I unfortunately I have to disagree at this time. Many people I know watch dramas because, generally, we get shiny, happy endings at the end of each episode. We want to forget our own pain of loss, our lonely, miserable lives and we expect TV shows to give us "everyone goes home happy and picks up again next time" scenarios. If we invest in characters only for them to eventually come to unexpected tragic endings we are reminded of what we are suffering in real life and are simply depressed & miserable all over again. If we temporarily avoided real life through fiction but now have to avoid fiction as well because we will only be reminded of real life, that does not leave much left.
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Date: 2009-08-16 02:45 am (UTC)