. 1195 01:06:51,600 --> 01:06:55,600 Her father's forcing her in, but she, her mother, is trapped in 1196 01:06:55,600 --> 01:06:59,080 the box. And so Lada, it shows you how 1197 01:06:59,080 --> 01:07:02,160 much she loves her mother and value and values the mother more 1198 01:07:02,160 --> 01:07:05,960 than the other family members, which is important for when her 1199 01:07:05,960 --> 01:07:11,840 loyalties are tested later. But her father is very insistent 1200 01:07:11,840 --> 01:07:14,720 that she has to marry a man. So when it comes to her dad 1201 01:07:14,720 --> 01:07:17,440 being like, your only job is to marry a man or else because I 1202 01:07:17,440 --> 01:07:20,520 say so this is what she thinks about that. 1203 01:07:20,520 --> 01:07:22,000 And this is important for the plot. 1204 01:07:23,200 --> 01:07:26,120 She thinks that was the one thing she would fight against 1205 01:07:26,120 --> 01:07:30,640 with everything she had. So when it comes to marry a man, 1206 01:07:30,640 --> 01:07:34,320 because I say so, that is where Shamlana draws the line at the 1207 01:07:34,320 --> 01:07:38,360 filial piety, which really becomes relevant later when she 1208 01:07:39,120 --> 01:07:42,160 steps into the willingly steps into the arranged marriage 1209 01:07:42,560 --> 01:07:44,960 because she has explicitly said I would never do that. 1210 01:07:44,960 --> 01:07:47,840 I will fight the death because I don't want to do that. 1211 01:07:47,840 --> 01:07:50,160 So it really sets up the fact that she was never actually 1212 01:07:50,160 --> 01:07:52,560 going to go through with that arranged marriage on her own 1213 01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:55,760 because she said it herself that she would never do that. 1214 01:07:59,440 --> 01:08:01,320 OK, so she accepts the she accepts the thing from her 1215 01:08:01,320 --> 01:08:04,840 brother and then like takes a crack at getting through into 1216 01:08:04,840 --> 01:08:06,720 the what then group and finding dirt on them. 1217 01:08:07,480 --> 01:08:10,240 So her initial attempts include finding fault with the hotel. 1218 01:08:10,240 --> 01:08:14,200 So she goes there with Net, her best friend to scope out Nam's 1219 01:08:14,200 --> 01:08:16,439 resort in Hohen and they find nothing. 1220 01:08:17,399 --> 01:08:20,399 So then she's like fine, I'll just seduce oppo. 1221 01:08:20,800 --> 01:08:22,960 I love how she's like just go about the hotel. 1222 01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:26,960 Nope, seduce the owner. And she does this because Lada 1223 01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:29,840 is beautiful. Which is confirmed by Net, which 1224 01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:32,920 when Net says you've had many admirers throughout the year and 1225 01:08:32,920 --> 01:08:36,640 Lada assumes the odds are in her favor here because Din and Wyo 1226 01:08:36,640 --> 01:08:38,760 are both gay, so maybe it's genetic. 1227 01:08:40,319 --> 01:08:42,479 Which is funny because it's true. 1228 01:08:43,479 --> 01:08:46,120 And so this force. And so she forces a quote. 1229 01:08:46,120 --> 01:08:50,920 Meet you that fails miserably because Salmon hates drama 1230 01:08:50,920 --> 01:08:54,120 tropes. OK, so that was when they 1231 01:08:54,120 --> 01:08:57,000 literally run into each other. And Lada thinks when it doesn't 1232 01:08:57,000 --> 01:08:59,680 work, she thinks, wasn't this supposed to be one of those 1233 01:08:59,680 --> 01:09:04,040 moments where time slows down a magical first impression, love 1234 01:09:04,040 --> 01:09:07,319 at first sight kind of thing? Apparently not, because I love 1235 01:09:07,319 --> 01:09:09,040 this author. She's always poking fun at the 1236 01:09:09,040 --> 01:09:13,640 romance ropes. OK, so after those all fail, she 1237 01:09:13,640 --> 01:09:17,160 then decides to try to work for oppo at the Huehan Resort and 1238 01:09:17,160 --> 01:09:19,600 get her attention that way. Like, forced proximity. 1239 01:09:19,600 --> 01:09:22,319 That'll be it. So she scores a receptionist job 1240 01:09:22,319 --> 01:09:25,479 and based on her resume, alone with no work experience. 1241 01:09:25,640 --> 01:09:29,960 So off the bat, that tells you how impressive Shawn Lavey is 1242 01:09:29,960 --> 01:09:34,279 already. Like, like her resume must be 1243 01:09:34,279 --> 01:09:36,160 incredibly impressive. We don't get to see it in this 1244 01:09:36,200 --> 01:09:39,800 in the novel, they show it in the series, but like, damn, just 1245 01:09:39,800 --> 01:09:43,040 off the resume. But she starts working in Oppo 1246 01:09:43,040 --> 01:09:44,760 with still oblivious Stellata's presence. 1247 01:09:44,760 --> 01:09:48,800 So then she must change tactics because because Shandla is is as 1248 01:09:48,800 --> 01:09:52,160 strategic as Oppo is. So Lotta figures out very 1249 01:09:52,160 --> 01:09:56,000 quickly how to speak Oppo's language, which is business. 1250 01:09:56,920 --> 01:09:59,680 And she learns that Oppo responds to anything that 1251 01:09:59,680 --> 01:10:04,360 threatens her business. And Oppo despises rule Breakers. 1252 01:10:04,760 --> 01:10:08,160 So Lada decides to break the rules to get Oppo's attention. 1253 01:10:08,160 --> 01:10:09,920 And she does this with the dress code. 1254 01:10:10,840 --> 01:10:14,120 So then they get into a huge fight where Oppo's like, going 1255 01:10:14,120 --> 01:10:17,240 to fire her. And Oppo in the the argument 1256 01:10:17,240 --> 01:10:22,320 refers to Shyamala as, quote, an airheaded beauty to which 1257 01:10:22,320 --> 01:10:24,160 Shyamala argues. I have a brain. 1258 01:10:26,680 --> 01:10:31,520 And Oppo notes that Lada looks her directly in the eye, and she 1259 01:10:31,520 --> 01:10:34,160 sees, quote, a challenge in those eyes. 1260 01:10:34,480 --> 01:10:37,280 And to me, that was really the start of the curiosity when it 1261 01:10:37,280 --> 01:10:39,760 comes to Oppo, because Oppo's the big, like, not the big boss. 1262 01:10:39,760 --> 01:10:41,440 She's a little boss. She's a little boss, but she's 1263 01:10:41,440 --> 01:10:44,880 used to people like their body language being in deference to 1264 01:10:44,880 --> 01:10:46,880 her. That's not Shyamala. 1265 01:10:46,880 --> 01:10:48,960 Shyamala comes in all fierce and fiery. 1266 01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:52,680 And I was like, whoa, nobody behaves this way around me. 1267 01:10:52,680 --> 01:10:55,000 And is that's what sparks the curiosity, OK? 1268 01:10:55,000 --> 01:10:57,920 The fact that this woman is brave and enough to look her in 1269 01:10:57,920 --> 01:10:59,440 the eye and, like, say they're fit there. 1270 01:11:01,360 --> 01:11:06,840 So oppo personally decides to personally handle Shyamala's 1271 01:11:06,840 --> 01:11:11,840 misconduct. And already this happened. 1272 01:11:11,840 --> 01:11:14,920 This goes down or she breaks the dress code and then Oppo 1273 01:11:15,280 --> 01:11:18,960 immediately misses a meeting to handle this. 1274 01:11:19,200 --> 01:11:21,960 So what I found really interesting about about Oppa and 1275 01:11:21,960 --> 01:11:25,360 what I was not expecting is how quickly she was going to start 1276 01:11:25,360 --> 01:11:27,040 breaking her own rules. Because I knew that was going to 1277 01:11:27,040 --> 01:11:29,360 happen because again, APA was a rule follower and then Sean and 1278 01:11:29,360 --> 01:11:31,440 I was going to force her out of her comfort zone. 1279 01:11:31,560 --> 01:11:34,520 But APA starts doing it immediately in response to this 1280 01:11:34,520 --> 01:11:36,760 big ass wave crashed into her life, right. 1281 01:11:38,720 --> 01:11:42,160 And then the other key to me that like this woman is 1282 01:11:42,280 --> 01:11:45,040 definitely piquing her curiosity and getting on her skin is when 1283 01:11:45,040 --> 01:11:48,040 APO learns Shamala's name. So that it gave me like 1284 01:11:48,040 --> 01:11:50,960 Villanelle vibes, like in Killing Eve, when the her 1285 01:11:50,960 --> 01:11:53,720 handler is like, oh, it's Eve Palaci. 1286 01:11:53,720 --> 01:11:57,280 And then Villanelle's like Eve Palastry, like corrects him and 1287 01:11:57,280 --> 01:11:59,040 like it's like he doesn't think anything of it. 1288 01:11:59,040 --> 01:12:01,400 And I'm like, dude, like she doesn't remember anybody. 1289 01:12:01,520 --> 01:12:04,160 Like the fact that she knows this woman's first and last name 1290 01:12:04,960 --> 01:12:06,720 means she's thinking about her all the time. 1291 01:12:06,720 --> 01:12:12,080 So same thing with APO. And what I found incredibly 1292 01:12:12,080 --> 01:12:16,080 hilarious about this whole thing with the dress code is that 1293 01:12:16,080 --> 01:12:20,720 despite being in the wrong, Lotta argues with Oppo. 1294 01:12:21,560 --> 01:12:25,800 And so Oppo shows a lot of the contract she signed about the 1295 01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:28,240 dress code. And then I love that Lotta 1296 01:12:28,240 --> 01:12:30,880 argues. She's like black clause wasn't 1297 01:12:30,880 --> 01:12:33,160 there when I signed it, you added it after and I was like, 1298 01:12:33,160 --> 01:12:36,680 girl, I was just reading that and just laughing my ass off 1299 01:12:36,680 --> 01:12:39,920 because I was like, who has the audacity to see this? 1300 01:12:42,360 --> 01:12:45,840 But I think it's because at that point lotta thinks that nom is 1301 01:12:45,880 --> 01:12:49,040 like doesn't follow the law and is like nefarious. 1302 01:12:49,040 --> 01:12:51,800 That's why Pat sent her there like girl. 1303 01:12:52,480 --> 01:12:56,640 So then Oppo replies in like elitist fashion. 1304 01:12:57,560 --> 01:13:00,440 She says you didn't read it before signing? 1305 01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:03,760 Or do you have trouble meeting reading more than 8 lines of 1306 01:13:03,760 --> 01:13:06,120 text? Like what an elitist. 1307 01:13:06,240 --> 01:13:12,040 Asshole answer that one. And from this exchange, 1308 01:13:12,760 --> 01:13:18,360 Shyamalan walks away from it. Thrown off by Oppo's confidence. 1309 01:13:18,680 --> 01:13:20,680 OK, I think this was also missed in the series. 1310 01:13:22,520 --> 01:13:26,360 And Oppo's confidence comes from the fact that Oppo is so sure 1311 01:13:27,200 --> 01:13:29,840 that she's right about Shawn Lena because Oppo never makes 1312 01:13:29,840 --> 01:13:32,560 the wrong decision. Her decisions are always right. 1313 01:13:32,560 --> 01:13:33,680 And that's where her confidence was. 1314 01:13:33,680 --> 01:13:36,000 Because again, like I mentioned earlier, Oppo has a lot of 1315 01:13:36,000 --> 01:13:39,760 reinforcement of making right decisions from her correct 1316 01:13:39,760 --> 01:13:43,880 decisions from her career that makes her so confident. 1317 01:13:43,880 --> 01:13:46,040 Whereas Shawn Lena is more insecure because she's like 1318 01:13:46,720 --> 01:13:49,760 jumping into this for the first time in this insane way. 1319 01:13:51,720 --> 01:13:54,600 And so when Shamala walks away from this exchange with Oppo, 1320 01:13:54,640 --> 01:13:58,800 she starts to start immediately starts questioning what Pat told 1321 01:13:58,800 --> 01:14:01,840 her about Oppo the first time because he's like, oh, she's not 1322 01:14:01,840 --> 01:14:04,000 a rule breaker. They're they're shady. 1323 01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:06,640 And then she's like, I don't know, she seems pretty by the 1324 01:14:06,640 --> 01:14:08,040 book to me. I just, I don't know, she 1325 01:14:08,080 --> 01:14:09,840 already starts kind of questioning her brother. 1326 01:14:11,720 --> 01:14:15,920 All right, so then we enter the prohibit probation period. 1327 01:14:15,920 --> 01:14:19,960 So then Oppo ends up giving Shaala a second chance, and it's 1328 01:14:19,960 --> 01:14:23,920 essentially an ultimatum that if she breaks one more rule, then 1329 01:14:23,920 --> 01:14:25,520 Oppo will terminate her employment. 1330 01:14:26,680 --> 01:14:28,920 And the reason that Oppo gives her a second chance? 1331 01:14:28,920 --> 01:14:31,600 It's not because she's in love with Shaala off the bat. 1332 01:14:32,400 --> 01:14:33,680 Someone would never do that to us. 1333 01:14:34,840 --> 01:14:38,840 It's because Oppo wants to prove to herself that she doesn't make 1334 01:14:38,840 --> 01:14:43,920 mistakes, and she thinks immediately that Lada is a 1335 01:14:43,920 --> 01:14:45,720 troublemaker who shouldn't be here. 1336 01:14:46,200 --> 01:14:49,640 And so she's like, I don't have to do anything nefarious. 1337 01:14:49,640 --> 01:14:51,840 She's like, you shouldn't be here, and you're going to prove 1338 01:14:51,840 --> 01:14:54,120 me right by making a mistake. And so I'm just going to wait 1339 01:14:54,120 --> 01:14:55,760 for you to make a mistake. That's all this was. 1340 01:14:56,280 --> 01:14:59,400 And then Lana rises to the challenge out of desperation to 1341 01:14:59,400 --> 01:15:03,200 keep the job for her family and out of spite because Lana's 1342 01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:04,880 saltier than the ocean. OK. 1343 01:15:04,960 --> 01:15:07,400 And I feel like that's also kind of lost sometimes, like how 1344 01:15:07,400 --> 01:15:08,840 salty she's. About stuff. 1345 01:15:09,560 --> 01:15:11,920 She's like, fuck you up, I'll prove you right, I'll prove you 1346 01:15:11,920 --> 01:15:13,440 wrong. And she does. 1347 01:15:14,360 --> 01:15:17,520 And so Oppo then personally monitors Shawn Letta's progress, 1348 01:15:17,520 --> 01:15:19,360 because again, she's trying to prove to herself that she's 1349 01:15:20,680 --> 01:15:22,760 right, and Shawn was kind of piquing her curiosity a bit. 1350 01:15:23,160 --> 01:15:26,640 And so she does this by challenging Shawn Letta with 1351 01:15:26,640 --> 01:15:29,360 task after task, just waiting for Shawn Letta to fuck up. 1352 01:15:30,240 --> 01:15:35,320 But Lana rises to the occasion every time, and when she does, 1353 01:15:35,720 --> 01:15:40,640 Oppo was forced to reassess. So Oppo thinks quote this was 1354 01:15:40,640 --> 01:15:44,840 unexpected, disappointing even, no matter what word she used. 1355 01:15:44,840 --> 01:15:47,400 Miscalculation, surprise, bad judgement. 1356 01:15:47,400 --> 01:15:51,400 Excuse me, None of them sat well with Apple regarding this 1357 01:15:51,400 --> 01:15:57,960 decision, meaning that Oppo feels really off balance by this 1358 01:15:57,960 --> 01:16:00,400 whole thing because she's like, I was so sure I was right about 1359 01:16:00,400 --> 01:16:02,600 this person. And like, she's proving to me 1360 01:16:03,120 --> 01:16:05,400 that I miscalculate. I don't miscalculate. 1361 01:16:05,600 --> 01:16:08,680 So it, it, it forces Oppo to kind of like reassess herself 1362 01:16:08,680 --> 01:16:12,320 and her own thinking, which like is, is who Oppo is Oppo is her 1363 01:16:12,320 --> 01:16:14,120 thoughts. So like, this is a big identity 1364 01:16:14,120 --> 01:16:16,240 crisis in a way. And so Oppo feels really off 1365 01:16:16,240 --> 01:16:21,120 balance, probably for the first time ever, maybe like 1366 01:16:21,120 --> 01:16:24,040 potentially like if if not a really long time, like she feels 1367 01:16:24,040 --> 01:16:25,760 really off Kelter and like Appa doesn't know how to handle it 1368 01:16:25,760 --> 01:16:29,560 because she spent so much time like being balanced and like 1369 01:16:30,320 --> 01:16:31,960 robotic about her days kind of thing. 1370 01:16:31,960 --> 01:16:35,320 And now she's like, wait, what? Like how did I make this big of 1371 01:16:35,320 --> 01:16:37,200 a mistake? Like and she's like, I don't 1372 01:16:37,200 --> 01:16:39,240 like this like I don't know how to handle this. 1373 01:16:40,960 --> 01:16:43,840 OK, so in the middle of this like identity crisis situation 1374 01:16:43,840 --> 01:16:49,800 then wild visits who ahead and Naam is low key annoyed that YO 1375 01:16:49,800 --> 01:16:53,520 keeps showing up unannounced. And the reason why I was here 1376 01:16:53,760 --> 01:16:56,320 and who in is because she's avoiding Din and Rose because 1377 01:16:56,320 --> 01:16:59,680 they are too sweet. And according to Nam, YO was 1378 01:16:59,680 --> 01:17:02,160 quote perpetually single and allergic to romance. 1379 01:17:02,880 --> 01:17:06,200 So she's like, I don't want to be around this married couple in 1380 01:17:06,200 --> 01:17:08,600 a honeymoon faith. Like nobody wants to visit Rose 1381 01:17:08,600 --> 01:17:11,480 and Den nobody wants to hang out with them right now. 1382 01:17:12,040 --> 01:17:15,680 They're so diabetic inducing. OK, so while I was like, I'm 1383 01:17:15,680 --> 01:17:18,520 going to hang out here with my my favorite cousin. 1384 01:17:18,520 --> 01:17:20,920 She's like, whatever, go to a room and get out of here. 1385 01:17:21,240 --> 01:17:25,440 So then while goes to book, go book room with the receptionist 1386 01:17:25,480 --> 01:17:29,320 who is Sean. And I just have to read line for 1387 01:17:29,320 --> 01:17:32,520 line the way this goes down in the novel, because I think it's 1388 01:17:32,520 --> 01:17:36,400 fucking hilarious. So while says, do you have any 1389 01:17:36,400 --> 01:17:39,280 available rooms? And Sean says, yes, we still 1390 01:17:39,280 --> 01:17:41,040 have rooms available. What kind of room would you 1391 01:17:41,040 --> 01:17:42,800 like? And then while cuts her off and 1392 01:17:42,800 --> 01:17:45,040 says I meant the room in your heart. 1393 01:17:45,120 --> 01:17:50,880 Is that still available? Shawn Linda froze for a moment, 1394 01:17:51,480 --> 01:17:55,320 caught off guard by the unexpectedly cheesy pick up 1395 01:17:55,320 --> 01:17:58,960 line. Why, whoever just flashed her 1396 01:17:58,960 --> 01:18:02,280 bright smile. And then Shawn, Linda thinks. 1397 01:18:02,880 --> 01:18:04,920 If the wachura. Group's target had been YO 1398 01:18:04,920 --> 01:18:07,360 instead, things would have been much easier. 1399 01:18:07,520 --> 01:18:09,440 She wouldn't even have to put in any effort. 1400 01:18:09,440 --> 01:18:14,720 So like, which I think is hilarious that Lada is like, is 1401 01:18:14,720 --> 01:18:18,040 she for real right now with this pick up line? 1402 01:18:18,640 --> 01:18:21,800 And then also, I was like, damn, my life would be so much easier 1403 01:18:21,800 --> 01:18:25,720 if she was the hotel heiress instead of an apple because my 1404 01:18:25,720 --> 01:18:30,040 mission would be over right now. But mom, mom is hilarious and so 1405 01:18:30,040 --> 01:18:32,480 fucking funny. But like, what I what I love 1406 01:18:32,480 --> 01:18:35,440 about it is that, like, Lana is not falling for her at all, 1407 01:18:35,440 --> 01:18:37,600 like, at all. Like, like mom is so used to 1408 01:18:37,600 --> 01:18:38,760 like women falling for her charm. 1409 01:18:38,760 --> 01:18:41,760 And Lana's just like, yeah, no, this is not. 1410 01:18:41,960 --> 01:18:45,880 No, I like, I like awkward geniuses. 1411 01:18:45,880 --> 01:18:50,200 Thank you. OK, but why I was not letting 1412 01:18:50,200 --> 01:18:52,640 this go? So she and then causes a bunch 1413 01:18:52,640 --> 01:18:55,640 of chaos for poor Nom. So she then asked Nom about the 1414 01:18:55,640 --> 01:19:02,280 receptionist and Nam outs herself by knowing Shyamala's 1415 01:19:02,280 --> 01:19:05,840 name, which again, very Velva. And Whyo the detective catches 1416 01:19:05,840 --> 01:19:07,520 that. And then Whyo asks Nam if she 1417 01:19:07,520 --> 01:19:12,480 can pursue Shyamala and she claims that Shyamala is her type 1418 01:19:13,280 --> 01:19:16,160 and like what? Islam's type like women that are 1419 01:19:16,160 --> 01:19:18,320 alive? Because like Whyo seems to flirt 1420 01:19:18,320 --> 01:19:21,240 with literally every breathing woman in Thailand. 1421 01:19:22,160 --> 01:19:26,040 So I'm very curious what her type actually is, which we'll 1422 01:19:26,040 --> 01:19:27,920 find out next time on the four elements when we get to the air. 1423 01:19:28,920 --> 01:19:32,640 But with Shamlana, Nam was like, no, I I mom was like, no, I'm 1424 01:19:32,640 --> 01:19:34,720 serious about this one. This isn't casual. 1425 01:19:35,120 --> 01:19:36,920 I've met her for three seconds. I'm in love. 1426 01:19:37,480 --> 01:19:41,080 And Nam says no. And Wyle's super shocked by this 1427 01:19:41,080 --> 01:19:43,400 and notes it's the first time that Nam has ever shut her down 1428 01:19:43,400 --> 01:19:45,920 over a girl, which morning bells. 1429 01:19:47,560 --> 01:19:49,760 So Wyle pushes and she's like, are you into her? 1430 01:19:50,320 --> 01:19:53,440 And Nam denies it and then thinks to herself that Shanlara 1431 01:19:53,440 --> 01:19:56,520 is trouble and she doesn't want her family getting mixed up in 1432 01:19:56,520 --> 01:20:00,120 it, which I think is partially true when it comes to where Nam 1433 01:20:00,120 --> 01:20:05,040 is at this stage because she's still she's getting evidence 1434 01:20:05,040 --> 01:20:08,360 that, you know, Shanlara is actually good at her job. 1435 01:20:08,360 --> 01:20:11,920 She can follow rules. And that that would happen 1436 01:20:12,040 --> 01:20:14,120 earlier was like an kind of an anomaly. 1437 01:20:14,120 --> 01:20:17,120 But. Because Lada did that, she's 1438 01:20:17,120 --> 01:20:19,280 like, I can't. I still, even though this woman 1439 01:20:20,840 --> 01:20:23,280 had all the audacity in the world, I wasn't ready for that. 1440 01:20:23,280 --> 01:20:25,800 And I'm I've no one has ever done that to me before. 1441 01:20:25,800 --> 01:20:27,720 And now I'm curious about her because of that. 1442 01:20:28,040 --> 01:20:30,160 She's still like, but there's all this other evidence that 1443 01:20:30,160 --> 01:20:31,520 proves that I shouldn't trust you. 1444 01:20:31,520 --> 01:20:33,360 But now there's this evidence that I should trust you. 1445 01:20:33,360 --> 01:20:35,680 And she's like, I don't want my cousin that I love getting mixed 1446 01:20:35,680 --> 01:20:37,360 up on this. So I think it's like a 1447 01:20:37,360 --> 01:20:40,920 combination of Lom, Nam's curiosity and then like also the 1448 01:20:40,920 --> 01:20:43,720 reality of Shawn Lavitt and like Wyo falling in love with 1449 01:20:43,720 --> 01:20:45,160 everyone. She's like, are you serious? 1450 01:20:45,160 --> 01:20:47,080 You're never serious. So like, I think Nam is just 1451 01:20:47,080 --> 01:20:51,240 like, no, let's nip this in the bud before this even happens. 1452 01:20:55,360 --> 01:20:58,840 But Wyo doesn't take this mom and she sulks for a while and 1453 01:20:58,840 --> 01:21:01,760 then leaves and the next day quote visits Phi instead. 1454 01:21:01,760 --> 01:21:04,240 Which like, why didn't you go find Phi in the beginning? 1455 01:21:04,240 --> 01:21:06,800 Like because like Phi is also like just living life and that 1456 01:21:06,800 --> 01:21:09,800 was always at work. But anyway, I'm pretty sure she 1457 01:21:09,800 --> 01:21:12,720 goes and sees Phi and then these two gossip and then conspire 1458 01:21:12,720 --> 01:21:14,920 against Mom later on. And that's how we get all the 1459 01:21:14,920 --> 01:21:19,240 rest of the cousins involved. OK, so then. 1460 01:21:19,320 --> 01:21:22,120 APU and lot of transition into the and they were Co worker 1461 01:21:22,120 --> 01:21:25,640 stage. So what I think is significant 1462 01:21:25,640 --> 01:21:29,360 about this part of their story is that the beginning of their 1463 01:21:29,360 --> 01:21:34,160 relationship is really similar to Lada's family dynamics. 1464 01:21:34,400 --> 01:21:37,640 OK, going back to when Lada breaks the dress code and 1465 01:21:37,640 --> 01:21:41,200 they're they're having the argument in the office and Nam 1466 01:21:41,200 --> 01:21:44,200 is like you're a brainless beauty and Lada's like bitch, I 1467 01:21:44,200 --> 01:21:48,040 have a brain. Oppo essentially judges Lada as 1468 01:21:48,040 --> 01:21:50,920 this pretty face with no thoughts in her head. 1469 01:21:52,040 --> 01:21:54,840 Kinshawana wants to prove her value to Nam because she's 1470 01:21:54,840 --> 01:21:57,720 saltier than the ocean. She's not a brainless beauty, 1471 01:21:58,040 --> 01:22:00,960 which again, this brainless beauty, it's like that is the 1472 01:22:00,960 --> 01:22:04,360 box that Lada's father is trying to fit her into like against her 1473 01:22:04,360 --> 01:22:06,720 will, OK. And like here's Nam like making 1474 01:22:06,720 --> 01:22:09,840 a quick judgement on her. And so I think that triggers 1475 01:22:10,400 --> 01:22:12,600 something in Lada that's coming from her family drama. 1476 01:22:13,520 --> 01:22:18,960 So then, unlike Lada's family, Nam then gives Shan Lada a 1477 01:22:18,960 --> 01:22:22,360 chance to prove herself, which makes her relationship very 1478 01:22:22,360 --> 01:22:23,960 different from the family excluding. 1479 01:22:23,960 --> 01:22:26,400 Pat, but like. Because he kind of gives her a 1480 01:22:26,400 --> 01:22:29,520 chance her quotes but like he has ulterior motives so let's 1481 01:22:29,520 --> 01:22:32,160 leave him out of this. So Nam is already proving she's 1482 01:22:32,160 --> 01:22:35,320 different by like good in good faith, giving Shan Lada a chance 1483 01:22:35,320 --> 01:22:38,080 to prove herself. And at the same time, Shan 1484 01:22:38,080 --> 01:22:42,320 Lada's initial perception of Oppo is warped by Pat's 1485 01:22:42,320 --> 01:22:46,960 manipulations, which in this novel become very evident that 1486 01:22:46,960 --> 01:22:50,240 they're rooted in misogyny. So a lot of his aggression and 1487 01:22:50,240 --> 01:22:53,840 anger and vendetta against Oppo is because he's like, there's no 1488 01:22:53,840 --> 01:22:55,800 way a woman beat me, She must be cheating. 1489 01:22:56,720 --> 01:23:02,720 And that comes from his father. So anyway, Shaman's warped 1490 01:23:02,720 --> 01:23:06,320 impression of oppo is the mindset that drives their 1491 01:23:06,320 --> 01:23:08,800 initial encounters. OK, so they're both, they have 1492 01:23:08,800 --> 01:23:12,160 these warped visions of each other, and then it kind of blows 1493 01:23:12,160 --> 01:23:14,920 up. So Lada is determined then to 1494 01:23:14,920 --> 01:23:19,120 find evidence of Oppo's shadiness and then a surprise to 1495 01:23:19,120 --> 01:23:23,360 find none. And ironically, over time, Oppo 1496 01:23:23,360 --> 01:23:27,680 gives Shamlana the support and validation that she's been 1497 01:23:27,680 --> 01:23:31,760 seeking from her family. OK, Because Oppo in good faith 1498 01:23:31,760 --> 01:23:34,120 gives her a good chance. Lot of proofs herself. 1499 01:23:34,120 --> 01:23:36,240 And Oppo's like, I was wrong about you. 1500 01:23:37,040 --> 01:23:39,160 You are capable. You're not a brainless beauty. 1501 01:23:39,160 --> 01:23:41,280 You're very talented in your own right. 