Oh, god, yes. I know just what you mean. That happens *so often*. The author wants drama and can't come up with a plausible scenario to justify it, so characters behave like braindead drama queens, instead.
Lack of communication as a handy plot device is often the source of intense annoyance for me in other ways, too... An interesting new (to me) twist I've run into lately: I've been watching a lot of Korean drama lately, and there, it seems to be almost the standard reaction to finding out you're seriously ill to a) break up with your significant other without telling them that you're sick; b) go to a distant foreign country for treatment; and c) return after years of total radio silence and try to rekindle the relationship.
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Date: 2011-01-20 06:21 pm (UTC)Lack of communication as a handy plot device is often the source of intense annoyance for me in other ways, too... An interesting new (to me) twist I've run into lately: I've been watching a lot of Korean drama lately, and there, it seems to be almost the standard reaction to finding out you're seriously ill to a) break up with your significant other without telling them that you're sick; b) go to a distant foreign country for treatment; and c) return after years of total radio silence and try to rekindle the relationship.