Daring Bakers cake, Korean HYD, Dollhouse
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I can finally reveal this month's Daring Bakers challenge: a Chocolate Valentino cake. It had 3, and only 3, ingredients: chocolate, butter, and eggs. You might guess it was a pretty rich dessert. <g> It's probably one of the very rare times I've ever enjoyed batter (I might as well confess -- I don't like cookie dough either!). More details here. I got a great shot of melty chocolate goodness.
Dollhouse ep 3: Thought it was a fairly interesting storyline, probably the best written of the 3 so far (and done by Jed & Maurissa). I liked the reveal of Agent what's-his-face's contact being a doll (though I don't get why he tagged him as a target in the first place), and the budding friendship Echo and Sienna (?) have started. I always thought the premise had Echo being the one to regain sentience, not all the dolls (the former meant there was something special about her; the latter means there's something wrong with thep programming), but from the last scene of Sienna happily veering toward Echo and Echo subtly shaking her head and Sienna understanding it, it seems that it's not just limited to Echo. Still, that last scene bothered me, because there's been no hints of Echo realizing, herself, what was going on -- so why would she do that (make the gesture)? It doesn't really make any sense.
The show's premise is also rather limiting in the same way that Prison Break was limiting -- once Echo regains sentience, what happens to Dollhouse? Is she going to be like Sydney, where she pretends to be a doll but really isn't one? Once you've broken out of prison, where else is there to go? Of course, Prison Break is still on the air (I think?) and they did go more than one season, so what do I know.
And finally, do the people who sign up for this gig know that they could die? Because I'm not really sure how many desperate people would sign up for something like this, or why.
All sets of Buffy except S1 have officially sold, which means that I can stop feeling that twinge of guilt for buying a whole other Buffy set just because I want to save shelf space. It actually went a lot faster than I thought it would; I wouldn't have guessed that Buffy sets were still so desirable.
I've started HYD the Korean version. Every time I watch shows like this, I feel so embarrassed at some parts ... embarrassed for them, and for myself. You know what I mean? :))
I've only seen half of the first episode, but here are my impressions so far!
- Yuki, or the girl who I think is supposed to be Yuki, is ridiculously cute. SHE should've been the main lead! I've actually liked both Yukis.
- It's going to take some getting used to the new names. Why couldn't they have just stuck with some variation of the Japanese names? I have no clue what "Domyouji" name is, especially in comparison to the other F4 guys.
- As with the Japanese version, I find "Sojiro" the cutest of the 4. The new Domyouji actor at least doesn't turn me off the way the Japanese actor initially did, but the latter endeared himself because he was so goofy. However I think akscully said that they had done away with that part of his personality in the Korean version?
- The "Makino" in the Korean version isn't nearly as endearing as the Japanese Makino actress.
- I kind of liked that they tried to explain how "Makino" got into the academy; that was never satisfactorily explained in the Japanese version (it wasn't like she was some super genius or anything), not that I really cared.
- Seriously, when the first of the "Three Beauties" said that her name was Ginger (one of the aforementioned "embarrassed for myself and them" moments), I was expecting the other two to be Baby and Posh.
- Do I remember correctly that it seems they're going to be less subtle in this version with the Sojiro/Yuki?
- Rui is, as usual, my least favorite of the 4. Eventually I grew to like him in the Japanese version, but I never found him attractive.
- I'm curious to see their actress selection for Tsubaki, as well as Sakurako. (Never mind, I've now seen Sakurako ... she's not nearly as cute as the Japanese actress! Even one of the "Beauties" would have been more appropriate. What were they thinking with this casting?)
- You know what's weird about good-looking Asian celebrities? It gets very difficult to tell their ethnicity! If you showed me a run-of-the-mill Asian person, I'd be able to guess their ethnicity with at least a 90% success rate. But the gorgeous celebrities? It's hard to tell. My theory is it's because we consider "good looking" people to have European traits like big eyes and such, so when you get to be in that range where you're good looking enough to be an actor/actress, you kind of look "the same" as the other good looking Asians, because you possess the same traits that make you "good looking."
- I both like and don't like that they're making Makino's family the same kind of crazy that they were in the Japanese version. I really loved her family in the Japanese HYD, and they're almost too alike. I know, not really a fair nit when they're probably basing it off the manga (which I haven't read in awhile).
