Originally posted by: AreYaar
LOL and who said that only Indian audiences go overboard when it comes to taking shows seriously?
People are over the top about every small thing in Western shows as well....but the difference is that nothing in western shows is as asinine as the pervasive senselessness in Indian TV soaps. Are we really going to normalize a track of a bahu doing surgery now? 😕😆
And as far as I know, western actors don't defend mindlessness in their shows to the extent Indian actors seem to. For e.g. Game of Thrones got a lot of criticism for it's last season from the fans....and all the actors didn't blindly defend it....they acknowledged that they may have done things differently but it was the writer's call......they didn't try to claim they were doing some social service to present "magic" to people. How you conduct yourself as an artist is what earns you respect.
As for blaming the audience for such tracks....lol again, that is the easy way out....what are writers trying to say? That the audience actively WANTS to see tracks like a bahu operating on her husband? Oh please.....people can't even IMAGINE this shit until writers come up with senseless nonsense and people watch it out of morbid curiosity. Exploiting the perverse nature of human curiosity like this and then blaming people for it is quite a bad faith argument. When you mindlessly feed SHIT to people for years and then expect them overnight to develop taste for gourmet, then you really don't know how to develop a market for a product.
I find this to be a pretty pathetic defense by TV writers and actors. This is the easy way out rather than making the effort to write something that is entertaining but not THIS senseless. They try to skew the issue by claiming ppl only want super logic or super "fantasy"....not true....people can find a middle ground for entertainment but you only feed them nonsense for the shock value and gimmicks. That is the truth. And then these people ironically play victim if anyone states the truth that this is nonsense.....lol