Where is the theme?
I am writing this in my blog is because of the deplorable state (my opinion of course) of our local Chinese Drama. I am absolutely disappointed with it.
Here is a bit of background to the story. I am a TV enthusiast since I was young until the university days when I am very busy with schoolwork and my ECA (You will know what it is if you have follow my blog. For those of you who knows, thanks for the support so far!) My TV hours for the week had dropped tremendously from 25 hrs a week to just 9 hrs a week. People may ask, how come you were able to reduce your TV watching hours tremendously with the media competition (during that time). I told them I was very selective and the local TV dramas by one of the station help me with that.
When trying to keep to 9 hrs of TV a day, I always have problem keeping to it when Hong Kong TVB serials are on TV especially when there are two of them running concurrently in a week. Haha! I love TVB serials. And when there was local drama, Well my choices are limited and I have no problems sticking to it. Hmmm…. Why is there a difference?
Here is the reason. There is always a certain theme or good story background in these TVB serials like CID, Police Negotiators, Fashion Designers, Nurses and so on. Local drama? Severely lack of it. They do have themed drama but it is always the police lah, navy lah, air force lah. Sports theme?? I can only recall volleyball and it was so long ago.
I have tremendous respect for our local actors but our scriptwriters, I wish they had more imagination. If they lack in imagination department, they should at least do some research on some interesting profession here in Singapore and put it in our local drama.
One thing I like about TVB drama is that I can learn quite a lot of things about a certain profession. For example the recent TVB drama I am watching now is about police negotiators in Hong Kong. From the drama, I learn about ropes and the thinking of the police negotiators. That they work as a team and each team member plays a different role; Roles like the lead negotiator, strategist, information seeker and one responsible for logistic. The family and love story line in the drama is more or less the same as any other drama but it creates different tastes when profession background is added.
TVB police drama is even the best, the cases are always full of mystery and I particularly like the many twists in it. That is why you see most of the drama develop into series.
Our local drama? Eh…… Family planning? Family members either get cancer or kidney failure or diabetes (Remember NKF, Singaporeans?) Or you got dramas that actually promote stuff outright, stuff that the sponsors of the drama are selling. So commercialized!! I TOTALLY HATE IT! (Notice I am using CAPS here!)
I love TVB drama but, sigh, do not like local drama. I wish any local scriptwriter in our TV station would tell me why they are not able to generate the same quality of TV drama as HK? Please do not tell me that Singapore Market is small when during the recent TV media shakeup, we have our monopolistic (for local market) TV company says it will develop other markets as well.
Why??? Anyone care to give a better explanation. Lucky thing, for the TV company, that my family watches other programmes on TV or else I would ask them to cancel our TV licence. (Yes, in Singapore we have to pay to have licence for radios and TVs in our home and cars. Readers from other countries can shed some light whether they have to pay as well in their own countries?)
Cheers!
Here is a bit of background to the story. I am a TV enthusiast since I was young until the university days when I am very busy with schoolwork and my ECA (You will know what it is if you have follow my blog. For those of you who knows, thanks for the support so far!) My TV hours for the week had dropped tremendously from 25 hrs a week to just 9 hrs a week. People may ask, how come you were able to reduce your TV watching hours tremendously with the media competition (during that time). I told them I was very selective and the local TV dramas by one of the station help me with that.
When trying to keep to 9 hrs of TV a day, I always have problem keeping to it when Hong Kong TVB serials are on TV especially when there are two of them running concurrently in a week. Haha! I love TVB serials. And when there was local drama, Well my choices are limited and I have no problems sticking to it. Hmmm…. Why is there a difference?
Here is the reason. There is always a certain theme or good story background in these TVB serials like CID, Police Negotiators, Fashion Designers, Nurses and so on. Local drama? Severely lack of it. They do have themed drama but it is always the police lah, navy lah, air force lah. Sports theme?? I can only recall volleyball and it was so long ago.
I have tremendous respect for our local actors but our scriptwriters, I wish they had more imagination. If they lack in imagination department, they should at least do some research on some interesting profession here in Singapore and put it in our local drama.
One thing I like about TVB drama is that I can learn quite a lot of things about a certain profession. For example the recent TVB drama I am watching now is about police negotiators in Hong Kong. From the drama, I learn about ropes and the thinking of the police negotiators. That they work as a team and each team member plays a different role; Roles like the lead negotiator, strategist, information seeker and one responsible for logistic. The family and love story line in the drama is more or less the same as any other drama but it creates different tastes when profession background is added.
TVB police drama is even the best, the cases are always full of mystery and I particularly like the many twists in it. That is why you see most of the drama develop into series.
Our local drama? Eh…… Family planning? Family members either get cancer or kidney failure or diabetes (Remember NKF, Singaporeans?) Or you got dramas that actually promote stuff outright, stuff that the sponsors of the drama are selling. So commercialized!! I TOTALLY HATE IT! (Notice I am using CAPS here!)
I love TVB drama but, sigh, do not like local drama. I wish any local scriptwriter in our TV station would tell me why they are not able to generate the same quality of TV drama as HK? Please do not tell me that Singapore Market is small when during the recent TV media shakeup, we have our monopolistic (for local market) TV company says it will develop other markets as well.
Why??? Anyone care to give a better explanation. Lucky thing, for the TV company, that my family watches other programmes on TV or else I would ask them to cancel our TV licence. (Yes, in Singapore we have to pay to have licence for radios and TVs in our home and cars. Readers from other countries can shed some light whether they have to pay as well in their own countries?)
Cheers!
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