#TharnTypeSS2EP2 has received a lot of backlash about its editing. I strongly disagree with the sentiment so I’ve decided to show how excellent the editing actually is. #TharnTypeTheSeriesSS2
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Just like the cohesion of a text,editing is the linking that holds an episode together and gives it meaning. It’s closely related to coherence, therefore the most important means of editing is reference. If editing is good,the scenes are interconnected by a grid of co-references.
#TharnTypeSS2EP1 ends with an argument in the dining room after which Tharn and Type leave separately.Episode 2 picks up where episode 1 left: Type rejoining Tharn in their bed after they separated and trying to talk over the whole marriage problem with him which started in ep1.
The next scene follows, with Type walking into the living room and covering himself with it. After the opening credits, Type wakes up, still on the couch and covered by the same blanket.
In the meantime, Tharn is cooking him a meal to make amends about the argument they had last night. Next, the focus shifts to the couple living next door - one of them is also waking up and the other one is making breakfast for him.
It’s the same situation, though the circumstances are different. These two scenes are visual and narrative parallels.
Later, these two parallel storylines converge on the corridor outside where Tharn meets the other couple. On that very same corridor, Tharn also meets Klui, his former neighbour, so once again the transition between these scenes and Tharn’s conversation with Klui is seamless.
Earlier Tharn mentioned to his cousin that Type had already left for work, so coming up next is the shot at the hospital building and Type at work.
The mid-credits serve as a transition and a boundary between scenes, introducing a new storyline not mentioned in the previous scenes. Fiat gets injured and treated, and the doctor discusses his diagnosis with the nurse. These three scenes are one coherent narrative whole.
Now the bar scene. This is the only place in the entire episode where there is seemingly no reference or transition with the previous scene. It follow right after Khunpol talks with the nurse. However, this time we need to look for the reference further back, in episode 1.
When Tharn comes back home drunk, he is carrying a guitar so we know that he plays at the bar often and because Type thinks Jeed asked where he was, it’s clear that Tharn and Type visit the bar often.
And because Jeed asked for him, it's only a matter of time before Type came to the bar with Tharn. This is the narrative connection between episode 1 and the bar scene episode 2.
After Tharn finishes playing, he logically rushes to find Type and kisses him senseless. It’s a known fact that Type gets regularly horny when he sees Tharn play and they both haven’t had sex for some time due to their argument and that leads to them having sex in the car.
Now, perhaps the most ciriticized part - the editing of the car sex intercut with Techno and Champ. The production team could have given the audience an uninterrupted car sex between Tharn and Type. It would be much easier for them.
Instead, they went out of their way to narratively connect both of those scenes with the dialogue and actions. There will be many more love scenes and they will be all most likely without any interuptions. So they had a specific reason to edit the scene the way they did.
The purpose of this editing is to tell a story, to show the audience what it is like to be friends with these two men who are the center of each other’s universe and the moment they get together there is only so much time they spend with others before they forget the whole world.
When No asks where Type and Tharn are, we see where they are. When he says it’s happening again, they are kissing senselessly because that's what they normally do.
Champ has already resigned himself that this is a regular occurance, and once again, we see Tharn and Type completely forgeting about their friends.
'Fuck ‘em' = that’s exactly what they are doing. And yes , they are definitely ‘eating’ somewhere around because the next shot shows Tharn devouring Type’s chocolate skin.
Then comes another verbal sexual innuendo, reference and pun: while No doesn’t want what Champ offers him (a drink), Type very much wants what Tharn wants to give him (
).

Another mid-credits, the shot at the hospital,...= a new day and storyline begins. Champ meets his former roommate ath the hospital since he brings the leaflets promoting his restaurant he mentioned to Type in the bar the previous night.
Type is being bullied by his boss about the pediatric nurse ‘affair’ mentioned in episode 1. And these two scenes converge in the canteen.
Type’s been angry the whole day because of what happened with his awful boss so naturally he goes drinking with his friends, cursing his boss and drinking away his frustration. There is also Champ getting the message from Khunpol, which is a link to the previous scene.
The final mid-credits. After drinking so much, Type is naturally so drunk that No has to bring him back home which is anatural follow-up of the previous scene. It’s also a parallel to Type ‘getting drunk’ in episode 9 and No getting drunk in LBC1.
Because Type is drunk and clearly worried, Tharn takes care of him and comforts him. While Klui is trying to eavesdrop on them next door, with his ear to the wall, prying into their relationship just like he promised earlier in the episode.
It’s morning so naturally, Type’s at work and meets Fiat, the patient Khunpol mentioned him the day before. The episode ends.
In conclusion, as you can see, all these interconnected references and transitions prove that the editing is carefully thought-out and done in such a way to portray the story in the most cohesive and coherent way possible.
Perhaps, some people expected the level of transitions which appeared in It’s Okay Not to Be Okay, but that kdrama had a 30 million dollar budget and still managed to sustain it only for 4 episodes, anyway. TharnType doesn’t even have 10% of that budget. https://kojiseok.tumblr.com/post/621589944700370944/its-okay-to-not-be-okay-transitions