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Details from Louis and Claudia’s Paris apartment, via @IWTVwriters’ twitter account

I've updated the main pinned post. all pages have been updated sorry didn't realise that I hadn't updated it since last year!!! all done now. If you're also on twitter (X) I've also updated the pinned post there so it's easier to find monthly posts.

Because there is ALWAYS a good reason to revisit AYS, I wanted to expand on @curio-queries comment on my linked post.

If anyone knows a lot about the production side of this show, it's them. Please check out their posts on the show, they give great insight into choices made and possible reasons for those choices. 💙

Not the AYS snark 🤨😭

I was ready to scold you for the snark, but I have the same frustration with the editing. I cannot lie. The AYS producers, ya'll are still on the hook 🤨

Admittedly, the producers were given a difficult task and did an amazing job with what they got. I think the infamous 'I'm amazed you managed to make something put of it', comment from Jungkook during their own viewing party of episode one was in regards to that.

I can imagine the director saying to the editing team to 'throw whatever little story arcs you can find and have it on my desk by end of day' during the post production. Because the filming was built around rest, relaxing, eating, and 1 or two activities and the bulk of the show banking on Jikook being Jikook, well, it was a clear recipe for clear storytelling disaster.

Just because they have chemistry through the roof doesn't mean they are good at verbalizing their innate couple language. Jikook don't need to have entire conversations about subjects the viewer needs more context on because they already know everything about each other.

They wanted it to be a natural show, so no scripted prompts. Just jikook staring at each other, thinking they just had a whole conversation recorded on camera. No boys, you need to actually talk for us to be able to film it, not hang upside down each other's bodies in the name of 'banter' 😓

Jimin’s health working against them. When the social battery is drained, good luck on getting good material from the neurodivergent one. He collected rocks and said END SCENE. Took a literal bow.

Even their special guest didn't add anything towards a good conversation. He felt the vibes, said: 'hello third wheel my old friend', and ditched them.

No Jikook, giggles, and staring do not a storyline make, not even in a bl.

Inside jokes and inside pokes.

Yes, it was troubled, but I actually really still love watching it because it has such a 'ruminating' quality to it. The forward momentum is just 'another day passed'. At the start of AYS, it's not even made clear how long they will be traveling. That's why AYS feels endless, like an eternal moment in time. A bubble of comfort. Again, all signs point to it being a great excuse to travel for them.

With this new, highly anticipated 'song camp content', the end goal should be pretty clear. An album. Same goes for the duration of filming: 2 months. Our subjects are old familiars, back after a long time apart. The inherent artistic drama is pretty solid, as long as they do commit to open and honest conversations around this topic! It would be so interesting to see them work this problem out. Unless most of this has already been addressed in pre-production meetings, but I would love more insight into their creative rediscovery. Even more if they allow the rough edges to show.

These people have such great chemistry, I just love seeing them together.

As for format, I think it will work best as an episodic show, maybe broken down song by song? This would mean a long lead up to the release. After the album is out, maybe as part of the comeback while they're on their (presumably) year long tour?

A documentary also makes sense. Like @curio-queries mentioned, once HB discovered this theatrical medium, they'll keep churning out new movies. And we're very happy, more please, sir. That doesn’t say anything about the quality of the end product. I thought,'I'm Still', Jungkook’s documentary was very muddled. RPWP was my favorite of them all. Jimin’s producion Diary only got a streaming run, but that one was also very good. At least it had a clear thematic sense. An established artists finds himself in the scribbles of his notebook and in the passing melodies that he can't stop singing.

Suga x Jimin - Yoonmin