bestie im really sorry but thats a lot of text I don't have the attention span for <3
I didn't read Everything was a Mistake but personally for me, I am a sucker for stories that made me lose my minds. I love stories that made me feel like I'm gonna kill my phone. And I usually read stories till the end although many people dropped it cuz I just believe in that 'happy ever after' card. Behind all those misunderstandings, I still yearn for a happy ending. And if it doesn't end happily, well at least it ends. The ending was not happy but it still ends. So yeah. Sorry for this long paragraph.
Ok so we all know about the trope where everything about the plot is just misunderstandings right?
It can be annoying right?
But I found out how it can be used for a pretty decent story.
There is a good example of this and bad one
Father I don’t want to get married
And
Everything was a mistake
I’ll be trying to figure out why the flaw in one is a good feature in the other. You can check out these Manhwas because I won’t spoil any specific parts of either story.
So I believe one of the key reasons is that Father I don’t want to get married is that the misunderstandings lead to the reader’s enjoyment and overall fawning of the character dynamics as there really isn’t much frustration that comes from these misunderstandings they actually make you want to keep reading because the most likely thing to happen when the misunderstandings are cleared is that everyone will get along and the fans will get their payoff. We spend time with the characters outside of the misunderstandings as the dramatics of their lives don’t consume all of their traits it is very endearing for the story to have it’s characters be well liked even in misunderstandings.
Now we go to everything was a mistake which is just pure frustration with it’s misunderstandings as the misunderstandings don’t lead to good characters, by this I mean that the characters don’t have any traits outside of “I don’t want to die” for whatever reason. The misunderstandings actually keep the readers from good character interactions as if they have any traits. At some point the drama and misunderstandings got so muddled that I just dropped it. The story doesn’t treat itself as a romance because no matter how hard it try I have given up on considering it a romance as the two leads can’t even stand being in the same room. The misunderstandings just lead to less character interactions, less characterization, less story progression and worst of all less fan service to the readers. At this point the only things I’ve seen of people tolerating this is them being too deep into it to drop it.
Simply put one misunderstanding leads to good characters and good story the other leads to confusion.
I will not force you to like,hate or read either of these stories as everyone has their own opinions on the matter. The main reason I compared these two is that they are so similar with plot that I had to try and understand why I liked one more than the other.
What are your opinions on the matter?
do you think Everything was a Mistake worked better?