What! that's actually true

Wow, it's amazing the things you don't notice. A friend recently mentioned "It's weird how no one on The Jetsons ever addresses the apocalyptic events that left only white Americans behind, living in the sky."

Really though that's true. I remember watching the show when I was younger, laughing at the treadmill scene. Everyone was either white or a robot. They didn't even have a token African or Asian or... well token anything. It's like there was a great purge of everyone else. Also considering what the population should be in the future the sky seemed sparsely populated. It took a while for them to drive their air cars to each others houses- and these are cars that I'm sure were going faster than 70 miles per hour. Where are all the homes?

One can only hope everyone else was living below. If not then that show is really depressing instead of funny. Actually that's still depressing- like the rich Brazilians riding their helicopters everyday over the masses of poor underneath. So instead I have to hope everyone else is in some other region of the sky. I know it's just a TV show but what does it say about us that this is an ideal of the future?

Eight Heroes

There was a Chinese tv show I used to watch when I was young. I think the name of it was Eight Heroes. I doubt that it had a complex plot since I had an idea of what was going on and don't know any Chinese language but...I liked it. This is the intro theme I happened to find the other day:

Eight hero by matsujun9
Interesting thing- one of the guys who gets the most face time in the intro died around the 3rd episode. He was just a popular actor

School Rumble

Oi! Happy Lunar New Year! I was watching a favorite comedy of mine,School Rumble. It's a hilarious manga series, revolving around a group of students, their odd relationships, and frequent misunderstandings that was made into a anime tv show. I just realized that their theme songs are catchy. Here is their opening song,
Scramble (スクランブル)-Yui Horie...

and closing Girls Boys (オンナのコ オトコのコ)- Yuko Ogura

Outer Limits

I have been more of a Twilight Zone fan throughout the years so may be I just missed something. I watched a The Outer Limits episode today and found something strange in their intro. I know this is hypothetical and there are few reasons for the creators to make an answer for it but it still bugs me... If the Outer Limits takes control of your television; why give it back?

Do they just not have enough stories to fill a day?
Is it like an emergency warning system and they are just giving you bit of information before returning to regular broadcast?
When there were only a handful of channels did that mean a lot more than it does now with 1,000s?

So there is no real purpose for this post except to list some of the thoughts that went through my head while I watched television(I know thoughts while watching television is miracle enough!)

Heaven & Earth Campus Concert

Found an interesting show a few weeks ago,Heaven & Earth Campus Concert.
It comes on before JATV News so I happened to catch the ending about 4 weeks ago and became interested. The show is in Chinese so I barely understand a word but for some reason I have found it really enjoyable.

Anyway it comes on at Saturday(today) at 7 on LA18

TV programs have an interesting place in our everyday lives. I read more books than I watch television but things on television are easier to talk to people about.
With books you can have people get totally different ideas from the same book. You also have people's different reading speeds.

Some tv shows you didn't realize stuck with you come to mind. The other day I was thinking of a show I liked,The Secret World of Alex Mack which went off the air about 10 years ago.
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テレビ番組は日常生活に興味深い役割がある。私は本を読むよりテレビを見ることにしていますが、テレビより本のことは話しやすいです。本に人は別の思いがある。人も読む早さがある。

先日、好きな番組について思った。思い出した番組「The Secret World of Alex Mack」（日本でおまかせアレックス）が10年まえに放送やめた。

もう１つ番組、Pushing Daisiesはシナリオライターのストライキから１０回しか放送していない
幸運にも今週、次月にPushing Daisiesの放送は続けることがあると分かった。

Duel

Well I have just started watching this show but like it so far. I like game shows but most of the new ones that have come out I couldn't stand because the host and guesｔ were over the top.At first I thought the system was pretty complicated but I got it after a few minutes. Well I'm definitely going to watch tonight.

Dubbing in Commercials

I happen to watch a few shows in languages other than english so I also happen to see a few commercials in other languages. I've noticed that a few commercials gearing toward asain groups they will use the same commercial and use a different voice over it and replace a few of the words. As an economical type of guy I don't see a problem with this except the few where you can tell that the voice don't match the person. The worst I've seen lately has been an AT&T which I have seen in 4 languages.English,Korean,Japanese and a Chinese. It was done in English and the Korean doesn't look too bad, at first I thought they had actually re-taped it for Korean with the same lady but the Japanese and Chinese versions are pretty obvious. What I don't get is if you think you have enough of a market to dub a commercial to a group you don't want to just re-tape and find a person to say it in that language?I guess to just show the possible consumer that you cared.

「いま会いにゆきます」

いまあいにゆきます「今会いに行きます」

Hello all I just found this picture. So I wanted to share one of my favorite shows, I'm coming to meet you now 「今あいにゆきます」 This show was based on a book. There was also a movie made (using the same kid) but I haven't watched that yet. There is also a American remake being or planning to be made of the movie starting one of my favorite actors, Jennifer Gardner!