1502 01:23:43,320 --> 01:23:46,360 And one moment in particular stands out to me is when Oppo 1503 01:23:46,360 --> 01:23:50,600 assumes Lada can drive. And I think this got missed in 1504 01:23:50,600 --> 01:23:52,520 the series by how they had the dialogue go down. 1505 01:23:53,000 --> 01:23:59,040 So when they're they have to go, this is when Lada is like her is 1506 01:23:59,040 --> 01:24:01,800 like Prim's assistant and Oppo's like, OK, let's go here. 1507 01:24:01,800 --> 01:24:03,360 Doors are the keys. And Lada's like, what am I 1508 01:24:03,360 --> 01:24:04,760 supposed to do with this? And Lada's like, drive. 1509 01:24:04,760 --> 01:24:09,120 You got to drive me. So when Lada admits she can't 1510 01:24:09,120 --> 01:24:11,960 drive, Oppo puts her down for lacking the skill. 1511 01:24:11,960 --> 01:24:13,120 She's like, it's such a basic skill. 1512 01:24:13,120 --> 01:24:17,040 You can't drive. And The thing is that Oppo 1513 01:24:17,280 --> 01:24:20,040 doesn't realize how much of A sore spot this is for Lada 1514 01:24:20,040 --> 01:24:23,080 because Lada's father forbade her from learning to drive 1515 01:24:23,080 --> 01:24:25,840 because she's a woman, which is insane. 1516 01:24:27,200 --> 01:24:31,000 And they don't talk about it out loud in the novel. 1517 01:24:31,320 --> 01:24:33,600 It's just like a lot of kind of stews over it. 1518 01:24:34,480 --> 01:24:37,800 And I think that this like, up to this point, like a lot of was 1519 01:24:37,800 --> 01:24:40,440 starting to have like her doubts about what her brother told her 1520 01:24:40,440 --> 01:24:42,560 about Apple. But I think this moment very 1521 01:24:43,280 --> 01:24:47,880 incidentally, like enforced to Lada that Nam was her enemy. 1522 01:24:48,120 --> 01:24:50,840 Because Lada's like, oh, she's looking down on me for not 1523 01:24:50,840 --> 01:24:54,880 having a skill that wasn't part of the job description because 1524 01:24:54,880 --> 01:24:57,400 Lada's upset because she's like, I would definitely drive if my 1525 01:24:57,400 --> 01:24:59,560 father fucking let me learn, but he forbade me. 1526 01:24:59,560 --> 01:25:00,960 And so now I don't have the skill. 1527 01:25:00,960 --> 01:25:03,000 So she's kind of embarrassed too, in a way. 1528 01:25:03,000 --> 01:25:05,440 It feels very insecure and inferior. 1529 01:25:06,080 --> 01:25:08,200 And so I think that like she kind of like that fueled the 1530 01:25:08,200 --> 01:25:10,400 grudge that was like starting to fizzle out a little bit. 1531 01:25:11,240 --> 01:25:14,000 And so and again in the novel, I think this is way more of an 1532 01:25:14,000 --> 01:25:17,000 impactful scene because Lada doesn't voice these thoughts to 1533 01:25:17,000 --> 01:25:19,080 Nam. So Nam does not know that like 1534 01:25:19,080 --> 01:25:20,920 she kind of triggers Lada in this moment. 1535 01:25:20,920 --> 01:25:27,560 She doesn't mean to, but I think it was important moment and one 1536 01:25:27,560 --> 01:25:30,120 of the biggest defining things that happened in their 1537 01:25:30,120 --> 01:25:32,840 relationship when they're in the and they were Co workers phase 1538 01:25:32,840 --> 01:25:35,160 is the Chef Ian project. So we're going to spend a lot of 1539 01:25:35,160 --> 01:25:37,600 time talking about that. So to me, I think this was the 1540 01:25:37,600 --> 01:25:40,480 major turning point in their relationship was this project. 1541 01:25:41,240 --> 01:25:48,040 And during this ordeal, Lotta's loyalties and Lam's and Nam's 1542 01:25:48,040 --> 01:25:52,560 convictions are both tested. So I'm going to spend a bunch of 1543 01:25:52,560 --> 01:25:58,080 time doing the Chef Ian project. 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So what I'm going to do is I'm 1569 01:27:29,800 --> 01:27:33,480 going to give some shout outs to our chaos crew members that have 1570 01:27:33,480 --> 01:27:36,120 been interacting with our water content. 1571 01:27:36,680 --> 01:27:38,600 And so thank you for contributing to our episodes. 1572 01:27:38,600 --> 01:27:44,320 So thank you to BJR, Sarah B, Kim P White CAT112 and Cassie M 1573 01:27:44,320 --> 01:27:47,800 thank you for for enjoying the water and interacting with us. 1574 01:27:47,840 --> 01:27:50,400 We appreciate your support and hope you're enjoying this 1575 01:27:50,400 --> 01:27:54,160 episode if you're listening. With that, let's shoot over to 1576 01:27:54,160 --> 01:27:57,200 the Chef Ian project. So let's start with this from 1577 01:27:57,200 --> 01:27:59,880 Lada's perspective. So Lada is presented with 1578 01:27:59,880 --> 01:28:03,240 multiple opportunities to give Intel to her brother up till 1579 01:28:03,240 --> 01:28:07,280 this point and most notable it's the chef Ian project. 1580 01:28:08,280 --> 01:28:11,960 But a lot of proves that she is nothing like her family in a 1581 01:28:11,960 --> 01:28:15,720 good way. So a lot of things quote she 1582 01:28:15,720 --> 01:28:19,000 hadn't seen ABO play dirty or use underhanded tactics to get 1583 01:28:19,000 --> 01:28:21,680 the chef to agree. From what she overheard today, 1584 01:28:21,680 --> 01:28:24,560 it was sheer persistence if she stole the secret. 1585 01:28:24,560 --> 01:28:26,520 And handed it to. Pat allowing her brother to 1586 01:28:26,520 --> 01:28:29,520 swoop in and take Chef Ian for their own hotel. 1587 01:28:29,720 --> 01:28:32,440 Wouldn't that mean she was the one resorting to dirty tricks 1588 01:28:32,720 --> 01:28:36,640 first? So Lada has a conscience and 1589 01:28:36,640 --> 01:28:39,440 it's kind of like the math is not math thing with what Pat is 1590 01:28:39,440 --> 01:28:41,360 telling me. And if I do this I become the 1591 01:28:41,360 --> 01:28:45,440 thing he's accusing oppo of. So then Lada tells her brother 1592 01:28:45,440 --> 01:28:47,640 I'm sorry and refuses to give him anything. 1593 01:28:48,080 --> 01:28:51,040 So in a way, Pat really underestimated his sister's 1594 01:28:51,080 --> 01:28:53,800 intelligence, which is not surprising, but he also 1595 01:28:53,800 --> 01:28:57,040 underestimated her morality, which definitely worked against 1596 01:28:57,040 --> 01:29:00,840 him. All right, so APO's point of 1597 01:29:00,840 --> 01:29:04,920 view of this project. So in APO's basically has been 1598 01:29:04,920 --> 01:29:08,440 going after the chef and is very persistent, starts bringing Lada 1599 01:29:08,440 --> 01:29:12,040 along. And at this stage she's still 1600 01:29:12,360 --> 01:29:15,520 watching Lada for any mistakes. So Nam's assessment of Lada's 1601 01:29:15,520 --> 01:29:17,880 performance is all good at this stage. 1602 01:29:17,960 --> 01:29:22,520 And Nam makes it a point not to abuse her power to get rid of 1603 01:29:22,520 --> 01:29:25,360 Lada for no reason because prima one points like should I just 1604 01:29:25,360 --> 01:29:26,680 make something up and we just get rid of her? 1605 01:29:26,680 --> 01:29:28,400 And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no. 1606 01:29:28,720 --> 01:29:30,360 Like, we're not going to play dirty. 1607 01:29:30,360 --> 01:29:32,160 Like just, we'll just keep watching. 1608 01:29:32,160 --> 01:29:36,040 And then as she gives her task after task, Nam starts to 1609 01:29:36,040 --> 01:29:38,440 realize that Lada is actually a really good worker. 1610 01:29:38,760 --> 01:29:41,680 And as a boss, she should foster Lada's growth. 1611 01:29:41,920 --> 01:29:46,600 So then this project comes up and she instructs Prim Prim, 1612 01:29:46,600 --> 01:29:51,320 sorry, to assign Lada a bigger role in the Chef Ian project. 1613 01:29:51,680 --> 01:29:56,040 And Prim is like, I don't know if it's Prim or Prim, sorry. 1614 01:29:56,040 --> 01:29:57,320 I'm just going to call her Prim. I'm sorry. 1615 01:29:57,520 --> 01:29:58,520 Because that's how it spelled the book. 1616 01:29:58,880 --> 01:30:02,120 And she's concerned because she's like, well, Lada's new and 1617 01:30:02,120 --> 01:30:04,080 like, this is a humongous project. 1618 01:30:04,080 --> 01:30:05,920 We've been trying to get this together for years. 1619 01:30:06,560 --> 01:30:10,440 And Nam says to her assistant quote, but if Lada never gets 1620 01:30:10,440 --> 01:30:12,840 real work experience, she won't improve. 1621 01:30:13,520 --> 01:30:16,800 So it shows that Nam is a really good boss that invests in her 1622 01:30:16,800 --> 01:30:22,120 employees and that she finds Lada valuable enough to invest 1623 01:30:22,120 --> 01:30:26,160 in her by assigning her a project that Nam thinks will 1624 01:30:26,160 --> 01:30:30,920 challenge Lada to get better. So this right here is the 1625 01:30:30,920 --> 01:30:34,240 validation that Lada has been seeking her entire life. 1626 01:30:34,240 --> 01:30:37,240 Like here's Nam giving it to her like Nada doesn't realize it 1627 01:30:37,240 --> 01:30:41,240 yet, but like Nam is willing to like invest in her and validate 1628 01:30:41,240 --> 01:30:44,400 her worth the way nobody else in her life ever has before. 1629 01:30:45,880 --> 01:30:47,880 So this is where we get the turning of the tides when it 1630 01:30:47,880 --> 01:30:51,720 comes to their relationship. OK in the context of this 1631 01:30:51,720 --> 01:30:53,760 project. So we get the first time that 1632 01:30:53,760 --> 01:30:58,160 Oppo takes Shanleta home. So to set the scene, Oppo made 1633 01:30:58,160 --> 01:31:02,320 Shanleta work late to quote, make up for missed work because 1634 01:31:02,400 --> 01:31:06,640 her dumb ass dad took Lada out for lunch against her will. 1635 01:31:07,680 --> 01:31:09,920 And Oppo's like you have to stay here and make up for the work. 1636 01:31:10,400 --> 01:31:12,320 And while they're doing this, they're in the same office and 1637 01:31:12,320 --> 01:31:17,600 they start discussing the chef, the three Chef Ian dishes that 1638 01:31:17,600 --> 01:31:20,200 Oppo has to make a decision on. And this is where it becomes 1639 01:31:20,200 --> 01:31:23,600 really apparent that these two are both curious about each 1640 01:31:23,600 --> 01:31:26,240 other, which is the intellectual love language I keep talking 1641 01:31:26,240 --> 01:31:28,200 about. And it starts with Oppo. 1642 01:31:28,640 --> 01:31:31,800 So at the end of this, after they talk about the Chef Ian 1643 01:31:31,800 --> 01:31:34,880 stuff, she drives Shanlana home. And during the drive, Shanlana 1644 01:31:34,880 --> 01:31:38,320 brings up the dishes and asks, well, which one did you choose 1645 01:31:38,320 --> 01:31:40,040 Oppo? Because like a lot of gives her 1646 01:31:40,040 --> 01:31:42,120 opinion. And I was like, huh, you can go 1647 01:31:42,120 --> 01:31:43,720 home now. And then 5 minutes later comes 1648 01:31:43,720 --> 01:31:46,880 out and Lata's like well what did what did you what did you 1649 01:31:46,880 --> 01:31:48,760 pick? And then Oppo refuses to answer 1650 01:31:48,760 --> 01:31:53,240 which frustrates the hell out of Lata and Oppo's thoughts. 1651 01:31:53,520 --> 01:31:59,160 After shutting this down are Oppo still caught Shamleta out 1652 01:31:59,160 --> 01:32:01,360 of the corner of her eye. She knew very well how her 1653 01:32:01,360 --> 01:32:04,080 assistant acted when she thought she wasn't being watched. 1654 01:32:04,680 --> 01:32:08,400 Oppo noticed it all, indicating that like Appa wasn't just 1655 01:32:08,400 --> 01:32:11,680 checking up on Lada's performance, like she remembers 1656 01:32:11,680 --> 01:32:14,840 little details about Shalala, including how Shalala acts when 1657 01:32:14,840 --> 01:32:17,960 she's annoyed at Appa. Appa's like, I know she's 1658 01:32:17,960 --> 01:32:19,360 annoyed with me, she's doing those things. 1659 01:32:19,400 --> 01:32:23,400 I've seen her do that before and I remember so very indicative of 1660 01:32:23,480 --> 01:32:29,000 Appa's very curious and like if that's morphing into more than 1661 01:32:29,000 --> 01:32:33,640 just curiosity because of how much she remembers about Lada 1662 01:32:34,040 --> 01:32:38,320 and things that are not work related at all, like Sean Luna's 1663 01:32:38,320 --> 01:32:47,520 like annoyed mannerisms. OK, so at the end of this car 1664 01:32:47,520 --> 01:32:49,880 ride, during the car ride, Lotta's like, I'm hungry. 1665 01:32:49,920 --> 01:32:52,160 Drop me like drop me off of this noodle stand. 1666 01:32:52,160 --> 01:32:56,200 Do you want to come with me? And at first Oppo refuses and 1667 01:32:56,200 --> 01:32:58,560 Sean Luna gets out of the car and goes goes to the the stand 1668 01:32:58,560 --> 01:33:01,880 or whatever. So then in the novel, Oppo was 1669 01:33:01,880 --> 01:33:05,120 thinking in the car by herself. Quote. 1670 01:33:05,360 --> 01:33:08,880 For some reason Oppo found herself still parked watching 1671 01:33:08,880 --> 01:33:12,360 this odd woman, someone like anyone she had ever known. 1672 01:33:12,720 --> 01:33:16,560 Sean and I was like a splash of bright color in Oppo's well 1673 01:33:16,560 --> 01:33:19,720 structured life. Like a black and white painting 1674 01:33:19,720 --> 01:33:23,680 where only family and work mattered, everything else fading 1675 01:33:23,680 --> 01:33:26,920 into the dark. But this vibrant color had 1676 01:33:26,920 --> 01:33:32,440 somehow slipped in, standing out so much that even if she tried 1677 01:33:32,440 --> 01:33:35,560 to ignore it, it was impossible not to notice. 1678 01:33:36,520 --> 01:33:40,920 Sean Leto was like a shifting shade, constantly changing. 1679 01:33:42,440 --> 01:33:46,760 So Nam is in love and quite poetic about it, but it's the 1680 01:33:46,760 --> 01:33:48,720 intrigue. It is the intrigue that's the 1681 01:33:48,720 --> 01:33:52,520 intellectual love language. Oppo cannot figure Shamleta out 1682 01:33:52,680 --> 01:33:55,920 and is so curious she literally cannot think about anything else 1683 01:33:56,160 --> 01:33:58,560 to the point where she's like re evaluating her life and having 1684 01:33:58,560 --> 01:34:02,200 this like romantic poetic epiphany alone in a car outside 1685 01:34:02,200 --> 01:34:05,240 of a noodle stand. Like that's how bad she has it. 1686 01:34:05,240 --> 01:34:09,560 And like, this is such a beautiful intellectual falling 1687 01:34:09,560 --> 01:34:11,680 in love thing. I can't like, I can't even say 1688 01:34:11,680 --> 01:34:14,440 how much I love this. It's so good and perfect. 1689 01:34:14,440 --> 01:34:17,920 Like it's beautiful. OK. 1690 01:34:18,200 --> 01:34:21,520 So obviously Oppo is then going to join Lada at the noodle stand 1691 01:34:21,520 --> 01:34:22,760 because she's having an epiphany. 1692 01:34:23,560 --> 01:34:26,640 And then they're together and Lada asks, what would you like? 1693 01:34:26,640 --> 01:34:29,080 I'll order it for you. And Oppo says anything. 1694 01:34:29,640 --> 01:34:32,000 And Lada says, well, that makes my decision much easier. 1695 01:34:32,840 --> 01:34:36,640 And it's short, a short exchange, but I feel like it's 1696 01:34:36,640 --> 01:34:41,560 very symbolic because oppo says anything like she wants to try 1697 01:34:41,600 --> 01:34:44,760 anything because I feel like she's never tried anything in 1698 01:34:44,760 --> 01:34:47,240 her life outside of her normal routine. 1699 01:34:47,800 --> 01:34:51,080 And late night noodles with a Co worker are definitely not part 1700 01:34:51,080 --> 01:34:54,880 of her routine. So she's just like, I'm open to 1701 01:34:54,880 --> 01:34:59,760 experiencing life, show me life. And Lada, who like lives her 1702 01:34:59,760 --> 01:35:02,360 full life is like that makes my decision easier. 1703 01:35:02,360 --> 01:35:05,440 So I think if you interpret it in that context, it's it's 1704 01:35:05,880 --> 01:35:07,720 actually quite impactful, even though this is really short 1705 01:35:07,720 --> 01:35:11,040 little exchange because this is a big turning point thing for 1706 01:35:11,040 --> 01:35:14,400 them. So then Lada ends up ordering 1707 01:35:14,400 --> 01:35:17,600 for Oppo and notices that Oppo doesn't eat spicy food. 1708 01:35:18,720 --> 01:35:22,440 So Lada tells Oppo she noticed all of this because this is what 1709 01:35:22,440 --> 01:35:26,720 Lada thinks, making sure Oppo understood that she was someone 1710 01:35:26,720 --> 01:35:29,200 who paid close attention to the people around her. 1711 01:35:29,200 --> 01:35:31,680 So it's like she's like, I noticed these things about you 1712 01:35:31,680 --> 01:35:34,040 because she's like, I want to prove to her that I'm detail 1713 01:35:34,040 --> 01:35:36,640 oriented and all this shit. And then Oppo takes us to be 1714 01:35:36,640 --> 01:35:38,800 like, Oh my God, she remembers things about me. 1715 01:35:38,800 --> 01:35:40,240 She must like me. This is weird. 1716 01:35:40,920 --> 01:35:43,960 So like, they're not on the same page about this, but it's really 1717 01:35:43,960 --> 01:35:49,040 funny because again, Lada is an intellect too, and she would be 1718 01:35:49,040 --> 01:35:52,040 just as curious about oppo. And so she's going to remember 1719 01:35:52,040 --> 01:35:55,840 shit about her starting from nefarious reasons because she's 1720 01:35:55,840 --> 01:35:58,120 like, any information might be valuable to my brother. 1721 01:35:58,120 --> 01:36:01,320 But then she's like just remembering shit about her 1722 01:36:01,320 --> 01:36:04,040 because she's also falling into her own trap essentially. 1723 01:36:05,600 --> 01:36:09,520 OK, All right, so while there's many cute, monumental things 1724 01:36:09,520 --> 01:36:11,840 that happened throughout the course of the Chef Ian project, 1725 01:36:11,840 --> 01:36:15,560 I think the biggest thing that happens during the course of 1726 01:36:15,560 --> 01:36:18,960 this project is that Oppo validates Shamlada, which is the 1727 01:36:18,960 --> 01:36:22,200 thing she's wanted her whole life. 1728 01:36:22,400 --> 01:36:26,000 OK, so it happens when we get to the culmination of the Chef Ian 1729 01:36:26,160 --> 01:36:28,760 project. And this is very similar to the 1730 01:36:28,760 --> 01:36:33,360 novel, OK, where we eventually get to the big grand reveal 1731 01:36:33,360 --> 01:36:37,080 where Chef we're going to get the dish, Chef Ian's going to 1732 01:36:37,080 --> 01:36:40,680 make it all the investors are coming that whole thing. 1733 01:36:41,280 --> 01:36:44,360 And so like the like, I'm sorry, like the series, we get the 1734 01:36:44,360 --> 01:36:47,880 scene where Lada is helping Shawn Litta pick out a suit. 1735 01:36:47,960 --> 01:36:49,720 OK, because Abo asks her too, is the assistant. 1736 01:36:51,560 --> 01:36:55,080 And they start talking about Lada's family issue and code. 1737 01:36:55,880 --> 01:36:59,400 And Lada says, Boslek, if you had to choose between family and 1738 01:36:59,400 --> 01:37:03,120 not doing the and between family and doing the right thing, what 1739 01:37:03,120 --> 01:37:05,120 would you pick? And Oppo says the right thing. 1740 01:37:05,840 --> 01:37:09,440 Yes, family is important, but no good family would ever encourage 1741 01:37:09,440 --> 01:37:12,920 you to do something wrong. And a lot of things to herself. 1742 01:37:13,520 --> 01:37:15,720 She. Glanced at OPPO, watching how 1743 01:37:15,720 --> 01:37:19,280 calmly she answered without a hint of suspicion or curiosity 1744 01:37:19,280 --> 01:37:23,320 about why she was asking. But that response, it made her 1745 01:37:23,320 --> 01:37:26,600 feel a little lighter, easing the weight of her internal 1746 01:37:26,600 --> 01:37:31,280 conflict. So OPPO validates Charlotte's 1747 01:37:31,280 --> 01:37:35,240 morality in that situation by being like, if your family's as 1748 01:37:35,240 --> 01:37:37,800 needed to do shady shit, it means they're shady and you 1749 01:37:37,800 --> 01:37:41,560 shouldn't do it just because they're family, OK? 1750 01:37:41,560 --> 01:37:44,600 Which is where Shawn was like kind of at with her loyalties 1751 01:37:44,600 --> 01:37:46,440 being tested when it came to the family stuff because she's like, 1752 01:37:46,440 --> 01:37:51,160 the math is not mouthing with my brother here, OK? 1753 01:37:51,160 --> 01:37:56,080 And then we get the then we shoot on over to the grand 1754 01:37:56,120 --> 01:37:57,600 reveal. Actually, we don't shoot on 1755 01:37:57,600 --> 01:37:59,440 over. Then their conversation pivots. 1756 01:37:59,440 --> 01:38:01,400 I'm sorry, they're still looking at the suits or whatever. 1757 01:38:01,920 --> 01:38:06,240 And the conversation pivots to the big, grand reveal, OK, where 1758 01:38:06,240 --> 01:38:08,680 Chef Ian's going to be there, and they're going to reveal the 1759 01:38:08,680 --> 01:38:12,560 dish that's going to the hotel. And so Oppo insists that 1760 01:38:12,560 --> 01:38:15,800 Shyamala comes to this. And Shyamala is like, listen, I 1761 01:38:15,800 --> 01:38:18,920 don't have the money to afford a dress for this grand event. 1762 01:38:19,520 --> 01:38:23,240 And Oppo's like, says, you were part of the project. 1763 01:38:23,240 --> 01:38:26,480 You have to be there. And when Lada argues about 1764 01:38:26,480 --> 01:38:30,520 money, Oppo says you can pay me back in installments, as many as 1765 01:38:30,520 --> 01:38:33,800 it takes. So then Lana, meaning Lana's 1766 01:38:33,800 --> 01:38:36,200 like, I'm not a charity case. Like I want to earn everything 1767 01:38:36,200 --> 01:38:38,960 and and Apple's like, fine, you can earn it, but like you can. 1768 01:38:39,040 --> 01:38:40,560 And by the it's a loan. It's a loan. 1769 01:38:40,560 --> 01:38:42,480 I'm not giving it. If it's a loan, just pay me back 1770 01:38:42,560 --> 01:38:45,840 whenever you're ready. And then OK, so Lana's like, OK, 1771 01:38:45,840 --> 01:38:48,480 so she agrees to this because she's self reliant. 1772 01:38:49,440 --> 01:38:51,520 And while she's in the changing room, Oppo goes and just pays 1773 01:38:51,520 --> 01:38:53,480 for it all, which is really cute. 1774 01:38:53,480 --> 01:38:54,840 She's like, I'm not, you're not paying me back. 1775 01:38:54,840 --> 01:38:55,800 I'm just going to give you those. 1776 01:38:56,640 --> 01:39:00,960 And Oppo thinks it had been a day of both in a day of both 1777 01:39:00,960 --> 01:39:04,840 time and money spent, but at least it hadn't been a boring 1. 1778 01:39:05,520 --> 01:39:08,760 So I think it's a very sick that was a very significant shift in 1779 01:39:08,760 --> 01:39:12,960 how oppo thinks about her time spent with Shandla doing quote 1780 01:39:13,640 --> 01:39:17,640 non work related stuff or like nonsensical stuff. 1781 01:39:18,240 --> 01:39:21,040 The fact that she was like, I wasn't bored. 1782 01:39:21,680 --> 01:39:25,720 So like, she's having fun, you know, which is really cute and 1783 01:39:25,720 --> 01:39:28,160 significant. So like their their relationship 1784 01:39:28,160 --> 01:39:32,520 starts shifting here. All right, And then and then we 1785 01:39:32,520 --> 01:39:36,360 get to the big grand reveal of chefs Ian's signature dish. 1786 01:39:36,760 --> 01:39:40,320 And so oppo's the one upstage is on stage and she's the one who 1787 01:39:40,320 --> 01:39:43,280 is explaining this to all the investors and everybody. 1788 01:39:43,280 --> 01:39:46,880 And she picked the seafood bucket, which is a lot of picks, 1789 01:39:47,800 --> 01:39:50,800 but she renames it the Joyful Ocean. 1790 01:39:51,040 --> 01:39:56,120 So Oppo renamed it after Shamlada, which surprises 1791 01:39:56,120 --> 01:40:00,360 Shamlada because like, it's like another translation for like 1792 01:40:00,360 --> 01:40:02,360 Lada's name in like kind of a novel. 1793 01:40:03,040 --> 01:40:08,040 So the irony is of this, which it's adorable, but also is very 1794 01:40:08,040 --> 01:40:10,960 ironic because when they were originally talking about this 1795 01:40:12,160 --> 01:40:14,960 and Nama was like, give me your opinions. 1796 01:40:16,280 --> 01:40:18,520 A lot of does. And then at the end, Oppo told 1797 01:40:18,520 --> 01:40:21,040 Shawn Luna quote, you can't let your personal preferences 1798 01:40:21,040 --> 01:40:24,320 dictate your work decisions. And then here's Oppo literally 1799 01:40:24,320 --> 01:40:27,280 breaking her own rules and announcing it to like a crowd of 1800 01:40:27,280 --> 01:40:29,400 people. So like it just goes. 1801 01:40:29,560 --> 01:40:31,680 She's so funny. Like she just starts breaking 1802 01:40:31,680 --> 01:40:34,400 her own rules. Like like it just goes downhill 1803 01:40:34,400 --> 01:40:36,840 for her really pretty consistently and pretty fast. 1804 01:40:36,840 --> 01:40:39,160 The way she just breaks all of her rules for Shawn Luna. 1805 01:40:39,160 --> 01:40:42,400 It's really kind of funny how much she changes. 1806 01:40:43,560 --> 01:40:46,920 OK and then so then Lana's in the crowd. 1807 01:40:46,920 --> 01:40:51,760 She goes and she's hearing this and it she, she realizes that 1808 01:40:51,760 --> 01:40:55,120 oppo took her suggestions seriously because like Sean has 1809 01:40:55,120 --> 01:40:57,640 been wondering, did you pick? Did I help her? 1810 01:40:57,640 --> 01:40:58,960 Did I not help her? What did she do? 1811 01:40:58,960 --> 01:41:00,920 She ignore me. And so she's like, oh, she took 1812 01:41:00,920 --> 01:41:04,080 my suggestions seriously. Like no one takes me serious, 1813 01:41:04,080 --> 01:41:10,040 especially the boss, you know? So then Oppo is describing why 1814 01:41:10,040 --> 01:41:13,560 she picked this to the crowd, and she basically quotes Shan 1815 01:41:13,560 --> 01:41:15,120 Lada, OK. And she's like, you know, simple 1816 01:41:15,120 --> 01:41:16,920 dishes can be great. That kind of, she literally like 1817 01:41:16,920 --> 01:41:22,320 quotes Shan Lada. And then Shan Lada realizes this 1818 01:41:22,320 --> 01:41:24,440 is my idea, the thing that Oppo was saying. 1819 01:41:24,440 --> 01:41:29,560 And she thinks initially Oppo stole it because Oppo's saying 1820 01:41:29,560 --> 01:41:32,520 exactly like very close to what Shan Lada told her. 1821 01:41:33,120 --> 01:41:36,040 And so initially she's like, Oh my God, my brother was right. 1822 01:41:36,040 --> 01:41:38,640 She is shady. They do play dirty, like to 1823 01:41:38,640 --> 01:41:43,240 quote her own thought, but big important difference from the 1824 01:41:43,240 --> 01:41:44,840 series. So they that happens in the 1825 01:41:44,840 --> 01:41:46,440 series where she basically quotes Charlotte. 