Posts by Yamis
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Classic example of what I am talking about is the bad guy (help me out here with his name) who first appeared in season two.
He was only meant to be in a few episodes but the writers felt that his character was such a good one that they kept him on.
That's fine in a soap opera as pointed out where its all about characters, but when you are telling a complex story where all the parts should eventually fall into place and make sense then it becomes somewhat farcical IMHO.
Fair enough if people enjoyed the characters and interplay between them and the general escapism of it all but I don't think a series like that should have played out in such a random, haphazard, make it up as you go along way, it wasn't a Warriors game!!!!
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I gave up at the end of season 1 really. I watched the first few episodes of season 2 but read about the shows makers saying they weren't quite sure what direction the show was going and what was going on with the island.
That's quite common in TV series but I think in ones like this they should know from the get go what's going on and where they are headed or else it renders many parts of the show pointless.
Imagine reading a book where the ending hasn't been written and when you get to the end the author may not really bother writing one - would you read it? Maybe, but it's a lot of time to invest in something that may dupe you somewhat.
Glad I flagged it.
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Yep, says about as much right here...
http://whaleoil.gotcha.co.nz/2010/05/26/missing-the-point/#comments
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Well this is all getting a bit public.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10648347
http://whaleoil.gotcha.co.nz/2010/05/26/the-presidents-free-lunch/#comments
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Who's "you"? I'm a westie!
I see Manukau spelt Manakau all the time, including on the tellie. A good example of how something is pronounced (incorrectly) influencing how it is spelt I suppose.
Although at least we don't see Papatoe and Otahu in print :)
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Manukau
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It's good to see the language is exactly the same 24 years later although students at my school pronounce it "cun" as though it's a different word and therefore not a swearword.
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The whole N Korean torpedo attack on the S Korean ship was interesting to me for two reasons.
1) That it barely made the news when it actually happened (even though it was unknown what sunk the vessel for a while)
2) That many S Koreans including my wife STILL seem to think that it's some kind of S Korean government conspiracy.
I can understand where she is coming from because the amount of corruption that goes on there is something that many of us can't quite comprehend, but at the same time to have a report come back that blames the N Koreans from a group involving investigators from S Korea, the US, Canada, Australia and others seems fairly reasonable. But there is so much suspicion of the S Korean government and fuckwits like Lee Myung-bak who was known to be a dodgy bastard when he was mayor of Seoul let alone President of Korea that nobody can believe anything.
N Korea has done plenty of shit this bad and more blatant before.
In about 2002 I put an educated estimate on Korean reunification at about 20-25 years. It appears that the pathetic, weak, childish mentality of the N Koreans will stall this to a decade or two beyond this.
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@Lucy
Let's acknowledge that there's a lot of places this description could apply to, hmmmm?
There's no need to acknowledge it when I'm talking specifically about Japan.
Try walking round a palace in Korea and reading a few plaques. Seeing how it was burnt to the ground in a Japanese invasion, rebuilt and then burnt to the ground by another Japanese invasion, and then rebuilt and then burnt to the ground a thrid time by another Japanese invasion. Kinda gets a bit repetitive.
And then there was that pesky Japanese rule of Korea that went on for 35 years from 1910 to 1945, culminating in the use of anything from 20,000 to 200,000 Asian sex slaves (depending on who's telling the story, no guesses where the lower estimate comes from).
Estimates are that only 25% survived with most who did unable to have children due to the number of times they were raped and the diseases they caught.
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Having spent 4 years living in S Korea it would barely be a month in between news stories about how Japanese text books continued to gloss over their war atrocities and still hadn't apologised for the Korean comfort women used during world war II.
That country for all its 'development' and moves away from being a bunch of marauding, murdering maniacs for centuries still has some major issues that it needs to properly acknowledge and properly deal with.
I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon though.