Kate

I see everyone stating the wasting on time, but for hate-watchers... it's fun. When I think about it, I am not really wasting time if I have fun hate-watching 🤣

I get bored by reading re-caps coz they are truly just "this happened, that happened" type of content. But I get how curiosity would lead to recap reading, since it's for sure a faster way to get to that ending and getting all the answers :)

For me analysing is fun. And it's not limited to dramas.
For example, when I was watching survival show Kingdom: Legendary War, I didn't just watch performances, after I watched a performance I stopped for a minute and analyzed what I enjoyed and what made it a good performance for me, what things I thought to be flaws and how they could be fixed, if the theme or the story was well presented, if not, how I would go about it. For me, this is fun.

If I see a bad scene in a show, I start to think, how they could have filmed or written it in a different way etc.

hope you don't mean trolling or something like that.
There is a difference between stating your criticism and having fun and civil discussion with someone who has a different view (which I meant in the article), and being a troll.

SO BAD that it's good could be either hate-watching or guilty pleasure. Sometimes these two are not that easy to separate.

Finishing every show, even when you don't like it is truly a waste of time. I don't hate-watch every show I dislike. I drop 90% of shows, and only a few have those mysterious special qualities for me, when the process of hate-watching is actually more fun, and less frustrating. Or rather the frustration is fun.

As for insulting people for different opinion... here's the thing: I see this behavior far more from fans compared to people who dislike the show. I rarely see people who dislike the show reply to people who love it, but leave any negative comment under well loved drama, and you will get 10+ responses how you are wrong, or you are just a troll or a hater. Even if you try to explain in a well mannered way why you dislike it.

Well... I mostly drop too. I rarely hate-watch, but when I do it's a fun and exciting ride 🤣

Well... do you dislike the shows you watch that have not so good reviews? If not, then no, it is not hate-watching, but rather you just having less mainstream taste in dramas.

It is the term that is at the moment mainstream and in use. Also, the idea is: we truly DISLIKE the show, at times even hate it. But just because people hate the show, does not mean they will behave in hateful manner. These are two separate issues.

You talking about being just being di*k and trolls and it has nothing to do with hate-watching. There are people who LOVE the show and would call names anyone who disagrees. Or they will call actors in other currently airing dramas names, just coz their favorite title is not as popular. Since the behavior is not limited nor strictly linked to hate-watching, it should not be put in the same category.

I find it funny how much we shit on the dudes, as if the girls did no wrong from the start.
How come we think Ji A is amazing, when she plays 3 dudes (realistically speaking, she does not look that interested in any of them and she just likes flirting), but god forbit Jin Taek goes after someone else than So Yeol 🤣

Even Kang So Yeon, whom I liked the most kind of started to annoy me lately. It's not like she was interested in any of the guys, it feels like she just does not want to be left alone. It's true she never showed any interest in Jin Taek when he was working hard to get her interested, and she only responded when he made any move. And when he started to think she id not interested and moved to someone else, now she is jealous and annoyed? Well maybe you could have go and talk to him once 🤣

An Ye Won seems the best for me. She does not take this whole shit too seriously and just has fun.

Constantly voicing out hate on the TCs is the same as having someone constantly yell out obscenities and mock a movie while watching it in a movie theater. < it's not. You can turn off the live comment. You can't turn off the volume os someone screaming in theater. So it's not the same.

Also, mocking character's looks has nothing to do with hate-watching, it's just being rude, since the character's looks is how the actor/actress looks. Not every person who rants about the show is rude about it and how they voice their complaints.

I'd say the curiosity is the strongest reason. I am just amazed at times, how ridiculous the plot can get hahaha

The entertainment does not come from the drama itself, but rather analysing the flaws and ranting hahaha it's just a different from of fun 🤣 Since I don't do it often, I never saw it as a huge waste of time for me.

As for the comments - I strongly believe we either all can write whatever we want, be it positive or negative, or no one can wrote anything.

oh these are the ones I just cannot watch. The level of anger they bring in me is dangerous lol

I tried to rewatch it last year and failed at episode 4 🤣

Damn, I do it all: drop, skip scenes, watch on 2x speed 🤣
I'm like the worst audience ever, and you are the best

yeah, and somehow they always able to surprise me 🤣

Hope-watching is the only type I do not do. I just drop shows, fast. Honestly, I can;t even describe why some shows I drop and some shows I hate-watch. What the show has to have for me to hate-watch 🤣

Movies are good to hate-watch coz they are shorter, so you minimalize the "waste of time" aspect from it 🤣

It is possible to be like Hyunsoo, as in believing you have a disorder you do not have, and act accordingly. BUT they added the plot of him researching the subject, they added the aspect of him actually being extremely smart. The details did not match. They can't tell me he thinks is a psychopath, a smart person to that, when they show doing exercises psychopaths would not need to do ever. When his biggest issue is something psychopaths do not struggle with. How did he even got to the idea of all that practice, when any type of research would never lead him to the idea it's something he has to do. Coz psychopaths do not struggle with mimicking emotions and reading people. They struggle with truly feeling what other people do in a given situation so it's an emotional empathy problem, but cognitively wise, they are able to understand the emotions.

It's not about just the fact he believed in the misdiagnosis and acted according with it. It's about all the details of how his character was presented and the circumstances that do not add up.

As for cults. There is a reason people get separated from society when they join cults. This way the information they can access is limited so they are not confronted with the truth. But they told us ML did the research... implemented some aspects of it into his daily life (so he understood it), but also completely ignored the fact the things he is doing do not match with psychopathy at all, so he did not understand it.

I never said he was confident. I said he was shown to be smart at many instances.

And again, it's all about poor writing for me. If you want me to believe a character is confused - do NOT show me they did an excessive research on the topic and used the information they learned to function well in society. Coz what they tried to tell me he both understood everything, and understood nothing of what he studied.

+ it just shows the lack of research the writer made. Coz this whole mimicking facial expressions and reading people's feelings is something psychopaths DO NOT struggle with, but people with ASD do. This whole aspect made no sense with his diagnosis.

I had the same issue with It's Okay to Not Be Okay. Main character was introduced by psychopath, but by the end of the show she was not and she was getting better coz of people around her, when psychopathy does not work like that. Most dramas that name a specific disorder a character was diagnosed with or misdiagnosed with does a poor job with characterisation of the symptoms. They show what they want psychopathy to be and what fits the plot, and not what psychopathy is. When they just could tell us characters have some psychological issues, without telling us specifics, and this way they would solve their own problems.