4 Elements: The Earth - EP 1 - Here we go!!!

Excited since it dropped to see your rections first lesbian sibling now lesbian cousins

So excited I can’t wait 😜 finally I’ve bee.

I freaked out over the house too! I was also not expecting human trafficking to be a part of this. I also love how drastically different Rose’s reaction is to meeting Wasu and Din again after 14 years. She felt so uncomfortable with Wasu right off the bat. This girl was already staring at Din’s lips while she was icing her forehead 😅 People are saying Din officially beat Dr. Wan from affair for longest time spent waiting for her girl to come back to her.

The episode starts with a montage showing the three farms in Chang Rai: the Nubannun vineyard of Wasu and his father Wasupol, The Saen Rak farm of Din, and the ChomChan farm of Rose and her father, Thip, which we see then, as he is informed by his assistant Mod Daeng that Wasupol has arrived. He wants to remind Thip of the marriage between Wasu and Rose which were promised to each other by their parents(?), but Rose’s father wants her to decide for her own. Wasupol warns him of repercussion to this broken promise, but he remains adamant. So, Wasupol leaves in frustration. At night, Thip gets a visit from someone providing photographic evidence, of someone transporting women to the border (to Myanmar or Laos, I presume), insinuating some kind of trafficking. He thinks they should find a trustworthy police officer and give them the evidence, as Wasupol is quite influential in the region. Thip calls Din on the phone, and tells her of the evidence that is connected to some illegal production business of Wasupol, and mentions that Wasu and Rose are supposed to get married to get his farm as a transport route. Din argues that Wasupol is too big to handle by himself and vows to help him; he says he’s on his way to the police station, and says she should stay out of it, but take care of Rose if anything should happen to him, and not let this marriage happen. She promises to do so. On his way to the station, Thip is being followed by another car, as Din rushes after him. He tries to get rid of the follower, but in a bend on the road, a truck suddenly appears parked, and he swerves his car, crashing into a tree. When Din reaches the accident site, the other car is gone, but Thip is gravely injured, and calls for Rose, which prompts Din to repeat her earlier promise as he slips into unconsciousness. Din calls an ambulance. We switch to New York, where Rose has been for years, she want to visit Thailand with her aunt (I think), but she claims that her place is in the USA, where she is married to an American. She mentions that it’s weird that her father hasn’t called her back after completing her studies some time ago, and she suspects there is some reason for that. Then, she gets a phone call from her dad, but it isn’t him calling, but someone telling her Thip is in the ICU. She flies back to Thailand to visit her ailing father, and is picked up at the airport by Mod Daeng; she tells her that her father had a bleeding around the brain which was fixed in the OR, but now he’s in a coma, and it’s unclear if and when he will wake up. The doctors told her to be prepared for the worst. Rose visits her unconscious father, and we get a flashback of the time he sent her to the USA with her mother because that we her mother came from, she tells her to study, then come back and take over the farm; Rose laments that her mother already died, and pleads with him not to leave her as well. Rose wants to stay with her father, but Mod Daeng tells her to rest at the farm after the flight back and leave Thip to her. She wants to visit the police station to find out what had happened to Thip, but Mod Daeng tells her she can ask Din about that, because she has already been to the police station. Then, Wasu appears and claims they all three played together when they were kids, but she only vaguely remembers him. Wasu claims that his father will fetch a specialist doctor for Thip, and promises to take care of her from now on. He wants to take her home to her farm, and Rose hesitates, but eventually accepts. They are driving to the farm, but Wasu takes a detour and claims that it’s a shortcut. But he gets stopped by Din, who tries to open the door on Rose’s side, then draws a firearm and points it at Wasu. Rose gets out of the car, and Wasu draws a firearm as well and points it at Din, asking her she takes her, which is exactly what Din is asking him. He claims to take her home, but Din knows this isn’t the way home, and Wasu claims to take her for a ride to get reacquainted with home. But Rose doesn’t want to go on a ride, and when Wasu warns Din not to interfere with his relationship with Rose, she flat out refuses to comply, mentioning that Thip instructed her to take care of Rose, and vowing she will keep that promise no matter what. Rose says it’s enough; they still fight like kids and she dares them to shoot. Finally, she pushes the two firearms down. Wasu then relents and lets this go and prompts Rose to re-enter the car, but she wants to go back on her own. Din tells her to get into her car and holds Wasu at bay while they drive off. As Rose is sitting with Din in her car, we get a flashback of the two of them as kids; little Rose hurt her knee while playing and Wasu took her back home on his back while leaving Din alone. Later, she asks her what is wrong, and Din blames herself for not being strong enough to carry her home; Rose claims that while she isn’t as big as Wasu, she is the kindest and gentlest person in the world. Din smiles and vows to get strong and protect her. Grown-up Rose wonders why Din dared to resist Wasu like that, and Din claims that it’s normal that people change when they grow up, and it’s been 14 years since she moved to America. Rose wonders how Din could identify her, bat Thip kept her up to date with photos of her. They enter her home, and Din pulls out an ice pack out of the fridge and proceeds to tenderly apply it to a bump on Rose’s head she got when Din suddenly stopped Wasu’s car. Rose finally takes her of it herself, but not before some awkward starring. 