1826 01:41:46,440 --> 01:41:49,600 I'm a cut away and you don't get the reaction from Charlotte 1827 01:41:49,600 --> 01:41:51,560 being like, Oh my God, she fucking stole my idea. 1828 01:41:53,080 --> 01:41:56,200 But in the novel, Oppo keeps talking and I think this is 1829 01:41:56,280 --> 01:41:59,160 actually the more important dialogue and they cut it out of 1830 01:41:59,160 --> 01:42:00,360 the series and they don't know why. 1831 01:42:00,800 --> 01:42:05,760 So Oppo continues and says the truth is I got this idea from my 1832 01:42:05,760 --> 01:42:09,080 assistant. I have to thank her for her 1833 01:42:09,080 --> 01:42:12,360 excellent suggestion that allowed me to develop it 1834 01:42:12,360 --> 01:42:15,600 further. I hope that if my assistant is 1835 01:42:15,600 --> 01:42:19,720 listening, she'll be very proud of herself, just as I hope 1836 01:42:19,720 --> 01:42:22,520 everyone here enjoys the exquisite dishes prepared by 1837 01:42:22,520 --> 01:42:23,960 Chef Ian. Thank you. 1838 01:42:26,480 --> 01:42:29,720 And Shamala thinks to herself. Who would have? 1839 01:42:29,720 --> 01:42:33,600 Thought that Apple would give her credit and thank her in such 1840 01:42:33,600 --> 01:42:36,760 a grand event. Was this real or was she 1841 01:42:36,760 --> 01:42:39,520 dreaming? To me, this is one of the most 1842 01:42:39,520 --> 01:42:42,560 significant parts of this whole thing, and I don't know why the 1843 01:42:42,560 --> 01:42:46,720 series cut it out. Because here's Oppo validating 1844 01:42:46,720 --> 01:42:49,720 Shamleta. Not just validating her, like, 1845 01:42:49,720 --> 01:42:53,840 but like in a room full of people acknowledging that, like, 1846 01:42:53,840 --> 01:42:58,200 this was Shamleta's idea and it's brilliant and she should be 1847 01:42:58,200 --> 01:43:02,480 proud of her work. Like, wow. 1848 01:43:02,480 --> 01:43:04,080 Like this is like for workaholics. 1849 01:43:04,080 --> 01:43:06,120 Like what a grand fucking gesture this was. 1850 01:43:06,120 --> 01:43:08,480 And that's why Apple's like, you have to be there because she was 1851 01:43:08,480 --> 01:43:12,520 going to praise her publicly for her work. 1852 01:43:12,520 --> 01:43:15,680 Like, this was a huge deal, especially because, like, you 1853 01:43:15,680 --> 01:43:19,360 set them up as these workaholics where work is so important to 1854 01:43:19,360 --> 01:43:20,760 them. How could you cut this out? 1855 01:43:20,760 --> 01:43:24,800 This was like, so important. I thought that was a crazy 1856 01:43:24,800 --> 01:43:27,240 decision by North Star. Like, you started the 1857 01:43:27,240 --> 01:43:28,640 conversation. Just keep it going. 1858 01:43:31,160 --> 01:43:34,280 Yeah, this scene deserved love because this was a humongous, 1859 01:43:34,280 --> 01:43:40,520 monumental moment. OK, so their relationship 1860 01:43:40,520 --> 01:43:42,840 totally shifts after the chef Ian thing. 1861 01:43:42,840 --> 01:43:47,840 And so let's then go back to let's go a little bit forward to 1862 01:43:47,840 --> 01:43:51,560 one of my absolute favorite things, which is Oppo awkwardly 1863 01:43:51,560 --> 01:43:54,760 asking to eat with Plata, which is one of the funniest fucking. 1864 01:43:54,760 --> 01:43:57,560 They're like first date kind of. This is hilarious. 1865 01:43:57,840 --> 01:44:01,080 OK, so I meant talked about this very briefly at the beginning. 1866 01:44:01,200 --> 01:44:04,560 This is when Adda Soren tries to set Lada up with one of his 1867 01:44:04,560 --> 01:44:07,280 friend's sons. And Nam is not OK with us. 1868 01:44:07,520 --> 01:44:10,680 She literally pulls Lada out of the situation and drives her 1869 01:44:10,680 --> 01:44:14,840 home. And Lada is like super flustered 1870 01:44:14,840 --> 01:44:19,520 by the whole fucking thing. And then and she's as flustered 1871 01:44:19,520 --> 01:44:23,880 as Nam in this situation and thinks to herself, today has 1872 01:44:23,880 --> 01:44:27,720 been unexpectedly overwhelming, stirring strong emotions she has 1873 01:44:27,720 --> 01:44:29,720 never felt in her 22 years of life. 1874 01:44:30,360 --> 01:44:33,240 Shamlana wanted some alone time to process everything in 1875 01:44:33,240 --> 01:44:35,840 solitude. If she accepted APO's kindness 1876 01:44:35,880 --> 01:44:38,200 any further, she feared it would complicate things. 1877 01:44:38,440 --> 01:44:41,880 So this was just proof that Lada is introverted like APO because 1878 01:44:41,880 --> 01:44:44,600 she's like, I need to go home and recharge and process all of 1879 01:44:44,600 --> 01:44:45,960 this. Like, they're very similar 1880 01:44:45,960 --> 01:44:47,320 people. And you're like, this has been 1881 01:44:47,320 --> 01:44:51,800 crazy and a lot. And yeah, basically she's like, 1882 01:44:51,800 --> 01:44:54,520 I feel like I'm falling for her maybe. 1883 01:44:54,520 --> 01:44:56,600 And this is no longer work platonic. 1884 01:44:56,800 --> 01:44:58,560 What the fuck? I need some alone time. 1885 01:44:58,560 --> 01:45:04,200 So very introverted Shamlana. OK, so then Nam drives her home, 1886 01:45:05,000 --> 01:45:07,600 and they arrive at Shamlana's apartment. 1887 01:45:08,080 --> 01:45:10,360 But APU was not ready for this night to end. 1888 01:45:10,360 --> 01:45:12,920 So at first, APU's like normal about this. 1889 01:45:13,960 --> 01:45:17,680 And she tries to ask Lana if she would like to stop at the noodle 1890 01:45:17,680 --> 01:45:20,440 stand where they've eaten before, but Lada says she'd 1891 01:45:20,440 --> 01:45:24,000 rather eat at home. Lada gets out of the car, and 1892 01:45:24,000 --> 01:45:26,600 Apple follows her and says, I'm hungry. 1893 01:45:27,600 --> 01:45:29,840 And this is where the series ends, which is a crime because 1894 01:45:29,840 --> 01:45:33,520 the rest of this is hilarious. And then Lada's like, OK, we'll 1895 01:45:33,520 --> 01:45:35,360 go eat something. Like, you're rich. 1896 01:45:35,360 --> 01:45:37,720 Like, just go somewhere. There's plenty of places around 1897 01:45:37,720 --> 01:45:40,160 my condo you can grab a bite before you head back. 1898 01:45:40,160 --> 01:45:41,200 Like, why are you telling me this? 1899 01:45:41,200 --> 01:45:44,880 And then Apple says, do you have dinner in your room that you can 1900 01:45:44,880 --> 01:45:46,920 share with me? When I first thought. 1901 01:45:47,600 --> 01:45:50,560 My first start reading this was Oh my God, Nam was worse than 1902 01:45:50,560 --> 01:45:54,840 this that did this was so awkward when she says it. 1903 01:45:55,200 --> 01:45:57,840 Do you have dinner in your room that you can share with me? 1904 01:45:59,480 --> 01:46:01,640 It's so awkward. It's. 1905 01:46:01,640 --> 01:46:06,040 So awkward. I'm really sad they they erased 1906 01:46:06,080 --> 01:46:09,000 how fucking awkward she is. She's like, there's a reason 1907 01:46:09,000 --> 01:46:12,040 Rose at the end is like, I'm worried Nam doesn't know what 1908 01:46:12,040 --> 01:46:15,000 sex is because Nam is so awkward. 1909 01:46:16,120 --> 01:46:18,200 Like she's worse. She's like, I thought Din was 1910 01:46:18,200 --> 01:46:19,840 bad. Like Nam is really like Din 1911 01:46:19,840 --> 01:46:22,560 we're proposing the first time Nam is worse. 1912 01:46:22,720 --> 01:46:25,000 And so they totally erased that in the series. 1913 01:46:25,000 --> 01:46:27,600 And this was one of I laughed so hard when reading this because 1914 01:46:27,600 --> 01:46:31,320 like to be Baba in this situation be like what? 1915 01:46:31,600 --> 01:46:34,200 Like, you're so why are you so weird about this? 1916 01:46:36,320 --> 01:46:38,160 Oh, my God. And the reason she's weird is 1917 01:46:38,160 --> 01:46:41,040 that no, I'm essentially it's like a baby deer learning how to 1918 01:46:41,040 --> 01:46:43,720 walk, OK? She's learning what life is, 1919 01:46:43,720 --> 01:46:46,200 what living her life is really about, OK, in the scene. 1920 01:46:46,200 --> 01:46:49,240 And Lada doesn't realize she's the guide, OK? 1921 01:46:49,240 --> 01:46:53,360 She has no idea. All right, So then Lada, for 1922 01:46:53,360 --> 01:46:56,200 some reason, let's Nam in. She's like, this is weird. 1923 01:46:56,200 --> 01:46:57,520 And like, lets her in the apartment. 1924 01:47:00,080 --> 01:47:02,640 They have noodles. And I think the reason we end up 1925 01:47:02,640 --> 01:47:06,760 in the apartment is because the inner monologue thing I gave you 1926 01:47:06,760 --> 01:47:09,000 with Shawn Leto, where she's like, I'm having emotions right 1927 01:47:09,000 --> 01:47:10,760 now and I need time to process them. 1928 01:47:11,520 --> 01:47:14,640 And Oppo's having feelings and she doesn't have time to process 1929 01:47:14,640 --> 01:47:17,200 them. And this is bad for introverts 1930 01:47:17,200 --> 01:47:20,280 because speaking as an introvert, because introverts 1931 01:47:20,960 --> 01:47:24,160 need to think and process because we are more internal 1932 01:47:24,160 --> 01:47:27,320 people, OK, If introverts are having a bunch of feelings and 1933 01:47:27,320 --> 01:47:30,560 we don't have time to like get into solitude and think about 1934 01:47:30,560 --> 01:47:34,200 it, we're more likely to act on the feelings, good or bad, OK? 1935 01:47:34,320 --> 01:47:36,080 That's how you get this noodle scene because you have two 1936 01:47:36,080 --> 01:47:38,360 introverts whose emotions are running high and they can't 1937 01:47:38,360 --> 01:47:40,320 think about them right now because everything's crazy. 1938 01:47:41,680 --> 01:47:43,680 So then a lot of makes the noodles and goes and sits on the 1939 01:47:43,680 --> 01:47:47,160 floor like she normally would without company present because 1940 01:47:47,280 --> 01:47:48,960 she thinks it's more comfortable this way. 1941 01:47:49,680 --> 01:47:52,440 And she explains it to nom and Mom's like, OK, that's a better 1942 01:47:52,440 --> 01:47:54,160 way of doing this. So the nom joins her on the 1943 01:47:54,160 --> 01:47:58,160 floor and it's like, to me it was like oppo, like Nada is 1944 01:47:58,160 --> 01:48:00,920 teaching Oppo how to be human. My little like leading her out 1945 01:48:00,920 --> 01:48:03,200 of her comfort zone because like wealthy girl would be like I 1946 01:48:03,200 --> 01:48:05,880 said at the table, you know, with the napkin in my lap or 1947 01:48:05,880 --> 01:48:07,280 whatever. I do all the proper things. 1948 01:48:07,280 --> 01:48:09,600 I'm like, here's a lot of just like on the floor eating Goodles 1949 01:48:09,600 --> 01:48:10,920 and mom's like, what are you doing? 1950 01:48:10,920 --> 01:48:12,720 Maybe I should do that? Is that the better way to do 1951 01:48:12,720 --> 01:48:13,520 this? I should do that. 1952 01:48:13,520 --> 01:48:15,720 And she like goes and does it like it's like again, like 1953 01:48:16,080 --> 01:48:18,000 leading a baby deer around. Teach her how to walk. 1954 01:48:19,160 --> 01:48:23,360 And to me, like this was a cute, really cute example of like how 1955 01:48:23,360 --> 01:48:27,800 the how the two of them grow as people when they are together 1956 01:48:28,160 --> 01:48:30,800 because they they, they learn from they're open to each 1957 01:48:30,800 --> 01:48:34,680 other's like thoughts and ways of doing things even when it's 1958 01:48:34,680 --> 01:48:36,800 different from their own. Like Nama's like, I don't do 1959 01:48:36,800 --> 01:48:38,760 this, but you do it. Maybe I should try it. 1960 01:48:39,320 --> 01:48:42,280 And like they learn from each other, like what works for them. 1961 01:48:42,280 --> 01:48:45,120 And I think this is really a really a hallmark of a strong 1962 01:48:45,120 --> 01:48:47,640 relationship foundation. And so like, again, the author 1963 01:48:47,640 --> 01:48:51,760 did a really good job of like establishing that they there's 1964 01:48:51,760 --> 01:48:53,560 mutual respect. They learn from each other. 1965 01:48:53,560 --> 01:48:56,720 They have a very solid, healthy relationship foundation. 1966 01:48:56,720 --> 01:49:00,040 And like, here's a little scene of like how that works for them. 1967 01:49:01,800 --> 01:49:04,160 The only thing I love about the scene is that none of those are 1968 01:49:04,160 --> 01:49:08,040 like weirdly smooth in the scene, despite being a is like 1969 01:49:08,040 --> 01:49:11,360 worse than Din to get herself invited in here, she was weirdly 1970 01:49:11,360 --> 01:49:13,600 smooth. So then a lot of sorts teasing 1971 01:49:13,600 --> 01:49:17,560 Nam about eating unhealthy food with her and Nam says because 1972 01:49:17,560 --> 01:49:20,680 you made it, a simple meal becomes special. 1973 01:49:23,240 --> 01:49:27,520 And not only is this sweet OK, because in the series they're 1974 01:49:27,520 --> 01:49:29,600 basically they just have the part where she's like you made 1975 01:49:29,600 --> 01:49:31,680 it. Therefore it's it's like good. 1976 01:49:33,280 --> 01:49:36,840 The A simple meal becomes special because you made it is 1977 01:49:37,360 --> 01:49:41,160 the more important part of the dialogue because this is Nam 1978 01:49:41,160 --> 01:49:43,920 quoting Lada right back to herself, OK? 1979 01:49:43,920 --> 01:49:47,400 Because that was Lada's fundamental argument in favor of 1980 01:49:47,400 --> 01:49:50,160 the seafood bucket with the Chef Ian Project. 1981 01:49:50,760 --> 01:49:57,120 And Nam is showing Lada that she pays attention to her opinions 1982 01:49:57,880 --> 01:50:01,280 and reflects on them. And that's incredibly sweet for 1983 01:50:01,280 --> 01:50:04,760 Nam to do that and be like, I think about what you say. 1984 01:50:05,000 --> 01:50:07,800 I internalize it and I'm going to give it right back to you to 1985 01:50:07,800 --> 01:50:12,200 show you that I pay attention to you and I value your opinions 1986 01:50:12,560 --> 01:50:16,920 and that is validation in the relationship, which is brand new 1987 01:50:16,920 --> 01:50:20,920 territory for a lot of like this was also supremely validating. 1988 01:50:21,240 --> 01:50:25,040 OK for a lot of who's insecure and has never had stable love. 1989 01:50:25,040 --> 01:50:29,800 Here's none being like I value you like by literally quoting 1990 01:50:29,800 --> 01:50:34,680 herself back to her. So again, the dialogue in the 1991 01:50:34,680 --> 01:50:37,400 novel is so good. Like it should not have been 1992 01:50:37,400 --> 01:50:43,440 messed with in my opinion. OK so then we get what I 1993 01:50:43,440 --> 01:50:47,200 anticipated would happen in Oppo's story as the collected 1994 01:50:47,360 --> 01:50:50,600 calm person. We get her control slipping. 1995 01:50:51,280 --> 01:50:54,720 OK, And it really goes off the rails when Addis Thorn puts the 1996 01:50:54,720 --> 01:51:00,160 fear of lesbian Jesus into numb. So the noodle scene happens. 1997 01:51:00,200 --> 01:51:03,040 She gets the, you know, the noodle happens where she gets it 1998 01:51:03,040 --> 01:51:05,240 spilled on herself. Lada gets her clothes, and then 1999 01:51:05,240 --> 01:51:08,800 Nam goes home. So when she comes home in Lada's 2000 01:51:08,800 --> 01:51:12,760 clothes, she gets in an argument with her father that I went over 2001 01:51:12,760 --> 01:51:15,480 earlier where basically he tells her be clear with your feelings 2002 01:51:16,120 --> 01:51:17,600 where he's like, you need to respect her. 2003 01:51:17,600 --> 01:51:19,640 And then he continues and he's like, you need to be clear with 2004 01:51:19,680 --> 01:51:23,480 your feelings before you lose Lada to somebody else. 2005 01:51:23,600 --> 01:51:25,760 And he says, quote, consider this a warning. 2006 01:51:28,480 --> 01:51:31,720 So, so that puts the fear of lesbian Jesus to nom. 2007 01:51:31,720 --> 01:51:35,040 And so the next day, she shows up at Lada's flat unannounced to 2008 01:51:35,040 --> 01:51:38,920 drive her to work. And then Oppo in the drive, 2009 01:51:38,920 --> 01:51:42,960 brings up her father and then asks says to Lada, who do you 2010 01:51:42,960 --> 01:51:45,840 trust more, me or my dad? Out of nowhere, she says this. 2011 01:51:45,840 --> 01:51:49,400 And Lada's like you, of course. And then Oppo says, that's all I 2012 01:51:49,400 --> 01:51:53,280 need to hear. And then and then, like, she 2013 01:51:53,280 --> 01:51:56,560 stops talking. And then a lot of things lately, 2014 01:51:56,640 --> 01:52:00,440 Appo had developed a habit of mumbling to herself, saying 2015 01:52:00,440 --> 01:52:02,840 things only she seemed to understand, while leaving 2016 01:52:02,840 --> 01:52:06,720 Shamlana out of the loop. In other words, I think Appo's 2017 01:52:06,720 --> 01:52:11,640 losing it a little. It's like we truly didn't get 2018 01:52:11,640 --> 01:52:14,400 this version of Appo, who was like, off killed her and like 2019 01:52:14,480 --> 01:52:16,920 mumbling to herself, like being weird as fuck. 2020 01:52:16,920 --> 01:52:20,880 And like a lot of just like, I don't think she's doing all 2021 01:52:20,880 --> 01:52:23,280 right. She's acting weird. 2022 01:52:25,200 --> 01:52:29,200 OK, so basically now, OK, so like the external. 2023 01:52:29,200 --> 01:52:32,200 So like there's the stuff with Pat going on in the background, 2024 01:52:32,200 --> 01:52:34,480 like the family drama in terms of the rivalry. 2025 01:52:34,480 --> 01:52:37,120 But then now we start getting into like Oppo's family starts 2026 01:52:37,120 --> 01:52:39,360 interfering. So like Adamson was doing his 2027 01:52:39,360 --> 01:52:41,720 thing. And then the chaos cousins start 2028 01:52:41,720 --> 01:52:45,160 inserting themselves so fine and randomly appears and adds 2029 01:52:45,160 --> 01:52:48,440 gasoline to this dumpster fire by complaining that Wyatt was 2030 01:52:48,440 --> 01:52:50,680 sulking over Nam denying her to Shamla. 2031 01:52:51,000 --> 01:52:55,360 Like such a what a dramatic gay Wyatt is OK, She's so gay. 2032 01:52:55,360 --> 01:52:58,160 That's how she's dramatic. OK, she's part of me a little 2033 01:52:58,160 --> 01:52:58,800 old. Nam was gay. 2034 01:52:58,880 --> 01:53:00,320 I'm sorry, why was gay from the wound? 2035 01:53:00,320 --> 01:53:04,800 So she's the most dramatic. And then while this is exchange 2036 01:53:04,800 --> 01:53:08,560 is going on with five publicly, Nam insists very loudly that 2037 01:53:08,560 --> 01:53:09,840 Shyam Lana is not her girlfriend. 2038 01:53:10,440 --> 01:53:13,880 And Lana feels extremely irritated by this and then talks 2039 01:53:13,880 --> 01:53:17,520 to her best friend net and puts together that she's falling for 2040 01:53:17,520 --> 01:53:19,520 Oppo. But Oppo clearly does not feel 2041 01:53:19,520 --> 01:53:24,760 the same way. So a very upset and salty lotta 2042 01:53:24,760 --> 01:53:28,920 then tries to ghost oppo. But oppo gets really worried and 2043 01:53:28,920 --> 01:53:33,280 oppo is so desperate she consults her father who 2044 01:53:33,280 --> 01:53:35,520 immediately is like do you want me to step in and do something? 2045 01:53:35,520 --> 01:53:38,240 And she's like Oh my God no I just want your advice. 2046 01:53:38,800 --> 01:53:40,320 Just your advice, Dad, don't do anything. 2047 01:53:40,320 --> 01:53:43,800 Sit down. And his advice to her is really, 2048 01:53:44,080 --> 01:53:46,400 it's really good advice about relationships where he says 2049 01:53:46,400 --> 01:53:48,400 nothing gets accomplished without effort. 2050 01:53:48,720 --> 01:53:51,480 Love works the same way. And that's kind of like speaking 2051 01:53:51,480 --> 01:53:54,800 her language because they're both workaholics and they're and 2052 01:53:54,800 --> 01:53:58,000 they're, you know, hotel executives who get results. 2053 01:53:58,000 --> 01:54:00,120 So he's speaking to her in a way she understands where he's like, 2054 01:54:00,120 --> 01:54:02,400 you know, like work takes effort. 2055 01:54:02,640 --> 01:54:04,640 Love also takes everything of it as work. 2056 01:54:04,640 --> 01:54:07,920 It's very similar. It's just humans versus numbers. 2057 01:54:08,840 --> 01:54:11,920 So then Oppo then takes this advice and confronts Lada and 2058 01:54:11,920 --> 01:54:16,000 literally lists off the number of days that Lada has ignored 2059 01:54:16,000 --> 01:54:19,160 her, showing her hand that she's like, I could literally count on 2060 01:54:19,160 --> 01:54:20,960 something. I'm literally counting days. 2061 01:54:22,120 --> 01:54:25,840 And then Lada notes that Oppo looks disappointed when she then 2062 01:54:25,840 --> 01:54:28,240 rejects her offer to get dinner. Because Oppo's like, go out with 2063 01:54:28,240 --> 01:54:29,680 me. And then Lada's like, no. 2064 01:54:29,920 --> 01:54:32,320 And then she's like, why does she look disappointed if she's 2065 01:54:32,320 --> 01:54:35,840 not into me? So again, the whole time, like 2066 01:54:36,520 --> 01:54:39,080 Lotta's doing math when it comes to people like people math, he's 2067 01:54:39,080 --> 01:54:41,240 like the people math doesn't work out, doesn't work out here 2068 01:54:41,240 --> 01:54:43,280 the way the people math was not working out with my brother. 2069 01:54:44,640 --> 01:54:47,200 OK. But then luckily for all of us, 2070 01:54:47,520 --> 01:54:50,840 Adasorn ignored Nam and already intervenes to set them up on a 2071 01:54:50,840 --> 01:54:55,600 date at his house. And that's when Adasorn dates 2072 01:54:55,600 --> 01:55:00,080 Lotta for Nam, that whole thing. So I won't revisit that because 2073 01:55:00,080 --> 01:55:02,520 I it's just one of the funniest things and I already talked 2074 01:55:02,520 --> 01:55:04,000 about that. So I'm just going to skip ahead 2075 01:55:04,000 --> 01:55:08,120 and go to after that happens. So then after that, Nam is upset 2076 01:55:08,120 --> 01:55:10,960 that her father overstepped and cannot let it go. 2077 01:55:12,120 --> 01:55:16,040 And so at this stage, Lada is like, they're not on the same 2078 01:55:16,040 --> 01:55:17,720 page. So like Lada is resigned that 2079 01:55:17,720 --> 01:55:20,040 her feast feelings are like 1 sided. 2080 01:55:20,040 --> 01:55:22,360 And I don't know what she thinks is going on with Ada Soren, but 2081 01:55:22,360 --> 01:55:24,320 she's like this, you know, whatever, I have this crush. 2082 01:55:24,320 --> 01:55:28,240 It's, you know, unrequited whatever, but Nam quote cannot 2083 01:55:28,240 --> 01:55:31,280 let it go. So to me, I think this whole 2084 01:55:31,280 --> 01:55:35,920 thing with the dad like dating essentially dating Lada for her 2085 01:55:35,920 --> 01:55:39,000 and like getting a lot of flowers and like being like give 2086 01:55:39,000 --> 01:55:42,040 her that food, do this and that. I think that. 2087 01:55:42,240 --> 01:55:46,760 For Nam, it was like, in a way, it was like witnessing something 2088 01:55:46,760 --> 01:55:52,720 adjacent to someone else. Dating Lama dating Lada, like 2089 01:55:52,720 --> 01:55:55,840 Nam was watching like, oh, like if, if I don't, if I'm not clear 2090 01:55:55,840 --> 01:55:58,120 about my feelings, like dad said, like somebody else could 2091 01:55:58,120 --> 01:56:00,120 date her. It's almost like that's what was 2092 01:56:00,120 --> 01:56:02,840 happening in the house. And I think that scooped Nam 2093 01:56:02,840 --> 01:56:05,560 more than anything. And that's like her breaking 2094 01:56:05,560 --> 01:56:09,040 point here. So then Nam takes over courting 2095 01:56:09,040 --> 01:56:12,680 Lada from here. And spoiler, it starts out 2096 01:56:12,680 --> 01:56:18,160 awkward as fuck. So then after this disaster 2097 01:56:18,160 --> 01:56:21,560 dinner, Nam then takes Lada home and then says to Lada, I wanted 2098 01:56:21,560 --> 01:56:23,640 to bring you home. It wasn't because my dad told me 2099 01:56:23,640 --> 01:56:27,280 to. She has to clarify because she's 2100 01:56:27,280 --> 01:56:28,840 very serious. Nam is so serious. 2101 01:56:28,840 --> 01:56:31,080 And like, I imagine she delivered this very seriously to 2102 01:56:31,080 --> 01:56:32,160 Lada. And Lada's like, OK. 2103 01:56:32,880 --> 01:56:36,040 And then Nam is like, give me, can I have the bouquet that my 2104 01:56:36,040 --> 01:56:37,680 dad gave you? And then she takes the flowers 2105 01:56:37,680 --> 01:56:40,400 and throws them away. And she says that she does that 2106 01:56:40,400 --> 01:56:42,680 because she doesn't want Lada to misunderstand. 2107 01:56:43,240 --> 01:56:47,120 That's all she says. And my first thought was, how 2108 01:56:47,120 --> 01:56:50,040 does CERN probably bought these perfectly fine flowers from 2109 01:56:50,040 --> 01:56:53,280 probably from like rose and den And like, here's Nam throwing 2110 01:56:53,280 --> 01:56:55,080 them away in the trash. And I was like, what is she 2111 01:56:55,080 --> 01:56:57,840 doing? But there's always a reason. 2112 01:56:57,840 --> 01:57:01,080 Trust the process. So then Nam asked Shamleta what 2113 01:57:01,080 --> 01:57:03,080 flower she likes. She's like, what is your 2114 01:57:03,080 --> 01:57:05,040 favorite flower? And then Shamleta tells her 2115 01:57:05,040 --> 01:57:07,640 tulips. Then Nam asks what color tulips 2116 01:57:08,680 --> 01:57:11,000 and I love that she she like keeps asking and she's like I 2117 01:57:11,000 --> 01:57:13,560 want all the details exact what exactly do you like? 2118 01:57:13,560 --> 01:57:15,760 I need to know. And then John Linda tells her 2119 01:57:15,760 --> 01:57:18,480 and then she's like, OK, tomorrow morning I'll come pick 2120 01:57:18,480 --> 01:57:22,400 you up with pink tulips ones I personally choose. 2121 01:57:23,480 --> 01:57:27,280 And the cutest thing is, is that oppo is 20 minutes late to pick 2122 01:57:27,280 --> 01:57:30,960 up Lada because it she explains it was her first time picking up 2123 01:57:30,960 --> 01:57:34,720 flowers and she was so determined to get Lada quote the 2124 01:57:34,720 --> 01:57:38,240 right ones that she's late to pick her up for work. 2125 01:57:38,520 --> 01:57:42,280 Like that was huge and really cute and really sweet the way 2126 01:57:42,280 --> 01:57:45,440 that went down. I just I love how like again, it 2127 01:57:45,440 --> 01:57:47,800 shows you like how thoughtful she again, she's somebody who 2128 01:57:47,800 --> 01:57:49,720 overthinks things. She's really intelligent. 2129 01:57:49,720 --> 01:57:52,480 So she's like, I need to know your favorite flower down to the 2130 01:57:52,480 --> 01:57:54,920 color, the eyes, the smell, all of that. 2131 01:57:55,160 --> 01:57:57,720 And I'm going to personally pick you out your favorite flowers. 2132 01:57:57,720 --> 01:57:59,920 And she's late because it took her so long. 2133 01:58:00,000 --> 01:58:01,760 She's never done it before. She's on my first time doing 2134 01:58:01,760 --> 01:58:02,880 this. She's like, I'll get better at 2135 01:58:02,880 --> 01:58:04,760 it. It was very cute. 2136 01:58:04,760 --> 01:58:08,000 It's a very oppo and it just it should, it's how serious she is. 2137 01:58:08,000 --> 01:58:10,400 She's like, I'm so serious about you that I'm serious about these 2138 01:58:10,400 --> 01:58:12,920 fucking flowers that we're going to be late for work. 2139 01:58:14,000 --> 01:58:17,320 So I thought that was a big moment and it was really sweet. 2140 01:58:17,320 --> 01:58:20,120 And just the way it was written was, fuck, it was more than a 2141 01:58:20,200 --> 01:58:21,960 lot of just getting these flowers. 2142 01:58:21,960 --> 01:58:26,040 It was Appa being like, I put in all this, I'm putting in the 2143 01:58:26,040 --> 01:58:27,840 effort. I'm taking my dad's advice very 2144 01:58:27,840 --> 01:58:30,680 seriously to put in as much effort. 2145 01:58:30,680 --> 01:58:32,800 And like she's like, when it comes to Shawn Lana, my effort 2146 01:58:32,800 --> 01:58:35,680 is limitless and like, I'm going to show her that. 2147 01:58:35,960 --> 01:58:37,800 So it was very sweet the way she did that. 2148 01:58:39,840 --> 01:58:45,120 OK, But I mentioned earlier, Lada is softer than the ocean. 