To me it is, Rak is her baby brother and even though he's grown up now he's still very new to a lot of things so in her eyes she doesn't want him to get hurt I think (I am also an older sister btw) compared to Lee who is younger than Fah so he just wants to help his brother.
I think it's definitely an interesting parallel ☺️
i am an older sister too and do act like a second mother to my brother sometimes lol but there is a limit, esp about his own personal relationships. it cringes me to see a sister being that protective over her university age sibling. being THAT possessive over a sibling looks so weird. reminds me of those weird "boy moms" who gets jealous over their sons. like ew why are you going cuckoo bananas over the thought of your sibling kissing
i get that there is already an childlike innocence to teerak and conflicts in the shows are ridicilous bc its a comedy but i guess this behaviour is exceeds my cringe limit. its too infantilizing, i cant find the humour in it. i hope to see it lessens in future eps
ALSO i feel like its was not written as a character trait but just as a plot device to create conflict. so it makes even more annoying to watch and cant really warm up to the character.
I find it very annoying (I’m an older sister with a significant age gap of 14 years between me and my younger sibling), but I only acted this protective when my sister was in middle school/high school and only then when she was dating someone who was technically an adult (18) when she was 14/15.
Once she was in college I would give advice, but since she was dating a peer I didn’t feel it was my place to interfere in her relationships to the extent Babe does. I especially find it hypocritical since she has a boyfriend that she obviously does all the things with that she is blocking for her brother. Agree with other poster and hope that this plot device is lessened as the show progresses.
Lowkey, I don't see her as very very protective, but like just trying to warn her younger brother. I could understand that she may be a little overprotective but I don't think it's that much? I'm an older sibling to two younger brothers so I can see her reasoning for some of her protective behaviors. I do find that she's trying to stop her brother from kissing his bf a little bit weird because she also has bf, but other behaviors such as making sure he doesn't go out without telling her and where he goes is pretty normal, no? I mean even the kissing bit, you wouldn't wanna see your sibling kiss their partner, and I'm assuming that Rak hasn't seen Babe kiss Dom much because before the fifth episode he hasn't even thought of kissing Fah. Also, Rak is very naive and pretty unaware and I'm sure that she just doesn't want her younger brother to get hurt from a broken heart. But then again I feel like she should just support him through his relationship rather than shield him from it, like what she's doing. Other than the relationship overprotectiveness, I think other factors are very normal for an older and younger sibling dynamic.
Overall, I find that Babe is not that overprotective but instead just worried for her only sweet younger brother, though I do find her not allowing to be intimate with his bf a little weird when she also has a bf.
I'm an older sister, biologically and non-blood relatedly. Even as adults, we have a natural instinct to protect those we love and care about. Yes, we go overboard with the protectiveness, and I do acknowledge it when I do that to my little sister, we also need to understand that it's only natural. Remember that in episode 1 that Rak got intoxicated so that Oh could take advantage of the poor guy? I don't blame Babe for feeling the way she felt after that because I would've done the same thing. Going back to my point of going overboard with the protectiveness, it's sadly also human and I think Babe does need to overcome that as Rak is an adult who also has his own mind. As a character, I think Babe makes a lot of sense and I do relate to her pretty well.