😉 Later, they talk about Din’s visit to the police station; they told her that it was an accident and the driver was careless, but Din doesn’t believe it, she thinks it’s strange because the memory card in his dashcam is gone. Din admits she was the first on scene, and can’t accuse anyone yet – but retells that Thip called her before the accident, that he refused to accept that Rose marries Wasu, and that Din asked to take care of Rose – temporarily, until he wakes up. Rose walks through the farm remembering why her father called her rose: roses are beautiful and fragile, but have thorns to protect themselves. And he believed his daughter would grow up to be a strong rose. Grown-up rose repeats the promise that she will be strong and take care of the farm. Mod Daeng tells Rose of the friction between the three farms that Din’d workers often clash with Wasu’s workers, and that Wasu and Din are polar opposites with Din being quiet and Wasu feared among the villagers. We get a scene of Wasu and Wasupol visiting a local market, with Wasupol being generous. What he says counts, claims Mod Daeng. But there are no issues between Saen Rak and Chom Chan she claims, and we get a flashback of young Din and her father (played by Jab who was the philandering Khem in “Us”) happy together. We see Din mourning her dad, and being taken care by Thip afterwards teaching her the business of running a farm. Rose asks her whether she’s trustworthy, having changed so much, but Mod Daeng has no doubt. Rose asks about problems with the Nubannun farm and Mod Daeng thinks there aren’t any, but relates that Wasupol asked for marriage between Wasu and Rose. Rose wonders why Thip never mentioned it to her. Wasupol gives another villager some money to help with his mother, and he doesn’t want him to pay him back. Wasupol tells his son that this is the easiest way to get them to follow his orders, and Wasu agrees, then he asks about Rose, and Wasu admit he likes her but she is still worried about Thip. Wasupol claims they don’t have much time to make Rose fall in love with him, but Wasu reports that Din stopped his attempts a wooing her. Wasupol tells him to tell her that he is her fiancé and the marriage was arranged by the elders. Wasu wonders whether she will believe him, and Wasupol claims if he himself told her, she would. Later, we see Din with her right hand, Kaew (played by Fame who was Ticha in “Poisonous Love”), but she tells her to go home, she will take care things tonight. Kaew asks her if something is bothering her, and Din admits that it’s something about the accident which she thinks it’s suspicious. For the time being, she will stay at Chomchan farms and asks Kaew to take care of things in her absence. Kaew tells her to go ahead and leaves reminding her of some work for her in Chiang Mai. After she is gone, Did calls her cousin Lom, asking her for help (so we’re going to see Freen soon 😊). Wasupol talks to someone on the phone, questioning their men whether they have destroyed all the evidence, and tells them to get ready. Wasu claims that the old man (I assume Thip) knows everything, and asks what will be if he wakes up. But if they kill him now, Wasupol maintains, the police will immediately know that it was no accident and deems it too risky, but claims that when we wakes up, he will die. Mod Daeng folds clothes as she is called by Din who wants to know how Rose is doing and if anything is happening at the farm. Mod Daeng tells her that Rose went to sleep at sunset and all is fine, and tells her that if she’s so worried they should move in together (ever the shipper, Mod Daeng 😊), and tells her she will patrol every hour. On the next patrol, she encounters a noise which turns out to be Rose taking a cake out of the fridge. Rose notices that the fridge is filles with her favorite food, and Mod Daeng says it was Din’s doing. Rose wonders if Din had any nefarious reason, but Mod Daeng claims that Din is so pretty that she must be a good person. 😉 Rose wonders where her box is that she had as a kid, and Mod Daeng retrieves it from the storage room. Rose pulls among other things her old teddy bear out of the box which has some ugly stitches one its arm, and Rose remembers that Din fixed it. We get a flashback on young Din giving back the teddy to Rose, who then wants to play prince and princess, but Wasu has already gone home. Rose then proposes that Din should be the prince and calls her handsome. So, they play getting married with Din going down on her knees, and rose giving her a white rose. The rose happens to be stored in a diary by Din as we see. And we see Din repeating her vow that she will take care of Rose as the episode ends. ___ That was pretty good. I like Mod Daeng as the eternal shipper, Apple’s confidently quiet turn as Din and Mim’s first role as Rose. Wasu is more outwardly charming than in the book where he seemed to me as an entitled and possessive villain whereas here, his real character shines only through in conversations with his dad. Now, the stage is set for the confrontation of three families in Chang Rai. I have read the novel (actually, I’ve read three of the four “elements” by now) so I didn’t struggle as much with the subtitles which were a mess on release day; I’m excited to see this come to life, and see not just Bangkok, but rural, northern Thailand for a change. The sets look fine to me, and the outdoor shots are gorgeous.

I was so looking forward to the start of this and it definitely didn't disappoint.