2149 01:58:45,120 --> 01:58:49,200 So eventually the truth comes out that Lada was upset that Nam 2150 01:58:49,200 --> 01:58:51,360 denied liking her in front of Phi. 2151 01:58:52,000 --> 01:58:54,520 And Nam admits to her she's like, well, I did that because 2152 01:58:54,520 --> 01:58:56,680 my cousin's a gossipy motherfucker. 2153 01:58:56,680 --> 01:58:57,760 And I'm like, God, tell her that. 2154 01:58:57,920 --> 01:59:00,760 And I can't tell her that. You see what my dad does? 2155 01:59:00,760 --> 01:59:05,520 Imagine all of my cousins here. So OK, but Lada's upset about 2156 01:59:05,520 --> 01:59:07,720 this. So the non persists in asking 2157 01:59:07,720 --> 01:59:11,000 Lada out, but Lada gets her revenge, OK because she's 2158 01:59:11,000 --> 01:59:13,560 spiteful. And I feel like that was kind of 2159 01:59:13,560 --> 01:59:16,840 lost, I bet. So basically they they go out 2160 01:59:16,840 --> 01:59:19,200 and Lada is like, I'm picking the food today. 2161 01:59:19,200 --> 01:59:22,920 And so they go to the street vendor that Lada picks out and 2162 01:59:22,920 --> 01:59:25,800 she rattles off all these spicy foods and she's like, I'm going 2163 01:59:25,800 --> 01:59:27,440 to check with you apple to make sure these are OK. 2164 01:59:27,440 --> 01:59:31,480 And Apple every time is like, Yep, that's fine. 2165 01:59:31,680 --> 01:59:34,960 Yep, that's fine. And Nam is A and and a lot of 2166 01:59:34,960 --> 01:59:36,440 like that. They're all spicy and Nam is 2167 01:59:36,440 --> 01:59:39,760 basically like, quote, I'm not leaving, I'm having dinner with 2168 01:59:39,760 --> 01:59:41,640 you. She's like, I don't care if I 2169 01:59:41,640 --> 01:59:44,120 die in the process with this food. 2170 01:59:44,400 --> 01:59:46,960 I'm doing this, I'm putting in all the effort. 2171 01:59:48,360 --> 01:59:52,880 And then to Nam surprise, when the vendor comes over and asks a 2172 01:59:52,880 --> 01:59:56,800 lot of what she wants, she she orders Nam quote kids food, 2173 01:59:56,800 --> 01:59:59,560 which is like not spicy. It's code for not spicy, which 2174 01:59:59,560 --> 02:00:01,560 is really cute. She's like get her the kids 2175 02:00:01,600 --> 02:00:04,720 food. And then Nam's confused because 2176 02:00:04,720 --> 02:00:08,080 a lot of it's just rattling off, like all these dishes that would 2177 02:00:08,080 --> 02:00:12,960 have killed her, essentially. And then Lada says, quote. 2178 02:00:13,160 --> 02:00:16,840 I was worried you'd end up crying from the heat and people 2179 02:00:16,840 --> 02:00:19,600 might think I broke your heart and I don't want that 2180 02:00:19,600 --> 02:00:22,840 misunderstanding. And then Nam Mumbles. 2181 02:00:23,400 --> 02:00:27,720 Would it be far from the truth? I'm sorry. 2182 02:00:28,080 --> 02:00:31,720 Some of their dialogue is so fucking funny, and it was not in 2183 02:00:31,920 --> 02:00:33,720 this show. It's so funny. 2184 02:00:33,720 --> 02:00:37,800 Like, that is so petty. Sometimes it's really funny. 2185 02:00:41,680 --> 02:00:44,360 OK. And the nom essentially they're 2186 02:00:44,400 --> 02:00:46,760 they get the food, they start eating and the nom proclaims 2187 02:00:46,960 --> 02:00:50,120 that she's going to work on tolerating spicy food so that 2188 02:00:50,120 --> 02:00:52,680 she can eat the same thing when they go out. 2189 02:00:53,160 --> 02:00:58,240 And Lana's response is quote, you don't have to force 2190 02:00:58,240 --> 02:01:01,040 yourself. People like different things, 2191 02:01:01,760 --> 02:01:04,560 but we can always find common ground. 2192 02:01:05,800 --> 02:01:09,640 And like, what an incredibly mature point of view. 2193 02:01:10,360 --> 02:01:13,560 Despite all the teasing that went into this and the fact that 2194 02:01:13,560 --> 02:01:18,560 Lada is much younger than Nam, like again, it goes to show you 2195 02:01:18,560 --> 02:01:21,840 that they're intellectual equals, like Lada's like. 2196 02:01:22,520 --> 02:01:25,000 And also Lada is essentially telling Nam, I don't want you to 2197 02:01:25,000 --> 02:01:27,760 change. Like these two never try to 2198 02:01:27,760 --> 02:01:31,600 change each other like ever. Like Nam does change, but she 2199 02:01:31,600 --> 02:01:34,320 changes because she's experiencing life for the first 2200 02:01:34,320 --> 02:01:36,840 time. And she like is curious about it 2201 02:01:36,840 --> 02:01:38,920 because Lada is like living in color. 2202 02:01:38,920 --> 02:01:40,760 And she said, well, I kind of want to experience that too. 2203 02:01:40,760 --> 02:01:42,760 So like, I'm going to learn from you. 2204 02:01:42,760 --> 02:01:46,440 It's not that Lada changes Nam. She just opens up the world of 2205 02:01:46,440 --> 02:01:52,200 possibilities and Nam goes and explores them with with Lada and 2206 02:01:52,200 --> 02:01:54,600 I like that lot of very consistently throughout the 2207 02:01:54,600 --> 02:01:56,040 novel. It's like I'm not trying to 2208 02:01:56,040 --> 02:01:59,640 change Nam Like she's like, I like it's OK that we like 2209 02:01:59,640 --> 02:02:04,320 different things, but like as long as we communicate, we can 2210 02:02:04,320 --> 02:02:06,880 find, you know, we can have fun together. 2211 02:02:06,880 --> 02:02:08,680 Like we're still having dinner together even though we're 2212 02:02:08,680 --> 02:02:12,880 eating different foods. So I love her mindset when it 2213 02:02:12,880 --> 02:02:14,960 comes to but of course she has to like tease Nam, which is like 2214 02:02:14,960 --> 02:02:16,480 the hilarious part about everything. 2215 02:02:16,480 --> 02:02:19,240 But like at the end of the day, she a date, she respects Nam and 2216 02:02:19,240 --> 02:02:24,080 she's not trying to change her. And that's I think so important 2217 02:02:24,360 --> 02:02:27,240 and I love that about their relationship and and I love that 2218 02:02:27,240 --> 02:02:29,280 it consistently comes from Lada and and nada. 2219 02:02:29,280 --> 02:02:32,040 Also is not trying to change lot like Lada is a pain in the ass 2220 02:02:32,040 --> 02:02:32,880 sometimes. She's like and. 2221 02:02:33,240 --> 02:02:34,960 That's why I love her. I'm not going to change her like 2222 02:02:35,000 --> 02:02:36,200 she says. It's a what she's like. 2223 02:02:36,240 --> 02:02:37,720 I'm not changing her. That's why I love her. 2224 02:02:37,960 --> 02:02:39,760 So they neither of them want to change each other. 2225 02:02:39,800 --> 02:02:42,760 So I love that about them. OK. 2226 02:02:43,200 --> 02:02:46,640 And then the water starts coming in in the form of rain. 2227 02:02:46,640 --> 02:02:51,360 So like literal water. OK, so on another time and 2228 02:02:51,360 --> 02:02:54,560 another day after that, they are working on setting up a hotel 2229 02:02:54,560 --> 02:02:58,880 event and it's outside. And Lada was on the team that 2230 02:02:58,880 --> 02:03:02,120 was setting up the outside and she leaves her handbag outside. 2231 02:03:02,360 --> 02:03:05,240 OK. And this is the the stage where 2232 02:03:05,640 --> 02:03:12,200 essentially Nam and Lada are on a texting basis, which is 2233 02:03:12,280 --> 02:03:15,920 hilarious because Oppo texts like an old person. 2234 02:03:16,360 --> 02:03:20,080 Like with like this is oppo and like uses punctuation and like 2235 02:03:20,200 --> 02:03:21,600 it's she just texts like an old person. 2236 02:03:21,960 --> 02:03:24,040 And then like a lot of teachers are how to use stickers and 2237 02:03:24,160 --> 02:03:26,160 oppo's like I will only use stickers with you. 2238 02:03:26,160 --> 02:03:29,000 Like I'm serious about this. And she's it's just adorable. 2239 02:03:29,760 --> 02:03:32,600 OK, so they're on a texting basis. 2240 02:03:32,960 --> 02:03:35,680 And I have to point out that like in the novel, like the way 2241 02:03:35,960 --> 02:03:41,840 Nom gets, I mean, yeah, I guess Lada's line ID is not from HR. 2242 02:03:42,040 --> 02:03:44,720 She or like from weird workarounds. 2243 02:03:44,720 --> 02:03:48,520 She asks Lada because like, she's like, like consent. 2244 02:03:48,520 --> 02:03:50,560 Consent is important to APO. And she's like, I'm not going to 2245 02:03:50,560 --> 02:03:53,960 like go into your private life. I want you to give it to me if 2246 02:03:53,960 --> 02:03:55,320 you want to. And so then they get on a 2247 02:03:55,320 --> 02:03:57,640 texting basis, which is because, again, mutual respect. 2248 02:03:57,960 --> 02:03:59,440 And so then they get on a texting basis. 2249 02:03:59,920 --> 02:04:03,640 And so in this scene where it's like the while I was setting up 2250 02:04:03,640 --> 02:04:05,880 the event, she leaves her handbag, her phone's in the bag 2251 02:04:05,880 --> 02:04:09,480 and it's about to rain. And she, despite the rain, she 2252 02:04:09,480 --> 02:04:11,960 has to go get it because her phone is in there. 2253 02:04:12,120 --> 02:04:14,920 And quote, she thinks to herself, she wouldn't be able to 2254 02:04:14,920 --> 02:04:18,120 receive messages from someone who texted better than she 2255 02:04:18,120 --> 02:04:20,400 spoke. So once they're on a texting 2256 02:04:20,400 --> 02:04:23,240 basis, Oppo texts her like non-stop. 2257 02:04:23,520 --> 02:04:26,000 And then it becomes very glaringly obvious just how 2258 02:04:26,080 --> 02:04:29,040 introverted Oppo is because she's like, we'll be there in 2259 02:04:29,040 --> 02:04:32,000 person and Shawna will be like, God, I kind of wish we could 2260 02:04:32,000 --> 02:04:34,360 both text On this date, even though I'm sitting with her 2261 02:04:34,360 --> 02:04:38,080 because she's more talkative in text messages than in real life. 2262 02:04:38,880 --> 02:04:41,280 Because Oppo's a deeply introverted person. 2263 02:04:41,280 --> 02:04:44,520 And that is, it's easier to text than it is to talk. 2264 02:04:44,520 --> 02:04:47,960 So like, that's when Lata really gets to know Oppo is when they 2265 02:04:47,960 --> 02:04:50,440 start texting. Because she's an introvert. 2266 02:04:50,440 --> 02:04:53,720 She's a deep, She's more introverted than Lata, but it 2267 02:04:53,720 --> 02:04:54,960 was really cute. But then she was like, I like 2268 02:04:54,960 --> 02:04:56,160 talking to her, so I need my phone. 2269 02:04:56,480 --> 02:04:59,400 So then she's almost out there trying to get the thing and it's 2270 02:04:59,400 --> 02:05:01,520 in the pouring rain. So that Oppo literally runs out 2271 02:05:01,520 --> 02:05:03,960 in the rain to go get her when she realizes where she is. 2272 02:05:04,400 --> 02:05:06,480 And then this is different from the series. 2273 02:05:06,480 --> 02:05:10,240 So that Oppo saved Shamlena from a giant arch decoration that was 2274 02:05:10,240 --> 02:05:14,000 falling. And so something nefarious, it 2275 02:05:14,000 --> 02:05:15,800 was just part of the decoration in the wind. 2276 02:05:15,840 --> 02:05:20,160 And she saves her and then loses her glasses in the process and 2277 02:05:20,160 --> 02:05:23,320 then ends up fawning all over Lada, who's like, Oh my God, are 2278 02:05:23,320 --> 02:05:24,720 you OK? She's like checking her to make 2279 02:05:24,720 --> 02:05:28,760 sure she's not injured. And Lada's in shock that Oppo 2280 02:05:28,760 --> 02:05:33,200 just saved her. So then Lada's in shock. 2281 02:05:33,200 --> 02:05:37,720 And then Oppo notices Lada's clothes are wet and they're kind 2282 02:05:37,720 --> 02:05:39,480 of revealing. So then she like, puts her 2283 02:05:39,480 --> 02:05:41,920 blazer over Lada to cover her up. 2284 02:05:42,360 --> 02:05:46,200 And she explains to Lada that she can she's like, you can keep 2285 02:05:46,200 --> 02:05:48,160 the jacket. Like, I have like 500 of them. 2286 02:05:48,720 --> 02:05:54,160 And then it's not a big deal. And then Lada finally speaks 2287 02:05:54,160 --> 02:05:56,960 when she like, like realizes like she's getting all these 2288 02:05:56,960 --> 02:05:59,520 like caretaking behaviors from Oppo. 2289 02:05:59,560 --> 02:06:04,160 Oppo literally saved her life. So like directly flying in the 2290 02:06:04,160 --> 02:06:07,840 face of her initial impression that like, Oppo doesn't care 2291 02:06:07,840 --> 02:06:09,720 about me. Like here's evidence that she 2292 02:06:09,720 --> 02:06:11,400 does. Very much so. 2293 02:06:12,160 --> 02:06:15,760 And then Lada, when she speaks, says, can I stay like this for a 2294 02:06:15,760 --> 02:06:17,560 moment? And we're they're in the rain. 2295 02:06:17,720 --> 02:06:22,280 And then Oppo freezes and lot of raps oppo in a hug. 2296 02:06:23,720 --> 02:06:26,920 And in this situation, this is when Lada admits to herself that 2297 02:06:26,920 --> 02:06:32,320 she fell into her own trap. And there's no greater 2298 02:06:32,320 --> 02:06:35,960 declaration of love than what Oppo just did, like literally 2299 02:06:35,960 --> 02:06:40,440 saved her life. And especially for Lada, who's 2300 02:06:40,440 --> 02:06:45,720 had such little genuine love in her life, Like this moment was a 2301 02:06:45,720 --> 02:06:50,040 humongous deal because Appa was showing how much she cared not 2302 02:06:50,040 --> 02:06:52,200 just by like saving her from the falling thing. 2303 02:06:52,200 --> 02:06:56,560 She was then very methodically making sure she was OK, gave her 2304 02:06:56,560 --> 02:06:59,560 her jacket because she could tell the clothes were see 2305 02:06:59,560 --> 02:07:01,480 through. And like was literally doing all 2306 02:07:01,480 --> 02:07:04,080 these things just for Shawn. Let us like take care of her. 2307 02:07:04,080 --> 02:07:06,080 And so like, that was this is a huge deal for her. 2308 02:07:07,600 --> 02:07:11,880 And this is also a huge moment for oppo in the hug because she 2309 02:07:11,880 --> 02:07:16,120 admits internally that she's taken off guard by the hug and 2310 02:07:16,120 --> 02:07:19,400 she loses track of time when they're in the hug again, Miss 2311 02:07:19,400 --> 02:07:24,280 Control loses track of time and she thinks, quote, she would let 2312 02:07:24,280 --> 02:07:26,440 Shamla to hold her for as long as she wants. 2313 02:07:27,600 --> 02:07:30,240 Like that's what bad oppo has at this stage. 2314 02:07:30,680 --> 02:07:34,400 It's so bad. But like, wow, very different 2315 02:07:34,400 --> 02:07:37,680 from the person who's like, I broke your phone call. 2316 02:07:37,680 --> 02:07:41,280 My assistant, she was like, she can hug me in the rain for as 2317 02:07:41,320 --> 02:07:45,840 long as she wants. OK, so we're finally getting 2318 02:07:45,840 --> 02:07:48,480 closer to these two. Well, not these two for. 2319 02:07:48,600 --> 02:07:49,840 Yeah, these two getting together. 2320 02:07:49,840 --> 02:07:53,880 OK, so we're making progress. And then Dean and Rose come to 2321 02:07:53,880 --> 02:07:55,840 visit something else that wasn't in the series. 2322 02:07:55,920 --> 02:07:57,600 I think that was a scheduling thing. 2323 02:07:57,840 --> 02:08:03,240 But anyway, there are but red flags abound when Din and Rose 2324 02:08:03,240 --> 02:08:05,520 get there. So what happens is that Din 2325 02:08:05,520 --> 02:08:10,000 books a trip to the hotel months in advance on like Lam and Phi. 2326 02:08:10,000 --> 02:08:13,600 So like Nam prefers Din because Din is more respectable and 2327 02:08:13,600 --> 02:08:16,240 she's like, I'll come visit you on March 15th. 2328 02:08:16,240 --> 02:08:20,360 In a few months me and Rose will be there and book a room for two 2329 02:08:20,720 --> 02:08:23,920 versus Phi and Lam just show up randomly like I'm here and it's 2330 02:08:23,920 --> 02:08:28,560 like, girl, I'm working. So Nam prefers Din because Din 2331 02:08:28,560 --> 02:08:29,960 is more structured than the other two. 2332 02:08:31,000 --> 02:08:37,200 So Nam gets a call when Din arrives and she admits to Din 2333 02:08:37,200 --> 02:08:41,840 she took the day off from work and Din because like after the 2334 02:08:41,920 --> 02:08:44,480 the rain thing, Nam gets sick and then we go through that 2335 02:08:44,480 --> 02:08:47,560 whole thing. So then Din's like, wait, are 2336 02:08:47,560 --> 02:08:49,760 you sick? And Nam's like, well, no, I just 2337 02:08:49,760 --> 02:08:52,880 wanted to take a break. And Din's like, what's gotten 2338 02:08:52,880 --> 02:08:54,720 into you? I can't read you at all right 2339 02:08:54,720 --> 02:08:55,320 now. Who are you? 2340 02:08:55,320 --> 02:08:57,960 Are you my cousin? And then Nam says the C is 2341 02:08:57,960 --> 02:09:00,120 beautiful. I'm like, the way if you're dead 2342 02:09:00,120 --> 02:09:03,200 in this conversation, you're like, is oppo on drugs? 2343 02:09:03,680 --> 02:09:05,040 Like the way she's answering stuff. 2344 02:09:05,040 --> 02:09:06,840 You're like, you're like, she's like, you took off from work 2345 02:09:06,840 --> 02:09:08,600 because you wanted a break, a break. 2346 02:09:08,880 --> 02:09:10,240 And then she's like, what's gotten into you? 2347 02:09:10,240 --> 02:09:12,640 She's like the C is beautiful. And you're like, what? 2348 02:09:13,800 --> 02:09:16,120 Again? Nam is worse than Den. 2349 02:09:16,640 --> 02:09:18,680 She's more awkward than Den. It's amazing. 2350 02:09:18,680 --> 02:09:20,880 I didn't think it could happen, but it happens. 2351 02:09:22,440 --> 02:09:26,040 And of course Din thinks Nam right now in this conversation, 2352 02:09:26,040 --> 02:09:29,160 she's talking about the actual ocean because they're who hen. 2353 02:09:29,440 --> 02:09:32,680 And until Lada walks by and the Nam gets hella distracted. 2354 02:09:32,680 --> 02:09:35,320 And then Din's like, who was that? 2355 02:09:35,320 --> 02:09:37,040 And then Din says and then sorry. 2356 02:09:37,040 --> 02:09:42,320 And then nom says the sea. Din, I think I like the sea now. 2357 02:09:44,280 --> 02:09:49,320 And then Oppo continues this in her brain, in her poetic brain 2358 02:09:49,320 --> 02:09:52,720 and thinks a sea that was bright, full of life and 2359 02:09:52,760 --> 02:09:56,440 completely herself because Apple's got it real bad and she 2360 02:09:56,440 --> 02:09:58,480 loves sound a lot for who she is. 2361 02:09:58,480 --> 02:10:03,640 But like, this was one of the most awkward verbal exchanges in 2362 02:10:03,640 --> 02:10:06,400 the story. And I'm upset that we're robbed 2363 02:10:06,400 --> 02:10:10,160 of watching this in the series because it's so awkward to watch 2364 02:10:10,160 --> 02:10:13,280 these two interactive and so funny. 2365 02:10:15,320 --> 02:10:20,800 OK so and the thing else we were robbed of is Shamlana bonds very 2366 02:10:20,800 --> 02:10:25,120 quickly with the family. So here's the deal. 2367 02:10:25,120 --> 02:10:28,960 So this was all conspiracy from fine Lom. 2368 02:10:28,960 --> 02:10:34,120 I'm 100% sure Sofi off screen told Din and Rose everything 2369 02:10:34,120 --> 02:10:37,120 that has been going on with Nam and Shamlana essentially in 2370 02:10:37,120 --> 02:10:39,160 their suspicions and the Lom situation. 2371 02:10:39,840 --> 02:10:43,360 And I'm pretty sure the other cousin sent Din and Rose to like 2372 02:10:43,360 --> 02:10:45,560 suss out the situation. That's why they're here even 2373 02:10:45,560 --> 02:10:46,680 though they probably booked this already. 2374 02:10:46,680 --> 02:10:51,560 But they're on a mission now. And it's really sweet that Din 2375 02:10:51,560 --> 02:10:54,720 throughout this whole thing notices how much more Nam is 2376 02:10:54,720 --> 02:10:58,200 smiling and notices that Nam is acting very carefree, which is 2377 02:10:58,240 --> 02:11:02,040 atypical for Nam. But also Din is in love now and 2378 02:11:02,040 --> 02:11:04,120 understands that she's like, oh, Nam's in love. 2379 02:11:04,120 --> 02:11:06,320 I can kind of see it because like this is the way I look at 2380 02:11:06,320 --> 02:11:09,560 my wife kind of thing. Well, what's really funny is 2381 02:11:09,560 --> 02:11:12,440 like they hang out with them and then like did and Rose gossip 2382 02:11:12,440 --> 02:11:14,880 behind everybody's backs because they're this is just married 2383 02:11:14,880 --> 02:11:16,320 life perks. But it's really funny that 2384 02:11:16,320 --> 02:11:18,480 they're like the secret agents going in there and then they 2385 02:11:18,560 --> 02:11:20,360 like regroup and talk about them. 2386 02:11:20,400 --> 02:11:23,440 It's hilarious. We were robbed of the scene of 2387 02:11:23,440 --> 02:11:26,680 these scenes. OK, What's of note is that Rose 2388 02:11:26,680 --> 02:11:30,120 and Charlotte bond, bond here and they bond very easily 2389 02:11:30,120 --> 02:11:32,600 because it's like Rose is almost like the peacekeeper of the 2390 02:11:32,600 --> 02:11:34,360 family. I think that's like her role 2391 02:11:34,360 --> 02:11:37,320 because like the cousins are so fucking chaotic and Rose can be 2392 02:11:37,320 --> 02:11:40,760 chaotic, but she's more like she's the she's the negotiator, 2393 02:11:40,760 --> 02:11:44,000 She's the she's she's good at diffusing situations. 2394 02:11:44,000 --> 02:11:46,040 She's good at getting people like her, getting people like, 2395 02:11:46,040 --> 02:11:50,080 you know, she's that person. So her and Charlotte do bond 2396 02:11:50,080 --> 02:11:53,960 here, which it's important because like at the end they 2397 02:11:53,960 --> 02:11:56,560 have a sex talk and so like that didn't come out of nowhere. 2398 02:11:56,560 --> 02:11:57,840 It's because they already bonded. 2399 02:11:58,360 --> 02:12:01,040 So it's not as weird as it was in the series. 2400 02:12:01,040 --> 02:12:03,040 Or are they just out of nowhere have that conversation? 2401 02:12:04,400 --> 02:12:08,800 Anyway, so then Nam then tells Din because they they go off and 2402 02:12:08,800 --> 02:12:11,640 like the the women, like the women, the wives essentially go 2403 02:12:11,640 --> 02:12:13,040 off and go to a spa, have a spa day. 2404 02:12:13,040 --> 02:12:17,160 And then like Nam and Din hang out like the the gentlemen, the 2405 02:12:17,160 --> 02:12:21,880 gentlewomen are hanging out. And so Nam tells Din in this 2406 02:12:21,880 --> 02:12:24,680 conversation that she's into Shamla before she even tells 2407 02:12:24,680 --> 02:12:26,720 Shamla. So she confides in Din and 2408 02:12:27,560 --> 02:12:29,960 anything that goes to show you, like I think of all the cousins, 2409 02:12:29,960 --> 02:12:31,840 that makes sense. She would have told Din even if 2410 02:12:31,840 --> 02:12:34,160 mom didn't have a crush, because like I think they're the most 2411 02:12:34,160 --> 02:12:35,600 similar. Din's really calm. 2412 02:12:35,600 --> 02:12:37,840 It Din's really rational. Din has experience. 2413 02:12:38,160 --> 02:12:40,560 Din Din has experience. But like, I think they're 2414 02:12:40,760 --> 02:12:42,600 they're closer. Also, they're closer in age 2415 02:12:42,920 --> 02:12:47,040 probably. So I think it's it makes sense 2416 02:12:47,040 --> 02:12:52,000 that Nama confide in Din and also Nam and Din just kind of 2417 02:12:52,000 --> 02:12:53,680 like share her brains out a little bit because they're very 2418 02:12:53,680 --> 02:12:56,960 similar. And so after she confesses this 2419 02:12:56,960 --> 02:13:00,320 to Din, Din presses her a little bit on this. 2420 02:13:00,320 --> 02:13:06,280 And Nam says she the reason she hasn't said this out loud other 2421 02:13:06,280 --> 02:13:08,720 than to Din is because she doesn't know how a lot of feels 2422 02:13:08,720 --> 02:13:12,800 and she's afraid she will make a lot of uncomfortable or quit her 2423 02:13:12,800 --> 02:13:16,760 job if it's not reciprocated. So like Nam is super conscious 2424 02:13:16,760 --> 02:13:19,800 of the fact that like we have an employer employee thing going on 2425 02:13:19,800 --> 02:13:22,200 here and like this can get really messy and I like don't 2426 02:13:22,200 --> 02:13:24,480 want her to leave or I don't want her to feel uncomfortable 2427 02:13:24,800 --> 02:13:26,800 and like I don't want each targeting involved, you know 2428 02:13:26,800 --> 02:13:28,640 what I mean? Like mom is very conscious of 2429 02:13:28,640 --> 02:13:30,600 like the context of their relationship. 2430 02:13:30,600 --> 02:13:33,680 Like thank you. A self aware character in a 2431 02:13:33,680 --> 02:13:37,840 workplace relationship, being self aware of the situation and 2432 02:13:37,840 --> 02:13:39,920 how messy it is. I appreciate that from mom. 2433 02:13:41,280 --> 02:13:44,480 So then Din gives APO the advice to tell Shalala how she feels 2434 02:13:44,920 --> 02:13:48,040 and not just use actions alone because like a lot Nah. 2435 02:13:48,040 --> 02:13:50,400 I was like I'm doing all these things to show her I'm afraid of 2436 02:13:50,400 --> 02:13:52,400 saying it and Din's like been there buddy. 2437 02:13:52,680 --> 02:13:55,240 It doesn't always work so you have to use your words. 2438 02:13:55,240 --> 02:14:00,320 Also speaking from experience Din girl you even when you use 2439 02:14:00,320 --> 02:14:03,920 your words it goes barley so for you to give her advice. 2440 02:14:04,480 --> 02:14:08,440 Anyway, I wish we got that scene because just the awkwardness of 2441 02:14:08,440 --> 02:14:10,440 the two of them is just beautiful. 2442 02:14:11,880 --> 02:14:14,360 OK, so then like I mentioned earlier, so then Din and Rose 2443 02:14:14,360 --> 02:14:18,320 like go off screen and like go away from them and like talk 2444 02:14:18,320 --> 02:14:20,080 shit about them basically. And they're like, what did you 2445 02:14:20,080 --> 02:14:20,800 see? What did you see? 2446 02:14:21,120 --> 02:14:23,760 And they essentially just bless this union basically. 2447 02:14:24,000 --> 02:14:27,920 So after reading this, I'm pretty sure these two dumb asses 2448 02:14:27,920 --> 02:14:32,880 were on a mission here and Din's target was Nom and then Rose's 2449 02:14:32,880 --> 02:14:34,560 with Shan Lada. And so they meet up later and 2450 02:14:34,560 --> 02:14:37,160 confirm that Nom and Lada are into each other, in which, duh. 2451 02:14:38,200 --> 02:14:41,160 And then Rose is all of us because again, we were robbed of 2452 02:14:41,160 --> 02:14:43,400 this. So Rose is talking to Dan and 2453 02:14:43,400 --> 02:14:45,960 she says, do you think Nam will succeed? 2454 02:14:46,440 --> 02:14:48,840 To be honest, I'm worried. If this were mom, I wouldn't 2455 02:14:48,840 --> 02:14:52,240 worry at all. But Nam, she's even more upper 2456 02:14:52,240 --> 02:14:54,400 than you, Dan. Does she even know how to flirt? 2457 02:14:55,760 --> 02:14:58,760 That was my favorite line because yes, that was those were 2458 02:14:58,760 --> 02:15:02,920 my thoughts too. Rose, she's worse than you. 2459 02:15:02,920 --> 02:15:05,880 Like, I think that Rose points that out because I literally had 2460 02:15:05,880 --> 02:15:07,280 that thought so many times in reading this. 2461 02:15:07,760 --> 02:15:10,560 And so I'm glad that Rose agrees with me, agrees with me. 2462 02:15:10,600 --> 02:15:12,400 Like, you're worse. You're worse than her. 2463 02:15:14,200 --> 02:15:16,560 OK. So then after that conversation, 2464 02:15:16,560 --> 02:15:20,000 then they they have dinner with Rose. 2465 02:15:20,000 --> 02:15:21,640 Rose, they have a double date basically. 