genuinely wondering but how did she call for her car to be dragged away if shes mute? is it assumed shes only…
I think it's less selective mutism and more that she's faking being mute imo. I think she was selectively mute, but was 'cured' but still pretends to be mute in front of Husband, in laws and Mother for some reason
TLDR: -Be more selective with what you watch, it's pretty easy to tell when a Kdrama has a cliche plotline, don't watch those dramas. -Broaden your horizons and watch dramas from other countries. -Tropes are inevitable thats the point of a trope, every drama industry has popular tropes not just kdramas -the sheer popularity and profitability of kdramas is inevitably going to lead to loads of carbon copy dramas
The reason why Kdramas seem so stale right now is because all you're seeing is the popular dramas. These dramas become popular because they have popular tropes. Ofc tropes seem repetitive, thats the point of a trope, its just a wellknown plotline. The big channels are trying to make as much money as possible so ofc they are going to shove as many popular tropes as possible into one drama. That combined with the oversturation right now makes kdramas seem repetitive and biring, these big channels are just throwing things at the wall until something sticks. Tropes aren't unique to kdramas. They appear everywhere. Take Cdramas, a few popular tropes i can think of: transmigration stories where an author goes into their book and falls in love with their main character (while the real FL of the book ends up being evil/bad/just not a nice person), contract marriage due to a child, awakening a demon lord and having a special connection with them due to it. I haven't watched many Cdramas but still I've managed to notice tropes that are popular. Thats just what happens when something gets popular, take booktok, the rise of booktook has lead to a rise in these really low quality romance/fabtasy/romatasy YA books being mass released that are bad quality books as well as just being the exact same thing, but that doesnt mean that 'books are losing their charm' it means that you have to stop looking at only the popular books and expand your watchlist. D.P(2021), Weak Hero Class 1(2022) Under the queens umbrella (2022), Moving (2022), Twinkling Watermelon (2023). Queen Woo (which is going to come out) these are a few very popular dramas that have come out post lockdown that i can think of off the top of my head that are nothing like what you complain about, they don't contain those tropes. Plus i think another problem is the sheer amount of Kdramas you can eatch in one sitting. Kdramas are mostly only 16 episodes long with hour long episodes they can easily be binged in a day especially now that a lot of things are remote, this means you can watch a higher quantity of them comapred to kets say Cdramas which consist mainly of close to 40 episodes per show, so you end up watching more kdramas and just get fatigued. Either get healthier watching habits i.e dont binge watch a whole show in a day, or watch shows from other countries, Cdramas, Thai dramas, American Dramas, British dramas. And don't get me wrong i'm not saying you're wrong, i actually agree with you to some extent. This year the whole rich boy (mainly ceo) /poor girl rom-com genre has been really popular, last year it was the time travel genre this just happens. I find that now I don't limit myself to dramas of one country and have broadened my horizons by not being discriminatory of what country I watch from, I hardly have this complaint anymore. I watched a kdrama, then i watched a Cdramas (the double) now im watching BBC's Life on Mars and also an ongoing Kdrama -Love next door (that honestly has a pretty basic/cliché plotline, but it's fine because i've not watched many with that plotline this year).
i would like to say if you are borred with kdrama world .Welcome to the vast world of c dramas .c dramas are the…
I actually disagree with Cdrama having better CGI and Effects. Its quite literally the only reason i dont watch xinxia dramas. I think the effects are for the most part abysmal imo and really ruin my immersion in the show.
What? Lovely runner has only 4% rating? Would’nt have guessed based on the hype
honestly when was the last time you watched tv? LR's core viewers are young and so will probably be watching on streaming sites rather than on tv. Moreover, Mon-Tue dramas don't normally get high ratings, to get even 5% is a big feat, its mainly fri-sun dramas that score the high ratings
It makes sense tbh, it has high double digit ratings on Friday and then drops on Saturday when it has to compete with QOT, the same thing happened to wonderful world. It'll probably show more growth once QOT ends
-Be more selective with what you watch, it's pretty easy to tell when a Kdrama has a cliche plotline, don't watch those dramas.
-Broaden your horizons and watch dramas from other countries.
-Tropes are inevitable thats the point of a trope, every drama industry has popular tropes not just kdramas
-the sheer popularity and profitability of kdramas is inevitably going to lead to loads of carbon copy dramas
The reason why Kdramas seem so stale right now is because all you're seeing is the popular dramas. These dramas become popular because they have popular tropes. Ofc tropes seem repetitive, thats the point of a trope, its just a wellknown plotline. The big channels are trying to make as much money as possible so ofc they are going to shove as many popular tropes as possible into one drama. That combined with the oversturation right now makes kdramas seem repetitive and biring, these big channels are just throwing things at the wall until something sticks. Tropes aren't unique to kdramas. They appear everywhere.
Take Cdramas, a few popular tropes i can think of: transmigration stories where an author goes into their book and falls in love with their main character (while the real FL of the book ends up being evil/bad/just not a nice person), contract marriage due to a child, awakening a demon lord and having a special connection with them due to it. I haven't watched many Cdramas but still I've managed to notice tropes that are popular.
Thats just what happens when something gets popular, take booktok, the rise of booktook has lead to a rise in these really low quality romance/fabtasy/romatasy YA books being mass released that are bad quality books as well as just being the exact same thing, but that doesnt mean that 'books are losing their charm' it means that you have to stop looking at only the popular books and expand your watchlist.
D.P(2021), Weak Hero Class 1(2022) Under the queens umbrella (2022), Moving (2022), Twinkling Watermelon (2023). Queen Woo (which is going to come out) these are a few very popular dramas that have come out post lockdown that i can think of off the top of my head that are nothing like what you complain about, they don't contain those tropes.
Plus i think another problem is the sheer amount of Kdramas you can eatch in one sitting. Kdramas are mostly only 16 episodes long with hour long episodes they can easily be binged in a day especially now that a lot of things are remote, this means you can watch a higher quantity of them comapred to kets say Cdramas which consist mainly of close to 40 episodes per show, so you end up watching more kdramas and just get fatigued. Either get healthier watching habits i.e dont binge watch a whole show in a day, or watch shows from other countries, Cdramas, Thai dramas, American Dramas, British dramas. And don't get me wrong i'm not saying you're wrong, i actually agree with you to some extent. This year the whole rich boy (mainly ceo) /poor girl rom-com genre has been really popular, last year it was the time travel genre this just happens. I find that now I don't limit myself to dramas of one country and have broadened my horizons by not being discriminatory of what country I watch from, I hardly have this complaint anymore. I watched a kdrama, then i watched a Cdramas (the double) now im watching BBC's Life on Mars and also an ongoing Kdrama -Love next door (that honestly has a pretty basic/cliché plotline, but it's fine because i've not watched many with that plotline this year).