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I really liked it and I am ok with the main leads not getting together right in the first few episodes since it makes it more realistic and their feeling seem more sincere but did it have to take THAT long? I liked almost all of it but by the last 2 episodes which is like the last 4 hours of the drama, I was getting tired. The ending was ok, but I was not satisfied. I needed more.

So overall it’s a pretty good drama, a light watch compared to most thai dramas and it also managed to stay away from a lot of clichés. Not amazing, but pretty good. I definitely recommend it.

I honestly could not pity him even after the last episode, he was dumb and acted like an idiot for most of the drama. The female lead was just too good for him. She was very mature in the way she viewed life and people while he was selfish and childish and only cared about his revenge and nothing else. Although I just wanted everyone to be happy in the end, in the back of my mind I kinda wished she forgave him but did not go back to him, at least for like a few years, so he could really have some time to think about the mess he made and learn with his mistakes. I don’t think he had enough time alone to deeply regret what he did.

Anyway, I am already prepared for this kind of thing when I watch lakorns. I still keep watching them but they probably will never be my favourite kind of drama because the thai culture shows men as individuals that can pretty much do everything from having several wives to raping and beating up and its ok, while women just have to endure it and forgive and forget, and that kind of gets on my nerves. Guess being a woman myself doesn’t help.

Not as bad as I thought it would be before I even decided to watch it, not as good as I expected after watching the first few episodes or so.

They managed to stay away from some clichés but fully embraced others and the male lead made me feel frustrated most of the time. I honestly think the female lead was too good for him. Not saying she had no flaws but she seemed a lot more mature in the way she viewed life and other people than him. He was very selfish and quite childish too. I can understand (although I do not support) characters wanting to get revenge at their enemies, people who directly hurt them or someone they love, but wanting to get revenge at someone who did nothing to hurt you or the ones you love, neither directly nor indirectly, and when that person happens to be the woman you love and your revenge puts at risk your relationship, then I am sorry, but that is not even being selfish or childish anymore, it is just dumb.

P.S. - I will not consider my comment a spoiler since the synopsis up there clearly says "and Kangsadan will be the first person he takes revenge on", although, to be honest, the synopsis is not accurate.

Definitely. This one is misleading. I thought I was going into a drama heavy on romance when that is only a very small part of the story.

Being in the mood for romance I was extremely disappointed. I thought romance would be at least one of the main plots but it was no more than a sub plot. The female lead did not appear for entire episodes and I can count on my fingers how many times both main leads appeared on screen together. It might be a great drama if you’re looking for something else, but, if like me, you were fooled by the cover picture and the Romance genre, you are setting yourself for disappointment. I am not saying there was no romance at all, but it was so little for 48 episodes of story that it might as well had none.

So far I find the cover picture and Romance genre misleading as I am up to ep 12 and there hasn't been much romance, the female "lead" barely appears in some episodes and I think there were 2 or 3 she did not appear at all, and it has been only 12 eps. I wonder if the entire drama will be like this: not having both leads appear together in the same scene.

That’s ok. I too did not know what a lakorn was until I started watching them.

Wow, I had to pause the first episode at 20 mins or so just to say that never a drama made me dislike a female lead so much in such a short time. But I guess that’s what they are going for, it’s her character. Now let’s go back into it and see how she is going to suffer from the consequences of her own actions.

I personally would have removed the fantasy element and then put together the first half of the drama with about 10 episodes of the second half and a different ending, which honestly would have been different anyway without the fantasy element, and then this drama would have been my cup of tea.

But since I was not the one who wrote the plot, I can only say I liked the start and about half of the drama (the first part) then started skipping around in the middle part, then started enjoying it again around episode 36 until the end but with some moments I felt like fast-forwarding again. I did not like the ending, but did not hate it either. I would definitely not re-watch the whole thing, but maybe some of my favourite scenes.

This was a lot darker than I imagined. The romance was also not my cup of tea. I will definitely not watch it again.

I have been waiting over a year for this to get subbed so I can watch it. Today I decided to watch the episodes that are subbed to see if I like it and now I feel dumb. Not because I liked it a lot and now have to wait for the rest to get subbed but because I could not get into it at all and have been waiting all this time for something that I do not even want to keep watching.

Comparing to other dramas in a similar time period or with similar elements, this one is far behind. I am sad to say this, but the only positive thing I saw in this was the choice for the main actors. I was quite bored watching their missions and felt a lot of things were not realistic at all, from the visual effects to the impossible devices and tricks that completely ruined any chance of this looking like a serious drama. I skimmed through the raw episodes on youtube just to know how it ends and honestly I do not regret dropping it.

Lakorn is the name given to a thai drama. So when I said it was a lakorn I meant it was just another thai drama with the same clichés and frustrating situations and characters most thai dramas have.

To be honest, although it has been only 2 months I barely remember what this show was about. I have since watched dozens of other dramas and since I did not find this one memorable I cannot even remember why I disliked it in the first place. But yeah, when episodes are cut down or more episodes are added to a drama, it usually ends up ruining the whole show. People dislike both rushed endings and dragging plots.

Yeah, I know. I am waiting for all the episodes to be subbed on youtube before I start watching it.

I just watched that scene. It’s in episode 16. He and his study companion are coming back from the restaurant where he went to learn how to cook a dish that is good when you have a cold since his wife is sick and he wants to cook for her. They see a fight outside the restaurant, a woman hitting her husband cause he is having an affair, and the study companion says it’s normal for a man to have 3 or 4 wives and asks him if his wife would react the same way if he had a concubine. That is when the male lead says those words. I personally was also pleasantly surprised by them.

Yeah, it was hard for me to find a way to watch it but I eventually found it. Just had to watch 2 or 3 episodes without subtitles in the SBS website and the others I was able to watch with subtitles although some were out of sync. Thank you anyway for replying. :)

Now that I have finished watching it, they actually only merge in episode 29. Before that there are just some vitality transfers that allow the 8th Prince to see some of MLC memories.

The first half made me think this would be better than the first one but in the second half there were a lot of politics and less romance compared to the first season. The ending made it obvious that there would be a 3rd season but it was more satisfying than the ending of the 1st one. So overall both seasons were good with its differences.

Just as I thought, it did not get much better. Even by the end I was not convinced that their love was genuine. Also the characters Ploy and the female lead’s mother were extremely annoying. I will probably forget about this one in no time. Nothing memorable.

Sure. I have to think about it for a while since I have not watched a lot of historical dramas recently. What kind of drama do you like?And do you only watch chinese dramas or also watch korean dramas?