Mama, u have weird way of protecting your daughter. I can see it, but she can't. So maybe change the tactic here a bit and mix some tlc with strictness.
I absolutely disliked the love story. It felt so one-sided. Really loved Mario and Yaya's chemistry though.
I don't think Kim is capable of loving anyone. I don't know why. Very weak character. Her personality is not one of an egotistical goal driven one. She started with a very meek mewling character who's afraid of her dad and wants his love and trust and her freedom. She was also very trusting. Even when Kla was grumbling and yelling at her from the get-go, she kept saying he's a good man underneath all this which honestly scared me a little thinking it's going on my most disliked route of abusive ahole praek and doormat nagek. But they changed it and got into another totally weird track. Kim didn't love Kla pat from the start, it took her spending time with him to fall for him. At least that's what i thought. But as the story progressed i got more and more confident that she never loved him. It's not possible for a character like hers to become like what she became without a reason not as solid as was of Kla's.
I couldn't understand why she was immediately ready to accept that Kla was bad and didn't even wait to investigate more when she knew what her father was capable of doing. She did this repeatedly.
While Kla seemed like a man who was like a bull though at first but when he loved it was a solid 100. So, he couldn't even see her getting badly hurt when he was taking his revenge.
She thought he will leave her when she miscarried, how? How dare she said to Promphat when he was breaking into Kla's hotel room that he didn't know Kla like she did when after spending time with him and his kind family she so easily believed whatever was fed to her against him by her dad's plans. She saw the sister getting shot on the leg and then on meeting her again she didn't think of probing her more on what she and her family have been through after Kla went to jail and what happened to Kla to make him so bitter. She should have chased after her to find out this truth instead of just spying for all the business stuff. Her attitude throughout was just... uff!!!
The time they gave to Kim's mourning Kla's disappearance in the last episode was much needed before as well when she learnt that he died, for me to believe in Kim's love for him. Though if it was a 25-episode Lakorn and they showed after a 5-7 years leap again Kim is completely over Kla and now with another guy, I'd would've totally bought it. Actually, this makes for a good telenovela story of 100 episodes where they repeat this cycle for every 25 episodes. So, Kim's love can get stronger with each quarterly effort from Kla. I mean I'd never trust a girl like her in love. But luckily for me I am not in love with her. Kla was in a 10-year relationship with a girl before this who fooled him, so he seems like a fool for love kinda guy.
Honestly, I started with not liking Kla and feeling pity for Kim and ended with feeling pity for Kla and absolutely hating Kim. Very badly written love-story. I wanted Kla to be with someone else. Anyone but Kim.
She once said: Men love from 100 to 0 and women from 0 to 100 so she's worried that he'll love her less and less with passing time while she him more and more. Guess she never even started.
They meet after 7 years. Kla is angry because he misunderstands Kim because the circumstances were made like that. He thinks she's the reason he was in jail, she never went to meet him, she dumped him in jail and asked for divorce. So, he's taking revenge.
But what's with kim? I get that she thinks that Kla asked her for divorce and then he died but on meeting him the first thing she thinks is he's a doppelganger of Kla! Then on discovering he's he she just goes to him charging about deceiving her about his death! Like wtf? When did he? It's the people who told you he's dead that lied. You should go ask them first. Then every time she interacts with Kla it feels like she was in jail or something terrible happened to her because of Kla. Is it supposed to be the reaction of a girl who was once so in love with a boy that she was devastated when she learnt about his death. isn't she supposed to be curious about why he hates her or how he got out of jail? or what happened with him in jail? or just cry or be glad that he's alive at least when she's alone, even for 5 mins?! This whole reaction and the following interactions are baffling to me.
Okay i take 70% of the force of my previous comment back. What's wrong with Jet? Why she's to communicate her anger like a chimp? Is she secretly George of the jungle?!
This has the common tropes like horny dad but dad's like treating Jet like a jerk but then also behind her back ordering his squire dude (or whatever capacity he is around him) to start a vengeance cycle with the guys who attacked his daughter. Is he secretly a misunderstood male lead?!
So, after some delay due to hesitations I finally just jumped into this apparent dumpster fire. 7 mins in and Jetiya kicked her stepmon into the pool. I mean I live for these over-the-top theatricals of Lakorns. SO fun!
