whereas so many US shows, especially the formulaic ones, are written on the premise that The Audience Is An Idiot Who Cannot Remember What Happened Two Scenes Ago, with the result that all the dialogue is likepic.twitter.com/67FUWbRhZE
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I'm not convinced it's so much that as their willingness to lean on ancillary media like relationship diagrams and plot summaries produced and circulated in print magazines and online. Stuff the anglophone audience just doesn't ready access to.
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Even so, it's a different approach to the one taken by western media; I'm not saying I'd turn out a diagram or a summary from time to time (though possibly I lean on fandom to provide equivalent explanations at times?) but I do like having to figure it out as I go.
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Hmm idk. I do think some of it is cultural shorthand and markers that we might not recognise as a western audience? And also non-tv materials that aren't as easily accessible. Additionally, many of them are live actions of c-novels and danmei so it expects familiarity from viewer
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that's definitely true; I'm getting more familiar with some of the tropes and shorthand as I go, but I do think there's some different elements of pacing and structure that also have an impact, and I enjoy that, too
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I struggled so hard the first time I watched NIF, but also the payoff of the moment where your brain lights up after finally connecting the dots... Priceless. Also makes rewatch value much higher?
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I'm gonna save the rewatch for when I really need it, because it's gonna be SO GOOD
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I started a new c-drama last and the were totally "who the hell are all these people and how are they all connected" feelings for me but everything is slowly clicking into place
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I suppose it may telegraph that way to people unfamiliar with the genres or culture in question. The media adheres to well-loved genre conventions, tropes & cultural backdrop that are already understood by the target audience, thus don't bear repeating.
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