Carla

I've been fixing the subs for earlier eps so perhaps whenever you decide to check out the show, it'll be alright 😉 The link I've also posted in the discussion

I know you're replying to oddsare but I just wanna chime in and note that I think it's very interesting that as watchers of both Mandate and Shine, personally felt like Shine had way more romance than politics (positive) despite my expectations from its trailer, whereas Mandate became a much more political (positive) show than what they had shown in the trailer. Just a fun observation 🤗

I personally don't find them out of sync when I'm watching so could it be that whatever you're using to play the files is lagging? If watching on okru is lagging, you can try downloading the file on pixeldrain and open with any video player on laptop, it should be sync

watch: https://ok.ru/video/9444102310655
download: https://pixeldrain.com/l/hGtWmJNt

EP 2 with better subs is now available. link below.

atp it almost feels like EP 7 is one parliament dissolution or cabinet reshuffle away from making this show a "based on a true story" drama 🤣. one of the lines that gave me chills was when Khunnawut was talking about how he conceded too much power to Phasakorn when forming the government that he's rebelling now. it feels like a very telling line about the frustrating situations that political parties put themselves in when they make grand compromises at the expense of their policies

you might also be able to draw some comparisons between one of the backdeals Pheu Thai made when becoming government involved minimal jail time for former PM Thaksin upon his return to Thailand vs the backdeals Phasakorn talked about with both Wiwat Siam and Nititham to help his dad former PM Phanu who was in monkhood temporarily fleeing from law enforcement (of course before he himself ruthlessly put his dad in prison in EP 6).

Another point interesting point I wanna add (which I should write a whole post on) is how close the situation in EP 6 reflects the stagnant state of policies implementation that is the result of a cabinet borned out of a huge compromise in Thailand.

2nd ranked party Pheu Thai betraying the 1st ranked more progressive People's Party who ranked first in the 2023 elections although they were expected to form a governent together -> Pita of the People's Party blocked by the parliament from becoming PM -> Pheu Thai goes on to form the government with more conservative parties -> Paetongtarn government not making much progress/delivering on their promise a year into this (some roadblocks created by the very own conservative parties they chose to collaborate with) -> Paetongtarn facing political scandal -> motions of censure and no-confidence vote in parliament

the show is so eerily close to real thai politics that the Boy Pakorn and Producer Moo Asava kept having to clarify that it's all a coincidence that a lot of the things happening in Mandate is similar to what's happening in Thai political situation during the press junkets i've watched 😅

https://www.tumblr.com/clairedaring/795858807263821824/first-of-all-thank-you-so-much-for-making-so-much?source=share

Doesn't the headline in this article just screams the timeskip you see in EP 6 😉 https://www.nationthailand.com/news/politics/40054460

i wrote a little post about this a while back. i hope this somehow adds to what you've also noted. i should probably update a part 2 as well but maybe when i have more time. https://www.tumblr.com/clairedaring/795821734669500416/mandate-and-its-parallelssimilarities-with-thai?source=share

if you're on mobile, try pressing "request for desktop site". i've found that few of friends can only see the subs once their browser is in desktop mode not mobile mode. otherwise it should be fine to view on laptop/pc.

watch here https://ok.ru/video/c34321919

no no it's alright. you probably had to watch ai/machine translated subs from ep 1 to 4 from monomax so it's completely valid reaction haha. i too was so frustrated by those subs that i felt compelled to do something about it so im still in the process of gradually fixing them for everyone else who might come to watch this show later on 🤣 glad that the subs in the later eps were better for you, subs are so crucial to enhancing one's watching experience, especially if we're watching anything not in our native language 🥹🫂

Awww. I'll keep everyone posted on the future eps 😅 Fixing EP 1 subs was crazy because I felt like rewriting the entire thing. I'm so glad the Monomax subs from ep 5 onwards got much better so it took way less time to clean them if not to say the subs were already essentially comprehensible without my edits

thank you for complimenting my subs 🥹😭 i really tried my best even though i'm not a native thai speaker, with a bit help from a thai friend on certain things. i'm not a native english speaker either so the sentences might not always flow well, i'm just trying to get my translations as close to the original sentence structure as possible 🥺

watch: https://ok.ru/video/9436620196607
download: https://pixeldrain.com/l/hGtWmJNt

I've been SLOWLY fixing the bad subs from EP 1-4. EP 1 with better subs is now available. link below

Haha, neither are but it's a really good series and I really hope more people would watch this and understand it better because the script is actually amazing (especially if you know a bit about thai politics) and quite contemporary and updated. It would be a shame if people missed out on a great show just because it had really bad subs 😭🫡

yeah. i'll fix them to be more comprehensible and add in some translation notes if needed 😉

they're from monomax but for like the first two eps they're heavily ai-generated, im currently fixing the subs for ep 1-4, ep 5-6 i've already fixed, you can check back at a later time the links i've posted in the discussion box 😉

for streaming: https://ok.ru/video/9434250808063
for download: https://pixeldrain.com/l/hGtWmJNt

for streaming: https://ok.ru/video/9434250808063
for download: https://pixeldrain.com/l/hGtWmJNt