2466 02:15:21,640 --> 02:15:24,400 And then Nah, I'm just drinking alcohol during this double date. 2467 02:15:25,320 --> 02:15:28,160 And on the walk home, essentially like dinner and Rose 2468 02:15:28,160 --> 02:15:31,960 go to their room and then Nam and Shamala like go on a walk 2469 02:15:32,600 --> 02:15:35,440 around Huahen and then Nam, the Huahen resort. 2470 02:15:35,440 --> 02:15:37,680 And then Nam blurts out that she likes Shamala. 2471 02:15:37,680 --> 02:15:39,800 She uses her words, she uses to take some advice. 2472 02:15:40,240 --> 02:15:44,040 And Shamala freaks out and like almost walks into the ocean 2473 02:15:44,040 --> 02:15:46,680 instead of like on the path on the shore where they were 2474 02:15:46,680 --> 02:15:49,120 walking. And so Nam has to so she becomes 2475 02:15:49,120 --> 02:15:50,840 a mess and then Nam has to stop her. 2476 02:15:50,840 --> 02:15:54,360 And she tells Lada like, because Lada's like you've been drinking 2477 02:15:55,320 --> 02:15:57,680 you, you don't mean this. And so the nom says, OK, well, 2478 02:15:57,680 --> 02:16:00,200 if you don't believe me because I was drinking, then I will tell 2479 02:16:00,200 --> 02:16:02,680 you again tomorrow. And if you don't feel the same 2480 02:16:02,680 --> 02:16:04,480 way, I'll we will forget this ever happened. 2481 02:16:05,960 --> 02:16:08,760 So then salt because she's not, she's trying to be respectful. 2482 02:16:08,760 --> 02:16:11,760 So then salty Shyamala comes back with quote. 2483 02:16:11,800 --> 02:16:14,440 We will not forget this. You have to take responsibility 2484 02:16:14,440 --> 02:16:19,440 for your feelings. And then Lana admits that she 2485 02:16:19,440 --> 02:16:22,560 likes Nam and has for a long time and they agree to date for 2486 02:16:22,560 --> 02:16:24,560 real. I just love how fiery she is. 2487 02:16:24,560 --> 02:16:27,280 I feel like all those dialogue was a mess in the show. 2488 02:16:27,960 --> 02:16:30,560 OK. And then Oppo thinks the gentle 2489 02:16:30,560 --> 02:16:33,680 waves of the sea like Shamlada had brought new life to the one 2490 02:16:33,680 --> 02:16:35,480 still and quiet sea that was Oppo. 2491 02:16:35,719 --> 02:16:37,600 Which yes, they're water metaphors. 2492 02:16:37,600 --> 02:16:41,080 So cute and I really like the comparison to the waves because 2493 02:16:41,120 --> 02:16:44,600 it again, it makes Shamala just seem like this element of chaos 2494 02:16:44,600 --> 02:16:48,520 that oppo needed in her life. Like sometimes chaos can be a 2495 02:16:48,520 --> 02:16:51,280 very good thing because her cousins are chaotic and she 2496 02:16:51,280 --> 02:16:53,879 loves them and and you never see her smiling more than when she's 2497 02:16:53,879 --> 02:16:57,639 with them like prior to Shamala. So like, you know, I love that 2498 02:16:57,639 --> 02:16:58,799 and I love that kind of comparison. 2499 02:16:58,799 --> 02:17:01,000 Like she needs that. That's her love, part of her 2500 02:17:01,000 --> 02:17:04,360 love language or whatever. OK, so they start dating for 2501 02:17:04,360 --> 02:17:05,760 real. So then they have to tell Big 2502 02:17:05,760 --> 02:17:09,280 Boss, they have to tell Addison. All right, So then Nam is very 2503 02:17:09,280 --> 02:17:11,160 insistent about this. She's like, he's our number one 2504 02:17:11,160 --> 02:17:12,680 shipper. We have to tell him. 2505 02:17:12,719 --> 02:17:15,400 And Shaman is a little apprehensive about this because 2506 02:17:15,400 --> 02:17:20,680 again, workplace relationship until Nam points out, quote, if 2507 02:17:20,680 --> 02:17:23,639 my dad thinks I'm single, he won't stop trying to set me up 2508 02:17:23,639 --> 02:17:25,480 with someone because that's another thing going on in the 2509 02:17:25,480 --> 02:17:28,120 background. And so Nam continues. 2510 02:17:28,320 --> 02:17:30,719 I want to make it clear to him so he stops interfering. 2511 02:17:31,840 --> 02:17:34,480 But if you're not comfortable and then Lana cuts her off and 2512 02:17:34,480 --> 02:17:37,080 says let's go see Big Boss. I'm not letting anyone take you 2513 02:17:37,080 --> 02:17:40,719 away from me. I just love how fierce she is 2514 02:17:40,840 --> 02:17:42,799 sometimes. Like when I was trying to be 2515 02:17:42,799 --> 02:17:44,400 respectful and do like, this is what I want. 2516 02:17:44,400 --> 02:17:46,080 But if that's not what you want a lot, I was like, you're 2517 02:17:46,080 --> 02:17:49,440 fucking doing this because you just said it and let's go. 2518 02:17:49,840 --> 02:17:51,040 No one's taking you away from me. 2519 02:17:52,120 --> 02:17:56,320 So then Addison's reaction to this news is literally 2520 02:17:56,320 --> 02:17:58,840 everything. So he they tell him and he says 2521 02:17:58,840 --> 02:18:03,360 finally my daughter has found someone and no one replies. 2522 02:18:03,799 --> 02:18:06,480 Dad, could you not? He could sound like nobody 2523 02:18:06,480 --> 02:18:11,240 wanted me. Their their conversations are so 2524 02:18:11,240 --> 02:18:13,600 funny. They have much more of a this 2525 02:18:13,760 --> 02:18:16,320 like back and forth thing that's hilarious. 2526 02:18:16,360 --> 02:18:17,719 Like, it's like poor. No. 2527 02:18:19,600 --> 02:18:26,440 All right. So meanwhile, that evening, Lada 2528 02:18:26,639 --> 02:18:28,680 Nam drives Lada home and they're talking. 2529 02:18:28,680 --> 02:18:33,360 And then Lada says, you know, your dad seemed even happier 2530 02:18:33,360 --> 02:18:36,520 than you were when he found out we were dating. 2531 02:18:37,480 --> 02:18:39,520 Wait, wait. Why are you pulling over? 2532 02:18:39,520 --> 02:18:43,160 So the Nam Nam is driving. And then Lada says this and Nam 2533 02:18:43,280 --> 02:18:45,080 started pulling the car off the road. 2534 02:18:48,040 --> 02:18:52,000 She parks the car inside of the road and turns her and says I 2535 02:18:52,000 --> 02:18:55,600 may not have reacted as dramatically as my dad, but I 2536 02:18:55,600 --> 02:18:58,160 promise you I am happier than he is. 2537 02:18:58,959 --> 02:19:02,280 Lada says don't tell me you pulled over just to say that. 2538 02:19:02,400 --> 02:19:04,639 And oppa very serious is like I did. 2539 02:19:04,639 --> 02:19:07,840 I needed to clarify and I'm like, I'm sorry. 2540 02:19:08,280 --> 02:19:11,840 Like Nam is as dramatic as her father. 2541 02:19:12,879 --> 02:19:15,760 This just proves it. It's just that she executes it 2542 02:19:15,760 --> 02:19:19,200 more seriously because she's like, so she's she's like, I'm 2543 02:19:19,200 --> 02:19:21,240 so serious about this. I had to pull the car off her. 2544 02:19:21,240 --> 02:19:23,719 So you knew I was serious. I was about this. 2545 02:19:25,040 --> 02:19:28,320 But she's she's another being a dramatic age, just like runs in 2546 02:19:28,320 --> 02:19:30,240 their family because like they're all gay. 2547 02:19:30,680 --> 02:19:32,120 So therefore they are all dramatic. 2548 02:19:34,480 --> 02:19:37,760 And this is the part where a lot of notes like mentally that Nam 2549 02:19:37,760 --> 02:19:39,680 is steady and clear with her feelings. 2550 02:19:39,680 --> 02:19:41,400 And like This is why she likes Nam. 2551 02:19:41,400 --> 02:19:43,920 She's like, This is why I love her because she like is so 2552 02:19:43,920 --> 02:19:51,200 serious and means like her love is very reliable because again, 2553 02:19:51,200 --> 02:19:54,040 like Lada very sadly has never had that type of stability from 2554 02:19:54,040 --> 02:19:56,480 her family. And so she always feels like 2555 02:19:56,480 --> 02:19:58,960 she's walking on egg shells when it comes to her loved ones. 2556 02:19:58,960 --> 02:20:05,200 And so it's so it must be so nice and like a relief to have 2557 02:20:05,200 --> 02:20:08,240 somebody like Nam who's so straightforward and honest about 2558 02:20:08,240 --> 02:20:12,040 how she feels. And then after this, they 2559 02:20:12,040 --> 02:20:16,200 officially nickname each other and they both feel very deeply 2560 02:20:16,200 --> 02:20:18,200 when they hear their nickname for the first time. 2561 02:20:18,200 --> 02:20:22,480 And I just and I was executed nicely in the series and I love 2562 02:20:22,480 --> 02:20:27,240 that this is a very Thai language specific detail and how 2563 02:20:27,720 --> 02:20:31,520 it was executed in this novel and also in the series to just 2564 02:20:31,520 --> 02:20:36,040 show like how them removing hierarchy from their language 2565 02:20:36,040 --> 02:20:39,680 and like speaking intimately because again, intellects the 2566 02:20:39,680 --> 02:20:41,520 speaking intimately. That's the thing that like 2567 02:20:41,520 --> 02:20:45,520 really like gets to them. It's like those like mental 2568 02:20:45,520 --> 02:20:46,920 things because like they're intellects. 2569 02:20:48,800 --> 02:20:51,960 OK, so things are going well right now, which means the drama 2570 02:20:51,960 --> 02:20:53,760 has to come back. So it comes back in the form of 2571 02:20:53,760 --> 02:20:56,640 Shamlou's family. And so after she's happy with 2572 02:20:56,640 --> 02:21:00,240 Nam, her father decides to marry her off because he's a demon and 2573 02:21:00,240 --> 02:21:05,560 her father, her family doesn't know about Nam and Lana has not 2574 02:21:05,560 --> 02:21:08,600 told them because she knows they are homophobic as fuck and they 2575 02:21:08,600 --> 02:21:11,440 will never approve of of Oppo for so many reasons. 2576 02:21:11,920 --> 02:21:14,200 But her dad at this point is looking to strengthen the 2577 02:21:14,200 --> 02:21:16,720 business because Pat is fucking up everything. 2578 02:21:17,160 --> 02:21:20,840 So Lana thinks to herself quote she endured it for her mother's 2579 02:21:20,840 --> 02:21:23,440 sake who always begged her to obey her dad. 2580 02:21:23,560 --> 02:21:25,840 Like that's how she got into this whole fucking mess. 2581 02:21:27,440 --> 02:21:30,280 And to me, Salmon is always speaking truth in these novels 2582 02:21:30,280 --> 02:21:33,360 because she continues a lot of thoughts and thanks about the 2583 02:21:33,360 --> 02:21:35,880 arranged marriage. Was this really still happening 2584 02:21:35,880 --> 02:21:38,520 this day and age? Arranged marriages for business 2585 02:21:38,520 --> 02:21:41,600 alliances and family status? Why isn't this outdated 2586 02:21:41,600 --> 02:21:44,960 tradition died out yet? Thank you, Salmon. 2587 02:21:45,320 --> 02:21:46,920 I couldn't have said it better my fucking self. 2588 02:21:46,920 --> 02:21:49,440 I'm always saying that I'm like, why are we still doing this? 2589 02:21:49,440 --> 02:21:51,840 Like there's you just make a business contract. 2590 02:21:51,840 --> 02:21:54,520 We don't need to fuck to have this solidify. 2591 02:21:54,520 --> 02:21:56,680 Like why? Why are we still doing this? 2592 02:21:59,080 --> 02:22:00,800 But yeah, Shyamala is not about this. 2593 02:22:00,800 --> 02:22:03,480 But like she endures her dad's bullshit for her mother mostly. 2594 02:22:04,360 --> 02:22:08,160 OK so then as all the shit is going on with her like trying to 2595 02:22:08,160 --> 02:22:10,360 appease her dad and keep her dad from abusing her mother. 2596 02:22:12,520 --> 02:22:17,840 Shyamala then confides in her mother, OK, and her mom is 2597 02:22:17,840 --> 02:22:20,400 trying to convince her she's like, just meet the dude. 2598 02:22:20,640 --> 02:22:23,320 Just meet the dude, it'll appease your father. 2599 02:22:23,640 --> 02:22:26,400 But Shawn, Laura replies that like, if I go, my girlfriend's 2600 02:22:26,400 --> 02:22:30,160 going to be upset. And she leaves out Oppo's like 2601 02:22:30,160 --> 02:22:35,640 name to leave out the like, you know, business rivalry stuff. 2602 02:22:36,160 --> 02:22:38,720 But she leaves out Oppo's last name. 2603 02:22:38,720 --> 02:22:44,520 But she then describes Oppo like very excitedly to her mother. 2604 02:22:44,520 --> 02:22:48,400 And I think her mom picks up on how happy Sean Letta is when 2605 02:22:48,400 --> 02:22:51,200 she's talking about Oppo and a lot of things. 2606 02:22:52,000 --> 02:22:55,040 Quote she hoped her mother would appreciate the love she has 2607 02:22:55,040 --> 02:22:59,080 found the same way she once believed in the love her dad had 2608 02:22:59,080 --> 02:23:01,880 for her. Whether right or wrong, love was 2609 02:23:01,880 --> 02:23:04,280 always something beautiful and she wanted to believe that her 2610 02:23:04,280 --> 02:23:06,240 love was just as strong and meaningful. 2611 02:23:06,240 --> 02:23:09,200 So she's like really proud of her relationship, but also like, 2612 02:23:09,360 --> 02:23:12,880 here's her and her mother in this like loveless family 2613 02:23:12,880 --> 02:23:15,080 situation. She's like, my mother always 2614 02:23:15,080 --> 02:23:17,560 wanted the best for me. And I hope she recognizes how 2615 02:23:17,560 --> 02:23:21,000 this is the best thing for me and like how beautiful this love 2616 02:23:21,000 --> 02:23:23,480 is that I have, how meaningful it is to me. 2617 02:23:25,960 --> 02:23:29,000 Spoiler she does. OK, something I want to note in 2618 02:23:29,000 --> 02:23:32,040 the novel that I liked much better than the series is that 2619 02:23:32,040 --> 02:23:37,120 Pat is while he's a bastard, he is less cartoonishly evil 2620 02:23:37,360 --> 02:23:40,440 compared to the series. Like, he's still a whiny little 2621 02:23:40,440 --> 02:23:42,400 bitch. He's just way less cartoonish. 2622 02:23:42,400 --> 02:23:46,720 OK, Like a lot of the sabotage that goes on in the series does 2623 02:23:46,720 --> 02:23:51,000 not happen in the novel. There's Pat does undermine Oppo 2624 02:23:51,000 --> 02:23:54,360 when he can, but he doesn't like hire people to like poison 2625 02:23:54,360 --> 02:23:57,880 events or like try to kill Oppo outside in the rain on her own 2626 02:23:57,880 --> 02:23:59,240 property. Like none of that happens. 2627 02:23:59,600 --> 02:24:03,120 But there's like a business intrigue, which I guess is less 2628 02:24:03,120 --> 02:24:05,640 sexy on a television. You know, it's more like 2629 02:24:05,640 --> 02:24:10,000 politics versus like action, I guess, oriented kind of drama. 2630 02:24:10,240 --> 02:24:14,280 But instead, the main crux of this boils down to he backmails 2631 02:24:14,440 --> 02:24:17,360 Sean Lada when he finds out she's dating Oppo and he tries 2632 02:24:17,360 --> 02:24:19,840 to use her happiness to get what he wants. 2633 02:24:19,880 --> 02:24:23,160 And the most nefarious thing he says is essentially, quote, oppo 2634 02:24:23,160 --> 02:24:25,120 loves you. That means she trusts you. 2635 02:24:25,720 --> 02:24:27,640 So use that love to your advantage. 2636 02:24:27,880 --> 02:24:31,320 Do as I say before I run out of patience and expose everything 2637 02:24:31,320 --> 02:24:34,400 to everyone basically like dad, mom, abo, everybody. 2638 02:24:34,720 --> 02:24:37,360 And so literally this is him showing his hand of what he did 2639 02:24:37,360 --> 02:24:39,440 to Shawn Luna because he's like Shawn Luna loves me. 2640 02:24:39,440 --> 02:24:41,960 That means she trusts me so I can use the love to my 2641 02:24:41,960 --> 02:24:44,280 advantage. So he's like use the thing I use 2642 02:24:44,280 --> 02:24:47,720 to get you into the situation. And it's really heartbreaking in 2643 02:24:47,720 --> 02:24:50,680 this moment when Lotta realizes that the one family member she 2644 02:24:50,680 --> 02:24:52,880 thought cared about her never did. 2645 02:24:53,040 --> 02:24:58,400 And she says, Pat, do you even see me as your sister anymore? 2646 02:24:58,880 --> 02:25:01,960 Like, oh, that was so heartbreaking to hear 'cause 2647 02:25:01,960 --> 02:25:07,840 like, lotta, like was just so on a mission to get validation from 2648 02:25:07,840 --> 02:25:11,040 her family finally. And she thought she had a shot 2649 02:25:11,040 --> 02:25:13,160 with the one brother that, like, saw something in her. 2650 02:25:13,160 --> 02:25:17,000 And it turns out he literally used her love, he weaponized her 2651 02:25:17,000 --> 02:25:20,720 love for him to use to his own advantage. 2652 02:25:21,120 --> 02:25:24,720 And she's like families that like back to what Oppo said, 2653 02:25:24,720 --> 02:25:26,800 she's like a family. A good family member would never 2654 02:25:26,800 --> 02:25:28,440 do that. Like she's like, am I? 2655 02:25:28,440 --> 02:25:30,040 Do you even see me as your sister? 2656 02:25:30,040 --> 02:25:31,920 Like, am I, am I even family in your eyes? 2657 02:25:32,040 --> 02:25:35,600 Or am I just a tool? Like that's awful for this poor 2658 02:25:35,600 --> 02:25:37,320 girl. Like all she wants is love and 2659 02:25:37,320 --> 02:25:40,120 validation. And like, this was awful to like 2660 02:25:40,120 --> 02:25:47,920 realize this about her brother. OK, so then the next dilemma 2661 02:25:48,800 --> 02:25:52,200 really for most of the book going forward is Oppo doesn't 2662 02:25:52,200 --> 02:25:54,760 know the truth. This is according to Lada. 2663 02:25:54,760 --> 02:25:57,480 And so Lada is very, she told her mother that you're like 1/2 2664 02:25:57,480 --> 02:25:59,040 truth. She like told her she's dating 2665 02:25:59,040 --> 02:26:01,520 somebody, told her real things about Oppo but left out Oppo's 2666 02:26:01,520 --> 02:26:03,880 last name. So the next hurdle for Lada is 2667 02:26:03,880 --> 02:26:06,520 like, she needs to tell Oppo the truth, especially now that she 2668 02:26:06,520 --> 02:26:12,600 has Pat blackmailing her. And so really, if you think 2669 02:26:12,600 --> 02:26:16,280 about the water, the real drama of the story, again, it's not 2670 02:26:16,280 --> 02:26:20,360 Pat sabotaging the hotels. The real drama comes from Lada's 2671 02:26:20,360 --> 02:26:25,240 conflict, which is family versus Oppo, like blood, relative 2672 02:26:25,240 --> 02:26:28,640 versus like my love interest. That's the real drama of the 2673 02:26:28,640 --> 02:26:30,800 story. And so at this stage, Lada has 2674 02:26:30,800 --> 02:26:32,560 not told Oppo who she's related to. 2675 02:26:33,160 --> 02:26:37,440 And Lada rationalizes why she doesn't yet is quote their love 2676 02:26:37,440 --> 02:26:41,080 was still too new, too fragile or still fragile. 2677 02:26:41,280 --> 02:26:44,480 They hadn't built up enough strength to weather storms 2678 02:26:44,480 --> 02:26:46,400 together. So she's very aware of the fact 2679 02:26:46,400 --> 02:26:49,160 that we just started dating. I just got her to admit she 2680 02:26:49,160 --> 02:26:51,560 likes me. Like, I don't think we have 2681 02:26:51,560 --> 02:26:54,880 enough of a foundation in our relationship to weather a storm 2682 02:26:54,880 --> 02:26:57,080 like this, which is I am related. 2683 02:26:57,080 --> 02:26:59,440 I I've been sent here to sabotage you like. 2684 02:27:01,400 --> 02:27:09,760 And this is where the guilt that Lada has starts really like 2685 02:27:09,760 --> 02:27:12,000 gnawing at her. So she thinks every time she 2686 02:27:12,000 --> 02:27:17,680 caught the sincerity and Nam's smile and gaze, selfishness held 2687 02:27:17,680 --> 02:27:19,800 her back. Like she wants to tell Nam the 2688 02:27:19,800 --> 02:27:22,880 truth, but like selfishness is what holds her back because she 2689 02:27:22,880 --> 02:27:25,680 wants to hold on to this happiness for just a little 2690 02:27:25,680 --> 02:27:27,560 longer. Because she finally found the 2691 02:27:27,560 --> 02:27:31,440 love that she wants in her life. And so she's really hesitant to 2692 02:27:31,440 --> 02:27:36,760 like expose the truth because she's so scared of losing Nam 2693 02:27:36,760 --> 02:27:39,240 and losing the kindness that Nam shows her. 2694 02:27:39,240 --> 02:27:41,280 She's never had it. It's just so heartbreaking. 2695 02:27:41,560 --> 02:27:45,240 This girl has like, this woman has like very little love in her 2696 02:27:45,240 --> 02:27:47,200 life. I mean, she has net her ride or 2697 02:27:47,200 --> 02:27:52,000 die and then she has her mother, but she's never had a love like 2698 02:27:52,000 --> 02:27:54,080 unconditional love quite like Nam before. 2699 02:27:54,080 --> 02:27:55,600 And she's like, I don't want to lose it. 2700 02:27:55,600 --> 02:27:59,840 And I know I'm confident that this will put everything in 2701 02:27:59,840 --> 02:28:02,240 jeopardy and I there may be no coming back from this. 2702 02:28:02,280 --> 02:28:03,720 Like once the truth is out, I can't take it back. 2703 02:28:03,720 --> 02:28:06,360 And so she's like, I just want to live in the happiness while I 2704 02:28:06,360 --> 02:28:09,400 finally have it for as long as I possibly can, even though I know 2705 02:28:09,400 --> 02:28:13,440 that that's selfish. But The thing is, at this stage, 2706 02:28:13,480 --> 02:28:16,520 Oppo knows Shan Lana well enough to know that something is 2707 02:28:16,520 --> 02:28:20,760 bothering her. She's not dumb, she knows how to 2708 02:28:20,760 --> 02:28:24,760 read her at this point. And so Nam asks Lada like what's 2709 02:28:24,760 --> 02:28:27,160 bothering her, and Lada tells her she's not ready to talk 2710 02:28:27,160 --> 02:28:29,000 about it. And so Nam replies. 2711 02:28:29,080 --> 02:28:31,480 I'll wait. Tell me when you're ready. 2712 02:28:32,720 --> 02:28:35,600 And so this is another part of Ma Nam's character trait they 2713 02:28:35,600 --> 02:28:39,400 think is so important to bring up is that she's incredibly 2714 02:28:39,400 --> 02:28:41,240 respectful when it comes to Shamla. 2715 02:28:41,240 --> 02:28:44,280 So again, in a way, Nam is very similar to Din. 2716 02:28:44,280 --> 02:28:46,800 Din is also an incredibly respectful person, very 2717 02:28:46,800 --> 02:28:49,400 respectful with her partner. So is Nam OK? 2718 02:28:49,880 --> 02:28:54,080 And I think this comes from their similarities a little bit 2719 02:28:54,080 --> 02:28:58,040 because like Nam, like Din is, is also like bad at 2720 02:28:58,040 --> 02:29:03,000 communicating her feelings. And I think that like in this 2721 02:29:03,000 --> 02:29:05,800 situation with Vlada where she's like, OK, you're not ready to 2722 02:29:05,800 --> 02:29:08,360 tell me. I'll wait until you're ready. 2723 02:29:08,360 --> 02:29:12,160 I think Nam empathizes because she's introvert, very much more 2724 02:29:12,160 --> 02:29:13,760 introverted. She's like, I'm also bad at this 2725 02:29:13,760 --> 02:29:16,280 and like need to be ready before I'm ready to say this. 2726 02:29:16,280 --> 02:29:17,920 So she's like, OK, I understand. So like. 2727 02:29:19,240 --> 02:29:20,000 I'll. Wait. 2728 02:29:20,000 --> 02:29:21,560 I understand communicating that's hard. 2729 02:29:21,600 --> 02:29:24,080 I will wait for you. So then the next. 2730 02:29:24,080 --> 02:29:28,400 Day Nam brings Shamla tulips because quote you once told me 2731 02:29:28,400 --> 02:29:31,800 that beautiful flowers could lift your mood so she's like, I 2732 02:29:31,800 --> 02:29:34,320 know you're upset and I know you're not ready to talk about 2733 02:29:34,320 --> 02:29:37,760 it so I I will bring you these to make you feel better in the 2734 02:29:37,760 --> 02:29:42,200 meantime like and the Nam's kindness like this really just 2735 02:29:42,200 --> 02:29:46,480 ratchets up the guilt for lotta and a lotta things quote how 2736 02:29:46,480 --> 02:29:49,360 could she possibly hurt and betray the person who loved her 2737 02:29:49,360 --> 02:29:50,880 like she's like it just makes it worse. 2738 02:29:50,880 --> 02:29:53,480 The fact that she has to do this thing that's going to like, like 2739 02:29:53,480 --> 02:29:57,480 potentially blow this up, like it just so the guilt just keeps 2740 02:29:57,480 --> 02:30:01,800 ratcheting up. So then because the guilt is 2741 02:30:01,800 --> 02:30:05,120 ratcheting up, Lana starts telling Nam bits and pieces of 2742 02:30:05,120 --> 02:30:08,480 the truth as she's like feels more ready to do so. 2743 02:30:08,480 --> 02:30:12,800 And so she kind of starts telling Nam about her family, 2744 02:30:12,800 --> 02:30:16,880 like mostly. And sadly, before she can get 2745 02:30:16,880 --> 02:30:21,320 too into this, Nam says, your family doesn't approve of me, 2746 02:30:21,320 --> 02:30:22,920 does not approve of me. Do they? 2747 02:30:24,600 --> 02:30:27,160 Like it's like I she's like, I, I feel like that's that's what 2748 02:30:27,160 --> 02:30:31,200 this is about. And then Lana even explains 2749 02:30:31,200 --> 02:30:34,000 about the arranged marriage, what that the dad is doing. 2750 02:30:34,000 --> 02:30:37,280 So like Nam knows that her dad is trying to put her in an 2751 02:30:37,280 --> 02:30:41,680 arranged marriage. Nam knows and Lada insists. 2752 02:30:41,680 --> 02:30:43,800 Quote. I won't let him force me into 2753 02:30:43,800 --> 02:30:46,880 this P. Nam and Oppo nodded. 2754 02:30:46,880 --> 02:30:50,400 This is part of the the text listening intently to everything 2755 02:30:50,400 --> 02:30:52,200 her girlfriend was finally sharing. 2756 02:30:52,200 --> 02:30:55,800 So once La and Lada was ready, Oppo like absorbed literally 2757 02:30:55,800 --> 02:30:58,280 everything she says. But she's like finally I, I will 2758 02:30:58,280 --> 02:31:02,360 remember this forever. And Lada also shares that she's 2759 02:31:02,360 --> 02:31:05,280 afraid her father will try to break them up. 2760 02:31:06,080 --> 02:31:09,360 And then Nam replies. I won't let you fight alone. 2761 02:31:11,880 --> 02:31:14,360 And this is something that's going to come back later to 2762 02:31:14,360 --> 02:31:18,000 haunt Oppo. So these are like some famous 2763 02:31:18,000 --> 02:31:21,200 last words kind of thing. So once they start getting to 2764 02:31:21,200 --> 02:31:24,520 the family thing, like Apple's like, I understand better why 2765 02:31:24,520 --> 02:31:28,560 you're upset and but she's like, you're not in this alone. 2766 02:31:28,560 --> 02:31:31,640 You have me. Just remember that. 2767 02:31:32,040 --> 02:31:34,960 OK. But even with divulging all of 2768 02:31:34,960 --> 02:31:37,520 that and still getting still not having these things be a deal 2769 02:31:37,520 --> 02:31:39,320 breaker, like a lot I was afraid they were. 2770 02:31:39,320 --> 02:31:43,040 She still holds back who her father is, like who or what her 2771 02:31:43,160 --> 02:31:46,240 real last name is and stuff. And this is because, like that 2772 02:31:46,240 --> 02:31:47,640 she feels like it's the deal breaker. 2773 02:31:49,280 --> 02:31:51,560 And this is the part that weighs the heaviest on her. 2774 02:31:51,880 --> 02:31:55,920 And Lada then starts like crying in her sleep kind of thing. 