Why is it called Divided heart? Is it the heart of Nun? Or Jo? Or Jay and Joe's dad? Or all of these?
This Lakorn is offensive on another level. i know this statement is an oxymoron. I mean it's a Lakorn. But it is offensive even for a lakorn. In a subtle not too explicit way. Maybe so can be missed or have the advantage of subjectivity.
1) When i see a story with a typical Lakorn beauty and the beast trope where the nagek gets kidnapped, tortured and raped by the praek while in the process falling in love with him and as a consequence changing him from a beast (cos humans can't do what I just said, only beasts can) to a man proper, I call it the writer's distorted view of disturbing relationship as romance.
2) When i see a praek slutshaming a nagek on even a mere "hi" exchange with a 13 yr old boy while the said praek has been trumpeting around like it's his bread and butter, I call it a genre of writing or a cultural pov.
3) When i see a female character called out implicitly and explicitly by herself and by other characters as "not pure/innocent" "not a better choice over a certain other innocent, naïve and pure girl even for a lecher casanova". in every other scene when she hasn't been even shown close to sleeping with 2 dudes at the same time, I call it a writer injecting his personal misogynistic and "a way of thinking that should not have ever existed" view into the script.
4) When I see a nagek who is declared and campaigned as innocent, naive, "pure", completely so much so that she trembles and shies away from any kind of physical affection showing and the praek needs taking permission to kiss her on the cheek (first time in any lakorn ever though this was obv accidental since this writer will never understand consent and probably wanted to show the end to end encryption of Lukhwa's virginity) sleeping (not that sleeping) with the praek whom she had a crush on for a long time in the same room (cos she trusts him) in a scanty neglige (cos she doesn't know how this is completely out of her so far shown character and dressing choices in other times except when she parties) and the praek who's also the earlier mentioned lecher Casanova leches and drools on her while she's sleeping (honestly, would've preferred an erection which can be involuntary and just a natural and biological reaction sometimes and doesn't present one's character, mik's worst role) and they go on to have a romantic relationship, I call it the writer's mind is a stinky gutter.
I don't expect Lakorns to be logical or respectful towards women or logical but why i love them is because of their over the top entertainment. This one was a snooze fest. The finding whodunnit and revenge-taking was boring the romance was boring. the only interesting story was Nun's though horrifyingly tragic. Her fiancé got murdered, she got raped and killed because she was not a "pure" girl. The decent guy and the interesting girl got killed and the boring girl and potential rapist got a happy ending with each other. Not even complaining about that. The love story was as interesting as watching a page load in a slow internet connection.
If you must be a dick, at least be entertaining.
p.s. not a thisa fan. dont remember even seeing her in anything before. only here for Mik.
Can I just say I just so effing love the Goddess version of orchid. It's so sad that we only get 4 episodes of her. She's so cool and mature and strong in her cold and serious avatar. i think this part of the story could've been a few episodes more. I'd've liked that.
I don't think Kim is capable of loving anyone. I don't know why. Very weak character. Her personality is not one of an egotistical goal driven one. She started with a very meek mewling character who's afraid of her dad and wants his love and trust and her freedom. She was also very trusting. Even when Kla was grumbling and yelling at her from the get-go, she kept saying he's a good man underneath all this which honestly scared me a little thinking it's going on my most disliked route of abusive ahole praek and doormat nagek. But they changed it and got into another totally weird track. Kim didn't love Kla pat from the start, it took her spending time with him to fall for him. At least that's what i thought. But as the story progressed i got more and more confident that she never loved him. It's not possible for a character like hers to become like what she became without a reason not as solid as was of Kla's.
I couldn't understand why she was immediately ready to accept that Kla was bad and didn't even wait to investigate more when she knew what her father was capable of doing. She did this repeatedly.
While Kla seemed like a man who was like a bull though at first but when he loved it was a solid 100. So, he couldn't even see her getting badly hurt when he was taking his revenge.
She thought he will leave her when she miscarried, how? How dare she said to Promphat when he was breaking into Kla's hotel room that he didn't know Kla like she did when after spending time with him and his kind family she so easily believed whatever was fed to her against him by her dad's plans. She saw the sister getting shot on the leg and then on meeting her again she didn't think of probing her more on what she and her family have been through after Kla went to jail and what happened to Kla to make him so bitter. She should have chased after her to find out this truth instead of just spying for all the business stuff. Her attitude throughout was just... uff!!!
