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I agree that both couples have done such a good job here. Great-Inn and Aou-Boom, they're all good actors, and I like them all here in this show.

I don't really know whether these ranks are translated correctly to their equivalent English counterpart either. For your question I'm not sure if I got it right. As far as I understand about taking orders, government officials were supposed to take direct work orders from their higher-ranked boss within the ministry they worked for. A boss wasn't supposed to give work orders to others who weren't his subordinates under his supervision within the ministry.

In general a government official shouldn't do anything disrespectful to anyone with higher ranks from any ministry, so what Dech's father did to Rati was quite unacceptable. They might have some kind of rule of law to punish those who did such thing which I'm not sure. The only person who could order around anyone to do anything was probably only the King, since the Kingdom was still under the regime of absolute monarchy at that time.

Seems that unfortunately you'll have to be patient until episode 6.

That's right about M.R. and M.L. (in most cases). According to Thai royal titles, the lowest princely title is "Mom Chao", so children and grandchildren of Mom Chao are no longer princes and princesses, but still have some hereditary titles. Children of Mom Chao have the title of M.R. - "Mom Rajawonse". Children of M.R. have the title of M.L. - "Mom Luang". Children of M.L. have no royal title and become commoners.

And then we have the goverment official ranks of those who were government officials, these ranks were not hereditary, they were old-fashioned and no longer existed. If we are to focus among these 4 characters; Dech, Ruj, Rati and Thee, they have different ranks of Muen, Khun, Luang and Phra respectively, each is one level higher than the previous one.

Dech is the youngest with the rank of Muen, lowest rank among these four. His father Ruj's rank is Khun, one level higher then Dech. Rati eanred the rank of Luang (Luang Ratijarupich - Viscount Ratijarupich), one level higher than Ruj. Thee's rank is one level higher than Rati, his rank is Phra (Phra Suratheetamtanapich - Count Suratheetamtanapich).

In this show, the ranks Muen, Khun, Luang, and Phra are translated as Baronet, Baron, Viscount, and Count, respectively.

Yes, and the same director as that of 'Reset: the Rebirth of the Star' as well.

Right, where are those guards Tada used to bring to the movie set?! I need Wenai to come save them right now!

Oh I just watched it which is part 1, and part 2 has already come out but haven't watched it yet. I heard Pond used to go to school in Singapore and Pan went to high school in New Zealand, so that's why they're fluent in English.
And also I've found another Pan&Pond interview of a few months ago from another small channel. The host is Chinese but it was English interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvV2RQHN3PA

I need Weinai to come save them right away!

These roles seemed like created exactly for them. Can't think of anyone else to fit the roles of Tada and Armin better than Pan and Pond at this moment.

The 'Reset' novel has 3 books. So just hope that the next book can be source material for the next sequel to bring Pond and Pan back to work together again.

Also this one, another Pan&Pond interview in English a few months ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvV2RQHN3PA

This show didn't come from GMMTV. It was from IQIYI in collaboration with Broadcast Thai Television, the production house which usually has produced Thai Lakorn/Lakhon or Thai melodramas/soap opera style dramas for years, and that's why over the top overacting can be expected sometimes. This is probably the first BL series from this production house, and it's fun.

Pan and Pond are both my favorite actors. The novel has 3 books, so hope that the next book can be source material for a sequel to bring them back to work together again.

Right, First has done a good job here.

He did say แฟนซัปพอร์ต - fan support.
Thada is such a fan of Armin's, completely in both aspects, two in one as both the fan of the actor and also the boyfriend.

It's true that their acting skills need perfecting for several of them, but not all. Some others are pretty good, like Mile-Apo in "KinnPorsche", Bilkin-PP in "I told sunset about you", Aof-Gun in "Not me", Ohm-Nanon in "Bad Buddy", Jimmy-Sea in "Last Twilight", Bright-Nonkul in "I feel you linger in the air", Est-William in "Thamepo", Smart-Boom in "Top Form", Tor-JJ in "Spare me your mercy", Pond in "180 degree longitude passes through us" and with Pan(Peterpan) in "Reset", Earth-Mix First-Khao Gem.-Fourth and Mark in "Moonlight Chicken", etc. I think they're pretty good actors in those series.

Jaw grab was such dangerous move to tame Hubby. Oh poor Thada, the stern dead-face CEO. whose power could intimidate all his employees in the whole enterprise, but how Armin could give the big boss an order like that was just entertaining.

Thank you for your 'useless knowledge', I appreciate that too. I've read the first book from that link in the 'Discussions' as well. I found Armin in the novel calmer and quite logical like you said. Anyway I like some aspects in the novel which was a longer stretch with many chapters, so Armin's journey back to stardom was kind of explored in more details, like we got ot know about each of his auditions for different movies, what his roles were like, how he acted in each movies, and how he made friends with fellow actors.

At the same time despite more dramatized adaptation to the show, so far I really like the series too with more intensed storyline and passionate chemistry between Thada and Armin. I wonder who poisoned Armin as well and haven't found that in the first book. I like both the novel and the series, and think that they're both fun in their own ways, I haven't found the next book to read online though. I think what we're watching at the moment in the series is just the first book, so I guess maybe they can make another season from the next book too.

I feel like I kind of want more screentime for Pharit.

I noticed what you said about Pharit too. In earlier episode Armin mentioned that they'd never worked together and were rivals. Now that they've become kind of colleagues working together, I wonder whether they'll remain rivals or get along better in this timeline. I wish for more screentime with Pharit's character development so that we can see if they can really build a rapport. It might be an interesting little subplot to explore.

I've read the first book of the novel, and I like how they explored Armin's career with several movies featuring his different auditions and roles in each of them and details about how he managed to act and play each character, and he made friends with some fellow actors too. I feel like this show can actually be longer than 10 episodes if they wanna explore some more in that aspect.

Narin did a good job, he was nice to stand by Thada's side, and also he still wished them well. I feel sorry that he got heartbroken from Thada. In the novel he could finally think of Thada as a friend and I'm glad that he later got his own boyfriend too. And right, a spin-off for Wenai would be nice.

It seemed that we got sweet moments from every episode earlier. Once the drama's getting more intensed, coudn't help thinking that the sweet scenes would kind of step aside a bit to give way to intensed drama screentime. And then came episode 8, as intensed as expected, but wow they still manage to have Thada-Armin's amazing chemistry give us cute sweet moment as well.

Oh poor Thada, the stern dead-face biggest tough boss whose power could intimidate all his employees in the whole enterprise, but when it came to Armin, how Armin could give him an order like that was just entertaining.