GMA Teenifies Lupin, Rips Off Sailormoon, Indiana Jones, Lara Croft
Tags: Angel-Locsin | Asian-Treasures | GMA | Indiana Jones | Lara-Croft | Lupin | Media | Philippines | Richard-Gutierrez | Robin-Padilla | Sailormoon | stupid | Super-Twins | Tomb-Raider | TV | VideoFor years, ailing Philippine TV network GMA has gotten away with blatantly insulting the intelligence of the lower classes with their tasteless drama and fantasy offerings. This year, that strategy will backfire.
First, they give the classic role of Lupin III to a kid far too young and inexperienced to play the globetrotting noble scoundrel. Richard Gutierrez is way out of his depth here. It’s like having Justin Timberlake portray James Bond. Even the unwashed masses of this third-world country have long held expectations of Lupin’s look and feel; there’s no way a kid like Richard could deliver on those.
Second, they literally stuff two girls into Sailormoon costumes and call them Super Twins. Even starving shanty-dwellers of this third-world country know who Sailormoon is.
Third, they send Robin Padilla and Angel Locsin in Indiana Jones and Lara Croft costumes to chase Asian Treasures. Wow, a blatant double knockoff of two global pop culture icons — GMA’s getting extreme with that one.
I’m a big cosplay fan, but this is just stupid. If you heap insult upon insult on your audience’s intelligence, no matter how ignorant your particular audience may be, you eventually reach a point where they actually feel insulted. If an alternative is popular with your audience (in the case of Philippines, YouTube), and that alternative amplifies your audience’s intelligence instead of insulting it, chances are they’ll ditch you for that alternative.
The point at which enough of their core audience feels sufficiently insulted could become the tipping point for the fall of Philippine TV. What a great way to greet the New Year.
(Via Jepoy Bengero.)
June 20th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Tol, malay nyo gawan naman nila ng cheap rip-off ang Maskman! Naku, yun pa naman ang isa sa mga pinaka-legendary na Sentai dito sa Pinas, o kaya mag-rip-off sila sa Ultraman! SUS GINOO SANTO PEDRO NAKA-DEKWATRONG ANAK NG PUTSA!!!
July 18th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Bigyan nga natin ng RIDER KICK lahat ng mga Kapuso & Kapamilaya diehards dito!
To the topic, only online media remains original, unique and creative.
Amen.
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:15 am
It would be safe to say that Filipinos are the most unoriginal people on the face of this planet. Nearly everything in their consumer market and popular culture are cheap imitations of foreigner creations. Just imagine “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” with stupider contestants and a far less charming host. Think of all the Marvel superheroes minus the significant bad-ass factor. Picture for me, if you could you damn weaboos, how awesome your anime is minus the character development, art direction, and TITS. Filipinos have never come up with anything worthwhile on their own and very likely never will.
Hypocrisy abounds on all 7,107 of those goddamn islands. Filipinos are staunch defenders of the Catholic faith in Asia (or the Pacific Islands, whatever; Filipinos are actually taught in schools that they are asian as the Philippines lies in Southeast Asia just like Indonesia and Malaysia and Vietnam). Despite this, their Ringling Bros. remains to be one of the most corrupt and inefficient in the entire region. Even communist Vietnam has more stability in their Ringling Bros. than these stupid islanders.
Don’t even get me started on second-generation Filipinos here in the United States. (In sociology terms, I’m a 1.5 generation immigrant: born in one country, but raised with the values of another, so I’m nothing like what I’ll be describing). They immerse themselves with nigger culture and adopt their subhuman ways, degrading an already inferior race. They do try to “embrace” their Filipino culture by doing all this cultural shit like learning dances like Tinikling, but that does NOTHING to generate a true sense of appreciation, attachment, or affiinity for what it really means to be Filipino - the love of the motherland.
tl;dr - Filipinos are intellectually unimaginative, morally inconsistent and/or bankrupt, and fail at their own culture.
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:52 am
JC John SESE Cuneta, you are so naive. You don’t have to snort drugs to know it’s bad for your health. You don’t need to watch these shows in its entirety to know they simply suck. Lack of creativity, bad use of Filipino language, corny costume, set design and special effects. Do I need to continue? Richard Gutierrez as Lupin and you think it’s fine? Lupin is hilarious Richard is boooooorrrriiiinnnngggg.
November 1st, 2008 at 11:21 am
Ang jologs ng mga shows na iyan