If people don’t feel anything for the characters then something is missing.
That's it in a nutshell. I don't get it when people just seem to hate an actress because they get in the way of their OTP. Come on, people. I've not watched Nobuta wo Produce either, but when i was originally looking for info after watching SPEC, I was like, "geez, does Erika's character kill puppies or something?!" I have another drama of hers, Gal Circle, which I'm going to give a go. It looks hilarious, and appears to have a cowboy in it? ANYTHING to fill the time up! I'm rewatching Ikebukuro West Gate Park as I had the smart idea of making a Yukihiko Tsutsumi vid. Why do I think of these things?! WHY? (And you should watch Ikebukuro, if only for the Ken Watanbe action ;)
Ooh, thanks for the Ryo recs. I watched 'Scrap Heaven', with Ryo, Joe "I'm Far Too Attractive To Be Real" Odagiri and Chiaki Kuriyama. It was really, really good - he's just a phenomenal actor, full-stop. It's one of those films that speeds along at a great pace and then it hangs - not in a bad way, but in a painfully tense way. Really, really good. And even though it looks potentially very bad, I'll go see 'Reckless', just to see him on the big screen. Ugh. Why so amazing, Ryo?!
I Googled the SawaEri incident and...WTF? I hope someone told her to sit down. That's the sort of thing I always get worried the people you start to follow are actually like, and it's always a relief when they're normal. I always wonder if in Japan and Korea they're told to be very submissive and polite, so you never really get a good idea of their personalities or relationships. That's why I think I was so surprised that Erika's so deadpan and giggly. Nakama Yukie and Abe Hiroshi from 'Trick' have a really good relationship away from the show, which just makes me like the show more, as stupid as it sounds. And we all know what's TOTALLY NOT GOING ON with Miki and Atsuro. Not that I'm totally not a real-life shipper of any of those couple. Not at all. *twitch*
Tomorrow's my day off, so it's going to be all Keizoku, all the time. And probably SPEC, just because. At the very least, a picspam of Beautiful Dreamer, just because it's so...beautiful. Did you know they released it in the UK and Germany (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000FIH6CW/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=A2TUOLEQQ8CFXE) as a stand alone film?! I'm going to buy it because LOL. How weird is that, though? I wonder if it's edited, because damn. It would really hard to follow otherwise.
I actually can't imagine what we missed the first time around. (Remember when it didn't click that it could be a dream? Good times. ;) I think the reason why it sort of makes sense that the whole film was a dream is because both Mayama and Shibata were both conveniently injured at the end of the series and the SP. Maybe I just want the show to be a little more creative? IDK. It does piss me off a bit that people had to die, I won't lie. I don't think I'll ever get over Tsubosaka's wife with his head. :| (I thought his wife and kid died and that's why he was so crabby? WHAT GIVES, SHOW?!)
...'Dream is Collapsing' from the Inception soundtrack just came on my iTunes. IT KNOWS
I keep making bad Team Keizoku graphics for Tumblr. That's how much I want a cameo. It makes sense, though. Like, stupid sense. I'd like to think Director Tsutsumi is a big fan of referencing his other works, so I think it may happen. (Oh, you can spot Yabe in SPEC in the scene where Sebumi's walking to Unsolved Cases, and in a couple of other hallway shots later. I love that <3)
I'm starting to think the Asakura/Chii/Tsuda thing is going to break both of our brains. Could he be a thinly-veiled version of the devil, what with the whole underworld thing in Beautiful Dreamer and the trumpet guys sending Shimura to his death? I'm guessing he is the trumpet guys, because before he shot the guy he was playing chess with, you saw them as he cycled through his "faces". And I thought it was telling (maybe?) that it was the Tsuda face that shot Chess Guy and not the Chii face. Hmmm.
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That's it in a nutshell. I don't get it when people just seem to hate an actress because they get in the way of their OTP. Come on, people. I've not watched Nobuta wo Produce either, but when i was originally looking for info after watching SPEC, I was like, "geez, does Erika's character kill puppies or something?!" I have another drama of hers, Gal Circle, which I'm going to give a go. It looks hilarious, and appears to have a cowboy in it? ANYTHING to fill the time up! I'm rewatching Ikebukuro West Gate Park as I had the smart idea of making a Yukihiko Tsutsumi vid. Why do I think of these things?! WHY? (And you should watch Ikebukuro, if only for the Ken Watanbe action ;)
Ooh, thanks for the Ryo recs. I watched 'Scrap Heaven', with Ryo, Joe "I'm Far Too Attractive To Be Real" Odagiri and Chiaki Kuriyama. It was really, really good - he's just a phenomenal actor, full-stop. It's one of those films that speeds along at a great pace and then it hangs - not in a bad way, but in a painfully tense way. Really, really good. And even though it looks potentially very bad, I'll go see 'Reckless', just to see him on the big screen. Ugh. Why so amazing, Ryo?!
I Googled the SawaEri incident and...WTF? I hope someone told her to sit down. That's the sort of thing I always get worried the people you start to follow are actually like, and it's always a relief when they're normal. I always wonder if in Japan and Korea they're told to be very submissive and polite, so you never really get a good idea of their personalities or relationships. That's why I think I was so surprised that Erika's so deadpan and giggly. Nakama Yukie and Abe Hiroshi from 'Trick' have a really good relationship away from the show, which just makes me like the show more, as stupid as it sounds. And we all know what's TOTALLY NOT GOING ON with Miki and Atsuro. Not that I'm totally not a real-life shipper of any of those couple. Not at all. *twitch*
Tomorrow's my day off, so it's going to be all Keizoku, all the time. And probably SPEC, just because. At the very least, a picspam of Beautiful Dreamer, just because it's so...beautiful. Did you know they released it in the UK and Germany (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000FIH6CW/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=A2TUOLEQQ8CFXE) as a stand alone film?! I'm going to buy it because LOL. How weird is that, though? I wonder if it's edited, because damn. It would really hard to follow otherwise.
I actually can't imagine what we missed the first time around. (Remember when it didn't click that it could be a dream? Good times. ;) I think the reason why it sort of makes sense that the whole film was a dream is because both Mayama and Shibata were both conveniently injured at the end of the series and the SP. Maybe I just want the show to be a little more creative? IDK. It does piss me off a bit that people had to die, I won't lie. I don't think I'll ever get over Tsubosaka's wife with his head. :| (I thought his wife and kid died and that's why he was so crabby? WHAT GIVES, SHOW?!)
...'Dream is Collapsing' from the Inception soundtrack just came on my iTunes. IT KNOWS
I keep making bad Team Keizoku graphics for Tumblr. That's how much I want a cameo. It makes sense, though. Like, stupid sense. I'd like to think Director Tsutsumi is a big fan of referencing his other works, so I think it may happen. (Oh, you can spot Yabe in SPEC in the scene where Sebumi's walking to Unsolved Cases, and in a couple of other hallway shots later. I love that <3)
I'm starting to think the Asakura/Chii/Tsuda thing is going to break both of our brains. Could he be a thinly-veiled version of the devil, what with the whole underworld thing in Beautiful Dreamer and the trumpet guys sending Shimura to his death? I'm guessing he is the trumpet guys, because before he shot the guy he was playing chess with, you saw them as he cycled through his "faces". And I thought it was telling (maybe?) that it was the Tsuda face that shot Chess Guy and not the Chii face. Hmmm.