[Kiss*Me]

Sherrie, on 27 September 2011 - 12:32 PM, said:

It finally ended...it kind of got boring and the ending wasn't as satisfying as the older version with Ann and Saranyu plus I love Saranyu's voice when he sang that one song that they use for the opening.

Here's Zen the star and Gotee acting as Maneejan and Khun Luang. lol, I find it hilarious to watch.

LOL I have to watch this version; Maneejan in this version already made me lmao!!!!

[sparklinwishi]

i cant believe it, that it end...lol....i think they must cut some parts to end it in epi 17....i haven't prepare yet and when i watch it, it already have the word end on epi 17..i was like OMG!!!...but i do love mamnee and khun luang, i hope they'll have a modern lakorn together!!...

[Sunny]

I've decided since it was hard for me to give a star to this lakorn since I truly did fall in love with Khun Luang & Mae Manee I have decided to rate or give a star to each 17 episodes that have aired with my opinion and than add and average it that way to get an overall out of 5 stars that I normally give some lakorns that I watch and I review and rate.



Firstly who would have thought the pairing of Om & Pancake in a classic remake of Tawee Pope 2011 would make me smile and fall in love with the characters and storyline. I watched the version with Sunrunyu and Anne Tawee Pope 1994 and loved it, the storyline was carefully lay out about a young woman who got sucked into a mirror that she had a connection with and into the past, into a new whole world where she met her heroic gentlemen and found love, culture, tradition, history, a new life, new friends and new family.

For Tawee Pope 2011, the pairing of both Om & Pancake was a frizz, for one to me I believed Om was too young to be Khun Luang and Pancake had too much of a different look to be Mae Manee, but since its a whole new generation everything and anything has got to be possible, this version cannot be compared to the 1994 version because it had a totally new storyline, new concept, 70% new script, locations, characters and a whole new love story. Sure it had similarities but each characters now has carry and show a whole new trait to each, especially our charming, calm and greedy Khun Luang Thep and our monkey like but cheerful and hard working beautiful Mae Manee Jun. The setting, music and clothes were impressive enough, the wedding scene was just amazing, those kind of wedding is rare to see now a days.

It is not often that we will see a lakorn where the leads have little skin ship scenes but we know how they feel and how much in love they are without those scenes and we can feel it within, there was no physical forces like how lakorns now often contain them, there were no screaming bad girl or scary bad guy that threaten the lives of the leads, everything in this lakorn was gently delivered as in it was not stressful yet enjoyable, this lakorn when it airs, it sucks you right into its period and we will fall in love and get struck right into their characters.



Khun Luang has a deep voice, every time he calls Mae Manee, he remind me of the movie Mae Nak, where Mae Nak calls her husband p'Mak which is scary but here I try to drill in my head that when Khun Luang calls Mae Manee it is sweet and very moment filling and in the end I did very much fall in love with how he always called her 'Mae Manee jaa' those eyes he would give her just melt me into pieces! His characters for his generation he lives in is pretty much unrealistic, someone of his level of study and work to not be interested in any women in his era and awaits in front of a mirror and dream of a young woman has every reason to fall in love with Mae Manee. For Khun Luang who has not looked at other women will surly develop some feelings for a woman who jumps right into his bedroom no matter day or night. His feelings for her grew because they often dream of each other before, they end up spending time together, they have the same interest and aim, which was to help and improve the Siam country, they got to learn and study about each other because of the work and because they lived together, something which will never happen in that generation. His love for her grew and it turned into selfish love, greedy love that he is willing to keep her in his time and not let her go back home as he is scared that she will never return, forgetting all that she has family and friends over her side as well.



Mae Manee or Mandy, a girl who has everything in the modern world but is struggling to find a place where she feels like she belonged and can call home. Got sucked into the past world where she discovered a sense of belonging and where she can use her skills to help and her personality to brighten up this new world. She was a girl who can easily learn and easily adapt to a new place, she was out-going, cheerful and bright, she knows that her dream was to serve and help the country, she was friendly and is faithful. Mandy left her real world, give up her real love with her boyfriend for Khun Laung who she doesn't even know for sure will be real or not, who she might end up just waiting in front of the mirror forever because their situation just seem so unreal but she did and she was willing to end up alone if she was never given a chance to stay with Khun Luang. Her character at times may seem crazy, too overly cheerful and not good enough but that was what made her stood out, that was what made everyone fall for her charm because she was different from everyone in that era.



