Comments | scottishlass: Of last legs and subbing

scottishlass

Of last legs and subbing

May 30, 2008 20:51

Hoo-frelling-yah! I'm on the last leg of subbing Hajimete no natsu ... only twenty minutes to go. After 2 and a half days (and nights) of subbing I think I need a break from young SMAP. Geesh, they are all so adorable, and especially Nakai really has the role of obnoxious brat down pat :) And Shingo ... oh ... even though he is as tall (and taller ( Read more... )

*subbing

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rika_66 May 30 2008, 22:11:32 UTC

OMG! You are SO quick! You are really a hero!

scottishlass May 30 2008, 23:07:37 UTC

Just an obsessed fan :)

It's ready .. will upload now :)

rika_66 May 30 2008, 23:20:06 UTC

You are superlady!

scottishlass May 30 2008, 23:59:15 UTC

Thank you :) Will start to finish the Samurai time travel story now :) And tomorrow I will try to start on one of the shorter 1 hour specials from SMAP :)

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rika_66 May 31 2008, 11:52:43 UTC

BTW, after watching all this SMAP early stuff, I honestly don't understand all that rambling that "if Mori didn't quit, he woulld be the SMAP bigest star, not Kimura". It seems to me that even in their early days it was quite obvious, who's the biggest brilliant there, whi's the most talented and charismatic. And it was not Mori.

scottishlass May 31 2008, 12:21:33 UTC

Mori is indeed none existent as an actor. You could have put a wooden puppet there, and it would have delivered the words just as well. But as a SMAP member, he was more popular than Takuya. You can see it in the early concerts, Mori got far more exposure than Kimura. You can hear the roar of pleasure during Kimura's Koi no melody when Mori steps onto the stage and sings the last words with him. The audience goes more crazy than when Kimura enters the stage. I think it was his lean figure. During the early 1990's Japanese teenage girls went crazy for tall, dark, handsome and Mori fit the bill. Shingo, even though as tall, was seen as a kid, but Mori? Yeah he fit the bill to a tee ( ... )

rika_66 May 31 2008, 12:40:20 UTC

Well, may be I don't see what it was so appealing for Japanese girls in Moro, because I'm mostly interested in acting and in them as actors. And Mori is "zero" as an actor, you are right.

I already mentioned that personally I'm interested in films/series and quite half-hearted for SMAP asa a pop-group of TV-showmen. For me SMAP is only a "make-weight" to Kimura as an actor. I wouldn't watch anything SMAP without him.

scottishlass May 31 2008, 13:04:03 UTC

I understand you. For me .. I like Kimura as an actor AND as a member of SMAP because I like SMAP as well, both as a pop group, as entertainers and as individual actors (I think Shingo in his recent Bara no nai Hanaya and Tsu in Boku no aruku michi did fantastic jobs and you can see they are very talented as well ( ... )