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waitmyturtles · 1 year

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Well — I can’t believe it’s over. Moonlight Chicken was… I’ll get the words for it. Satisfying is the first one that comes to mind. And MC was my first beginning-to-end fandom on Tumblr. The big brains, the META, the psychological and cultural analyses! I’m a peon in a sea of passionate geniuses here. I love this community so much.

Where do we start. Moonlight Chicken, episode 8/finale thoughts and impressions. As usual, quick hits first, then the big thinks.

1) So much wonderful fan service. And I know that fan service can often take a show out, and when fan service is included in a script, I’m sure that at times, it makes directors and screenwriters grit their teeth. But I’m REALLY THANKFUL for all the fan service with all the couples, and yes, I’m including First and Khao here, because — come awn, the way these two almost OVERACTED their relaxedness at the bank and the food truck at the end, I was giggle-crying. Had we seen Alan smile any bigger at any other point in the show than at the food truck? THE SWAPPING OF THE CHAT IDs? THOSE CUTE LOOKS? KHAO’S little head shakes? THE TURN AFTER RECEIVING THAT MYSTERY CHAT? THANK YOU, AOFFFFF, thank yoooouuuu! Thank you for knowing exactly what you were doing for us and our ships, ha.

A dear anon recommended My School President to me, and I’m gonna definitely watch it, because I’m officially a GemFourth stan. More on this later, but I absolutely adored that their storyline took up a huge chunk of screentime. Besides the storyline interweaving beautifully with the major theme arcs of this last episode, their chemistry just could not be better. It’s been well documented how Fourth has been EATING his role, but Gemini, too! The TEXTS! The knowing looks! How much Gemini is able to communicate just by looking at Fourth. SO SATISFYING AND FULFILLING, GAAAHH.

And, and, and — forgive me for being sentimental. Because I’m still so new to this wonderful world of Aof’s work and Thai BLs, I didn’t have to wait as long as so many of y’all in the family for Earth and Mix to reunite in such a good script. But I was still feeling the nostalgia early in the series at seeing these two together, and I felt it so strongly in this episode. Jim FINALLY breaking out of his shell. Calling Wen his boyfriend. Leaning in to make a move (on the wonderful couch). Holding Wen’s hand and squeezing it in response to Wen. Gah. Too great.

Just, like….. how are these GMMTV couples SO GOOD? HOW ARE THEY SO GOOD TOGETHER? (Yes, not quite accurate to call AlanGaipa a couple, but shhhhh.) Anyway, sighs of happiness.

2) LENG. Gossipy. Luv u. Sneaky b.

3) I know we kinda despise her (and by “we,” I mean all of my inner children who want to grab these guilt-stricken, “what do I do nowwwww” whine-whine parents by the throat), but umm, Jam’s a 10! She cute! I liked her mall outfit, I cannot lie.

Jam came full circle. She admits to her shit. She figures out how to come thru in the most sensible way she can. I’ll offer more thoughts in a bit, but I’m actually a little glad that we didn’t get the rage scene that I so WANTED to see in episode 7. She’s ready to pony up for school. That’s the best way she can help, and I’m glad she was written as figuring that out.

What did I see happen to Jam? She leaned into the kind of parenting and family building that she could manage at this point in her life. What she was CAPABLE of, she did. She created a family table for ALL her family. To show that kind of blended family, eating all together, at peace, with a small child in their presence…. to have created a warm environment where Jim could finally, comfortably come out without judgement. She replicated the same table that Jim himself had created at his diner. She’s paying her dues back to BOTH her brother AND her son, both of whom she rejected and abandoned.

I have to hand it to Aof. My inner child’s heart is wrecked at this, but I have to hand it to him. He treats bad parents with compassion. ATOTS, Bad Buddy, and now here. He doesn’t blame bad parents for who they ARE — he instead skewers WHERE THEY CAME FROM, the culture from which these styles of parenting are borne. God, Aof. That’s not necessarily emotionally purging for Asian kids traumatized by the unexplored impact of filial piety. But it’s much more of a realistic artistic meditation, a FAIR one. I see what he did with Jam, and I ultimately have to appreciate it, even if I was dying for a rage episode. I appreciate that Aof, as an artist, will not succumb to base emotion simply because it’s the surface feeling. He will always dig and layer what ends up truly working as an emotionally balanced meditation.

