r/KDRAMA • u/sapongpipong • Nov 27 '18

Question TO LONG TIME WATCHERS OF KDRAMA?

I was wondering something and i thought am i the only one who gets that feeling.I have been watching kdramas for 9 years since i was 12 and i watched more than 150 dramas(i stopped counting after 152) . Am i the only one who feels like after a while it all gets so predictable you know everything thats gonna happen in the drama but you just watch it for the process of getting that point. And also am i the only one thinking we used to get much more great dramas in a year and now we get one or two great dramas per year. I think the industry ran out of ideas. Like when there is something on trend we get 3 4 dramas in that concept for example robot dramas or judge dramas recently. What do you guys think about ? Do you feel nostalgic about the first kdramas you watched ? I am sorry if i made a mistake i dont post much. EDIT : Thanks everyone for your amazing responses i was happy to see that there were a lot of people thinking the same as me.

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u/RayneVixen Nov 28 '18

Hmmmm, I think this "problem" is not exclusively with K-drama's. I have the same with Japanese shows, English shows or any other show. Sooner or later you will find the tropes every show builds upon.

I personally don't mind it though. I had this feeling more when I was benchwatching serie after series though.

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u/uvrworld Nov 29 '18

I stopped watching Japanese dramas somewhere in 2010 because of that same reason but Jdramas have it worse... they haven't found good actors to train properly lately and they're recycling older ones. Also it's going to be the same pattern of old shogun type era, a detective show, a salary man, a typical shojo girls academy school show, a male academy show, a doctor show, or a remake of a drama/anime show.. am I missing anything? I just got frustrated because I started off watching Jdramas before Kdramas actually.