The real pain is getting to a show's 80% mark with solid-brilliant writing, only for censorship, actor and production-clout…
I'd love to watch dramas in their non-censored versions. I'm so sure that many of them could have gone from crap to cult if it was not for the censored editing.
"I mean: besides all the elements you've rightly flagged, the main problem for me is the treatment of womankind.…
So, we're soulmates ;) ! I often feel alone for the same reasons! There's so many dramas that get labelled "strong female lead" and get high ratings for this when they're actually about damsel in distress...
The most recent drama deception for me was In a Class of Her Own. The cognitive dissonance is pretty subtle but if you keep a close eye on it you'll see: the FL is supposed to be smart but she has always bad ideas that only make things worse. She's renowed to be talented but she sucks at everything. Even as a writer, she's "only" a popular author, not a "legitimate" erudite one. She makes so many terrible decisions that she need at least three men to be saved (not counting the secondary roles)! Apart from what she does, her temperament is unenviable and wrongheaded. She's always sulking and obsessing about money. Last but not least, her character development is zero: she even became a much terrible person in the end.
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The most recent drama deception for me was In a Class of Her Own. The cognitive dissonance is pretty subtle but if you keep a close eye on it you'll see: the FL is supposed to be smart but she has always bad ideas that only make things worse. She's renowed to be talented but she sucks at everything. Even as a writer, she's "only" a popular author, not a "legitimate" erudite one. She makes so many terrible decisions that she need at least three men to be saved (not counting the secondary roles)!
Apart from what she does, her temperament is unenviable and wrongheaded. She's always sulking and obsessing about money. Last but not least, her character development is zero: she even became a much terrible person in the end.