4) Big themes. Once again — a return to the balance between old and new cultures and perspectives, and how us oldies get pulled along into the new age. But also, in this episode, we were reminded of what youngsters bring with THEM, from THEIR pasts, into their future.

This episode focused on Jim’s movement and Li Ming’s movement. Oh, my heart. I’ll start with Li Ming.

Li Ming is really a hero of mine — I think what he demonstrates for me is that youthful FEARLESSNESS towards change that we admire youngsters for so much — while us oldie parents are also worried about them, we fear for them, because we know that there are potholes and pitfalls when change can happen quickly and blindingly.

I think that's what Jim was referring to when he says to Jam that Li Ming helped him (Jim) find his maturity. That was at the core of the night talk that took place in episode 7. I think Jim saw, in Li Ming, what Jim *needed* to see in Li Ming to trust Li Ming with Li Ming's own growth. Jim needed to see that Li Ming could consider his options, and be more emotionally sophisticated and aware than Jim ever has been.

And, I think -- that helped Jim TRUST Li Ming. That wonderful short conversation between Li Ming and Jim, where Jim confirms with Li Ming that Jim is just *worried* about Li Ming, like a parent.

When Li Ming says, "love isn't that big of a deal." When Li Ming talks about other ways that life needs to be sustainable.

Li Ming KNOWS Jim, and knows HOW TO TALK TO JIM.

How brilliant is that, to see that in someone so young, just dominate you, an older person, by way of emotional knowledge and sophistication? Jim had no choice, in my read, but to trust Li Ming -- and, maybe, take some inspiration and take that sophistication, and internalize it, so that he (Jim) could begin to relax and find happiness as well.

5) The other story about Li Ming's movement is between him and Heart, and as I said before, I'm just totally sold on GeminiFourth as a pairing, because their dynamic was really perfect for the growth that needed to be demonstrated between the two of them.

HEART! We saw Heart shoot his shot, dang it! HEART! With his wanting a boyfriend, with his parents learning sign language, with PEOPLE AROUND HIM LEARNING HOW TO TALK TO HIM. On multiple levels, even if we didn't see all of it actively (like with Heart's parents), Heart made demands and shot his shots, just like Li Ming did with his own family.

GOOD GOD -- could Aof have used this motif more wonderfully, so EFFICIENTLY? Young people get shit done! No holds barred, they can bolt through their own obstacles, their own barriers, to get shit done. Young people aren't held down by the past, like some old uncles we know.

And yet. Young people CAN ALSO RESPECT THE PAST, AND BRING LONG-STANDING CULTURE WITH THEM -- as Heart and Li Ming showed at the temple, as Li Ming danced as a lion, bringing in the Lunar New Year (FULL CIRCLE from when the series premiered, y'all!) AND THAT'S GROWTH. That's how the world spins, that's how Pattaya spins -- a place caught in the middle between the old and the new, the historic and the modern. Just like Li Ming and Heart, they are always growing, always maturing, and fast, like young people do, before they get stagnant-ish and older-ish, like Uncle Jim.

6) And then we see the growth paradigm with Jim, as reflected in the mirror of Li Ming. We see Jim -- finally -- loosening up. We see Jim come out as paired up with Wen to his sister. We see them on a date, a romantic date on the beach. (Sure, Jim is still an old dad, complaining about the food or whatever, geez, Jim.)

We see him close the old place, and open a new place. We see that new place as a new and modern way to hold over the old culture -- khao man gai, outside, under the stars, the way it's supposed to be eaten in an equatorial country.

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We see Jim, finally, reflecting. We see him reflecting on how people were able to move forward, people like Jam and Gaipa, while he reflected on how he was held back. We see him figuring out how he won't hold himself back, and won't LET HIMSELF BE HELD BACK, anymore. He cancels the lease to let go. He, finally, wants to be in control. He sells the car, one of his last links to Beam. And commits to moving forward in so many ways.

And he stays in Pattaya. So we know -- he's still going to be connected to the old ways, the historic culture, of Pattaya.

And when Wen choose to decline the job. When Wen -- AND JIM -- decide to build a home together. Home isn't anything modern. Home is HOME. Home is history. Home is building history together. Jim is both leaving things behind.... and leaving nothing behind. Because he's building all he needs in his life once more.

