moondolphinn

Teh's character journey through the story has always been one of two steps forward and one step back. At every turn, when you think he has learned a lesson from his latest incident of setting his life aflame in some way, he backslides because he is ruled by his emotions. Whenever he is forced to self-examine, to take a long hard look at himself and acknowledge his flaws and his mistakes (usually after Oh Aew has refused him in some way), he usually realises where he went wrong and tries to fix it. But Teh is also the king of making the same mistake multiple times. His heart, and his MOUTH, rush ahead of his brain, always.

That big beautiful soft heart is Teh's greatest asset, and sometimes his greatest enemy. He loves SO easily, SO strongly, SO deeply. Where Oh Aew is cautious yet in some ways fearless, Teh is always fearful, but will always take the leap. And once he decides to do something, he goes all the way, no half measures. It was like that with acting, and with Oh Aew. When he loves, there's nothing he won't do for that love. And in the end, I think that's how he ended up making the mistake he made with Jai. He saw his love for acting and his love for Oh Aew somehow in conflict, when before Oh Aew gave up acting they had been one and the same. He thought he had to choose, and chose acting in the moment. And he was rewarded for that choice, and also lived to regret it.

That's why I'm one of those who thinks that Teh has learned that particular lesson about which love is the most important to him, because what he lost in the end was so much more than what he gained, and he almost lost it for good. And he's not left wondering 'what if', he's already gone down that road and knows it doesn't make him happy. Teh has always needed Oh Aew more than Oh Aew needs Teh. So at the end of the story you see that he makes a different choice; by posting that photo, he chooses Oh Aew. That public coming out could destroy his entire career, he knows that. Being Teh, he probably hasn't thought that entirely through, but I doubt he'll be taking it back no matter what happens.