EAST WAVE PREOCCUPATION
I am a Koreanovela aficionado, and whenever I bounce upon rivaling stations which seems to barrage certain melodramas as the (redundancy aside) most super-duper to the googolflexth power popular in the whole universe, I don’t bother. Unless the stars are gooeyliciously makalaglag-brief.
That’s why I was hooked to Meteor Garden 1.
It’s not that I really liked Xu Xiao Tian (Barbie XU). I was just so flabbergasted to see good-looking Chinese people in a series which of the same type have been proclaimed with overrated oriental fashion similar to formerly telecasted wuxia series every Sunday mornings in ABS-CBN (still recall? ^_^). Can’t keep myself off wondering how Dao Ming Si is too handsome to be a Taiwanese. That caused me to return home faster that the speeding TGV train without waiting for our school bus to escort us to our leather couches. Curiosity glued me to anticipation.
But for a while, the Korean wave started to flush us out of our imaginary lasciviousness to Chinese babes of Lavender and A Promise of Love at the Dolphin Bay.
Song Hye-Gyo came. I thought I was ready to die.
Kaeul Yeongga (Autumn Fairytale) aka Endless Love 1 became popular mainly because their stars are terrificly damn goodlooking. Face it. It’s not just the dramatic plot and acting of young counterparts of Jenny and Johnny who forced your lustful minds to watch the series. It’s either you are dumbfounded staring at Jenny’s (Song Hye-Gyo) angelic face or you are stripping Song Seung-Heon and Won Bin from their suits to their shoes. Haha.
And then people eventually patronized good East Asian quality acting and storytelling. Korean dramas are world-class. Admit it. Even the Chinese and the Taiwanese can’t stand blaming themselves to get their overacting and slapsticks minisculed by adulterated yet laugh-worthy corn goodness of Korean melodramas.
From Endless Love 1, 2, and 3, Miss Mermaid (Irene), Stairway to Heaven, Full House, Lovers in Paris, My Name is Kim Sam Soon, and My Girl to name a few, zillions are spamming our republic television.
Just look at the transition of the plots. From too dramatic and tearjerking to ass tingling and scatterbrain pouncing ones.
There have been too many Korean melodrama titles emerging in ABS-CBN, GMA7, and some small players. So many, I don’t know if Filipino dramatists would even have the effort or fingernail movement to squeeze their creative intelligible juices from their cerebrums and transform them audiovisually.
We are missing Pangako Sa ‘Yo. We are missing Encantadia 1 (don’t mind the succeeding sequels Etheria and Pag-ibig hanggang Wakas because they are simply garbage–wasted Gozon’s time and Starstruck hotness).
We are missing Filipino craft to teledramas. We are pretentiously driven to absorbing douchebags like Darna, Marina, Majika, Captain Barbell, I Love NY, et al.
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