I have been watching the NBC show Heroes lately. It is a great show. I really love Hiro, he’s a great character.
In general, I really like this show. There is one thing that really bothers me on the show. There are a few people in the show that speak Japanese. The main ones so far have been the Japanese characters, who are all great. It was one of the first times that I’ve heard George Takei speak Japanese, which was great.
The problem is that there are also some Western people that speak Japanese in the show, and their accents are terrible. Absolutely awful. That alone wouldn’t be so bad. What is really horrible is that in one scene where there was some extended white-guy Japanese-speaking action, his accent was horrible but his vocabulary was very good. Nobody that has such a good vocabulary and grasp of Japanese could possibly have such a terrible accent. You would have to be able to tell that your own Japanese sounds wrong and horrible.
Anyway, aside from that the show is great. I’m watching Episode 17 now and sad that I’ll soon be up to the “season finale”. When will more Heroes be aired? I’m looking forward to it. (That and Battlestar Galactica and Dr. Who.)
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