The building of home with Wen. That's what ultimately took me out about this episode.

7) I believe I finally got the khao man gai analogy to the show that I long wanted before the show premiered. As with Jam's table at her husband's house, when the guys were sitting and eating at the diner before the diner closed. Jim's family, Jim's community. How food brings everyone together. That was a presage, I think, for the home he was going to eventually build with Wen. Y'all know I wanted this, and I'm so glad I got it. Yay, chicken rice.

I'm totally going to have more thoughts over the next few days, but this is what I got for now. I'm so in debt to Aof as an Asian fan of his dramas for giving us such unbelievable commentary on culture and family. We are INCREDIBLY LUCKY to have this artist making these shows. They are so important to me as an Asian, as a lover of my culture and Asian cultures, as an Asian child and mother also struggling with the balance of old and new values and cultural rituals. Aof's shows teach me so much, about extra- and introspection, and Moonlight Chicken was absolutely no exception.

#moonlight chicken #moonlight chicken meta #earthmix #firstkhao #earth pirapat #mix sahaphap #first kanaphan #khaotung thanawat #geminifourth #fourth nattawat #gemini norawit #jim x wen #wen x jim #alan x gaipa #gaipa x alan #li ming x heart #heart x li ming #moonlight chicken episode 8

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spokenfromtheheartandsoul · 1 year

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I was nervous about how Moonlight Chicken was going to handle the whole Alan-meets-Gaipa situation, because as much as I love the natural onscreen chemistry First and Khao have with one another with them being best friends in real life, Alan and Gaipa’s characters are a whole other story. They’d both gone through so much pain and upheaval in the last few episodes. The two of them deserved to be more than just be two random loose ends in a story that got paired up with one another for the sake of tying things up neatly.

But I’m actually so pleasantly surprised with how the show chose to maneuver it! Starting by first giving the both of them time and space to grieve, and to move forward with their lives on their own. Gaipa to grieve the loss of his mother, and also to make peace with Jim being happy with Wen. Alan to finally come to terms with the loss of a long-term relationship and to begin his own grieving process by letting go, leaving his and Wen’s pictures behind when he moves out, and deciding to “walk on his own” again.

And then, we are slowly introduced to the possibility of something new for the both Alan and Gaipa. I appreciate that the show doesn’t immediately throw the two of them into a new relationship and tie it up with a bow, but instead we get little hints that gives these characters room to breathe.

Gaipa and Alan are still working through their own things, but that doesn’t mean they don’t get to have those small subtle moments that come along with having a newfound crush: the instinctive smiling at one another, the silly excuses just to talk to one another and run into one another, the secret fond glances when the other person isn’t looking. It’s cute! It’s sweet! And honestly, the two of them really do deserve cute and sweet after everything they’ve gone through (Gaipa in particular - that boy has my whole heart and I would give him the world if I could.)

Anyway tl;dr, I’m very soft for the way Moonlight Chicken introduced the Alan x Gaipa concept. Two people who are still healing but get to have a hopeful ending with hints at new beginnings, all while still being surrounded by the people who have cared for them, and always will care for them no matter what, because that is what it means to be a part of a community.

#I do love the idea of gaipa's mom planting the seed in alan's head way early on haha #anyway I just binged mlc in under 24 hrs and folks. i am unwell #anyway not my tldr being an essay itself why am i like this #idk why i ever doubted tbh that's on me for underestimating the power of paof and firstkhao!#moonlight chicken #alan x gaipa #gaipa #gaipa x alan #gaipalan

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athousandbyeol · 1 year

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Midnight Series: Moonlight Chicken พระจันทร์มันไก่ | Moonlight Chicken (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kaipa/Alan Anantachai Lertwongsa Characters: Alan Anantachai Lertwongsa, Kaipa (Moonlight Chicken TV) Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Light Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Character Study, Introspection, Tenderness, Hugs, ice cream date, Feelings Realization, Fluff Series: Part 2 of for alangaipa Summary:

it's so nonsensical. but the breeze blows so gently on them. gaipa's hair runs in every direction, triggering laughter and cute noises. alan can't describe it in words, but he feels the strike of thunder to his chest— the doom of love to his core. in gaipa's beauty and flaws, alan falls.

