Rabbit Needs A Place to Put Silly Thoughts

Considering the value their family placed on their secret bitter melon soup recipe, that it’s the only thing we’ve seen Pai cook, that Pai tried to teach it to Yu to as an “are you good enough to join this family” test, and here’s North still needing help to identify the main ingredient.

I wonder how many times Pai tried to teach North that recipe before he gave up.

Also noting that I have not read the novel, but I hope Pai capitalizes on that recipe either through the bakery or selling it. He mentioned that the family would never sell it despite lucrative offers because they believed you kept the best things for family, but if something moves him from shame to anger with his family, or he realizes his real family are just the three people who stayed with him through hell…

Again, having not read the novel, I feel like on our narrative to do list we still have:

- Pai needs to be tempted with getting an even sweeter version of his old life back as long as he gives up Tim

- Tim needs to be tempted with the fulfillment of his old dream to keep his house/pay off debts/bring parents back if he gives up Pai

- Tim needs to be willing to let go of the house and everything it symbolizes to prioritize his future with Pai

- Pai needs to be willing to let go of the road back to wealth, prioritizing a future with Tim even if it means he’ll be poor the rest of his life

- Empire needs to struggle without Pai, so I could see Grandpa making an offer to Pai, Pai rejecting it, then Grandpa making an offer to Tim

- Kuea needs to make a legit offer to treat Pai like a princess again in a sweet honest relationship that Pai needs to reject for Tim’s petty ass and all the demanding argumentative sex he’s probably addicted to now

- Tim and Pai both need to acknowledge they have shit parents, if for no other reason than for my benefit

- Um needs to be reintroduced to Pai, and Tim and Yu need to acknowledge she’s really been a parent to them. I’d like to see her at the table with them

- There needs to be a point to Da Zhan. I don’t know if he’s been operating from a place of weaponized incompetence after comparing North’s freedom to Pai’s overload of stress, or if he ragebaits Pai for attention because he’s jealous of how much energy Pai spend on North, or if there’s some Moriarty in him and he’s just been soaking it all in to explode into genius at some point. But I feel like at some point he could cut free from The Family and show up on Tim’s doorstep. Tim and Pai were likely the first love match he’d seen in his sheltered life, he put the groom dolls together after the wedding, he watched North give up everything for Pai, so he could be drawn to that warmth

- Someone needs to take down Airy and it can’t be Tim. I’d love to see Nana and/or bitchy aunt Kia get revenge on her for publicly embarrassing Pai

- First kiss between Pai and Real Tim, and a grittier bed scene. Not necessarily smuttier, but I feel like the love scenes with Scammer Tim were like him: polished, coordinated, and a little sterile. In contrast I’d expect more banter, sweat, groping, laughing, swearing, kisses or touching on the body, emotion. Scammer Tim prob never left a love bite somewhere it showed but Real Tim would

I need Methas feeling so safe and loved that when they’re together Methas takes a break from being the responsible leader, thoughtful manager, family caretaker, etc and becomes a Problem for Mundal.

Remember the JuMark live with Mark winding Junior up by repeatedly putting his boots on the bed, throwing the water bottle over his shoulder at him, generally being sassy? Mark grinning back over his shoulder at Junior’s R-rated just-you-wait glare? Just make Revamp 2 a dozen episodes of Methas tormenting Mundal like that plus his chaotic family, messy office, and vampire neediness.

Mark somewhere, probably: “hey, don’t zoom”

Mark scientifically assessing how his flirtatious torment effects Junior like he’s once again turned the man into a blushing experiment live on stage