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Two years too late....let's go.
Another entry in the ever-growing world of DoMunDy – and an easy target for criticism.
Yet another project that someone clearly believed had to be perfect — so much so that it took almost two years after being announced before anyone dared to actually make it.
Because of that, I see no reason to hold back on my viewing experience or my reaction afterward — and that’s a good thing. I think we all need this kind of project every now and then.
Considering how long this one has been in the works, I really wanted it to succeed. But looking at The Next Prince, I’m afraid it might not. We’ll see to what extent the production company can replicate the success of Khemjira, which as a series seemed to hit the mark.
*EP 1*
+ production quality
- typical subpar attepts at dragging emotions out of audiences
+/- gore/disgusting: + abv avr for horror movies, below avr for Thailand AV
+ thrown into the act / - Start like this, in this specific genre, I am not convinced it is the best start. It is confusing at a place where it should actually explain to us what happened. I am not gonna watch lunatics and gore running around a school for no reason.
- And then again the intro where the credits roll - the dead characters in here are just one and a half point better than the one we have seen in Revamp. I'm just really not a fan of something that looks dead and unalive, even if it is for a series that is about unalive non-human creatures. But yes, the AI-generated colours and the "human hand" helped here. But stil, meh.
- You have there too many "important" characters and something feels off. As if via production quality you really try to give it the impression of being expensive but when the camera goes to main actors it just feels incredibly cheap. To be fair, it's not the worst I have seen from Domundi/Mandee, but...It is still present, and it is as well not the worst I have seen in this genre, so you have plus points in there at least.
+ It starts to feel like a drama. It's not there yet, but it starts at least to be promising.
- The blue night seems to be too blue, and the color palette is just somehow off, as if you were trying to present us young people in military service, but we are watching a zombie series, so what is your focus point here? And it helps to ground the series, but I'm afraid it's too grounded. I don't really like the color palette, even though on and off itself it's not bad, but it just doesn't feel suitable.
Then again, it seems you are trying to ground us more with colors and attempt at atmosphere than with actual explanation what is going on and why. And that's not enough.
- What is even more unsatisfactory for how slow you go? I have the feeling of this being too fragmented. I am not sure you can work properly with big spaces. You know, even that you need to learn for audiovisual language to work.
20/100
*EP 2*
Again, I have this feeling that this gets too slow at places that no one cares about and don't want to see that and that's not a good idea most of the times. I start to have this feeling that nothing stands out in this series which is a problem too.
Don't count on people being used to specifcs of this genre. Even if people are used to this genre, you should still explain it properly. As you know your target audience used to be women (92-95 %) who are after these boy love genre actors and most of them probably don't watch this genre regularly and it might get confusing. So the least you can do is actually explain and introduce all of these aspects properly, fully. Not skim through it.
On the other side, if you know you have there important people that audiences can actually be interested in (90 - 95 % are there bcs of them), you should use it in your advantage and make them the focus points and not giving space of 20 minutes for something that really no one cares about.
+ I think I should thank you for killing someone I don't even care about (?)
20 / 100
*EP 3*
+ I guess they found the magic of silent terror and I think in the department of over-dramatization this one is not the worst.
? Still too many important people.I even dare to say this might work way better atmospheric-wise if they made out of it a regular horror movie, locked them (characters) in a hotel or big house, and then all the running here and there without the disgusting aspects and supernatural, unrealistic, dead monsters running after them. It would make more sense, it would be maybe more interesting.
Off script: Okay, what is even James doing there? I thought he ran away from acting to his brighter future in singing career. So he's like indecisive or what?
- Mostly uninteresting.
20/100
*EP 4*
+ I like here performances of girls and older actors.
- Many of the male actors and their performances are blending tgt.
- There is a significant step /diference between support characters and important characters in acting abilities.
+/-/? I skipped a lot. I did not miss anything.
+/-/? I guess ZNN fans or MaxNet fans must be elated, cause there was another series that we waited for for two years and there is nearly nothing out of these two main company actors, or it is so blended with other situations and characters it is as if they were not present.
*EP 5*
+ Wow, here we go, one potentially homosexual scene. And from none other but our main couple, hooray. It's actually a nice scene, it brings a little bit of humanity into this shitty, unhuman world. It is nice to be here and there reminded of lies and things that d not exist IRL between strangers. 😁
- Which brings me to another problematic part of this. This really did not have to be a series. Give me the material and I will cut it out for you into max two hours, but I believe it's gonna be hour or hour and a half. Not a freaking seven hours. Why? What for?
