Love Destiny

It's Unbelievably Fine, End of an episode keeps me frustrated for the next onee, Another Week..

I've watched many historical and time travel dramas, I thought I would get extremely bored if I try this one, I thought it would have very similar other storylines and the actors I thought would not be that professional.

This series is so good, not that different though, but it's watchable and nice, I don't mind watching something similar but not exactly the same..
Even though it's quite similar to Love Upon A Long Time, suddenly after some incident both the characters time travelled to recover the past mystery.
And then fall in love with someone in the past, someone they bicker with..

But honestly I understood stuff in this series much better, it's conveying every stuff clearly, actually LUAT the characters talked in a beautiful poetic harmonious manner, I don't really understand them well so, I wasn't able to understand many parts.
Well, those lines sounded very beautiful but sometimes they were quite hard for me to catch up.

The language used in this series is much more simpler, and the storyline is extremely romantic, the way P'Muen was blushing aww that was so cute, I loved his reactions after getting picked up by Gaew ( Great ) .
They always bicker, and from inside adorer each other..
Great and Gaew do they even have a thing in common except for their faces. I don't think so!
Gaew, something wrong with him, how can he do those things to those people who raised him like their own son. He's arrogant always getting into trouble, bringing shame to his own people.. Getting into fights, troubling P'Muen, arguments with elders, what good about himm
That was stupid, him literally trying to drown the boat..

It's so damn similar to Love Upon A Time.
I want more of the main couple really, there are many irrelevant stuff, Great is literally the exact opposite of Gaew, about personality, manners, talking and everything even eating.. Great is extremely perfect to be a member of that family, cooking, medicines he's so good at everything..
I like the way Dech is discovering his own heart, the way he feels his heartbeat and hide his thoughts, even though he likes it he won't ay so instead he would hide them to save his auraa or you can say self respect. He's blushing every time he's around Gaew.

Great is doing so well between them, making the people around so shocked about this drastic change, in his personality.

I loved the funny and detailed description of those chips, it's different and creative, but took a lot of time..
About the servants honestly I secretly ship them, umm they look so good together, their chemistry's fireee, so, I couldn't help myself much. Don't mind me, but I'm already getting a feeling that they'll fall in love and we'll see some of their scenes together.

Lady jumpa is so annoying I know Gaew was type of a thug only butt howw that Great is here she still blames him unfairly, using unfair tactics. She is still picking on Great, aww I feel so bad for Great, he's always trying his best, and I'm sure Dech likes this version of Gaew the best and the most adorable..

I don't know I'm getting kind of evil vibes from that Constantine, he had a very good relationship with Great but looking evil. He killed that person, when Great was asking for his help as he was caged because he was the one who was the biggest suspect of killing that person, I thought he wouldn't help instead put the whole blame on Great only, but I was pretty shocked when he came to confess everything was his doing and Great has nothing to do with it, gave the cops all the truth and got Great out, I didn't expect that much from him though...

The visuals are great and the setting is incredibly beautiful.
Historical methods of doing things are mentioned in here, extremely different and funny. They use herbal medicines and traditional way of eating, cooking, utensils and clothes they're using, old practices and believes.
From what I saw, the actors act really nice, I want to support them to grow more along with eachother. AugustLeng they did a really good job...

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Totally love it!

I get giddy each time it's about to be tuesday, i love this show so much hihihi
Their chemistry is so good and Gaew as Great is so cute
I can't wait for the upcoming episode because we get to see what happened to Gaew, why he was the way he was
Looking at the three episodes so far, i can tell he's been treated unfairly lots of time without getting the chance to explain himself and then he stopped caring at a point and just probably started matching their energy as the "bad guy", he has so much depth that draws me in
I've liked OG Gaew since episode one not because he's just the main character so then he's "allowed to be bad" but because from the very beginning, people treating him unfairly and with so much contempt is not hidden and his side not being listened to over and over again has been seen throughout which made me wonder how many times he has gone through this
He was so lively and positive as a child and i can see this is part of the reason if not the main reason he turned out this way
He's a hurt boy who has been treated like a lowly person, called a bastard just because his parents are no more and living under someone's roof
He eventually grew bitter i believe and I'm so sure he has so much hurt inside, hurt he couldn't share with anyone because he was the "troublemaker" in everyone's books
I can't wait to see the flashbacks of his life growing him
I love him so much, he's carrying an angry, deeply hurt emotions so well then there's total switch to a sweet cute boy who see the positive in everything as Great and it's just one person playing both roles
I simply love the show so much and will type forever if I'm allowed🤣
Gaew is super hot by the way🤭
Let's watch everyone 👏🏿🤣
Amazing performance from Leng and the entire team

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This series was gking so well and great. Acting is so good, the ediing and screenplay was great. I was laughing and enjoying all way.

