While We're Theorizing About AYS, May I Leave This One With You?

While we're theorizing about AYS, may I leave this one with you?

THEORY: Before the shoot began, JM and JK had a chat about how they were going to approach it as entertainers. One of the items they agreed upon was that JM would film 'house tours' of wherever they stay the night and JK would film the food insert shots. We see JM film a trour of their camping tiny house, the air b&b in CT and the house in Jeju. The only time he films the food is at the omakase but honestly, what else was he supposed to do there? Lol. JK was very diligent in getting 'dynamic' food coverage everywhere.

They each had their own little responsibility and I'm just so endeared. Who knows if we'll ever find out the answer but I think it's cute.

If anyone isn't following along with @curio-queries AYS production breakdowns, please do so. They are so insightful!

Thank you for this ask 😙 I feel like it's part of a longer conversation about how AYS came to exist, which I'd love to have. We might get some more insight into the 'why and how' of it after all the episodes and behinds have aired. But because theorizing is part and parcel of being ARMY, I say: why wait, let's go!

Early in episode 3, there's this one off-hand comment JK makes to Tae about getting out the 'company card' to pay for their meal in Jeju. It was relatable as most of us have at some point gone to lunch or dinner on 'the boss's dime'. It also served as a reminder that the expenses of this trip are literally billed as 'work' for them. And as they took it upon themselves to embark on this show, task assignment comes with the territory. So yes, it makes sense for them to have agreed as to their part of 'the coverage' during pre-production. The coverage being the type of shots they were willing and able to film themselves. And mind you, them filming parts of it is not only another checkmark on the overall shotlist; a way for production to get close up's of their faces and inserts of their meals, but also a way to emotionally seat the audience inside their experiences. Seeing it all through their eyes. So it was a great production choice as well as a narrative one to have them film with the go-pro's.

I think that's part of why it's so funny to them. They literally arranged a paid vacation for themselves, lmao. That omakase, they needed those shots as receipts to justify that (surely extremely expensive) meal. Do we think Taehyung would have had his meal paid for by Jimin, or could they have written it off as a 'guest star' expense? 🤔

Another thing that filming with the go-pro's does is, literally, hand jikook the reigns of what they're willing to film/show.

A much discussed example is the morning scene inside the CT house. JK wakes up, turns on the camera in the hallway outside Jimin’s door, entering, the scene cutting to the camera inside, etc. There are scores of decisions that took place prior to that scene. The editing of it is doing nothing to make the timeline of events any clearer. But all those cameras would have had to be turned on prior to them 'waking up' in the reality of the show. Parsing all of those choices, including when crew is back inside the house once morning comes, will have to wait for another day (that is , if anyone even cares to know, lol).

The point I'm getting at is that while traveling, JK and JM have more control over what we're being shown than we even realize. As you stated in your blog, ITS did this a lot.

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ARE YOU SURE?!

Episode 4 production Notes Again, I genuinely didn't think I'd have anything to say at this point about this episode. I had such a good tim

ITS would end right up until the tannies would have had to leave a place. Never showing the travel back, probably because emotionally, you want the audience to stay with the characters inside the happy bubble of the experience, not the slog of traveling home. Especially because there is no longer a story to work towards.

My question to you, do you think they 'woke up' together prior to turning on the cameras and putting on the microphones? Who turns off the cams and mics at night before they actually sleep?

I think you know as well as I do that we shouldn't forget that AYS is a story we're being shown. There is a production that has to takes place in order to make it, and there are two professionals who are working to show us these moments. But more importantly, there are two human beings who are also having 'off-camera' moments who decide what they're willing to include in this show.

Sometimes, the lines get blurred, but the intentionality of this show and the kind of relationship they're inviting us to observe is monumental, in my opinion.

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Territory of Light

Light scatters all around us. The colors that we see are the colors that aren't absorbed but the ones that reflect back to us. If KM are like light, wouldn't whatever we see in them be the one color that reflects back? Or maybe they reflect all of them, like a rainbow.

At times, people look to them to see a sign that tells them it's either love or friendship that they perceive. Some people are even worse, and they look at them and see irritation or animosity reflected back. Those people need to get their eyes checked because that's beyond bad eye sight. That's just disingenuous.

I'm sure jikook don't look at themselves from afar, like we do. We look at them like we're gazing up at the moon. To them, they're just Jimin and Jungkook. Who share a band and who have a lot of history. Words often fail to capture the complex weight of their bond. How do you define that burning feeling in your chest when you're together? Emotions are rarely just one thing. Some have often been there for a while before you realize what exactly it is that you're feeling. Feelings that run steady like a current flowing underneath all of the other ones. And then there are those sparks. That flare up whenever that person looks at you in a certain way, or grabs you by the back of your shirt.

But can words really capture a look? Or a simple touch? A touch that isn’t showy and that is barely acknowledged. But a touch that was surely meaningful because it was leaden with depth of feeling. The kind of touch that didn’t need any words to make itself felt.

Jimin felt that touch and knew that Jungkook was seeing the whole of him. Jungkook wordlessly (intimacy right here) let Jimin know that he empathized with him, struggling once again with his health. Not for show, just for them.

And then, finally, once Jimin is feeling better, as we saw in ep. 4 of Are You Sure, once he's well rested, we can instantly tell that the heavy head of the sunflower is once again looking up at the sun, that the world becomes brighter for the both of them. What a relief!

They need their light. They live in it to recharge their batteries, and they don't care who sees them. This show might be the brightest spotlight on their bond either of them have ever stood in, and they're doing it together. They're not hiding. It is both exhilarating to watch and incredible to see how much they bloom under each other's gaze.

That love is for them. Not for show. Surroundings slip away, and it's almost like it's just the two of them.

Jimin keeps racking up special 'Jeon-airmiles' ... why could that be? A mystery we'll never know, huh? *heavy sarcasm*

So... let me get this straight. Jimin posted a pre-recorded video for Jungkook’s birthday while on the flight back from Paris, then went to have a birthday party with Jungkook right after. I’m already screaming.

He gifted him a Jack Skellington music box that’s found only in Disneyland Paris. Again with the Nightmare before Christmas stuff...

AND he got him a Supreme skateboard, PLUS the basketball jersey Kook is wearing. 🥺

Not to mention his tweet?! Jimin posted a cute pic of Jungkook (who looks so adorable wHAT) with stickers and small messages at his little party. And he said “I’m happy to see you after not seeing you for a few days”. AJSKSKSJ WHAT

He’s making it very clear that he was in Paris, so I’m wondering if something’s up with that...

And oml, all the people that were freaking out about how “jikook is over”... Jimin said it all. 🤷‍♀️

Jimin really be doing all of this, huh. :”) They’re so loud. This is so damn pure.

This woman was INVESTED.

Can't blame her. To have her son with them during the holidays must have meant a lot to her. She needed to lock that down.

Regarding her knowing beforehand that Jungkook was filming with Jimin, I wonder if it's the mom's that have a gc going where they gossip amongst themselves. Aren't the Park Jeon families supposedly close? They must have been exited to have both of them coming home, together perhaps.

I wonder if the topic of their joint enlistment came up, especially with the results of the lottery being announced around the end of that month. Wouldn't that have been quite the blessing during the Chuseok celebrations?