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Love by Chance Season 2: A Chance to Love thai drama review
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Love by Chance Season 2: A Chance to Love
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by Silfie Korea
Jan 9, 2021
13 of 13 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 8.5
Story 8.5
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 7.5

An Enjoyable Watch

I put this one on hold for quite a while after reading all the bad comments and reviews, and now I can say that I regret it.
I don't understand why people are complaining so much. Although "Love By Chance" is definitely better, "A Chance To Love" is good too.

I'm not sure why P'New decided to treat the second season just like "2 Moons", but it wasn't bad. If you have watched "2 Moons 2", you know that the first episodes is a recap of the first season and then it develops to what the viewers haven't seen. They did it because the whole cast changed. In this case, I guess P'New decided to do the same since Saint wasn't part of the cast but idk. However it wasn't bad because all what happened between TinCan in the first season is shown in the first 6 episodes of the second season. And to be fair, TinCan didn't have enough screen time in the first season, so their story was able to fit in those episodes and we even got a little more details.
The series starts with a cut that shows the continuation of the ending of the first season, and then they go back 3 months where they show you TinCan's story again. Their story is the only one that is having a recap, the others continue from the ending point of the first season. It can be a little confusing since they mixed the timelines, but you just have to imagine that you have never seen "LBC" and then all is good.

TinCan isn't a couple with a lot of troubles. The main problem was Tin not being able to trust people because of what his brother did, but that's it. Once he got over it, everything is set to go smooth and that's exactly what happened. We had enough of TinCan in my opinion, and I'm happy with it.

So basically you have to watch this second season as if everything is new. It's better if you forget about the first season, about the storylines, and everything in between while watching it. You don't really need to watch the first season in order to enjoy the second one, since they give you enough background information to know what happened with AePete and KlaTechno. The only confusing couple would be TumTar which, to be fair, I'm surprised of how the things ended up between them. This couple is the only one that has no background information and, if you don't know their story, you will probably feel lost. For the rest, you don't need to know anything beforehand.

P.S: Best kiss scene goes to TulHin. I wish they showed more about them.


Obviously I'm not able to praise the whole thing, because there is some stuff that I didn't like and that's why I consider "LBC" still better than "LBC2". So once I'm done with the praise, let's look at the complains.

DOWNSIDES:
- Ae's screen time is too much. His story was told in the first season, he should be a side character in this one. Yes, we know that he misses Pete but we don't need to see him sad for the whole thing. I would have preferred if they used half of Ae's screen time to get deeper into Tul and Hin's story. How did they meet, how did they fall in love, who confessed first, etc.
- The product placement is over the top. All Thai BLs have product placements, yes, but they don't spend 2 or 3 minutes talking about it and praising the "benefits". It's like you are watching a commercial instead of a series, so I ended up skipping the product placement parts.
- The fact that the actor portraying Tul is taller than Mean doesn't make him older. In fact, the actor who plays Tul has such a baby face that Tin looks like the older brother (and in real life, the actor is a year younger than Mean). I understand that they needed a young actor since he has his own love story and this is targeted to a young audience, but they could have picked someone who doesn't have such a baby face. Not complaining about his acting though, just the looks.
- I missed seeing Pond and ChaAim. Although her name is mentioned once letting us know that they are still dating, I would have loved to see a few scenes of them together.
- Can used to be an adorable, innocent, childish, and naive character. In this season he is more mature and smarter. He is still cute, but that adorableness from the first season is barely shown. I don't know if it was Plan's own decision or it was P'New, but that lovely charm that Can used to have is hard to find in this one. But I still liked his character, so it's not really complaining just... a little bit disappointed.
- They toned down KlaTechno's story A LOT. I don't care how they pretended to treat that incident, it was RAPE. And the way they addressed the whole thing + the development... ugh! It's a big no for me.
- Not sure what happened with TumTar. I'm still confused. As someone who has watched their story in "LBC" and "TharnType", I would have never expected that ending. I'm quite disappointed to be honest. And besides that, they only have like 5 minutes of screen time together in 13 episodes.


As you can see it has quite a lot of downsides, but I still think is not fair the amount of complains people are giving to it. It's not the staff's fault if you were expecting something different, it's your fault for setting those expectations. We all wanted to see the development of TinCan, and they gave us exactly what we wanted. If you think 7 episodes aren't enough, then maybe you don't really understand those characters. They never had ex-girlfriends, toxic parents, confused sexual orientation, nor all those other problems from other BLs. Their characters are simple, so they don't need many episodes to showcase their love story.


The acting was okay just like in the first season. None of them excelled but it wasn't bad. A couple actors were honestly horrible, but the rest did a decent job.

I loved to hear part of the OST from the first season and the new version of the theme song. It brings back memories.
I don't know if I will rewatch it again, but it's a possibility. I thought I wouldn't like TulHin's story since we all know what Tul did to Tin, yet I ended up wanting more about them. It's not gonna happen but I would love to see a spin-off of their story.




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