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So Saeng Tawan: Red Flags!

I haven’t been keeping up with “So Saeng Tawan (Fighting for the sunlight)“. I watch it but not closely. Most of the time, I find myself fast-forwarding through the political intrigue, pra’ek and his revenge scheme; I just head to the Pancake and Tle moments and skip the rest. I really don’t know what the heck is going on. From what I can gather, pra’ek is really bizarre and he has a really unhealthy relationship with nang’ek.

Pra’ek is not sadistic like Harit in JLR, but he is really out there. I don’t really consider drugging people, especially your leading lady, healthy. From episode 6-10, pra’ek has drugged nang’ek with a cloth 3 times. THREE TIMES, I repeat. I don’t know, I consider that a red flag for craziness.

He drugged her part 1:

In episode 6, Garn (Tle) and Linin (Pancake) were chatting outside a club, she is yelling at him because he sent her a note that read:”I tired of you, why aren’t you tried of me yet. Non”. Non is Linin’s boyfriend who died in an auto accident. After his death, Linin becomes the girl version of Tor from Badarn Jai; she is suicidal and maniac depressive.

Linin found the note distasteful and accused Garn of liking her and the note was just a way for him to get her attention. She tells him, “you think you can get my attention this way, dream on!”

He doesn’t take her insult seriously, looks up at the moon and asked, “Tonight the Moon is very beautiful, would you like to go out with me tonight?”

Of course being that she is a sane woman, she turns him down. And being that he is not normal, he takes his chloroform cloth and drugs her. He is like the modern day caveman, instead of cubbing the woman who rejects him with a bat, he uses chloroform cloth to knock her out and carry her to his den. Like seriously, it’s barbaric.

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Premier: Soo Saeng Tawan


In a few hours, “Soo Saeng Tawan (“Reaching for the Sunlight”) will premier on Ch7, taking up the Monday-Tuesday time lot and replacing Por and Noon’s lakon “Kom Faek” and I must say it has one of the most diabolical pra’eks out there.

As I was reading the synopsis, I thought my god he is like a prisoner from death row, “my mother abandon me and I came from an abusive foster care system, so I decided to shot everyone down to vent out my frustration on society and my mother.” Wow.

Pra’ek shouldn’t even be called pra’ek when he is running around sniper shooting everyone and trying to kill his mother, who abandoned him as a baby. Pra’ek also tries to kill his younger half-brother by causing him to go under a major asthma attack, his brother is asthmatic and he used it against him. Dude is crazy. He spends his every waking hour strategizing for ways to destroy his mother’s life and career and also the people around her. Crazy.

I think we should come up with a new vocab for this type of pra’ek. They should be known as pra’ek rai, meaning “villain leading man”. Or do you like “pra’ek ba”, crazy leading man.

Pra’ek lai is played by Tle Thanapol and nang’ek is played by Pancake Khemmanid.

Supporting cast includes:

Aof Chanapol as Chongon, pra’ek’s half brother
Jakajan Akumsiri as Rawee, servant girl in Nafah’s household.
Chadaporn Rattanakorn as Nafah, pra’ek’s mother

What’s going on here? I don’t know. Looks entertaining though.

Pictures of the crew goofing off during their break. Tubbytinker, Sarnworld member, found the pictures at Pantip forum.

Tle doesn’t look that bad.


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