Story:
This is a remake so the story is tried and tested. It will keep you interested until the end! There were some characters I found over the top or uninteresting, but the main characters keep you going. Sometimes the story seems to stall, but the drama definitely delivers and makes you happy that you watched until the end.
Acting/Cast:
I wanted to watch this series due to the lead male (Wisetkaew Sukrit). He has a very over the top way of acting, but I personally love it. He made me love the character, no matter how flawed and silly the character sometimes was. It all just added to the drama's impact. The lead female (Nuengthida Sophon) will very likely divide viewers opinions. You will feel frustrated with her actions, but everything happens for a reason. Her facial expressions feel limited and I wish the characters had more depth. It all comes flowing out though in the end and she managed to make me care about the character. Most of the side characters were okay, but there were some that were quite "rough". All in all the actors manage to make the wartime era feel very authentic.
Music:
The music in this one was quite basic. A few ballads here and there, quite beautiful but nothing extraordinary. I would've preferred a few instrumental themes, but it was okay.
Rewatch value:
I'm not sure if I will ever watch the last episode again. I cried my eyes out at 1:30am while I was watching this next to my sleeping husband. :D There were some memorable scenes though so I might have to go back for those. One of those dramas that you are glad you watched, but maybe you won't watch it again, at least not in it's entirety.
Overall:
If you are feeling a bit dull and you want to have a good cry this is the perfect drama for you. Interesting, romantic and even a bit erotic it will keep you in its clutches until the end. If you don't like war dramas or melodramas you should probably skip this one.
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Loveee
Ughhh where do I even start 😩😩.After almost 10 years I’m rewatching the show and it still gets me in my feels 😭😭. I’ve watch this drama when it first came out and I was only 12-13 years old at the time but now that I’m older (21 years old) I have a better understanding and it still hits me in my feels 😫Such a good drama to watch. I love the 2 leads who played the character so well but Angsumali (i think that’s how you spell her name) makes me so mad😤😤 still a good show though. Definitely a 10/10 ❤️❤️❤️
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I don't think WWII and thai buffoon-acting gels well
I'm not a fan of Bie Sukrit (I neither find him attractive, nor a good actor. Even after I watched 'Ruk Jub Jai' and understood he honestly works hard, it's just how it is). Or period/war. Not a fan of one nationality actors being cast as other nationality characters. Not very interested to see this was I, then:) Nevertheless, it got subtitled... So I tried.Besides the leading young couple, there's a numerous cast of "uncles" I know from many previous lakorns, of course. I don't want to offend anybody, I enjoy thai lakorns tremendously, I just don't think the WWII and thai buffoon-acting gels well. As one of the Tags here lists 'Tragedy', I was prepared for one (just in the different sense of it, LOL).
Well, the tragedy mostly consists of hearing Bie Sukrit trying to sound like born japanese. On the other hand, he picks up on thai language remarkably well, LOL. It was soon clear to me that if I was to continue watching, I just must concentrate on the romance side of it and ignore all the japanese/war element with all my might. Else this lakorn would get dropped by me in episode 1. So I really hoped the romance would be good (I rated 'Teacher's Diary' 10, despite it being almost "one man show" of Bie Sukrit).
So, how's the romance? Pra'ek likes nang'ek from the start. He's supposed to be high ranking military official, yet he does not understand why they shoudn't be all friends. Of course it's to make him a likeable character, but it's a bit beside reality even for a lakorn. After all, they're at war, LOL. Whenever there's a slightest disagreement, he acts all surprised. It's easy to see why nang'ek is annoyed with him, there's many scenes where there's tension but he keeps smiling. Until one of those days nang'ek finds herself smiling along...? I tried to get hooked on the romance and I couldn't.
Even the simplest dialogue here tires me. Bie Sukrit and Noona Nuengtida speak to each other laboriously, as ones speaks foreign language. Plus Bie Sukrit then speaks this way even in the language that's supposed to be his own.
As Bie Sukrit is not pleasant to my eye and his or Noona's japanese not pleasant to my ear, plus there's many "uncles" with exactly the same way of acting like they do in a crazy lakorn but there is WWII, this already feels long to me after 5 episodes out of 24. How do I withstand all 24? Do I fastforward a lot? Oops, already doing that...
...And practically sleeping through it. At 9 episode out of 24... Pra'ek finds a GUY hiding in the closet at nang'ek's bedroom. LOL! I woke up... Oops! The guy is Oliver Pupart. Gah! I'm like starting to charge fine to this "lakorn". And now (perhaps because his character is supposed to be shocked?) Bie Sukrit starts speaking english, even (am I to be spared nothing?) which sounds like he's gonna throw up his own tonsils. Is this all like for real or not? I don't know whether I should laugh my a** off or angrily stop watching due the piety to WWII victims, I only know I can't imagine anyone taking this show seriously. Watching the antics of Ui Kriengkrai Oonhanun's character in the next scene... I confirmed there seriously should be a 'Parody' tag here on MDL, instead of 'Tragedy'.
At episode 10, there is a kiss scene (no faking). Perhaps things shall change for the better when the two of them are married? I'll be only glad, shifting my attention to their marriage, from the war. I like crazy humour sometimes, but watching the thai parody on war events? I better concentrate on the heroine re-playing the kiss in her mind saying to herself: "No, I hate him! He's the enemy!" And then he can come around and say: "Hey, no worries. See I am thai, like you! My name is Bie Sukrit!" LOL. If THAT actually happened in the scene, I wouldn't be a bit surprised. This IS parody, no matter what.
Next epi they don't bother to shoot real kiss anymore, so I'm afraid this show's ONLY asset has gone, LOL. On the verge of dropping this, again... I'm trying, Noona Nuengtida at least has her big expressive eyes, but Bie Sukrit just keeps showing his teeth tensely, which presents majority of his "acting". Ugh...
Epi 13: Truly bored. Yawn. Epi 14: I feel like dropping a huge bomb on the whole place so that everyone dies and the series ends now and not in TEN more episodes. Coincidentally, Bie Sukrit's character gives a speech in which he repeats he's willing to die. And I thought: "Please...":LOL. This is NOT the lakorn where I fastforward some scenes to get to those featuring both pra'ek & nang'ek together. This lakorn I fast-forward even during ONE conversation in between pra'ek & nang'ek! As I find it TOO LONG! Enough said?
I think I should really quit watching something I'm not really watching... Still, I feel like I should be awarded for surviving almost FOURTEEN episodes (didn't "watch" the 14th to the end). Because I have been suffering since the very first one.
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