In ep one leng Acting was so great that i was angry on his bratty behavior.

In ep two after Great travel back to the past, i like the details of how he try to figures out what happens.

In ep three, i loved how it turn without flaws to comdey. I especially liked the scenes durian chips. The editing was good and funny. The chemistry between August And Leng was great at the end. I want to their character and relate developer.


Overall i looking forward.

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The Stony Devil Strikes Again

Only the first two episodes are out so far, so it's obviously hard to tell how the show will evolve later on. So far, though, it's just like all the other time-travel Thai period pieces, including the very dramatic opening scene set in the past where someone also very dramatically falls into the water after being shot by someone we don't know yet.

Then we travel to the present day, where we meet one of our protagonists, Dr. Great (lol), who is – surprise, surprise – a doctor. But we're definitely not going to talk about the medical accuracy in this show because it simply does not exist. Seriously, anyone with even basic medical knowledge should just cover their eyes and plug their ears during these scenes or suffer the consequences of the stroke that is sure to occur.

Dr. Not-So-Great loses a patient, to which there is only one completely logical response for a young doctor at the start of his career: quit immediately. Yes, of course. Silly me – what other options are there?

Thankfully, his boss refuses to accept his resignation, so Dr. Mediocre decides to drown his sorrows in a tall glass of... coffee (?) at a bar (The Stony Devil, lols again, which also happens to be an anagram of Love Destiny – gasp) he frequents. There, he saves a fortune teller from being beaten up by thugs, so obviously the fortune teller offers to tell his fortune. (You will never guess the first card.)

I do want to point out here that the fight choreography, while obviously not Bruce Lee-level, is actually pretty decent for a show like this, so that was a pleasant surprise.

Then let's rewind to the past, where we meet Dr. Great again, except here his name is Gaew and he is a total prick. He starts out as a cute, wet-eyed little orphan who is adopted into the household of another lord, jumping into the river with his adopted brothers/cousins with childlike glee, only to emerge from the water alone and as a full-blown gigantic a-hole. (Honestly, the transition scene was pretty good cinematography-wise. It was an unexpected moment of creativity from the director.)

Anyway, for reasons yet undetermined, Gaew grows up to be an arrogant and vile young man who hates Dech, one of his adopted brothers, to the point of trying to sink his boat (not personally, obviously; he has a servant for that) to get revenge for putting Gaew back in his place after some literal cockfighting fiasco. I, personally, really did not appreciate having to learn that, no, I really do not enjoy watching two cocks having a go at each other in this context. Is there no PETA in Thailand?

Anyway, it turns out that it wasn't Dech on the deck (har-har), but his mother, who falls into the river along with the servants. One of them is impaled through the leg by a log, another disappears and is presumed dead, so obviously everyone is very mad at Gaew for being so evil. So obviously they beat up... his servant.

And then the mother is still furious with Gaew, so yet again there is only one logical solution to this problem: perform a ritual that will kill Gaew if he is indeed guilty. And Gaew is very much guilty, so the ritual causes him immense pain, which he handles like the little bee he is.

And this is where I make a detour to the acting.

Oh boy, here we go again.

The acting is... happening. Sometimes. As long as there are no big feelings involved. As long as the scene doesn't require any emotional outbursts or any of the more complicated emotions like, I don't know, mild discomfort, the main leads are doing fine. But anything that requires any more skill than that (for example, dying in excruciating pain from the Thai equivalent of Avada Kedavra), the actors... well, bleed out.
Especially Jumpa, the mother, who only seems capable of delivering every single line with the exact same bitchy expression and tone, regardless of what she's actually saying.

Right, so back to the plot.

After having his fortune told, Dr. Great drives his obligatory generic expensive Asian car from point A to point B when storm clouds suddenly darken the sky above, and he gets struck by some very high-quality and completely believable CGI lightning that absolutely had every reason to be there. (Meanwhile, Gaew is being Avada Kedavra-ed in the past, so I guess there might be a connection.)

Right, sorry. I didn't take my ADHD meds today.

So Dr. Awesome wakes up in the past in Gaew's body. Everyone thinks he has gone completely insane, and they also want to drag him to the police station to answer for Gaew's crimes when news arrives that the servant who was previously impaled through the leg is doing terribly.

If only they had a doctor...

Dr. Gaew rushes over to help him, determines that he has an arterial bleed, and promptly saves this critically injured man by changing the dressing on his wound and elevating his leg.

Yup.

Because we all know that's all you need when your artery has been torn apart.

Afterwards, he no longer has to go to the police station. Dr. Gaew takes a beauty nap, wakes up hoping it was all just a bad dream, and then quickly realizes that nope, he's still in the past.

This realization causes him such distress that he almost sh!ts himself.

