TharnType Special: Lhong's Story (2019)

Dude...

How is an 18-minute short supposed to excuse the emotional abuse and Lhong paying a man to rape Tar? And here Lhong used to be my favorite character alongside Techno lmao, nah the man needs therapy...

I just... I don't see how this is supposed to excuse anything. Sure we got context, but that context doesn't really amount to much. Him being ignored by family and friends doesn't mean he gets to go around breaking people up just because he wants Tharn so badly. And yeah Tar isn't my favorite character but... you tried to sell him... to a man who attempted to rape him...

Dude.

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Everyone needs a damn psychiatrist.

How can an 18-minute long extra episode be better written and far more interesting than the entire first season?

I should start by saying that I'm a big fan of villains/antagonists in pretty much any type of media, so Lhong turned out to be a character I really enjoyed from a psychological perspective. I'm not a psychologist or anything of the sort, but I do enjoy reading and watching stories of the genre. If you ask me, I would've preferred to watch an hour long episode of him going through his personal life because I felt that the combination of depression, anger, and fear of abandonment that was showcased in this short episode was an excellent plot for him.

Many of you are very quick to judge this character and I see why, I mean, he has done absolutely terrible things, but he has also been led through a life of self-loathing and solitude, hating people because he thinks people hate him. Now listen to me: I DON'T support any of his actions due to the fact that they were simply WRONG, but it make sense why he did it when you think about it.

I am incredibly disappointed at the writers of this novel/drama because they turned something that had so much potential into a degenerated sexual assault and abusive relationships fanservice. It is absolutely AGGRAVATiNG how NONE of these character got ANY type of punishment for their actions. If this was me, I would have called the police on them bitches as soon as the first episode ended.

Please do not support these kind of stories. They do no good for the LGBTQ+ community.
Sincerely, a gay man who won't condone this type of behavior.

P.S.: Shoutout to the actor, though. He did an excellent job portraying his role as Lhong and I hope to see more of him in future dramas.

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I see a lot of people bashing at him for how aweful he is and what everything wrong he did. I understand. But let's look at it from the character's side, Lhong's side.

Imagine growing up since being little as about five years alone. Your parents wouldn't care what happens to you, your siblings couldn't care even less. Imagine being bullied because of what and who you are. And imagine no one teaching you what is wrong and what is wrong. No one ever told you that you shouldn't lie to others, no one telling you that hurting others for your own good isn't right. Now, do you still think there was any other and better way for Lhong to deal with what's happening between him and Tharn? Of course, this doesn't justify everything he did, nothing of it all, but really, how would he know? It's easy to blame, but you have to see the reasons behind it all before judging.
So really, this doesn't make him any less evil character, but neither less lovable. Don't just put blame on him.

And now to the actual review.

I can't stress enough how Kaownah portrayed Lhong's character well. He made everone feel what he felt. He made everyone see the reasons behind his actions, made everyone see his pain. I can't appreciate it enough in words, will never be able to, but what he did what an amazing, breathtaking and just excellent work. He put so much into it and deserves bigger recognition.

The story as in whole, together with TharnType the series, has an amazing dept into the story. It gives it more than just lovey-dovey series for fangirl (which it is anyways XD) and shoves reality to it. it's masterpiece, so big thanks to the author and the director. Both of them did a magnnificent work.

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Eu queria dizer "apaga que dá tempo", mas infelizmente não dá mais

Isso aqui é um episódio que eu queria fingir que não existe. Não tem como defender. A proposta de mostrar o ponto de vista do Lhong poderia ter sido uma oportunidade boa de entender melhor o personagem e aprofundar a complexidade dele, mas o que a gente recebe é basicamente uma tentativa de passar pano pra tudo o que ele fez. E olha… não funciona.

O episódio tenta justificar atitudes criminosas com uma narrativa de trauma e abandono emocional, como se isso fosse suficiente pra gente esquecer que o cara manipulou, mentiu, armou situações pesadas e causou sofrimento real. A intenção parece ser humanizar ele, mas o roteiro simplesmente suaviza demais, romantiza até, e isso é muito problemático. Não é porque alguém teve uma infância difícil que isso apaga o que ela fez depois, e o que o Lhong fez não foi só uma “fase ruim”. Foram crimes. Ponto.

Fiquei incomodada o tempo todo. É desconfortável ver a história tentando nos fazer ter empatia por ele enquanto quem realmente sofreu com tudo isso (o Type, o Tharn, o Tar, e até outras pessoas ao redor) quase não é mencionado. E ainda tem a cereja do bolo: o episódio termina como se ele só precisasse de carinho, de um recomeço, enquanto a vítima muda de país. Sério? Essa é a mensagem?

