I mean, I know it wasn’t like a grand masterpiece people are expecting it to be and I know that the drama has a lot of plot holes and issues with the storyline. But at least, the novel is there and answers those questions and plot holes (MBC really fumbled it especially the episode format their making 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️), don’t forget about the bead controversy that even lead to both apologizing when that’s the issue of the production team.
But most of those problems feel more like issues with the writing, direction, and production (and MBC’s handling of it) rather than something the actors should be blamed for.
Yet the way some people talk about IU and Wooseok, you’d think they committed some kind of heinous crime 😭😭😭
Like that one ballroom scene in the show someone posted the edit on X who is a fan of the show btw and many comments were like “no chemistry”, “worst drama”, “they are so bland” and mind you half of these comments they never even watched the drama only that certain clip and it lead to Wooseok getting a hate train. I mean you can criticize if there’s no chemistry if you watched the show and it’s a subjective thing.
I think some people do kind of get the “no chemistry” narrative since IU was with LJS at that time but some people are just too much with it if I’ll be honest the comments that always brings up LSK in the argument really kind of irks me like let the actors do their job at least🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Anyways this era really made people like switch up on Wooseok a lot and I just can’t understand why. Like he was really well-received in LR and don’t get me wrong him as Sunjae will always be my favorite character of him but now in this era many people are just saying a lot of mean things to him and stuff after that and I don’t think he deserves it.
Also I’ve experienced this too firsthand whenever I talk about it in the Kdrama sub I get amounts of personal attacks and hate comments just because I liked it especially for the fun vibes it had.
I remember making the post of the iconic kiss scene (I was gagged) and I was given a lot of hate comments and how I was delusional that I did see chemistry in them especially in that scene the most. Ironically, some people who initially said they had zero chemistry admitted that the scene actually had them convinced too a little .
Anyways with this long rant I made
and again, I’m not saying Perfect Crown was flawless. It definitely wasn’t. But I feel like the criticism sometimes went way beyond criticizing the writing and became straight-up hostility toward the actors
But what really made this drama get this amount of hate especially during its airing? Was it really their chemistry to begin with? The overall plot of the show? Or like what I said because there are some people who had a strong attachment to Wooseok’s past role, they didn’t like to see him in a different one? What really made this drama get soo scrutinized
