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
My wife is always watching c dramas and I'll look over her shoulder and ask are these the bad guys because they are wearing the bad guy wardrobe and makeup
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Replying to @lchanwrites @fozmeadows
It's hilarious when a character goes evil because their eye makeup changes and it's like that Mitchell and Webb sketch with the Sexy Evil Voice in cosy crime dramas.
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oh my god, the evil dudes in Legend of Fei take it to a whole new level - they not only have the eye makeup but they have EVIL STYLISED EYEBROWS
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