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I never read the book but his declaration of love came out of nowhere. Throughout the rest of the series Thiwthit was doing whatever he could dirty or otherwise to scam his brother out of the leadership role at Crown.

When he sabotaged the proposal, grabbed the ring and put it on his finger I couldn't stop laughing. I have no idea what his motivations were and I'm not sure what his role in the series was except maybe for comedic relief?

He was the kind of guy that should end up talking to inanimate objects on a bench. 😵‍💫

In the book both Ramil/Paytai and Ava barely had any role and also it really wasn't a romance. Out of a 1600 page book they first have sex around page 1200. So if they wanted to make this into a Zeenunew romance they had a lot of work to do.

And while Ava doesn't drop out she is sabotaged so that she loses the fencing match. Not sure that makes much difference.

Plus the outcome in the book was completely different than the outcome in the series. In the book there was no more monarchy and in the series Tharin becomes king.

I think the changes were made to make it a little bit more character centric and it worked in some places didn't work in others.

The one area in which I think the series was way better than the book was that there was the expectation that Charan and Khanin will assist the king In the future with the pollution crisis. Whereas in the book both of them completely dropped out of anything to do with the new government.

Most of the audience that watches a series with Zeenunew is looking for a romance. And the book had very little of that. Even the series had a whole lot less of it than Cutie Pie.

I'm not even sure why Aof had this book written because it wasn't the right vehicle for the MLs, and then they had to redo everything in an attempt to make it into a romance.

IRL yes. In Reset, no.

I thought the NC scenes were relatively horrible although I did think the couple had good chemistry outside of the bedroom.

It's hard to do a good time travel plot and this series did not do a good job. There was some things that just made me LMAO which I think weren't intended to do that.

For instance when Thiwthit ambushed Tada's proposal, grabs the ring and sticks it on his finger? I almost died laughing. When did he ever say he was in love with his stepbrother? There is such a thing as plot development.

I give the producers brownie points for trying an innovative plot outside of the usual BL trope, but it wasn't well done and I found it mostly confusing.

It took me 5 hours to get through the first episode and 3 hours for the second one, with a lot of that time leaving the show on pause while I took a Tylenol. I only continued to the end because everybody else loved this show so much. Unfortunately I wasn't one of those people. Reset gave me a headache.

That's because the entire dramas OST was comprised of two songs.

Honestly, I had a hard time getting through it.

Prang Prangthip (name w/ English alphabet) x Keng Harit
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Not for DMD productions especially those with Zeenunew. Apparently they have haters. Don't know why.

Best thing to do is to start watching the show and see if you like it.

That's what I do. And if It turns out I hate the show I just drop it. But I won't come back to a discussion list with my hate 14 weeks in a row like people do here.

At most I would make one review, rate the series, indicate I dropped it and that would be it.

I'm in the US so I don't know what IQIYI Thailand does.

BTW, there are two MDL pages for TNP, this one and the page for the uncut version. Rating there is 8.1.

You can decide not to have a relationship with actual relatives. I don't understand what you're saying.

Never said otherwise. But I don't understand how you could consider the Net and JJ (ie Calvin and Jay) storyline interesting since it was almost non-existent.

I watched all 10 episodes of Reset and all 14 episodes of TNP.

I haven't watched either of them more than one time. I will probably give TNP a rewatch because I enjoyed it and unlikely I will give Reset rewatch because I didn't.

Edit. And the son of your father's wife is your stepbrother.

What that tells me is there a lot of haters of DMD. TNP was the number one rated show for the 14 weeks that it aired.

And I don't think Reset was horrible but it was convoluted. It wasn't a fun watch for me as you can see in my comment above. I haven't rated it because I'm not sure what I think of it.

I understood the plot to TNP. King is dying and historically winning a fencing competition between the sons of the heirs determines who will be the next king. But there is a secret. Years ago there was an ambush on one of the heirs sons and he was secreted away to England. He comes back to secure his father's place on the throne and in the meantime he falls in love with his bodyguard.

We have no idea what the Reset plot is until the last couple of episodes. Starts out with Armin being a top celebrity and getting poisoned with some champagne on the night that he finds his boyfriend in bed with his best friend. He is devastated, falls off the staircase balcony (or did one of them push him off the balcony), and he dies. Throughout his career he's had this creepy stalker he's never met who plans to meet him for the first time that night but he dies first.

