Ron Does Stuff

Trying to chip away at that episode gap as quickly as I can! Let’s jump right in!

The previous episode had Kongthap considering that maybe he does reciprocate Atom’s feelings. His heart got all pit-a-pat in that final scene, after all!

Anyways, this episode is the camping episode! If we’re following the Japanese original, this is where Atom will finally come clean about his feelings for Kongthap! Let’s see if that’s also going to happen here in the Thai version.

It might, if the opening scene is anything to go by! Both Kongthap and Half offer to help out Atom and Mudmee with their bags, and of course who wouldn’t feel just a little giddy if your crush does that for you? It would totally make feel like a girl!

Rather than look for meal ingredients, the guys have to go through an obstacle course and not gonna lie, this reminded me a lot of some of the “leadership training” stuff I either went to or covered for the newspaper when I still had that job.

Of course, Atom and Mudmee suck at the obstacle course and end up in the F group like they did in the Japanese original. But while the Japanese version turned it into a ~lesson~ about working together, what we get here is that sweet, sweet product placement.

The product placements shots for the Euro Cake? I hope Euro Cake shelled out a ton of money for the show because those were some premium shots, with the actors eating it like it was gourmet stuff. Give them that product placement coin!

The next challenge for Atom and Mudmee is that they have to sleep outside in tents but since Mudmee’s tent is defective and won’t open, she gets to sleep inside the house like the rest of the class while Atom has to stay outside in a tent. I am guessing at one point Kongthap is going to be out there with him and well…two gays in a tent, hello?

BUT it’s not going to be two of them in a tent after all as Kongthap tells Atom that he’ll be ~sleeping with him~. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

Once they get inside Atom finds out he’ll be sleeping in between Half and Kongthap and I am like oh really? This never happened to me during school recollections!

Anyways, the sergeant running this whole mountain retreat thing enters and Kongthap throws his blanket over Atom and pulls him closer to him and I am immediately going Is homosexuality going to happen? Are homosexual acts about to be performed?

So, not quite homosexual acts, just Atom and Kongthap’s face being really close together, which I am okay with! Of course, the next morning Atom is just pumped. And even more so when the camp sergeant tells them that today’s activities will be a team activity and wouldn’t you know it the show’s four leads are in a team together?

Atom and Mudmee start to do well in the obstacle courses — let’s be real they weren’t that difficult in the first place — and Mudmee says it’s because she was inspired and she totally misses the chance to tell Half that she like her. That happened to me once too but I was 10-years-old at an all-boys school and I didn’t want to be ostracized like they did to the obviously femme boys. Although I did eventually end up hanging out with the obviously femme boys.

Atom has a better time of it with Kongthap. He doesn’t exactly tell him he likes him, but he does tease him and we all know guys like a little teasing before we get to the meat of the issue.

The final obstacle is a zip line and those are great! I’ve only been on one that went from the top of a hill all the way down and I thoroughly enjoyed it and I’d do it again if I ever had the chance. But Atom has the opposite experience and faints on the way down and I don’t know why but I feel like that would be relaxing? However, Atom fainting on the zip line means their team failed and now Half and Kongthap have to pick bamboo shoots.

The sergeant gives Atom and Mudmee a chance to make up for it though, as they’re tasked to be the ghosts during the final courage test for the students. I personally feel it’s just a way to get Atom sleeveless again.

BUT WAIT it’s not just Atom and Mudmee who half to play ghosts on the courage test, it’s also Half and Kongthap! And we get a shirtless Half out of it! I wonder what Kongthap’s going to be dressed up as?

Alas, Kongthap isn’t in a shirtless outfit but they do get to squeeze in a product placement of what looks to be a Thai version of Cheetos? I could be wrong, I don’t know how to read the letters!

Anyways, Atom and Kongthap decide to do the courage test on their own after being done with their ghost duties. But as it turns out the real test of courage is if Atom can tell Kongthap he likes him because Kongthap brings up the fact that Atom said he’d tell Kongthap something if they finished all the courses.

And then after an admittedly long montage of all their past momemts, Atom sorta kinda finds the courage to tell Kongthap that he’s started to like him and just like in the Japanese original Kongthap is in Atom’s face unexpectedly and I am barking like a seal.

The also fall down an incline like they did in the Japanese original but then Kongthap gets bitten by a snake? That’s a departure. But I do like how the episode was able to gather all the moments that Atom and Kongthap have had before and make it build up to the character-building turn that Atom does in this episode.

Kongthap is saved — it was a non-poisonous snake — and Atom sorta kinda tells Half and Mudmee that he’s told Konthap he likes him. Half and Mudmee leave the two gay boys to do their gay stuff while they walk out into the night doing their straight thing. That straight thing being Mudmee confessing her feelings for Half. And if you’ve watched the Japanese original, you know how that turns out for her.

Fortunately, the gay boys have a better go at it. As Atom and Kongthap make their way back to camp from the clinic, they have a heart to heart talk and Kongthap finally responds to Atom’s declaration: he’d like to go out and date him as more than a friend but less than a boyfriend. And just like every gay man before him, Atom said that’s good enough for me!