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lesbiassparrow) wrote2007-05-08 07:21 pm
lesbiassparrow) wrote2007-05-08 07:21 pm
Pride
There is something wrong with my second disc of Pride; it does not want to play beyond mid episode 9! I am in two minds about this. I quite like it and when do you get to see a Japanese take on hockey, after all... But I have rather issues with Halu, who I rather like despite the way he is written than because of it. I know maybe all this got resolved in the last two episodes, but I am worried.
I do spend a lot of time wondering where the image of hockey comes from, as well. Certainly it's a hard sport and people celebrate playing through injuries, getting back up after tremendous blows, etc, which is what Halu seems to understand. But it's blatantly a team sport and any player like Halu who said 'pass the puck to me because it doesn't matter that you're building a team of one star' runs counter to the rhetoric of the sport and would not last very long - I can't even imagine Jagr saying that. Or saying it publicly and before his team.
I know, I know jdramas aren't realistic, but still I find it hard to root for someone like him because of his attitude to the sport. It's hard to believe in a character who clearly has no idea of how hockey operates at its most fundamental level or any of the language of the game. Which is not to say that hockey doesn't have its goal hogs and superstars, but even they would find themselves in a lonely position if it ever came out that they had said something like that in the locker room. Hockey is not basketball. Or American football. It's a Canadian sport! It's as if someone presented an American drama about Sumo wrestling and decided that they should just have the wrestlers act like boxers puffing themselves up before a bout!
But it is interesting to see how other cultures consume a sport, even when it makes you twitch a fair bit.
Ah, I think I will take a break and watch more Mawang.
ETA: Also Griffith Park (near where I live) is currently going up in flames. There is mad activity around here. I hope they succeed in fighting it without injury or death.
I do spend a lot of time wondering where the image of hockey comes from, as well. Certainly it's a hard sport and people celebrate playing through injuries, getting back up after tremendous blows, etc, which is what Halu seems to understand. But it's blatantly a team sport and any player like Halu who said 'pass the puck to me because it doesn't matter that you're building a team of one star' runs counter to the rhetoric of the sport and would not last very long - I can't even imagine Jagr saying that. Or saying it publicly and before his team.
I know, I know jdramas aren't realistic, but still I find it hard to root for someone like him because of his attitude to the sport. It's hard to believe in a character who clearly has no idea of how hockey operates at its most fundamental level or any of the language of the game. Which is not to say that hockey doesn't have its goal hogs and superstars, but even they would find themselves in a lonely position if it ever came out that they had said something like that in the locker room. Hockey is not basketball. Or American football. It's a Canadian sport! It's as if someone presented an American drama about Sumo wrestling and decided that they should just have the wrestlers act like boxers puffing themselves up before a bout!
But it is interesting to see how other cultures consume a sport, even when it makes you twitch a fair bit.
Ah, I think I will take a break and watch more Mawang.
ETA: Also Griffith Park (near where I live) is currently going up in flames. There is mad activity around here. I hope they succeed in fighting it without injury or death.
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Halu is one of those characters who would be incredibly difficult to live with in RL but someone I adore in fiction. I do think he is quite the team player though: he tried his best to get Yamato the goalie to work through his issues, help that rich-what-s-his-name etc etc. But then like I said, I know little about the sport.
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But there was this scene when new NHL experience coach came in and said to the team that they had to stop just passing the puck to Halu and hoping he's score and Halu said basically 'well, what does it matter as long as we score - it's a great system and we should stick with it.' (!) I know part of that is his mad love for old and IMO completely mad and useless coach but I think that making that statement pretty much runs counter to all the rhetoric of the sport. Not that it doesn't have egomaniacs, but it tends to frown on them.
Ah well, Halu is awfully yummy when he is angstridden. And it is well acted. I just need to get over wanting to smack him when he touches a puck!
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I think his old coach was a total psycho actually, both in training him and in trying to instill his views on life. Yikes. But I think part of the drama is Halu learning that the guy was wrong, team blah blah.
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I heard about that driving home tonight. Hopefully they get it all sorted out without losing that brand new Observatory, or the little train. I've only been to the park a few times, but oh, do I love that little train.
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