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zhoushuyis · 5 months

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but your heart got teeth

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“The papers, phi. We want you to come over for the papers.” Ray crossed his legs and settled back, continuing his coy act. “Sand is my business partner. He needs to take a look as well.”

Gaipa snickered beside Alan.

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Shameless Alan/Ray and Gaipa/Sand partner swap pwp smut <3

PS: I will spoil ray rotten in this one <33

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noemptythought · 2 months

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That time Khaotung cried because First (just acting as Akk) told him he hates him in the Eclipse mock trailer and that time First broke his character in the Moonlight Chicken and cried during the funeral scene because Khaotung looked like he was in so much pain both live in my mind rent free...

#first kanaphan #khaotung thanawat #firstkhao #khaofirst #the eclipse #the eclipse the series #moonlight chicken #akkayan #alan x gaipa #bl series #bl shows #firstkhaotung

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gunsatthaphan · 1 year

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he made him smile 🥺

#firstkhao #firstkhaotung #alan x gaipa #moonlight chicken #first kanaphan #khaotung thanawat #gmmtv #moment magazine #my subs #this was recorded while MLC was still airing which is why khao says its not over yet lol #also dont judge me for giffing something old but i just miss my boys okay 😩#i need them on my blog

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littleragondin · 1 year

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Sometimes you have to take fate into your own hands or something.

#I'm sorry but since I saw the episode #right after Jim says 'would you like to join us for dinner'#and every time I see a gifset/photoset of the scene #my brain expects a variation of this #SO #here it is #hopefully no one did that one before #Incorrect Quotes United #Moonlight Chicken #Alan x Gaipa #AlanGaipa #Midnight series #gmmtv #thai bl #thai drama #asianlgbtqdrama #gifs #mine #ragongif

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thedooristhebluecushion · 5 months

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First & Khao don’t know how to NOT have their characters be electrically & completely infatuated from the moment they meet. Akk hated Aye because he loved him so much. Gaipa & Alan were connected the instant they met. & I cannot believe it took Ray so many more episodes to realize it after the record store in ep 4. Like my dude, you’re staring longingly in his eyes while playing with his fingies, marry him already.

Anyway hope they get some fluff for their next show they earned it.

#first x khao #first x khaotung #firstkhao #firstkhaotung #first kanaphan #khaotung thanawat #the eclipse #akkayan #akk x ayan #moonlight chicken #alan x gaipa #alangaipa #only friends the series #sand x ray #sandray

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bl-inded · 1 year

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Why Wen is the best adult on Moonlight Chicken

This show had four weeks to make its impact and boy did it! I will be the first to admit that when the show started I was verryyyy ready to hate Wen. The trailers and first few made very clear implications that were meant to be picked up by the audience. I was extremely happy that they subverted it. But i think even if they hadn't i would love Wen. It is some great complex character writing (and no, he doesn't have to be messy for him to be complex, fight me).

When we first see Wen we get a hint that he is not necessarily in the best place in life. He's still doing pretty well for himself, but he's looking for something. I will preface this by saying, Wen is still flawed. How he handled the situation with Alan left much to be desired.

But the reason why I will stand by Wen is because he makes it a point to keep his mess separate from the rest of the characters as well as he can. Jim, Alan and Wen are the only ones who are even involved in their relationship drama, and that is by design.

Wen's interactions with Li Ming especially are proof to this. He has absolutely no reason to help this kid. But he did. And you cannot tell me he wouldn't adopt Li Ming and Heart in an instant even if Jim and Wen never got together.

My favourite choice about this is that it would have been sooooo easy to use Wen and Li Ming's interactions as a means to make him more attractive in Jim's eyes. But never once in the show did they do that (🥲 let me take this time again to thank P'Aof. Sir. You are everything 🤌🏼)

This moment

This was the exact moment I was like, yeah. He is gonna be the best mentor to Li Ming (and maybe Heart).

He is not afraid to ask for advice, but is smart enough to not take the advice at face value. He never pushed his drama onto anyone else. His relationship with Alan exists in isolation with his relationship to Jim (much to Alan's disappointment) but when push comes to shove he still chose to stay by Alan because he had no one else to take care of him at the time.

He gives Jim all the time he needs to adjust to Wen. He is nothing more than a gentle nudge in the "ik you were hurt, but find it in you to let me in" agenda. He understands that Jim needs that time and let's him set the pace.