Armin wakes up back in 1999 when he was a starving artist. He can't figure out the purpose for this. Was he supposed to get revenge? Was he supposed to change the trajectory that led to the early death of his Aunt? Was it supposed to be something else?

It takes him till episode 6 to even figure out that TD is his former stalker now love interest Tada, when even the audience figured that one out right away.

We never know exactly what the relationship is between Tada and his younger brother Thiwthit. Is he his half brother, his stepbrother? All we know is that he's crazy and that the two of them are rivals for the ownership of Crown.

Throughout the episodes Armin is confused why things aren't happening in his past like they did before, and quite frankly as the audience we are confused too. And we don't find out until so late in the series that we've almost given up trying to figure it out.

So what happens?

Tada the creepy stalker from his prior life is actually the man he's meant to love.

His boyfriend Charlie in 2025 was not the one he was meant to be with and we find out Armin never loved him (even though he said he loved him in his first life). I guess this is supposed to excuse Charlie sleeping with Armin's best friend.

Thiwthit is apparently in love with Tada so obviously the right thing to do in their reset life is try to kill his lover Armin, and grab the ring Tada had planned to propose with that night and stick it on his finger all while giggling out of control. He gets the prize for most deranged human in the series which says a lot considering Armin's love interest was a stalker in his previous life. And let's just hope that Thiwthit is Tada's stepbrother to make it just a little bit less creepy.

And after all of this mess we find out that Thiwthit poisoned the champagne in Armin's first lifetime, although we can't quite figure out why since Tada and Armin were not lovers then.

Honestly my favorite characters were Veynai and Janine. Veynai's random English lines seem to be nothing more than to highlight the fact that the actor is a native English speaker from the US. But it was funny. And Intanont (Janine) is just funny period.

Which leaves us in 2025. Our former stalker and Armin are happily married and Thiwthit is talking to inanimate objects on a bench in the insane asylum. The end.

Never been so confused in my life. I had a huge headache after watching this.

So I've just wasted 12 paragraphs trying to explain Reset and I'm still not sure I did it right. One paragraph for TNP.

Out of bed yes, in bed no. We all have opinions and this one is mine.

There are lots of other couples I thought had chemistry in BLs, my favorite outside of Zee and NuNew was Mew and Gulf in Tharn Type.

There are not many BLs I will watch more than once and Tharn Type is one of them, both seasons whereas I only think the first Cutie Pie is worth rewatching.

I also think Max and Nat have really good chemistry both in and outside of a bedroom. I preferred Naughty Babe, silly as it was, to Cutie Pie 2.

I did watch it. I give it brownie points for picking a new topic for a BL. Directors are trying to get fresh scripts rather than the usual rom-com or college engineering students falling in love.

For all its faults I preferred the TNP storyline. And of course with Zee and NuNew being an established BL couple they had easier chemistry, although I'm not sure they will ever surpass Cutie Pie on that front.

The MLs in Reset were a new pairing and I don't know how much acting experience either of them have because I'd never heard of them before. So I give them grace for not being comfortable ripping their clothes off and rolling around on a bed with a stranger. In the non-NC scenes I thought they had believable chemistry.

DMD holds months long workshops before they do their series which gives new couples a better chance to get comfortable with each other. If you did watch TNP you would have to have noticed the very good chemistry between Jimmy and Ohm (Ramil and Paytai) who were a first-time pairing in the series.

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It was more than I expected for resolution between a second couple. But if I was watching the series for Ramil Paytai like you were I would have been disappointed too.

They were two abused souls disappointed by both of their families. Ramil finally found the wherewithal to walk away from his creepy abusive father and find Paytai on the beach.

They each know that the only person who loves them is each other and you just hope that they have the emotional strength to make their relationship grow given that they've never been shown love from anyone else in their lives.

Out of everybody in the series Khanin is the one and only character who had a loving childhood. And the irony is that he wouldn't have had one if he didn't have a crazy royal family of murderers and a grandfather who forced one of his guards to raise him in England so that he could use him to maintain power over the kingdom when he grew up.

I had the hardest time getting through Reset. It took me 5 hours just to slog through episode 1 and 3 hours for episode two. I kept at it because everybody liked it so much.

The time travel aspect didn't make much sense and I'm a big time travel fan which is another reason why I kept with the series.

The high point was the emotional connection between the MLs even if Tada started out as a creepy stalker pre the Reset. They could have done without those NC scenes which were very mechanical.

It has the same budget as TNP did. Right around 100 million baht.