Yonosa Wrote:If TV is too shallow for you, why not just read books?bodhisamaya Wrote:If you are looking for something serious, you will never learn Japanese. Only those who are looking to have fun will succeed.My my.... It just so happens that I find intellectually stimulating content entertaining and enjoyable... perhaps this is unthinkable to you or something that you would post such a response. But do not think I am going out looking for things I do not enjoy, the whole post is about how I do not enjoy most of the media because it is shallow in my opinion, and looking for alternatives that may be more to my tastes. I can already read most of the newspaper, save some trouble when reading about Government(which is ok since that is the most shallow corrupt mainstream perspective and falsifies what's going on, but I will still work to understand that completely, just a matter of a few thousand more vocabulary to push myself to 99% or so in that area.) So don't spout your ideas about fun and assume what is fun for you might be fun for everyone, in my case, quite the contrary.
In the drama Galileo do they really stick to the science? I have never found that they really care much about the science used, it's more about the "cool" factor than anything I have found.
The book is almost always better than the movie/tv show.
TV is made for mass-market appeal and produced by people
looking to make money off the latest sensation. They're not
always looking to keep faithful to the source material or verify
that their theories are scientifically sound.
Instead, you should go to the original source and read the books
they were based on.
Even if the Galileo TV show has too much cool factor for you, the
novel might be completely different. Often characters (even entire
story arcs) are missing and genders are changed in the TV show.
The original novels were written by Higashino Keigo(東野圭吾). The TV show was based
on 探偵ガリレオ and 予知夢. I've seen a few japanese people reading his books
on the subway. He also wrote Yōgisha X no Kenshin (容疑者Xの献身), a
spinoff of Galileo that won many literary awards (and was turned into a movie
that many people raved about).
Fumo Chitai and Karei Naru Ichizoku, both very deep dramas (and
2 of my all time favorites), are based on original novels written by
Yamazaki Toyoko (山崎豊子). Just from those 2 dramas alone, I can
tell you that his stories are very deep, complicated and gripping.
Any good author is Yasutaka Tsutsui (筒井 康隆). He's a scifi
author and wrote "Nanase Futatabi" in addition to dozens of
other books and short stories. Nanase Futatabi was made
into a drama 4 times. That must be some kind of record.
Edited: 2010-09-20, 9:48 pm