- No guy is ever going to be as hot as Zhi Shu.
Dollhouse ep 3: Thought it was a fairly interesting storyline, probably the best written of the 3 so far (and done by Jed & Maurissa). I liked the reveal of Agent what's-his-face's contact being a doll (though I don't get why he tagged him as a target in the first place), and the budding friendship Echo and Sienna (?) have started. I always thought the premise had Echo being the one to regain sentience, not all the dolls (the former meant there was something special about her; the latter means there's something wrong with thep programming), but from the last scene of Sienna happily veering toward Echo and Echo subtly shaking her head and Sienna understanding it, it seems that it's not just limited to Echo. Still, that last scene bothered me, because there's been no hints of Echo realizing, herself, what was going on -- so why would she do that (make the gesture)? It doesn't really make any sense.
The show's premise is also rather limiting in the same way that Prison Break was limiting -- once Echo regains sentience, what happens to Dollhouse? Is she going to be like Sydney, where she pretends to be a doll but really isn't one? Once you've broken out of prison, where else is there to go? Of course, Prison Break is still on the air (I think?) and they did go more than one season, so what do I know.
And finally, do the people who sign up for this gig know that they could die? Because I'm not really sure how many desperate people would sign up for something like this, or why.
All sets of Buffy except S1 have officially sold, which means that I can stop feeling that twinge of guilt for buying a whole other Buffy set just because I want to save shelf space. It actually went a lot faster than I thought it would; I wouldn't have guessed that Buffy sets were still so desirable.
I've started HYD the Korean version. Every time I watch shows like this, I feel so embarrassed at some parts ... embarrassed for them, and for myself. You know what I mean? :))
I've only seen half of the first episode, but here are my impressions so far!
- Yuki, or the girl who I think is supposed to be Yuki, is ridiculously cute. SHE should've been the main lead! I've actually liked both Yukis.
- It's going to take some getting used to the new names. Why couldn't they have just stuck with some variation of the Japanese names? I have no clue what "Domyouji" name is, especially in comparison to the other F4 guys.
- As with the Japanese version, I find "Sojiro" the cutest of the 4. The new Domyouji actor at least doesn't turn me off the way the Japanese actor initially did, but the latter endeared himself because he was so goofy. However I think akscully said that they had done away with that part of his personality in the Korean version?
- The "Makino" in the Korean version isn't nearly as endearing as the Japanese Makino actress.
- I kind of liked that they tried to explain how "Makino" got into the academy; that was never satisfactorily explained in the Japanese version (it wasn't like she was some super genius or anything), not that I really cared.
- Seriously, when the first of the "Three Beauties" said that her name was Ginger (one of the aforementioned "embarrassed for myself and them" moments), I was expecting the other two to be Baby and Posh.
- Do I remember correctly that it seems they're going to be less subtle in this version with the Sojiro/Yuki?
- Rui is, as usual, my least favorite of the 4. Eventually I grew to like him in the Japanese version, but I never found him attractive.
- I'm curious to see their actress selection for Tsubaki, as well as Sakurako. (Never mind, I've now seen Sakurako ... she's not nearly as cute as the Japanese actress! Even one of the "Beauties" would have been more appropriate. What were they thinking with this casting?)
- You know what's weird about good-looking Asian celebrities? It gets very difficult to tell their ethnicity! If you showed me a run-of-the-mill Asian person, I'd be able to guess their ethnicity with at least a 90% success rate. But the gorgeous celebrities? It's hard to tell. My theory is it's because we consider "good looking" people to have European traits like big eyes and such, so when you get to be in that range where you're good looking enough to be an actor/actress, you kind of look "the same" as the other good looking Asians, because you possess the same traits that make you "good looking."
- I both like and don't like that they're making Makino's family the same kind of crazy that they were in the Japanese version. I really loved her family in the Japanese HYD, and they're almost too alike. I know, not really a fair nit when they're probably basing it off the manga (which I haven't read in awhile).
- No guy is ever going to be as hot as Zhi Shu.
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Date: 2009-03-03 04:59 am (UTC)hmmm, none of the viikiiiiiiiii movies are working for me but I just watched 16 so I know they were working at some point. I'll see if I can find alternates.