I'll try to keep this short, because I just got back from a weekend seminar and I'm pretty beat.
1.) Rowing Boat Club: TOTAL AGREEMENT! ^___^ It's really interesting to see it, because it does seem a lot more unscripted than the other episodes. And a lot of Arashi's emotions also seem more real than in other episodes (and - maybe a bit too real, sometimes?). I haven't seen the episodes with the subs yet, but I remember from watching the raws that at one point I just thought "Damn, Jun, get over yourself and stop bitching!" ^^" But it's interesting and lovely to see that Arashi actually does keep together even in the "uncut" (ok, lesser cut) material and it sort of fits with the way it was conceived, because while of course there's a lot of scripted stuff in Arashi shows, I get the feeling that Ohno's spontaneous offer to form a rowing club really was unexpected for the rest of the crew...^-^
2.) The fixed-teeth-list: Actually, I have a question: Are fixed teeth a big deal in America? Because I remember the reactions to the "Yamapi has fixed teeth!" post and this in addition to you saying that you'd rather not know if Nino had his teeth fixed, I get the feeling that it's something ...not quite shameful, but definitely something one wouldn't talk about. For me that's kind of surprising, because every child I know (including me) had braces at some point and a lot of my friends (including me!^-^) had the wisdom teeth (or, occasionally, other teeth) pulled when we were teenagers to ensure that our other teeth wouldn't grow crooked from the lack of space in there. So I don't quite understand the reason why fixed teeth would be something big enough to create such a fuss as in the community where the thing about Yamapi's teeth was posted... (This is not a cricism of your list, btw! ^___^ This I find intersting, in the same way I would find a list about who wears glasses in JE interesting.)
3.) The "broken home" list is interesting, too! I heard about Nino's parents being divorced and I heard rumours about Takki ...having problems with his family? in some way, at least and I think I heard a rumour about Yoko coming from a single-parent household (which explains why he worked on construction sites for a while after he finished middle school). I never heard anything abuout the other three, though! That's really interesting! ^__^ Did Okada come from Tokyo? I always wondered how it came that he entered Johnny's through a TV competition - I wondered whether he perhaps came from a far-away part from Japan which kept him from applying to Johnny's beforehand in the regular way...
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Date: 2008-02-03 03:59 pm (UTC)1.) Rowing Boat Club: TOTAL AGREEMENT! ^___^ It's really interesting to see it, because it does seem a lot more unscripted than the other episodes. And a lot of Arashi's emotions also seem more real than in other episodes (and - maybe a bit too real, sometimes?). I haven't seen the episodes with the subs yet, but I remember from watching the raws that at one point I just thought "Damn, Jun, get over yourself and stop bitching!" ^^" But it's interesting and lovely to see that Arashi actually does keep together even in the "uncut" (ok, lesser cut) material and it sort of fits with the way it was conceived, because while of course there's a lot of scripted stuff in Arashi shows, I get the feeling that Ohno's spontaneous offer to form a rowing club really was unexpected for the rest of the crew...^-^
2.) The fixed-teeth-list: Actually, I have a question: Are fixed teeth a big deal in America? Because I remember the reactions to the "Yamapi has fixed teeth!" post and this in addition to you saying that you'd rather not know if Nino had his teeth fixed, I get the feeling that it's something ...not quite shameful, but definitely something one wouldn't talk about.
For me that's kind of surprising, because every child I know (including me) had braces at some point and a lot of my friends (including me!^-^) had the wisdom teeth (or, occasionally, other teeth) pulled when we were teenagers to ensure that our other teeth wouldn't grow crooked from the lack of space in there. So I don't quite understand the reason why fixed teeth would be something big enough to create such a fuss as in the community where the thing about Yamapi's teeth was posted...
(This is not a cricism of your list, btw! ^___^ This I find intersting, in the same way I would find a list about who wears glasses in JE interesting.)
3.) The "broken home" list is interesting, too! I heard about Nino's parents being divorced and I heard rumours about Takki ...having problems with his family? in some way, at least and I think I heard a rumour about Yoko coming from a single-parent household (which explains why he worked on construction sites for a while after he finished middle school). I never heard anything abuout the other three, though! That's really interesting! ^__^ Did Okada come from Tokyo? I always wondered how it came that he entered Johnny's through a TV competition - I wondered whether he perhaps came from a far-away part from Japan which kept him from applying to Johnny's beforehand in the regular way...