Just finished watching SOS and all I can say is...

Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 8:10 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

So many eyecandies how can it be boring?!? I think a lot of people can relate to it; being a virgin, liking someone that already likes someone else, getting with someone you can get with, getting punked, etc.

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 4:48 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

it's so booorrinngggg. i think the story line is fine. it's just too slooOooOOoow

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 7:26 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 7:53 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

pankanshe, there wasn't a scene with a wedding.. and yeah, she probably had no where else to go since.. well, you know what happened.

Glad I'm not the only one who found that weird. I guess you can get married or date siblings who aren't blood-related.. although I've never heard of such cases..

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 8:27 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 9:07 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Well I didn't noticed it dragged, none of my friends either. I thought it was well paced and everything that happened sort of needed to happen. I don't remember a useless or slow part in SOS. I'd somewhat agree with you that Korean dramas tend to drag, but i'll argue that its WAY slower than SOS. SOS was like 11 or 12 eps? Korean dramas tend to be 16 and up from the ones I've seen. Thats the main reason i started moving away from Kdramas, they are TOO slow for me... and Koreans dramas are somewhat predictable too.

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:00 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Bump.

I don't think there's anything wrong with their relationship at all. They're not blood, and it's not as though their relatioship was based on sex.

As for the series, I agree with those who think it's slow and "ok" at best. Kyoko's "I'm a pet trapped inside a human being's body" contrivances got tiring toward the end. I had been tired of that from anime anyway. Also, Takki's introverted narrations were never interesting to me but they were particularly dull by ep 10. His tweazed transvestite style eyebrows seriously bother me too. Tongue

The last episode was relatively interesting but to my suprise actually, it was very anticlimatic at the same time.

I'd like to think that the best parts about SOS are its intro, outro, and production values relating to editing epsecially. Without them, I probably would have more fun reading someone's blog.

My random two cents.

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 7:14 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Just finished SOS a few minutes ago...(after laboring on it for 1 and a half month)
and all I can say is...

This is the first jdrama I'll put on my "it-sucks-category"
There wasn't endearing or touching about it at all..(okay, maybe a few scenes)
That "We were born to love" theme...I find it too unrealistic...
They overdid the love theme a wee bit too much.
I wasn't able to relate on any character at all. The four of them irritate me in different ways.

Kyoko Fukada (Yui)
Did I say she was cute? or I like the way she baby talks? I was probably hallucinating when I said that. I now give her the plague--ah typo, plaque, I mean-- for worst actress ever (jdrama and kdrama). I cant even stand her facial expressions from the last 2 episodes. What a really, really, bad actress! And I'm not even adding her pathetic love for that sempai.

Takky (Manato)
I have nothing against Takky...I thought he did an okay job with his acting. But his character hasn't engaged me at all. His obsession towards Yui is getting way out of hand! And, no...I don't really care if they end up with each other or not.
And I don't get his..." Dakara...I'll never forget her"
I don't know what's the significance of that line. Yes, it makes the narration more dramatic...but what's so unforgettable with that weirdo Roll Eyes

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The nerd from GTO (Saeki-san)
I'm hoping it's not just me who got overly annoyed with the way he enunciates and say every word? Though, I admit it...his random switching from japanese to english was cool....but wait, I should credit the translator for putting the japanese translations for his english lines--that's what made it cool...other than that, it's definitely engrish, man Roll Eyes

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Rina Uchiyama (Sawamura)
This is only my second rina drama since I've seen her bubbly character from Good Luck. I have nothing to say bad about her. The only sane person in this drama. Smile

As for the "disgusting issue" people were talking about..nah, I'm not against it all. They weren't blood related after all.

Good points:

The ending MV is very, very cool...especially that first shot with takky on the snow with Abba's S.O.S playing.

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 7:19 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

not really Laugh

but since they didn't know each other that long and her mother died, it's a little different.

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 12:18 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I have to agree with many of the points jaycee had made in her post. I too didn't find SOS as appealing or as memorable as many of the other jdramas I've seen. The characters were pretty shallow and the ones that I liked the most were the side characters, especially Rina Uchiyama's character. She seemed the most "real".

Anyway, the editing for this series was the major, if not only plus for me. It was fresh , but sometimes a bit overdone. I wouldn't go through the hassle of downloading it unless you are a large fan of Kyoko Fukada.

As for the main question in this thread, I don't think it was so much the fact that they were step brother and step sister that made me dislike the pairing (since I wouldn't have minded if the main characters in "Autumn Tale" got together), but it was the fact that both of the characters annoyed me. Their characters weren't given much depth and their motives for being with one another just seemed too forced.

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 12:35 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

i loved it and ffs why do i have to read major spoilers about autom tale all the friggin time pale

;P

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 12:37 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 1:11 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Though the plot may have been a little shallow, I did try to enjoy this while watching it.

Developed a minor crush on Rina Uchiyama Smile

As for the step-sibling issue, well I find it a little weird Smile