Episode One: A good introduction to all characters in the modern world, a quick in sight into Manee's daily dreams and how she got a hold of the mirror and got sucked into it at the end of the episode and meet with Khun Luang and discover that Khun Luang too have some connection to her because he has kept one of her earring under his pillow when she first visited. We got to know a little bit of Manee's friends and relationship, her feelings of the world she lived in and how much she finds it hard to fit into the social that she was put in. The episode was straight to the point, all the scenes was relevant for further episodes and every scenes was interesting to watch.
Rating: 5 out of 5



Episode Two: Another absorbing episode with comic scenes between both worlds, we see more of the past world and the development of the leads impression of each other. Here we are introduced to the reason why Manee gets taken into the past world, is to help Khun Luang out with the country crisis in that period.
Rating: 5 out of 5



Episode Three: The friends are suspecting something is odd with Manee and Manee is doing all she can to investigate and history to help Khun Luang, the leads are showing bits of feelings towards one another.
Rating: 4.5 out of 5



Episode Four: Manee have gone out of her way and have decided on her fate in this episode, leaving her friends concert show and totally rejecting Raiwat. Khun Luang too have decided by rejecting his future to be wife in his generation. Both will await for each other in their own generation. Introduction to new characters in Khun Luang period as well.
Rating: 4.5 out of 5



Episode Five: Shows jealously from Manee towards Khun Luang, but Khun Luang is happy to see her reaction and the friends is starting to be concerned of their friends because she is interested too much in the history and often lock herself inside her house. Finally Khun Luang mother meet and learn about Manee, a scene similar to the older version with scene and script. Of course how can we forget about the very naughty yet sweet dream that Manee had of Khun Luang visiting her. Khun Luang is willing to stay single forever waiting for Manee and his mother welcomes her into their house due to her regular visits and Khun Luang moves out into the Bird House and give his bedroom to Mae Manee.
Rating: 4.8 out of 5



Episode Six: She now discover herself around Khun Luang's house and his family and slaves, she is welcomed by all due to her cheerful and her lack of knowledge in his world. She goes around and introduce herself to the salves by scaring them and fall in love with the surrounding and atmosphere. Her friends have gone out to the countryside and find themselves with feelings for each other, Manee have rejected Raiwat and tells him to not wait, setting herself free and also giving Raiwat his life back.
Rating: 4.2 out of 5



Episode Seven: Manee find herself to be more adapting into Khun Luang's world but still have her fun moments and meet with her love rival, she had a competition with Payong, a very funny competition that almost ended up burning Khun Luang's house down and Khun Luang fighting scene LOL
Rating: 4.5 out of 5



Episode Eight: This would be her last episode where she will be in her modern world as she will be in Khun Luang's era for a long time from this episode onward. Her friends tricked her into going to the hospital because they got concern over her reasons and crazy stories and act. Manee and Payong will get together in order to help the country because Payong too feel that she need to have part in helping the country's crisis and Manee finally meet the person who brought her into Khun Luang's world.
Rating: 4.2 out of 5



Episode Nine: She has made herself an official helper and the friends in the modern world has finally get together in trying to find where Manee has disappear to, Manee has made friend with Payong and is helping Payong and Khun Luang to end together, Manee also have her first misunderstanding of the two feelings for each other.
Rating: 4 out of 5



Episode Ten: Manee has gone out of the house and wondered to other places for work, Khun Luang and the slaves have misunderstand the relationship between Manee and Khun Luang Wisit and this show Khun Luang's first jealously towards Manee. He have have asked Mae Manee to wait for him and Manee have to go through some manner lessons by Payong's mother and have decided to force herself to become ladylike, which failed at the end when she couldn't take it anymore not being her real self.
Rating: 4 out of 5



