Wow I'm reading a Reddit post about the worst MLs in kdramas and two people brought up Fated to Love You 🤯😲 I'M INDIGNANT. How can you hate on this man???
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😭😭😭 okay putting on my be fair cap: if you think he's too ridiculous or over the top then I completely understand that but people were hating on him for being an asshole and there's way worse MLs than him on that score
I mean, there is a period during his Noble Idiocy thing where we are encouraged as viewers to be upset with him for causing the FL so much unhappiness - but by the end of the drama we are very much fans of both of them. So maybe the poster didn’t stay around to watch the whole drama?
I mean, they’re also hating on Go A Ra from #Hwarang 🥲. It wasn’t her best role by any means, but I honestly thought she was okay (once I accepted her character), so I don’t know why they focussing on her in particular
They are also picking on Hyun Bin’s character from #SecretGarden - but the whole point is he was meant to be an arrogant jerk (because of the way he was raised etc), until he met his match in Ha Ji-won’s character & experienced the whole body-swap thing which brought out his real inner life.
I sometimes think some people expect everyone has to be perfect from birth till death... if that isn't the case he's condemned forever... that's so unrealistic and toxic!
It’s similar to the comments you see people leave on older & popular dramas (in Viki’s timed comments) - though on current shows too.
They are so grotesquely focussed on the FL’s or 2nd FL’s appearance, constantly dragging her gif not having perfect teeth, or for the character being mean.
It was one of my early kdramas, and I found the whole body-swap situation so much fun! Ha Ji-won played such a cool character, and I loved how she forced Hyun Bin’s character to face up to himself (to the degree that he did I mean).
In fairness to this it does low key feel the writer of Hwarang either hated Go Ara or the character she’d written. It just feel everyone shits on her even her love interest also Park Seo Joon didn’t have any real chemistry with her so I just ended up feeling sorry for her.
I’ve seen worse chemistry & more whiney FLs in dramas, so I don’t get why she gets so much stick. It’s not as though she was my favourite FL, and I totally get that her character could be annoying - but she didn’t trigger me to the degree some Reddit posters feel
I do recall initially having a love/hate relationship with Go A Ra’s character Ah-ro - but once I accepted her character for what she was, I was able to enjoy the drama. And because I loved the drama I was supportive of all the characters. So for me, Go A Ra’s character is inseparable from #Hwarang
Is this the one where they have an accidental one night stand? To be fair he was pretty shit to the FL in the beginning, even though he later turned it around!
This is a big part of the reason why I love the #KDrama version, despite seeing the #TWDrama original first - in the original the ML remains a mountain of merde until a feeble kinda sorta change in the last couple of eps, and that's it. Jang Hyuk's character does WAY more growing
It is but even when he's being crappy he has a valid reason and it doesn't last long. To me he doesn't come close to being as terrible as the MLs in Boys Over Flowers, Secret Garden or Playful Kiss from the same era
I've not seen the dramas you mention but it's a fair point and he does make up for it later. Plus he was also really funny! However, I can see why some people wouldn't like him.
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People’s tastes can be so different!
They are so grotesquely focussed on the FL’s or 2nd FL’s appearance, constantly dragging her gif not having perfect teeth, or for the character being mean.
It was one of my early kdramas, and I found the whole body-swap situation so much fun! Ha Ji-won played such a cool character, and I loved how she forced Hyun Bin’s character to face up to himself (to the degree that he did I mean).
It was a moment! ☺️
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I only remembered him sacrificing to save FL white they swapt bodies and the ending with the kids