Well, how do I put this nicely? It was not a train wreck. It could have been better. It should have been better. It was not all bad. I finished it so that is the proof, if you need one, since I drop dramas easily.

The premise was excellent: star crossed lovers and reincarnation with the help of local myths and a magic healing stone. But when the reincarnated soulmate turns out to be a man, it is difficult to deal with the idea. Until it is not any more.

Every plot point in this drama is like that: the problem seems unsurmountable and then, after some pointless running around, everything is sorted out. It started by being very predictable: three shady characters wanting to put their hands on the magic stone. I really thought that this plot is going to take up the whole of drama. Imagine my surprise when that was solved in episode 4. So I went, what now? Well, a couple of episodes later, they brought them all back with an additional accomplice. By that time I had lost every interest I had in this drama: it had become boring and repetitive.

What I liked:
- the premise and the mythology
- support characters: the family, particularly Chu and Tao, were loving, open, fun and funny
-the kid version of San
- Wee with his sunny smile and his grandma
- lessons on how to deal with grief

What I did not like:
- Daou who played San was badly styled and was allegedly harassed on set and it shows in his robotic acting and stilted movements. He actually made me think of NKM in The Veil where he seemed to have forgotten how to walk normally. Same thing here. As for styling: that cropped hair made him look 35 at least: so I needed to check his bio and rewatch the first episode of Love in Translation because in this drama he does not look anything like his MDL pfp. The costumes he was made to wear were just awful: oversized, large and ill-fitting. And finally, his acting was nowhere to be found, he looked extremely uncomfortable as if he wanted to be anywhere else but on this set. The love scenes were unconvincing as they looked so mismatched without any visible chemistry. He seemed clumsy even in the action scenes which were ok (I like the fight with sabres towards the end)
- the character of San: looking for his lost love for a hundred years, suffering in pain every night, being impotent for a century (until he met Wee!). The only fun thing about his curse was when he turned into a young boy: that kid acted better than Daou!
- the predictable villains: as soon as the uncle showed up it was obvious he was the bad guy!
- music was awful, already heard in every other thai bl: funky, snapping fingers songs and the background music stressing the tone of the scene: funny, tragic, romantic....so irritatingly not subtle! I wish producers would learn to respect their audience's intelligence and trust them to know how to recognize different moods!
- PPLs for the toothpaste showing up out of nowhere.

Even though I liked the beginning of the drama very much, very quickly i.e. by the time I reached ep.6, everything I wrote above was starting to annoy me immensely. I debated whether to drop it and then I forced myself to finish it since it is not too long and I had only 4 episodes left. But frankly, it was a torture of misunderstandings, sacrifices for your good, bad pacing and bad hair! To be frank, that is probably my biggest issue with this drama: Daou's hair! It reminded me of Chicago Typewriter which I ended up hating for exactly the same reason: the bad hair which turned out to be so distracting I could not enjoy the plot! Same here!

I'd give them A for the effort but this drama was chock full of plot holes, bad pacing, illogical actions (a car falls into the harbour, it is floating in the sea and the police present are looking for it and not calling for the crane or something?). But there were many light funny moments which made the watch ok, I guess.

And finally, I will never get used, no matter how many times I see it, to lovers sniffing each other. I found it odd when I first saw it in ITSAY and still fail to comprehend it....cultural differences are not there to be understood but to be accepted. Right?