I don't hate him, but he is defiantly not my favourite. At first, he just seemed kind of arrogant; but then in Queen's for a Day, he kicked out Varian into the blizzard, which he himself described as a death sentence ! Why did he throw out a teenage boy into a deadly blizzard, instead of letting him stay in the castle ? Then, he presumably started a rumor about Varian hurting Rapunzel, which is something Varian didn't do. I say presumably because I never saw a scene in the show that...