The Pinoy Tube

Posted on April 21, 2008 at 8:15 pm | 17 Comments
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I’m not really a fan of Philippine TV shows. And oh, this is not a post about the feud between ABS-CBN and GMA, the two giant networks in the country. This entry’s content will center on my thoughts about the programs made by the Filipinos for the Filipinos and pirated by the Filipinos. Well, actually, I’ll be very biased in this entry because most of what I’ll write here are negative comments about the stupid and useless TV shows.

Pinoy Big Brother

I’ve mentioned in this blog numerous times how much I loath this show (I’m too lazy to look for the posts that I am referring to, just use the search box found on my sidebar). Lately I was able to catch a few episodes of this show and I have to confess that it’s somehow entertaining. Yeah, I’m contradicting my own words. But then, there is something in this show that makes me hate it. What’s the right term? Ah, sensationalizing. Everything about this show is being sensationalized… talking about making a mountain out of a mole hill. Yeah, whatever. Another thing is that even though this is a reality based show I still think that it is scripted. Just take Alex in the current teen edition as an example. I bet the production team of PBB picked him because he wasn’t circumcised yet at the time he auditioned. And so, they casted him as one of the teen housemates and planned to have him circumcised while he is in Big Brother’s house. Just two weeks ago, they successfully had the operation inside Big Brother’s house while all of the male housemates were watching the procedure. Presto! Instant high ratings. Boo. And now, what is this thing that I heard that there is still one more housemate who is still uncircumcised? Seriously, I’ll not be shocked that by the end of this season, either Toni or Mariel would reveal that all of the male housemates are still uncut. This proves what I’ve read in Carolyn Parkhurst’s Lost and Found1: “Reality is boring; no one wants to watch someone brushing their teeth or paying their phone bills. It’s all in the editing, they’ve got hundreds of hours of footage, and they’ve got to chop it down to into something worth watching. What they’re looking for is stories; you have to give them a story, or zip, they’re moving to someone else.”

MariMar

Okay, first of all, I want to tell the whole blogosphere that I’m neither a MariMar nor Marian Rivera fan. I was able to get a glimpse of this show a few times and I heard lots of negative comments about it. According to my friends who were able to watch it, the first half of it was good. They said that it gave justice to the original Mexican soap opera. And because many Filipinos loved the remake, GMA extended it. But that’s where it became hell and transformed into what Filipinos call “fantaserye”2. God, I even heard that the ending was really stupid. Angelica (the antagonist) fell from the helicopter where MariMar was in and landed in a riverbank and she was devoured by crocodiles living in the river. How possible is that, seriously?!

Pinoy Idol

What I really hate with this show is that they are advertising it as the “first” franchise of the Idol series in the country. Come on guys, don’t tell me that it’s the first one because you changed “Philippine Idol” into “Pinoy Idol.” Technically speaking, it’s the second season of the Idol series here in the Philippines. Moving on, please forgive me, but for me, the judges are less competent than the previous judges. Jolina Magdangal? Ogie Alcasid? And who is this Wyngard Tracy? Why did they not put Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes as the judges instead? Lol. If you know how, uh, shall I say incompetent, the judges during the Binibining Pilipinas 2008, I’m sure, you know what I’m talking about. And come on, Raymond Gutierrez as the host… are you kidding me?

Joaquin Bordado

Just the title of this show makes me ROFL. GMA, or rather the whole Philippines hasn’t get over with fantaseryes yet. Since the first fantaserye that aired back in early 2004, Marina (ABS-CBN) which brought Marinara (GMA) to life, a big number of fantasy dramas were aired. I wonder when ABS-CBN and GMA will stop filming and airing such stupid soaps. And please, stop using weird titles such as this, Kamandag (translation: Venom), Bakekang, and Zaido: Pulis Pangkalawakan. I know, these shows are based on graphic novels, original series and the like and it’s proper to use the real titles but they are really bizarre and they sound funny.

