Last Twilight Final EP Thoughts (Spoilers) (Patreon)

I’m happy for the characters. If Day was someone I knew in real life, I would be incredibly elated and overjoyed for him.

As far as my feelings about the show, its writing, its message and its impact, this finale fell flat for me and I felt disappointed. This show had the potential to be a story that showed us that people with disabilities can live beautiful, fulfilling lives even with their disability. That it was still 100% possible to live their best life and that their condition didn’t have to hold them back from thriving.

And I felt that for the most part, this show consistently honored that message, all the way up until Day magically gets a successful donation & surgery in part 4/4 of the finale. That’s when the show started to lose me. At first I couldn’t really put my finger on why I felt that way. But I just couldn’t shake the feeling while I was watching.

For me what I loved about the show so much was that it sent such a beautiful message of hope and comfort for those who were living with disabilities that were irreversible. It was about someone going through the struggle of coming to terms with what happened to them. It was about the beautiful journey of learning to rise above it all and live a happy and thriving life anyway.

There was so much built up throughout the season that just didn’t have a satisfying pay off in the finale.

Did Day’s mom ever truly learn and come to terms with her son’s blindness? Did Mhok ever truly get a chance to prove that he had grown to be capable of being a good partner for his blind boyfriend after the break up? Did he ever truly learn better ways to manage the trauma he had over losing his sister?

I was sooo happy with Day’s progression though. He opened a bookshop, he thrived on his own and made the best out of his life as a blind man. It was impressive and super inspiring. This is what I wanted to see. Because all of that could have been a beautiful reason for Mhok to finally see that he doesn’t have to worry about him so much because Day is perfectly capable on his own. It could have set up such a beautiful new beginning for their relationship after growing and self reflecting during their time apart. All of that set them up to try again without making the same mistakes they made the first time around. But all of that learning and growth and build up didn’t matter, because Day magically got his sight back in the end.

I love that Day’s mom grew to trust Day’s independence more when she let Day go on the trip with Mhok in the previous episode. But I never felt that Mhok truly learned his lesson of being overly protective of Day.

In the end Mhok still had a bad habit of wanting to do everything for him instead of letting Day show him that he was perfectly capable of doing things himself.

It just makes the overall intention and message behind the show feel so inconsistent and all over the place imo. What was the point of calling it his “Last Twilight” if it ended up not truly being his last image?

The emotion I felt in episode 9 feels diminished now. Because the weight of that whole moment is Mhok being his last image before going completely blind. Something he’d treasure forever. The last image he’ll ever see.

I just don’t see, in terms of writing, how the decision to give Day his sight back so suddenly in the end made sense for the story they had been building up this whole time. When I imagine an ending where Day and Mhok live happily ever after, even though Day never gets his sight back, I can’t help but feel like I would have resonated with that ending more.

I’m still leaving this show with a lot of positive feelings. I loved the journey. I loved the moments we got. I loved Night and Porjai’s arc. And overall the show is still sooooooo good compared to a lot of other BLs. But I just feel that the show didn’t stick the landing in the end. It wasn’t horribly bad, but it certainly could have been better.

If the show was supposed to be about having hope and being fortunate enough to be one of the lucky few who gets a life changing surgery that cures their blindness, it should not have been called Last Twilight 🥲

I don't enjoy leaving the show feeling negatively, but I can't really change that. JimmySea supremacy though! I need their next project ASAP!