I actually like Great as much as Pope. I always thought Great deserved better roles but they often end up just using him to push newbie actresses and the dramas are normally not good enough for me to endure watching him act with people who can barely act.
I am just heartbroken that this drama, in which Pope & Bella devoted so much of their time and energy to having to play multiple characters but the drama is not doing them justice. I don’t need a perfect p’ek/n’ek character. I don’t believe Pope is obsessed with playing perfect characters or characters that only make him look good either. Both he and Bella have shown they’re not afraid to look silly, or play flawed characters.
But the role of Rid has been to set up to fail from the beginning! In all my long-winded posts here it’s clear how I’ve often tried to give the production the benefit of the doubt for every questionable script decision they’ve made. But now my goodwill and patience has run out. And I’m entitled to this anger. I’ve only been waiting for this drama for 5 years.
This is supposed to be an epic love story, but I cannot see how or why two such opposite characters like Rid or Puttan would love each other. I cannot see why Puttan would choose to stay in Ayuthaya, and why Rid would insist on her staying if he’s not even going to do the smallest thing to show that he’s trying to stay with her. I can understand that the obstacles are stacked against him. Which is why I think that Rid should just choose to let her go, and he himself accept his fate that he is not meant to be with her in this life. And not marry for the rest of his life - as he told his brother! Did the scriptwriter forget that!? His character is not consistent from one ep to another.
The obstacles in his way are so heartbreaking that he could only sit and cry. What is the point of writing all these elements in the story just to have p’ek descend into madness like this and accept his fate?
Now Puttan has chosen to stay, only to face this fate. Great & Bella did well in that scene, but I’m sorry, the scene is just one of the most unrealistic scenes IMO. Even in the modern era, no one would dare to talk to the king like that let alone in that era. It makes sense that Puttan does this because she has already thrown away her previous life in the modern era, and has nothing else to lose now. It’s her only chance to fight for happiness or accept that she’s going to die anyway.
But at this point if she can do anything , what does she need Rid for?
I think the show is trying to make it look like the king is angry with Rid for not telling him first about him and Puttan, since they’re supposed to be close like brothers. But if they’re supposedly so close, why did he issue the royal decree regarding Prae Jin without asking Rid first? And basically everyone around them knew that Rid likes Puttan - their servants, his family, Ming, In and I’m sure Thongkam also knew by consequence. So he couldn’t sense it? When they went on that trip together and Rid became Puttan’s assistant chef basically? Isn’t the show basically making the king look stupid too?
And while I still am so pissed, why are Mae Klin & Mu Song still appearing in the show?!
Thank you everyone for bearing with rants. If I had kept all this inside, I think I would have developed stomach ulcers from my frustration.
But live views looked high yesterday, so I assume Ch3 would already be happy with the ratings they got and not care about viewers’ opinions.