And yay! Yet another Thai BL that couldn't make it through a single episode without a poop joke! Isn't this awesome? Nothing smells "romance" more than a diarrhea gag that's made even better by a period-accurate loo! This is exactly what I want in my BL shows: not just any poop joke, but a whole series of poop jokes dragged out way too long.

Ha-ha, they didn't have modern toilets back then! He-he, no toilet paper either! And wouldn't it just be hilarious if this were the exact moment Dech walked in? Ooooh, it's so smelly!

(Please kill me now.)

Right. Sorry.

If you couldn't tell, I don't really find poop jokes all that funny.

To be fair, though, there are some genuinely funny gags in there as well.

Getting back on track, this is mostly what has happened so far. A few other things happen with Dr. Gaew in the past, which eventually lead to him publicly apologizing to the family for his behaviour and promising to become a better person. Since he is a doctor, he starts handing out mosquito nets and other supplies to the household servants, as well as giving them health advice and all that. But obviously Evil Stepmother cannot stand this, so she and her servant start coming up with evil schemes to teach him a lesson.

And that's where we are for now.

All in all, it's not all bad. The production seems high-budget, the locations look great, and the costumes are pretty too. (I have absolutely no idea how historically accurate they actually are, but I like them.) The fight choreography is decent as well. The main leads do a perfectly serviceable job as long as nobody expects Oscar-worthy performances from them. I'm just very easily annoyed by exaggerated facial expressions.

So... yeah.

I'm curious to see how—or if—it improves over the next few episodes.

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Another time travel to ancient Thailand- BL drama which lost track after a few episodes

Even though I tried to show up for this, watch and support it so much, I just couldn't go on beyond episode 4.....at present the script coherence is all over the place, logic is razor thin, too many characters, too many sub-plots and too many couples to ship....its like the show has 4 directors who all want it to be a different story...I feel sorry for August and Leng, even the other cast members are good too, but with a lame script and storytelling you can only go so far

BL-Needle Score: 7.5 Reasonable BL-ness

I wanted to watch because firstly, I am a time-travel story-addict ever since IFYLITA left us hanging (going around in a never-to-be-found-closure loop I guess?)...secondly because I kinda like August (Addicted Heroine Thailand, Love Sick 2014) and feel that he never gets the really good roles...and thirdly, to support Leng who kinda got sidelined due to the hate he got for his pairing with Ohm...

A great doctor from the present times named Great, time travels to be in the body of Gaew (both played by Leng) an arrogant, and always angry orphan child of a noble man, who seems to be fuming all the time for no apparent reasons, or maybe there are reasons that we are yet to know....the guy ends up rubbing people the wrong way enough number of times for the guardians to unleash a deadly spell on him, which makes this soul swap happen...I'm not sure if Gaew's soul gets to inhabit the Great's body though....so episode one ends with the soul swap and the confused doctor waking up in Ayutthhaya kingdom times, with a whole lot of confusion and disbelief (Hello, IFYLITA, remember?)

This is directed by the same director as Interminable (which I didn't watch) and the Cursed Love (which I dropped). The script is not its strong point, the period effects are alright...but damn why do Thai dramas make the butterflies so damn fake even in this age of AI? First it was Flower Boy and now this one .

There are so many good shows airing right now, and I decided not to allot any more time to this. Dropped it

Verdict: Nah

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Slow Beginning, Interesting Story, But….

I haven’t seen the original, so this review is just based on the BL series.

I’ll start with the good parts, the story is interesting for sure, the first episode though, a little bit slow, but it makes sense, and viewers will probably be able to decide how to actually feel about the story after a few more episodes.

Plot is also a little bit cliche, but it’s a time-travel Lakorn BL and that should be expected. It doesn’t reduce the story’s quality though, I’m still excited to see what the next episodes would hold.

Now to, what I’ll call an unpopular opinion perhaps, I found the MC’s acting grating and really hard to watch in a way. I’m not sure if it’s just the first character he played (I won’t go into this to avoid spoilers) but the acting quality was poor.

Overall, so far, so good I’d say, I hope the acting improves (as he takes on a different character) in subsequent episodes. As we watch too, we’ll get to see how good the story would get.

For now, I’d still recommend it to anyone who’s contemplating watching. But don’t expect too much in this first episode.

(I’ll edit as I watch)

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Otro Bl de época pero diferente a los demás

Le tengo mucha fe a los siguientes capítulos, no he visto la serie original así que no sé qué va a pasar, pero hasta ahora está muy interesante y me encanta la actuación de Leng, a parte de que está hermoso
Creo que aunque sea un BL de época como otros que ha existen, hasta este capítulo veo muchas diferencia y ocurrencia que no hay en otros, me da miedo porque parece que ser muy dramático y que tendrá varios conflictos que estresarán a el espectador. Pero por eso es diferente a otros BL de época que aunque tengan problemas nunca han sido de este tipo de angustiantes.

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