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akuma no te / kami no te
27 Sep 2009 02:39 amFinished watching Orthros no Inu.
I think the fact that a drama can remain ambiguously suspenseful for 9 episodes without actually having accomplished anything in terms of the plot is.....amazing in itself =_________=;;;;;;
I think its main problem is it doesn't have enough guts. It's too shy of everything - of posing the sharpest questions, of exposing the darkest side of human desire, and of killing off any of its characters. It lessens the impact, and makes whatever message it tries to send come across half-hearted. The other problem is it seems to sympathise with all the characters, which makes all of them wallow in a state of ill-defined wishy-washiness. One moment they would be doing something unforgivable and the next moment they waver into being sympathisable. It might have worked, except somehow it didn't. Maybe it has something to do with the personalities of the two main characters. Neither Shinjin nor Ryousuke was charismatic enough to carry the story, although Shinjin was marginally more interesting he was also so ambiguous to the point of almost inconsistent. I don't know if it's because of Takki's acting or the script or what, but sometimes you wonder if we're meant to believe he believes what he says, any of it, and which parts of it.
The scale of the story also seems odd at places. Shinjin has remarkable free rein for someone plastered across headlines and Shibuya giant screens and supposedly trailed by the Japanese intelligence service. There was only one incidence of him being blackmailed into healing everyone at a hospital (which ended with a fizz) and no follow-up. The obvious consequence would be multiple copycat attempts all over Japan.
I think that's the problem with it, it throws up all these random - and mostly interesting - ideas, but it fails to follow through in a way that's consistent and convincing and complete.
And if Shinjin wanted to die so badly...why didn't he just stay on death row ==; If he hates his power so much, why did he go to all that effort (getting his brother to kill) to break out and then make a very publicised fuss of his supernatural powers.
I'm kind of amazed at myself for watching most of the series (I think I skipped a few in the middle...meh). I swear it reminds me of a series...but at the moment it escapes me...I keep watching it hoping something breathtaking and truly amazing will happen, and before I knew it, the entire series has ended with barely a fizzle.
And why are the two brothers walking in opposite directions in the end? =__= I thought they "reached an understanding"? It would be nice if the series ended at least with something concrete that connects them...instead of both of them patting the same abandoned dog =___=
Edit: AHH. I now remember. It reminds me of Gundam 00 =_____________=
I think the fact that a drama can remain ambiguously suspenseful for 9 episodes without actually having accomplished anything in terms of the plot is.....amazing in itself =_________=;;;;;;
I think its main problem is it doesn't have enough guts. It's too shy of everything - of posing the sharpest questions, of exposing the darkest side of human desire, and of killing off any of its characters. It lessens the impact, and makes whatever message it tries to send come across half-hearted. The other problem is it seems to sympathise with all the characters, which makes all of them wallow in a state of ill-defined wishy-washiness. One moment they would be doing something unforgivable and the next moment they waver into being sympathisable. It might have worked, except somehow it didn't. Maybe it has something to do with the personalities of the two main characters. Neither Shinjin nor Ryousuke was charismatic enough to carry the story, although Shinjin was marginally more interesting he was also so ambiguous to the point of almost inconsistent. I don't know if it's because of Takki's acting or the script or what, but sometimes you wonder if we're meant to believe he believes what he says, any of it, and which parts of it.
The scale of the story also seems odd at places. Shinjin has remarkable free rein for someone plastered across headlines and Shibuya giant screens and supposedly trailed by the Japanese intelligence service. There was only one incidence of him being blackmailed into healing everyone at a hospital (which ended with a fizz) and no follow-up. The obvious consequence would be multiple copycat attempts all over Japan.
I think that's the problem with it, it throws up all these random - and mostly interesting - ideas, but it fails to follow through in a way that's consistent and convincing and complete.
And if Shinjin wanted to die so badly...why didn't he just stay on death row ==; If he hates his power so much, why did he go to all that effort (getting his brother to kill) to break out and then make a very publicised fuss of his supernatural powers.
I'm kind of amazed at myself for watching most of the series (I think I skipped a few in the middle...meh). I swear it reminds me of a series...but at the moment it escapes me...I keep watching it hoping something breathtaking and truly amazing will happen, and before I knew it, the entire series has ended with barely a fizzle.
And why are the two brothers walking in opposite directions in the end? =__= I thought they "reached an understanding"? It would be nice if the series ended at least with something concrete that connects them...instead of both of them patting the same abandoned dog =___=
Edit: AHH. I now remember. It reminds me of Gundam 00 =_____________=
