don't feed the rabid animals with love, it'll only make them bark louder. ♥
on the other hand, thank you thank you for this post, 'cause i'm too scatter-brained to make my own yet but i really needed to throw these feelings up somewhere [and keeping on whining to people who enjoy the drama just doesn't feel right].
OH GOD I feel the very same, right to the should-work-on-unfinished-shit-instead. D: although at the same time it amuses me how i can't figure out what it is exactly that feels kind of wrong about writing this fic-we-won't-be-writing about them. it's not like i wouldn't want to spoil the drama for myself, it's spoiled enough as it is, ha. anyway, i went as far as asking for spoilers for the 5th ep [feeling so dirty right now] and i am almost 100% assured that Himuro won't die, 'cause it'd be too obvious if they kept hinting at it for two eps and he did in the end. plus that would leave Kuramochi broken beyond belief 'cause you just know he'd feel guilty for the rest of his life and then it'd be hard to continue the story? /telling myself all these things makes me feel better, okay
you shouldn't feel bad about wanting Himuro to be the lead, though. :D i wouldn't mostly because he has this kind of supporting character shadow that makes him cool that i don't think would work the same way if he was the lead. like, there has to be Kuramochi the hero for Himuro to contrast? kind of thing.
And I'm one of those people who like, when they drop things keeps saying they'll return to it eventually but in reality never really does, heh. WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO RETURN TO THE RUINS THEN ANYWAY? i suffer from being one of those people that never drop a drama no matter how bad it gets, so i'll keep watching even if they kill all the other characters and Kuramochi will be left with Japanese flags flapping in the wind, crying his tears for the whole last episode. /sigh
at the beginning i really thought that the reason why i don't like it is because i'm not the target audience [in this case: i'm not Japanese] and the Japanese audience will probably be able to relate to the patriotic feeling better and appreciate it more. the dropping ratings really surprised me and now i don't know anymore who this drama is supposed to cater to. MAYBE THE HUNDRED JAPANESE FLAGS IN EVERY EPISODE HAVEN'T BEEN IN-THE-AUDIENCE'S-FACE ENOUGH? MAYBE THEY SHOULD'VE WRAPPED KURAMOCHI IN ONE TOO FOR GOOD MEASURE? [oh wait, i have an idea of what it would look like...]
patriotic stuff, no matter the nation it concerns, has never particularly appealed to me and now i'm starting to realise that the reason might be because it never seems to be done in a subtle way. and Nankyoku takes the lack of subtlety to a whole new never-explored-before level. or wait, i think communist propaganda might have explored these levels earlier
and yet it makes me cry too. and every scene that has the dogs hurt makes me suffer. I HATE IT SO MUCH.
How do you make a group of men working together on a big ass iceberg for a year and all the tensions sexual or not and camaraderie that would grow out of that NOT be amazing? THIS, THIS IS A GREAT MYSTERY TO ME. the ability to screw and throw away so much potential must be an amazing skill. because IF ONLY the characters were acting like, you know, men, and not a bunch of Catholic schoolgirls in an educational Sunday morning tv show. [no offence to real life Catholic schoolgirls, of course]. ahaha, i had thought that too, that a silent drama could work better, or maybe i should just watch it without subs, but then there would still be so many bad things conveyed without words. like tears. D: and ikr, it is my valid concern. -20° C already makes me cry with the cold, i shiver every time i imagine how cold it's supposed to be there, and didn't Shirosaki-sensei's tea or whatever froze when they were arriving? THAT IS NOT AN ENVIRONMENT TO HAVE YOUR EYES WATER ALL THE TIME IMHO.
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this may be less coherent than usual due to severe hangover but let me try
Date: 2011-11-20 06:49 pm (UTC)on the other hand, thank you thank you for this post, 'cause i'm too scatter-brained to make my own yet but i really needed to throw these feelings up somewhere [and keeping on whining to people who enjoy the drama just doesn't feel right].
OH GOD I feel the very same, right to the should-work-on-unfinished-shit-instead. D: although at the same time it amuses me how i can't figure out what it is exactly that feels kind of wrong about writing this fic-we-won't-be-writing about them. it's not like i wouldn't want to spoil the drama for myself, it's spoiled enough as it is, ha. anyway, i went as far as asking for spoilers for the 5th ep [feeling so dirty right now] and i am almost 100% assured that Himuro won't die, 'cause it'd be too obvious if they kept hinting at it for two eps and he did in the end. plus that would leave Kuramochi broken beyond belief 'cause you just know he'd feel guilty for the rest of his life and then it'd be hard to continue the story? /telling myself all these things makes me feel better, okay
you shouldn't feel bad about wanting Himuro to be the lead, though. :D i wouldn't mostly because he has this kind of supporting character shadow that makes him cool that i don't think would work the same way if he was the lead. like, there has to be Kuramochi the hero for Himuro to contrast? kind of thing.
And I'm one of those people who like, when they drop things keeps saying they'll return to it eventually but in reality never really does, heh.
WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO RETURN TO THE RUINS THEN ANYWAY? i suffer from being one of those people that never drop a drama no matter how bad it gets, so i'll keep watching even if they kill all the other characters and Kuramochi will be left with Japanese flags flapping in the wind, crying his tears for the whole last episode. /sigh
at the beginning i really thought that the reason why i don't like it is because i'm not the target audience [in this case: i'm not Japanese] and the Japanese audience will probably be able to relate to the patriotic feeling better and appreciate it more. the dropping ratings really surprised me and now i don't know anymore who this drama is supposed to cater to. MAYBE THE HUNDRED JAPANESE FLAGS IN EVERY EPISODE HAVEN'T BEEN IN-THE-AUDIENCE'S-FACE ENOUGH? MAYBE THEY SHOULD'VE WRAPPED KURAMOCHI IN ONE TOO FOR GOOD MEASURE?
[oh wait, i have an idea of what it would look like...]
patriotic stuff, no matter the nation it concerns, has never particularly appealed to me and now i'm starting to realise that the reason might be because it never seems to be done in a subtle way. and Nankyoku takes the lack of subtlety to a whole new never-explored-before level.
or wait, i think communist propaganda might have explored these levels earlierand yet it makes me cry too. and every scene that has the dogs hurt makes me suffer. I HATE IT SO MUCH.
How do you make a group of men working together on a big ass iceberg for a year and all the tensions
sexual or notand camaraderie that would grow out of that NOT be amazing?THIS, THIS IS A GREAT MYSTERY TO ME. the ability to screw and throw away so much potential must be an amazing skill. because IF ONLY the characters were acting like, you know, men, and not a bunch of Catholic schoolgirls in an educational Sunday morning tv show. [no offence to real life Catholic schoolgirls, of course]. ahaha, i had thought that too, that a silent drama could work better, or maybe i should just watch it without subs, but then there would still be so many bad things conveyed without words. like tears. D: and ikr, it is my valid concern. -20° C already makes me cry with the cold, i shiver every time i imagine how cold it's supposed to be there, and didn't Shirosaki-sensei's tea or whatever froze when they were arriving? THAT IS NOT AN ENVIRONMENT TO HAVE YOUR EYES WATER ALL THE TIME IMHO.