Pit Babe (2023)

This story is a mess, but well acted.

There are definitely spoilers below.

These are my initial thoughts immediately after watching. I really wanted to like this, and by all rights I should have. The car and racing theme along with BL is right up my alley and an area of life I am familiar with. However for me it was one of those series you watch jut to finish, rather than keeping my undivided interest. It wasn't great, nor terrible, but something in-between. Normally if I like something, I can finish a series like this in 3-4 days. This series dragged on for a couple weeks, and I was even home sick for a couple of those days.

This story is a mess of themes, none of which seem to be explored in very much depth, nor are some of them explained how or why. There is BL, supernatural powers, action, child trafficking, racing, mystery, sex encounters, and more. The supernatural powers bit is quite odd, they only use or mention them a couple times throughout the series, but apparently those powers make Babe a winning racer? And Tony the child trafficker somehow finds and sells these special children somehow? And Tony never is suspected of selling all these adopted children? There isn't a child welfare system in Thailand to know where these kids are? Then there was some mention of experimental drugs or something helping these powers?

The actors were great, they brought this 3.0 story up to something watchable. This was the first major production for some of these actors, and you really couldn't tell. They must have had some good coaching and lots of practice, besides being good actors. I hope to see them in future series.

The characters, in my opinion, were all very one-dimensional or maybe said another way they didn't have much depth. Either way, some of the characters were just there more so then they added to the storyline. North and Sonic were a good example of this, they were apparently amateur racers, but they never raced even once. Dean was sort of the same, there but didn't add much to the story. His character could have been eliminated and the plot point done a different way.

There were weird things like Alan supposedly being so much older than Jeff, when they are only two years apart in real life. The "kid" and "uncle" thing was a bit cringe. You could tell that they were both about the same age. And how about Way having supernatural powers and nobody including his only and close friend Babe knew that fact for years upon years? Add that to the pile of odd things in this series. Also, I know this is BL series, but never in my life have I seen so many gay guys and gay couples in car racing and especially not on one team. Not trying to come across as bigoted here, quite the opposite, I am gay myself. I am not saying it couldn't happen, but it sure isn't realistic from my life experiences. Of course if that idea was deleted then we wouldn't have a BL series like this.

I am not sure what would have helped this series, but maybe cutting it down a couple characters would be a good start. Maybe shorten it by a couple episodes. There are so many series that need the extra time, but this feels like it drags. I think they also need to focus on a couple of main themes instead of throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks.

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Muito boa de assistir, mas com seus pontos negativos.

Acompanhei desde de o lançamento e foi muuuito bom e divertido de acompanhar! É um bl bom de assistir, apesar de ter alguns pontos negativos.

A série é adaptação de uma novel, mas não diria q é uma adaptação perfeita. A história em si é muito boa e diferente do comum, aborda assuntos importantes e que (apesar de ser de um jeito adaptado para o universo da novel) dificilmente vejo sendo abordado no mundo dos doramas. Contudo, achei que a história foi muito corrida (principalmente o ultimo ep), e acabou deixando muitas pontas soltas. Foi pouco explorada e abordada superficialmente.

Os casais são todos lindos e fofos, gostei bastante deles. O Pavel e o Pooh tem uma química ótima, ficam muito bem juntos.
Gostei bastante do tema de corrida, achei que foi apresentado de uma forma bem legal (as corridas por exemplo) e que os atores encaixaram perfeitamente nesse tema.
Apesar de não ter achado a atuação de todos perfeitas, os atores são todos lindos, queridos e maravilhosos, peguei um carinho por eles.

Bom, é um bl que não achei incrível e perfeito, mas que mesmo com seus pontos negativos, é bem legal de assistir.

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Imperfect, but full of heart

This was a long ride. Honestly, I don't know what I was expecting from Pit Babe, but a human trafficking/car racing/omegaverse storyline surely wasn't. It's not a perfect show. It has a lot of inconsistencies and silly things, but it's undeniably charming and interesting. I, a person who didn't even like omegaverse much, was intrigued by the world setting.

The characters are wonderful and compelling. I fell in love with all of them. For their stories, their experiences, their personalities, etc. Even the main antagonist enchanted me (although for other reasons/he is a very convincing villain).

Anyway, Is Pit Babe perfect? No, but it's very charming.

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I saw this series and the poster immediately caught my attention. I like Formula 1 and MotoGP, but something in me said that I wouldn't like this as much as I like the poster. Sadly, I was right.
In this case I don't think the series is bad or anything like that, it just failed to grip me and I'm not theright viewer for it. I'm sure someone else would find it much more interesting. But yeah, I was just bored.
It started off pretty interesting, but I don't know, it could've been the writing styl, but it didn't keep my attention as it went on.
Everything goes to fast with no explanation for the characters motivations or why they’re doing what they’re doing. Too many characters and nonsensical plot, which plods along then goes nowhere.
I am going to miss Alan and Jeff 🩷
But will I give it another try? I'm not sure.
Either way, if you look this go right ahead, I hope you'll be the viewer who connects with this series on every level.

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Nice BL with some good love scenes

the story story line started off great! the first two episodes relied you in but then by episode 7-9… they really didn’t flesh out the pace of the storyline and so the last episodes felt rushed leaving the audience to fill in the gaps with what has happened to lead up to the scenes in the final episode; for example, we are kept on the dark of what the plan was to protect Babe by Jeff and Charlie - even when things changed up and they needed to make adjustments to said plan or the late introduction of the father and no real explanation as to why he’s been gone and now he’s into biopharma for special alphas or why their adoptive father didn’t sell gifted children like Babe and Jeff when they were a bit younger as we see is the case for the other kids currently in the foundation… all in all, I would rewatch as the a tired were cute and the main couple, PavelPhoom had great on screen chemistry.

