What's one of your top ranked QL scenes? Please wax poetic about it for us <3
I'll go first:
It's not big or flashy or complicated, but it makes such perfect use of two set pieces and two incredible performances--and this scene is exemplar of what Gemini and Fourth both do best.
First, we have the list of questions Gun and Tinn are having to answer for their part in the music video, but they dissolve so smoothly into such authentic conversation and connection--praise to the director and whoever else rehearsed the scenes to let so much naturalistic and improvised movement into the acting--that you forget that's why the conversation started.
Then you have the phone call aspect. While having the phone call imagined as an in-person conversation has been done before, the choice to gradually let any distance like sound, or by the end, touch, disappear for the characters and the audience creates such a beautiful tension and final release in the scene when it refuses to reinstate the reality of the phones.
The distinction between reality and fantasy is purposefully nebulous throughout the series. Tinn is always daydreaming and many jokes come from his problem distinguishing between his dreams and reality. And this idea of perfect dreams is really thematically important, not only in the romance and the musical genre, but because the romantic ideal Tinn has in his head is brought to earth because his crush is a real person with flaws living in a world that's not always easy (hopefully we can see the queer subtext in that concept, too). But scenes like this show that seeing reality isn't incongruous with feeling the magical experiences of connecting and loving someone on a human level. And you can see the depth of this so clearly in the attentive and longing gaze Gemini gives Tinn to show toward Gun. It's one of the transformative moments for his character.
Then Gun's monologue here explains the very core of his character, explaining his desire to offer other people support and hide his own sense of brokenness in order to not burden them. And Fourth nails every single beat, which starts with a gently teasing brag about how he scored perfectly on his singing test in primary school, reminding us of Gun's outer layer of confidence and passion he wears, before he starts explaining the sadness of the day. And watching him answer Tinn's questions about it, Fourth plays it as if the grief is slowly dawning on Gun who hasn't realized or processed what he does to try to hide his hurt away. The scene with that final embrace not only explains Gun as a character but explains what Tinn and all his quiet support offers him.
