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Old 2009-12-04, 21:40   Link #212
Vexx
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 66
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Originally Posted by Khu View Post
Eh. First few episodes had me wtf'ing, but I persevered. Pretty good, but the first few eps seemed a little boring =/

E.g. talking about food for 10 minutes, but you get used to that.
If you've ever seen a George Burns comedy routine (or other comedy greats of his era), you'd recognize the humor style immediately - especially with the food sketch bits. It's simply not seen too often any more in the attention-span challenged nownownow one-liner comedy of the West. Pay attention to the music scoring - its very effective in conveying the timing/pacing. That director (since being sacked) has gone on to do some very interesting work in more recent series.
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