The Quiz Show

Things starting to make sense in the creepiest and crazy kind of way. In additional to that there's religion analogy. 10 COMMANDMENTS.

This is a good drama you guys. You just need to get past the boring 4 episodes and focus your attention at Honma & Kamiyama.

I don't even care if I'm talking just by myself here, but this is worth my time :nut:

Taken from the locked community (beats the purpose of an interesting discussion if its locked imo.. the font and layout colour made me sleepy too).
SPOILERS AND THEORIES FOR TQS2 EPISODE 1-7 by Lady-Mercury

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So, as the show draws toa near, I decided to piece together the events presented to us through the clues dropped among the past seven episodes.

Eight years ago, 2002:
- Misaki, Honma, and Kamiyama are friends and seniors in High School
- Misaki invites Kamiyama and Honma to Shinai Lake for a camping trip
- They go on the trip. Set up camp at Shinai Lake
- Misaki and Kamiyama are having drinks by the riverbed, and met Andou
- Kamiyama and Misaki are fishing by the river side and run into Mika, who introduces herself
- Kamiyama goes off to collect firewood for the campfire and runs into a drunk Kenji Miyamoto
- Honma goes off to speak with Andou, as Misaki and Kamiyama sit by the fire they made. Noriko (Yuutenji Nokko) gives them a plate of food.
- Kamiyama and Misaki make curry for dinner and meet Katsuragi that give them curry sauce

The next day - Misaki's death, 2002:
- Misaki and Kamiyama make breakfast
- Kamiyama and Misaki decide to take an aerial tour of the island, Shibata is the pilot and its on the plane Egypt 20-3
- Kamiyama runs to call Honma to remind them of the trip, but they can't contact him.
- Misaki and Kamiyama ride instead, leaving Honma behind, and the plane crashes due to engine failure
- The weather is bad and it starts to rain, Kamiyama swims to shore and finds Misaki's body
- Honma discovers the two, Kamiyama loses his memory due to traumatic shock of the affair
- Saejima runs to them while filming letting them know emergency aid is on the way

Between 2003 - 2008:
- Honma enters Galaxy TV
- The Quiz Show is in planning and is presented to the company president by Yamanobe Kengo

2008:
- The Quiz Show begins late night, not live.
- Tazaki is the host, Yamanobe is the MC, Honma serves as AD
- The Quiz Show suddenly is canceled due to the "Yamanobe Incident"
- Honma gets an idea for his revenge from the affair

2009:
- Kamiyama suddenly wakes up
- Honma takes Kamiyama to the aslyum where Yamanobe once kept Tazaki.
- The Quiz Show Golden suddnely goes into pre-production planning
- Saejima becomes a Producer, Honma is promoted to Director for the show
- Honma pitches to the higher ups to have Kamiyama as MC and its approved without question

2010:
- The Quiz Show Golden premieres, live, and the highest ratings in station history
- Rumors on the internet start talking about the Yamanobe Incident, people start to suspect something of the same to happen again
- Yamanobe returns
- Saejima is fired

Of course this is all speculation given the information presented on the show thus far. The Quiz Show Golden takes place 2 years after the first season, the first season was set in 2008, so in actuality The Quiz Show Golden is taking place in 2010 rather than 2009.

Honma has to be the true enigma of the show in my opinion. We already know about Kamiyama, but nothing about Honma except the rumors that are dropped among the staff. Is Honma truly related to an station executive? What did Saejima do that gave Honma the opportunity to join Galaxy TV?

When reading online on the Japanese side of fandom, they pointed out something interesting. Shibata's plane was called Egypt 20-3 -- Moses lead the Jews from slavery in Egypt in Exodus, the Ten Commandments are listed in Exodus 20:3

Which then leads fandom on the moon the believe that this season is not based upon the seven deadly sins but in fact is based upon the 10 Commandments. And this makes sense because in episode 6, Honma looks through the contestants and calls out Katsuragi's "commandment".


