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How long have I been watching ? Since the 1980s.
How long have I been watching ? Since the early 2000s.

That's a LOT of dramas watched. If you have been watching for a long time you tend to get fussier and pickier, and your taste is definitely different from newcomers' 🤭

How about you?

@liztai Wow! You have history 😄 I fell down the rabbit hole during the corona pandemic so that would be about 2020? I had become disenchanted with western series on American streaming services and was looking for something different…

#Kdrama doesn’t quite work for me because of my adoption hang up, which has more to do with me than with the quality of the dramas, I think.

I like some #Jdramas, too, but mainly like #Cdrama.

No logic, really 😃

@Sollenbum who needs logic when it comes to dramas! Glad you discovered Cdramas 🥰

@liztai I’m so much happier in Cdrama-land. I think it was Game of Thrones that began my disenchantment with western series. It seemed like they were using graphic violence and nudity to fish for viewers rather than tell a good story. Effects need to be motivated by plot and character, not just piled on because it sells subscriptions to a streaming service.

@Sollenbum @liztai ⬆️ This. At a certain point in Game of Thrones one stops caring for the characters because they are only there to provide shock moments or body parts to gawk at.

@Katztronaut @liztai Exactly 🙄 and at some point all bodies just look the same and the violence seems gratuitous. If other people like that, then they can watch it but I got tired of it and moved to #Cdrama 🌸

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@Sollenbum @Katztronaut @avradi It was GoT that got me disenchanted too!!! I am usually pretty resilient to tv horror and violence, but the graphic rapes and killing (some of the victims were children) just made me sick. I think GoT was the last drama I chased. The way it ended made the suffering I went through with the violence not worth it 🤣.
But tbh, I mostly turned away cos Hollywood got super formulaic and stopped innovating. And endless seasons! It just got old.

@liztai @Katztronaut @avradi Oh wow! We have had really similar experiences 😄 It was wasn’t a snap decision; we both seemed to have turned our backs on such films and series, because they rely too heavily on bare skin and excessive violence.

#Cdrama isn’t always good and some plots are ridiculous. Censorship is a problem and not everyone can act well, but I’m not subjected to callous exploitation of nudity and over-the-top violence on screen.

@Sollenbum Honestly glad they have safeguards for nudity and violence. I didn't realise how affected I was by them until it was gone. Now it's just very relaxing to just watch your cdrama knowing that it won't suddenly turn to soft porn lol @Katztronaut @avradi

@Sollenbum
_Same_ _So much same!_ Everything turned gritty - which apparently meant grey violence and boring nudity. There's so little fun left in it! C-drama at least allows for goofy moments - and such rare things as colours!
@liztai @Katztronaut @avradi@ieji.de

@MarthaCrimson what I also like is that China produces "hopeful" dramas like Minning Town and She and Her Girls, where you see people rise from terrible conditions to something better. I realise Hollywood don't produce hopeful dramas like these anymore. How about slice of life like Meet Yourself? I missed Gilmore Girl type shows @Sollenbum @Katztronaut

@liztai @MarthaCrimson @Sollenbum I loved Gilmore Girls! At some point it seemed everybody turned nasty on them and you read a lot of criticism along the lines of "shallow" "too cozy" "too white upperclass utopia" and producers dropped the genre like a hot potato. Instead, everything turned gritty.

@Katztronaut @liztai @Sollenbum We can't have girly things - that would give Hollywood cooties. I may be exagerating a bit, but when seeing what companies chose to keep despite criticism, productions that can be labled "for women" "gay" or "queer" usually falls first.

@liztai @MarthaCrimson @Katztronaut I like “Meet Yourself” as well, especially since the characters aren’t young. They are trying to find a better way to live life but without grandiose gestures. It’s a slice of life drama.

@liztai @Sollenbum @Katztronaut I'm a fish out of water since I have seen neither Meet Yourself nor Gilmore Girls, but hope used to be a big part of fantasy too. The trope that 'they're always saving the world' did, in fact, mean that the world was saved - and usually the characters met an equal mix of a-holes and friendly helpers on the way. Currently Western fantasy have an overweight of a-holes, even among the heroes.