I can't believe I watched the whole thing. 
It's taken thirty pages, but I think we've finally found the stupidest thing on the internet.
I think that's the world's last great mystery: understanding Japanese television.
I couldn't agree more.
I was fascinated by the squares put in post-production that drew focus to whichever performer was about to do something off. Like we need help identifying which one is upstaging the other with erratic movement or crazy facial expression.
It reminds me of the NBC News story I saw last week about a study on people with autism. When shown a movie, normal people watch the social interaction of characters, like a kiss or the facial expression of someone in an angry argument. They tracked eye movement and focus of autistic people (even children) and found they look at the light switch in the movie or another inanimate object instead of the character showing emotion.
Maybe all those video games and psychedelic television have evolved the viewer of such programming to require help focusing? And if that is the case, who is running the asylum? Wouldn't television producers be unable to create a "focus box" after years of exposure to their own
crap er, "craft"?