Okay, we have here even emotional acting. Maybe if you have showed a little bit of this in TNP, the ratings would be much better now. ALAS, it is what it is and it won't be anything else.
Okay, for the last scene, the scene did not make sense at all, so let's pretend it did not even happen.
15/100
+ ..eeehh... good production?
*E6*
Okay, again, queue of distractions, and things that people don't care about, and nothing out of the things that people do want to see, and it intensifies probably for us to disconnect with the story, and not to mourn the fact that it's gonna be over soon. I guess we should not feel like celebrating, right? with other couples, then you have here extra special proof that that's a not good idea. I don't even know why would you test something like that in the first place. However, I guess I would not have to have more warnings than this. Look, it's not that it is bad and we all like these actors and those who we are used to seeing all ar all fine alone as side characters, even if important ones. They kind of work anyways. But all of those that are in current ships, I mean, I'm not the specialist here, so maybe other people will express their opinion on this. I have seen some opinions already in comment section. But... I mean, there are only those few who are, again, vsible/strong enough to make it.
I just wouldn’t experiment with that too much — after all, you’ve built your brand around those couples. Just saying.
*EP 7*
Okay, there is this genre-conditioned issue I have with this series and that is at the beginning of episode 7 I expected much more brutal deaths and there are still too many people alive. I don't like it. It does not sound right.
And then again, for the last 2 minutes, let's not forget to be dramatic, right? The Sophie’s Choice, which kid to kill? Let's kill both babies!
Why would they even try to hold the door .. if they didn’t need to be held in the first place? Then… the whole magic will be forever and for all eternities left unaswered as the eighth wonder of the world that left me... truly speechless.
+ Praise to the mask dep.
After further consideration I give it plus two points for no specific reason but that I just discovered that this is probably not my favorite genre. I mean with werewolves --- no it's still bad but I mean with vampires, there is some hope but like what hope you have when there are just unalive undead whatever un- people running around screaming or gurgling, they are chasing after you, you are running away from them. There is no point in that there is no anything in it, only hopelessness packed in gore and disgust, ... I probably don't like zombie movies, how could I actually like a zombie series. I mean maybe it is still waiting for me to discover.
So there are those two plus points for nothing. (Okay, no, wait a second. I actually remembered two AVs with zombies that I liked. Not the zombies, the movies, I mean.)
Happy now?
Yet another project that someone clearly believed had to be perfect — so much so that it took almost two years after being announced before anyone dared to actually make it.
Because of that, I see no reason to hold back on my viewing experience or my reaction afterward — and that’s a good thing. I think we all need this kind of project every now and then.
Considering how long this one has been in the works, I really wanted it to succeed. But looking at The Next Prince, I’m afraid it might not. We’ll see to what extent the production company can replicate the success of Khemjira, which as a series seemed to hit the mark.
*EP 1*
+ production quality
- typical subpar attepts at dragging emotions out of audiences
+/- gore/disgusting: + abv avr for horror movies, below avr for Thailand AV
+ thrown into the act / - Start like this, in this specific genre, I am not convinced it is the best start. It is confusing at a place where it should actually explain to us what happened. I am not gonna watch lunatics and gore running around a school for no reason.
- And then again the intro where the credits roll - the dead characters in here are just one and a half point better than the one we have seen in Revamp. I'm just really not a fan of something that looks dead and unalive, even if it is for a series that is about unalive non-human creatures. But yes, the AI-generated colours and the "human hand" helped here. But stil, meh.
- You have there too many "important" characters and something feels off. As if via production quality you really try to give it the impression of being expensive but when the camera goes to main actors it just feels incredibly cheap. To be fair, it's not the worst I have seen from Domundi/Mandee, but...It is still present, and it is as well not the worst I have seen in this genre, so you have plus points in there at least.
+ It starts to feel like a drama. It's not there yet, but it starts at least to be promising.
- The blue night seems to be too blue, and the color palette is just somehow off, as if you were trying to present us young people in military service, but we are watching a zombie series, so what is your focus point here? And it helps to ground the series, but I'm afraid it's too grounded. I don't really like the color palette, even though on and off itself it's not bad, but it just doesn't feel suitable.
Then again, it seems you are trying to ground us more with colors and attempt at atmosphere than with actual explanation what is going on and why. And that's not enough.
- What is even more unsatisfactory for how slow you go? I have the feeling of this being too fragmented. I am not sure you can work properly with big spaces. You know, even that you need to learn for audiovisual language to work.
