{"id":4567,"date":"2015-03-05T20:03:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T19:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/?p=4567"},"modified":"2020-10-11T21:04:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T20:04:29","slug":"who-keeps-leaving-all-those-glass-slippers-everywhere-in-cinderella-girls-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/?p=4567","title":{"rendered":"Who Keeps Leaving All Those Glass Slippers Everywhere, in Cinderella Girls 7?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"piccytures\/cinderella\/cg_7_head.jpg\"\/><\/center><br \/>\nWhoops, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve sat on this one for a wee bit too long, though as an episode, this one very much wears it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s heart on it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sleeve &#8211; it understands that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the time to be making in-jokes, or to be filling itself with cameos of third-string Cinderellas. It plays things straight and effectively.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThis instalment is the first that series director Takao Noriko has taken the helm on since the series opener, and whilst the rain might be a little heavy a metaphor, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bunch of clever things going on here. For much of the episode, they really downplayed the colour palette, using far more muted colours than usual, effecting a more oppressive tone which alleviates itself a little more with each improvement in the situation, before returning to normal at the end. The show tends to have a little of it anyway, but they really whacked up the bloom this episode as well, casting, or suggesting, a haze over the events matching the feelings of the characters.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"piccytures\/cinderella\/cg_7_practice.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A lot of the scenes are deliberately shot at a distance, often deliberately emphasising empty spaces to play up a certain sense of loss, which is played up with an additional layer of echo applied to environmental music. Although speaking of music, I really like the use of it in this episode as well &#8211; particularly during the opening scenes, it grinds the audience down with a series of heavy, repetitive dirges, before given way to absolute silence. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all very effective.<\/p>\n<p>The episodes narrative content is good as well &#8211; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nice to have an episode which is as much about the Producer as it is about the idols. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a <i>whole<\/i> lot to add beyond what I said about the previous episode, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nice to have the Producers attitude grounded in something, even if the specifics of his backstory wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exactly entirely unexpected.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"piccytures\/cinderella\/cg_7_mio.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pretty much all there really is for me to say this episode, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m looking forward to a hopefully <i>real<\/i> goofy Ranko episode this week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoops, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve sat on this one for a wee bit too long, though as an episode, this one very much wears it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s heart on it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sleeve &#8211; it understands that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the time to be making in-jokes, or to be filling itself with cameos of third-string Cinderellas. 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