Swapping Our Best and Worst Rated Dramas

Enny: Well, stories about failure and doing your best for your dream are just something I’d choose without a second thought, and when I saw something like that on Aehsassy’s fav drama list, how could I choose anything else over Hajimete Koi wo Shita Hi ni Yomu Hanashi?

Thoughts- [Rating – 6/10] I’ll begin by telling you my rating of 6/10. Because everything I say further will be an attempt to justify that rating to you all, and to Aehsassy as well (sometimes over-explanation saves the day). So, as I said, the premise sounds my taste, and it being on Aehsassy’s fav drama list I already had my hopes up. Even though I am not a fan of reverse harem, I still decided to go with this, ignoring everything including the student-teacher relationship idea. (I am not against age gap romances, but a student-teacher relationship is something that just doesn’t sound right in my head). I enjoyed the part about studying, being a weird adult, trying to move on after failure, being a rebel for all valid reasons and that’s that.

I find the prejudice that bookworms are supposed to be clueless about romance extremely annoying, and how FL couldn’t figure out the meaning of almost-spoken proposals by the other two leads, but could see through ML’s gestures extremely illogical. Other than that, I couldn’t understand why ML started to fall for her, like liking her for being a different adult is something my brain can accept, but anything other than that doesn’t sit well with me (and that’s what was happening throughout the show). The end was quite disappointing because every annoying cliché was displayed, like a break-up when you like each other, lying and even using someone else just to make the other person give up, implicitly assuming the other person hates you (for some selfish action of yours) and avoiding them, realizing everything all of a sudden just 2 minutes before the episode ends because you want the show to have a fairytale ending. Need I mention more to justify my rating? (well, I guess I’ll do)

The only sensible person in the show was that school teacher. He’d say things on time, he’d never hide anything, and it wouldn’t be wrong to say that it’s all thanks to him our leads got together. But no, the writer couldn’t bear that I had started liking a character, they had to mess up – and they did. Suddenly this person realizes that he loves someone else, and, like some annoying amnesia trope, he forgets that he was liking FL and starts chasing someone else. Don’t even say that he had already liked his ex-wife from the start and just got confused about his feelings for FL, because I ain’t buying that shit. He did like FL, and this sudden change was just because the writer wanted to throw the best choice out of the picture (so ML doesn’t have a competent fellow competing against him).

I liked some dialogues here, and some points of view had me reconsidering decisions in my life. I’d certainly like to give some of them a mention …

 “I am nowhere near being who I wanted to be, despite that, I’ll still keep trying.” 

 “Even if they don’t like you back, or stop liking you, you can still be glad that you experienced love. Find someone who’ll make you feel that way.“ 

 “What does happiness even mean? – You don’t think about what it means when you are truly happy.”