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[Drama Chat] Lost in beautiful backstory
by missvictrix
It wouldn’t be a drama without a backstory, right? In fact, we are so used to the childhood tragedies, struggles, and backstory of our heroes that when a drama skimps over such elements, we feel something is missing. (Why isn’t this character fleshed out properly? Why don’t I know about his/her fledgling romance?!)
While backstory mostly serves a mechanical purpose (giving us plot setup, or character building), every now and then there’s a drama with a backstory component that is just so beautifully and skillfully told that I find my attention gets locked there.
It’s not that the present-day story line isn’t great. It’s that dramas can capture emotion and nostalgia so, so well in their flashbacks that it becomes hard to timeline-switch to the present, and to different actors. This is even more true for a drama that uses continuous flashbacks (example: Our Unwritten Seoul, and even Love Your Enemy) as opposed to a “prequel” style backstory in leading episodes (example: Come Here and Hug Me).
Have you ever gotten lost in a drama’s backstory? Which dramas did this to you, and why?
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