Thou Shall Not Kill - Andou (He killed his friend)
You Shall Not Make Yourself an Idol: Mika (She became an idol to young girls everywhere)
You Shall Not Steal: Miyamoto (He stole from the old)
You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me: Yuutenji Nokko (She acted like a god, playing with people's lives)
You Shall Not Use God's Name in Vain: Tomobe (He ran around claiming he had the hands of God)
You Should Honor Your Parents: Katsuragi (He abused his mother)
You Shall Not Bear False Witness Against Your Neighbor: Shibata (He was falsely accused of causing an accident)

So the only ones we have left are

Remember the Sabbath, Do Not Commit Adultery, and Do Not Steal You Shall Not Covet Your Neighbor's Wife (thanks jilann!)... Which means Saejima, Honma, and Kamiyama will probably be sitting in the hot seat.
Which one do you suspect?

thank you for posting it in here tofuuuuu!! :mrgreen:
i never thought about those things even for once.. :beaten: :hehe:
*blame Sho-chan for being so kakkoi in there..im too busy making screencaps of him..lol*

Spoiler — click to reveal

Remember the Sabbath, Do Not Commit Adultery, and Do Not Steal You Shall Not Covet Your Neighbor's Wife (thanks jilann!)... Which means Saejima, Honma, and Kamiyama will probably be sitting in the hot seat.
Which one do you suspect?

even making a guess is hard..xD
don't you think the executive could be a contestant on the hot seat too?? it would be odd if Kamiyama is the contestant, who'll be the MC?? :beaten: :hehe:

meoinkie2 wrote:thank you for posting it in here tofuuuuu!! :mrgreen:
i never thought about those things even for once.. :beaten: :hehe:
*blame Sho-chan for being so kakkoi in there..im too busy making screencaps of him..lol*

Spoiler — click to reveal

Remember the Sabbath, Do Not Commit Adultery, and Do Not Steal You Shall Not Covet Your Neighbor's Wife (thanks jilann!)... Which means Saejima, Honma, and Kamiyama will probably be sitting in the hot seat.
Which one do you suspect?

even making a guess is hard..xD
don't you think the executive could be a contestant on the hot seat too?? it would be odd if Kamiyama is the contestant, who'll be the MC?? :beaten: :hehe:

with this drama.. anything goes. You haven't seen episode 8 yet have you?
I must say Yoko acting annoys me sometimes because I had a high expectation from him but he is surely stealing the limelight. The guy is no Ohno but this is his Maou. That Honma guy is crazy. Off topic but Yoko would make a perfect vampire. Perfect alabaster skin and I can imagine him making the "smacking lips for blood/liver" sound like Hannibal Lecter.

/sighs.
I regret watching the first season before getting my paws on the second one.

I can't help comparing Katagiri Jin with the younger host, and Sho just pales in the comparison.

Also, the Honma guy overdoes it compared to the guy who played the producer in the first season.

All in all, every minute of season one is worth more than two of season two.

so guys, watch season two first. when it comes to good acting, age/experience always beat callow youth (there are a few exceptions of course.)

and yeah, the resemblance to national quiz is uncanny. coerced host. except that the consequence for losing in national quiz is so much gloomier....

tofuuuuu wrote:
with this drama.. anything goes. You haven't seen episode 8 yet have you?
I must say Yoko acting annoys me sometimes because I had a high expectation from him but he is surely stealing the limelight. The guy is no Ohno but this is his Maou. That Honma guy is crazy. Off topic but Yoko would make a perfect vampire. Perfect alabaster skin and I can imagine him making the "smacking lips for blood/liver" sound like Hannibal Lecter.

Both main leads I think performed really well in Ep8. Yoko's Honma is certainly creeping me out with his insanity, while Kamiyama is getting his back. I must say, both of them are really getting better with each episode. :)

Oh the vampire reference for Yoko seems suitable enough! :hehe:

Unless they are naturally talented, these JE boys couldn't get it right on the get go. It's grates on my nerves seeing them so raw but it's also wonderful when you do see massive improvements.

