天下制覇

Yeah, sure. "Asteroid in Love." Whatever, Japan. I don't care to argue.

I'm dropping a hard limit on four posts a day, and even that's stretching it a bit because two shows over the weekend had one hour premieres, and another had a surprise early webcast. I'm booting the webcast (Somali) to Wednesday and will do the rest in approximate broadcast order… except booting Darwin and ID to the end of the days to accomodate their extra-long premieres.

Impressions:

And this was not a great way to kick things off. I suppose it was fairly soothing on the eyes and ears, but that's about as far as I'm willing to go with my praise. It makes some overtures towards humor here and there, but I'd be hard pressed to call it a comedy. It's more of a "awkward girls try their bestest" show, and it never spares a moment to have them announce how awkward they are, only for another one to say that it's okay, and they just need to try their best. It's also adapted from its source quite lazily. More than once a character would explain something, a non-joke would be made, and then they'd repeat the explaination they just gave, as if there was some mysterious reason for starting the scene over from the beginning despite it being a single conversation. 

It also doesn't help that the last five minutes of the episode was utterly barmy, and that's the part that was supposed to represent their grand coming-together for the episode and provide the direction going forward. They need money for an expensive telescope, so one suggests a fundraiser barbecue, which they all immediately go "No way! That's so stupid!" Instead, after reiterating how boring everybody finds rocks and space, they decide that they're going to do a newsletter, because rocks and space are changing so much that we need monthly updates on them. The logic here is that their newsletter will be so great that money will just appear from… somewhere. They cap this off by distracting them with the only thing better than talking about a newsletter about rocks and space… eating meat. That's not a joke their obliviousness. Or if it is, the writers are equally clueless.