I got to say that I am definitely starting to treasure everyday more and more. The "live day by day" or the cliche " live everyday like it's your last day alive" kind of mentality have been subconsciously taking effect. My days are numbered. These nights are odd, and I spend them practicing the piano instead. I'm making improvements just to lose everything in two weeks. One week from now, I will be thrown into bliss or pandemonium where a myriad of emotions will confront me. To flee or not, is not the question. Because there is no freedom of choice here, which I suppose, is not a good thing to have now.
The weekly "Lost" episodes are something I look forward to. I don't know what is it and why people say it's "not very good". It doesn't get the hype like Prison Break or Heroes here (am I missing something), but I feel the plot is very well thought of. I've been watching Japanese drama too, and so I could suddenly feel the relativity sink in. Now, now, I mentioned I was watching Absolute Boyfriend (Zettai Kareshi). I just finished 11 episodes in a couple days. Not that it was good, but I was bored.
A pretty lame plot which was highly predictable. I was watching more to guess if my predictions came true and to get that temporary feel good " see I told you so " feeling. And indeed, what I predicted came true-the ending that is. Very highly unrealistic even when you the science fiction part aside. The plot is naive, and shallow and it amazes me how it gets rated pretty high from my sources. (IMO, highly overrated). The protagonist, Riiko is just a two dimensional character. Why? Because she is ironically more robot than her flawless perfect robot lover.
How human can a robot be? Not much. Inversely, the human characters in the show seem all robotic. All programmed to fit under the ultimate plot jigsaw puzzle, to exist to satisfy the plot devices which eventually led the story from point A to point B. The love between the robot and the human was at times convincing but still, rather shallow. The protagonist portrays irrational stupid behavior at times, which I think is rather insulting if I was a girl. She finds her self being tossed between two guys. One real, and the other, unreal. The former is her ex-boss. Charming, nice and a gentleman. Always aloof but charismatic and "I believe in my dream" kind. Most importantly of all, he was very animated. On the other hand, we have the flawless robot. Seemingly "hot", muscular, and does only favorable things. This showed great and stark contrast. The producers were so obviously going to stick her in between both of them.
So you see, she was about to choose the Mr.Real when some crisis (plot devices 0.o) cropped up and wanted to scrap Mr.Robot. (to delete his memories and scrap him ultimately). She slips into that " After all I love Mr.Robot more " and then the show leaps into that desperate rush to save the day scene, abandoning Mr Real and their flight to Paris. Then suddenly there was tempoeral resolution. It seemed like it was going to be a happy ending of Mr Robot and Miss Fickle but no. I was smart because there was another 30 minutes of program time left with the series finale.
And indeed. Mr Robot had a faulty main processor that eventually caused him to die. He leaves Miss fickle/irrational with a memory card which contain his self filmed last words. (I even predicted this). The show slips into that emotional dramatic flashback with Miss Fickle tearing and I believe this is where our dear audience cries but no, I was laughing because I was spot right. Then despite Miss Fickle being irresponsible towards Mr Real and how he stood her up (in fact it happened many times in the series, and always for the robot), they both happily go to Paris together. Whether they developed feelings, no one know but we can assume yes. Miss Fickle was seen affectionately holding on to the memory card at the last air port scene.
Well. This is it. Japanese drama for you. Ever since young I've always realized that anime or drama alike seem to have a need to explain everyone into a good person. They have this obligation to explain why the originally good characters turn into bad characters.(usually we just see them all nasty and bad) As if there are no one inherently sinister. They try to get people to believing that "everyone is nice" kind of paradigm. It appears how the person who is always sabotaging everything and making things difficult also turns out to be a nice guy as well, how perfect. That is why we call it drama.
Superficial. Everything about this series is superficial. Plot, characters and of all, the ending. These dramas just seek to make you feel happy and sad at the right time and people who watch without much thinking slip into the producer's trap. Think of it, the correct mood, the correct words the actors say and the correct tears and the correct music can be it pleasantly sorrowful and painful to watch. Our empathy program starts to work excessively and then we become emotionally involved. But no, if we're thinking straight, suddenly everything will become naive and ridiculous at some point.
I thought of all the negative sides of the series only at the series finale because the story was haphazard. It doesn't seem to crescendo towards a climax. There is almost no build up of anything. It's like just a monotone, tap tap tap tap finish kind of sequence. Despite all that, it was a consoling one step above "staring into the mid air". Maybe I'm not girl so I cannot appreciate the eye candy.
I watch shows for intellectuality,profoundness and the right emotional involvement. It's just disturbing how things are so shallow. Nice for the moment, but bad for health. Just like fast food. Cheap, taste good but unhealthy.
//end criticism.
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