Amaryllis_Flower

I'm not basing my opinion on the book which I have read. This whole plot line didn't occur there.

Also other people on this board have said that Ballchon was present in Q70 filming. There's a picture of him on TikTok wearing one of those TNP blankets.

You're just repeating the same crap you said the last time.

If there are people who appreciate a Maurizio Cattelan banana taped to a wall with duct tape there is all kinds of taste in the world.

It was auctioned off for millions of dollars and you have to provide your own banana.

Your version of badly-written is someone else's version of perfection.

Personally it's my once a week version of a fun watch and then Saturday is usually spent talking about it with other people here.

And I'm lucky enough to have a wonderful life so that every day is beautiful, or at least almost every day.

I expected the sabotage to happen in the archery because of the coming attractions in episode 11.

It was a blink and you would have missed it moment where the final scores in archery flashed in the palace. Ava did win archery 80 points to Khanin's and and Ramil's 75 points.

I'm speculating that they don't continue with the fencing competition and the three decide on a more democratic ruling system.

I don't remember an archery competition even being scheduled in the book. I think they did that because it was a lot easier to have a sabotage with a couple of dozen people rather than the hundreds of extras they would have needed to have it occur in the fencing match in a huge arena. I'm not sure about that though.

We'll find out how closely the series follows the book in episode 13.

The only thing I agree with you about is that it's your opinion. People in 15 countries don't watch a show just for Zee and NuNew. They aren't even well known enough in other countries to draw that kind of audience. When I first saw Cutie Pie 3 years ago I had no idea who either one of them was and didn't know that Zee knew how to sing until episode 11 when he sang a proposal song at his father's birthday party.

I like the series, a lot of other people like the series. I'm okay with anyone who doesn't like the series but you cannot make a blanket statement about other people.

There is no objectively good or bad

There are people who love Warhol there are people who hate him.

There are people who love Jackson Pollock and people who hate him.

There are people who like Mark Rothko and people who hate him.

And they get millions of dollars per painting. Personally I don't get Rothko, but I did go to a five room exhibit of his paintings at the National Gallery of Art's East Wing with some friends who love him. And the exhibit got extended because it was so popular.

Anyway your opinion is just your opinion, Just like my opinion of Mark Rothko is mine. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Pretty sure he's not dead. This is the dialogue from the coming attractions. "Chakri, I am here to see you about what Prince Wasin said, can you tell me about that?"

I don't think Khanin would say that to a dead person.

It's likely that they are visiting Chita's grave (Charan's mother) given the revelations in episode 12. Could be both mothers for all I know.

If it follows the book there isn't a future king of Emmaly. Khanin, Ava and Ramil decide that Emmaly should be governed by a board with information on trade and finances shared online to the public for the sake of transparency.

I can't remember if you read the book. So I don't want to overly spoil to someone who may not have.

My speculation is they won't hold the fencing match, because in the book the sabotage happened in the fencing match not in this archery competition.

So all that's really left is the resolution about the future of Emmaly's government. And that wouldn't really take more than one episode.

At least in the book there isn't any grand resolution between Ramil/Paytai and Calvin/Jay. And a lot of things that happen in the series didn't occur in the book.

To the extent there is any resolution between those four It happens in the special chapters and is very briefly mentioned.

And there is a lot of stuff in the special chapters that I don't really think they need to go into and would still get a really good outcome.

I don't want to see them do a four episode special for the conclusion of TNP. I thought it sucked in Cutie Pie 2 and wasn't much better In the three episode special of Your Sky of Us.

But since I have no control and no affiliation with Domundi I'll be as surprised as anyone else as to how they decide to conclude the series.

If you saw episode 12 you know that Charan finds out the king was responsible in the scene at the marina. They just don't go into the details there but in the book confrontation after the sabotage they did. I wrote a very very long review also 6 days ago.

Maybe for the sake of not repeating myself a million times when I do my book versus episode 12 comparison tomorrow I will pin all of the other spoilers underneath them, and hope that the people here won't get mad at me for taking up too much space here. 😮

I don't know of a free version of the novel but I will post the link to the copy that I bought tomorrow. I'm going to do a comparison of the book versus the episode 12 of the series. Obviously under a spoiler header.

If you want to Google it it's available on MEB marketplace and it looks like they're having a sale right now. I managed to get it on sale too and I think the conversion came to $26 or $27 USD.

I'm only going to post a comparison for the sabotage scene for now. It's pretty easy to get the book online.

Just Google MEB the next Prince volumes one and two. I'll post a link when I do my comparison tomorrow.

It wasn't mentioned in the series. I hate to keep reposting things I said days ago but this is my post from 6 days ago about what happened to both Khanin and Charan's mothers.