2775 02:31:55,920 --> 02:32:01,080 And poor oppo like consoles Lada at night when she cries without 2776 02:32:01,080 --> 02:32:03,200 knowing why. She's just like, why is she 2777 02:32:03,200 --> 02:32:04,800 still so upset? But she's like, there for her. 2778 02:32:04,800 --> 02:32:05,880 But she's like, I don't know why. 2779 02:32:06,120 --> 02:32:09,240 And so it's it's causing all this tension even though, like, 2780 02:32:09,840 --> 02:32:12,960 you know, yeah. So like the truth needs to come 2781 02:32:12,960 --> 02:32:16,520 out kind of thing, OK. But to give us some. 2782 02:32:16,520 --> 02:32:20,800 Levity in here throughout this ordeal we get some scenes of the 2783 02:32:20,840 --> 02:32:25,560 idiots flirting that I fucking love, OK and we need for comedic 2784 02:32:25,800 --> 02:32:30,200 effect while all the dramas happening so eventually Pat is 2785 02:32:30,200 --> 02:32:33,080 like OK here's my ultimatum you have to fucking give me I'm 2786 02:32:33,080 --> 02:32:36,320 blackmailing you give me the give me the information or I 2787 02:32:36,320 --> 02:32:39,280 tell everybody. Lana decides not to give him 2788 02:32:39,560 --> 02:32:41,920 info on oppo. This is the last time she does 2789 02:32:41,920 --> 02:32:42,680 it. She's like, we're done. 2790 02:32:43,840 --> 02:32:47,000 And after she does this, Lada feels way less guilty. 2791 02:32:47,000 --> 02:32:51,680 And then the two of them, her and oppo do some top tier 2792 02:32:51,680 --> 02:32:54,560 flirting because Lada's like, I'm going to tell Naam the truth 2793 02:32:54,600 --> 02:32:56,680 and she's just like, I'm just want to save her all the happy 2794 02:32:56,680 --> 02:32:58,600 moments before that truth comes out right. 2795 02:32:58,600 --> 02:33:02,560 So we get some idiots flirting scenes that I fucking love and 2796 02:33:03,000 --> 02:33:05,560 they're basically they're getting noodles and Naam is 2797 02:33:05,560 --> 02:33:08,600 curious about whatever Shalada orders. 2798 02:33:08,840 --> 02:33:12,240 And so she this was hilarious. So she tries it. 2799 02:33:12,560 --> 02:33:14,040 We're not saying anything. She like tries it. 2800 02:33:14,040 --> 02:33:16,160 And immediately it was like, oh, too spicy and sort of like 2801 02:33:16,200 --> 02:33:20,320 guzzling water. So it's a very non just thing. 2802 02:33:20,800 --> 02:33:25,000 And Lada starts laughing freely quote enjoying the moment. 2803 02:33:25,120 --> 02:33:27,720 It was simple. It was real. 2804 02:33:28,520 --> 02:33:33,920 And to me, it's like this was an embodiment in their relationship 2805 02:33:34,080 --> 02:33:37,440 of the joyful ocean dish because it's like sometimes the 2806 02:33:37,440 --> 02:33:40,880 uncomplicated moments, the simple moments are like the best 2807 02:33:40,880 --> 02:33:42,960 ones, you know? And this was just nom being nom. 2808 02:33:42,960 --> 02:33:44,600 She's like, let me try your food because I'm curious. 2809 02:33:44,600 --> 02:33:46,600 And it's like way too hot and she has to drink all the water. 2810 02:33:46,600 --> 02:33:49,960 Like this was a joyful ocean kind of moment. 2811 02:33:50,400 --> 02:33:53,480 And just like, I love that she clocks it as like simple and 2812 02:33:53,520 --> 02:33:58,200 real. So then afterwards Nam, this 2813 02:33:58,200 --> 02:34:01,600 one's this is my favorite. Afterwards Nam drives Lotta 2814 02:34:01,600 --> 02:34:04,520 home. Afterwards Nam drives Lotta 2815 02:34:04,520 --> 02:34:07,600 home. And Lotta teases Nam about the 2816 02:34:07,600 --> 02:34:11,120 first time Nam invited herself into Lada's home because she 2817 02:34:11,120 --> 02:34:13,960 was, quote, hungry. OK, so this comes back all 2818 02:34:13,960 --> 02:34:15,560 right. And it's a lot of jokes. 2819 02:34:16,880 --> 02:34:18,480 Do you want to come inside for noodles? 2820 02:34:18,640 --> 02:34:22,400 And and Nam says, are you asking me if I want to eat ramen with 2821 02:34:22,400 --> 02:34:26,560 you? And Lotta notices Nam's weirdly 2822 02:34:26,560 --> 02:34:31,920 confused expression and puts together why Nam was being weird 2823 02:34:31,920 --> 02:34:33,760 about this when she when she asked her that. 2824 02:34:33,760 --> 02:34:36,160 And then Lana's like, Oh my God, Nam, what kind of person do you 2825 02:34:36,160 --> 02:34:38,400 think I am? Who taught you what that means? 2826 02:34:39,000 --> 02:34:42,200 Because it's like code for sex. And Nam's like, I looked it up. 2827 02:34:44,880 --> 02:34:50,600 It's just so funny. So The thing is like in this 2828 02:34:50,600 --> 02:34:55,120 conversation basically like Nam knows that like eating noodles 2829 02:34:55,120 --> 02:34:58,800 or whatever can be code for sex. And so she wanted to make she. 2830 02:34:58,920 --> 02:35:01,560 Wanted to make sure she knew what type of. 2831 02:35:01,560 --> 02:35:06,280 Ramen Lata was talking about. She's like, do you mean noodles? 2832 02:35:06,320 --> 02:35:08,160 I mean ramen. Do you like, do you mean sex or 2833 02:35:08,240 --> 02:35:09,200 food? What are you saying? 2834 02:35:09,760 --> 02:35:11,880 Lata's like, why are you so weird about stuff? 2835 02:35:13,880 --> 02:35:15,400 Oh my God. And this is really cute. 2836 02:35:15,400 --> 02:35:18,000 I'm really sad they cut this out of this series because this 2837 02:35:18,000 --> 02:35:20,520 becomes this like eating noodles, eating rum and becomes 2838 02:35:20,520 --> 02:35:25,040 this like ongoing joke for them. It's super adorkable and it's 2839 02:35:25,040 --> 02:35:29,080 really funny. But I really love the evolution 2840 02:35:29,120 --> 02:35:32,920 of this inside joke because it's so real. 2841 02:35:32,920 --> 02:35:35,880 And I like, it's so real, the way it, like, organically 2842 02:35:35,880 --> 02:35:40,000 happens because it's tethered to their first moment where Nam was 2843 02:35:40,000 --> 02:35:41,520 weird. And I was like, can I come 2844 02:35:41,520 --> 02:35:45,320 inside to eat noodles? And so like, it's like Nam will 2845 02:35:45,320 --> 02:35:47,800 never live that awkwardness down ever. 2846 02:35:47,800 --> 02:35:49,600 Like, it's going to be immortalized forever in this 2847 02:35:49,600 --> 02:35:51,240 joke. And it's just like, that's such 2848 02:35:51,240 --> 02:35:54,880 a organic evolution of a relationship and an inside joke. 2849 02:35:54,880 --> 02:35:56,320 And I love the way that was written. 2850 02:35:56,320 --> 02:35:57,600 Like, Salmon's such a good writer. 2851 02:35:57,600 --> 02:36:00,120 I love the way that was written. It's so funny. 2852 02:36:02,320 --> 02:36:04,840 OK, Then we finally get to their first kiss. 2853 02:36:04,840 --> 02:36:10,880 And this, I'm this is the best version of it is the novel. 2854 02:36:11,080 --> 02:36:16,560 OK, so then in my opinion, it's incredibly romantic. 2855 02:36:16,560 --> 02:36:18,640 It's incredibly romantic. And we have a parallel moment 2856 02:36:18,640 --> 02:36:23,760 later. So, OK, so to set the stage, 2857 02:36:23,760 --> 02:36:27,680 Shamlena then decides to tell Nam the truth about who she is 2858 02:36:27,680 --> 02:36:31,200 on her birthday. And Shamlena assures Nam it's 2859 02:36:31,200 --> 02:36:33,360 OK. She knows what she wants, and 2860 02:36:33,360 --> 02:36:37,680 she thinks she wanted Nam's forgiveness just once. 2861 02:36:37,680 --> 02:36:39,760 That's why she just says tell her on her birthday like that's 2862 02:36:39,760 --> 02:36:43,440 what she wants as her gift. And so she's like, Nam, what I 2863 02:36:43,440 --> 02:36:47,480 want is for you to celebrate my birthday with me because there's 2864 02:36:47,480 --> 02:36:51,600 something I need to confess. And Nam says, are you going to 2865 02:36:51,600 --> 02:36:55,280 confess your love for me? And Lada says if it were that I 2866 02:36:55,280 --> 02:36:57,320 wouldn't need to wait until my birthday. 2867 02:36:57,680 --> 02:37:00,480 And Nam says, why not? And Lada says because what I 2868 02:37:00,480 --> 02:37:05,520 feel for you has been more than just quote like for a long time 2869 02:37:05,520 --> 02:37:07,680 now. I love you Pino. 2870 02:37:08,520 --> 02:37:14,000 And Oppo was stunned. She says you said you love me. 2871 02:37:14,000 --> 02:37:17,640 And Lotta says yes I do. And Oppo says thank you. 2872 02:37:17,640 --> 02:37:20,360 Like what a fucking dork. Like the dork she is. 2873 02:37:20,360 --> 02:37:25,760 She's like thank you. And so Lotta says do you love me 2874 02:37:25,760 --> 02:37:27,520 Pino? And Lotta thanks. 2875 02:37:27,800 --> 02:37:31,120 She waited, breath caught in her chest, but Nam didn't say 2876 02:37:31,120 --> 02:37:35,560 anything, Not a single word yet. If actions could replace words, 2877 02:37:35,840 --> 02:37:39,000 then the touch Nam gave her at that moment spoke louder than 2878 02:37:39,000 --> 02:37:42,280 anything she could have said. Because in place of an answer, 2879 02:37:42,400 --> 02:37:46,200 Nam closed the distance between them and their first kiss. 2880 02:37:46,560 --> 02:37:51,520 Said I love you just the same. This is so much better and so 2881 02:37:51,520 --> 02:37:53,760 much more romantic. And I saw some like discourse 2882 02:37:53,760 --> 02:37:57,680 online essentially from Thai viewers that we're essentially 2883 02:37:57,680 --> 02:38:02,200 seeing like in Thai culture, like kissing is a lot more and 2884 02:38:02,200 --> 02:38:06,360 there's a lot more it it speaks way louder than the words I love 2885 02:38:06,360 --> 02:38:08,120 you. So like this is like, this was 2886 02:38:08,120 --> 02:38:12,680 the ultimate response really from them is to physically show 2887 02:38:12,680 --> 02:38:14,840 her with a kiss. Like it's much more in their 2888 02:38:14,840 --> 02:38:16,960 cultural context. It's way more impactful than 2889 02:38:16,960 --> 02:38:25,800 just like as an American viewer looking at this and I to me, 2890 02:38:25,800 --> 02:38:28,560 this is so much more romantic than the way we've done in the 2891 02:38:28,560 --> 02:38:32,920 series. And also it to me parallels Din 2892 02:38:32,920 --> 02:38:38,360 in rows because their first kiss happens in the novel after the 2893 02:38:38,360 --> 02:38:41,200 first I love you. So I like that this is the first 2894 02:38:41,200 --> 02:38:43,320 I love you verbally comes from Shan Ladat. 2895 02:38:43,320 --> 02:38:46,480 Nam responds with a kiss and then later the reverse is going 2896 02:38:46,480 --> 02:38:49,400 to happen. So to me, this was just 2897 02:38:49,400 --> 02:38:53,560 reinforcing that like, again, Nam and Din are very similar and 2898 02:38:54,040 --> 02:38:57,240 the parallel moment is so beautiful, which I will point 2899 02:38:57,240 --> 02:39:00,960 out later. OK, So unfortunately, Shawn, 2900 02:39:00,960 --> 02:39:03,520 Linda doesn't tell us. So unfortunately, we get him. 2901 02:39:03,520 --> 02:39:05,520 I love you. And not the confession of who 2902 02:39:05,520 --> 02:39:08,120 she is on her birthday. And unfortunately, Pat tells the 2903 02:39:08,120 --> 02:39:10,000 scary truth to Nam. And this goes down like the 2904 02:39:10,000 --> 02:39:12,760 series where Nam has to do business stuff. 2905 02:39:13,080 --> 02:39:18,360 Pat confronts her. Lada doesn't overhear it in the 2906 02:39:18,360 --> 02:39:19,680 novel. That's the only different, 2907 02:39:19,840 --> 02:39:24,960 different thing. Nam knew who Sean Lola was all 2908 02:39:24,960 --> 02:39:27,480 alone because like what type of top class CEO doesn't do 2909 02:39:27,480 --> 02:39:29,040 background checks? Like come on now. 2910 02:39:29,040 --> 02:39:31,160 This was insane. And the series they gave this 2911 02:39:31,160 --> 02:39:33,880 whole thing where like FA was going down this rabbit hole and 2912 02:39:33,880 --> 02:39:36,360 it's like all she had to do is background check kind of figured 2913 02:39:36,360 --> 02:39:40,200 this out like 5 minutes. The important part is that Nam 2914 02:39:40,280 --> 02:39:43,760 verbally admits she was also playing the same game they were. 2915 02:39:46,040 --> 02:39:51,400 And really the line that does her in is, oh, I'm sorry, Lada 2916 02:39:51,400 --> 02:39:53,280 does overhear this. I I apologize. 2917 02:39:53,280 --> 02:39:55,720 Lada does overhear this. It's just Nam doesn't know a lot 2918 02:39:55,720 --> 02:39:56,920 is there. That was the difference in the 2919 02:39:56,920 --> 02:39:57,680 series. Sorry. 2920 02:40:00,520 --> 02:40:03,600 But the line that really does Nam in is when she says, quote, 2921 02:40:03,600 --> 02:40:06,320 if you're going to play a game, never get emotionally attached. 2922 02:40:06,320 --> 02:40:09,360 You all people should know that bad and. 2923 02:40:10,000 --> 02:40:12,280 To me, this is the pivot from Nam. 2924 02:40:12,280 --> 02:40:15,040 This was very much like she's a person who's used to winning, 2925 02:40:15,440 --> 02:40:18,400 especially against him, and takes pleasure in being the best 2926 02:40:18,400 --> 02:40:21,440 and was just like, you didn't think I was going to lose my own 2927 02:40:21,440 --> 02:40:23,200 game, did you? Like that's crazy. 2928 02:40:23,360 --> 02:40:27,680 I'm not so right. So the Nam walks away from this 2929 02:40:27,680 --> 02:40:32,960 being like I beat this bastard. John, Willow's bastard brother, 2930 02:40:33,120 --> 02:40:34,640 doesn't know that. A lot of overheard all this 2931 02:40:34,640 --> 02:40:37,680 shit. OK, And then something else I 2932 02:40:37,680 --> 02:40:39,880 really love in the novel that becomes really important at this 2933 02:40:39,880 --> 02:40:42,680 stage is Net and Lada's friendship. 2934 02:40:43,160 --> 02:40:47,840 OK, so after Oppo breaks Lada's heart by her conversation with 2935 02:40:47,840 --> 02:40:51,720 Pat, Net is then the one that lifts up Lada and Lada thinks, 2936 02:40:51,880 --> 02:40:55,120 quote Oppo has seen her as nothing more than a fool. 2937 02:40:55,440 --> 02:40:57,160 Just like. Pat did so all those compare 2938 02:40:57,160 --> 02:40:59,560 little comparisons she was having to Oppo and her brother. 2939 02:40:59,560 --> 02:41:03,400 Like, it's kind of like she's like, damn, I was right when I 2940 02:41:03,400 --> 02:41:07,400 had those thoughts. And then like Lada, like, gives 2941 02:41:07,400 --> 02:41:09,120 up. And she totally gives up at this 2942 02:41:09,120 --> 02:41:10,760 point. And this really unsettles net 2943 02:41:10,760 --> 02:41:13,520 because Lada is such a resilient person. 2944 02:41:13,720 --> 02:41:16,320 So she tries to give her this pep talk and she tells her 2945 02:41:16,320 --> 02:41:18,200 quote. But life goes on. 2946 02:41:18,440 --> 02:41:22,720 You might fall today, but if you can't get up tomorrow, you can 2947 02:41:22,720 --> 02:41:25,480 take your time. Eventually you'll walk again. 2948 02:41:25,960 --> 02:41:28,840 Love is the same. If first love always worked out, 2949 02:41:28,840 --> 02:41:31,160 then everyone in this world will be happily in love. 2950 02:41:31,160 --> 02:41:34,160 So I I like that she's like, you know, we make mistakes, bad 2951 02:41:34,160 --> 02:41:36,880 things happen, but like life goes on like you, you will keep 2952 02:41:36,880 --> 02:41:39,480 going like you always do. Like love is the same even 2953 02:41:39,480 --> 02:41:43,240 though love is new for you. And then she because it's her 2954 02:41:43,240 --> 02:41:45,000 birthday. Then she proceeds to give Lada 2955 02:41:45,000 --> 02:41:49,240 the sweetest happy birthday where like she make gives her 2956 02:41:49,240 --> 02:41:51,280 the sweetest happy birthday wish and then makes her this 2957 02:41:51,280 --> 02:41:55,400 improvised quote like cake with a cup of yogurt and a candle, 2958 02:41:55,400 --> 02:41:57,560 which is so cute because like Ned didn't like Mata was 2959 02:41:57,560 --> 02:41:59,640 supposed to spend with Oppo and so she wasn't supposed to be 2960 02:41:59,640 --> 02:42:01,320 with her best friend. So her best friend's like, I got 2961 02:42:01,320 --> 02:42:03,400 to do something. So she like just pulls things 2962 02:42:03,400 --> 02:42:05,400 out of the fridge and just like I love you. 2963 02:42:05,520 --> 02:42:08,040 Like it's just so cute and sweet when she does. 2964 02:42:10,760 --> 02:42:13,320 And her birthday wish is so sweet. 2965 02:42:13,320 --> 02:42:16,760 I have to say it. So she says to Lotta, from now 2966 02:42:16,760 --> 02:42:21,560 on, I wish for you to finally be happy, Lotta to live freely the 2967 02:42:21,560 --> 02:42:24,680 way you've always wanted. This is what her mom said when 2968 02:42:24,680 --> 02:42:27,360 she named her, by the way. And she said, could she 2969 02:42:27,360 --> 02:42:29,560 continues, Your life is yours, Lotta. 2970 02:42:29,600 --> 02:42:33,040 Stop living for others. Stop caring too much about what 2971 02:42:33,040 --> 02:42:38,480 people think. Please love yourself more then 2972 02:42:38,480 --> 02:42:42,600 the arranged marriage wedding happens and that says Oh my God 2973 02:42:42,600 --> 02:42:44,920 lot of fun just love yourself Why are you doing this? 2974 02:42:45,760 --> 02:42:48,240 Like I love these back-to-back moments with them were so funny. 2975 02:42:48,280 --> 02:42:50,720 Just like what the hell did you not listen to me at all? 2976 02:42:50,720 --> 02:42:54,800 Why are you doing this? OK so lot of agrees to go 2977 02:42:54,800 --> 02:42:56,760 through with the arranged marriage and then the chaos 2978 02:42:56,760 --> 02:42:58,720 cousins come to the rescue. This is my other favorite 2979 02:42:58,720 --> 02:43:01,640 fucking moment in the novel. OK, cuz like, Oh my God, they're 2980 02:43:01,640 --> 02:43:05,840 so stupid, all of them. So first of all, they show up to 2981 02:43:05,840 --> 02:43:09,360 find sad girl nom and like talk her up and but like mom's like 2982 02:43:09,360 --> 02:43:12,600 before we save you, I got to rub this shit in because you really 2983 02:43:12,600 --> 02:43:15,480 pissed me off. Like, and they call her an idiot 2984 02:43:16,600 --> 02:43:21,440 and they call up an idiot because like, she is all right. 2985 02:43:21,440 --> 02:43:23,640 And Zenwayo does her detective thing, finds out about this 2986 02:43:23,640 --> 02:43:27,920 marriage and gets them Intel. And then so Nam knows in the 2987 02:43:27,920 --> 02:43:32,400 novel canonically that Lada would never willingly agree to 2988 02:43:32,400 --> 02:43:34,360 an arranged marriage by her father. 2989 02:43:34,360 --> 02:43:37,400 And so she's like, something else has to be going on that 2990 02:43:37,400 --> 02:43:39,720 would put that would she would agree to do this? 2991 02:43:39,720 --> 02:43:41,600 Like he has to be doing something to her in the 2992 02:43:41,600 --> 02:43:44,160 background. So Nam's like, we have to stop 2993 02:43:44,160 --> 02:43:47,080 this wedding because I know that Lada would never willingly do 2994 02:43:47,080 --> 02:43:49,000 this. And she's like, I don't care 2995 02:43:49,000 --> 02:43:50,040 what it takes. We're going to stop this 2996 02:43:50,040 --> 02:43:52,880 wedding, OK? Then they go to stop the 2997 02:43:52,880 --> 02:43:57,960 wedding, and the most idiotic person in this cohort of people 2998 02:43:58,560 --> 02:44:01,600 is not OK. So it shows you how distraught 2999 02:44:01,600 --> 02:44:03,760 she is because she's usually the genius. 3000 02:44:03,760 --> 02:44:06,680 She's the collected one. She always has a plan. 3001 02:44:06,880 --> 02:44:10,000 She's very strategic. That is not who shows up to this 3002 02:44:10,000 --> 02:44:12,480 rescue mission, OK? She's the least logical cousin 3003 02:44:12,480 --> 02:44:14,440 because she's that's how emotionally charged she is. 3004 02:44:14,440 --> 02:44:17,840 OK, So then I have to recount the nonsense. 3005 02:44:17,840 --> 02:44:21,400 So basically, OK, the wedding is happening, OK? 3006 02:44:21,840 --> 02:44:23,800 And these idiots are outside, OK. 3007 02:44:24,640 --> 02:44:28,840 And they just start arguing, OK. And lamas, like oppo, we cannot 3008 02:44:28,840 --> 02:44:30,960 just go in there. We don't have a plan. 3009 02:44:30,960 --> 02:44:34,200 So they show up with no plan and they're outside of the outside 3010 02:44:34,200 --> 02:44:35,800 of the building, no plan. They're visible. 3011 02:44:36,160 --> 02:44:39,680 And they start arguing loudly. And then Phi at one point is 3012 02:44:39,680 --> 02:44:43,160 like, you know, those security guards over there keep looking 3013 02:44:43,160 --> 02:44:47,840 at this. And then eventually Pat shows up 3014 02:44:47,840 --> 02:44:49,640 with the security guard. They like call him. 3015 02:44:49,640 --> 02:44:51,960 They're like, there's some suspicious women outside. 3016 02:44:52,360 --> 02:44:55,840 He he comes up with the security guards and it's like, you guys 3017 02:44:55,840 --> 02:44:57,640 are not invited. You don't have invitations to 3018 02:44:57,640 --> 02:44:59,360 this. Get the fuck out of here. 3019 02:44:59,760 --> 02:45:05,840 And so they get literally excord excorded off the premises and 3020 02:45:05,840 --> 02:45:09,440 then at some point somebody, I forget who it is, but if I had 3021 02:45:09,440 --> 02:45:13,360 to get it's probably 5. It's probably like didn't didn't 3022 02:45:13,360 --> 02:45:16,640 wear some Rose and then she's not with them. 3023 02:45:17,080 --> 02:45:20,040 And then Dan's like, oh, Rose got in a while ago. 3024 02:45:20,040 --> 02:45:23,760 She's she's already inside. So like while these idiots were 3025 02:45:23,760 --> 02:45:27,040 outside and then she's like she's in, she's in already. 3026 02:45:27,040 --> 02:45:30,080 And then salmon like very he's was, he's like. 3027 02:45:30,360 --> 02:45:33,720 And then Phi looked at Dan and gave her 22 thumbs. 3028 02:45:33,960 --> 02:45:36,680 Up. She she loves Rose. 3029 02:45:37,320 --> 02:45:41,040 That was so funny, these morons again, they showed up with no 3030 02:45:41,040 --> 02:45:44,360 plan and then Rose is like, I'm just going to go inside. 3031 02:45:45,280 --> 02:45:48,360 He's the peacekeeper and she's like goes inside, doesn't cause 3032 02:45:48,360 --> 02:45:50,440 a scene. They let her in and she's in the 3033 02:45:50,440 --> 02:45:53,360 wedding while these idiots are like, 'cause they inadvertently 3034 02:45:53,360 --> 02:45:55,920 cause a distraction with their no plan nonsense. 3035 02:45:55,920 --> 02:45:59,320 It was so funny. And then the thumbs up finds, 3036 02:45:59,320 --> 02:46:03,200 like, good job, Rose. OK, so then Rose comes out. 3037 02:46:03,200 --> 02:46:05,480 Well, they get vanished. And then Rose eventually comes 3038 02:46:05,480 --> 02:46:07,280 out and she's like, guys, it's chaos. 3039 02:46:07,400 --> 02:46:09,760 It's chaos in there. And she tells them that Shawn 3040 02:46:09,760 --> 02:46:13,040 Litta ran away from the wedding. So essentially, they didn't have 3041 02:46:13,040 --> 02:46:15,640 to do anything because Shawn Litta is strategic and was. 3042 02:46:16,000 --> 02:46:18,120 So Nam's point was never going to go through with this. 3043 02:46:18,120 --> 02:46:21,160 OK, so this is not surprising to Nam really, even though she was 3044 02:46:21,160 --> 02:46:22,640 so distraught. She's like, I need to get her 3045 02:46:22,640 --> 02:46:25,840 out of this. OK, so then the question is, 3046 02:46:25,840 --> 02:46:29,280 well, why did Lada choose to go through with this arranged 3047 02:46:29,280 --> 02:46:32,640 marriage up to the point of the wedding and then do a runaway 3048 02:46:32,640 --> 02:46:35,760 bride? And the reason is she loves her 3049 02:46:35,760 --> 02:46:39,040 mother and her mom is not a murderer. 3050 02:46:40,040 --> 02:46:41,880 That was a weird thing they did in the series. 3051 02:46:41,880 --> 02:46:45,480 OK, She just loves her mother. And so the rationale behind that 3052 02:46:45,760 --> 02:46:48,720 is best explained by Lada. So in her thoughts, she says her 3053 02:46:48,720 --> 02:46:50,720 parents love was never a beautiful thing. 3054 02:46:51,400 --> 02:46:54,640 It was selfish, a result of never knowing when enough was 3055 02:46:54,640 --> 02:46:56,800 enough. Excuse me? 3056 02:46:57,120 --> 02:47:01,360 And she she was the byproduct of a flawed and imperfect family. 3057 02:47:01,760 --> 02:47:05,120 But love was selfish anyway. The world had taught her a 3058 02:47:05,120 --> 02:47:08,280 painful lesson and her first love had forced her to wake up 3059 02:47:08,280 --> 02:47:10,800 from her naive dreams and face reality. 3060 02:47:12,440 --> 02:47:14,600 And quote. She says she also thinks I've 3061 02:47:14,600 --> 02:47:17,040 realized that besides you, mom, no one truly loves me. 3062 02:47:17,680 --> 02:47:20,160 So essentially, like, her mom is trapped in the situation with 3063 02:47:20,160 --> 02:47:22,960 the dad. And he's like, I'm going to do 3064 02:47:23,800 --> 02:47:26,360 domestic violence because he takes out his frustrations on 3065 02:47:26,360 --> 02:47:28,960 his mother, on her mother through a domestic abuse. 3066 02:47:29,360 --> 02:47:32,080 And so Lada steps in to protect her mother the way her mother 3067 02:47:32,080 --> 02:47:34,760 has been protecting her. And so in this way, it's like 3068 02:47:34,760 --> 02:47:39,000 the cycle of women protecting women in this abusive system, 3069 02:47:39,000 --> 02:47:41,760 like repeats itself. And so Lada is going to be 3070 02:47:41,760 --> 02:47:45,520 trapped in the patriarchy essentially to protect her 3071 02:47:45,520 --> 02:47:48,280 daughters eventually. So it's almost like she becomes 3072 02:47:48,280 --> 02:47:50,640 her mother to protect her mother, which is like the all of 3073 02:47:50,640 --> 02:47:52,840 the ironies when mom was like, I named you after the wave so 3074 02:47:52,840 --> 02:47:54,680 you'd be free and not have my life. 3075 02:47:54,680 --> 02:47:57,360 And like, here she is being like, I got to save you because 3076 02:47:57,440 --> 02:48:01,960 man is awful. So Lotta uses the arranged 3077 02:48:01,960 --> 02:48:04,200 marriage as a strategical diversion because she's like, if 3078 02:48:04,200 --> 02:48:06,120 I agree to it, he'll leave us alone. 3079 02:48:08,040 --> 02:48:11,000 So she played gets her father and basically it gives her time 3080 02:48:11,000 --> 02:48:13,960 to extract herself and her mother, mother from that 3081 02:48:13,960 --> 02:48:16,440 household to figure out where they're going to go, get enough 3082 02:48:16,440 --> 02:48:18,120 money. Like she has to plan all these 3083 02:48:18,120 --> 02:48:19,400 things. And she's like, so if a wedding 3084 02:48:19,400 --> 02:48:22,840 has to be planned, that gives me time to like, strategically map 3085 02:48:22,840 --> 02:48:26,000 this out because she's smart. And in doing so, a lot of them 3086 02:48:26,000 --> 02:48:30,280 frees herself and her mother. And for the first time in their 3087 02:48:30,280 --> 02:48:32,440 lives, they can choose how they want to live. 3088 02:48:32,760 --> 02:48:34,320 Neither of them have ever had this choice. 3089 02:48:34,320 --> 02:48:36,760 And like, Lada is the one that makes that happen. 