The time they gave to Kim's mourning Kla's disappearance in the last episode was much needed before as well when she learnt that he died, for me to believe in Kim's love for him. Though if it was a 25-episode Lakorn and they showed after a 5-7 years leap again Kim is completely over Kla and now with another guy, I'd would've totally bought it. Actually, this makes for a good telenovela story of 100 episodes where they repeat this cycle for every 25 episodes. So, Kim's love can get stronger with each quarterly effort from Kla. I mean I'd never trust a girl like her in love. But luckily for me I am not in love with her. Kla was in a 10-year relationship with a girl before this who fooled him, so he seems like a fool for love kinda guy.
Honestly, I started with not liking Kla and feeling pity for Kim and ended with feeling pity for Kla and absolutely hating Kim. Very badly written love-story. I wanted Kla to be with someone else. Anyone but Kim.
She once said: Men love from 100 to 0 and women from 0 to 100 so she's worried that he'll love her less and less with passing time while she him more and more. Guess she never even started.
But what's with kim? I get that she thinks that Kla asked her for divorce and then he died but on meeting him the first thing she thinks is he's a doppelganger of Kla! Then on discovering he's he she just goes to him charging about deceiving her about his death! Like wtf? When did he? It's the people who told you he's dead that lied. You should go ask them first. Then every time she interacts with Kla it feels like she was in jail or something terrible happened to her because of Kla. Is it supposed to be the reaction of a girl who was once so in love with a boy that she was devastated when she learnt about his death. isn't she supposed to be curious about why he hates her or how he got out of jail? or what happened with him in jail? or just cry or be glad that he's alive at least when she's alone, even for 5 mins?! This whole reaction and the following interactions are baffling to me.
This Lakorn is offensive on another level. i know this statement is an oxymoron. I mean it's a Lakorn. But it is offensive even for a lakorn. In a subtle not too explicit way. Maybe so can be missed or have the advantage of subjectivity.
1) When i see a story with a typical Lakorn beauty and the beast trope where the nagek gets kidnapped, tortured and raped by the praek while in the process falling in love with him and as a consequence changing him from a beast (cos humans can't do what I just said, only beasts can) to a man proper, I call it the writer's distorted view of disturbing relationship as romance.
2) When i see a praek slutshaming a nagek on even a mere "hi" exchange with a 13 yr old boy while the said praek has been trumpeting around like it's his bread and butter, I call it a genre of writing or a cultural pov.
3) When i see a female character called out implicitly and explicitly by herself and by other characters as "not pure/innocent" "not a better choice over a certain other innocent, naïve and pure girl even for a lecher casanova". in every other scene when she hasn't been even shown close to sleeping with 2 dudes at the same time, I call it a writer injecting his personal misogynistic and "a way of thinking that should not have ever existed" view into the script.
4) When I see a nagek who is declared and campaigned as innocent, naive, "pure", completely so much so that she trembles and shies away from any kind of physical affection showing and the praek needs taking permission to kiss her on the cheek (first time in any lakorn ever though this was obv accidental since this writer will never understand consent and probably wanted to show the end to end encryption of Lukhwa's virginity) sleeping (not that sleeping) with the praek whom she had a crush on for a long time in the same room (cos she trusts him) in a scanty neglige (cos she doesn't know how this is completely out of her so far shown character and dressing choices in other times except when she parties) and the praek who's also the earlier mentioned lecher Casanova leches and drools on her while she's sleeping (honestly, would've preferred an erection which can be involuntary and just a natural and biological reaction sometimes and doesn't present one's character, mik's worst role) and they go on to have a romantic relationship, I call it the writer's mind is a stinky gutter.
I don't expect Lakorns to be logical or respectful towards women or logical but why i love them is because of their over the top entertainment. This one was a snooze fest. The finding whodunnit and revenge-taking was boring the romance was boring. the only interesting story was Nun's though horrifyingly tragic. Her fiancé got murdered, she got raped and killed because she was not a "pure" girl. The decent guy and the interesting girl got killed and the boring girl and potential rapist got a happy ending with each other. Not even complaining about that. The love story was as interesting as watching a page load in a slow internet connection.
If you must be a dick, at least be entertaining.
p.s. not a thisa fan. dont remember even seeing her in anything before. only here for Mik.