i'm starting to realise i'm easier to manipulate than i would've thought. XD
walls are addicting, you go wall once and then you realise, wow it's a wall! and then you can't stop. i think it's because they're so pretty.
I wish I paid so much attention in Polish classes in high school, would've saved me so much scolding. >.> ehm, anyway. but doesn't it have something to do with personal attachment to the character? then it's harder to accept his death. and I think you're right that it is sad that Naoki basically suffered all his life and after all the horrible things, he just went and died and never had a chance to experience the good things. I guess it's questionable whether he was on his way to a happier life or if he was already so broken that he wouldn't know how to live normally anymore, so depending on how you interpret that, his death could be tragic or less tragic?
so maybe this is why it's so hard to accept, and also with the lack of hints that he could end up dying, it's hard to decide how to feel about it. now that I think about it, in Sora Kara I started to expect Ryo would die by the end of it probably half way through the drama or earlier, because there was no way they could clean up the mess otherwise and he couldn't just end up in jail because that's too human for Kimu's tragic characters, as we've already established, but I never thought Yuko would die too, and okay I'm talking way too much about Sora, what I was trying to say was that Nemureru Mori doesn't have the same inevitable-ness of Naoki's death. he didn't have to die, all the loose ends have been tied already, all the plot knots undone and his death didn't change anything. so this could be why it feels unnecessary for a lot of people.
uh. whenever I'm getting worked up about the lack of kissing and sex in jdramas, I try to tell myself it's the cultural difference and I have a lot of tolerance for Japan's cultural differences but THIS ONE STILL FRUSTRATES ME TO NO END. the flawlessness of Ryo and Yuko is still keeping a part of my heart broken off and I don't think it's ever going to heal. ;.;
It was one of those parts where all you can do is yell things like giiiirl, you gon' die! and really? really? furiously at the screen. I hate this! the times when I want to yell at the character for doing the supposedly 'right thing' that is obviously going to get them hurt/killed and it would save everyone so much angst if they just stopped and have a second thought! and just after it finally seems that they may be alright and there's a way out of the dark for them.
and soon after that it's Keita and all that and then Naoki's lost everyone and why did they have to torture him like that, why? scriptwriters, I'm looking at you.
[Karei-naru is so much awesome I'm not sure if I can handle it again yet. w-w-wait, are you telling me you haven't seen Long Vacation? HOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE, I DON'T KNOW! LOOK AT YOUR CHOICES! I meant, I think this is the one Kimu drama you absolutely should see. ;D and Pride, goddamn! and you call yourself Canadian! I'd personally say don't bother with LG, unless you want to see what a trainwreck it is for yourself. and BL is so emotionally draining, I swore to myself I was never watching it again, except that I might, so it depends if you're up for that. I don't know how I ended up watching Matsujun dramas, it had something to do with me watching Oguri Shun dramas and Matsujun was in so many of them and I used to hate his face, but that was last summer and now I randomly thought I'd like to watch a Matsujun drama and hah, I have no control over the stuff I watch apparently. it's a weird storyline though, I'm not sure how I feel about it.]
i'm good at pretending things never happened. *nodnod*
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Date: 2011-09-30 12:08 pm (UTC)walls are addicting, you go wall once and then you realise, wow it's a wall! and then you can't stop. i think it's because they're so pretty.
I wish I paid so much attention in Polish classes in high school, would've saved me so much scolding. >.> ehm, anyway. but doesn't it have something to do with personal attachment to the character? then it's harder to accept his death. and I think you're right that it is sad that Naoki basically suffered all his life and after all the horrible things, he just went and died and never had a chance to experience the good things. I guess it's questionable whether he was on his way to a happier life or if he was already so broken that he wouldn't know how to live normally anymore, so depending on how you interpret that, his death could be tragic or less tragic?
so maybe this is why it's so hard to accept, and also with the lack of hints that he could end up dying, it's hard to decide how to feel about it. now that I think about it, in Sora Kara I started to expect Ryo would die by the end of it probably half way through the drama or earlier, because there was no way they could clean up the mess otherwise and he couldn't just end up in jail because that's too human for Kimu's tragic characters, as we've already established, but I never thought Yuko would die too, and okay I'm talking way too much about Sora, what I was trying to say was that Nemureru Mori doesn't have the same inevitable-ness of Naoki's death. he didn't have to die, all the loose ends have been tied already, all the plot knots undone and his death didn't change anything. so this could be why it feels unnecessary for a lot of people.
uh. whenever I'm getting worked up about the lack of kissing and sex in jdramas, I try to tell myself it's the cultural difference and I have a lot of tolerance for Japan's cultural differences but THIS ONE STILL FRUSTRATES ME TO NO END. the flawlessness of Ryo and Yuko is still keeping a part of my heart broken off and I don't think it's ever going to heal. ;.;
It was one of those parts where all you can do is yell things like giiiirl, you gon' die! and really? really? furiously at the screen.
I hate this! the times when I want to yell at the character for doing the supposedly 'right thing' that is obviously going to get them hurt/killed and it would save everyone so much angst if they just stopped and have a second thought! and just after it finally seems that they may be alright and there's a way out of the dark for them.
and soon after that it's Keita and all that and then Naoki's lost everyone and why did they have to torture him like that, why? scriptwriters, I'm looking at you.
[Karei-naru is so much awesome I'm not sure if I can handle it again yet. w-w-wait, are you telling me you haven't seen Long Vacation? HOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE, I DON'T KNOW! LOOK AT YOUR CHOICES! I meant, I think this is the one Kimu drama you absolutely should see. ;D
and Pride, goddamn! and you call yourself Canadian!I'd personally say don't bother with LG, unless you want to see what a trainwreck it is for yourself. and BL is so emotionally draining, I swore to myself I was never watching it again, except that I might, so it depends if you're up for that. I don't know how I ended up watching Matsujun dramas, it had something to do with me watching Oguri Shun dramas and Matsujun was in so many of them and I used to hate his face, but that was last summer and now I randomly thought I'd like to watch a Matsujun drama and hah, I have no control over the stuff I watch apparently. it's a weird storyline though, I'm not sure how I feel about it.]i'm good at pretending things never happened. *nodnod*