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The Spirit of the Ruler thai drama review
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The Spirit of the Ruler
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by 8392225
Apr 15, 2021
10 of 10 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 5.5
Story 5.0
Acting/Cast 5.5
Music 5.0
Rewatch Value 5.0
This review may contain spoilers
This one has the 'Diary of Tootsies' girl in the lead, which makes her most interesting of all 4. This time, she's not paired with Porche, they put her together with Weir... Yes, the pra'ek I never praise, lol:) Poor guy is so ugly, also he doesn't shave that gross moist moustache off his heavily-sweating face:) Eye candy he's not, but at least he can do nice expressions with his eyes. And if he always USED TO be uglier than his second male, it's not the case anymore, not with Louis Hesse. Now, technically speaking, in the jungle they both pretty much treat nang'ek the same. There are practically identical scenes following closely one after another which feature her cleaning their wound with him looking deeply into her eyes, first with one then with the other:) We know one is supposed to be the good guy and one the bad guy, but it's funny:)

This also offers classical misinterpretation of almost any profession (be it soldier or doctor, everyone acts like a moron) but that comes with the territory of thai lakorns: they SHOULD concentrate on romance and NOTHING else. Any other genre that's put into the mix reveals the underdeveloped cinematography unflatteringly. I'm surprised again and again with the number of lakorns that are trying to be "serious" themed, unavoidably resulting only - of course - in ridicule. This is no different, you need to ignore anything else but romance to keep watching it:) The romance NEEDS to be good, then.

There is 1 kiss with the nang'ek after 4 hours of screentime and it's a bad kiss (she stares with her eyes wide open:), but after the jungle part, I enjoyed the personal line of this. It was portrayed well when the pra'ek lost his fellow soldier he both liked and respected, and in the same time thought his nang'ek had another of his friends for a boyfriend. He was heartbroken twice. Weir handled this with his acting well. He had a good scene with nang'ek, too. She actually brought him flowers:) I liked that. Maybe first time I enjoyed romance line with Weir in the lead:) Even Mik Thongraya was cute here, as a part of this misunderstanding (way more so than in his own 'Paragit Ruk Story').

There's yet another guy coming for the nang'ek: her ex (counting him in, she's got 1 man after her in business to eliminate her + 3 men who are into her:D). And even he's no competitor for Weir, so this is really the first time I'm willing to accept him as a pra'ek of a story. They didn't hire anyone to outshine him and made him wear good clothes and colors to bring out his height and his eyes (his ONLY assets, lol). I say that Weir never looked this good:) He's cute with his nang'ek... He needs to try for her even more, after he's unfortunatelly rejected her:)

Even the side-character of Ice Athichanan (this is an actress who is usually cast as nang'rai/frenemy, but actually is more beautiful than the nang'ek each time... ironically, she's like the opposite phenomenon from Weir:) was an good enough watch and her small side-romance received more fan appreciation than the one of lead couple's, which is... understandable.

So, this one is 5 stars. It's still better than the other 'Paragit Ruk Stories', which are way more boring and involve lading ladies even more "convincing" than Peak Pattarasaya as "doctor": like squawking Kwan Usamanee in the role of a "reporter", or blow-up doll looking actress who cannot act in the role of a "scientist" who has a microchip in her head, LOL. Therefore, understandably I still need to reserve even lower ratings for those.
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