3090 02:48:38,600 --> 02:48:41,760 And what her older brother, like, help support her in this 3091 02:48:41,760 --> 02:48:43,640 plan. It's not his plan. 3092 02:48:43,640 --> 02:48:45,320 It's her plan. And he supports her. 3093 02:48:45,720 --> 02:48:49,120 And So what I love in this plot is that what happens is once 3094 02:48:49,120 --> 02:48:51,920 they are free, she has this conversation with her mother 3095 02:48:51,920 --> 02:48:53,120 where she's like, well, what do you want to do? 3096 02:48:53,120 --> 02:48:55,040 And her mom's like, I want to do something because I'm just going 3097 02:48:55,040 --> 02:48:56,840 to get bored being in the house all day because Lana's like, you 3098 02:48:56,840 --> 02:48:58,240 don't go to work. I'm going to take care of you. 3099 02:48:58,240 --> 02:49:01,000 I'm going to take care of you. And she's like, no, I think I'll 3100 02:49:01,000 --> 02:49:02,680 be bored. And then she comes up with a 3101 02:49:02,680 --> 02:49:04,920 plan to open her own food stall because she's like, I love 3102 02:49:04,920 --> 02:49:07,080 cooking and a lot of like your food is great. 3103 02:49:07,080 --> 02:49:10,520 And so the mom decides to like follow her passion and like open 3104 02:49:10,520 --> 02:49:13,360 a food stall, not an Airbnb or whatever they did in the series, 3105 02:49:13,600 --> 02:49:16,760 which I think is more meaningful because like her mother like 3106 02:49:16,760 --> 02:49:19,600 never had a choice in her life. Her mother was under the thumb 3107 02:49:19,640 --> 02:49:22,200 of the dad and she was like at his Wim because he was 3108 02:49:22,200 --> 02:49:25,920 financially supporting her, made her the second wife, the legally 3109 02:49:25,920 --> 02:49:28,680 on the legally unrecognized wife. 3110 02:49:29,160 --> 02:49:32,000 And she, she went along with literally everything he said 3111 02:49:32,200 --> 02:49:34,840 because they have this daughter. But like now her mom is free and 3112 02:49:34,840 --> 02:49:36,960 she can like choose her own destiny. 3113 02:49:37,240 --> 02:49:38,360 And like a lot of made that happen. 3114 02:49:38,360 --> 02:49:40,720 She's like, no, you should choose what you want to do. 3115 02:49:40,720 --> 02:49:42,680 And she does. And so I I like that detail. 3116 02:49:45,200 --> 02:49:48,760 All right, then we get Lada's brothers. 3117 02:49:48,760 --> 02:49:50,520 So let's kind of talk about these two. 3118 02:49:50,520 --> 02:49:53,800 So I think it's really interesting the roles that they 3119 02:49:53,800 --> 02:49:56,480 play. So Pat plays the nice guy, but 3120 02:49:56,480 --> 02:49:58,720 ultimately is the one that manipulates Lada and he's a 3121 02:49:58,720 --> 02:50:01,080 rampant misogynist like his father. 3122 02:50:01,080 --> 02:50:04,520 But at this point in the story, we then get to know what because 3123 02:50:04,520 --> 02:50:07,320 he's kind of just been in the background, but. 3124 02:50:07,520 --> 02:50:10,320 The sad part is he. Has the most in common with 3125 02:50:10,320 --> 02:50:12,240 Lada. So he was forced into an 3126 02:50:12,240 --> 02:50:15,760 arranged marriage with May and there's it's a loveless marriage 3127 02:50:16,200 --> 02:50:20,120 and he envies his sister because she fought back like she's 3128 02:50:20,120 --> 02:50:22,560 resilient, she's smart, she's strategic. 3129 02:50:22,560 --> 02:50:26,160 She got out of it and he didn't he he placated dad and he agreed 3130 02:50:26,160 --> 02:50:27,560 to marry this woman he does not love. 3131 02:50:28,520 --> 02:50:31,280 And so ultimately he sides with her and he gives her money and 3132 02:50:31,280 --> 02:50:34,280 he and they have this whole conversation in the novel about 3133 02:50:34,280 --> 02:50:37,520 the money and he's like, I'm giving it to you as your brother 3134 02:50:37,520 --> 02:50:39,720 not as a debt. He's like, I'm supporting you 3135 02:50:39,720 --> 02:50:41,480 because you're my sister. So remember when she's like Pat, 3136 02:50:41,480 --> 02:50:44,080 do you even see me as a sister? Like what really is like, yes, 3137 02:50:44,080 --> 02:50:45,800 you're my sister. This is what brothers and 3138 02:50:45,800 --> 02:50:48,840 sisters do. And he actively and he 3139 02:50:48,840 --> 02:50:51,720 apologizes to her for not being able to help her in the past. 3140 02:50:51,720 --> 02:50:53,760 And he's like actively making up for it now. 3141 02:50:53,760 --> 02:50:57,640 So like, I'm really sad that all of this from him was really lost 3142 02:50:57,640 --> 02:51:00,400 in the series because it was such an important thing for Lada 3143 02:51:00,400 --> 02:51:03,400 to be like, I had this family member who actually cared about 3144 02:51:03,400 --> 02:51:06,160 me this whole time. I didn't even know like he was 3145 02:51:06,160 --> 02:51:07,600 willing. He was he would be willing to 3146 02:51:07,600 --> 02:51:10,200 like step up and support me because he was always quiet 3147 02:51:10,240 --> 02:51:14,200 around dad kind of thing. But once the dad is removed, it 3148 02:51:14,200 --> 02:51:16,440 was like she had somebody in her corner all along. 3149 02:51:16,440 --> 02:51:19,040 She just didn't know. And he's even like, I envy you. 3150 02:51:19,120 --> 02:51:21,960 You're stronger than me. Like validation here. 3151 02:51:21,960 --> 02:51:24,200 She's finally getting validation from a family member, and she 3152 02:51:24,200 --> 02:51:27,240 didn't expect it. So I love that for Lauda. 3153 02:51:30,400 --> 02:51:31,640 OK. And then I want to get into 3154 02:51:31,640 --> 02:51:35,600 another foundational aspect for the story that is brought up in 3155 02:51:35,600 --> 02:51:38,720 this in this novel, which is that perfection isn't real. 3156 02:51:39,000 --> 02:51:40,440 It's not real. It's an illusion. 3157 02:51:40,440 --> 02:51:42,960 It's an aspiration. It is not real, especially with 3158 02:51:42,960 --> 02:51:44,400 people. People are not perfect. 3159 02:51:44,640 --> 02:51:48,760 And Nod makes it a point to be like, I am not perfect. 3160 02:51:48,800 --> 02:51:51,000 I am a human and I make mistakes. 3161 02:51:51,000 --> 02:51:54,320 Like I'm not a robot, I'm human and I make mistakes. 3162 02:51:54,680 --> 02:51:58,080 And in the story, the the resolution that happens between 3163 02:51:58,080 --> 02:52:00,480 the two of them, because ultimately they have to talk 3164 02:52:00,480 --> 02:52:05,160 about, you know, a lot of was playing Nom for her family and 3165 02:52:05,160 --> 02:52:08,280 then Nom was playing the game too kind of thing. 3166 02:52:09,080 --> 02:52:13,040 And in that resolution, the, the core of it is that it's OK to 3167 02:52:13,040 --> 02:52:15,840 make mistakes as long as you learn from them. 3168 02:52:16,920 --> 02:52:20,640 So like Lot and Oppo really both made mistakes during their cat 3169 02:52:20,640 --> 02:52:22,200 and mouse phase of their relationship. 3170 02:52:22,200 --> 02:52:25,880 And they both learn and grow from the mistakes. 3171 02:52:26,440 --> 02:52:30,400 And honestly, it makes their relationship not only human and 3172 02:52:30,400 --> 02:52:34,240 realistic, it makes them stronger to get like when they 3173 02:52:34,240 --> 02:52:36,840 come through that because they're overcoming adversity and 3174 02:52:36,840 --> 02:52:40,640 they're like learning about themselves and they for 3175 02:52:40,640 --> 02:52:43,240 admitting they make mistakes, they apologize, they work on it 3176 02:52:43,240 --> 02:52:44,600 and move forward. Kind of like what we just saw 3177 02:52:44,600 --> 02:52:46,520 with Watt, right? Like Watt and Lata's 3178 02:52:46,520 --> 02:52:48,600 relationship is another great example of this. 3179 02:52:49,000 --> 02:52:53,440 So Watt apologizes to Lata for his behavior and his inaction in 3180 02:52:53,440 --> 02:52:57,320 the past and corrects his behavior by helping her now. 3181 02:52:58,560 --> 02:53:00,480 And that's gets a lot out of the marriage, right? 3182 02:53:00,760 --> 02:53:03,440 And then later, like I mentioned at the very beginning, what 3183 02:53:03,440 --> 02:53:07,080 confronts Oppo after all of this and apologizes to her? 3184 02:53:07,080 --> 02:53:09,720 He's like, on behalf of my family and the hotel shit, I'm 3185 02:53:09,720 --> 02:53:13,320 sorry. And then oppo is very real with 3186 02:53:13,320 --> 02:53:14,680 him too. She's like, look, I made my 3187 02:53:14,840 --> 02:53:18,400 mistakes also in all of this. I am not perfect and like it's 3188 02:53:18,400 --> 02:53:20,520 OK not to be perfect. And I I like that. 3189 02:53:20,520 --> 02:53:22,720 That's also a big thing in the the story. 3190 02:53:22,720 --> 02:53:25,880 Like again, messy adults who are like being messy as part of 3191 02:53:25,880 --> 02:53:28,080 life. And as long as you learn from 3192 02:53:28,080 --> 02:53:31,680 it, it may be say it's fine. And I like that. 3193 02:53:31,680 --> 02:53:33,440 That's part of the story. I thought that was very mature 3194 02:53:33,440 --> 02:53:35,280 and, and good point the author is making. 3195 02:53:36,880 --> 02:53:38,600 All right. Then we transitioned to the 3196 02:53:38,600 --> 02:53:40,240 third act breakup. We must have. 3197 02:53:40,280 --> 02:53:43,520 So then during the third act breakup, Lata lives in seclusion 3198 02:53:43,520 --> 02:53:46,800 with her mother in Prachap, which is not in Hua Hin, but 3199 02:53:46,800 --> 02:53:50,400 it's near Hua Hin. And I looked it up and this area 3200 02:53:50,400 --> 02:53:54,720 of Thailand is way less chaotic. It's a more slower paced form of 3201 02:53:54,720 --> 02:53:57,080 life. It's not a touristy destination. 3202 02:53:57,200 --> 02:53:59,440 So it's kind of like the opposite of Hua Hin in a way, 3203 02:53:59,440 --> 02:54:02,360 where Hua Hin is like very touristy, very busy, more 3204 02:54:02,400 --> 02:54:04,760 competitive. So it's like more chill kind of 3205 02:54:04,760 --> 02:54:06,520 location, but it's like near Hua Hin. 3206 02:54:07,240 --> 02:54:12,800 So Waio ends up tracking down Lada and like, shows up at the 3207 02:54:12,800 --> 02:54:17,000 house, but like, cannot pass up an opportunity to flirt with her 3208 02:54:17,000 --> 02:54:20,800 despite everything. And so Lada's like, Waio, what 3209 02:54:20,800 --> 02:54:23,040 are you doing here? And Waio says, I'm so happy. 3210 02:54:23,040 --> 02:54:24,920 At least you Remember Me, Shamlada. 3211 02:54:25,720 --> 02:54:27,760 I love that she's flirting and she's like an idiot. 3212 02:54:29,760 --> 02:54:32,840 OK, So then these two talk and then Yao tries to reason like, 3213 02:54:33,480 --> 02:54:34,800 like what? Everything I just talked about 3214 02:54:34,800 --> 02:54:37,000 where she's like, listen, Nam, she's like, because Lada's 3215 02:54:37,040 --> 02:54:39,480 guilty about everything. And she's like, I started this, 3216 02:54:39,480 --> 02:54:42,640 it's my fault kind of thing. And I was like, well, you know, 3217 02:54:42,640 --> 02:54:44,960 my cousin's also an idiot and also made mistakes. 3218 02:54:44,960 --> 02:54:46,720 And she's like, Nam would definitely forgive you for all 3219 02:54:46,720 --> 02:54:49,520 of this. And The thing is that Lada knows 3220 02:54:49,520 --> 02:54:51,280 that Lada knows Naam would forgive her. 3221 02:54:51,560 --> 02:54:54,400 And she's keeping her distance because she feels like what she 3222 02:54:54,400 --> 02:54:58,040 did was worse because she was knowingly deceiving oppo and 3223 02:54:58,040 --> 02:55:01,520 oppo was reacting to what she started kind of thing. 3224 02:55:01,520 --> 02:55:05,360 So like Lada feels like her her role was worse and like 3225 02:55:05,520 --> 02:55:08,320 unforgivable in a way. And really what it boils down to 3226 02:55:08,320 --> 02:55:13,360 is that Lada feels unworthy of Naam because Naam is like the 3227 02:55:13,360 --> 02:55:15,440 best thing ever in her, you know, mind. 3228 02:55:15,720 --> 02:55:19,760 And so Lada loves her so much that she's letting Nam go. 3229 02:55:19,760 --> 02:55:21,760 She's like, I make everything worse for you. 3230 02:55:21,760 --> 02:55:24,200 I don't deserve you. I'm letting her go. 3231 02:55:26,080 --> 02:55:28,000 OK, So then how do they get back together? 3232 02:55:28,000 --> 02:55:32,840 So then we get a flower shop meet cute that is not like the 3233 02:55:32,840 --> 02:55:35,560 series. So in the novel, they both quote 3234 02:55:35,560 --> 02:55:39,480 randomly meet in a flower shop in Penbury. 3235 02:55:39,480 --> 02:55:41,920 I think it's like Pranbury. I think it's how you say it 3236 02:55:42,600 --> 02:55:45,520 where Nam is not cosplaying the flower shop owner basically like 3237 02:55:45,520 --> 02:55:48,240 Lada shows up and she's like, can I get sunflowers? 3238 02:55:48,240 --> 02:55:49,760 But she's like, I don't know why I said phone flowers. 3239 02:55:49,760 --> 02:55:52,040 I meant tulips because she's distracted. 3240 02:55:52,240 --> 02:55:54,360 And then the flower shop owner is like, Nah, somebody already 3241 02:55:54,360 --> 02:55:56,040 bought them all. And then she turns around and 3242 02:55:56,040 --> 02:55:57,640 there's Nam, well, fucking tulips. 3243 02:55:59,200 --> 02:56:03,240 So they both there and Lada chose this particular flower 3244 02:56:03,240 --> 02:56:07,400 shop to avoid Nam because it's nowhere near it's not near Hohen 3245 02:56:07,400 --> 02:56:09,920 but it's where she lives. And then Nam chose it because 3246 02:56:09,920 --> 02:56:12,480 while pushed her to go there. So this is ugly. 3247 02:56:12,480 --> 02:56:15,240 Why is fault? This is why they're like we have 3248 02:56:15,240 --> 02:56:17,840 to give her the bouquet because like she interferes in a good 3249 02:56:17,880 --> 02:56:22,120 way. So then things get awkward and 3250 02:56:22,120 --> 02:56:25,760 Nam blurts out she's hungry to get invited into Lada's home, 3251 02:56:26,720 --> 02:56:32,680 and a Lotta's so dazed by all of this that she does, you know, 3252 02:56:32,720 --> 02:56:35,520 take her home. And then a lotta, I mean, Nam 3253 02:56:35,520 --> 02:56:40,920 says I love you. And then a lotta cries because 3254 02:56:41,080 --> 02:56:44,200 fear. And then Lada says that she 3255 02:56:44,200 --> 02:56:47,320 doesn't love Nam anymore. But Nam doesn't fully believe 3256 02:56:47,320 --> 02:56:51,560 this because she's like, I can still feel your love in 3257 02:56:51,560 --> 02:56:53,400 everything you do. So I don't believe what you're 3258 02:56:53,400 --> 02:56:55,280 saying, even though you're telling me this. 3259 02:56:56,680 --> 02:56:58,880 So the Nam goes through this whole thing where she sneakily 3260 02:56:58,880 --> 02:57:01,120 leaves tulips at Lada's new place every morning. 3261 02:57:01,120 --> 02:57:03,840 And one morning, she gets caught by Lada's mother. 3262 02:57:04,320 --> 02:57:09,240 And so they meet, and Lada doesn't know this until she's 3263 02:57:09,240 --> 02:57:10,640 talking to her mom later. She's like, wait, what? 3264 02:57:11,920 --> 02:57:14,960 And then eventually they talk because Nam shows up. 3265 02:57:16,400 --> 02:57:18,720 And then Lada's mom let her, let's her inside. 3266 02:57:19,360 --> 02:57:21,880 And then she's like, all right, Lada, I got to go. 3267 02:57:21,880 --> 02:57:27,040 Leave them alone. And then Nam explains to Lotta 3268 02:57:27,040 --> 02:57:29,440 that she's like, you are more important to me than anything, 3269 02:57:29,440 --> 02:57:32,120 including work. OK, all right. 3270 02:57:33,040 --> 02:57:41,400 But then we have to get into Oppo's father, because unlike 3271 02:57:41,400 --> 02:57:46,560 the series, Ada Soren does not react well to finding out who 3272 02:57:46,560 --> 02:57:50,560 Shamlu's father is. In fact, he forbids Oppo from 3273 02:57:50,560 --> 02:57:53,640 seeing her, which Oppo does not react well to. 3274 02:57:54,080 --> 02:58:01,480 So Oppo chooses Lada over her father, and in retaliation, 3275 02:58:01,480 --> 02:58:05,160 Addison suspends Oppo from work until she agrees to give up 3276 02:58:05,160 --> 02:58:09,320 Lada. So when Lada finds out that Nam 3277 02:58:09,320 --> 02:58:14,320 is suspended she breaks her because after the conversation 3278 02:58:14,320 --> 02:58:18,080 they had at the apartment she's like I can't with you anymore 3279 02:58:18,080 --> 02:58:19,680 and so they they she ghosts her again. 3280 02:58:20,160 --> 02:58:26,160 So then Lana finds out through Prem that Nana suspended and 3281 02:58:26,160 --> 02:58:28,800 since she breaks her silent treatment to yell at Oppo for 3282 02:58:28,800 --> 02:58:31,280 being an idiot. I'm so mad they changed this too 3283 02:58:31,280 --> 02:58:35,000 because this was hilarious. So. 3284 02:58:36,360 --> 02:58:37,080 Oh my God. OK, yeah. 3285 02:58:37,240 --> 02:58:39,560 So basically the context of this, because I'm going to give. 3286 02:58:39,560 --> 02:58:41,040 I'm going to go through the scenes because the scene is 3287 02:58:41,040 --> 02:58:43,680 funny. Lada is terrified of how much 3288 02:58:43,720 --> 02:58:46,760 Nam loves her because she's giving up her job, the thing 3289 02:58:46,760 --> 02:58:48,760 that she was married to before they met, Right? 3290 02:58:49,120 --> 02:58:51,920 And so Lada feels like she doesn't deserve this type of 3291 02:58:51,920 --> 02:58:55,800 devotion. But APU is showing Lada how 3292 02:58:55,800 --> 02:59:00,040 deeply she loves her by completely divorcing herself 3293 02:59:00,040 --> 02:59:02,000 from work, the first love of her life. 3294 02:59:03,720 --> 02:59:07,440 OK so how does this go down? So then Lana goes and confronts 3295 02:59:07,440 --> 02:59:11,640 Nam at her private villa with a bouquet of sunflowers and it 3296 02:59:11,640 --> 02:59:15,600 goes like this. Nam says are those for me out 3297 02:59:15,600 --> 02:59:18,160 Lana why did you hit me Be careful you ruin the flowers. 3298 02:59:18,600 --> 02:59:21,360 And Lana says what the hell are you doing This is your future 3299 02:59:21,360 --> 02:59:24,400 Nam your career. So like Lana shows up an 3300 02:59:24,400 --> 02:59:28,960 assaults Nam with sunflowers and I was like don't ruin the 3301 02:59:28,960 --> 02:59:33,440 flowers, yells at and then yells at Nam and Nam says if that 3302 02:59:33,440 --> 02:59:35,680 future doesn't have you in it, then I don't want it. 3303 02:59:35,920 --> 02:59:38,320 And Lada says don't love me Nam, can't you see that loving me 3304 02:59:38,320 --> 02:59:42,200 only brings you trouble? Because Lada is worried that 3305 02:59:42,320 --> 02:59:46,160 their love is quote selfish, like her parents love. 3306 02:59:46,160 --> 02:59:47,920 She's worried about them turning into her parents. 3307 02:59:47,920 --> 02:59:49,840 That's the other thing she's worried about because trauma. 3308 02:59:51,200 --> 02:59:53,720 And then so Nam keeps insisting she's like that. 3309 02:59:53,720 --> 02:59:57,240 She's like, I love you even if I'm disowned, like and Ma is 3310 02:59:57,240 --> 02:59:58,000 like. Stop. 3311 02:59:58,000 --> 03:00:00,600 Saying it and then Nam keeps going and she said do you 3312 03:00:00,600 --> 03:00:04,760 understand now do you understand that I and then she gets cut off 3313 03:00:05,240 --> 03:00:09,360 and just you get and then you get Shawn was in her monologue. 3314 03:00:09,360 --> 03:00:13,080 It says Shawn understood. She finally understood Nam's 3315 03:00:13,080 --> 03:00:17,520 love and she wanted to answer her the same way with touch Nam 3316 03:00:17,520 --> 03:00:20,360 had once used to tell her. So she cuts her off with a kiss. 3317 03:00:20,920 --> 03:00:22,880 And I love this parallel. First of all, I love the way it 3318 03:00:22,880 --> 03:00:26,480 starts super chaotic. And then Nam is saying I love 3319 03:00:26,480 --> 03:00:28,120 you because Nam has had a hard time saying it. 3320 03:00:28,120 --> 03:00:30,560 So she's saying it finally. And she says over and over and 3321 03:00:30,560 --> 03:00:32,960 over and she's associating actions with it. 3322 03:00:32,960 --> 03:00:36,480 And then so a lotta is like, the only way I can answer you is 3323 03:00:36,480 --> 03:00:39,080 through an action just like Nam did. 3324 03:00:39,080 --> 03:00:42,840 And just the best. So, so, so, so good. 3325 03:00:42,840 --> 03:00:47,240 And what gets even better is this, this escalates quickly. 3326 03:00:47,400 --> 03:00:53,360 So then they start kissing OK. And then Nam awkwardly flirts 3327 03:00:53,360 --> 03:00:56,400 because she's awkward and we must never forget that and says 3328 03:00:56,400 --> 03:00:58,880 I'm hungry for you. And Lada says you always say 3329 03:00:58,880 --> 03:01:00,920 things in a way that makes it sound weird. 3330 03:01:01,640 --> 03:01:06,160 And Nam clarifies by saying she wants to get ramen together. 3331 03:01:06,720 --> 03:01:09,520 So she brings back their inside joke to be like if we have sex 3332 03:01:09,520 --> 03:01:12,840 now basically like an awkward ass than she is. 3333 03:01:13,680 --> 03:01:16,400 And then this transitions into their first time and I have to 3334 03:01:16,400 --> 03:01:19,480 note. So again something was missing 3335 03:01:19,480 --> 03:01:22,080 from the series is that Nam is the queen of consent and 3336 03:01:22,080 --> 03:01:25,880 explicitly asks Shyamala, do you want me to continue or should I 3337 03:01:25,880 --> 03:01:32,720 stop here? And Lada knows that Nam respects 3338 03:01:32,720 --> 03:01:36,560 her and she thinks to herself that Nam would stop if she told 3339 03:01:36,560 --> 03:01:40,120 her she wasn't ready. But she is, so they go for it. 3340 03:01:41,080 --> 03:01:44,280 And then once Nam has permission, it's then described 3341 03:01:44,280 --> 03:01:47,560 as Nam is ready to step on the gas without any intention of 3342 03:01:47,560 --> 03:01:49,680 hitting the brake. Like Nam just like, goes for it, 3343 03:01:49,680 --> 03:01:51,880 OK. And one of my favorite things 3344 03:01:51,880 --> 03:01:55,240 during their first time in the novel is that Lada objectifies 3345 03:01:55,240 --> 03:01:57,000 Nam internally. And it's amazing. 3346 03:01:57,680 --> 03:02:00,920 And she's like, damn, when did this workaholic find time to get 3347 03:02:00,920 --> 03:02:04,120 so fit? Like she's objectifying now. 3348 03:02:04,120 --> 03:02:07,880 And it's really funny because like, no, seriously, when does 3349 03:02:07,880 --> 03:02:09,920 Nam work out? Like really, when, when did she 3350 03:02:09,920 --> 03:02:11,720 go to the gym? She's like, falling asleep at 3351 03:02:11,720 --> 03:02:14,040 her desk all the time. I would love the answer to that 3352 03:02:14,040 --> 03:02:17,760 question. OK, so them having their first 3353 03:02:17,760 --> 03:02:21,120 time is not only good for them, it's also important to resolving 3354 03:02:21,680 --> 03:02:24,360 APO's father's anger. So we have to resolve this. 3355 03:02:24,360 --> 03:02:29,040 So then afterwards, they're now together and everything's good. 3356 03:02:29,040 --> 03:02:32,080 And then Lada tells Nam she's worried about Nam's dad. 3357 03:02:32,120 --> 03:02:34,560 And Nam's like and don't worry, I got a plan. 3358 03:02:36,760 --> 03:02:39,160 So this is the. Culmination of how strategic and 3359 03:02:39,160 --> 03:02:42,280 devious Nam is. So first thing Nam does is she 3360 03:02:42,280 --> 03:02:45,320 brings her mother over from Canada and the duck sends it to 3361 03:02:45,320 --> 03:02:47,920 him. So she does that first, lay the 3362 03:02:47,920 --> 03:02:51,280 groundwork and soften him up. Next thing she does is that Nam 3363 03:02:51,280 --> 03:02:55,360 uses Alison's own logic against him and she goes and talks to 3364 03:02:55,360 --> 03:03:00,040 her dad by herself and she's like, well, dad, you can't stop 3365 03:03:00,040 --> 03:03:04,040 me because she's my wife now, which I think in Thailand means 3366 03:03:04,080 --> 03:03:06,440 a partner you're having physical love with. 3367 03:03:07,240 --> 03:03:12,120 And so not so as I was like, Nah, you didn't, I don't support 3368 03:03:12,120 --> 03:03:15,600 you taking advantage of people. And Napa replies, that's right, 3369 03:03:15,640 --> 03:03:17,840 I took her honor. Our family now has to take 3370 03:03:17,840 --> 03:03:19,920 responsibility. So you have to let me legally 3371 03:03:19,920 --> 03:03:22,760 marry her now. That's how she gets. 3372 03:03:22,800 --> 03:03:25,080 Out of it. I love that. 3373 03:03:25,080 --> 03:03:27,880 She's like, dad, you don't want me to take her honor and steal 3374 03:03:27,880 --> 03:03:29,520 her flower and all these weird shit. 3375 03:03:29,520 --> 03:03:32,520 So now I have to marry her by your own logic. 3376 03:03:32,520 --> 03:03:34,240 And that's what ends up resolving this. 3377 03:03:34,240 --> 03:03:37,280 And he's like, damn, I had to go and raise a goddamn genius, 3378 03:03:37,280 --> 03:03:41,920 didn't I? Who outsmarts me like that must 3379 03:03:41,920 --> 03:03:45,040 be so frustrating for him to be like, damn it, she outsmarted me 3380 03:03:45,040 --> 03:03:47,320 again. But anyway, I love it. 3381 03:03:47,320 --> 03:03:50,280 That's how this gets resolved, with Nam outsmarting her father 3382 03:03:50,320 --> 03:03:52,200 because she's the smartest person in the room. 3383 03:03:53,680 --> 03:03:57,280 OK, But then it gets better because then later on, Nam tells 3384 03:03:57,280 --> 03:04:00,360 Lada what happened. And Lada is like, Nam, why did 3385 03:04:00,360 --> 03:04:02,400 you have to tell him the actual truth? 3386 03:04:02,400 --> 03:04:04,200 Like you couldn't think of anything else? 3387 03:04:04,200 --> 03:04:07,160 You're a genius. You tell him we had sex and now 3388 03:04:07,160 --> 03:04:08,960 we have to get married. That's what you said. 3389 03:04:09,400 --> 03:04:11,240 And Nam's like, I don't like lying. 3390 03:04:13,520 --> 03:04:16,200 I'm so fucking funny. I'm sorry. 3391 03:04:16,480 --> 03:04:18,440 I'm still mad. I'm so mad at the series. 3392 03:04:18,440 --> 03:04:21,520 Cut out all this hilarious dialogue that was in this book. 3393 03:04:21,520 --> 03:04:25,360 It's hilarious. Oh my God, they are so funny 3394 03:04:25,360 --> 03:04:29,600 when they're bickering. OK, But yeah, Nah. 3395 03:04:29,600 --> 03:04:30,960 I'm so stupid. She's like you had. 3396 03:04:30,960 --> 03:04:33,760 That's what you told him. You don't like lying. 3397 03:04:35,200 --> 03:04:38,240 OK, so then we get to the proposal because we must. 3398 03:04:38,600 --> 03:04:41,560 And this is more evidence that Nam and Twin were. 3399 03:04:41,800 --> 03:04:46,280 Nam is Dins twin. OK, so in the novel, she Nam 3400 03:04:46,280 --> 03:04:50,080 proposes at Hui at the Hui Hin resort by the beach, which is 3401 03:04:50,080 --> 03:04:51,720 where the relationship first started. 3402 03:04:51,720 --> 03:04:53,360 That's like where the, you know, their hug. 3403 03:04:53,360 --> 03:04:57,160 A lot of things happened at this resort and it's by the sea and 3404 03:04:57,160 --> 03:04:58,600 they're the water. So that's where we're doing 3405 03:04:58,600 --> 03:05:01,000 this. And she uses the Tulip ring 3406 03:05:01,000 --> 03:05:03,840 here, which was originally meant to just be a token of her 3407 03:05:03,840 --> 03:05:06,080 affection that she was going to give Shamlada on her birthday. 