So.. is the next episode the finale? There should be 10 guests...
Who's doing the subs btw? Some angel picking up the softsubs maybe?
:banghead: :nut: :bonk: :beaten: :beatyou: :banghead: :dead: :argh: :headscratch: :rolly: :banghead:

tofuuuuu wrote:
with this drama.. anything goes. You haven't seen episode 8 yet have you?
I must say Yoko acting annoys me sometimes because I had a high expectation from him but he is surely stealing the limelight. The guy is no Ohno but this is his Maou. That Honma guy is crazy. Off topic but Yoko would make a perfect vampire. Perfect alabaster skin and I can imagine him making the "smacking lips for blood/liver" sound like Hannibal Lecter.

hehehe..haven't seen episode 8 yet..and im dying to watch it now..
actually i think Yoko's acting was nice, same goes for Sho (whom i think have really improved a lot, which is why im truly fascinated by it.. :muack: )

So.. is the next episode the finale? There should be 10 guests...

i've read that the drama has 10 episodes..so there's still 2 contestants left??

tofuuuuu wrote:

So.. is the next episode the finale? There should be 10 guests...
Who's doing the subs btw? Some angel picking up the softsubs maybe?
:banghead: :nut: :bonk: :beaten: :beatyou: :banghead: :dead: :argh: :headscratch: :rolly: :banghead:

Well I don't know about the softsubs, but I'm getting the hardsubbed ones from SBK. It's up to Ep7 now, alhough I watched Ep8 in RAW.

tofuuuuu wrote: :banghead: :nut: :bonk: :beaten: :beatyou: :banghead: :dead: :argh: :headscratch: :rolly: :banghead:

^ Y'know, if you do all that, you'll hurt yourself. :beaten:

oh really? i'll need to get on with the application then.
what's up with these LJ comms with headache inducing font colours and such :sweat:

I watched the first episode of this show last night then I watched all of the rest today XD
I really enjoyed it and I have read through the comments on the whole board so far =D
I really really loved Sho's go at the MC I think he did a great job, particularly in the last couple of episodes his emotions were totally believable and it's the first time I've seen him in a drama and thought he shone. Yu I have never seen act before and am not particularly a fan of but he was pretty good as the antagonist I felt, again in the last couple of eps his acting was the best. The two of them bounced off each other so well in the last couple.
Maya Miki I always like she's such a sweet and friendly looking person, I enjoyed her role and felt she played it really well.
Loved the cameo from the guys from the original season, although I've not seen it. I do plan to watch it now as I enjoyed this one so much ^^

tofuuuuu wrote:This is a good drama you guys. You just need to get past the boring 4 episodes and focus your attention at Honma & Kamiyama

Thank god because i thought there is something wrong with me sleeping in the middle of ep 1 & 2. :bonk:
i will keep watching then.

This show is quite a good watch for me, but it pales in comparison with other similar suspense dramas such as Maou.

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I'd say it's the gameshow setting and premise of the show that makes the execution of the plot rather weird at times. Ep 7, 8, 9 were all rather awkward for me, if u take the stance of an audience watching the gameshow itself. Who would want to tune in to a gameshow which offers no laughs, lots of crying, abusive shouting, and perpetual headaches from the MC?

I know I shouldn't be thinking too much and be bothered by this, but I preferred the fun-loving MC Kamiyama in the earlier episodes who knows how to entertain the audience, whilst scattering the suspense segment evenly across the episodes.

But the final episode had me forget all about the awkwardness (cos' the audience is not present, and it's a pure one-on-one showdown between Honma and Kamiyama). Good acting by both leads. :)

I love this show so much I'm really wanting the first press box set XD (this time last year when I was in full time work it woulda been no prob) now being back in education and a poor student I can't afford it, so I am implementing plan ask Dad to get it me for my Birthday/ Christmas XDDDDD the plan will be put into action when I see him tomorrow :P

I am on my 3rd run of the show... I just don't seem to get bored of it ^^;
I also got a friend into it and am planning to get my boyfriend into it when I next see him, he WILL watch it... ^^;;;;