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Badass Male Lead and Strong Female Lead
If you want to watch a lakorn with some romance, comedy, action, fantasy, and crime, this is the one! This lakorn is high on my lakorn re-watch list and probably one of my top 20 all-time favorite lakorn. I mean it's not something we haven't really seen before in lakorn world, but it's something that is done right. We got good vs. evil, nang rai, fighting for the top, forced marriage, every girl likes the main lead, twins separated at birth, rich twin vs poor twin, etc. That's all for vague spoilers. If you don't want specific plot spoilers, skip the ending section, "Overall" where it has my likes and dislikes.
STORY
Petch is engaged to the lieutenant, but she doesn't want her life to be tied down yet. She sneaks out to meet the lieutenant to ask him to break the engagement. On her journey, Petch gets entangled with Suer Pa, the infamous bandit. Suer Pa's is to competing with his brother to become the next village leader. Their mission was to rob the lieutenant's house and retrieve his most prized possession. As he believed that Petch's title as the lieutenant's fiancee had more value than physical goods, he kidnapped her. This starts their journey of a forced marriage filled with fun, laughter, action, some mystery, and romance. Watch the lakorn to see how Petch, the duchess, deals with a new environment. On the flip side, we get a look into the life of Suer Pa, an adopted bandit, who has more to him than meets the eye.
ACTING/CHARACTERS/CAST
Round of applause for the two main casts. Mike and Mook are definitely on my radar after this lakorn. I have never seen their other works before, and I think they did exceptional in here. Usually, when it's my first time watching an actor or actress, I get kind of skeptical of what I may be getting into. However, this wasn't one of those lakorns!
If you like a female lead that's not a damsel in distress all the time or really weak, Petch is one of them. While she wasn't a tough female lead, she still stood her ground and fought for what she believed in. This was the reason why she got stuck in her predicament in the first place. She tried to be scheming, but she could never outsmart Suer Pa. It was funny how she claims she can shoot a gun and all these other things, but we didn't get to see her in action.
The leading man cracked me up a lot more than I thought I would. I thought this was going to be a serious drama, but their little banters got me going. I was smiling like an idiot a lot. He is quite the gentleman, and my heart couldn't take it half of the time. From the beginning till the end, he was trying to do good for all and help her.
I've come to love some of the village's side characters a lot more than the second lead couple. In some ways, the second lead couple kind of bored me. Like it felt forced for them to become a couple for the sake of it because she liked him, and he is now fiancee-less. That or I didn't feel any chemistry between them.
MUSIC
Personally, the music in the lakorn did not stand out for me.
RE-WATCH VALUE
I don't tend to re-watch a lot of lakorns because lakorns are so lengthy already. I think it has re-watch elements such as good story development, the chemistry between leads, character development, and memorable moments.
OVERALL (contains spoilers)
No rape scene between the leads! At least from what I recalled, it was rape free. One important aspect to why I enjoyed this lakorn was how everything these characters faced, pushed them to question their duties, roles, and dreams/wants, and not just follow the rules. There was more to their actions than just what's written in the script and them acting according to the script with these lifeless characters. I think the whole magic thing was well intertwined into the lakorn without feeling out of place. Also, it didn't feel cringey to watch.
The lakorn didn't drag too much for me, and there weren't that many unnecessary fillers. I'd say the failure to take down evil did take a while to lead towards the climax. Even understanding why some aspects of the past took place didn't get explained till later. How the police force didn't succeed even with help was kind of ridiculous to me. However, I overlooked it because I wasn't pulling my hair over unnecessary scenes. It was a lakorn where I didn't drag the skip button because I couldn't sit through it.
STORY
Petch is engaged to the lieutenant, but she doesn't want her life to be tied down yet. She sneaks out to meet the lieutenant to ask him to break the engagement. On her journey, Petch gets entangled with Suer Pa, the infamous bandit. Suer Pa's is to competing with his brother to become the next village leader. Their mission was to rob the lieutenant's house and retrieve his most prized possession. As he believed that Petch's title as the lieutenant's fiancee had more value than physical goods, he kidnapped her. This starts their journey of a forced marriage filled with fun, laughter, action, some mystery, and romance. Watch the lakorn to see how Petch, the duchess, deals with a new environment. On the flip side, we get a look into the life of Suer Pa, an adopted bandit, who has more to him than meets the eye.
ACTING/CHARACTERS/CAST
Round of applause for the two main casts. Mike and Mook are definitely on my radar after this lakorn. I have never seen their other works before, and I think they did exceptional in here. Usually, when it's my first time watching an actor or actress, I get kind of skeptical of what I may be getting into. However, this wasn't one of those lakorns!
If you like a female lead that's not a damsel in distress all the time or really weak, Petch is one of them. While she wasn't a tough female lead, she still stood her ground and fought for what she believed in. This was the reason why she got stuck in her predicament in the first place. She tried to be scheming, but she could never outsmart Suer Pa. It was funny how she claims she can shoot a gun and all these other things, but we didn't get to see her in action.
The leading man cracked me up a lot more than I thought I would. I thought this was going to be a serious drama, but their little banters got me going. I was smiling like an idiot a lot. He is quite the gentleman, and my heart couldn't take it half of the time. From the beginning till the end, he was trying to do good for all and help her.
I've come to love some of the village's side characters a lot more than the second lead couple. In some ways, the second lead couple kind of bored me. Like it felt forced for them to become a couple for the sake of it because she liked him, and he is now fiancee-less. That or I didn't feel any chemistry between them.
MUSIC
Personally, the music in the lakorn did not stand out for me.
RE-WATCH VALUE
I don't tend to re-watch a lot of lakorns because lakorns are so lengthy already. I think it has re-watch elements such as good story development, the chemistry between leads, character development, and memorable moments.
OVERALL (contains spoilers)
No rape scene between the leads! At least from what I recalled, it was rape free. One important aspect to why I enjoyed this lakorn was how everything these characters faced, pushed them to question their duties, roles, and dreams/wants, and not just follow the rules. There was more to their actions than just what's written in the script and them acting according to the script with these lifeless characters. I think the whole magic thing was well intertwined into the lakorn without feeling out of place. Also, it didn't feel cringey to watch.
The lakorn didn't drag too much for me, and there weren't that many unnecessary fillers. I'd say the failure to take down evil did take a while to lead towards the climax. Even understanding why some aspects of the past took place didn't get explained till later. How the police force didn't succeed even with help was kind of ridiculous to me. However, I overlooked it because I wasn't pulling my hair over unnecessary scenes. It was a lakorn where I didn't drag the skip button because I couldn't sit through it.
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