Pra mim, foi completamente desnecessário. Eu entendo que, na época, pode ter sido uma tentativa de dar camadas ao vilão. Mas hoje em dia, esse tipo de abordagem não cola mais. O mínimo seria mostrar as consequências reais das atitudes dele. No lugar disso, ganhamos um episódio que mais parece uma tentativa de limpar a barra dele com cenas tristes e um olhar perdido na chuva.

Se for pra dar voz a personagens problemáticos, que seja com responsabilidade. Porque do jeito que entregaram aqui, só conseguiu me deixar ainda mais irritada.

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Excusing the unexcusable

This episode, which relies heavily on flashbacks to preceding episodes of 'TharnType: The Series', does not merely attempt to provide context for Lhong's appalling behavior. It is essentially a bid to render Lhong sympathetic, and his horrible misdeeds, excusable.

It might be plausible for someone suffering from deep loneliness to over-invest in their bond with the one person who has been kind to them, as Lhong does with Tharn. To move from a less-than-healthy attachment to a good friend to the orchestration of a gang rape, blackmail, relationship sabotage, and attempted murder, however, should be too extreme a pivot to elicit pity. And yet eliciting pity is what this "special" tries to do, especially given how it unfolds toward the ending: Lhong's sister comes to learn of his psychological wounds and, completely unaware of the evils that he has done, asks him to forgive her and embraces him.

Kaownah Kittipat does what he can with the character, but Lhong is utterly beyond defense, and at no point do his victims get justice. Why this episode was made at all is beyond me.

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Love or obsession?

In my opinion from watching this Lhongs character did not love Tharn instead he took his feelings of loneliness, need, and dependence turned obsession then jumbled it together to call it love. He had no one to tell him what is right or wrong what you should and shouldn't do he is still that little boy alone in his house listening to music while cuddling with his stuffed animal though as he grew older he became more twisted hence obsession to the MAX. I still do not like Lhongs character nothing excuses what he did. I do like Kaownah he is adorable and an amazing actor to portray such character that we end up despising.

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NO...

This was terrible, nothing shown in here excuses what Lhong did, not even in the slightest!

Oh! He had a sad childhood! Oh! Tharn never looked at him romantically! Oh, poor Lhong…

WOMP! WOMP! WOMP!

How sad…sad that I don't care at all, omg the things he did are borderline ILLEGAL, and you're seriously going to sit here and make a sad ass edit of Lhong story being like: “Look!! He is hurting!!!”. SO WHAT??? Is that a reason to pay three men to gang-rape a high-schooler? Is it? Because I don't think so! And is it a reason to sabotage all of the Tharn's previous relationship, I also don't think so!

So please excuse me if I misunderstood something, but I don't think that Lhong needed a whole special episode just for his “sad” and tearful story. But what he actually needs is a jail time (!!!) and a weekly if not daily meetings with psychiatrist.
Because something is clearly ain't right, and something should be done about it.

Lhong is one of the worst side characters there is, and honestly, you couldn't pay me to try to feel even a tad bit sorry for him…

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Discursting shyit

Exactly the title. We didnt need a redemption arc for this excuse of a human. Oh you want me to feel sad because poor bby was neglected? TOO BAD. The original series was trashy but this extra episode just made it a grave. Nothing can redeem him. He doesnt deserve human rights. He needs jail bro. It really pisses me off to this day that he faces no repercussions. This is just a generally dangerous person and should be put away for the sake of societal safety. The slightest trigger is enough to set him off into hatching gang rape plans against minors I think HES FAWKED. He didnt even apologize. To the kid. Yeah he apologized to tharn who himself is a bit of a molestah but THAT AINT ENOUGH. He doesnt need to apologize though he needs jail. Electric chair.

I gave the acting a bit above the bare minimum because congratulations he did make me hate him so i guess the job was done well.

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Skip it, do not loose your time with this

This Special drama is totally dispensable: it is made of a lot of reused clips from the main series. You will learn nothing more: there is overall one new scene that could have been easily integrated into the TharnType drama itself.

I do not understand the decision to have one SP episode dedicated to Lhong. It could have been interesting if the story has deepened his motivations or at least shown us an interesting storyline. Unfortunately, it is just a pity party for an unlikable protagonist: I cannot phantom why the writer thought it would be a good narrative choice to try to make us care for this specific character.

I would not recommend this to people, even though it is quite short (about 15 minutes), it is really not worth loosing your time.

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