He recognises Kaipa needs someone and for that someone to be Jim (credit where credit is due for Jim doing the same thing with Wen and Alan) and not once questioning his own security in that undefined space Wen and Jim are in.

I will admit, i have a Mix bias. But it is impossible to disagree that this is probably the best role he's played to date. Both in acting and characterization. He is the most well realised character Mix has played.

I just love Wen okay 😭

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heretherebedork · 1 year

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I really love Alan's pen as one of the main metaphors for how ready he is to start moving on and how he's feeling about the person across from him because it's such a little thing but it's also so big becasue Jim nearly walks away with it but Gaipa rushes back to put it in his hand and the first time Alan is across from Jim in the coldest blue but he's across from Gaipa in lighter colors and he even smiles.

(Also, this boy cannot separate work and personal at all between telling Jim to go elsewhere and getting Gaipa's chat ID. Oh, Alan.)

#moonlight chicken #moonlight chicken the series #bl series #thai bl #bl drama #thai drama #thaibl #thai series #gmmtv #alangaipa #thai ql #ql drama #ql series #gaipalan #gaipa x alan #alan x gaipa

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waitmyturtles · 1 year

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More, more, more Moonlight Chicken episode 8/finale meta. Continuing my numbered list from my first meta post on the episode. God, there’s so much. Non-chronological to the episode, and bigger thoughts at the end.

8) The movie that Li Ming and Heart caught at the mall?

It’s a little plug for My Precious, which is coming out later this month, and stars, like, everyone -- Nanon and Film are paired up again, with Ohm, Chimon, Neo (Neo and Nanon and Ohm, CUTE!), View, etc. Looks cute! And directed by Fon Kanittha of 10 Years Ticket, which I just enjoyed very much. I don’t know if GMMTV movies come out on YouTube? I guess we’ll see.

9) I want to meditate on Jam for a bit longer from my first meta, because I realized that I think there was something really smart happening between episode 7 and episode 8. I caught this but didn’t analyze it in episode 7: I saw in Jam a commonality between Thai culture and my Indian culture, and I wonder if this is common to other Asian cultures as well. To me, what happened here with this commonality, and how it was dealt with by Jim and Jam in episode 8, to me, demonstrated the movement between old and new values that I think all of episode 8 was totally centered on.

In episode 7, Jam tries to play the blame game.

You know that saying -- “everything happens for a reason”? It’s such bullshit (I’d rather work on transcendence, considering what I went through as a kid).

The blame game was CORE to my childhood. EVERYTHING that happened in the life of my childhood nuclear family HAD to be attached to a kind of reason that would lend itself to be “blamed” on another person. If my brother got bad grades -- it was the teacher’s fault. If there was a fight between sibs -- it was the youngest/weakest sib that would “get blamed” for starting a fight. If my folks had work issues -- they ALWAYS had to be blamed on someone else. I RARELY saw my parents take accountability or responsibility for their own actions.

I am sure there were times when I saw the adults of my childhood life take personal or professional accountability for their actions, but I seriously can’t remember any of them. The blame game removes the need for adults to be transparent and take accountability for their actions, and instead allows them to interpret their perspective of the world by assigning blame to outside forces -- which, in my view, leaves these people flailing in a life that’s ultimately out of their control. To me, that’s horseshit. Why the hell would you want to live a life in which you remove yourself from the ability to leverage your own power -- your own RESPONSIBILITY -- and be more in control of your own fate? And it happens to be an extremely common perspective at least in my circle of Indian family and friends.

What was SO INCREDIBLE ABOUT YOUNG LI MING (and Heart) during episodes 7 and 8 is that HIS GROWTH, HIS CONFIDENCE, HIS ABILITY TO BE TRANSPARENT AND COMMUNICATIVE (as in the night scene outside of the diner with Jim in episode 7) SERVED as a model for revelation that Jim leaned on and leveraged.

The change happens quickly for Jim, but in episode 8, he holds himself accountable.

And it happened for Jam, too, as I mentioned in my first meta. She sees what’s happening, she tries her best to build a family table (as Jim also does in episode 8), and she tries to do something as a mom that she couldn’t have accomplished earlier in her life. In her own halting way, she tries to hold herself accountable.

