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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-09-10 06:42 pm

[ SECRET POST #3172 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3172 ⌋

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Re: Unpopular opinions

(Anonymous) 2015-09-11 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
I can agree with this sentiment overall. I don't hate cancer plotlines, per se-I can understand where some people might find some comfort or catharsis in them, depending on the situation/story.

But I won't argue that they're always the immediate go-to dramatic setup/sad story for characters to deal with, and turn pretty cliché pretty quickly. Like you said, there's other ways to injure/kill a character, other illnesses they could have.

Plus, there's also the fact that cancer as portrayed on TV tends to ignore some of the less "glamorous", for lack of a better word, symptoms and situations that people who have it have to deal with. If a character is going to have a serious illness, be it cancer or something else, in a story, you may not be able to portray EVERY symptom of it, but it just makes sense to have at least some realism in it somewhere.