It's not just me; hordes of girls are obsessed with period dramas (men are too they just like to deny it.. I swear I saw my dad looking intently at the screen while we were watching P&P one time..he pretended to look away when we glanced back at him, I KNOW it). In fact, we have a little period drama gang of our own over here, and I refuse to believe that we are the only ones. HELLO have you seen Jane Austen Book Club? It's an entire movie based on people obsessed with period dramas.
But why? For us, it's simple: your average costume drama has your strong willed heroine (girls love this, guys don't like this if they are insecure weirdos), good looking British hero (CF and RA; need I say more?), wit, humor, sarcasm, good conversation (life would be pretty dull without it), gross misunderstandings (who hasn't had a couple of those?), and, after the girl very artfully rejects the boy because of some small defect in character, his love for her eventually leads to a complete metamorphosis into the perfect man and they live happily ever after. THIS is every woman's dream. To have a man change just for her even after she rejected him, just out of pure love and dareIsayit just a vain hope that she *might* see him for who he actually was from the beginning. Women, in the end, just want to know that they can control you, because otherwise how can they trust you? So you have to end up making the ultimate sacrifice: your pride, which is like either the penultimate or ultimate sin anyhow so really they are just trying to save you from jahannam. So men, there you go. The truth comes out.
But I mean, coming from us, or me, rather, just overall it reinforces our ideals. I mean, period dramas are mostly halal, they show your typical two parent family structure and kids, average middle class families, the mothers are all consumed with getting their daughters married.. WAIT this is my life!!
Yeah...
So yay for period dramas!
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hallooooooooooo!
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