As I wrote in my last meta, that Li Ming (LI MING!!!) served as the catalyst for this -- it’s Aof’s motif, right, to leverage the brilliance of YOUTH, of fresh and youthful BRAVERY AND COURAGE, unweighed by the burden of years of regret and bad experiences, to help lift adults out of the bullshit that holds them back from moving forward.

It was gorgeous to me. This entire episode’s macro theme was moving forward AND looking back, and leveraging all of the looking back TO MOVE FOWARD, and these analyses allowed Aof to set everything in beautiful context for our understanding. Utterly brilliant.

10) I really liked that the finale started with a focus on all the homes that the series has featured -- Jim’s home, the diner, and then moving to Wen’s new condo, one of their new homes. (I LOVED the outdoors, airy feel of Jam’s fiancé’s house -- that house, to me, so reminded me of the kampung houses we used to visit family at when I was a kid in Malaysia.) Then we leave the diner, and the food truck becomes a new home. And the second-to-last scene is the beautiful community gathering outside the food truck, complete with a new baby. And the very last scene is back on the couch (oh, how i love that old-school couch) at Jim’s home. Respecting your old homes, creating new homes. Back and forth, old and new. Homes can look different in your life, but the core of the meaning of home will never change, as long as you are with people that you are creating a home with.

11) I also happen to appreciate that the diner had to close. I like that Aof didn’t create a fairy tale about the Marina development. The Marina development was going to move forward, no matter what. That the project featured a food truck park (as we saw on the screen during the business meeting when Wen was offered the promotion) was, I think, Aof’s way of saying -- even with this new development that our country is facing, we can still compromise and accommodate for the values that our culture, our food and community culture, still hold dear. They won’t take us down.

I fucking love that Aof does not shy away from reality. Boss.

12) Speaking of the blame game and cultural nuances, I noted that twice in the finale, Li Ming mentions paying Jim back for the money Jim spent to raise Li Ming. I really liked this harkening back to a old cultural value. It’s still something that’s very expected in many Asian cultures (now that I’m older and established, even with kids, my parents heavily hint on this. Way to tell me that I was a retirement plan with no communication, Mom and Dad.)

That Li Ming brings this up to Jim unprompted, to me, indicates how much of a parent Li Ming sees Jim as. Li Ming doesn’t say this to his mom. He takes what his mom gives him at the mall -- because it’s kind of ALL that she’s ever given him. Whereas, his devotion to Jim for Jim’s support is that Li Ming wants Jim to know how much he feels in debt to his uncle. We don’t know if Li Ming will ever actually pay Jim back, but the message is there -- I appreciate you, Uncle, and I want you to know that I’m communicating this through this value exchange.

13) Besides building homes, there were messages of building new family together. Of course, that’s Li Ming and Heart, and Jim and Wen, and Jam and Tong (AND ALAN AND GAIPA) confirming their relationships, and Leng and Praew bringing their baby to the truck. One sparkling note about children -- I loved that Heart was playing with Gam. Gam will be Li Ming’s new step-sister. They won’t get to know each other right away, as Li Ming will go to America with Heart. But they’re still going to be new family together. And Heart was already making that connection.

14) Finally, finally (at least for now, maybe over the weekend, but I so need to start watching new shows, ha), how Jim always creates community and family around him. When Li Ming offers to pay Jim back. When we see Jim set up at the food truck, how he continues to gather people together. The farewell party at the diner.

God, how I loved that we moved FROM the last food truck scene, with EVERYONE THERE, to the living room with Wen. That last food truck scene really broke me, because even while I love open-air stalls like Jim’s old diner, the way I really remember eating in SE Asia as a kid was out-out, really outdoors, with no roof, like outside a food truck. It seemed to me SO modern and fresh, AND ALSO SO REMINISCENT of my old times as a kid.

And how Jim and his food always, always brings everyone together. And how Wen is his partner, his employee, his boyfriend. I don’t know -- just visually, meaningfully, in that one scene, Aof GOT IT FOR ME -- that VALUE SYSTEM of everything that vending/hawker culture does for someone of that region, how the BRINGING TOGETHER of people is so VISUALLY DEFINITIVE. And it was all because of Jim and his hard work that these people were together like that.

Jim’s a home-builder, in the end, despite the hardships he’s had as a gay man. We need the conservative dinosaurs to move on, as Wen says, so that a man like Jim can continue to build family, community, and homes for everyone, unfettered. Anyone can do it, as long as you let them, if they’re brave and responsible enough, as Jim has long demonstrated himself to me.

