[Review] Coffee Prince, Episode Two
Jul. 10th, 2011 12:49 pmAnd it's time for episode two, where the comedy couple has Amazing Fake Gay Boyfriend Adventures and the drama couple triggers a whole slew of Advice Columns. Also noted: some plot stuff.
Comments you should definitely read from the last post:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
via_ostiense on gender pronouns and stuff I'm not getting from the subtitles, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fragilistikal (whole thread!) on manly junk, subtitle problems, and Korean cultural stuff I didn't get, and ranalore on pooping, peeing, and piggy back rides. (Beware mild spoilers.)
A Further Note on Bodily Secretions
ranalore's comment made me remember my first time reading, I think it was, Franny and Zooey, when I was 13, which is, for the record, exactly the right age for first reading all of Salinger in one glorious weeklong orgy. At one point, one of the kids describes their mother as looking satisfied in a way that could only mean she'd been talking to her oldest son or had learned that everyone in her family was going to be regular for 24 hours.
I still remember that because it made me blink - like, how would their mother even know if they were regular or not? Did they, like, talk about pooping or something? By then, though, I was an old pro at recognizing cultural gaps - this is what happens when you spend your childhood reading books written in another country long before you were born - and I just figured, okay, mind the gap. But Franny and Zooey was written in the US in 1961. (By, I might add, someone from roughly the same cultural subset as I am, as far as I can tell.) So apparently the monumental level of delicacy we have achieved with respect to bodily functions in the US is not only not shared by every single country out there, it also wasn't shared by our own country fifty years ago.
In other words, we're probably the weird ones, which is something I will try to keep in mind as I watch future episodes.
Episode 2
( 1: The Comedy Couple Hatches a Plot )
( 2: The Drama Couple Makes a Scene )
( 3: The Recapping Couple Mouths Off )
( 4: The Canon Writers Are Familiar with All Fan Fiction Tropes and Memes )
( 5: All the Couples Get Crazy )
Comments you should definitely read from the last post:
via_ostiense on gender pronouns and stuff I'm not getting from the subtitles, fragilistikal (whole thread!) on manly junk, subtitle problems, and Korean cultural stuff I didn't get, and ranalore on pooping, peeing, and piggy back rides. (Beware mild spoilers.) A Further Note on Bodily Secretions
ranalore's comment made me remember my first time reading, I think it was, Franny and Zooey, when I was 13, which is, for the record, exactly the right age for first reading all of Salinger in one glorious weeklong orgy. At one point, one of the kids describes their mother as looking satisfied in a way that could only mean she'd been talking to her oldest son or had learned that everyone in her family was going to be regular for 24 hours.I still remember that because it made me blink - like, how would their mother even know if they were regular or not? Did they, like, talk about pooping or something? By then, though, I was an old pro at recognizing cultural gaps - this is what happens when you spend your childhood reading books written in another country long before you were born - and I just figured, okay, mind the gap. But Franny and Zooey was written in the US in 1961. (By, I might add, someone from roughly the same cultural subset as I am, as far as I can tell.) So apparently the monumental level of delicacy we have achieved with respect to bodily functions in the US is not only not shared by every single country out there, it also wasn't shared by our own country fifty years ago.
In other words, we're probably the weird ones, which is something I will try to keep in mind as I watch future episodes.
Episode 2
( 1: The Comedy Couple Hatches a Plot )
( 2: The Drama Couple Makes a Scene )
( 3: The Recapping Couple Mouths Off )
( 4: The Canon Writers Are Familiar with All Fan Fiction Tropes and Memes )
( 5: All the Couples Get Crazy )
