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dipping_sauce (before the teeth-pulling), and mostly sort of wandered around doing desultory shopping - bought FFT, a fact I also should've mentioned days ago - and babbling at the girl. ^^; Tried to explain the full brilliance/horror of the thing that is TeniMyu, as that was what was foremost on my mind at the time, which... eventually sort of segued into an explanation of the brilliance/horror existence of the thing that is F4, complete with Tin's Gloria Arroyo anecdote. ^^; Which led to the following attempt at cultural contextualisation:
Sabina: ...But see, American Idol and its ilk are missing the comic book vector. It really has to have the fictional basis, but I don't know what in North America even corresponds to that. Smallville, maybe?
Erin: So what you're saying is, if they had Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum--
Sabina: --start a boyband together. Exactly.
Erin: ...
Sabina: ...
Both: That would sell. That would sell like crazy.
dipping_sauce (before the teeth-pulling), and mostly sort of wandered around doing desultory shopping - bought FFT, a fact I also should've mentioned days ago - and babbling at the girl. ^^; Tried to explain the full brilliance/horror of the thing that is TeniMyu, as that was what was foremost on my mind at the time, which... eventually sort of segued into an explanation of the Sabina: ...But see, American Idol and its ilk are missing the comic book vector. It really has to have the fictional basis, but I don't know what in North America even corresponds to that. Smallville, maybe?
Erin: So what you're saying is, if they had Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum--
Sabina: --start a boyband together. Exactly.
Erin: ...
Sabina: ...
Both: That would sell. That would sell like crazy.
