@Fikachu I saw the same posts probably and the same comments in other spaces online since this lakorn’s FITTING TWO YEARS AGO and I’m honestly annoyed by it. I remember what it was like when they were talking about a sequel after the end of BPS and back then there were loads of comments like: “if it’s not Pope & Bella in the sequel, I won’t watch.” Just like
@bit said… GDH even identify that Pope & Bella is one of the key elements for the BPS brand. Their movie script literally would work for any actor, but they need Pope & Bella to call it BPS.
The same comments appeared last year after Perd Wig. And now I’m also seeing comments like “it’s confusing seeing them in multiple characters… I can’t tell the characters apart,” “the whole drama is just Pope & Bella”. It’s frankly annoying to me that viewers are making such comments while not counting the fact that BPS was Ch3’s most successful work in this decade probably, and PL is now such a huge drama that half of Ch3 is in it. I think these comments aren’t entirely wrong, they just didn’t think them through.
I think at a start making the sons look like Pope seemed like a novelty gimmick that he also agreed on because it’s a challenge he never took on. Just like other actors doing twin characters in lakorn. But as production expanded the channel also realized there’s a risk this would be just a Pope & Bella show that way as well, so I’m sure they revised the script to expand the cast. Sure they can cast senior actors as older Date & Ketsurang, but where will they find the actors of the same pull for that role? Tewaprom is also another massive production filming at the same time, also using senior actors (e.g. Poh Natthawut, Big Sarut, Joy Rinlanee, etc) in the older version of Juthathep characters. There are already netizens criticizing casting of some of those roles. But actors don’t grow on trees and just using random extras for these key roles might disrupt my concentration watching this than the possible confusion of watching a lot of Pope and Bella LOL.
And honestly, like
@bit said, Det & Ketsurang are in their 40’s. People in their 40’s don’t look that old these days.
Pope is literally in his 40’s now! I feel like other actors younger than him have aged faster in the same time period compared to him.
Sorry I really went on a rant for this but these netizens really annoyed me
. I think it’s just too easy for haters to hate on things. But BPS is my most fave Thai drama of all time. To me, helping to make PL succeed is essential in helping Thai drama producers not just make dramas about women fighting over men, adultery, revenge, slapping women etc. This is the only drama I’ve been waiting for, once this drama is over I will go back to mostly ignoring thai dramas until something interesting comes along.
I mean, personally I also think PL might not be as successful as BPS. But it’s worth giving it a chance? Haters gonna hate, and my personal thought is that if they’re that easily confused by the characters on screen then I honestly wonder how they they manage to go through life LOL.
The theme song MV was released just 4 days ago and it’s now had over 500K views. I haven’t closely followed Ch3 dramas for a while but I don’t think this is the usual response these days to their theme song MVs.