Please, please don't take any of this the wrong way. I love both you and Masaki, seriously. ^_^; (Also, dude, I apologize for the comment spam to you and Becca. I'm taking a no-homework night, which leaves me to hang around livejournal and AIM. >_>)
But, obviously the Ahi cultists have been talking about this. To begin with, none of the girls I talked to wanted Ahi to play Lucheni. She would have been, barring any drastic changes in the directing/arrangement/characterization, a mediocre Lucheni. There's no question that she could have sung the role; with the appropriate transpositions, she wouldn't have blown anyone away, but it would have been fine. So, okay, assume a mediocre Lucheni. Assume that Masaki auditioned and blew everyone away (which I'm sure she did). Okay, so Masaki should get the role. Then Rudolf. If Ahi would have been a mediocre Lucheni, she's going to be a terrible Rudolf. You know the digests of Wao playing Rudolf to Maki's Death? It's going to look like that, only worse. (This is, I think, a nearly perfect control, since Hana was a very young Elisabeth, and both Wao and Ahi are very tall and have nearly identical acting styles.) So, a mediocre Lucheni or a bad Rudolf? If they were really auditioning for suitability for the rules, Ahi should have gotten Lucheni and done a role-switch with Masaki. This would have left Ahi as 3bante, promoted Masaki to 3/4bante (similar to what they did with Micchan in Valencia), and there wouldn't have been nearly the amount of outrage or loss of face. The fact that they didn't means, to me, that they're trying to force Ahi out and instate the "new wave" otokoyaku very fast. The 82nds/83rds are in a really vulnerable position, in general. They're too young to really compete with the new young tops, who are mostly 81sts, and too old to compete with the new wave, who are mostly 88ths. They are, essentially, obsolete. (I am *full* of cheerfulness tonight. I'll talk about the economy next!) The exception to this is Tomu, obviously, but who would have thought that one of the 81st tops would retire so fast? If she makes top, it will be because Tani got the hell out of Dodge so quickly.
So yeah, I think it's going to be a trainwreck. Except for Morie. Her casting is one of the few bright spots I see in the cast, since she's the only one of the trio with both the style and the voice for the role.
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Date: 2009-02-11 04:47 am (UTC)But, obviously the Ahi cultists have been talking about this.
To begin with, none of the girls I talked to wanted Ahi to play Lucheni. She would have been, barring any drastic changes in the directing/arrangement/characterization, a mediocre Lucheni. There's no question that she could have sung the role; with the appropriate transpositions, she wouldn't have blown anyone away, but it would have been fine. So, okay, assume a mediocre Lucheni. Assume that Masaki auditioned and blew everyone away (which I'm sure she did). Okay, so Masaki should get the role.
Then Rudolf. If Ahi would have been a mediocre Lucheni, she's going to be a terrible Rudolf. You know the digests of Wao playing Rudolf to Maki's Death? It's going to look like that, only worse. (This is, I think, a nearly perfect control, since Hana was a very young Elisabeth, and both Wao and Ahi are very tall and have nearly identical acting styles.) So, a mediocre Lucheni or a bad Rudolf?
If they were really auditioning for suitability for the rules, Ahi should have gotten Lucheni and done a role-switch with Masaki. This would have left Ahi as 3bante, promoted Masaki to 3/4bante (similar to what they did with Micchan in Valencia), and there wouldn't have been nearly the amount of outrage or loss of face. The fact that they didn't means, to me, that they're trying to force Ahi out and instate the "new wave" otokoyaku very fast.
The 82nds/83rds are in a really vulnerable position, in general. They're too young to really compete with the new young tops, who are mostly 81sts, and too old to compete with the new wave, who are mostly 88ths. They are, essentially, obsolete. (I am *full* of cheerfulness tonight. I'll talk about the economy next!)
The exception to this is Tomu, obviously, but who would have thought that one of the 81st tops would retire so fast? If she makes top, it will be because Tani got the hell out of Dodge so quickly.
So yeah, I think it's going to be a trainwreck. Except for Morie. Her casting is one of the few bright spots I see in the cast, since she's the only one of the trio with both the style and the voice for the role.