Y’all, I don’t know how I’m gonna move on from this show. My Jim x Wen sweat candle is in the mail, so maybe that’ll help.

#moonlight chicken #moonlight chicken meta #earthmix #earth pirapat #mix sahaphap #jim x wen #wen x jim #geminifourth #fourth nattawat #gemini norawit #li ming x heart #heart x li ming #firstkhao #first kanaphan #khaotung thanawat #alan x gaipa #gaipa x alan #my precious #my precious movie

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thebvbbletea · 1 year

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"A banker, I see. Will you get a free credit card if you date him?"

— Alan & Gaipa in Moonlight Chicken ep. 8

#moonlight chicken #gaipa #alan #first kanaphan #khaotung thanawat #firstkhao #saleng #mark pakin #alan x gaipa #lmaooo saleng 😂

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athousandbyeol · 1 year

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Midnight Series: Moonlight Chicken พระจันทร์มันไก่ | Moonlight Chicken (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Alan/Kaipa (Moonlight Chicken TV) Characters: Kaipa (Moonlight Chicken TV), Alan (Moonlight Chicken TV), Mentions of Other Moonlight Chicken Characters Additional Tags: Romantic Fluff, Late Night Conversations, Awkward Flirting, Comfort, Tenderness, Getting Together, Character Study, Introspection, Light-Hearted, Attempt at Humor, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Falling In Love Series: Part 1 of for alangaipa Summary:

and it feels heavenly— everything they have right now, all things they could have in the future.

if this is the happiness he's been searching for his whole life— if this is the love his mother wished for him— gaipa will cradle it close to his chest, nourish it with nothing but tenderness and fondness.

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allthemagicalponies · 1 year

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My headcanon is that Mama Gaipa used to go to Alan’s office to do banking stuff and would always brag about her cute son, who is SINGLE, by the way, especially when she noticed that he seemed a lot more down than usual and the photos he used to have up of him and Wen were missing.

#moonlight chicken #alan x gaipa #moonlight chicken the series

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respectthepetty · 1 year

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moonlight chicken doesn't play around when it comes to their lighting...and alan got his first (?) official warm yellow glow in the last episode...right when he went to talk to gaipa. coincidence?? 👀

ANON, how dare they hit us with that glow up for Alan!

I don't believe in coincidences, not when it comes to fictional characters and world building, so as Canadian actor turned rapper Aubrey Graham would say "We started from the bottom now we here." And it's been intentional:

So if Alan is getting that warm lighting treatment, IT'S LOVE! (I'm on my Alan x Gaipa bullshit)

Let me present my evidence.

When we first encountered Alan, he was in the blue. *picture above* But during the confrontation with Jim and Wen, we really saw his blue shine. Before he showed up, this was the scene:

As soon as Alan popped up, the blue started seeping into the scene.

And started sticking to others

When all was said and done, even Jim had the blue on him.

Now, some might claim that the blue is the moonlight, so, of course, it would be on Jim. Yes, BUT...they had been in this spot throughout the night and the blue didn't shine as much until Alan brought it in the scene. We see this blue in the flashback with Jim as well.

The blue doesn't touch Jim as much, but there is clearly a blue person bringing the coldness.

Back to Alan! When he showed up at the funeral, he stepped into the scene in the blue.

And stayed in the blue portion, but his normal blue coloring wouldn't stick.

When he fought with Wen in the diner, the blue stuck.

But when he looks at Gaipa, the blue dissolves into the warmth, and we don't start seeing it return until Alan watches Wen working and goes to leave.

Once outside, the blue and coldness starts to creep back onto him

While Jim remains warm

Jim, outside or inside, is naturally warm, mostly untouched by the blue.

And he gives that warmth to Alan. By the end of their conversation, Alan appears warmer.

So maybe this blue boy can learn to live in the warmth rather than the cold again

And maybe this former blue boy turned red can help him

Because he already has.

#Moonlight Chicken #Alan x Gaipa ship is sailing #Even if it's only in my mind #The lighting is telling me things #And those things are Alan finally felt some warmth #And it started with Gaipa #Jim being kind to him also gave him warmth #Alan has been blue for a long time #Let's turn him red!

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