Tv and Movies
Click to viewI have been blessed! Rosie and I went and watched the Hobbit
without wade (LOLOLOL). As with the trilogy, it was both too long and not long enough. There were so many things I felt they dwelled too much on, yet enough of it has been ignored that I am miffed.
I haven’t read the books in years, and I can hardly tell you now if it’s following anything close to the books. However…? Gollum? SO WORTH IT!!!
Will have to watch this too
I have been watching a lot of JDramas lately. Interestingly, I bought more KDramas than Jdramas when I was back in Singapore. However, something caught my attention about these dramas. I don’t even know why. Soon, I was whipping through the entire SERIES. I managed to finish one season in a NIGHT. -.-;
Iryu: Team Medical Dragon - Job hazard? I don’t know. I started with that coz it sound interesting. Corruption? Ignoring patients for thesis? Going through the series felt unreal in some ways, and completely realistic in others. Ryutarou Asada is a doctor who stands out for the wrong reasons in the field of medicine in Japan. He doesn’t follow the social norms of within the hospital. Instead, he ACTUALLY CARES ABOUT THE PATIENTS! OH GEEZ!
Everyone is caught up in statistics, paperwork and the accounts of the hospital. Men dominate the field and infighting within the hospital is not uncommon. Then, for one of the ambitious young female doctor’s thesis, Asada was brought into the fold because of his extraordinary skills. His passion, his methods, skills and his successes eventually made him a target by the higher echelons.
What’s unrealistic is the amazing skills and so on of this doctor. so far, throughout the tv series, he hasn’t had a dead patient yet. There was only talk about a patient who died because of severe wounds, but flashbacks aren’t current cases…
What makes this a fantastic watch, is just the amount of passion thrown into the Team each time someone comes through needing a surgery.
Favourite Character: Dr Arase, the genius anaesthetist. He was such a mad looking character at first, then the reasons for him “acting mad” was eventually revealed. not only did I felt sorry for him, but DAMN his attitude is so cool! I watched and rewatched episode 8 each time for just that 15 minute window where I get to see him in action for the first time.
It’s actors like Abe Sadao… that makes me randomly want to be an anaesthetist.
Jin: I think this just made a category of tv shows by itself. Historical medical drama? Fantasy?
Minataka Jin is a neurosurgeon who has lost his will to operate due to his operation that managed to “save” his fiance, but left her in a vegetative state. After trying to stop a patient from running away one night, he fell and dropped into a time split vacuum that brought him to Edo Japan! There, he still urges of saving people and, despite his lack of modern tools, set about ways to save people and, in the process, matured!
I don’t even know if I could just purely call this a medical drama. It has several factors. Fantasy (time travelling by magic rather than science), romance, history and politics are all as much a part of this drama as the medical side of it is! The thing that kept me going from episode to episode, so far, has been the question: Is he going to get back? Definitely intriguing!
Favourite character: the Courtesan Nokaze. She masks her true feelings under a very cynical smiling mask. Yet, despite how she behaved originally, this is not an arrogant woman who does not care about anyone else. <3 <3
^_____^v TV shows!
Current Mood: amused
