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Entertainment update of sorts
Mar. 12th, 2007 10:26 pmI had two different entertainment-type things to post about, so why not post them together :) I'll go with the American TV series thing first.
We got the second season of CSI on DVD with some trade-in credit, and of course, it's awesome. In the second-to-last episode of the season, there was a kidnapping and half the team ended up in Miami. Yes, Miami of CSI: Miami infamy. This was the episode where the CSI: Miami characters were introduced and presumably where the spin-off came from. We were kind of like, "Hey, it's Miami, I wonder if we'll see-- Holycrap, Horatio Caine, and he's all young and little-looking!" It was four or five years ago, so not THAT long, but he did look different. I think the difference lay in the fact that in this episode, he acted.
I haven't seen David Caruso in anything else, so I have no comparison, but in CSI: Miami as it runs now, he has one single facial expression (head-tilted and squinty) and one tone of voice (know-it-all and monotone). In this episode, he yelled. He was flustered and high-strung and jovial. He didn't act like he always knew exactly what was going on and had an immediate answer to every situation. He acted like a normal human being.
We were shocked right out of our socks, believe me.
So now we're not sure whether it's the actor and when he was given more creative control, his character started sucking ass, or whether it's the directors or writers for CSI: Miami that are making him so unbearable. Of course, the dialogue is awful, so it really may be the writers. At any rate, we were flabbergasted to find we actually liked and were interested in this Horatio Caine.
Onto the Japanese TV series! We've been watching Sukisho.* It's a very cute show, all shounen ai and gratuitous, but it's one of those where the characters keep going "Don't you think we should tell Character A about--" "No! You can't!" and "Character A, don't you remember that time when--" "Hey, I'm showing up and saying something inane to interrupt!" We would like to find out what's going on now, plzkthanx. One of the characters has amnesia and both of the main pair have split personalities. This is that show that has ALL of the male voice actors you ever heard of before, the ones who were in anime back when I started watching (Gundam Wing, Escaflowne, Weiss Kreuz, etc. I could have sworn I went into this in a post a while back, but I can't find it.). Anyway, that's not the part I was surprised by - what I was surprised by was the extra features.
On both of the DVDs that we've seen, they've had this weird little extra seiyuu section where the voice actors (two of them... Midorikawa Hikaru, who plays the main guy, and another seiyuu who plays one of the little kids) sit around and do vaguely odd things that pretty much amount to fanservice. In the first DVD, they just did little skits where someone would send in a prompt and they would improvise a monologue. They were all romantic boy's-love things where Midorikawa Hikaru had to say generally embarrassing things or be angsty. It was odd, but kind of fascinating. I figured it was just something they did once.
Nope, they had the same thing on the next DVD. They did the same thing in the first episode, ad-libbed prompts sent in by fans, but this time it was the other guy's turn. Midorikawa picked on him a bit and teased him and made him apologize to the fans for how lousy his monologue had been and blow them kisses. It was REALLY weird. Like, uncomfortable-weird.
Then they started doing this "guess the object in the box" game where they had to stick their hands in a box and guess what the thing they were touching was. Well, it started out innocuously enough with a pink clown wig, which the not-Midorikawa dude decided to put on and take home with him. Then came the underwear. Not girl's underwear, because as the not-Midorikawa seiyuu pointed out, "This is a BL series." Men's briefs. They were both kind of like "OMGWTFBBQ" and we felt the same way. It was like they were pandering to pervy fangirls who get off on hearing their favorite voice actors say "I've been afraid to talk to you for so long and now I'm not sure what to say, so... see you tomorrow." It was wacky.
CSI: Miami is on now, and MAN, having seen Horatio not suck makes his current suckitude even more painful.
*Abbreviated form of "Suki na mono ga suki dakara, sho ga nai!" Which is essentially, "I like what I like, so there/I don't care/etc!"
We got the second season of CSI on DVD with some trade-in credit, and of course, it's awesome. In the second-to-last episode of the season, there was a kidnapping and half the team ended up in Miami. Yes, Miami of CSI: Miami infamy. This was the episode where the CSI: Miami characters were introduced and presumably where the spin-off came from. We were kind of like, "Hey, it's Miami, I wonder if we'll see-- Holycrap, Horatio Caine, and he's all young and little-looking!" It was four or five years ago, so not THAT long, but he did look different. I think the difference lay in the fact that in this episode, he acted.
I haven't seen David Caruso in anything else, so I have no comparison, but in CSI: Miami as it runs now, he has one single facial expression (head-tilted and squinty) and one tone of voice (know-it-all and monotone). In this episode, he yelled. He was flustered and high-strung and jovial. He didn't act like he always knew exactly what was going on and had an immediate answer to every situation. He acted like a normal human being.
We were shocked right out of our socks, believe me.
So now we're not sure whether it's the actor and when he was given more creative control, his character started sucking ass, or whether it's the directors or writers for CSI: Miami that are making him so unbearable. Of course, the dialogue is awful, so it really may be the writers. At any rate, we were flabbergasted to find we actually liked and were interested in this Horatio Caine.
Onto the Japanese TV series! We've been watching Sukisho.* It's a very cute show, all shounen ai and gratuitous, but it's one of those where the characters keep going "Don't you think we should tell Character A about--" "No! You can't!" and "Character A, don't you remember that time when--" "Hey, I'm showing up and saying something inane to interrupt!" We would like to find out what's going on now, plzkthanx. One of the characters has amnesia and both of the main pair have split personalities. This is that show that has ALL of the male voice actors you ever heard of before, the ones who were in anime back when I started watching (Gundam Wing, Escaflowne, Weiss Kreuz, etc. I could have sworn I went into this in a post a while back, but I can't find it.). Anyway, that's not the part I was surprised by - what I was surprised by was the extra features.
On both of the DVDs that we've seen, they've had this weird little extra seiyuu section where the voice actors (two of them... Midorikawa Hikaru, who plays the main guy, and another seiyuu who plays one of the little kids) sit around and do vaguely odd things that pretty much amount to fanservice. In the first DVD, they just did little skits where someone would send in a prompt and they would improvise a monologue. They were all romantic boy's-love things where Midorikawa Hikaru had to say generally embarrassing things or be angsty. It was odd, but kind of fascinating. I figured it was just something they did once.
Nope, they had the same thing on the next DVD. They did the same thing in the first episode, ad-libbed prompts sent in by fans, but this time it was the other guy's turn. Midorikawa picked on him a bit and teased him and made him apologize to the fans for how lousy his monologue had been and blow them kisses. It was REALLY weird. Like, uncomfortable-weird.
Then they started doing this "guess the object in the box" game where they had to stick their hands in a box and guess what the thing they were touching was. Well, it started out innocuously enough with a pink clown wig, which the not-Midorikawa dude decided to put on and take home with him. Then came the underwear. Not girl's underwear, because as the not-Midorikawa seiyuu pointed out, "This is a BL series." Men's briefs. They were both kind of like "OMGWTFBBQ" and we felt the same way. It was like they were pandering to pervy fangirls who get off on hearing their favorite voice actors say "I've been afraid to talk to you for so long and now I'm not sure what to say, so... see you tomorrow." It was wacky.
CSI: Miami is on now, and MAN, having seen Horatio not suck makes his current suckitude even more painful.
*Abbreviated form of "Suki na mono ga suki dakara, sho ga nai!" Which is essentially, "I like what I like, so there/I don't care/etc!"