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wasted potential

this drama started off pretty strong with only a few minor flaws every now and then, so i thought it was still salvageable as long as the ending was decent- which it, unfortunately, wasn't at all.

at some point around episode 10, the (metaphorical) train completely derailed and every single episode after that, including the finale, was only 10% entertaining while the other 90% was downright frustrating.

the only commendable thing about this series was the actors. while some were subpar, the ones that were good were *very* good. pavel, nut, and benz in particular were constantly stopping me from dropping this series.
however, almost everything else was aggravatingly bad. the camera work made me nauseous at least once per episode, certain actors consistently delivered their (already lacking) lines poorly throughout the entire series, and the plot was written as if it was just a bunch of random bullet points of things they wanted to happen and then they just made up on the spot how they'd connect them all.

all of that being said, i do still think it wasn't terrible. if they'd simply put a bit more effort into, what was meant to be, such a serious drama, i think most of my qualms would've faded to the background. i can put up with a plot that goes a bit off track sometimes and a couple bad actors- but when i can predict every cliche and just *know* that an emotional moment is going to be ruined by poor acting almost *every time* it's just too much.

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The show started off really strong but became a tad ridiculous at the end; A lot of plot-points felt unnecessary or overly dramatic - especially in the latter half of the show - and the ending was pretty anticlimactic.
Also, the whole omegaverse aspect could have been entirely omitted and it would have had no bearing on the plot.

However, despite these criticisms, the show still managed to entertain me throughout.
The scenes between Pavel and Pooh were electric and their romance was worth following to the end.
Pavel was definitely the better actor of the two, but he nailed his role and some of his scenes were so moving I almost cried.

Overall I don't regret the time I spent watching the show.

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With potential but lacking

I really wanted to love this BL I really wanted to but it just dissatisfied me. They wrapped it to fast i mean it was so easy apparently to solve their problems by killing Tony but they just had to drag it for 13 ep and leave much more important things out like that magical cure. What about Pete and Kenta and Kim and Winner? And tha moat important WAY. I just felt that their relationships were brushed aside.

On top of that they just killed Way in the most stupid manner. I know he was an idiot for a long time but he did love Babe and i think that after loving someone for 10 year on his own it might take a tool on his mental health. But he did not deserve to die.

Overall I was kinda disappointed. I am happy Babe and Charlie were together in the end but with so many characters with potential i feel something it's missing

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The ending ruined it!

OK.........first off good for them to try and bring the whole Omegaverse to the TV screen, however there were a few areas of it that they didn't really go that far into, and thats why some people (i know personally) seemed to be so confused as to why Babe became so obsessed with Charlie so quickly. The show did mention that Babe doesn't like Alpha scents and Charlie doesn't have one, but other than that it kinda skipped over it and lots of people didn't see that as a reason for their relationship. The whole Way being an Enigma thing was the same. Some people didn't understand it, and it was only partially explained in the show.

Personally I loved it, I loved the way they didn't follow the stereotypes of 'tops' and 'bottoms' in gay relationships.........with Babe being perfectly comfortable being the 'bottom' in their relationship, and not one even raising an eyebrow at it. That was great. Pavel and Pooh had great onscreen chemistry, and really worked together well. It's the first time I had seen either of them on screen and i'm glad I did.
Babe was really well written and Pavel knocked it out the park. Charlie was a little less understandable, but that was his character, still Pooh did well with it. Even Nut in playing Way.......you know an actor is doing brilliantly when you want to reach into the screen and strangle their character!

This show was seriously going to be one of the best shows i'd seen in a while with its new Omegverse plot, cinematography, actors and interesting plot..........until about episode 9...........then it fell off a cliff!

I have no idea what happened after that but YIKES!
There was no reason to 'kill' Charlie except for to devastate Babe and separate our two leads for a while...........and it was WAY too long! But even then, while Charlie was 'dead' how they handled it was seriously messy. After Babe had had a breakdown weeping for the loss of his partner, Charlie was never mentioned again by anyone, except once when Charlie himself asked Jeff how Babe was dealing with his death.......it was almost like the show was going 'ok he died, and now we move on'. It didn't work right.
Then you had the Kenta/Kim/Pete/Way mess. They were setting up Way and Pete only to then set up Pete with Kenta, who they had kinda set up with Kim......they couldn't decide what they were doing. And I'm sorry but turning Kim into basically the third stooge with North and Sonic was just a waste of that character after its great introduction.
Babe's father and his magic 'antidote'.........they spent so much time on that.........but in the end nothing happened. That was pointless and just wasted time.
Charlie's 'plan' to save Babe by dying.......again nothing came of it, and it just wated time the writers could have used better by forwarding the plot, character relationships and development.
The end episodes where a mess and really let the show down!

Still I liked the show and would watch it again, simply for the chemistry of the cast and because those first episodes were well written.

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Why

What the actual f**k did I just watch? It was amazing and the casting was as expected which is good but they just cut things off to quickly. The whole plot of the drama was fuzzy but the main couple was carrying with their chemistry and their kiss scenes . Now that the side couple barely brings anything to the table because their relationship was never explained or got looked in to so now the drama is now a redemption arc and dry . The start was good because it was slow and steady so it had time to expand on the characters but at the end it was to quick because of the episode limit and the rush to get information out that couldve been explained if the drama was longer or they focused on the information at the beginning because they had the time . Not mad just disappointed.

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