I genuinely love how historical/alt-fantasy c-dramas just... throw you right in the deep end. "Here is a setting with established alliances and backstory, you get a three second primer and then we're moving the fuck on, so keep UP." It's engaging as hell!
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Replying to @fozmeadows
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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Replying to @jeannette_ng @fozmeadows
That and the fact that the characters are almost always incredibly typecast. Villains and heroes have very different makeup. There's just a lot of visual information there. I can pick up who is who in a mid season episode I watch in the corner of my eye af a restaurant.
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Replying to @jeannette_ng @fozmeadows
This isn't to say you shouldn't admire the idea of throwing the viewer in at the deep end? But I do think they way most c-dramas do it means characters drawing heavily on trope and always look a certain way.
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That's certainly true; it's novel for me in that it's a new set of tropes to learn, but I enjoy the learning process.
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