3408 03:05:06,080 --> 03:05:09,120 But she's like, you know what? We have to get married down to 3409 03:05:09,120 --> 03:05:11,000 shut up my dad. So we'll use this engagement 3410 03:05:11,000 --> 03:05:13,280 ring also. There's a lot of meaning behind 3411 03:05:13,280 --> 03:05:14,200 it. We're just going to use it. 3412 03:05:15,400 --> 03:05:19,160 So there's and there's I love this proposal because there's so 3413 03:05:19,160 --> 03:05:22,720 much sass in this proposal and it's hilarious. 3414 03:05:22,920 --> 03:05:26,240 So OK, keep in mind these two, they're standing like the whole 3415 03:05:26,240 --> 03:05:28,280 time when this is happening and having this conversation. 3416 03:05:28,280 --> 03:05:32,960 And mom is like proposing, OK. And then Lada is like, well, not 3417 03:05:33,120 --> 03:05:34,400 she's like, we should get married basically. 3418 03:05:34,400 --> 03:05:37,600 And Lada is resistant to this at first because she's like, I feel 3419 03:05:37,600 --> 03:05:38,680 like we've been dating for a few months. 3420 03:05:38,680 --> 03:05:41,080 I feel like this is soon. It's a little too soon. 3421 03:05:41,080 --> 03:05:45,040 And Nam says, OK, well, should I get down on one knee? 3422 03:05:45,040 --> 03:05:47,080 Like, so you'll believe me? And then Lada says, don't you 3423 03:05:47,080 --> 03:05:50,160 dare you ruin your outfit. Like they start arguing in the 3424 03:05:50,280 --> 03:05:53,840 middle of this and then they it keeps going. 3425 03:05:53,840 --> 03:05:57,200 And then at some point Nam is like, well, I'm just I'm I got 3426 03:05:57,200 --> 03:05:59,400 to show you I'm serious. That's why she's doing it. 3427 03:05:59,400 --> 03:06:01,080 And she's like, I'm afraid you'll say no. 3428 03:06:01,120 --> 03:06:02,560 And Lada says, of course I'll marry you. 3429 03:06:02,560 --> 03:06:04,280 I'm not letting anyone else marry you like. 3430 03:06:05,440 --> 03:06:07,680 It's. So sassy this proposal. 3431 03:06:08,280 --> 03:06:11,240 It's hilarious. I would have I would have died 3432 03:06:11,240 --> 03:06:14,400 to like, I'm sorry, see this in the series where like Nam is 3433 03:06:14,400 --> 03:06:17,720 being super serious about this and like Lada is being like 3434 03:06:17,760 --> 03:06:21,600 fiery and like combative and just like that's the proposal 3435 03:06:22,360 --> 03:06:24,400 and so fucking funny. Like it's romantic. 3436 03:06:24,400 --> 03:06:27,600 It is, but it's also just funny. She's like, of course I'm going 3437 03:06:27,600 --> 03:06:32,200 to marry you, idiot. Like, they're so funny, OK? 3438 03:06:32,200 --> 03:06:34,680 And the other thing in the novel that's really cute is that both 3439 03:06:34,680 --> 03:06:36,960 of their mothers were in on this because at this point, Nam, 3440 03:06:37,240 --> 03:06:43,240 Nam's mother's here in Thailand, and Nam and Maan have a 3441 03:06:43,240 --> 03:06:47,680 relationship now. And so before she asks Shamla, 3442 03:06:47,680 --> 03:06:50,000 she asks everybody for their permission. 3443 03:06:50,080 --> 03:06:51,880 Not Shamla's dad. Fuck that guy. 3444 03:06:53,480 --> 03:06:55,800 And actually what they do do is this. 3445 03:06:55,800 --> 03:06:57,920 We're also robbed of this scene, OK? 3446 03:06:58,240 --> 03:07:02,200 Because when they decide to get married, they then invite 3447 03:07:02,200 --> 03:07:03,440 people. And so one of the things they do 3448 03:07:03,440 --> 03:07:07,120 is they do invite Sean Lowe's dad and they go to him to give 3449 03:07:07,120 --> 03:07:12,400 him the invitation, OK, Which he rejects and basically says 3450 03:07:12,400 --> 03:07:15,480 there's no way you will take as good of care of my daughter as a 3451 03:07:15,480 --> 03:07:21,200 man could. And then Nam stands up for Shan 3452 03:07:21,200 --> 03:07:24,400 Lada on her behalf to him, which nobody ever stands up to him to 3453 03:07:24,400 --> 03:07:27,200 him, and but Oppo does. And she's like, well, you better 3454 03:07:27,200 --> 03:07:29,760 keep her eyes on us then, because I'm going to take better 3455 03:07:29,760 --> 03:07:31,640 care of her than anybody ever could. 3456 03:07:31,640 --> 03:07:33,040 And like, she's so serious and shit. 3457 03:07:33,040 --> 03:07:35,080 Like, I just imagine her being really serious and telling him 3458 03:07:35,080 --> 03:07:38,360 this in this like serious, menacing kind of way and like 3459 03:07:38,360 --> 03:07:42,280 meaning it. And that was such a good moment 3460 03:07:42,280 --> 03:07:44,280 for like Shalala because she she was like scared. 3461 03:07:44,280 --> 03:07:46,560 She's scared of her dad and like, here's oppo being like, 3462 03:07:46,560 --> 03:07:47,840 watch us bitch. Watch me bitch. 3463 03:07:47,840 --> 03:07:49,640 I'm going to date her even harder now. 3464 03:07:50,040 --> 03:07:51,320 Like that's basically what she says. 3465 03:07:52,120 --> 03:07:54,280 And then they leave And then like, basically we're here. 3466 03:07:54,280 --> 03:07:56,280 She's like, they're the I like that conversation too, because 3467 03:07:56,440 --> 03:07:57,880 they're like, we're not here to change your mind. 3468 03:07:57,880 --> 03:08:00,400 We're doing this because you're her dad And it you can it's up 3469 03:08:00,400 --> 03:08:03,080 to you whether you want to be her dad or like be her dad or 3470 03:08:03,080 --> 03:08:04,320 not. They didn't give him some weird 3471 03:08:04,320 --> 03:08:07,640 stupid redemption arc. What Salman did is she's like, 3472 03:08:07,640 --> 03:08:11,400 it's OK to like not chase these people's affection. 3473 03:08:11,440 --> 03:08:14,560 That's fine and go live your life and like here's and and 3474 03:08:14,560 --> 03:08:16,240 like be with the person who's going to fight for you. 3475 03:08:16,240 --> 03:08:20,240 Like that was the message here. And that's a way better and way 3476 03:08:20,240 --> 03:08:23,560 healthier message than like chases affection forever and 3477 03:08:23,560 --> 03:08:25,080 take care of him even though he's trash. 3478 03:08:25,760 --> 03:08:30,040 So I just need to say that. OK, so after that we get to the 3479 03:08:30,040 --> 03:08:34,280 wedding and Nam plans the wedding quote with Lada and I 3480 03:08:34,280 --> 03:08:38,240 put with Lada in air quotes because Nam basically plans the 3481 03:08:38,240 --> 03:08:40,600 wedding and a lot at one point she's like, you know, the bride 3482 03:08:40,600 --> 03:08:42,680 has a lot of she usually has a lot of responsibility. 3483 03:08:42,680 --> 03:08:45,040 And this has been pretty chill because Nam is doing everything. 3484 03:08:45,920 --> 03:08:50,040 And Nam admits that she's had had the most like she's the most 3485 03:08:50,480 --> 03:08:52,960 fun she's ever had planning a wedding ever because it was 3486 03:08:52,960 --> 03:08:54,360 their wedding. And she's like, I'm so excited 3487 03:08:54,360 --> 03:08:56,160 about everything. It was really cute that she's 3488 03:08:56,160 --> 03:08:59,040 doing it. And they end up holding the 3489 03:08:59,040 --> 03:09:01,680 wedding at the Hua Hin resort, which again, because that has 3490 03:09:01,720 --> 03:09:04,880 all the significance. And the cousins are at the 3491 03:09:04,880 --> 03:09:07,960 wedding and there's not much going on with them except that 3492 03:09:07,960 --> 03:09:12,120 Phi immediately begs them to have a baby because Den and Rose 3493 03:09:12,120 --> 03:09:15,000 are quote taking too long. And it's like, girl, it's been 3494 03:09:15,000 --> 03:09:18,120 less than a year since these bitches have been since the 3495 03:09:18,160 --> 03:09:20,280 earth. And like, Phi is like begging 3496 03:09:20,280 --> 03:09:22,960 everybody to have babies. She's ridiculous. 3497 03:09:25,000 --> 03:09:26,440 Phi, the one who gets married last. 3498 03:09:27,600 --> 03:09:31,600 OK, but then we get Rose and Lada because again, they have a 3499 03:09:31,600 --> 03:09:33,640 relationship already and then here they are at the wedding. 3500 03:09:33,640 --> 03:09:37,840 And so we get this really sweet moment where Rose welcomes Lada 3501 03:09:37,840 --> 03:09:40,280 as like the next cousin in law. That's really cute. 3502 03:09:40,280 --> 03:09:43,800 And then we get a really awkward moment where Rose pulls Lada 3503 03:09:43,800 --> 03:09:48,120 aside and we get the sex conversation because Rose is 3504 03:09:48,120 --> 03:09:51,920 worried that Nam is such a quote nerd that she doesn't know what 3505 03:09:51,920 --> 03:09:54,800 sex is and she's such a workaholic she's probably only 3506 03:09:54,800 --> 03:10:00,920 good at work. So she sends Din to go Coach Nam 3507 03:10:01,240 --> 03:10:03,800 and like, honestly, we were robbed of whatever the hell that 3508 03:10:03,800 --> 03:10:07,560 conversation was. I was like, Rose, you married 3509 03:10:07,560 --> 03:10:12,880 Din, Din married Din. Why would you send Din, send 3510 03:10:12,880 --> 03:10:15,320 Long to go have this conversation, have the sex talk 3511 03:10:15,320 --> 03:10:18,520 with this was insane. And Lada knows it's insane. 3512 03:10:18,520 --> 03:10:21,840 And Lada's like, girl, my wife is not a nerd. 3513 03:10:22,120 --> 03:10:25,480 She just takes things seriously. Like I looked at like, again, 3514 03:10:25,680 --> 03:10:27,720 even family members don't understand Nam. 3515 03:10:27,720 --> 03:10:30,080 And like Lada's like, you misunderstand Nam. 3516 03:10:30,360 --> 03:10:32,120 I'm just very serious about things. 3517 03:10:32,280 --> 03:10:34,720 And she's like, also, she's not just good at her job. 3518 03:10:34,800 --> 03:10:37,880 I can definitely assure you of that, which I love. 3519 03:10:38,680 --> 03:10:43,080 And then Nam and Lada end up talking about this later, which 3520 03:10:43,080 --> 03:10:44,320 we're also robbed of this in the show. 3521 03:10:44,600 --> 03:10:47,640 Nam and Lada talk about this later and like, did she give you 3522 03:10:47,640 --> 03:10:49,320 the sex talk? Did she give you the sex talk? 3523 03:10:49,680 --> 03:10:51,960 And Nam is like, well, did you tell her I'm good? 3524 03:10:53,080 --> 03:10:55,440 And a lot is like, you're decent, I guess. 3525 03:10:55,440 --> 03:10:59,040 And then Nam's like decent. Well, I guess I'll have to just 3526 03:10:59,040 --> 03:11:00,960 prove myself again. This is so funny. 3527 03:11:00,960 --> 03:11:04,120 Like them debriefing about because like, there's scenes in 3528 03:11:04,120 --> 03:11:06,360 the novel where like Dan and Rose are debriefing and then 3529 03:11:06,360 --> 03:11:08,600 like about them. And so like here they are 3530 03:11:08,600 --> 03:11:12,040 debriefing about Dan and Rose. I really like that comparison 3531 03:11:12,040 --> 03:11:12,720 too. And they're like, they're 3532 03:11:12,720 --> 03:11:15,520 fucking stupid. I can't believe they just did 3533 03:11:15,520 --> 03:11:20,080 that. OK, Then we get the transition 3534 03:11:20,080 --> 03:11:22,360 to the next time on the four elements, which is going to be 3535 03:11:22,360 --> 03:11:25,760 the air. And this book, like the last 3536 03:11:25,760 --> 03:11:28,200 book is the wedding bouquet, which to me is like the passing 3537 03:11:28,200 --> 03:11:31,920 of the torch. And at one point Nam is having 3538 03:11:31,920 --> 03:11:33,920 this conversation with Phi where Phi is basically like, is the 3539 03:11:33,920 --> 03:11:37,320 bouquet magic or something? And then Nam is like, you got 3540 03:11:37,320 --> 03:11:42,920 married and you caught Dins. And so Nam explains, it's just a 3541 03:11:42,920 --> 03:11:45,640 symbol. Even if you catch it, you're 3542 03:11:45,640 --> 03:11:46,800 not. If you're not willing to put the 3543 03:11:46,800 --> 03:11:48,800 effort in for love, it still won't come to you. 3544 03:11:48,800 --> 03:11:50,760 So that's like the lesson she learned from her dad. 3545 03:11:50,880 --> 03:11:52,840 And I love that she says that it's really cute. 3546 03:11:54,040 --> 03:11:58,800 And then Lana and Nam talk at the wedding about the the 3547 03:11:58,800 --> 03:12:02,880 bouquet toss comes up. And then they talk and and Nam 3548 03:12:02,880 --> 03:12:06,080 explains that she caught the bouquet at dinner and Rosa's 3549 03:12:06,080 --> 03:12:09,200 wedding. And Nam says Nam says she got it 3550 03:12:09,200 --> 03:12:13,480 by quote, accident and not long after I met you. 3551 03:12:13,480 --> 03:12:17,840 And like accident. Like does does not not know how 3552 03:12:18,800 --> 03:12:21,320 mom orchestrated that. She not really not know how she 3553 03:12:21,320 --> 03:12:24,360 got the bouquet because like, I mean, I know she was not paying 3554 03:12:24,360 --> 03:12:25,600 attention in real time when it happened. 3555 03:12:25,600 --> 03:12:26,960 But like, did nobody tell her that? 3556 03:12:26,960 --> 03:12:30,440 Like mom blobbed it at you, like throw it at you, you would catch 3557 03:12:30,440 --> 03:12:32,080 it? Like no, but she doesn't know. 3558 03:12:32,440 --> 03:12:35,520 I don't think she knows because I don't think she was bothered 3559 03:12:35,520 --> 03:12:37,960 to learn this information until like she started falling in 3560 03:12:37,960 --> 03:12:40,800 love, to be quite honest. But I was like, what? 3561 03:12:40,800 --> 03:12:46,080 Nah, I'm like, you crazy. Anyway, then Lava takes in this 3562 03:12:46,080 --> 03:12:47,640 information. She's like, well, instead of 3563 03:12:47,640 --> 03:12:50,520 throwing it, can I just like hand it to somebody instead? 3564 03:12:51,600 --> 03:12:55,720 And so Net comes up first as the first person, but then Lotta 3565 03:12:55,720 --> 03:12:58,640 reveals that like, oh, Net's seeing someone and it's going 3566 03:12:58,640 --> 03:13:00,560 really well. So I don't think she needs this. 3567 03:13:00,680 --> 03:13:02,360 We need to give it to somebody who needs it. 3568 03:13:02,600 --> 03:13:06,280 So instead, they go into this conversation and Lotta marches 3569 03:13:06,280 --> 03:13:08,560 directly up to Lam and hands it to her. 3570 03:13:08,600 --> 03:13:10,520 Like, there's no tossing. There's no like ribbons. 3571 03:13:10,520 --> 03:13:14,480 She like hands it to Lam. And why? 3572 03:13:14,480 --> 03:13:18,440 I was real surprised because in her mind, she she says love has 3573 03:13:18,440 --> 03:13:20,280 started to feel like a distant dream. 3574 03:13:20,280 --> 03:13:24,960 And then she gets bouquet and Lada explains Nam. 3575 03:13:24,960 --> 03:13:27,640 And I wanted to give it to you and we hope you find the love 3576 03:13:27,640 --> 03:13:30,320 you're looking for. Like that's really sweet. 3577 03:13:30,320 --> 03:13:33,440 So because like Lam is the one that like supports everybody in 3578 03:13:33,440 --> 03:13:35,640 their quest for love. And so I think it's really 3579 03:13:35,880 --> 03:13:40,480 significant that Lada is like, we we're here to support you for 3580 03:13:40,480 --> 03:13:42,360 once, because you're always supporting everybody. 3581 03:13:42,360 --> 03:13:44,280 You interfered with us for better or worse. 3582 03:13:44,680 --> 03:13:49,040 And like, we appreciate your efforts and like here is like 3583 03:13:49,080 --> 03:13:51,520 mom admitting in her brain that she's starting to feel real 3584 03:13:51,520 --> 03:13:53,880 jaded when it comes to love because she keeps seeing a lot 3585 03:13:53,880 --> 03:13:57,080 of people, but nothing clicks. And so she's like, is it even 3586 03:13:57,080 --> 03:13:59,200 worth it? And so like, but here's a lot of 3587 03:13:59,200 --> 03:14:02,280 being like, no, well, we're going to help you kind of thing. 3588 03:14:02,280 --> 03:14:06,840 So I think that hopefully helps mom's mindset when the air 3589 03:14:06,840 --> 03:14:10,520 starts, which I will read later. All right. 3590 03:14:10,960 --> 03:14:14,040 And so then this, after that, that's where the book basically 3591 03:14:14,040 --> 03:14:15,960 ends. And then it ends the wedding 3592 03:14:15,960 --> 03:14:18,480 essentially. And then this like special 3593 03:14:18,480 --> 03:14:21,840 chapters, a synopsis of them. I feel like they were, well, 3594 03:14:21,840 --> 03:14:24,800 they were done pretty faithfully in the series. 3595 03:14:24,800 --> 03:14:26,920 I'm surprised they even went through the special chapters, 3596 03:14:26,920 --> 03:14:29,680 but they basically went through all of them with some changes. 3597 03:14:30,040 --> 03:14:33,960 So the honeymoon is one of them. So Nam and Lotta honeymoon in 3598 03:14:33,960 --> 03:14:37,680 Chiang Rai, which is where Rosen Din's on Rosen Din's farm. 3599 03:14:37,800 --> 03:14:41,000 So which we were robbed of all these scenes. 3600 03:14:41,000 --> 03:14:44,400 And I think this was a filming issue because Chiang Rai is in 3601 03:14:44,400 --> 03:14:45,960 the air. So maybe there was a filming 3602 03:14:45,960 --> 03:14:49,760 issue in the series. But there is a huge change in 3603 03:14:49,760 --> 03:14:52,200 their relationships after they start getting physically 3604 03:14:52,200 --> 03:14:55,880 intimate with each other, where it's noted that Nam is quote, 3605 03:14:55,880 --> 03:14:59,080 completely immersed in Lana, whispering sweet words, 3606 03:14:59,080 --> 03:15:01,240 oblivious to everyone and everything around them. 3607 03:15:02,000 --> 03:15:04,960 I remember there at Denim Roses and even MO Dang notices and 3608 03:15:04,960 --> 03:15:08,760 we're robbed of this where MO Dang says out loud, is there an 3609 03:15:08,760 --> 03:15:11,040 off switch to Nam's love sick mode? 3610 03:15:11,720 --> 03:15:14,720 Which I think is so funny. And honestly, is there? 3611 03:15:14,720 --> 03:15:16,360 There's no off switch to Nam ever. 3612 03:15:16,360 --> 03:15:19,480 And like none of these cousins. It's like poor one day she's 3613 03:15:19,480 --> 03:15:21,360 like, I have to live with these fucking two. 3614 03:15:21,400 --> 03:15:24,520 I got to live with Din and I turn this one off. 3615 03:15:25,880 --> 03:15:28,920 And so like, by the end of this, they become Din and rows. 3616 03:15:28,920 --> 03:15:31,520 So I feel bad for Lam and Phi and the rest of the novels 3617 03:15:31,520 --> 03:15:33,280 because they're they're slowly getting outnumbered. 3618 03:15:35,520 --> 03:15:38,800 OK. And then Lada is promoted to a 3619 03:15:38,800 --> 03:15:42,080 quote boss role in the Watson group because she has proven 3620 03:15:42,080 --> 03:15:43,920 herself, not because of nepotism. 3621 03:15:45,480 --> 03:15:49,800 And unlike in the series, Lotta insists that they do not share 3622 03:15:49,800 --> 03:15:52,800 an office because quote Nam would stare at her all day. 3623 03:15:52,920 --> 03:15:56,240 Because I think they try working together and that Nam does not 3624 03:15:56,240 --> 03:15:58,520 get anything done. She's like, this will never work 3625 03:15:58,560 --> 03:16:01,200 because you're the worst. But then Nam's like, can we just 3626 03:16:01,200 --> 03:16:06,000 have lunch together? It's very cute and one thing 3627 03:16:06,000 --> 03:16:09,400 that happens is that they go through their first wedding 3628 03:16:09,400 --> 03:16:11,440 anniversary, they celebrate their first year wedding 3629 03:16:11,440 --> 03:16:13,320 anniversary, Then they get to their second year wedding 3630 03:16:13,320 --> 03:16:16,760 anniversary and they both forget it mutually because they're 3631 03:16:16,760 --> 03:16:20,280 working so much. But they decide it's OK because 3632 03:16:20,720 --> 03:16:22,280 they're like, we will celebrate another day. 3633 03:16:22,280 --> 03:16:24,800 It doesn't have to be on that, which happens in my marriage. 3634 03:16:24,800 --> 03:16:28,480 We both mutually forget the date, but we do celebrate it. 3635 03:16:28,480 --> 03:16:30,000 We're just like, oh shit, that was today. 3636 03:16:31,000 --> 03:16:32,880 We'll celebrate this weekend. Whatever, we will still 3637 03:16:32,880 --> 03:16:34,480 celebrate. It's just like we forget because 3638 03:16:34,480 --> 03:16:37,080 it's like long, long term relationships. 3639 03:16:37,080 --> 03:16:39,320 Like the the time works differently and they're just 3640 03:16:39,320 --> 03:16:41,240 like they're in their routine now and they're like, everyday 3641 03:16:41,240 --> 03:16:43,360 is special. Like I don't remember dates. 3642 03:16:43,720 --> 03:16:46,120 The date doesn't matter. The time we spend together is 3643 03:16:46,280 --> 03:16:47,840 what's meaningful. And that's a hallmark of their 3644 03:16:47,840 --> 03:16:49,920 relationship. All right. 3645 03:16:50,320 --> 03:16:52,800 Another thing is they both traveled to Canada to visit 3646 03:16:52,800 --> 03:16:54,640 Nam's mother, which is like, really cute. 3647 03:16:54,640 --> 03:16:57,480 And they get to, like, explore a new area and then, like, spend 3648 03:16:57,480 --> 03:16:59,840 time with her mother, who's not really in the novel a lot. 3649 03:17:01,320 --> 03:17:04,200 Nam experiences jealousy for the first time and is confused and 3650 03:17:04,200 --> 03:17:06,600 annoyed by it because she cannot control her feelings. 3651 03:17:06,600 --> 03:17:10,480 And that was one of my favorite chapters because I love the way 3652 03:17:10,480 --> 03:17:14,320 they communicate and I love the way Nam, the controlled person, 3653 03:17:14,320 --> 03:17:18,160 is like, what is this feeling? I hate it because it's making me 3654 03:17:18,160 --> 03:17:19,880 act irrational. And I don't want to do rational 3655 03:17:19,880 --> 03:17:21,240 things around you. I don't like this. 3656 03:17:23,360 --> 03:17:26,720 OK. Then we get the Daisy's birth, 3657 03:17:26,720 --> 03:17:31,840 which is Dinnen Rose's daughter, and then Daisy's birth prompts 3658 03:17:31,840 --> 03:17:35,480 the should we have kids conversation and they're both 3659 03:17:35,480 --> 03:17:37,880 like, oh, I never neither of them ever thought about it. 3660 03:17:37,880 --> 03:17:40,440 And then suddenly their Nam's like, but I know what I would 3661 03:17:40,440 --> 03:17:43,000 name the kid and mom's like, so do I And at the same time 3662 03:17:43,000 --> 03:17:45,200 they're both like little C, which is really cute. 3663 03:17:46,360 --> 03:17:52,680 So anyway, so that is that is the water and I really, really 3664 03:17:52,680 --> 03:17:55,920 fucking love the novel because there's so many funny elements 3665 03:17:55,920 --> 03:17:59,040 to it. And Lada and Nam's relationship 3666 03:17:59,040 --> 03:18:02,840 is one of my favourites. I absolutely love their dynamic. 3667 03:18:03,280 --> 03:18:06,720 I love their dialogue once they start talking. 3668 03:18:06,720 --> 03:18:10,120 The way that Shawn Lada is always like, no bitch, we're 3669 03:18:10,120 --> 03:18:14,680 doing this like a lot of snobs. Like, Are you sure they're so 3670 03:18:14,680 --> 03:18:18,600 funny? I absolutely love them and I 3671 03:18:18,600 --> 03:18:22,560 would say for big gay energy award for the water. 3672 03:18:22,560 --> 03:18:26,400 So we're gonna I'm gonna wrap this up is Nam and the the 3673 03:18:26,480 --> 03:18:29,720 noodles joke, the ramen joke. That is code for sex and a lot 3674 03:18:29,720 --> 03:18:30,960 of being like who taught you that? 3675 03:18:31,560 --> 03:18:34,520 I was like the Internet like that whole thing and the way it 3676 03:18:34,520 --> 03:18:36,360 keeps coming up. It's code for sex. 3677 03:18:36,360 --> 03:18:40,920 I thought that was hilarious. The Taylor Swift song I would 3678 03:18:40,920 --> 03:18:43,920 give for the water is this love, I think, because I think there's 3679 03:18:43,920 --> 03:18:47,000 a lot of lines in it that are literal to the water, which is 3680 03:18:47,000 --> 03:18:51,240 like high tide came and brought you in, like lot of the crashing 3681 03:18:51,240 --> 03:18:54,320 wave from the ocean that disrupts Nam's life. 3682 03:18:55,000 --> 03:18:57,400 And this love is good. This love is bad. 3683 03:18:57,400 --> 03:18:59,440 This love is a life back from the dead. 3684 03:18:59,440 --> 03:19:03,640 It's like, it's like the whole, like lot of brought color into 3685 03:19:03,640 --> 03:19:06,600 my life because Nam wasn't living her life. 3686 03:19:06,600 --> 03:19:08,600 It was black and white. And then this splash of color 3687 03:19:08,600 --> 03:19:11,320 came in. And now Nam can't Unsee it. 3688 03:19:11,800 --> 03:19:14,360 And it changed everything. And even though this love, this 3689 03:19:14,360 --> 03:19:17,000 love is good, it had its bad moments because they made their 3690 03:19:17,000 --> 03:19:20,520 mistakes. But yeah, I just love it. 3691 03:19:20,520 --> 03:19:23,440 It's it's very them. OK. 3692 03:19:23,760 --> 03:19:25,320 If you made it this far, thank you so much. 3693 03:19:25,320 --> 03:19:28,840 If I left anything out, I hope not, but I'm sure I did let 3694 03:19:28,840 --> 03:19:31,000 leave it in the comments. Why did you love the novel? 3695 03:19:31,600 --> 03:19:33,360 How would you compare it to the series? 3696 03:19:33,800 --> 03:19:36,960 I hope this addressed all the comments we got in our Why You 3697 03:19:36,960 --> 03:19:39,560 Love the Water. And a lot of it was like, I 3698 03:19:39,560 --> 03:19:42,360 didn't like all these things they left that about the novel. 3699 03:19:42,360 --> 03:19:45,920 I tried to incorporate all of them because like they were so 3700 03:19:45,920 --> 03:19:48,280 funny. The dialogue was really good. 3701 03:19:48,560 --> 03:19:51,600 I really love the characterization of all of the 3702 03:19:51,600 --> 03:19:53,880 characters as written by the author. 3703 03:19:54,720 --> 03:19:59,160 And I just feel like the series was, it was just different. 3704 03:19:59,160 --> 03:20:00,520 It was a completely different story to me. 3705 03:20:00,520 --> 03:20:03,320 It was not this novel, and it's not a bad thing. 3706 03:20:03,320 --> 03:20:07,040 It's just I prefer the novel because I prefer who these 3707 03:20:07,040 --> 03:20:09,720 characters were, how they interacted, all like the 3708 03:20:09,720 --> 03:20:12,560 symbolism that went in, all the meaningful moments they had and 3709 03:20:12,560 --> 03:20:14,240 the way that really told the story. 3710 03:20:14,240 --> 03:20:18,960 So I really love this novel. If you're interested in book 3711 03:20:18,960 --> 03:20:21,240 club, I will be continuing book clubs. 3712 03:20:21,240 --> 03:20:23,840 I have a couple I think in the works. 3713 03:20:23,840 --> 03:20:26,280 I will definitely be continuing the four elements and like I 3714 03:20:26,280 --> 03:20:29,880 said, the Air will be next in the four element series I'm also 3715 03:20:29,880 --> 03:20:32,880 working on. I will read the Girl Rules novel 3716 03:20:32,880 --> 03:20:35,240 at some point when the series ends. 3717 03:20:35,240 --> 03:20:39,000 And I'm planning on doing Queendom by Salomon as well 3718 03:20:39,000 --> 03:20:43,680 because I'm super curious what the original was like that she 3719 03:20:43,800 --> 03:20:47,000 that the author wrote in comparison to the series. 3720 03:20:47,000 --> 03:20:50,200 So those are a couple coming up. If you have suggestions for 3721 03:20:50,200 --> 03:20:54,480 other novels please let me know. 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