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They really revved up the engine in this second season.

This series managed to fall short of my expectations. And they weren't very high.
Honestly, I already knew it was going to be a bomb from the trailer, when it showed the character coming back from the dead (literally). But it managed to be worse than that
I decided to separate it into topics to make the review easier to understand, so yes, the texts about the eternal pit stop that was this series are going to be long! (I'm laughing so I don't cry)

1. The couples didn't click;

Honestly, what was that? A series that sets out to have five main couples, with ten characters as protagonists (according to MDL himself), had to at least know how to balance that right. Let's start from the beginning. The couples who had been together since last season, CharlieBabe (Poon and Pavel) and AlanJeff (Sailub and Pon), had NEGATIVE development. They undid everything they had built in the first season (with a lot of struggle on Alan and Charlie's part), and the attention to the problems they created lasted for episodes and episodes, and it felt like I was going around in circles. Unnecessarily.
The other three couples, KimKenta (Benz and Garfield), NorthSonic (Michael and TopTen), and PeteChris (Ping and Nut)... WHAT FOR?! Of the three couples, one spent the series in a never-ending limbo, and when they got together it was so... What for, you know? They seemed like a teenage couple, I understand that they were built up in the first season (Sonic more or less, but I'll get to that) and that now it was just a matter of evolving... BUT THEY DIDN'T EVOLVE PROPERLY, I don't know, everything seemed too fast and forced, as if they had a greater urgency than their screen time...
And the other two couples don't even talk to each other. Damn, all the crying throughout the series for them to give an open ending to the two. Nothing, and when I say nothing, I mean absolutely nothing, was well developed in this shit. Pete's overcoming his issues, Chris being a bastard son, Kim's feelings, Kenta's traumas. It seems like they wiped out 100% of all the characters and put them together just to make couples. AND THEY DIDN'T EVEN DO THAT RIGHT.

I mean, was it necessary? So many wrong decisions were made. And that brings us to the second topic.

2. Between a thousand decisions and emptiness

The number of unnecessary decisions that were made gives me a headache. It was plot after plot, twist after twist, I could barely breathe. Willy is a new competitor, Kim leaves X-Hunter, Chris returns, skill serum test, Sonic returns from France, Dean Winner and Kenta are kidnapped, and that's just in the first episode. Not to mention all the other plots involving car accidents, hospitalizations, memory loss, marriage, relationships. Literally every character had more than one huge problem, and almost all of them were resolved in totally lazy ways. Alan's surgery, Tony's return, and blah blah blah.
And then comes the question: Is it necessary or is it an absence of dialogue without a problem? Did the writers (who were four people, it's worth noting) know what they were doing when they put all that suffering into Charlie's supposed death, when everyone had been warned less than an episode earlier that Tony's powers were to revive if he drank his own blood? COME ON, WE KNEW HE HAD CLEARLY SWALLOWED HIS OWN BLOOD, and yet there was a whole unnecessary scene followed by more crying. Guys, it wasn't difficult, they just had to hide that they knew or not tell the viewer. They just had to change the order of things.
Worse, either the series was full of 436098 problems per second or everything was lukewarm and stagnant, and that just makes everything more boring. Things that didn't need attention got all the spotlight, while the real problems, which should truly be taken into account, were simply forgiven.

Which brings us to our third point

3. Apologies accepted, next scene

For the love of God, where is these people's sense of awareness and forgiveness? This is a problem that has been going on since the first season. The character screws up, hides the screw-up, the screw-up is discovered, the others say he shouldn't have done that, the screw-up is forgiven. The narrative continues.
This happened to Way in the first season, and as far as I can remember, only to him. But here? Alan, Willy, Chris, Pete, everyone screws up and eventually, everything is fine again.
Did Willy practically abuse Babe? The problem lies in the alleged betrayal. Did Alan literally betray Charlie for power? It's okay, we're a family. Pete stays in this eternal limbo and shoves emotional responsibility where the sun doesn't shine? It's okay, Chris is too apathetic to feel it.
It seems like these writers are playing with me. We're some kind of joke, it's not possible.

I'm not going into more detail because that brings us to our fourth topic.


4. Betrayed by their own story

The narrative infidelity of this group left me DISTURBED. There were moments when I would stop and think, “Who the hell is this person and what did they do to this character?”
The biggest and most visible example is Alan. Come on, in what universe would Alan do what he did in the first season? Even with that incoherent excuse of “It's to save so-and-so.” He wasn't blackmailed into having powers, and the way he hid everything from Jeff even after nagging him for five episodes about sincerity and conversations in a relationship doesn't make any sense.
Then there's Pete, who didn't know if he had gotten over Way or not, and everyone is caught up in this huge game of ping-pong. Charlie, who is one of the most trusting, distrusts Babe and just LEAVES. Sonic, with his great skills and interest in studying fashion in France, which basically came out of nowhere, since he spent the entire first season recording videos (and I didn't even know North wanted to be a pilot, but I'm not sure when that was explored).
Not to mention the total exclusion at the end of the first season. I mean, Babe's biological father, all those kids, the fucking house. BABE'S BIOLOGICAL FATHER
Wasn't the guy the one who had advanced the most in the realm of serum abilities? The guy didn't have a single flash of those abilities this season. They didn't even give a lame excuse, he was just forgotten by the plot. They were going to move, they talked about marriage all the time, it seems like we've taken a huge step backwards in this business, the serum already worked on Charlie in the first season, so now there's no glimpse of things working out? For God's sake, guys.

