Caveat to first paragraph: And the men in them aren't much better. Why are so many of us comparatively crazy for 27 Dresses when those movies normally give us hives? Because both leads are likable, perfectly competent, and have actual personalities.
I give dramas a lot of slack for THINGS THAT ENRAGE ME because they do tend to focus on the female. And with period dramas (and movies and books) you usually have a conscious effort to give the female characters things to do. (In Emperor of the Sea, the heroine has her own rivalry and plotline going on the whole time. And Damo and Hwang Jin Yi are all about the heroine.) Granted, part of this is because I think the creators tend to be more aware of the need to pay attention to the female, due to the societies of the time.
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Date: 2008-11-04 09:59 pm (UTC)I give dramas a lot of slack for THINGS THAT ENRAGE ME because they do tend to focus on the female. And with period dramas (and movies and books) you usually have a conscious effort to give the female characters things to do. (In Emperor of the Sea, the heroine has her own rivalry and plotline going on the whole time. And Damo and Hwang Jin Yi are all about the heroine.) Granted, part of this is because I think the creators tend to be more aware of the need to pay attention to the female, due to the societies of the time.