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Super Twins Director Denies Sailormoon Ripoff
Dominic Zapata, director of GMA’s Sailormoon ripoff Super Twins, deserves a medal from me. People like him accelerate the fall of Philippine TV, much to my delight as a Filipino YouTuber.
Prior to the start of series, many have been pointing out that Super Twins is a rip-off of anime series such as Sailor Moon and Amazing Twins. The show’s director, Dominic Zapata, cleared things out by saying, “If you find similarities, it is outright coincidental. Hindi po ako nakakapanood ng Sailor Moon and Amazing Twins.”
He sure “cleared things out”, alright — like a hot stinking fart clears out a room. Oh, and Amazing Twins is a live-action Mandarin series, not a Japanese anime.
“Sabi ng lawyer, you shouldn’t have access to these things. It’s not something na nagawa na dati-[it has] a new story, nice drama and solid characters.”
So a Philippine TV director needs a lawyer to assure him he “shouldn’t have access” to Sailormoon, one of the most popular anime in Philippine TV history? I don’t know who’s dumber: the director or the lawyer.
I hope these Philippine TV dinosaurs never learn that they can’t lie to a connected population. That way, their constant bumbling will provide us hours of amusement before the growth of the Philippine Internet crushes them.
(Via Jepoy Bengero.)
Oscars Pulled Off YouTube
Clearly, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has no fucking clue about the current state of motion picture arts and sciences. They’ve pulled Oscar clips YouTube, purportedly “to help manage the value of our telecast and our brand.â€
So how do they accomplish this lofty purported goal? With a handful of crappy non-embeddable videos on their site, complete with autoplay annoyance ads, that’s how.
Frankly, the Academy is obsolete. In an age when viewer niches almost instantly decide what video content is best for them, we don’t need a bunch of old farts telling us what’s “best” for everyone. This pulldown is a desperate attempt on their part to maintain that illusion of control. All it does is push their beloved “brand” further into irrelevance.
As a viewer, I pay far more attention to YouTube Honors than Academy Awards. The Academy can go stick that golden statue up its ass.
