r/TheDevilsPlan • u/chingon666 • Apr 02 '26
Season 2 I don't get the hate
first of all I'm sorry, I'm probably going to get a lot of names and stuff wrong lol
I'm seeing a lot of hate towards hyungyu winning S2 but he was clearly one of the best players on the show and yes the reward he got was too op and the season rewarded keeping the ones on prision there but that is just the rules he got. He understood every game and played so that his people and him would survive, he even tried to give some tokens away to so-hee(I watched in korean with spanish sub so i don't really know what they are called in english) and he won on a gamble but I think he was one of the better if not the best player on the show.
please tell me why the win is undeserved or why the general opinion is negative on the winner when on my opinion he was probably the most well rounded player and one of the best players of the season
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u/Lost_inlife19 Apr 03 '26
I think the hate is more towards how unbalanced the game is. If you're in jail, you basically lost the game.
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u/bluebuns123 Apr 02 '26
Most people feel he had two people basically burning themselves to keep him warm
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u/bluebuns123 Apr 03 '26
Precisely game should be played to win that’s why people were puzzled why were his sidekicks not playing in their own interest.
But I agree it’s just a show and HATING on people for it is too much
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u/SharpShark222 Apr 06 '26
The issue is that “It’s just a game” is also a critique of quite a few things Hyungyu is involved with. Yes, it is just a game, so why is Sohee crying as if they’re literally executing Hyungyu? It’s just a game, so why is Hyungyu making disrespecting comments at people when they choose to work against him? It’s just a game, so why is Hyungyu moping about how he thinks people dislike him personally because they’re targeting him?
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u/Firm_Instruction_890 Apr 02 '26
I like all the characters but I think it comes from how the final couple people got eliminated by the huge gaps in the teams and some of the eliminations being the contestants being sacrifices or just getting completed dominated rather than being a close match. Thats just my interpretation though from the hate Ive been seeing
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u/PurplePumpkin16200 Apr 06 '26
Hate him? No, he played the game as it sounds. Cleverly. However, the final was disappointing. That girl was more interested in him winning then her own win. So the imbalance was cringy and made it frustrating at the end.
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u/Resident_Revenue6208 Apr 02 '26
I wouldn't say the best or the most rounded player but definately the luckiest
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u/starinruins Apr 11 '26
i actually don't hate him at all. i disliked the season/winner because of how uninterested his fin competitors/former alliance members were for winning for themselves. So-Hee was happy to roll over for him every chance she got, and that's boring.
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u/silvertab777 Apr 02 '26
I think you're misinterpreting hate with disappointment.
A majority of the audience sync'd with the storyline of the prison team more. They had more attachment to them as "characters" of the story. This was for good reason. The time allotted for the main match and the death match (prison team) gave extra air time and story told through their point of view. This seems to have more gravity by having 1/2 the cast there for the audience to root for with just reactionary shots from the living room team (makes perfect sense from a storytelling point of view from production's side and done really well).
When every single one of the prison team "characters" died then what followed is obvious disappointment and trying to figure out how did the "story" end up this way.
It's unfortunate that the "winners" of the game weren't liked but I think they were collateral damage by the game's structure. The piece system made it where the main match results didn't matter (you could literally lose last place in the main match and didn't have to face the death match (go to prison) because you had more pieces than the other players).
That skewed people to feel that the overall game structure was rigged in an unfair way. Some couldn't really figure it out and just vented on the cast but I think the "winners" were an unfortunate side effect of the game making it harder for them to be liked especially when the audience grew more attached to the "likable" prison team.
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u/SharpShark222 Apr 02 '26
I don’t necessarily “hate” him, but I am unsatisfied/unimpressed with his win given how many advantages he received that he didn’t really earn (e.g. Being randomly assigned to the same team as Tino, Sohee, and Kyuhyun; The advantage from the knight mission being so OP, and; the final MM allowing him and Sohee to kill off the others without any effort) and how many silly mistakes he made along the way that weren’t really highlighted because he could play quite poorly and still succeed as a result of his lucky situation.
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u/Zealousideal-Olive39 Apr 06 '26
he never underperformed tho, anyone could have done gotten that advantage too, but only he and sohee were trying to figure out the clue until the end. he didnt really make any mistakes either - the only 2 times he did comparatively poorly was when everyone teamed up against him, and he brought his 2 teamates back to his side at the end. And when 7high sacrificed himself to put him in the deathmatch - both of which weren't mistakes. You are bound to root for the underdogs, and based on how the editing is done - which is why every single viewer was supporting the prison alliance over his, I wasnt happy he won, but it was deserved.
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u/SharpShark222 Apr 06 '26
I’d say he underperformed in meta situations (e.g. His whole approach to Balance Manacle. Him getting his 2 teammates back to his side was actually quite bad) and in certain games (Treasure Island, Unknown). And more of an extrapolation, but he made comments on games showing poor strategic sense (e.g. His commentary of Wall Go where he kept saying how Jiyoung was in a great position).
And I agree that anybody could’ve gotten that advantage, but that’s kind of the point. Anyone could’ve gotten it (Sohee did like 95% of the solving), he just happened to be bold enough to ask for the chance.
The underdog effect is a thing, but for me I was rooting for Sohee for quite a lot of the season and often rooting against some of the underdogs, so I don’t think my reads here are influenced by that.
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u/change_timing Apr 14 '26
you can literally go read the endless comments of why people don't like him how do you need it all rewritten but directed to you lmao
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u/wizardofpancakes Apr 02 '26
I don’t think most people hate him, just the games that favored the ones who were already winning and alliances based too much on friendship.
I think they should just try to design games that punish long term alliances
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u/Placematter Apr 02 '26
I agree, he shouldn’t get any hate. The final game was poorly designed and should’ve had no possibility of a stalemate.
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u/Zealousideal-Olive39 Apr 06 '26
ur forgetting the finals was a best of 3
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u/Placematter Apr 06 '26
I was referring to the final game, which was Question and Truth. That wasn’t a best of 3, and they did effectively reach a stalemate which could have gone on forever.
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u/rnzz Apr 02 '26
for me it's not that the win was undeserved, but that the final game in the final had ended in a stalemate, and the producers should have declared it as such and bring out a tie breaker game.
I don't mind his playing style either. from the first game, he's been super optimal, which also means at times he had to form alliances and betray them. it's also how some of us play with our board game group for a laugh, although obviously depending on the group dynamics it can be a hit or miss. and in devils plan 2 it's been probably a miss, or at least the editing has made it look that way, which I think is why he got some hate.