Wheel of Fortune

I don’t really enjoy watching this show. During the time when it was still in ABC and it was Rustom Padilla who hosted the show, I’m definitely sure that I liked it. But now, I don’t know. Is it because of Kris Aquino? Or is it because the game play is not really exciting unlike Deal or No Deal? I hate it when Kris says “Wheel of Fortune” with the matching stupid choreography. Bring back Banker, puhlease?!

Astigs

This is one of the worst TV Shows I ever heard of (I haven’t watched any of its episodes as a matter of fact). I think ABS-CBS has so many talents and they don’t know in which programs they need to put their actors and actresses especially the new ones. As a last resort, they made a TV show where they put all of their talents who don’t have any project at the moment. And I think they are trying to make experiments on new love teams out of these talents that they have. Just seeing the commercial of this show makes me want to break the screen of our TV.

Okay, I should stop now. I might get sued because of my opinions. Lol. Whatever. But only one thing is for sure, I’m not enjoying most of the Philippine TV shows. Well, what do you think is the worst Philippine TV show?

  1. It’s a good book, BTW. [↩]
  2. A soap opera with a twist of fantasy. [↩]

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Torture or no torture?

Posted on November 6, 2006 at 10:18 pm | 13 Comments
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I sacrificed The Amazing Race (we don’t have AXN) just to watch Kapamilya Deal or No Deal. Well, it worth it, lol, if it’s not for it, I would be not updating my blog tonight.

Here’s a recap of tonight’s episode…

I don’t really know what happened at first but it looks like the contestant borrowed the necklace of his cousin’s. And after the first round (or was it the second?), Kris Aquino, the ever tactless host of the show commented that the necklace was not a lucky charm for him so Kris forced the contestant to hand back the necklace. But after another round, it turned out to be as bad as the previous one as two briefcases (not sure) that hold big amounts were revealed.

So Kris asked the contestant and his cousin to exchange with one another their tops as it Kris believed that it might help the contestant to get the luck that he needed. Well, of course, this was done during the commercial break. At first the two guys were reluctant but they submitted to Kris’ suggestion in the end.

After the commercial break, the cordless phone rang up again which Kris and the banker use to communicate with one another. As the banker had already gave his offer just before Kris called for a commercial break, Kris was shocked. The banker reported the cousin of the contestant to Kris. You see, the banker can hear everything from as all the microphones are connected to his panel. During the commercial break the contestant’s cousin said something like:

Ang ganda ng pasok niya kanina, tapos sinira ni Kris (His start was good but Kris somehow interfered with it).

Actually, the part where the kins of the contestant talked about Kris destroying their kin’s good performance was even showed.

Well, of course, the queen of tactless was surprised. I think she felt embarrassed which made her agitated to the cousin of the contestant and it also made the offer of the banker to sunk a little lower.

It was Kris’ turn to embarrass… she let the contestant’s cousin to choose a briefcase, and alas, the briefcase contained PHP 100000.00. And do you know what Kris did? She laughed (hahahaha) very hard! Whoa… it was so embarrassing for the contestant’s cousin and it was even televised nationwide! But that did not stop there, the banker asked the contestant to choose from two offers, a lower one and his cousin would stay in the studio or a higher offer but his cousin has to step out of the studio. The contestant chose the latter, what the?! And Kris said “Bye” to the poor lad with matching hand gesture to show the way out! Well, the contestant’s cousin also liked the latter option…

But wait, that does not end there! Every time the banker had the opportunity, he showed the contestant’s cousin on the screen being filmed on the hallway. He was showed after every round. It even looked like that the cops where looking for that guy as above him was the banker’s offer. Just add the word “wanted” to complete the embarrassing moment! Mind you, I think that person was almost into tears!

He was only allowed to enter again after the contestant had won PHP 100000.00.