20/100
*EP 2*
Again, I have this feeling that this gets too slow at places that no one cares about and don't want to see that and that's not a good idea most of the times. I start to have this feeling that nothing stands out in this series which is a problem too.
Don't count on people being used to specifcs of this genre. Even if people are used to this genre, you should still explain it properly. As you know your target audience used to be women (92-95 %) who are after these boy love genre actors and most of them probably don't watch this genre regularly and it might get confusing. So the least you can do is actually explain and introduce all of these aspects properly, fully. Not skim through it.
On the other side, if you know you have there important people that audiences can actually be interested in (90 - 95 % are there bcs of them), you should use it in your advantage and make them the focus points and not giving space of 20 minutes for something that really no one cares about.
+ I think I should thank you for killing someone I don't even care about (?)
20 / 100
*EP 3*
+ I guess they found the magic of silent terror and I think in the department of over-dramatization this one is not the worst.
? Still too many important people.I even dare to say this might work way better atmospheric-wise if they made out of it a regular horror movie, locked them (characters) in a hotel or big house, and then all the running here and there without the disgusting aspects and supernatural, unrealistic, dead monsters running after them. It would make more sense, it would be maybe more interesting.
Off script: Okay, what is even James doing there? I thought he ran away from acting to his brighter future in singing career. So he's like indecisive or what?
- Mostly uninteresting.
20/100
*EP 4*
+ I like here performances of girls and older actors.
- Many of the male actors and their performances are blending tgt.
- There is a significant step /diference between support characters and important characters in acting abilities.
+/-/? I skipped a lot. I did not miss anything.
+/-/? I guess ZNN fans or MaxNet fans must be elated, cause there was another series that we waited for for two years and there is nearly nothing out of these two main company actors, or it is so blended with other situations and characters it is as if they were not present.
*EP 5*
+ Wow, here we go, one potentially homosexual scene. And from none other but our main couple, hooray. It's actually a nice scene, it brings a little bit of humanity into this shitty, unhuman world. It is nice to be here and there reminded of lies and things that d not exist IRL between strangers. 😁
- Which brings me to another problematic part of this. This really did not have to be a series. Give me the material and I will cut it out for you into max two hours, but I believe it's gonna be hour or hour and a half. Not a freaking seven hours. Why? What for?
Okay, we have here even emotional acting. Maybe if you have showed a little bit of this in TNP, the ratings would be much better now. ALAS, it is what it is and it won't be anything else.
Okay, for the last scene, the scene did not make sense at all, so let's pretend it did not even happen.
15/100
+ ..eeehh... good production?
*E6*
Okay, again, queue of distractions, and things that people don't care about, and nothing out of the things that people do want to see, and it intensifies probably for us to disconnect with the story, and not to mourn the fact that it's gonna be over soon. I guess we should not feel like celebrating, right? with other couples, then you have here extra special proof that that's a not good idea. I don't even know why would you test something like that in the first place. However, I guess I would not have to have more warnings than this. Look, it's not that it is bad and we all like these actors and those who we are used to seeing all ar all fine alone as side characters, even if important ones. They kind of work anyways. But all of those that are in current ships, I mean, I'm not the specialist here, so maybe other people will express their opinion on this. I have seen some opinions already in comment section. But... I mean, there are only those few who are, again, vsible/strong enough to make it.
I just wouldn’t experiment with that too much — after all, you’ve built your brand around those couples. Just saying.
*EP 7*
Okay, there is this genre-conditioned issue I have with this series and that is at the beginning of episode 7 I expected much more brutal deaths and there are still too many people alive. I don't like it. It does not sound right.
And then again, for the last 2 minutes, let's not forget to be dramatic, right? The Sophie’s Choice, which kid to kill? Let's kill both babies!
Why would they even try to hold the door .. if they didn’t need to be held in the first place? Then… the whole magic will be forever and for all eternities left unaswered as the eighth wonder of the world that left me... truly speechless.
+ Praise to the mask dep.
After further consideration I give it plus two points for no specific reason but that I just discovered that this is probably not my favorite genre. I mean with werewolves --- no it's still bad but I mean with vampires, there is some hope but like what hope you have when there are just unalive undead whatever un- people running around screaming or gurgling, they are chasing after you, you are running away from them. There is no point in that there is no anything in it, only hopelessness packed in gore and disgust, ... I probably don't like zombie movies, how could I actually like a zombie series. I mean maybe it is still waiting for me to discover.
So there are those two plus points for nothing. (Okay, no, wait a second. I actually remembered two AVs with zombies that I liked. Not the zombies, the movies, I mean.)
Happy now?
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