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More Philly phun and dorama babbling
Finished watching Boku no Aruku Michi and Anna-san no Omame last night after writing that post. It was sort of dumb and I was up until like 4:30am east coast time, but I also had these crazy aches in my legs keeping me awake, which didn't go away today. So my legs have occasionally just been overtaken by weird uncomfortable muscle aches and pains, but they seem completely inexplicable, at least to me -- also, they only happen when I'm sitting/lying down, but never when standing or walking.
Anyway, I must say that Boku no Aruku Michi has to be the best dorama of the fall 2006 season if not the best dorama of 2006, period. You can really see the characters develop and change as the story progresses, while watching Teru's character also change because of the love and support he gets from everyone at the zoo and in his family -- at first I wondered how good a show could be with an autistic main character who, by definition, wasn't supposed to have any depth or emotion, but that in itself was so compelling, seeing how he began to awaken. I love the way the show was directed, I think it was just done amazingly well, and the way the flow of the plot goes is really good, in that it is episodic to an extent, but if you had 8 hours to waste you could watch the entire show from beginning to end since it's more like a long plot divided into arbitrary 45-minute chunks.
Anna-san no Omame was probably one of the cringiest shows I've ever watched. I would say it's terrible, but for whatever reason, despite that I'd spend half of it slapping my forehead like "oh god not AGAIN" or "would she just SHUT UP" or wanting to punch almost all of the main characters, I thought it was still really funny. It's worth watching just for episode 6, which was amazing and serves as a showcase of Becky and Kashiwabara's acting talents, and if you're going to watch that far you might as well watch all ten, basically.
It's like, Tatta Hitotsu no Koi has a stupid plot and stupid characters and a boring cliched romance story but a popular cast, so everyone watched it and raved about it. Anna-san, on the other hand, has a semi-popular cast but an intriguing and original, if convoluted and frustrating at times, plot. Teppan Shoujo Akane, on the other hand, has a boring and repetitive plot (so far, at least) with a popular cast and interesting characters.
Hmm.
So today I went out to Gulph Mills, and Jason (Fronsac) picked me up at the station. I'd never taken the Norristown High Speed Line before, so that was really cool! On the other hand, and I know this is a really un-PC thing to say, it sort of reminded me of riding the subways in Japan again because I was the only white person on any of the cars I was on.
We ended up going to the Compleat Strategist, where Jason's working until next week; got sandwiches for lunch at Vito's downstairs and hung out in the shop a bit. It got boring, so Jason took pity on me and we went back to his and Laura's apartment and played on their Nintendo Wii for a while -- my first time playing with a Wii, actually. He beat me at baseball and then we both sucked it up at a bunch of Monkey Ball party games. I had fun playing songs on Monkey Trombone even though I ignored the actual game, heh.
We went and picked up Laura (Caspian) from where she works, and hung out more at the games store, since technically Jason was supposed to be working, but he was going to duck out to hang out with us instead. They had to wait for another guy to show up and take over for him though, so we did that. There was a guy in the store who had basically stuffed an umbrella into a gun for some Star Wars group he's with for the Mummers. The gunbrella was really cool and everyone kept "firing" it.
Got dinner after that at some pan-Asian place near there -- I wasn't all that hungry, so I didn't eat all that much. By then it was like 8:30pm, so they took me back to the high-speed line and I got a train almost immediately and went home. On the Market-Frankford line on the way home, people kept trying to sell me stuff. It was pretty weird.
I got off the subway at 5th street instead of 8th and walked down to DEATH AT SUPERFRESH and got some birch beer. Woohoo!
Now doing laundry and doing real work, even though said work is mostly administrative stuff, bleh.
Anyway, I must say that Boku no Aruku Michi has to be the best dorama of the fall 2006 season if not the best dorama of 2006, period. You can really see the characters develop and change as the story progresses, while watching Teru's character also change because of the love and support he gets from everyone at the zoo and in his family -- at first I wondered how good a show could be with an autistic main character who, by definition, wasn't supposed to have any depth or emotion, but that in itself was so compelling, seeing how he began to awaken. I love the way the show was directed, I think it was just done amazingly well, and the way the flow of the plot goes is really good, in that it is episodic to an extent, but if you had 8 hours to waste you could watch the entire show from beginning to end since it's more like a long plot divided into arbitrary 45-minute chunks.
Anna-san no Omame was probably one of the cringiest shows I've ever watched. I would say it's terrible, but for whatever reason, despite that I'd spend half of it slapping my forehead like "oh god not AGAIN" or "would she just SHUT UP" or wanting to punch almost all of the main characters, I thought it was still really funny. It's worth watching just for episode 6, which was amazing and serves as a showcase of Becky and Kashiwabara's acting talents, and if you're going to watch that far you might as well watch all ten, basically.
It's like, Tatta Hitotsu no Koi has a stupid plot and stupid characters and a boring cliched romance story but a popular cast, so everyone watched it and raved about it. Anna-san, on the other hand, has a semi-popular cast but an intriguing and original, if convoluted and frustrating at times, plot. Teppan Shoujo Akane, on the other hand, has a boring and repetitive plot (so far, at least) with a popular cast and interesting characters.
Hmm.
So today I went out to Gulph Mills, and Jason (Fronsac) picked me up at the station. I'd never taken the Norristown High Speed Line before, so that was really cool! On the other hand, and I know this is a really un-PC thing to say, it sort of reminded me of riding the subways in Japan again because I was the only white person on any of the cars I was on.
We ended up going to the Compleat Strategist, where Jason's working until next week; got sandwiches for lunch at Vito's downstairs and hung out in the shop a bit. It got boring, so Jason took pity on me and we went back to his and Laura's apartment and played on their Nintendo Wii for a while -- my first time playing with a Wii, actually. He beat me at baseball and then we both sucked it up at a bunch of Monkey Ball party games. I had fun playing songs on Monkey Trombone even though I ignored the actual game, heh.
We went and picked up Laura (Caspian) from where she works, and hung out more at the games store, since technically Jason was supposed to be working, but he was going to duck out to hang out with us instead. They had to wait for another guy to show up and take over for him though, so we did that. There was a guy in the store who had basically stuffed an umbrella into a gun for some Star Wars group he's with for the Mummers. The gunbrella was really cool and everyone kept "firing" it.
Got dinner after that at some pan-Asian place near there -- I wasn't all that hungry, so I didn't eat all that much. By then it was like 8:30pm, so they took me back to the high-speed line and I got a train almost immediately and went home. On the Market-Frankford line on the way home, people kept trying to sell me stuff. It was pretty weird.
I got off the subway at 5th street instead of 8th and walked down to DEATH AT SUPERFRESH and got some birch beer. Woohoo!
Now doing laundry and doing real work, even though said work is mostly administrative stuff, bleh.