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Okay, I’m not taking sides…

At the very first place, if the cousin of the contestant did not say that stupid comment, he would not end with that most embarrassing moment of his life now! Is he not aware that he had a microphone that was directly connected to the banker’s panel and everything that he said and did were being recorded?

As for Kris and the banker, what they did was so rude! Can’t they imagine what would happen to that person after that? They made him like a puppet! It was really rude! And why did they have to broadcast and show it to the viewing public? Why they did not just talk with that person after taping that episode with no cameras and no microphones?

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Now, I won’t be surprised if the show’s ratings would gradually sunk. I would not be surprised if the contestant and his family would go and support the greatest rival of the network that broadcasts Kapamilya Deal or No Deal. I wouldn’t be surprised if this news is on this week’s top rumors. (I would not be surprised if James Yap is under.)

And to close this entry, let me quote the line Kris has said just before the credits rolled:

‘Wag kokontrahin ang buntis (Do not interfere with the pregnant)!

* I got the title from one of my high school classmates.

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Let’s make a deal with Superman

Posted on July 21, 2006 at 9:01 pm | 11 Comments
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Superman said deal!Yeah… I know, this one is out of date. The Pirates of Caribbean have already killed Superman! But never mind… if you don’t want to read this entry, it’s okay, besides, this is my site, I can do whatever I want to do with it. Oh, spoilers alert!

Yeah… I’m sure you already know about it… he was in the front page of Daily Planet a few weeks ago. Superman has returned! I watched the movie in the second Saturday after its release. Everyone I know who have seen it said that it’s a good movie.

So I decided to go to the movie house and see for myself if it’s indeed a good movie: if I’m to rate it, I will give it seven stars out of ten. The love story of Superman and the award-winning Lois Lane sucks! That makes me rate the movie not that high. More so, the plot is not that interesting, the suit Superman is wearing is not the one that I had on my mind when I was still a kid, and if you have not noticed, there’s something wrong with the movie…

What we know just by watching the movie:

  • Kryptonite is fatal to Superman
  • Lex Luthor stole Superman’s crystals in the Fortress of Solitude that can be used to “grow” anything… it only needs water.
  • The new continent is made up of kryptonite.
  • Since Superman has landed in the new continent, he started to lose power.
  • Luthor stabbed Superman with kryptonite making him weaker.
  • After Superman was saved by Lois, Richard and Jason, Lois removed the shard of kryptonite that was stocked in his torso but there was still a small amount of kryptonite that wasn’t remove. Superman gained consciousness and he decided finish his mission.
  • He dived under the sea and from there, he lifted the new continent and threw it in space.

This suggests that Superman should be dead by now… but how come he’s still alive? Did he still have reserved energy when he crashed from space?

Three days ago, I decided that it’s time to buy a new book to read. And guess what I bought… a novelization of the movie Superman Returns by Marv Wolfman. I’m already halfway through the book and I found out that there are many scenes that did not make it into the final cut of the movie counterpart. The book’s better, but still, the love story of Loise and Superman still sucks… it’s just more dramatic. Lol. I just hope I’ll find an answer to the question: why Superman is still alive and most important of all…

Why Superman (and all of the western heroes) does not know how to wear his underwear?

Can you answer that question for me? Eh?

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Do you think that there will be a grand prize winner in Kris’ “Kapamilya: Deal or No Deal”? I don’t think so… there’s only barely 4% chance that you will choose the right briefcase! Or if there will be one, we have to wait for at least a couple of months to go.

Whenever the contestant and whoever is with him/her shout the amount of the lowest prize the contestant can get, I shout and hope for the briefcase that holds the highest amount of money to be opened!

All I can say is that If I’m given the chance to be the contestant, I will choose briefcase number seven and say deal when the banker’s offer reached PHP100,000.00. But of course, I will not be the chosen because as what I can see, most contestants stick with their chosen briefcase until there are only three or two left briefcases to open. Well, this is just a theory because all of the contestants undergone some interviews.

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