Episode Eleven: In this episode Manee had to go through some painful moments of Payong and Khun Luang, misunderstanding that they have taken a step further in the relationship and distance herself from Khun Luang, making Khun Luang think that Mae Manee have someone else. Her friends went out looking for her and ended up sending her soul to Khun Luang's period and Manee is starting to become depressed missing her friends and home.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5



Episode Twelve: Both leads are misunderstanding each other even more thinking one has another person in their heart. When Khun Luang find out the truth, he rushed to go clear the misunderstanding but the mirror calls because her friends have been trying to look for her, he held onto her tightly not letting her go and this is the first time Manee resist the calling of the mirror and thus a headache occur. This episode Mae Manee and Khun Luang's relationship have resume because Khun Luang have told of his true feelings towards Payong and they left, although the relationship between both families stained but Mae Manee and Payong still maintain their friendship.
Rating: 4 out of 5



Episode Thirteen: Mae Manee is helping Khun Luang with work and have successfully gone out on a date together, but an outing to Khun Luang Wisit's house sent off another misunderstanding that Mae Manee is interested in Luang Wisit because he draw pictures of her and the people also see that Khun Luang Wisit might be interested in Mae Manee.
Rating: 3.8 out of 5





Episode Fourteen: Love confession of both leads they will walk together and be along side each other from now on. The friends back home also have taken another step, Tron now wants to confess to Kul and Raiwat will change his behavior and do good deeds. Mae Manee has successfully got the truth out of the foreign who wants to take over Siam by having a drinking competition and Mae Manee is looked after by Khun Luang so sweetly afterwards! Kul finds out about Khun Ying Manee and Manee's mom return home to find her daughter, the mirror calls once more...
Rating: 4.2 out of 5



Episode Fifteen: Mae Manee is once again unable to get home and fall seriously ill, Khun Luang takes care of Mae Manee sweetly! Her family at home find out more and more about Khun Ying Manee and have come to half accept the fact that Manee might end up in the past. Payong is forced to marry and Mae Manee have convinced her to talk to her parents and successfully got out of it, this shows one thing that Manee can change in the past.
Rating: 4 out of 5



Episode Sixteen: The showcase, the dinner party, the climax that will end the country's crisis and Manee's main job and main reason as to why she was taken into the past, which is to help Siam. Everything ended happily, Manee's family at home finds out more stories of Khun Ying Manee and Khun Luang, Mae Manee too is tore between her real world and Khun Luang's world, half she wants to stay, half she misses her home. Khun Luang sees Manee's mother and promise to take care of Manee, thus half asking permission to look after Manee forever.
Rating: 3.8 out of 5





Episode Seventeen Final: The ending episode clear all stories, the friends end up together happily with the help of Raiwat who in the end, finally become a good guy and I hope he will find someone who deserves him for who he is. Manee is asked by Khun Luang's mother to marry her son, because she cannot get permission from her mother and Khun Luang's mother cannot go to Manee's parents so she must decide herself and she finds herself to truly feel belonged in Khun Luang's period and both loved each other so the engagement happen followed by the grand wedding.
This must be this year's wedding of the year for Thai lakorns. The friends have got together to farewell Manee for choosing her life and wished her bliss, they will always remember a friend like Manee, the leads have also emotionally farewell Manee's mother, this scene would of been greater if the friends were there. Truly greater.
The aftermath? Well let's say it was the sweetest scene in Tawee Pope of all version, that back hug on the bed, that peak on the cheek and that tight back hug at the window and shoulder and hand kiss. First side of Khun Luang of being touchy and sweet, they are truly an addictive couple to watch, they do compliment each other and suit being Khun Luang and Mae Manee afterall.
Rating: 3.8 out of 5



Overall: There were time and point where in the story I felt was too much, too little, overly done and missing, there is no doubt missing scenes and the ending episode had scenes totally missing, was it rushed? but no it can't be because what else can they put in if there was to be another episode? An enjoyable lakorn for the year, addictive for very much of the episodes, some can be a bore and some scenes were unnecessary but still an overall good remake for all with the add on and changes.



Rating Overall: 4.2 out of 5
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[Sunny]

Peace out for the sweetest ending, not at a beach side or countryside, not on the green hill or at a wedding, not surrounded by families or friends, not pregnant or at a seaside, not at your regular big home or mansion but right at the classic wooden bedroom window with a beautiful river and temple view.

