生田斗真さんはかわいそうですね~

I was planning to post something about this yesterday, but the god of inspiration did not hit me with any, well, inspiration.

Nevertheless, here it goes!

I was watching the ninth episode of the Japanese drama “ハチミツとクローバー (Hachimitsu to Clover)” when I noticed Ikuta Toma, the guy who plays the main character Takemoto Yuta, all drenched in the “rain.”

But first of all, let me rant about the scene. So there was this whole fake rain thing that was so obvious. You can actually see the fake raindrops because of the bad lighting, making the fabricated raindrops somehow appear longer than they would if they were real. I mean, if you’re going to create some rain for a scene, at least use a decent water hose to do it! While I was watching the scene, I can’t help but imagine Ikuta Toma riding his bike and doing his thing, while the camera crew rode on a big truck in front of him, with one or three guys trying to get a hold of this big ass electric fan thingy. In addition, there were also a few people who were figuring out the water hose, trying to control how much water came out of it. Did they really expect the viewers to “think” that it was actually raining?

Anyway, this post is not about that. It’s about what Ikuta Toma did FOR the scene.

I felt really sorry for the guy. It was shot in freaking winter, for heaven’s sake! And he was doing the scene on a mountain, probably, and there was still SNOW on the roadside. You could actually feel the cold as you watch it.

Check out the pictures.

Look at the right-hand side of the picture: SNOW.
And at the upper left-hand corner, the uber-long-obviously-fake raindrops I was talking about.

Here’s a bigger and clearer view of the snow.

(Sorry about the quality. It was a spur-of-the-moment thing, so I did not bother on taking more decent screencaps.)

AND HE’S WEARING SHORTS TOO!

I do hope he’s getting a really good pay to do all this. I bet he was irritated to see how those long hours of having needles pierce through his skin, especially on his bare legs, be only worth at least five minutes of screen time.

Wait, there’s more! (LOL. I sound like those TV shopping channel voice-overs.) The drama did not do so good on that episode as well. From an already low rating of 8.0, it went lower to 7.4, and even lower on the tenth episode: a rating of only 7.0! It’s really sad how underrated this drama has been. It’s not a fantastic drama, and it doesn’t even come close to the animé nor the manga, but, still, I can actually say it is a good one. I’ve seen dramas a lot worse than this, yet they get so much higher ratings. What’s up with that? Oh yeah~ The crazy fangirls.

But my issue with that is a whole new different story, and thus a whole new different blog entry. I’m just gonna have to settle on this for now.

I hope you don’t catch pneumonia, 生田斗真さん!