that evil mother/ father.
Honestly I am quite apalled at the demonization of parent figures in k-dramas. How many times can you do it? I think I had the most proboem with the mother-son relationship in Secret Garden and Boys Before Flowers and many similar ones, where the mother (or other times father) is very cardboard-like evil. It's not right, in my mind, to demonise them so much and those figures in standard k-dramas are seriously lacking multidimensional representation. Children are not always right but there is no reason for the parents to be demonised as stopping their children. I really have a problem with that. It was the same with Cain and Abel, it was a pretty good watch but it failed to avoid the sterotype completely, that's why it fell a bit flat for me for that very reason, but at least the rationale was somehow made more meaningful by the hospital settine ang it was there, unlike in Boys over flowers or Secret garden. And in BBf that mother was such a typical..well Witch throughout most of the drama, though it was somehow compensated at the end, it really didn;t feel multimensional to me.
(thank you for the thread, I so wanted to say this somewhere)
I do not mind klutzy girls myself, I kinda like them. Sometimes it;s not really klutzy. In Japanese hotaru no hikari- the girl is a good, hardoworking person but simply slob at home that doesn;t care about love, nor house work. I It started with a kiss we have a girl that's simply quite slow and ends up with the person that is cold-hearted but possibly needs her the most. I have a bit of leniency towards these kinds of sterotypes.
But less tolerance towards the parents sterotype, practically every drama demonizes them, there are few which do it in a more realistic way. I'm always a bit wary of the parent-child dynamics because of it, but for the most paqrt expect to see at least one evil parent figure in a k-drama.
But no matter what we say, these are standard premises and k-dramas need something to rely on for quick story impulse. And sometimes the traditional premises are simp,y the dsafest ones. Also, they are like fairy tales in that, fairy tales use a lot of these standard archetypes, like evil stepstister, bad mother, so I like to think about most korean dramas as fairy tales and more often than not I simply accept it as such, as long as the drama is well made and has a good overall effect, no matter what else I may pick out as flaws.