[Kiss*Me]

wow ur summary keeps me going. your story makes the lakorn so classic. i mean the way you wrote ur summary and put ur heart and honesty into it. i think overall it is not a bad remake. i think many thai fans love the lakorn. the number of viewers on each episode was really high and many thai fans commented on how good-looking khun luang is and how lucky mae-manee is. it is definitely a good remake.

were there no official ratings for this lakorn?

I think the only reason I would complain is Om's hair and his baby face. LOL he is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too young looking for this khun luang. but acting wise, i think he did a decent job too. pan's voice sounds really beautiful when she's serious compared to when she's childish. this is one remake i'll never forget and of course reserve a copy.

[Sunny]

I just made the summary good enough for people to maybe change their minds to watch if they dislike an actress in here and try to stay away from because of it. In the end its all about their portraying of the characters, the storyline and the production.
I know a lot of people loved it, I upload this lakorn on youtube and there are countless of good comments about this version, there maybe also bad comments but on average its good feedback. As for ratings of this lakorn I think it did well, may not be a high number but it was watched by a lot of millions of Thai people, and mostly was good competition with its competitor on Ch3 and Ch5, winning by a landslide against Roy Mai.

I think I just did a mini summary for each episode as well without planning lol. I love doing reviews of a lakorn I enjoy, especially this lakorn where I will understand it 100% since I'm subbing this one. It's fun! Miss Khun Luang & Mae Manee, its rare to have a lakorn similar to this again, a lakorn where there is no typical character of girl or boy fighting for one of the lead, where there is no physical forces such as kiss, slap or rape, where there is no arguments and loud screaming between the leads, where there is no comparison who is richer or poorer, fighting over wealth and reputation, who is better than one another. This lakorn show a pure love story and development, teaches culture, tradition, the beautiful things that Thai people can do, Thai history (partly true) and make you want to fall in love with Thailand all over again and be proud.

Now that it has ended I feel like I've crossed over from the past and back into reality and the modern world, I felt like I wasn't able to stay in Khun Luang's period like Manee now I'm all depressed in the modern world, no more Khun Luang & Mae Manee love story

[sparklinwishi]

love it!!! i still love them very much and i do agree they make it simple and fun, and loving intresting!!>...i still hope that they'll have a modern lakorn together!!...

[suk13_karn]

you write the assay Sunny..is was so long..

[Thip]

Dang Sunny, u wrote an essay indeed hahahaha but ur summary did give a brief summary to each episode...I miss them too...hopefully Om and Pancake reunite again, this time a modern lakorn....

btw, I got Pan's version of Ruk Tur Samur..I was searching high-low for that song and now I got it hahahah

[Thip]

here's the song, CR belles1001

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RL6FR8H5

[minervakristela]

I would give a rating of 5 out of 5 for the sweetest ending ever!

[aiyaja]

Gosh, perhaps I'm just a bit angry at Ch. 7 productions but this too lacked in so many ways, watched the first few episodes and then skipped all the way til the ending episodes and still felt like it dragged. Just the cheap filmography, average acting, and tremendous waste of time in between, I totally understand why this lakorn had such low ratings.

[Sunny]

Some team are translating this lakorn at viikii, excellent for them how did they gather the people?

I'm still the sole person doing everything, how annoying and pitiful for me But I still have some loyal fans who await my translations, I know its slow going but I put in 100% effort with translations, timing, editing and make sure it looks well presented and pro. Now if Viikii had a professional presentation and well structured translations I would be a little sad but since it seem the work is just to deliver translations basically I'm all good.

Fighting, until I get bore and give up, at the moment I'm still having fun

[Thip]

how many episode have you done sunny?

I give you props for translating, timing ,etc....It's already time consuming translating/subbing those modern lakorns since the language is modern but period is 5x harder

su! su! sunny!

[Sunny]

up to 5 they are up to 7 i looked into theirs some words they totally skip and their timing is too fast at times but some people go and watch it because I'm slow, these people are so they really don't respect my work when someone else go doing it and say I took too long try doing subbing while having to go to school and work at the same time