Well, that's understandable at least. Still quite unfortunate. That scene alone significantly narrows down who I can show the doc to with a straight face, as most of my nerd friends are either from Japan or have ties to Japan somehow and tend to get pretty angry about media misrepresentation of their country (especially "look at this weird Japanese thing" sort of articles).
A little late to the conversation at this point, but I'm pretty sure SNSD has a fairly large Japanese following as well--at least large enough that they record a lot of their songs in Japanese. I'm definitely no expert in telling the difference between Korean and Japanese, but it did sound like that version was in Japanese. I could 100% be wrong though.
I'm glad Chris talked about the Smash Documentary. I feel like an idiot though because I emailed that request for them to watch it intending for Chris to not read it on air. Oh well, I guess I'm glad it lead to discussion. I did feel that the later episodes lacked the same story telling that the earlier episodes achieved. Once the episodes started focusing on Mango they lost a lot of their direction and turned out to be a lot more of just interviews about Smash with no real connection. Overall I thought it was really good though. I thought Wife's segments were great--he made the entire documentary much more entertaining to watch.
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A little late to the conversation at this point, but I'm pretty sure SNSD has a fairly large Japanese following as well--at least large enough that they record a lot of their songs in Japanese. I'm definitely no expert in telling the difference between Korean and Japanese, but it did sound like that version was in Japanese. I could 100% be wrong though.
I'm glad Chris talked about the Smash Documentary. I feel like an idiot though because I emailed that request for them to watch it intending for Chris to not read it on air. Oh well, I guess I'm glad it lead to discussion. I did feel that the later episodes lacked the same story telling that the earlier episodes achieved. Once the episodes started focusing on Mango they lost a lot of their direction and turned out to be a lot more of just interviews about Smash with no real connection. Overall I thought it was really good though. I thought Wife's segments were great--he made the entire documentary much more entertaining to watch.