Morally bankrupt characters
The series started out great and then progressively became worse. It has one of the worst male leads that I have come across in KDramas and that is saying something, considering Korean writers don't quite know what a man is, let alone a good man. At the beginning of the series, I felt sympathy for both Dong Ha and Bom Yi but as the series progressed that feeling became replaced with utter disdain. Dong Ha completely failed as a man, as a brother and as a father. He cares for no one apart from himself. No right thinking man could do the kind of things he kept doing, over and over again and the worst part is that not once did he feel any qualms about it, drowning in self pity. His performative victimhood became annoying to the point that I actually wanted to punch him in the face. Dong Ha, Bom Yi, Ji won and most of all the writer treated Dong Wook in the worst possible manner. He is the only character who deserves any sympathy. He is expected to lose over and over again and not just accept those loses but be gracious about them too. No one in this series cared for his feelings. It is a common theme in most dramas to treat secondary characters badly. Leads often use supporting characters and then abandon them because to the writer and supposedly the audience their feelings simply do not matter. Dong Wook is the only good character in this series and for that he has been skewered. Obviously he cannot make anyone fall in love with him or prevent anyone from falling out of love, but what he can do is cut ties with people who don't seem to care about him at all and his supposedly older brother should be the first on that list. I fail to express the disgust I felt for Dong Ha. He is everything a man should not be, should never be.
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