and starting us off on this four-couples-and-counting 14 episode extravaganza are Perth (Tanapon Sukumpantanasan) and Saint (Suppapong Udomkaewkanjana), playing Ae and Pete, respectively.
Saint ain't my kind of gay, sorry--but Perth is the cat's meow, for me, and here (have we seen him in anything else ?) he's cast in a most sympathetic role, as the straightforward, sincere and generous angel to Saint's pathetic lost soul. Who wouldn't want a "saint" like Ae to come into their life and do his best to make everything right ?
This was my first experience with original creator MAME and I adored her because I loved this story (meaning Ae and Pete and even Tin and Can)
I loved that Ae (TANAPON SUKUMPANTANASAN aka PERTH) hadn't really thought about his sexuality so the presumption was he was a heterosexual and then he met the timid heart of gold Pete (SUPPAPONG UDOMKAEWKANJANA aka SAINT) by running into him with his bike and a seed was planted.
From that moment on Ae was in Pete's universe and vice versa beginning with Ae helping Pete with disgusting bully Trump.
In the sequel (for lack of better word) I learned MAME herself wrote it deciding to retell the Tin and Can as the lead couple since due to behind the scenes issues between the managers of Saint and Perth, Saint was not asked back for the "sequel" what I didn't know is though Love By Chance is based on a novel called My Accidental Love Is You by MAME the series screenplay was written by NEW who also directed.
Love By Chance 2: A Chance To Love was directed by NEW but written by MAME.
Anyone who watched these series knows that Tin and Can were brought together because of Ae and Pete's relationship as Tin was a snob that looked down on Pete and Ae's relationship and as such he had several run in with Can and they develop a instant hate for one another until one day Tin kissed Can and turned Can's world upside down.
Without Pete, MAME decided to have Tin and Can meet randomly on the campus as if the Pete component didn't exist anymore all the while Tin and Can were starting at zero. Ae, Pond and some newbie were in a parallel storyline where Pete left Ae and Ae became a sniveling idiot about losing Pete. It was like two different series that barely had anything to do with one another. I hated Love By Chance 2: A Chance To Love so much.
I will always love this BL. Then came the unsequel sequel. Love By Chance: A Chance To Love so began my love to hate with MAME.
With the Korean Remake soon hitting screens I decided to do a rewatch of Thailand's Original Version.
Can Korea replicate what Thailand created successfully. Time will tell.
Fighter (PRUK PANICH aka ZEE) didn't understand why he had such excitement when it came Tutor (SUPPAPONG UDOMKAEWKANJANA aka Saint) so he set out to tease him. Or so he said until he finally admitted he was attractive to his junior.
WHY RU? had a few couples including Zon and Saifah and that thing with Tanthai and Japan.