TharnType 2020 fans - a place to chat, discuss and wait (hopefully) for season 2! Contains Spoilers!

 Bayamon_Hill:

Poom is Gulf's real girlfriend. They have decided to reduce their time together/break up because of their "busy schedules" but it changes nothing. MewGulf can only work as long as there is a chance that Gulf can actually fall in love with Mew. Unlike the BL world, Poom ends that chance. So now Mew & Gulf seems more appropriate. 

Actually, it can only work, as you said, if Gulf can fall in love with Mew and if Mew can fall in love with Gulf, why are you giving Mew for granted?!?! I still don't get why you're saying Poom ended that chance, I think now there's more possibilities of MewGulf than ever. Oh well, I ship them but it won't be the end of the world if they don't end up together, I just want them to be happy and to maintain this friendship for a long time!!!!

Hmmmmm .... this has been an interesting conversation!  As I mentioned above, I don't follow social media at all, and I've only seen a couple of videos of Mew and Gulf - videos which I found very charming because they seemed to reveal these two actors themselves as very charming - warm, amusing, funny, and ... seemingly very fond of each other.

But I have picked up on the reality that people care very much what sort of real relationship the two men could have - may be having - or do have, out here, off-scree, in the "real world". And in this context, I gather, the possibility of a girlfriend called Poom suddenly looms large. That is, maybe Gulf has a girlfriend, Poom, and that would mean there is no real possibiity of Mew/Gulf - and that would distress many people.

I've been thinking about this a lot. It's far too easy to say that we, the viewers and fans, should remember that Tharn and Type are fictional characters, and should accept that the actors are utterly different human beings with their own private lives. The world isn't that simple. There are good reasons why many people care about the (possible) real lives of Mew and Gulf. I understand those reasons and sympathise with that caring ... and so I guess I make an effort to stay away from the reality of Mew's and Gulf's lives. I'm not not on social media, and up till now I've paid no attention to "Mew and Gulf (Mew/Gulf, MewGulf, Mew & Gulf!) news. But I know I care it as much as anyone else and I've just been protecting myself.

I think it's like this for me - and maybe for others too:  Tharn and Type are two exciting, compelling characters. Their love story is engrossing, moving, powerful - we love the intense scenes of their interaction, we want them to be together, we're profoundly involved. That's what drama is all about. But additionally, this is a kind of love we've almost never seen on the screen until very, very recently - this is two men together. It therefore means: struggle. These two guys have to struggle - to be themselves, to recognise their love, to express it, to defend it, to tell the truth to each other and to the world. In many countries very near Thailand, their love is completely illegal. They are up against it - to be two men in love with each other is a really dramatic adventure. It's making something visible and real which until very, very recently was absolutely invisible, not talked about, silenced out of existence. Therefore the TharnType story has so many more dimensions of drama and meaning than a comparable man-woman romance.

And therefore we care very intensely about the real-life positions of the writers and of the actors. We do not want the writers to hint that they see this gay romance as in any way inferior or problematic or tragic or wrong. We want to feel that the writers are proudly part of the same struggle, working hard to tell a true, meaningful, dramatic story about two guys who are in love. And we also want to believe that the two actors are fully in touch with that struggle, fully open to the complete possibility and maybe reality of same-sex love and romance. I think maybe that's a point that bayamon_hill is making? It's not as simple as:  Mew and Gulf are "really" gay and "really" in a relationship. That's not the point. It's something different:  Mew and Gulf are fully open to this kind of life, it's 100% meaningful to them, they COULD be in a relationship, they MIGHT fall in love with each other.  They are CAPABLE of sharing/experiencing the beautiful, intense, romantic reality they show on the screen.

I realise that I too want to believe in that openness, that possibility.  If I hear (for instance) Mew and Gulf say that they have to make a big effort to "imagine" they are two men in a gay relationship, or if they insist that they are "pretending" in some way that the other is a girl (something that many straight actors say to stress their heterosexual identity), or indeed if I hear about their "girlfriends in real life", then yes, it's a .... let-down, a disappointment. It's as though they're saying:  it's all pretend, we don't believe in it, it's not something that has any meaning for us.  Ultimately it can even sound like:  reality is heterosexual - gay love is a fantasy. And I, like so many others (most of whom are not gay!), do not want to encounter that message.  We need to believe that the actors fully sympathise with the struggle which people in same-sex relationships have to engage in throughout their lives. We want to feel that the actors give themselves fully to their roles and are likewise fully open to the reality of the love they depict on screen. It's about possibility, openness, commitment, solidarity.  I don't want to know whether they are "really" in a relationship. But I also don't want to be forced to accept "realities" which close down that possibility. 

Just popping this here as a placeholder. Translation of Mames live earlier and when the boxset etc will be available

Ok summary from the P Mame live:

1. EP 13 online will be early Feb.
2. Boxset after the meet, pre order start on 10 Feb. It is a flash drive ( I have no idea what kind)
3. Prices of both will be UNDER 1000 THB
4. Boxset contain both EP13, behind& cut scene.

5. Will boxset be available internationally - they are still looking for someone or a company that can help them sell to oversea fans.
6. The fanmeet on the 9th will allow cameras.
7. There is as yet no plan for DVD of fanmeet

In case anyone missed the comments below the special episode in now available to pre order on Vimeo today. It airs 7am ET Today

You can purchase with debit or credit card now and once it airs PayPal will also be added

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/tharntypetheseriesep

is this still active? PLEASE I NEED SOMEONE TO TALK TO

okay well since we're both active then we need to be friends and talk about tharntype

Yes it’s still active although a lot of chat is happening on the TT season 2 page also now that we know we are lucky enough to be getting that :) 

I am planning to rewatch the first series again soon. I have pre ordered the calendar and am patiently waiting for the box set now. 

What did you both enjoy about the series? :)