huajaikaungtur said:
Is anyone else finding Ploy and "that-doctor-guy-that's-friends-w/ Toomtam -- don't know his name" very unnecessary?
I don't know, they met and their bickering is cute but I don't know. Too much characters for me, haha.
Right? Like they don't have enough storylines on their plate. I'm assuming the doctor friend is someone from the past, too? I think he's gonna go join Tri and Kaew up north, so I'm wondering what role he plays in the past. He was probably a suitor for Luang Thep's sister, but I'm still not sure where they're going with all this, unless it's to show that all the people who have karma together are together again in the next life.
Faythele said:
If Dararai & Luang Thepp actually slept together while he's still engaged, then it was betrayal from both of them.
No one's denying it was betrayal. Whether Luang Thep loved Dararai first or last, he was betrothed to Yordlah (even if he didn't agree to it originally) when he married Dararai so that's betrayal, and that's what cut Yordlah deeply. Based on that, I have no problem with her anger and resentment towards Dararai. It's just that if Luang Thep had loved Dararai first, even though it doesn't excuse what they did, you can perhaps understand why he betrayed Yordlah instead of thinking he's just some womanizer who went after his fiancee's sister after meeting her briefly (which is what Yordlah thought).
My main issue with Yordlah is that she was willing to believe the worst of Dararai, whom she claims to have loved so much. When the monk - a stranger - told her that the sister she loved put a spell on Luang Thep, there was no hesitation, no initial skepticism that her sister could have done something so heinous. She immediately trusted a stranger's words, so it makes me wonder if Yordlah had always believed her sister capable of such evil actions, or if she's so willing to throw her relationship with her sister under the bus in order to be with Luang Thep because by believing that Dararai cast a love spell on Luang Thep, that made Dararai the evil, conniving one and Luang Thep innocent and blameless for his actions. If Yordlah loved her sister as much as she claims she did, then why is she more willing to believe that her sister would steal her fiance instead of entertaining the idea that perhaps Luang Thep is just an unfaithful womanizer who played with two sisters? If she loved her sister so much, why is Luang Thep's innocence more important to her than her sister's? After all, they both betrayed her, but Yordlah placed more importance on Luang Thep's innocence than salvaging any kind of relationship with her sister.
I suppose the same could be said of Dararai: if she loved her sister enough, why couldn't she step away from Luang Thep? As we've only seen Yordlah's version of the story, we don't know whether she did or didn't, but that isn't important right now because we're supposed to believe Dararai's evil, so she's doing exactly what an evil, manipulative, jealous person would do. It's Yordlah who's coming under fire because it's her story, told from her point of view, and if I am to believe everything she says, her actions and words need to reflect the kind of person she's painting herself to be for us. I felt sorry for Yordlah up until the monk came into the story because the story rang true up until then (I'm still iffy on Dararai going to Khru Basri for the love potion, but as it seems plausible, I'll buy it). After that, Yordlah's story starts falling apart and I have a hard time siding with her. It's like when someone tells you a sad story, but you have a feeling they're lying or embellishing it, so you end up not feeling anything at all. The recurring theme in Yordlah's story/life is that Dararai is to be blamed for everything. I have yet to see her accept blame for anything she did or inadvertently did.
