miami ink wouldn't be the same without yoji. but i agree... he can't draw and he
can't tattoo. nobody apprentices for this long! but this show is hardly about
tattooing.
actually i wasn't being sarcastic. i would say this show is 50% about tattooing
and 50% about some other random crap that the writers make up to make the show
interesting. so much of miami ink is scripted that it it's almost embarrassing
how they try to pass it off as real.
for example, in one of the earlier episodes, a guy comes in and asks yoji for a
dragon tattoo, and after seeing yoji's drawing, he starts talking shit and yoji
snaps. i mean... come on... do they really expect us to believe that that
actually happened? when they are filming miami ink, the entire street that the
shop is on is completely closed off. how could a random guy walk onto a set of
the most famous tattoo studio in america, not to mention a tv reality show
taping, and behave that way?? and where did he get that mic set from?? this is
only one example. i also suspect that kat only got fired because tlc offered to
give her her own show. but her crying somewhat convinced me... anyone have a
link to that episode btw?
but please, don't get me wrong, i love miami ink and have been watching it
religiously for years. without the other 50% the show certainly wouldn't be as
interesting, but sometimes they really over do it and it becomes difficult to
take the show seriously. but hey, thats reality tv for ya.
i wasn't personally offended after seeing this episode, but i definitely think
it was the weirdest episode yet. maybe offensive isn't the right term, but
people get offended by almost anything these days. for those who haven't seen
it, the customers in this episode consisted of (1) a man who has a fetish for
grotesquely obese women, (2) a grotesquely obese woman who is full of herself
(literally) and thinks she is hotter than jessica alba, and lastly, (3) a
transsexual man who's had several surgeries to remove his/her female parts to
make room for a dick.
i wish they would just let chris garver do more crazy japanese tattoos and stop
with these shinanagens.