ahahaha, i've been reading this and can't help but contribute! i'm new here but definitely not new to thai lakorns.
i'm kinda lost as to what number ya'll are on, so i'll just be listing them. sorry if some are repeated.
- the parent(s) of the poor main character (usually nang'ek's mom) is ill, will become ill, or just plain so dirt poor, so the daughter must find work that will get her large sums of money as quickly as possible (so this would lead to working with pra'ek or someone pra'ek knows)
- in a musical lakorn, the leading actress can't sing for crap (it ruins the whole lakorn, not to say it would be any more better without it)
- nang'ek is so clueless and gullible (the bad people are always smarter). being stupid doesn't make you innocent. it's not a good quality for a leading character if that's not what the lakorn is about.
- it takes forever to solve or find something out. so many things working against them.
- the nang'rai finds ways to humiliate nang'ek, but it ends up backfiring
- the bad girl is so good at being annoying. the way she talks, the way she moves her mouth, and her facial expression (it's hard to imagine her in any other way in real life)
- it's never obvious that the bad girl has bad intentions. everyone believes her.
- if nang'ek and pra'ek get along in the beginning, it won't be long before something causes a misunderstanding
- if nang'ek won't defend herself, her friend(s) will for her.
- when pra'ek tells nang'ek to "stop" or "wait" as she's about to walk away, she will stop, even if she's furious.
- when pra'ek is drunk, nang'ek fetches a bowl of warm water and towel and wipes him down.
- the bad girl never gets the hint that pra'ek isn't interested in her.
*no one's mentioned boran lakorns yet (probably because y'all don't wanna waste your time. good decision.)
- bad acting
- bad special effects
- either pra'ek or nang'ek (or both) is of royalty
- pra'ek has a posse consisting of an animated character (and whatever the animated character is saying, it never corresponds to the movement of the mouth), one other human, and a half-man half-human type creature (and it has a signature sound that it makes)
- pra'ek always leaves his royal palace
- the bad girl will cast pra'ek under a spell so he will fall in love with her
- the villain is hard to kill
- pra'ek's mother, usually the king's wife, will be kicked out of the palace and must live in the forest/wood/jungle, whatever
- someone is always in need of rescue
- the villain always wants nang'ek
- the traditional, boran style of clothing has changed. no one puts their hair in a bun anymore and the gods are looking more and more like greek/roman gods and pra'eks have capes like superman
- the series are long for no reason (they probably just want to make it long like chinese series)
- in a single episode, nothing could be going on. just some walking around, crying, screaming, and more bad acting and effects.