#TheGiftedGraduation
THE GIFTED KIDS WILL NEED TO GIVE UP THEIR POTENTIAL? My theory:

Disclaimer: if you disagree with anything I say in this thread, let’s discuss! Don’t be rude, it’s just fun. Also, this theory is long af. I’ve divided it into 2 parts- WHY and HOW. Special shoutout to @flirtsym for the 5 hour phone call that led to the creation of this. Lob u

So I’ve been thinking about how there are too many plot lines and new variables in tgg recently. It’s getting kinda crazy and I realised I’m losing sight of the original point of the show. Everything started overlapping and being confusing, SO, I decided to clear the slate

of the current issues (nyx 88, revealing the Gifted program to the world, the sick m6 kids, etc.) and focus on the MAIN main issue. The root cause of everything that’s happened so far.
And that’s when we realised what it is. The problem that’s been the same since the beginning

and hasn’t been solved despite everything: the Gifted program. That is the whole damn issue. The program existing and these kids having special powers- it’s creating so so much trouble it’s crazy. Here’s why the Gifted program and everyone’s potentials need to go:

First of all, it’s completely unfair. These random kids get such a major advantage over everyone and for why? Biology? Random selection? Nothing they worked for, obviously. The gifted program hurts ALL the kids and they showed us this clearly over and over again in season one.

Wipawee and nicha’s case. The kids who got experimented on. Pang and Nac. Ohm and the guy he disappeared. Mon and the martial arts club. The normal kids will ALWAYS hate the Gifted, because no matter how hard they try they cannot be better than someone who is literally

superpowered and impossible to defeat. And isn’t that unfair? Imagine being these kids. How infuriating and shattering it would be. To be lesser to your peers over something completely out of your control. And why? Why should the Gifted’s have all this unearned power? Why, when

they did nothing to deserve it more than any of the other kids?
And we’ve seen that not only is it messing up the normal kids lives, it’s messing up the Gifted kids lives too. They lose friends, they lose the life they had before this, their sanity, their stability, everything in

their lives from before uprooted in moments without their consent. Then they’re given such a heavy burden to bear and they have to keep everything secret and suddenly these young children, they are so privileged, so powerful, yet so so hated. Their life is no longer their own.

They never asked for this. They never wanted this. It was done without consent. They are as much helpless lab rats in this mess as the normal children who were experimented on.
And THAT is what korn was talking about. Yes, he took the wrong direction and very very bad methods but

what he was trying to say... wasn’t wrong. Pang and the others DID lose sight of the real problem. The real inequality- it isn’t the better wifi, or the better food, or the big solo dorms, or breaking the dress code- it was the potentials they never earned. The literal POWER they

have over normal kids. The power they don’t even need!
What is a potential? Just a heightened version of what you already have within you. Claire doesn’t NEED to see people’s emotions- she is an excellent and compassionate actress regardless. Wave doesn’t NEED to control tech- he

was talented at that regardless, and he has been doing some analog stuff all season. They all have something going for them besides their potential, have normal abilities like everyone does. They can survive without their potentials, as they did before it was ever awakened.

Today’s ep told us that Gifteds develop naturally anyways, without needing a soundwave to awaken their potential. But they develop slowly, and it’s just evolution doing its job all across the world. Biologically, Gifteds are just the new variant in a species and soon they’re

going to completely replace normal humans. They told us- Gifteds are growing exponentially on their own. And whats happening in Ridhta school is one big experiment to see if they can speed up the process of that natural evolution in Thailand specifically.
So no, they don’t really

need to artificially trigger potentials and create Gifteds more rapidly like Director Supoj wanted to do. If it’s happening on it’s own all over the world, what does doing this achieve? Thailand wins some kind of global race and becomes the most powerful country? Sure, but that’s

going against the natural pace of evolution. Suddenly creating so many people (without their consent) with such clear differences from the average “normal” person... we all know how well humans handle differences. Discrimination exists in our world in all types and forms. Besides

look at the cost. Look at the giant mess of power grabs and corruption and inequality and ruining so many people’s lives and ask yourself- is it worth it? Is all this truly worth it for the “greater good”?

And finally, the main reason why I think the potentials and the program

needs to go. The Gifted is (like most media we consume) one giant metaphor. A metaphor for our lives. The Gifted are just children who are born into positions of power. The adults control everything and the system is corrupt. If they want equality, if they want justice for people

who aren’t as privileged as they are, they need to recognise that the amount of power they hold is unnecessary and the root of the conflict. I think that’s what the message of the show is. People who hold too much undeserved power need to give it up if they truly want a change.

Pang came from the bottom, from class 8, all the way to the top, the Gifted class. He had the right idea in the last episode of season 1, but none of the other kids were ready to sacrifice their power. Of course, who would? Who would, but pang, who has seen and experienced the

worst side of the program and realised the bad heavily outweighs the power he now holds? Korn was trying to remind pang of that in his manic, frenzied state. The old pang, who saw the real issue. The old pang who didn’t give in to the rest of the Gifteds. The others don’t want to

let go of their power. They all know the system is corrupt- but they don’t want to accept that the only way to achieve their goal, their whole ideology, is to give up their potentials. Yes, the reason pang lost at the end of season one was because they didn’t work together, but

“working together” meant coming to the collective realisation that the potentials are the main issue. It’s not the inequalities, not pang’s ego, and not the corrupt system of adults. It’s their undeserved power. They need to overcome selfishness and get real with themselves.

Reality is not easy to accept and even harder to fix. After all, all these years spent blaming the system... finding out that the price of morality and ideological utopia you dream of is all that power you hold? Even in real life, that’s a hell of a lot to grapple with. And the

Gifted kids, now the hold the key. No potentials, no program. Destroy the soundwave, remove the potentials, and the system collapses. But can they bring themselves to make that choice? How many disasters and horrors will it take until they see? A hell of a choice to make...

It all comes down to this: do you choose to be powerful and corrupt, or do you choose to give up your power for the sake of equality?