Speaking of powers...

5. The fantasy of absurdity

Holy shit. Okay, the narrative revolves around powers and a POSSIBLE omegaverse (I'll come back to this topic later).
WHAT THE HELL ARE THESE POWERS FOR? It seems like everyone is playing Winx and saying, “but my power is to steal powers, but his power is to see the future,” meaning that not only is this thing out of nowhere, but it's also totally ?????
This specific point is the least annoying to me, but I need my point for the next topic.

So, what is the reason for the powers, really?

6. Omegaverse. Without omega. And without the verse.

If you're going to sell the fucking product/series as an omegaverse, YOU MAKE THE FUCKING OMEGAVERSE.
Guys, if you know what omegaverse is and you know what it means, ESPECIALLY in the minds of people who follow the Asian LGBT universe, and you deliver THAT, you're asking to take more criticism in a week than you've drunk water in your entire life.
People expected Betas, Omegas, and Alphas, and pregnancy and heat and all the fucking stuff that goes with it. And they got little powers and quotes about Enigmas and special Alphas. That's not what the series promised.
Since the first season, the series has been based on this whole story of being an omegaverse, and that's what everyone expected. And even with this POOR offering of goals in the first season, hopes for the second were higher than ever. And they were dashed with buckets of water.
Apart from the clear absence of female characters, there is literally ONE SINGLE NAMED WOMAN in all 13 episodes, and if you add it all up, the poor thing has about 5 minutes of screen time, rounding up.
They considered literally removing the omegaverse from the second season. I ask you now, if this universe was so relevant to the first part of the narrative or even to the second, would it really be removed so easily? I don't think so.

And after the slaps and insults, let's be kind and raise the only point that I found good

6. The Villains in pole position

Among the forgettable heroes, we had memorable villains, we had Tony, but we didn't have more of the same.
We all knew that Tony was despicable from the beginning, but he was literally the only character who didn't fall into the curse of “I forgive you, it's okay.”
Come on, personally speaking, I have a huge passion for villains who fulfill their role of being bad people.
Tony is trash, he is everything that is worst in high society, the total embodiment of someone who thinks that money can buy anything, and everything he does, consumes, and acts shows that.
He is hateful, not only to those in the series but also to us mere viewers, and that is why I think it is incredible.
The script wasn't afraid to turn him into someone terrible and horrible; he's really bad.
Willy, on the other hand, is a kind of antihero antagonist. He's bad, he irritates you, he does terrible things, except for forgiving Tony almost immediately after all that nonsense, he follows through on what he does. He only helped people because it benefited him, he only went after everyone because he wanted to kill Tony. He was selfish, he was ironic and provocative, he fulfilled his role of being aggressive and skeptical to the point that it was fun to watch him annoy everyone. The sometimes disproportionate reactions were funny.

I really think PitBabe was saved by the villains

In the end, Pitbabe was just a huge misleading advertisement for the megaverse. Using the success of the first season and the love people have for the main actors to sell the product. Looking closely, I can think of more than one moment when the series was abandonable, but they all end with a “Well, let's see where this goes.” Guess what? It went nowhere. Despite the harsh criticism of the actors in this series, I don't think they faltered as much as many people say here. Honestly, I think they were the most cohesive, or least worst, as you prefer. In This Love Doesn't Have Long Beans, we see that they are good, Benz and Garfield have chemistry, Sailun and Pon know what they are doing, and now with I'm The Most Beautiful Count, we also see that Pete and Supanut are not messing around either. Technical terms aside, they are good, but everything was extremely poorly executed, with more plot holes than a sieve.


Not to mention the way Peter Nopachai (director) handled it all. They had the budget, the investment was high, but the weak and poorly written script ruined everything.

All we can do is sit back and hope that the next ones will be better.

PitBabe 2 participated in a race with no opponents, and even so, it lost. Twists and turns, the narrative decisions got worse with each episode, in a stream of disasters and bad decisions. The villains, unlike in the series, saved themselves, but they were just a flash of what the series could have been. Not every team deserves to be cheered on, and PitBabe showed that maybe in the end you're like a Ferrari fan. No prospect of improvement, but still there.