I love watching dramas. Daytime soaps, Korean Dramas, Taiwanese Dramas, Thai Dramas -- I love them all. Thus, instead of being productive as I intended to be, I found myself in front of my desktop streaming Youtube videos yesterday afternoon. After three hours of gluing my eyes to my monitor, I finally left to get a drink of water. Well, partly also because I’ve surfed through every popular series I could find online. As I was drinking water, I wondered why I waste my time watching these dramas. They all have the same formula: guy meets girl, they fall in love but are separated by a misunderstanding which is often caused by a third wheel and/or family members. Somehow, in the end, they resolve the issues and live happily ever after, or in some cases either the guy or girl dies from a terminal disease such as leukemia. Sure, most of the dramas, especially the Asian ones, often teach morals and ethics to the audience, but aside from this and love, there is really not much else to gain. Why then do I anxiously return home every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday after work to check for updates of drama series if it’s the same old storyline? I can’t be the only person who feels this way, I mean, I visited forums which contains the exact same speculations. Dramas can be and generally are predictable, formulaic and terribly cheesy. But why is it that I find it hard to make time for homework, but I can always squeeze in a quick drama? What’s so entertaining about predictability? Honestly, sometimes I don’t even watch it for entertainment; I just watch it for the sake of watching it.
It is not peer pressure, I don't do it to fit in with others. On top of that, there are not that many people at
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14 years ago
2 comments:
This is an excellent narrative, and you effectively arrive at pressing questions by the end. Keep posing these questions as we try to write via this very distracting media center. How about some links to these dramas? Give your reader a visual cue!
The only drama I've watched was a Korean drama titled "Delightful Girl Choon-Hyang" - I was ADDICTED to it. At the end of each episode, I would try to restrain myself from watching the next because I would then have to spend another hour engaged to my laptop. I don't think watching "simple and formulaic entertainment" necessarily means you've become "intellectually lazy"; we all have things that we are attached to one way or another. I remember in high school that I would never be able to get off AIM - signing on AIM was my first priority whenever I got home. However, when I came to college my need for AIM became extinct. I believe that we all just need something to look forward to or spend our time on when we're not in the right mind set to work. For you, it's watching dramas; for me, it's playing sports and games; for others, it may be something else. After all, we're only humans.
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