August 16, 2005

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  We deserve better television shows

  
  

   

  
  

  I was reading people’s xanga this morning and I came across this girl who is talking about the new TVB series. I am not sure if she wants her name to be mentioned so I am not going to credit her here. Anyway, she was commenting on this new series about hotels. And things like how the characters are similar to those in some other Korean TV series. She also said something like she doesn’t mind if TVB copies the plots from other series as long as it is interesting.

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  I have lost interests in Hong Kong TV series a long long time ago. I don’t really watch TV. No, even I got a TV at home and it’s always free of charge to watch TVB and ATV. I only use the TV in my room to watch DVD and play games.

  
  

   

  
  

  The reason is, I think TV series in Hong Kong are really crap. No offence to people who watch TV everyday and follow all the series very night. But you have to admit that they are not too seriously produced. Ok, maybe I am being picky here. But I think I am allowed to be picky towards TVB which has been the major free television shows provider for what? The last half century? I really don’t understand. I really see no improvements in TV series in the last 10 years.

  
  

   

  
  

  The stories, there’s nothing really creative, mostly copied from TV series from other countries. I remember watching this 少年包青天 series quite a few years ago, and the cases are like exactly the same in 金田一, but just Chinese and in ancient times. I was amazed that people who made that series decide to copy from a comic book, maybe they think that those who watch TV and those who watch comics would be two different group of people. Ok this series I watch is not made by TVB, it’s from the mainland, but TVB ones are not any better. When there’s infernal affair, you just make another series which just so similar to it. And remember 功夫足球!? It’s a big fucking joke.

  
  

   

  
  

  And the screenplay? People just don’t talk normal don’t act normal in TV series. I remember watching 學警雄心, it’s just so funny. How the other girls bully Fiona Sit by saying something really mean and how 吳卓曦’s sister decided to push down a rubbish bin to show that she is a troubled teenager. I mean, come on, can you be any less realistic? There are other subtle ways to tell the story without making it look so stupid.

  
  

   

  
  

  What I am saying is, the whole production of TV series is just crap. Is it because it is free television so we expect this little? Can we just expect a little more improvements in productions? Is TVB only breaking-even so they have no extra money to invest on TV production? What’s happening now? Nobody’s watching TV now?

  
  

   

  
  

  And what happened to the actors now? Why am I forced to watch 石修’s son playing a doctor? Come on! Give me a break! You don’t look anything like a doctor! You look like a secondary school boy! I don’t care who your father is I just want to watch some TV! I managed to had a glanced at 酒店風雲 last night and Ella Koon was playing a delivery girl. No, not delivering herself to your hotel room but delivery boxes of beers to the bars. I am not saying that Ella Koon can’t play a boylish man-like role. I am saying I am NOT INTERESTED IN WATCHING ELLA KOON DRESSING LIKE A MAN. I mean, who does? Is it really that interesting that a really hot actress plays some roles that don’t suit her image at all? Ella’s name in the series is called 開心, can you fucking believe it?

  
  

   

  
  

  You see I just can’t stop when it’s about how crap TV is. Remember how TVB try to promote the new series by filming the PRODUCERS themselves talking? You see this is not a bad idea, like you’re really bringing out the clever people at the back onto the big screen. This would really work if the two producers they showed us don’t look like total freaks. One of them is promoting 窈窕熟女. Can anybody explain to me what the hell 阮瓊丹 is doing in there? Please? She’s not in the same age group as the other 3 women is she?!

  
  

   

  
  

  I just wish that we can watch better TV shows. I wish that more money is invested in TV production. I wish people will stop complaining while TVB pearl is showing Titanic and the Kate Winslate’s nude scene is not cut.

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  Last thing, I think 繼續無敵大長碌 is the most stupid and pointless thing in the history of Hong Kong television. You just can’t get any more bad-taste than that.

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

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