Anyway, I was watching a few episodes of One Tree Hill and I became aware of myself relating the characters and scenarios to my own life. Too often I've heard people say "this kindda stuff only happens in movies" after watching dramas like One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl, 90210 or even Grey's Anatomy. Yes, its true that only in the movies are everyone filthy rich and living on the hills of LA or on fifth avenue or having hot sexy make out sessions with mcsteamy surgeons in an oncall room. But I find that there are always values that are incorporated into the shows that we can relate to or learn from.
There are definitely upsides and downsides to these dramas. Yes, their main purpose are undeniably for entertainment and profitability purposes. But that doesn't mean that the writers and directors of these shows have never thought about how much these shows could influence audiences, especially adolescent audiences who have the mind as easily swayed as a leaf on a windy winter day. But honestly, if these dramas aren't about characters living the lifestyles of the rich and famous, who would be interested in watching them??
The main concoction for these dramas are simple :
- rich hot adolescent with tons of issues.
- girls biting each others heads off for some guy with a sexy smile and six packs
- guys beating each other up for some chick with a size 0 figure
- characters getting together with one another as often as people swap partners on the dancefloor.
- what more are there?? i'll never tell xoxo, cheesy lines.
- tons n tons of onscreen sexy-time
- and the gluing agent used to put all these parts together and making season loads of episodes are the extremely broad themes and storyline
Personally, I feel that One Tree Hill is the most real series -- though undoubtedly overly dramatic, not everyone has a psycho nanny who wants to kidnap their kids -- amongst other dramas of this genre. Because the characters are shown to be dealing with real life and real problems. And the best part is that they actually grow up and face relevant problems in life as their characters grow. unlike Gossip Girl which never seems to really grows out of gossips, parties and boys, when there are so much more to life. It depends on what you perceive out of all the overrated dramatizing.
I think that sometimes these dramas are designed to show you a way out if you're going through similar issues or show you why you should or shouldnt go down certain paths that aren't even worth trying like drugs. Sometimes it even reminds audiences of the importance of the people around us. Sometimes it puts our thoughts back into perspective when we feel lost, because we know that we're not the only ones, since that prob has even made it into the screens.
So these things don't only happen in movies. Movies are a reflection of people's lives, but in a more dramatized way. Because movies are written by people who has been through life like everyone else. Personally, I think dramas are like horoscope readings, not all of it may be relevant to you, but the ones that are gives you very broad and general advice on how you should deal with it or how things might turn out, but it still depends on whether you believe in serendipity.
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