Promising Start....
There’s no review for this so here I am...I really liked the first half of this. It was funny and the music was great. A little after the second half hit, it became less funny and more serious. I thought there was a wee bit too much killing going on even for an Action. They were unnecessary and did nothing to move the story along. I was quite disappointed that the Navy Officer character didn’t stick around for long.
I really liked the cast, maybe except for this female lead. I’ve never watched her before so I’m not sure if it was her character or acting but I wasn’t feeling it. She never responded to kissing scenes so it was like I was watching a Pancake Kiss - no lip movement, it’s like her lips were frozen. Another thing was the lack of reacting to something happening to a loved one. She was tooo calm after finding out the truth and the funny thing is, even the villain said the same thing. The romance was barely noticeable and I feel like they should’ve just left that out.
I thought the rest of the cast did amazing, the action scenes were really enjoyable. I felt it dragging a little bit in the last few episodes.
The music is extremely repetitive so if you’re not prepared for all that you should probably skip those. I really only liked one song but that’s cos it was super catchy and I couldn’t help sing along to it. There’s not that many words to remember. Sadly, the music died in the second half. There’s also a lot of noise (sound effects) pretty much all the way through, so be mindful if you don’t like that.
I wouldn’t rewatch this.
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Lovely Action
I enjoyed the whole story: action, romance, comedy. It's all good. Interesting conflict between Yodrak & Nakrob bcoz it's not just about their career, but also their love life. Some dialogues involving Yodrak/Nakrob & Chon are sooo... deep that i can feel their love & sincerity toward each other. Love is strengthening. Love can turn a selfish man into a hero (sounds cliche but yeah that's how i feel, haha)Of course i'm happy for Yodrak & Chon, but i pity Nakrob so much. However he's the first to propose Chon, he's Chon's first love, & his sincerity melted me down. When Chon 'met' him again, honestly i hoped she would've kissed him for the last time, though it's just his body that left :(
However, i think Yodrak's skill as a soldier is too instant, it shouldn't be compared to Nakrob's. Also, Chon's feeling towards Nakrob, 'fake' Nakrob, & Yodrak looks vague. But overall, it's still enjoyable.
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And, Weir is SO funny as a singer onstage, lol. His character here is portrayed as someone who sings so sweetly he makes even people who dislike him or fighting criminals to cease and listen to him at awe lol. So, comedy definitely works.
On the romance line, I have a bit problem because I already watched this kind of double romance before and both the guys liked the girl, and both the guys were likeable, so the girl kept wobbleing between them. Perhaps the girl should also have a twin. I knew I would pitty the one of the guys who'd end up the odd guy out:)
First, the navy guy is very cute with his girlfriend and they decide to get engaged. I liked the two together. But, because of the characters switch, she ends up swooning over the singer who just happily lies about his identity and doesn't care whatever danger the real fiancee might be in, or who mourns his real self back home.
So, that's a bit disturbing along with the fact nang'ek's "new" fiancee seems to be way more flamboyant, there's a couple gay references, even. So, what did the scriptwriters intented, here? We watch a lot of singer's antics, while everyone keeps calling him "captain" and we don't yet know whether the other guy even survived. Then we watch him getting better with his soldier training, actually acting brave for the first time, acting like a man who loves his fiancee. It's nice but it all comes to him very easy, and he still doesn't have the decency to tell anyone that their real friend/boyfriend/son-in-law went missing and might be dead. Especially if he's got a girl waiting for him back home...
But no, she's no longer waiting, because she got kidnapped in some human-trafficking subplot which is something I grew to be allergic to in thai lakorns. They always deal with idiotic naivety with such grave a theme. This case, they add the same silly crazy comedy to it like to the line with singer whose song can hypnotize people. But even romantic-wise, this girl from singer's past is yet one more character whom the script screwed over (she's more beautiful than Thisa and can sing, too).
Either way, the singer is directly confronted by her and asked who he is and he lies. He says He's Nakrob (the soldier's name), a man who loves dr. Chon (Thisa). I didn't like it and I thought he should have said he is Yodrak (singer's name) AND he loves Chon. It would have been honest, he should be able to fight for Chon's love AS HIMSELF, the missing guy would have at least chance to be searched for, Chon should respect that more and the other girl was going to be disappointed either way. But he didn't find the courage to clear the confused situation. I was getting afraid the original navy guy shall never return. The singer was funny but to be honest, I didn't really cheer for him to be with Chon using such methods and I wasn't sure I liked this kind of "love story". What did Chon actually like about her guy? In her eyes, he changed his personality several times. I was confused about her feelings, too.
All this spoiled the perfect Weir-Thisa dynamics I so praised before.
As the series progressed, and more and more "adventures" unfolded, my overall interest in this kinda dropped. If I liked something, then it was Big Nathaschai & Jayda, not Weir & Thisa anymore. But then, Weir always features in yet another crazy dance scene that entices EVERYBODY. It's kind of a bizarre fun that is hard to turn off (yes, I considered dropping this lakorn), just like you cannot avert your eyes seeing a car crash:)
It's more weird with the plot too, when by epi 6 it is revealed to several characters that there are actually 2 guys looking the same, still the situation doesn't get cleared. There are now even 2 extra women interested in the main guy, who again claims he loves dr. Chon only. The guy both sings, both acts like skilled soldier. Plus he kisses Thisa and it's an awkward, bad kiss, while I already watched Weir&Thisa lakorn where they had NO skinship problem and we could see them like bite each other's ear!! So, you tell me what kind of incompetent director made this. They obviously exhausted themselves with the double role for Weir and so many surplus characters. In all the mess and surrounding antics, in the end I actually cheered for no one. I would have axed half the main characters and ALL the human trafficking badguys if only there was a single couple here I could actually enjoy watching!!
But, should I get angry over this? Of course not, lol. It's like always. The words: "Less Is More" should be tattooed on all the scriptwriters foreheads. They'll just never learn. When writing a show, they have to put in everything at once, in fear it would not be enough, lol. So, it actually doesn't matter which of the identical looking guys Weir is currently portraying. Why should I vex myself over morality of the one character who was there, when even the other one who disappeared would have immediatelly returned if only the writer wished so. Obviously they weren't capable to write this better. Then, I shouldn't waste my energy and just take it as is. After all, this is not a k-drama, lol.
Episode 7/14, we learn that the soldier guy is dead. The guy remaining is the singer without a doubt. Thanks to his amazing progress with the training, he keeps pretending to be the soldier. He also keeps pursuing his singing career at the same time, as weird as that is. He keeps lying to everyone. He keeps showing slightly gay treats... Am I supposed to cheeer for him? To be with the girl? I no longer even like Thisa in this. And that's just 2 characters of the huge bundle. I really don't care for any of the stupid "action plot" which is here to fill the time INSTEAD of developing the characters or relationships so it would make slightest sense.
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