Pet-Peeves, Cliches & Stereotypes

 Metta Ksanti:

A severe pet peeve of mine: when characters act out of character...

ooo..I get that...for example, they are a smart and cold person then all of a sudden they go all goofy and crazy for no reason. I am not saying people aren't multifaceted but its always put too the extreme in dramas.

Ooh, ooh another one: cakey makeup, streaky makeup, messy brows, crooked brows... *pulls hair out*

Then I guess along those lines: when it shows the scene's not taken in one shot... like if something in the background changed, or their position from one shot to another is different...

But I guess that's just me being picky?

There's definitely one trope that annoys me the most (even more than forced love triangles) and it's:

NOBLE PROTAGONISTS!

(or how I also call it: "We have 4-6 Episodes left, what shall we do?"-Syndrome)

I get a headache the moment I hear something along the lines of "I should leave... so that he can have a happy life". Or when the lead remembers or learns that they've hurt the other person in the past (or have some weird disease or lied about something idk) and go: "Oh damn, I feel so guilty, how could he/she love me, I should just go and break up with her/him, we'll all be so much happier"

The Hell? I can guarantee that in literally NO drama I have ever watched, the decision to leave the other person, break their heart or keep a secret in order to "save" the other person, had a good outcome. NEVER. Therefore it gets annoying. It stands out to me as a viewer because we all know that trying to be "noble" in dramas always results in what you tried to avoid. So there's no surprise. We know what will happen.

I guess that's why it annoys me so, because it feels so forced and not like something a normal person would do.

I actually think it's not noble at all, I think it's pretty much taking "the easy way" out and purely egoistic. Leaving on your own is often easier than living  with something or working something out together. 

Not being noble is much harder. Depending on the situation you may have to grovel, beg for forgivness, learn to deal with some condition/disease and, most of all, you actually have to communicate with your S.O./love interest, truthfully and honest at that, which seems to be an impossible feat for most drama characters.

Sorry for the rant, it just annoys me so much and I wish there were more dramas with people who actually go for what they want/decide to take a chance on their possible happiness and COMMUNICATE, rather than give it all away for some altruistic reason. 

This one might be a weird pet peeve but it bothers me SO much when characters get angry and throw their cellphones (or other character's cellphones) to the wall or to the ground and they break. I hate it. Why would you damage a perfectly good device? It's so cringy to watch.

Ahhh I could mention a million but the one that bothers me a lot is love triangle.

It always amaze me when a girl who apparently spent 20+ of her life without any bf suddenly get ONE guy interested in her...but somehow ANOTHER follows at the same time! Why at the same timeline? Couldn't this guy come 3 years later or something??

Or the childhood\long term friend who kept his crush hidden for this girl for almost his entire life but once that one guy comes he suddenly needs to confess or get the girl? You had all the chances in the world, why didn't you try before?

The worst is when the guy/girl act like they can't move on...

Can dramas bring (cool) girls (not bitchy) for the second male lead instead of creating meaningless love triangles?

 samsoons:

This one might be a weird pet peeve but it bothers me SO much when characters get angry and throw their cellphones (or other character's cellphones) to the wall or to the ground and they break. I hate it. Why would you damage a perfectly good device? It's so cringy to watch.

hahaha, that is a good peeve! Especially it is mostly the rich people doing that like weirdos 

 RoseRain:

Ahhh I could mention a million but the one that bothers me a lot is love triangle.

It always amaze me when a girl who apparently spent 20+ of her life without any bf suddenly get ONE guy interested in her...but somehow ANOTHER follows at the same time! Why at the same timeline? Couldn't this guy come 3 years later or something??

Or the childhood\long term friend who kept his crush hidden for this girl for almost his entire life but once that one guy comes he suddenly needs to confess or get the girl? You had all the chances in the world, why didn't you try before?

The worst is when the guy/girl act like they can't move on...

Can dramas bring (cool) girls (not bitchy) for the second male lead instead of creating meaningless love triangles?

I completely understand!!! I've come to the conclusion that Love Triangle/Squares are just the admitted part of society of people who don't understand HOW UNLIKELY THAT IS TO HAPPEN! I can understand it if SHE WAS A SUPERMODEL or CELEB, but for crying out loud. What is more annoying is when the make the MALE LEAD this ICON OF HANDSOMENESS THAT EVERY GIRL MUST GO CRAZY OVER AND TRY TO FIGHT OVER.

I am tired of the poor Second Female Lead because made to be the villain because all girls can't stand to be next to each because of one man.

CALL ME CRAZY.....I don't even know if this counts a peeve, or if anyone else feel this way, but I am tired of dramas where the first person the female lead "bumps into" is the male lead in romance dramas. I kind of wish that dramas didn't share the details of whether the actor/actess is the main or supporting role. Because its quiet predictable that each drama involving romance with the two main leads means they are going to be together. 

So they spend 5 to 10 episodes trying to get them to fall for each other and once they do they have people trying to tear them apart (as if their relationship is that important), then BOOM (amnesia, car accident, cancer, etc) adds to the fuel THEN THEY realize how the POWER OF LOVE IS SO STRONG! SO STRONG.  The End.

This is why I truly believe (and some may disagree with me about this) that romance should never be the main plot of a drama and only secondary or even thirdly in the whole drama.