Caskaheim

The first episode already finished. It started to air around 8.00-8.30 PM in Thailand. Don't know about in other countries though.

Did the ‘repetitive dialogue’ you mentioned relate to the religious teaching in the series? I wonder if it’s possible that this was meant to get viewers in Thailand to become more exposed or familiar with what Christianity or Catholicism was all about. I guess they produced the series for their domestic viewers as much as for international viewers. The majority of viewers in the show’s country of origin is not Christians, so maybe they did that to put emphasis to help their domestic viewers understand more about the religion, but unfortunately it became repetitive to some others.

With this kind of subject matter, each viewer has different experience and I agree that it didn’t hit each one the same way. On the director’s end, he gave an interview that this was inspired partly by his own experience and some others’ he’d gathered. So I think his execution was based on experiences representing this particular group of people, and how viewers related to or whether it resonated with viewers is another story. As some viewers might have similar experience but some other might not, I think it’s not a surprise that viewers could have different opinions and feedbacks.

As for on my end as a viewer, I’m not a Christian and only have some basic knowledge about Christianity, so I’m not so much familiar with this, probably because I have no first-hand experience with any emotional baggage or religious trauma. I didn’t really lose interest though, as some aspect from this whole thing in the series is kind of relatively new to me. So it wasn't boring for me and I think at least l learned a bit more about Christianity also form the series.

Did a part of this ‘repetitive dialogue’ mostly relate to the father’s words as well? Seems that some of his words could be kind of repetitive but I usually kept listening to him since it's not my religion so I was afraid I'd miss something and wanted to try to understand everything he said, however I still feel that sometimes what he said was subject to further interpretation like he kind of kept beating around the bush and didn’t say exactly what was right or wrong, and I still couldn’t fully get the gist. I heard some saying that if you weren’t a Christian, you wouldn’t understand every aspect of the series completely, and I guess that’s true for me to some extent.

Since I didn’t watch this with Christian experience, I guess I watched it simply as a BL show in general. I agree that this is just not a masterpiece, and it has its own flaws, but overall I think that ‘Ticket to Heaven’ is a pretty good show. This kind of plot is probably nothing new or groundbreaking for viewers from the west in more Christian-based countries, but within the scope of its domestic environment/context of the series’ country of origin, this topic or subject matter is probably kind of something quite new and I still enjoyed watching it.

The director is still catholic, so I guess he wouldn't intend to create anything like such a critique to his own religion. And if the religion turned out to be a villain, I don't think that beautiful church would let them film the series.

I think it's such a good show portraying slices of lives, really like it.

As I said it was mixed, I mean, some ended up together, some did not, and some died. Still feel that it's a such a good show though.

It's kind of mixed.

Oh why did you think that it was a musical at first, what gave you that impression? Can't believe people made comments like "why is he hiding that he's gay?", when in that same time period I believe some Americans did hide that too.

From "To Sir with Love", then "Love in the Moonlight", and the latest, "The Edge of Horizon", hope to see more and more pretty good period pieces coming out.

Then I guess ONE31's lakhon/lakorn drama style is probably your cup of tea.

What is it which gave you a hard time, is it the angst or is it something else...?

I agree Chai is such a fine actor.

I agree I think Pond did such a good job.

Maybe get yourself prepared for twist and turn. Well, I'd say you probably don't need to worry too much and just go for it.

For Thai BL series I think "Duang with You", "Love You Teacher", "Payback", and "Ticket to Heaven" are pretty good this year.

Oh I can’t help hoping for a happy ending. Anyway the fun-fact thing about their names is that Thin's full given name, Thinnakon, means ‘the sun’ and the name Phob means ‘earth’, and the OST’s name is ‘First Light’ mentioning dawn as first light of a new day, so 'The Edge of Horizon' is where they meet.

But then this part of the lyrics like "as long as the sun can still meet the earth at daybreak… even if for a fleeting moment"..., makes me a bit nervous, would this mean that their time together will be little...? Just wish for a happy ending when they can finally end up together.

This is a BL remake of ‘Love Destiny’ from 2018 which is not a BL show but a regular straight lakhon/lakorn drama and became very popular in Thailand at that time. Falcon and Maria did exist in the history and they were part of the story in the 2018 OG ‘Love Destiny’. As it’s a BL remake, it seems that they’ve made several changes from the 2018 OG, they still decided to keep Falcon and Maria like in the OG though.

"I Feel You Linger in the Air", really? I thought it was 'Dee Hub House's. I didn't know that ONE31 joined this production as well.

I guess so. This revolutionary military coup was staged in 1932 in the seventh reign since Bangkok became the capital city of the Kingdom. It was King Prachathipok aka King Rama VII’s reign at the time, and this military mission was executed while the King was away from Bangkok.

In the old days each king usually had many wives and therefore had a lot of children, and that made the royal family big with many princes and princesses. Even though King Rama VII had no children and his brother King Rama VI, the one before him, had only one daughter, the royal family was still big at that time with many princes from previous reign.

I guess Thin’s father, Prince Vasin, was supposedly a grandson of a previous king. At the time the King kind of put his people/relatives who were those princes in government positions across different ministries, and Prince Vasin was just pretty much one of those. You can think of Vasin’s or Thin’s family as just a branch of many royal branch families of the whole big royal family.

This 1932 Siamese revolutionary military coup did happen in the history. You can find some more details from some source like 'Wikipedia' as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siamese_revolution_of_1932

And they both look so good as well.

Why don't you give episode 2 a try. Then if you still don't like it, of course it's totally fine to drop it since it's not your cup of tea.