Obviously I wrote this before I saw episode 12.

BTW The King and Wasin were much more horrible human beings than depicted in the series.

I will do a comparison between this episode and the book in a spoiler but not today. I'll try to get it up tomorrow.

Copy of my post from 6 days ago.

Khanin's mother took him to visit her family in Phuchongpisut for a few days (she and Ramil's father were cousins). Charan's mother Chita and Thatdanai were the accompanying Royal guards plus a driver. At the time she was the head of the Pitakdeva Royal guards.

The car was ambushed enroute and Khanin's mother was fatally wounded, but Khanin survived. So the king summoned Thatdanai to take him to England and raise him there. To make the ruse plausible, the king had a villager and his son burned beyond recognition and they were thrown into the car.

So there wouldn't be any witnesses the driver and Charan's mother were killed at the king's order. Thatdanai didn't want to leave Chita alone but he had no reason to believe that the Pitakdeva Royal guards wouldn't assist her. Instead they killed her.

If you remember way back Joe the (spy) fencing instructor, he's about to make an appearance in episode 12 according to the coming attractions. I assume this is to take another shot at killing Khanin.

Thought I'd give you the whole story in one place.

It wasn't mentioned in the series. I hate to keep reposting things I said days ago but this is my post from 6 days ago about what happened to both Khanin and Charan's mothers.

Obviously I wrote this before I saw episode 12.

BTW The King and Wasin were much more horrible human beings than depicted in the series.

I will do a comparison between this episode and the book in a spoiler but not today. I'll try to get it up tomorrow.

Copy of my post from 6 days ago.

Khanin's mother took him to visit her family in Phuchongpisut for a few days (she and Ramil's father were cousins). Charan's mother Chita and Thatdanai were the accompanying Royal guards plus a driver. At the time Chita was the head of the Pitakdeva Royal guards.

The car was ambushed enroute and Khanin's mother was fatally wounded, but Khanin survived. So the king summoned Thatdanai to take him to England and raise him there. To make the ruse plausible, the king had a villager and his son burned beyond recognition and they were thrown into the car.

So there wouldn't be any witnesses the driver and Charan's mother were killed at the king's order. Thatdanai didn't want to leave Chita alone but he had no reason to believe that the Pitakdeva Royal guards wouldn't assist her. Instead they killed her.

If you remember way back Joe the (spy) fencing instructor, he's about to make an appearance in episode 12 according to the coming attractions. I assume this is to take another shot at killing Khanin.

Thought I'd give you the whole story in one place.

I’m almost positive that episode 14 will cover the special episodes since there is hardly anything left of the regular book. Just how Emmaly is going to be governed in the future.

My guess is an episode 13 about the same length as this one, and another extended episode 14 which covers Khanin and Charan’s love life, plus tying up a few loose ends.

You know, Chakri didn’t die because in the coming attractions Khanin is asking Chakri questions about what Wasin said to him. But it’s said with a background video of Khanin and Charan visiting a cemetery to thrown you off.

A lot of what happened was significantly different from the book. The outcome was the same but the motivations were completely different as were most of the background facts.

I'm almost positive that he's okay considering in the coming attractions he's asking Chakri questions about what Wasin said to him about all of this. If he was dead he probably wouldn't be asking him questions. The conversation being shown with a background of the cemetery scene is to throw you off. Pretty sure they're not related. Might be them visiting their mothers in the cemetery who both died the same day. Charan's mother was the Royal guard to Khanin's mother on the day her car was sabotaged.

In the novel no although he was more gravely injured than in the series. And if it makes you feel better his fate in the book was much worse than if he had mercifully died.

He was shot in the back, is paralyzed, can't speak and is thrown into a prison hospital. This prison hospital was designed by the King for psychological torture. Everything in it is white, he is dressed in white, and bright light bulbs are on 24 hours a day. He's not allowed any visitors.

If it was me, I'd rather be dead.

I'm guessing he doesn't die in the series either but we'll know for sure by episode 13.

The exact quote is: "Chakri, I am here to see you about what Prince Wasin said, can you tell me about that?"

See my spoiler above. I'm almost positive the Chakri is not dead.

Also looked at the coming attractions again. I made a post above but in the cemetery scene Khanin is asking Chakri about what Wasin said to him. I don't think Khanin would have asked him questions if he was dead.

My theory is that either Chakri was minorly injured, or possibly the bullet just grazed him and knocked him to the ground and he really wasn't injured at all.

I looked at the coming attractions again. In that cemetery scene the dialogue is Khanin asking Chakri questions about what Wasin said. I'm sure he wouldn't be asking him questions if he was dead.

For all I know the bullet didn't really pierce him and just grazed him causing him to be out of breath and wasn't even injured. We didn't see any blood.