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All of that, plus the lighting and cinematography. So classic Hollywood.

Love By Chance writers: -"What do people want? Let's give them ALL THE THINGS THEY HAVE EVER WANTED"!

Perfect comment.

I also think a season 2 would be perfect for another couple to take centre stage and AePete be supporting, living their happy lives. Season 1 is their season.

Your comments were rude and dismissive. That is why I got defensive. If you didn't mean them that way, I accept your apology and apologise as well. Have a nice day.

Can I just say how refreshing it is to see people with decent parents in a BL?

My comment never implied that. You read that. I sad they were rethreading the same storyline and that if it went the way it seemed to be going, it would have been contrived and predictable. My comment about them handling it differently wasn't to mean "break-up = bad writing". It's that the vast majority of romance sequels break the couple up for the sole reason of going through the same storyline again, using tired tropes. Avoiding that would be a plus.

I don't think I didn't like Bad Romance because I am less smart than you and couldn't fully understand the "challenging plot". The actors hadn't really found the chemistry they had now, the story did not take time to properly set them up before breaking them apart, most misunderstandings were contrived and they acted horribly toward each other in 10 out of 13 episodes. You see, in Together With Me, while they still used tired machinations to keep them apart, the actors conveyed chemistry much better and the writing fleshed out their relationship much better. Even though evil girlfriend the lead can't seem to leave is a cliché, at least it was well-executed.

I liked the first episode. I thought it was good. I'm wary if the plot is what I think it is, because I didn't like it in Bad Romance and I wouldn't want the characters through the same beats again. Korn going through the same character arc, even if in real life people make the same mistakes over and over, as a work of fiction, it's just interesting. Then again, this was one episode, I can't judge a whole series on that and I will hopefully wish they prove me wrong and will happily enjoy you telling me you had told me so because what we all want is a good series.

They basically hated each other and treated each other poorly during 90% of Bad Romance. I'm so thankful I did not watch that first. And the problems isn't so much fighting or breaking up. It's when that is result of contrived, tired tropes. You can have a messy, complicated, dramatic relationship and it be good writing, like The Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. It's just that the plot here seems to be literally the same plot of Bad Romance (again) and Sotus S.

And again, I said the episode was good. Not bad. It just wasn't great. Also, I can be wrong and what they have in mind is completely different. Maybe this will be brilliant. My only concern is if this story is basically a rehash of the same plot of Bad Romance, well, I'm not excited for that. Even if I had liked that plot, resetting the status quo and re-doing it slightly differently wouldn't be good.

This show is getting a great response. Naturally, some people will start to hate on it. First, because nothing is universal and people can genuinely not like it. Also, because on the internet, when you don't like something that is popular, you feel special and above the rest. Every single runaway hit gets a backlash. It seems everyone hates Titanic, The Force Awakens or Jurassic World on the internet, but in real life those were massive hits because a large number of people, dare I say the majority, loved them. I just want to repeat that it isn't everybody. One can honestly dislike it, as there are different tastes.

I don't think there's anything wrong with your opinion on the show, even if I completely disagree. It was the gross generalisation that if you like this show is because you are a fetishising hetero. It was rude, uncalled for and simply untrue. I am a gay man. I love this show mainly because it's good written and acted and avoids all the major tropes. The characters actually talk and work out their issues instead of making misunderstandings go on for several episodes.

I didn't say that. But being unable to write a good story that is not the cliché follow-up season break up is not good writing either. You can tell a gut-wrenching dramatic story that is not "contrivances keep couple apart for 10 episodes, but are magically solved by the end". Grey's Anatomy season 7/8 had Meredith and Derek go through a major crisis in their marriage that involved their careers, their daughter and lots of drama without being they break up and need to fall in love again. It can be done. Together With Me They told a very similar story twice already. In Bad Romance Korn had to come to terms with being gay publicly. In many ways they reversed roles in the prequel. And if "helping each other through adversity" is something this couple can't do, perhaps they shouldn't be together. A couple that breaks up at every single obstacle isn't really meant to be.

All that being said, I can be absolutely wrong. Maybe they won't break-up in episode 3 or 5 and then go for will-they-or-won't-they until the last episode. Maybe they have something different in mind. Trust me, I want to be wrong here and be positively surprised.

This was good. It wasn't great. It kind of feels they are telling the same story from Bad Romance again, but the production values and, especially, Max and Tul's chemistry is off the charts. They are really great together. I hope I'm wrong, because I kind of can see how the entire season will unfold with tmem being broken up by their families until the very last episode. I think Love By Chance ruined me, because I was so used to bad writing in BLs that I shrugged it off, but know that I see a series that avoids the beaten tropes or subverts them, it's kind of hard not to think, "hum, this could go a different, better way". Which it can. I'm cautious, but hoping to be surprised. If they make this about them sticking together and helping each other through adversity, this series could be a masterpiece.

Brock Turner raped a woman that was passed out on the floor. Absolutely not what happened here. They were both willing participants.

I agree adults shouldn't be dating minors. Even if a handful of years older. I just thought that had nothing to do with a generational gap. a 26 yo and a 44 yo dating is completely different than a 14, 16 yo dating an adult. Glad we now understand each other. You have a valid concern when it comes to teenagers.

You call me a collectivist that sees all prejudice as equal and then say "this kind of tolerance is a slippery slope that gets people comfortable with inter-generational relationships and then BANG, you got legal pedophilia". Really? Hypocrisy at its finest. That is a wide generalisation.

By the way, the "slippery slope" is exactly the same argument that people use to link gay marriage to marrying a dog.

13 and 18 is not OK. 33 and 38, no one would see a problem with. It's not the gap. It's not intergenerationality. What makes paedophilia a disgusting crime is the fact one of the people is a child.

You can easily click above and see the actors here were 44 and 26 when this film came out, so your concerns with paedophilia are utterly unwarranted and reek of ageism.

Plenty of gay people and even a lot more of straight people are happily married with an age gap. That has nothing to do with anything here.

Ageism and prejudice. You are no different than people who judge gays. Who two consenting adults love is not yours to problematise. Ellen Degeneres and Portia DeRossi are 15 years apart and a lovely married couple, as are Matt Bomer and Simon Halls, Greg Berlanti and Robbie Rogers and many others.

I could and hope to be wrong, though. Together With Me was far superior to Bad Romance and this can be too. The people writing and making the show are not the marketing department. Maybe the problem is solely with the promotion campaign.

Love By Chance is a good example that you can do that right. I don't want another Bad Romance, where they are at odds for 10 of the 13 episodes. A simple solution is having obstacles they face together or, instead of one big issue, several, that they overcome in smaller chunks. I swear that if they are broken up in episode 2 or 3 and only reunited at 13, I'll be very upset.

This series started out incredibly unique and strong and also managed to end very well, way above your usual BL or drama in general, including Western. Yet, the back half of the season before the final two episodes are some of the most poorly written and edited episodes I've ever seen, that leave you wondering why are you still even watching this.

The reason why I kept watching it is because the leads, Drake and Frank, are highly charismatic actors with the most adorable chemistry.

It's also a shame because this BL, at times, a very realistic story, even how it ends. And, yet, that is marred by huge plot points introduced and then not addressed, ignored and people acting as if they never happened until the very end. Every episode in the back half feels like there are huge scenes missing and what the characters are doing on screen are routine activities with no bearing on the plot. The series going on offscreen during those episodes feels far more interesting than what we are watching.

If you want to see a very romantic BL that is also very appropriate for younger audiences, go for it. If a shoddily written and edited show will irritate you, this is not for you.

They have half a season left.